Nate, this one is for you....

Dear Nate,
I think you owe it to your soon to be baby to get one of these to help keep him or her warm during those cold Iowa winters.  (http://www.togetherbe.com/default.aspx)

I don't want to ruin the surprise, but I ordered an extra large one in just your size :)

Your favorite sister-in-law,
Lindsey

In case you need help deciding what to have for breakfast...

For those of you who need help deciding what kind of cereal to eat in the morning. (We found this at http://topcultured.com/what-should-i-eat-cereal-edition-flowchart/) Awesome isn't it? Click on the image to be able to actually read it.

A better day

So I think today is going better already. I got to talk to Aaron and he is loving Stanford (which is where he is right now). He gets to come home tonight and I am excited. This whole interview thing has been rough on both of us. Luckily he only has one more left and it is at the end of the month so we have a little break from the whole traveling thing (he has been gone 10 of the last 11 days).

I guess I will add a little bit about Christmas since I haven't yet. We had a great Christmas this year. We were really glad to see my sister and her husband and spend some time with them. We got lots of fun presents but the best present of all was that I found out that I am going to be an aunt in July! (I am already an aunt, but not on my side of the family) Jen is having a baby and we are so thrilled for her and Nate! She has the ultimate in self control and isn't going to find out what it is. They want a surprise come delivery day. I don't think I could handle waiting. Here are a couple of pictures of the baby since he is by far the best looking one in the family :). He really liked the wrapping paper. The bottom picture is of him in a storage container. He did not like it and started to cry.

Hrumphf

So some day I will get around to doing a real post with pictures. I just have to vent for a minute, this is kind of a downer, so you can stop reading if you like. At four this morning I get an email from my advisor that wants to know if I can meet with him at 10 this morning. I call my mother-in-law at 8:15 and she is nice enough to hurry and get ready and head up to the U so I can make this meeting. I was supposed to be going to a seminar later at 11:30. I head to our imaging facility which I can't unlock the door to and no one is there. I figure maybe he is just running late. After sitting in the hall for an hour I just gave up. He never came. I go to the seminar where he shows up and decides to see if I can meet at 3. No, I can not. He wonders why I don't get work done. According to Elder Russell M. Nelson we need three things to feel joy in the morning, one of them being feeling good about the people you work with. Hmm, no wonder I dread working and the days I work....