Happy Anniversary to Us!!

It's been THREE whole years (from yesterday)!!! WOW we're getting up there!
To celebrate we went to a popular fondue joint last night in downtown Minneapolis. It was fun! It was our first official fondue experience, where you actually cook your food in the hot liquid of choice. I actually got Mike to try lobster without a fight! He wasn't too impressed. They give you a sample of different meats with sauces so it looks like you end up eating a lot but not really. All the samples were small pieces. The meal ended with a chocolate peanut butter fondue that we dipped strawberries, bananas, pineapple, marshmallows, brownies, pound cake and cheesecake. That was by far the best. We'll have to go back just for dessert next time, of course, how many times do we all say that and never do!?
In that past we've gone to a bed and breakfast for the weekend. But since this time of year it's cold, make that beyond cold up here, and I'm out of commission on any winter sports, we are going to wait till it warms up. We'll make it a combo anniversary/last-getaway-before-baby-comes weekend. That is if it warms up here in April!!
To all my southern family and friends that would be a stable 40 degrees!!

Belated Valentine's on How We Met

Kecia wanted her friends to post about how they met their husbands, so here's our story:
Summer 2003 at Lone Tree Lakeshore camp on Elephant Butte Lake, NM
This was my second summer there and Mike's first. The camp directors, Eric and Nikki, knew me from the previous year and knew Mike from college, which is why he was coming to work at camp. I was one of the first staff there and was asking Nikki about the new staff coming in. She told me about them and then about Mike. While talking about Mike she threw in that she thought we would probably start dating this summer. She could picture us together and then told me about his long hair and beard. She also said that she can't say anything to him about it because he might not act on it on his end. So...I was stuck with this info not knowing what to do and a little nervous when we first met.
The first few conversations with others involved him putting his foot in his mouth twice. One comment was about these red neck/hick people on TV using this round thing on their dinner table to pass things around. I said yeah, a lazy susan, we had one of those, not realizing I'd just labeled my family as red neck/hick. But I think it embarrassed him more than me!! Fun stuff!!!
His first impression of me was a camp nerd (coming from a computer geek!) I just remember he was shy but a hard worker.
The good part was that I was his boss for part of the summer. Towards the end he'd follow me around trying to anticipate what I was about to do and do it for me. Sweet, but a little annoying since I liked to pull my own weight.
Our first date was eating Thai food and going to see Finding Nemo. Previously, he'd said he didn't like cartoon movies but quickly changed his mind after seeing my interest in the movie.
After summer ended we decided our relationship was worth trying over long distance. A year later I moved to Idaho, to actually live in a non-camp setting in the same town to make sure we could stand each other! Turns out we could!!
We will be married three years on Feb 27th!

Africa pictures

Instead of painstakingly adding each picture to a post, I got smart! With Mike's help, I added photo albums to the right so you can look at the rest of our trip's pictures. Have fun browsing!

Baby Update starting third trimester

I'm now at week 29 which is really hard to believe. I apologize for not posting more about my pregnancy but it has thankfully been uneventful. As you can see from the picture I am showing but still not as much as you probably expected. Since I'm tall I won't be really big till the end if even then, I'm told. But everything is going right on schedule and all test have turned out fine.
I've been putting off registering just because it is such a daunting task. The first time Mike and I walked into Babies R US we were extremely overwhelmed. But my goal is to get it done this week!!
Another reason the registering and baby buying has been put off is that we are in a one bedroom apartment. We really just don't have room to keep all the stuff and it helps us also to not go overboard on what we want verses what we think we'll really need!!
If any of you have items that were a must-have please let me know!!
Also if any of you have or are using cloth diapers, I'd love to hear what has and hasn't worked. I've decided to go that route but there are so many option available now, it's hard to know where to start.
A fun note: there are two other first time moms in our Sunday school class. One is due in March, then April and then me in May. SO I'm lucky to be last to learn from them as their babies come!!