April 2011

The hospital has finally slowed down as the snowbirds have gone back home to escape the summer heat.  I am back to my regular three nights a week and enjoying my days off. 

We had another birthday this month, little Squidders turned 17 and we celebrated at Macaroni Grill.  Squid is such a sweetie and her and I were able to celebrate a little just the two of us for a day.  She played hookie from school for half and day and we spent the day at the pool and having some sister time. 

We got to spend some time with Aaron's little brother this month too.  Ryan finished his 1st year of BYU and flew down to spend a week with us.  It was nice to be able to spend time with just little Ryan for a while before we send him off to Cambodia for 2 years.  Luckily, Aaron had a pretty relaxing week of school so they were able to spend a lot of time together.  We can't wait for the ENTIRE Rucker family to be together in June for his farewell.  We were able to spend a day with Bruce when he came and picked up Ryan.  We had an amazing homecooked lobster dinner and ate them while sitting on our new chairs that Bruce and Marcy got for us!  We've had a beautiful kitchen table for almost a year now, but no chairs to sit on. Hooray we've completed the package!

I've gotten pretty obsessed with crafts and looking at craft blogs.  I found a cute pattern for baby shoes and went to work.  I love how they turned out.   I also found a blog that showed how to make homemade labels.  My mom and I had a fun time designing our own label/logo to put on our creations.  I just got the fabric in the mail today and it is soooo cool to see my little logo I designed on actual fabric.  I can't wait to make more stuff so I can label away.

In pregnancy news, I am now 31 weeks.  A little shocker for me this month - I failed the glucose screening test, by a mere 4 points.  I was really bummed and I stressed about it all the time that i had to wait until the glucose tolerance test.  Luckily I passed the glucose tolerance test with flying colors and a lot of good came from the little scare.  Since then, Aaron and I got little membership cards to Aunt Karen's community pool so I have been swimming laps 2-3 times a week.  I have fallen in love with swimming.  It's an amazing exercise and I can get super tan at the same time!  I feel better about myself knowing that I'm exercising again.

(Taken on our anniversary at 30 weeks)

I got a fee baby sling off of one of the pregnancy websites and decided I needed to try it out with our current baby.  Little Sophers is going to have some competition pretty soon.