Switzerland

Apparantly I thought I mentioned Joe's trip to Switzerland, but in fact, I didn't.
He's taking his masters classes in Educational Technology, through U of M, and as part of the program, he *has* to go spend 3 weeks in Geneva, Switzerland this summer and next summer. Yay for him, bummer for me.
He leaves in about 7 weeks, so there's a lot to do between now and then, considering when he gets back he'll only have a week or so until school starts! It really is going to make the summer go way too fast for him.
I don't really know an awful lot about what he'll be doing over there...something technological, I'm sure, but what? I don't know. Maybe I'll find out and let you know. :)

Time to Blog

Hey Bloggerville! Our computer is still out, being fixed, so it's hard to go online these days. I'm out here blogging from mom's computer again- We just went to a graduation open house, and now I'm waiting for this storm to roll in. I can hear thunder in the distance....it seems like a good day to go home and do some laundry and read a book.
School's not out around here until next week: Joe has 2 make-up days, so he's done on Thursday. He's not doing any moth catching or anything this year, since his Switzerland trip is going to take up a good chunk of his summer. I think he's looking forward to a summer with no extra work.
I get a new summer schedule too. Next Friday is my last one to work, since one of my stylists is coming back from her maternity leave, so I can be off Fridays now! That's going to be so fun this summer. :) I'll take all the extra pool time I can get!! It's nice to be the boss, so I can let the other people go to work while I sit at the pool. :) hahaha
That's about it around here. Baby is doing well, 17 weeks now. I have an ultrasound appointment on June 19 to find out the answer to the big question, boy or girl?
I know I promised Nancy some belly photos, but really, I'm just too lazy to do that right now. There IS a belly to see though! Maybe when we go up to Amy's she can take a picture of me and do it for me. hah. =)
Time to go to the grocery store. Food is getting scarce around our house, and I'm almost out of Cocoa Krispies!!! (That's me and the baby's favorite food! It's a daily staple, sometimes twice a day.)
Happy holiday weekend!

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To respond to the responses:
As far as boy or girl, I feel like this is a baby boy, but that doesn't really count for much, so we'll just wait and see I guess.
I AM loving the empire waist fashions this season!!! It's more of a pants issue at this point. And I miss my skirts.
As far as 14,000 iTunes: That's Joe's department. He's mildly (OK a little more than mildly) obsessed with downloading as MUCH music as humanly possible! Of those, probalby only 150 of them are actually songs I purchased on iTunes; a few thousand or so are from our own HUGE personal CD collection..and the rest? Any time Joe could get his hands on anyone's CD's, he loaded them into our computer. And now we've got everything you could possibly want to listen to (and a lot you probably would NOT want to hear as well!!!)
So that's that with that.
Today was my last day of work before vacation! Lisa and I leave Monday morning. I'll blog at y'all when we get back!!!

Blahg

Our computer is sick. Or very well could be. Our virus protection expired, so we need to buy new, but before we do that, it needs to be sent in to clear out whatever computer gunk is making it be crappy. (Could it have anything to do with the 14,000 songs we have in iTunes? Possibly....) And while we're at it, I think we are adding more memory (you know, to make room for a couple thousand MORE iTunes!)
Anyway, point being, it's being sent off to Dell, so I won't have it for a while (ughhh....) which means limited blogging (because i was SO good at daily blogging in the past!)
So to cover the next week or so:
~baby LaValley is currently 14 weeks, new due date is Nov. 6. That seems SO far away! I'm in a weird clothing dilemma where none of my clothes fit, but the next size up, as well as maternity clothes are too big...any suggestions?

~I got an ultrasound at my last appointment too. I thought about posting a picture of it on here, but I have this thought in the back of my head that if I scan it, the picture will fade (you know, like a concert ticket does when it's exposed to bright light?) anyone have experience with scanning ultrasound pics?

~I'm going on vacation next week with Lisa (thanks Lisa!!!) She's taking me as her "plus one" for her awesome company retreat to Arizona. Isn't she nice?? Or actually, aren't I lucky that Desiree' couldn't go?! haha

~End of school is near, which means (oh NO!) end of network television is near!!! What are we going to watch?! Even American Idol is almost over. (Go Blake!!)
It's almost RERUN time! The only thing that makes rerun season better is that it's also pool season. (uh..let's just not talk about pools right now though, because that brings up swimsuits, which isn't a pleasant topic this week.)

~Happy Birthday to all of our May birthdays! I'm pulling a Grandma Featherstone here (That's Joe's grandma: she sends everyone's b-day cards for the month at the beginning of the month. Smart move!!) So happy birthday to Jill, Jessica, Amy, Mom, and Joe. And happy mothers day to everyone. Hopefully my pregnant mind didn't forget anyone.

~Speaking of pregnant minds, I'm finding that it really is true that you lose half of your mind when pregnant. Fun stuff.

~Favorite food this week? Strawberry shakes. I had 3 last week. :) Hey, baby likes them!