Lately...

I haven't written for a while. The past little while has been a little busy, and a little lazy too (for me at least), because I've been feeling a bit under the weather. Rick started out by feeling a little under the weather and then then inevitable happened...somehow I got sick too. I wonder how that happened. Ha! But for some reason, I blame being pregnant and having a worse immune system at the moment, I got hit with the sickness harder. It started about one week ago and started out as a bad sore throat, turned into an awful runny nose on Friday, a continuation of a runny nose along with a pounding headache and by Sunday I started feeling a little better, except then it turned into a deep congested cough. I feel much better now but still have a yucky sounding cough here and there, mostly in the morning and at night.

Anyway, as for an update on Rick's medical school applications status. I mentioned in a previous post that he got an interview at Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences! Well, he now has gone and came back from his interview. I went to the airport and picked him up today and it was so good to see him! Kimbri and I took him to the airport on Tuesday afternoon. He had a flight to Los Angeles and then got on another flight that took him back across Utah to Kansas City, Missouri! He stayed at a hotel pretty close to the airport that had a free shuttle to and from the airport so that was nice. Then he bought a cheap day pass for public transportation to get to the school for his interview on Wednesday morning.

Here is Rick right before he left for his interview in his nice new suit that his parents got for him:

It was torture waiting to hear from him on Wednesday! I kept my phone by my side juts waiting for a call. I couldn't wait to hear from him to see how his interview went! He finally called around 3pm I think it was, but really 4pm where he was at. He told me all about his day, that they got a tour of the campus in the morning, then had lunch and then had interviews in the afternoon. He felt really good about how the interview went so we are very hopeful! But I guess you just never know. They will notify him of a rejection or an acceptance in about two weeks! Rick said that after visiting the school that he loves the school even more than he already did from researching about it. It's crazy to think that we could end up living in Missouri! The school is about 4 hours from Dawson and Stacie's in Nebraska so close enough we could visit each other on weekends or for holidays! But I guess I better not get ahead of myself:) We'll see if he gets accepted first and then start thinking about the possibility of living there. He also is still waiting to hear from a few other schools that he's interested in as well so who  knows where we'll end up! He did get another interview to a school in Washington and so that one is scheduled for November 16. However, if he gets accepted to Kansas City University he won't go to the Washington interview. Its crazy that we could be living anywhere by next time this year! 

Well, while Rick was gone Kimbri and I stayed the two nights in Spanish Fork. We had fun just hanging out and spending time with family! Thankfully Kimbri slept a lot better this time in the pack n play than she did last time we spent the night in Spanish Fork when Rick ran the Ragnar in Arizona. She's just so used to going to bed in her own room in her own crib. Sometimes change messes her up. But she did great! This morning my mom watched Kimbri so that I could just leave early to pick Rick up at the airport by 7:45am. It sounds like she had a lot of fun for the two and a half hours or so that I was gone eating french toast and running around playing and getting worn out. She must've played hard because she went down for a nap after I got back to SF and it wasn't even 10am! 

The drive up to Salt Lake was pretty good, a little traffic but not too bad. It was great to see Rick after not seeing him for two nights! We talked and talked the whole way home. He told me more about his trip and I told him about what we had been up to. We stopped by our home and I made Rick a breakfast burrito since we were out of milk and then took off back to SF to pick up Kimbri and gather up our stuff so Rick could take a nap and catch up on his sleep!

On our way back to Provo, Kimbri and I stopped at Walmart for a few things. I decided to just look around at the baby stuff. I can't help it! I've looked at girl things so much the past year, actually more than a year, that it's fun to look at all the fun little boy clothes now. I'm getting so excited to meet this little guy! He kicks so often, especially as I'm going to sleep at night. He's constantly reminding me that he's there and I can't wait to meet him! 

Anyway, as we were browsing through the baby aisles one lady passed by me and told me how cute Kimbri was. She had a little girl too sitting up in the front of her shopping cart. The mother asked me how old Kimbri was. I replied that she was about 13.5 months. She then looked at Kimbri and then me and said, "She's small!" I was kid of shocked and kind of fumbled over my words trying to figure out what to say. I most definitely could NOT agree with her. So I asked how old her cute little girl was and she was 8 months. I guess she thought her baby was big or something compared to Kimbri. It was just kind of a funny conversation and left me thinking about how much Kimbri is in love with food that at each doctors appointment she is well into the seventies or eighties in percentage for weight! Haha... just look at this face and her love for food!

Kimbri eating pasta and green beans...and obviously loving it!

Well, we finished up grocery shopping and headed home. We got there and Rick had just woke up about 10 minutes earlier. I'm glad he was able to catch up on his sleep! Then Rick worked on catching up on his homework from missing classes for his interview and Kimbri and I straightened up the house a bit. Later on we decided to make poppyseed chicken, one of Rick's favorites, for dinner. He went to class and came back for his 40 minute break in between classes and we all had dinner together. Then he went back to another class from 6-9pm and Kimbri fell asleep around 6:45pm. 

It's been a crazy last week or so! I just wanted to give an update on things, and also say that I love being married to Rick and having our little girl, Kimbri, in our lives! And I can't wait for baby BOY Stone to come along!! I'm so grateful for forever families :)