Straw House: Chase has a job!!

Chase has a job!! After his interview a few weeks ago, Chase was offered the Pharmacy Manager position at Kmart in West Jordan. He starts this upcoming Wednesday with his training until he gets his pharmacist license. He takes his boards on the 7^th and the 11^th of July and will hopefully get his license soon after that so that he can start making full wages. He is very excited to be offered this position and we are both excited that we won't have to move to find a job. Now I get to start setting up the nursery!

I went to another midwife appointment on June 15^th. They checked all the normal things and we heard the heartbeat as soon as she put the dopler on my belly. That means the baby is getting bigger! My belly sure is growing! I'm starting to feel the pressures of the extra weight on my body, and I'm not done yet! All I know is that I never want to weigh this much normally! It hurts my joints and it is hard to get around! I have a hard time staying on my side while I'm sleeping, which wakes me up in the middle of the night a lot. Hard to get a good night's sleep. Chase is pretty good about making sure I stay on my side. He already loves his little baby so much! We have been learning more about nutrition and anatomy in our Bradley class. My diet has changed a lot and as I drink my green smoothies, I just hope the baby appreciates the sacrifices made for her, because I really don't like green veggies!! I've started planning baby showers with the help of amazing friends and amazing sisters-in-law and sister. I'm very excited to be able to decorate the baby's room and fill her closet!

We have a new front office girl at Dr. Noorda's that started a few weeks ago named Staci. She's pretty awesome and learns really fast. She fits in with our office so well and we all just love her! I was just counting and I only have 11 weeks left of work until I'm done working at Dr. Baird's all together and take my maternity leave at Dr. Noorda's. Ahhh! I'm going to be very sad to leave Dr. Baird's office. I really love working there, but Dr. Noorda's office will always be my family and I could never leave them! There are so many patients that I will miss seeing at Dr. Baird's office. You never realize the connection and relationship you build with your patients until you have to leave them.

We went to Cherry Hill water park with Mike and Melissa the day before Father's Day again this year. Mike enters in the Father's Day musical chairs contest for prizes and gets free passes into Cherry Hill for it. We spent the late morning there. There's not a whole lot to do there but it was nice a relaxing for me because I was feeling particularly lazy that day! The water in the lazy river was really warm and the kids loved to be in it. Everyone else went on the bigger slides and then we took off. We had lunch at In N Out and then we met up with our friend Tessa to drive up to Park City to see Nick finish his Ragnar race. He got to hang out with us for a little while before his team finished. We went back to their house after and had dinner. We always love hanging out with them!

Memphis and Damien ready to get in the water!

Nick and his girls after the race.

We decided to take an impromptu trip to Phoenix for the weekend before Chase starts working on Wednesday. We drove down on Thursday night after work and got there at 4am... pretty late... Sometimes I really don't know how we make it, but we trade off and take breaks so that we stay alert. I think we have some help staying alert too. So after sleeping in a little on Friday, we went grocery shopping, set up my parent's new pack and play for their upcoming granddaughters, and then went swimming. We went to dinner at Olive Garden as a surprise birthday dinner for my little brother Corey. Saturday, we went over to the house Corey was house sitting at and had a family birthday pool party. We made up pulled pork sandwiches, swam, watched a movie, and went on a Dairy Queen run. We had a great time with family and had a very relaxing day. Around noon on Sunday we drove back home back to real life.