My Sleeping BeautyShe likes to stick her foot in a glass and call it her pirate boot, it's really more of a peg leg
Dora and Diego wear headlamps on their adventures, so Courtney does too:)
And this is how she dances sometimes

This pregnancy is definitely kicking me around. I feel nauseous all day, but never to the point of throwing up. It really kind of sucks, so if you want to see three or more Maran/Devin babies, you will pray like you've never prayed before for this pregnancy to lighten up :) Life is going well otherwise. We are anxious to leave and get to Virginia. We have a house for rent that we've set our hearts on, and we can only hope and pray it remains unrented like it has been for the past month or so. This week our ward had a relief society meeting about healthy eating, One lady talked specifically about healthy snacks for kids, and one was so cute; I just had to share it! Dye cream cheese blue, dip in a small stalk of celery, and use it to "reel in" a goldfish cracker! I can hardly wait to have Courtney try it out!

Happy Birthday Dad!

Today is my Dad's birthday! I'm sure I'm missing out on a crazy rave back in Spokane ;) To celebrate, I want to share a story about Dad that he would never tell about himself. When I was in 7th grade, ward boundaries were realigned, and in this new ward was a guy named Jason Sevy who was a Sunday School teacher. Years before we were in the same ward, he worked with Dad at Telect. Well, they both worked at Telect, but they didn't work in the same department or know each other. But Bro. Sevy told me that he could tell, just from seeing Dad, that he was Mormon because of the Spirit that he felt. I think that's the coolest thing about Dad, his testimony. In fact, a friend ofours, Sis. Tucker, keeps telling us he's going to be prophet some day! I wouldn't be surprised Sis Tucker. Happy Birthday to the best Dad I could ever ask for!

Last Thursday, I started getting the most awful chest pains throughout the day. They would come while I was laying down and either linger for 15 or 20 minutes, or if I stood up they would leave immediately. Although I thought I was dying, I suffered through them until deciding to go to the ER this past Tuesday. The doctor didn't find anything wrong with my heart or lungs, so she thought something must be going on with my liver or gall bladder. I miss the part where either of those causes chest pains, but it led Devin and me to think her a quack. She did have some good news...we're having a BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Due 30 March 2012. Yay for a baby! Also, when Devin found out I was pregnant, he was able to diagnose me with heartburn. I've never had it before this, and I hope to never have it again. But at least I could figure out what the pain was, and now we know we're having a baby!

Those things on her arms are toe socks! So ingenious. Here, she fell asleep in this bridge position!

We now have less than two months left of tech school! We are so excited to be getting out of here and going to Virginia. Along the way we will stop in Utah to see Becky and meet up with mom and dad. We are really excited because we plan on attending an endowment session in the Salt Lake City temple!!!! It's really going to be a once in a lifetime experience for us. Who knows when we'll ever get back? So we are excited about that, and about going back to Saint Anthony to see our house and pack up our belongings. We fully intend to visit our absolute favorite restaurant, New Fong's! They have the best food and they're cheap! So Courtney loves wearing anything and everything as a hat, including underwear if I don't keep an eye on here. She used to call all hats cowboy hats, but now she calls them "yeehaw" hats, because that's what a cowboy says while wearing a cowboy hat. Also, she is pretty much potty trained, and she loves using her potty. She also loves to change underwear every time she goes. One day, I was crouching down next to her to keep her company, and when she was done she ran into her room to get her underwear. It took her a while, so I called to her to come back, and she ran in with every pair of underwear she could find and she threw them in my face yelling, "Here you go!" It was too funny to be upset for even a second. This is a hole in the wall at the library which Courtney loves, and she looks pretty cute in there.