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.

Another great weekend with Devin has come and gone too quickly. We went swimming, we went to the gym, we went grocery shopping, we watched movies; we did all the fun stuff we wanted to do. We also reviewed our budget with a fine tooth comb once again, and confirmed that somehow we are going to be ok. Seriously, we know miracles are Heavenly Father's specialty, but it's still unbelievable. YAY :D

Like I mentioned earlier, we went to the gym on base, and Courtney and I found this...

When we first saw it, it was just sitting in the middle of the floor, not moving at all, while people were walking by!

I also found out lds.org has a sweet new feature. When you sign in to your lds.org account, you can read conference articles and magazines and highlight it and take notes! Then you can add tags and file it into different folders, and it will be saved in your account!

And of course, how could I forget your dose of Courtney? This is chunky peanut butter, but it looks pretty gross.

Courtney

In the first picture, I caught her brushing her teeth in the boat, kind of weird. In the second picture, she's holding a shoe while she sleeps. 'Nuff said. In this last one, she keeps putting this tub on her head and calling it her cowboy hat!

I realize how negative yesterday's entry is; that's just the way the cookie crumbles I guess. I thought today I would do a fun, entertaining post to balance it out. Courtney has learned a new song in nursery, POPCORN POPPING! She won't perform it when I am taping her though; she's kind of a goober that way. Devin thinks I've lost my marbles because I tell him about all the cute things she does, but she won't do them when he's home. At least she chose me to be her lucky spectator :) She is potty training, but she still isn't quite at the point she was in Spokane. Yesterday though, she went to the bathroom all by herself without telling me! That made me proud. She only peed herself once yesterday too; I can definitely see the end is in sight. Today we went to Walmart and the post office without any accidents either. Although, she went to the bathroom today, and I left to text my mom, and she decided to try and empty her little potty into the toilet, but instead spilled on the floor and her shirt. I hope you enjoy the videos! Also, I do not condone immodesty, just laziness when pee is involved.

Life Kinda Sucks

Our renters have run out on us. They didn't pay; they didn't even leave the keys! Who does that? I am just grateful that somehow, someway, we were always able to save a little bit of money every month. We are grateful for a great family, the Hinckleys, in the ward that is anxious to move in next month, and they've been monitoring the house from the outside and through the windows, and they said that looking through the uncovered, back windows, it doesn't look like the tenants did any damage, thank goodness! I have a house key, so we will mail it, and hopefully the Hinckleys will find everything in the rest of the house and the garage in order. I still feel in the angry, reactive stage, but we feel blessed to have a savings account to cover us until the Hinckleys move in. Also, the bank decreased our mortgage payment $30 starting this month, so that is going to help out. We were so shocked; we've made it so easy for those guys to live there this past year! But everything happens for a reason, and we have seen blessings in this trial. We won't really feel this financially, the house is in the same condition we left it to them, and now we have a trusty family in there. Is this beginning to ramble? This whole situation has just jumbled my mind, so I guess I better stop writing about this and move on to cute Courtney stories.

She has a cute, but pathetic dance she loves. She hangs her head, leaves her arms at her side, stands with her feet a little wider than hip width apart, and just sways side to side. Last night, Devin and I were watching 30 Rock while Courtney was playing in her room. Every time we'd watch the next episode and the theme song would come on, she would run out, stop short, and do that pathetic dance!

We went swimming Saturday, and as always, Devin was splashing and torturing my poor Fetus. He wanted to swim with her, so he picked her up. She wagged her finger at him and said, "Be nice Daddy!"

On an episode of Diego that she watched a couple weeks ago, his sister comforts an animal by petting it and singin "Calma" (that may or not be spelled right; I didn't care enough to check). I saw Courtney today carrying a puzzle piece with Dora's face on it, petting it, singing, "Calma."

So as you can see, our like kinda sucks, but it's really a bright, happy life, with ugly, teeny tiny pock marks. Yay for blessings like the Fetus!

Right at the beginning of this video, you can see her dance.

Andrea Forsyth Bodine has a blog with pictures or baby! To see little Callie, go to www.garrettandandrea.blogspot.com. She posted some pics and a cute video of her! Courtney is in the midst of potty training again. It's been hit and miss; mostly miss, but it's only been three days, and she is definitely improving. Thank goodness. That's all for this post!