Great news and big life changes..

So Thursday flashback:

We get home and go to the mailbox like we do everyday to see if Tanner has gotten any letters from med schools. We open it up expecting the usual nothing and there is a letter from the U. We tentatively open it and to our dismay find that Tanner did not get accepted. We are numb. We don't know what more he could have done, I'm going to brag and say that his application was amazing, he's been told that at all his interviews, and we were pretty devastated. So we go in the house and sit sadly on the couch for a few minutes. Tanner goes to check his email and begins yelling; to our utter amazement we find out some great news, Tanner has been accepted to the Medical College of Wisconsin!! In two minutes, we went from miserable to ecstatic. It hadn't even been a week since his interview there, but he is in!! He is still waiting to hear from a couple other schools, so it could still be a different place, but not the U. It is sad that we will have to move away, but we are more happy and grateful that he got in and his dream to become a doctor is now possible.
Our families were pretty sad when we told them, but we are just excited. The more we have thought and talked about it, the more we are grateful for this opportunity and know that this is what the Lord meant for us. It will be a great experience, even though it will be difficult to be so far from family, it will be so good for us and I know we will learn so much. And we will really rely on the church and each other. I know I will need the Lord's help, but I am optimistic and can't feel anything but happy about our new adventure together. And thankfully we have blogs and fb to stay in touch. Change is a good thing. This will be a huge change, far from friends and family, starting med school, a new little baby, and leaving my job that I absolutely love. There is the fear of the unknown, but everyone I know that has lived out of state has said it has been a great experience, and we have actually always wanted to. I'm just nervous for the -10 degree winters. Otherwise, I just know this is going to be great. Tanner laughed when I said I hoped we could take our dishwasher with us. Also, all you friends who have been just dying to visit Milwaukee in your lifetime, now you can come and visit us!
We won't be leaving for school until the end of next summer, so we'll still be here a while. It is nice to at least know where he is going and be able to prepare ourselves for it. So this Thanksgiving, you'll know one thing we're especially grateful for. The other thing we're grateful for is little Eric! He's growing and giving me that nice basketball look. He's kicking and strong. I had my appointment this week and sadly I was barely over on my glucose test, so I have to retake it this week to make sure I don't have gestational diabetes. Did you know for that second test you have to eat a candy bar every day for 3 days before you take it again? If they're making me, I guess I'll have to force it down. :) So we're hoping that comes back negative, my doctor said it was so borderline, she thinks I'll be okay. Also, I've gotten a little too anemic so I have to take extra iron, mmm. Tanner and I haven't been able to find a time that works for both of us for a birth class, so we have a class on DVD. We started watching it today, it was so funny practicing breathing together in our living room. I was proud, he was very interested in all the info and excited to try out everything she was teaching. He's so cute, I just love him so much. Here is the latest shot of the baby bump:


28 weeks

Have you ever seen anything so beautiful?

After these past few years of marriage, Tanner and I had an epiphany. Our messy apartment problem always starts with the dishes. In our lives, they are the root of all evil, to put it overdramatically. Once they pile up and get all nasty, the rest of the house goes to pot. So we took the plunge and bought this beauty:

A portable Maytag dishwasher. It is just amazing. Dirty dishes go in and come out clean. I now understand why women get excited about appliances. Because they are amazing. Tanner is in Milwaukee right now for another interview and requested that I not do the dishes until he gets back tomorrow so he can start the dishwasher. Yeah, our lives are pretty exciting, I know. But don't judge, those of you that have lived dishwasher-less can sympathize.


Here I am at 27 weeks. I have finally invested in the stretchy maternity pants and am feeling good. Eric is constantly kicking and growing like crazy. Next week will start the third trimester and we're getting really excited to meet the little guy!

Pea buh

October flew by, we did a lot of fun things: Celebrated Tanner's 25th birthday, Noelle's 2nd birthday, Tanner went to Philadelphia for an interview, went to a good friend's wedding, and had fun with friends. This picture is the only one I got of Tanner and I at Christie's super fun Halloween party. We were bobbing for apples and Tanner was laughing because after two rounds, I never was able to get even one apple in my mouth. Not my most attractive shot, but it was funny.

So, for all you sleepy Tanner fans, here's another dream quote:

T: "Hey, it's [some weird word I can't remember 'cause it was the middle of the night] day."

N: "What??"

T: "It's in honor of all the oil production."

N: "And how do you celebrate that?" (I'm trying not to laugh)

T: "With lots of corporate vistas."

N: "What does that mean????"

T: "Don't know, but we'll figure it out."

I asked him to explain in the morning, but he still didn't know what a corporate vista was. But he was proud of himself for dreaming about oil. I'm not sure why, but that made him feel like he must have been dreaming about something intelligent.
In other news, only one month left of the semester, and I couldn't be more thrilled! And Thanksgiving is just around the corner, I LOVE Thanksgiving!
In a week and a half, I will hit the third trimester. Thrilling, yet terrifying.
Tanner is just the best husband ever. He is so cute, talking to my belly and always trying to feel him kick. He's going to be the most adorable dad. He tries to joke and say that he's going to give him spankings everyday. haha I just can't wait to see him hold him for the first time, it's going to be the cutest.
I know when I'm close to delivering I'll be ready to just have him out, but did any of you other ladies feel totally freaked about labor and delivery?? I wonder if I think about it too much. I know I can do it because women have been doing it since the dawn of time, but I can't help it, and I can't not think about it. Sometimes I get nervous that I'm nervous, thinking it's a bad sign of how I'll do. How can you prepare for something you have no idea what it will feel like and is supposed to be really painful? When I say I'm freaking out, I mean that I've been nervous about it for the past couple weeks and will probably be fine soon, but I don't freak out too often, so it stresses me out.
Lastly, to explain the title of this post. Tanner loves to tease me about this one time over a year ago, when he asked me to make him two peanut butter sandwiches to eat on the way to school. So I'm driving him to school and he's eating them and exclaims "Did you put JUST peanut butter??" "Well, yeah, that's what you said." He told his family and my family, he thought it was so funny. Seriously though, I always grew up calling it peanut butter and jelly, or PB&J. Who says just peanut butter sandwich? Anywho, on a totally random note he loves to recollect about a friend from junior high that loved to abbreviate everything (bball, McD's, even called football f-ball) and sometimes will do it to be funny. So a couple weeks ago he is abbreviating things that don't need to be abbreviated and asks "Do you remember the time you made a just peanut butter sandwich?" and starts laughing. Since then he has decided to call me "Pea buh," short for "Peanut butter." Clever, eh? Just a small insight into the weirdness of our marriage. I don't know whether to get frustrated at him for making fun of me or laugh at how silly it is. I usually choose laughing. I'm so glad I married him, he is definitely my favorite.