Since I Feel Like Making Some Lists....

I don't know, would you say list-making is kind of like organizing, therefore it could be considered a part of "nesting"- you know, getting your house in order before the baby comes? Because I want to make some lists right now.

Top Ten Best Songs to Sing in the Shower (according to me) :

• Superstar- The Carpenters
• Dream a Little Dream- Mama Cass Elliot
• Can't Take My Eyes Off of You-Frankie Valli
• Galileo- Indigo Girls
• We've Only Just Begun- The Carpenters
• You're So Vain- Carley Simon
• Mama Mia-ABBA
• Close To You- The Carpenters (Okay, anything by the Carpenters)
• You Were Meant For Me- Jewel
  
• Stay- Lisa Loeb

Runner Up-

• American Pie- Don McClean (because, dang, it's so long!)

Maybe I just like these songs because I can sing the alto part and I know all the words (or at least most)
Which songs are your ultimate shower songs?


Places I Could Possibly Move to in the next year:

• Boulder, Colorado- heard its beautiful, may be costly though. (Aspen and Telluride sound beautiful, but way too expensive!)

• Grand Junction, Colorado- close enough to my family, but in a new state.

• Logan, Utah- good place to live, know my way around, but hard to find teaching a job?

• Lander, Wyoming-where my grandparents were, has a soft place in my heart, good pay.

• Star Valley, Wyoming-another of the few pretty places in WY, though maybe too small for my tastes.
• Oregon coast- okay, it costs way too much to live here, but I think its pretty!

• Northern California- see previous

• Flagstaff Arizona- because its not as hot as the rest of Arizona, and it has pine trees.

So, the only other list that's running through my head right now is the "100 ways Joseph most annoys me" but since my judgment may not be fair right now due to pregnancy hormones, I probably shouldn't post that.

Baby City!

Do you know what these names have in common?
Wyatt
Max
Scott
Carter
Cara
Zack
Leif
Toby
Maleah

Some of you have probably figured out that these are the baby names given by my friends and neighbors who have given birth in the last two to three months. Notice only two of these are girls. (And poor Elora will be sad we can't use the name Toby now, like she wanted.)

Now, how about these names:
Cory
Sherry
Kiera
Michelle
Suzie
Shae
Amy
Candace

Yes, these people are all expecting around the same time as me, or within a month or two afterward! And the list would be 5-6 names longer if I were to include November. See, I wasn't lying when I said almost every married woman I know was having a baby ! Okay many of the women I know.
Incidentally, the majority of these people are also expecting boys.
And before you say, "There must be something in the water there", only two thirds of these are actually here where I live, others are friends from where we lived before, or in my sister's case...Texas.
Who knew I was going to be so trendy?

36 Weeks Profile

I'm thinking this will be the last "pregnancy profile" posted, unless by some freak of nature I go to 40 Weeks. What do you think?
(Not that the baby is a freak of nature.) Remember you can vote on the due date in the sidebar poll.
So, I happened to be exactly 36 weeks on the 4th of July. This is me at the parade (the only picture we have of me that day, and only because I told Joseph to take it.)



Not much new to report..you know swollen ankles from the heat (I always get that the last month) backaches, etc. But really I'm not overly anxious for the baby to be born...
I mean, I told you I'm ornery when I'm pregnant right? Well the first month or two after the baby comes are twice as bad, and the heat is going to triple that. So...let me take this opportunity to apologize to all the neighbors. I'll be nicer in a few months!

Why not to take pictures of someone eating

And why you definitely shouldn't tell them they're making a funny face!



Or maybe that only applies to three-year-olds?

Happy Independence Day!

Yes, we had the fireworks a day early:








I know, don't you love the basketball hoop? Oh well, at least it gives it some context.