Thanksgiving 2009

What a BLUUUUUUUUUUUUUUR! Things have been go-go-go since Nov 20th. We had our ultrasound on that day and it was such a neat experience. The ultra-sound tech did a great job not revealing any parts to us as we didn't want to know the gender of the baby until we were up in Calgary with family and friends. I had made and blue tag that said boy and a pink tag that said girl and the ultrasound tech put them in the box and sealed it shut. We made a poster that included the name, their guess of a girl or boy and their bid. basically how it worked is that once the gender was revealed if you guessed correctly then your bid would be returned to you and if you were wrong the $ went towards the baby. We had a 2:1 guess for a boy and so when it was deteremined that we were having a little girl we got to keep quite a bit. In fact, we got over $100. that is pretty good considering it was just for fun! Both Mike and I were shocked, as our video shows. For some reason we both thought we were having a little boy. I don't know if it was based on Mike's side of the family having mostly boys or what but we were shocked!!!

The rest of the time up in Calgary was hanging out! We celebrated Thanksgiving for Mike by having a roast beast dinner as he is not the biggest turkey fan, plus we will have turkey at Christmas. I wanted to learn so i helped my mom in the kitchen. Everything turned out delicious, but we had a tough time with the Yorkshire puddings. Either way it was yum in our tums! Unfortunately it was a busy time for Lanny cause it was her good friend Sarah's wedding so she was gone for most of it! We missed her, but she had a great time doing all that wedding party stuff! The time went by quick and for Mike, he had a Bio-Chem test monday morning at 8am so he was studying in the car both directions and at home here and then. Christmas break will be much better for him, there won't be anything hanging over his head. It will be a true break!

So for anyone who is around us enough you know that Mike has been working on the dental school application for about 1 year now and on dec 1st, which is today the schools finally let us know if we have been accepted to not! so in the dental school application world, things are buzzing with nerves and excitement! Some schools start letting their applicants know at midnight on Dec 1st, so last night Mike got an email at 9:45pm (it was an eastern school, so really 11:45pm) saying he was accepted. So that means we are definately going to dental school! We will be moving right after graduation in May!!! The school we were accepted to last night was University of Indiana, in Indianapolis, Indiana. This morning Mike got another acceptance to Case in Cleveland Ohio and another this afternoon to Western University in LA, and really it has just begun so we will hopefully here back from a few more schools. Either way...we are GOING TO DENTAL SCHOOL!!! This has been a long 3.5 almost 4year road for Mike and he has worked hard to get here! Now he has to finish this semester and 1 more at BSU and then he has 4 more years just for a GP, but who knows, he might specialize which would be at least 2 more years. So there is light at the end of the tunnel, but it is dim. YEAH MIKEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! you sure are going to take great care of your "girls." thanks for all your hard work.

Thats really all for us right now. We have 17 days until we are off for the holidays and boy am I excited! The time is going to fly by! Here are some pics!


Because this is for our posterity, I have to let all our kids and future nieces and nefews, this is what your Grandad did after every meal to make sure he was not wasting a thing. He is so adorable.

The poster with everyones gender guesses! She was out numbered 2:1, poor little girl!

The headband says "Padre" but we have since decided that he is going to be called Papa and my mom is going to be called...

Mema, instead of Madre as "Papa & Mema" are more grandparenty than Padre & Madre


Cute Nan & Grandad

My Madre with my super scruffy, yet sexy husband

Nan with Dorothy, she just loves babies.

Adam & Kimmy

Whitter, Lanae (aka Woundy) and Sarah 2 days before her wedding.

Sonni with my Little Namesake Dorothy!

Two of the Three men in my life! Well including Grandad & Ace & Alan then is it 2 of 6. My dad is the 6th of course!