What have we been doing?

Well, I am still working at UST and Amy has the summer off from her school. She has been working on her paper for her grad program, and I am not taking a class this summer for mine. I will start my grad classes in the fall. I am signed up for one week night class and one Sat. class that meets one Saturday every two weeks.

I'm keeping busy by working at STEPS camp again this summer at the university. I teach Web design two days each week for four weeks to groups of girls entering the 7th grade.

I decided to pass on the 3M tournament this year because I am so busy and the summer filled up fast. I am saddened by that. Maybe next year.

We have the main walls of the nusery painted and are starting to stick on non-permanent decals around the top of two walls. We are going with a jungle theme. Amy and I already bought a few toy animals that we will put up on a shelf above the closet as a decoration. The baby will be able to play with them later in live, like when he/she reaches 30 years old.

There have been lots of adjustments to our house. First of all, I lost my beloved home office. The computers are now moved out to different corners of the house. Amy and I are no longer to work/play on the computers side by side. We do have a wireless network. Now, ours was secure, and still is, but I suggest to anyone who has a wireless network CHANGE DEFAUT SETTINGS and be ULTRA PARANOID about security. Our settings worked for 2 years, but when we expanded our network bad things happened. We are now secure again, but I had to resort to a 64 character password. (Don't worry, only the computer needs the password, we don't have to enter it in every time).

Our printer is now even wireless on the network that way we don't rely on one computer having to be on before we print from another computer. Getting the right device for that was a challenge too, but we are pretty much finished moving the computers, hooking up to the network and resecuring it.

It's A Baby!

Well, the news is out we are expecting a bundle of joy in January after the new year. We found out a few weeks after Easter and made the wide spread annoucement when Amy hit 13 weeks. We will have the chance to find out the sex of the baby in September, we don't know if we will inquire or if we will just wait to be surprised. We have heard both good and bad stories of either the doctor being right or wong.

For the first baby, I don't mind if it is a boy or a girl. I'd love to have at least one of each, but don't feel presure to have one before the other. If we had two boys or two girls already, and another was on the way, then yes, I would feel pressure. But I don't want to fill this entry with a whole lot of ifs.

So I really suck at updating the web site and keeping my blog up to date. No excuses and no promises, but I hope to provide more info about happenings later this summer and make it easier for me to keep up.