Life in Copeley

Despite all of the drawbacks to living in family housing (no dishwasher or garbage disposal, 1 washer/dryer per building, past residents' hairs glued to the floor, etc.), I must admit that Dan and I have enjoyed our time here for the most part. Dan's walk to school is under 5 minutes. My drive to work is under 5 minutes. We've seen squirrels, groundhogs, woodpeckers, deer, skunks, raccoons and foxes all pretty close to our aparment.

Perhaps one of the best things about living here is the diversity of the residents. We're the only Americans in our building. We've got Chinese, Chilean, and Indian neighbors. In the building behind ours is a Russian family. Just the other night the dad decided to have a big old fire right underneath his make-shift sun porch (a tarp on sticks). The fire may not look big, but take my word for it - it looked like his tarp was going to catch on fire at any minute. Sorry the picture isn't bigger. When I zoomed in, it got blurry... The guy who lived there before him was from France and one day I looked out to see him and his buddies having a bongo party. They were all just slapping their bongos while other people danced. He was pretty crazy but very entertaining as well. I hate to say it, but we're going to miss this place when we move this summer!

In other news, thanks to everyone who has taken our gender poll! The final tally was 16 votes for girl and 10 votes for boy. We'll find out for sure next week (unless the little bean doesn't cooperate in which case I'll be really disappointed!). We're really excited. Here's the latest prego picture from me at 21 weeks. Yes, my cheek is really shiny. And I promise I'm not trying to stick out my belly!

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Kristen waited me out. I figured it was about time we had another post, and Kristen hasn't done it yet, so now you're subjected to one of my posts. Here's what we've been up to...

We stayed in C'ville for Christmas and New Years. Here's me doing something like Blue Steel with my beautiful Christmas stocking, which is about twice as big as Kristen's stocking. Santa got me lots of Reese's bells, which I've determined are not as good as Reese's minis. So now Santa knows for next year.
Here's Kristen with all of her Christmas loot. Note the birdseed on her lap. She seems to love telling people that I got her birdseed for Christmas. Maybe she's hoping that I'll feel sorry for her and buy her some more birdseed.

Then we went to St. George, Utah, for Kristen's sister's wedding. The luncheon was catered by the restaurant in this Holiday Inn. Congradulations Candice and Craig! Take luck with being married.
They got married in the St. George temple, which was really pretty, especially when the weather cleared up, and the sky was blue. It was nice to go to St. George, have some warm weather, and come back to C'ville where it's been in the 60s.
This is just another classy portrait that Kristen took of me outside the St. George temple. She always knows how to accentuate my good side. Thanks, Kriwten!