Woohoo, we’re so excited! Paige is due August 17th and is feeling good. If you want to see, here’s the first ultrasound (at 11 weeks): 
We’ve started gathering name suggestions and predictions, and we’ve included them here. Seems like there are some common themes! We like seeing what everyone thinks. Continue reading
Wait, hasn’t there been a post with this same title before? ;-) Well, he deserves it! Recently we found out about another great step in Josh’s academic career – he got into the Master’s program! Woo hoo! It’s what we’ve been planning on and what he wanted, and (though I nor my parents nor his parents are surprised at all), it’s still nice to know for sure.
To brag on Josh some more, this is the Masters of Information Systems program at BYU – one of the top ten MISM programs in the country. It’s only open to a select number of students, and about half of those who applied got in. Way to go, Josh!
So what does this mean for our future? Well, Josh will start his senior year this fall, and during his senior year he’ll start taking some graduate-level classes. Then next fall (that’s fall of 2011), he’ll officially start the Masters program, which lasts one year. So then, in the spring of 2012, he’ll graduate with a Bachelor’s and a Master’s! Not bad, eh? (Just in time for the end of the world, too!)
Well, we’re both super excited and glad to know where we’ll be the next two years! And to celebrate, I made Josh a cookie cake (because he had never had one!). Usually I don’t think of myself as a very good baker at all, but I was actually pretty proud of this one – well, Josh liked it a lot and said it was delicious, which is what I care about. :-) Oh, and where did I learn my awesome cookie-cake decorating skills? That’s thanks to the summer I worked at the Great American Cookie Company in the mall. Oh, yeah.
Anyway, I’m super proud of Josh, so are we all! And most important, he’s happy and excited. So yay for life!
I was browsing through some old pictures today, and I came across this one:
We took it the night that we moved into our house, the one we’ve been renting now for over a year. Josh and I drove in from Colorado that night, with a car and a trailer full of wedding gifts, stuff, and furniture from our parents. That night we unloaded the car and trailer, dumped everything in a pile in the living room, and rolled out sleeping bags in the bedroom to sleep. It was fun to remember that night, and those first few days of being married, and how fun and happy they were. Now we’ve been married for over a year—wow, over a year! We’ve really enjoyed living in this house throughout it all, haunted dungeon and lack of AC included.
Well, we’ve known now for some time that our landlords (who are great and awesome) are planning on selling this house this summer, which has made us vey sad. We tried to be optimistic and look for a new place to live, though. But, happy day, we just found out that they’re actually delaying putting it on the market and want us to sign a contract for another year! Hooray for blessings! Josh and I know we’re so lucky, and we’re looking forward to another year in this great house!
It’s official—Josh is an ISYS major! He’s known that’s what he wants to do since he returned from his mission, and how’s he officially in the program! Congratulations, Josh! And (if I can brag about Josh for a bit) he not only got accepted to the Information Systems program, but also to the Marriott management program! He’s so smart. Also, did you know that about 300 people apply to the program every year, and only about 160 get in? It’s a competitive program in the business school, and now Josh is part of it! We’re very happy, and I’m very proud of Josh, and he’s excited to start the major this fall. So way to go, Josh!
Josh: “Awww, shucks…” ;-)
