Thanksgiving Day

I woke up early yesterday, and got bored, so I decided Garrett ought to get up as well. He didn't feel the same way, but he still woke up early and took a walk with me and Eva down at Seward Park, which is a few blocks from our house. It's a tiny peninsula that jets out in south Lake Washington with a paved path around the perimeter that is 2.4 miles around. Toward the end of our walk, we passed a man going the opposite direction with one of those distance measuring wheels (I don't know what they are called) who needed to know for himself whether or not the signs are true. It's always beautiful at this place, so we took pictures with the new camera:


Garrett: it was so cold outside. all i did the whole time was complain. "oh, my face is freezing" "why did you wake me up at 6:30" "my hands are so cold" "eva, you need to stop pulling" and so on. but in the end it was a nice walk.

the end

Later, we went to two Thanksgivings - first at my dad's side and last at my mom's side. One major bonus to having kids means I'm going to start having my OWN holidays, and THEY can split their holidays up with 2 hours of driving.

We ate really great food yesterday, and at Thanksgiving #2, we ate dessert and played cards for a few hours. You can see in both Danny's and Mindy's pictures just how thrilling that was. We brought Eva because my Aunt has a dog, and the dogs started fighting about something toward the end of the night which was immediately broken up, and this lady named Candy who is somehow related started telling everyone "it was the pitbull, it was the pitbull" That sort of ended the night for us and we went home talking about how much we hated her.

I am thankful that we won't have to do this for another month.

On a more positive note, according to the pencil, needle, string test done by my grandpa yesterday, I am having a boy.

Happy Thanksgiving!

i'm blogging

apparently people have been asking "how come garrett never writes anything on the blog?" or maybe it was just jill but, either way i'm putting my first post on the blog. i dont really have much to say though. i've been working a lot. i'm essentially running a job site and my new title in the company is "lead technical builder". my truck is running really well. the other day i sharpened one of my chisels so well that it cut through the leather and nylon of my glove and then the skin on my pointer finger. i was very proud of myself.

thats all i got.

I felt it move!

...at least I think I felt it move. Two days ago I had some strange feelings in my lower abdominal area, and then yesterday I definitely felt something that felt like a worm squirming around my mid-pelvic area on and off for a couple hours. Maybe I have worms, or maybe the baby was enjoying the splash of regular coffee that I added to my decaf that morning.

We're going to find out the sex of this baby in a month, and I can't wait. Garrett and I just bought our first nursery item off of craigslist - a glider and ottoman for $35. It was originally posted on craigslist for $25, and wrote a very compelling plea to be the lucky winner of the item, since I knew the craigslist vultures would be all over it, adding in bits about my pregnancy, being on a tight budget and getting off the streets. He wrote back and told me that he was holding the item for me, but that he had incorrectly posted it for $25, it was supposed to be $35. I'm just kidding about the "getting off the streets" part.

Garrett and I went to pick it up, and lucky us, they lived in an extremely nice house - so we knew the item would be in good condition. Rich people always take care of their things; it's a rule. The guy was so friendly and nice, but his wife was silent and glaring at us the whole time with her arms crossed standing at the door. I'm thinking she was wanting to make a few dollars off of this or didn't want to sell it at all, and her husband was just trying to get rid of it. I was tempted to thank her for the opportunity for us to resell her item on craigslist for the going price of $120. But I'm going to be a mom now, and mom's are supposed to be nice.

Over and out.

ANIMALS IS CUTE

I never thought I would be one of those people who takes pictures of their pets, but it turns out that I am. This child is going to be lucky if it ends up in any pictures at all.
Enjoy my self-indulgent pet slide show, signifying the destruction of my last shred of dignity.

AWWWWW. THEY ARE SOOOOO CUTE!