Pookie

Meet our baby!  I had my first appointment today and it went great.  We were hoping for an ultrasound and obviously we got one!  It was so exciting, our little baby was waving its arms and legs all around while we were watching!  I am officially 10 weeks and have a due date of July 28th, 2012. Little Pookie (Jonah gave me a baby book called Night Night Little Pookie so that is what we are calling the baby for now) and I are doing well, so far I have been very blessed with an easy pregnancy.  I've had a little bit of nausea but it's been minor and haven't thrown up (yay!!).  Of course I've been more tired than usual but I've been able to take a lot of naps since we are off work for about a month and a half.   

Sorry this is sideways, I'm not sure why it's doing that!

I've been very hungry lately and have a hard time keeping myself from feeling like my stomach is about to eat itself! I had a fast metabolism before but now that I'm pregnant it has kicked into super high gear.  So far I haven't had cravings or aversions, I just need to eat often or I start to feel nauseous.

The Big News

This year on Thanksgiving we were very excited to be able to announce to both our families that we are expecting a baby!!!  We found out the day before and were thrilled to have such a perfect opportunity to share our news and that we wouldn't have to keep our secret long.  Baby Trevino is expected to join us in July and we can't wait to meet our little one!!

After taking the first test I almost didn't believe there were two lines, I'd imagined two lines before but this time was real!  I called Jonah in and immediately he said I should take another one just in case.  That one came out positive too!  We didn't have time to go to the doctor "just to be sure" before heading to Santa Maria for Thanksgiving with Jonah's family so we went to Target and bought another test and sure enough it was positive. We felt a little more confident after 3 tests confirmed it and began sharing the news!

Fall Is Here

Fall has arrived up at camp and is quickly leaving, I almost missed my chance to take pictures of some the trees by the staff houses.

Jonah and I took a long hike on one of days off to Nelder Basin.  We took a detour to go on the Shadow of the Giants trail to look for fall Dogwoods but it was a tiny bit too early for them.

We did find some interesting mushrooms

There were a few Dogwoods that were changing color.

 In Nelder Basin there are a lot of Giant Sequoias, we had fun spotting all of them and marveling at just how huge they are! We explored for a while, made a fire, ate our lunch and roasted apple slices over our fire (really yummy!). We hiked back to camp and then headed to Fresno to do some shopping and had some delicious pizza at the California Pizza Kitchen. 

And just in case you were wondering how Monty and Posy are doing in the mountains? Well they love it!  Posy even caught her first mouse the other day, we were so proud. 

Calvin Crest So Far

We thought we would have internet in our house at camp but unfortunately that's not the case so blogging isn't as easy as I had hoped it would be.  Combine that with our broken computer and you get no blogging at all.  So here is a quick update about our time at camp so far.

I have gone on lots of walks with Rachel and Colby (notice the mosquito on my forehead!)

We have eaten and picked lots of blackberries

Gone on hikes in the beautiful forrest

Painted the art/music room in our house

Gone on more hikes

Had pancakes and homemade syrup for breakfast when my family was up for a visit

Took the Nickell's fishing and caught lots of fish.  Everyone caught at least one (although I missed getting a picture of Evan and his fish).

Lunch with the family

Breakfast burritos in Sherwood cooked by Sarah and Josh

It has been wonderful being in the mountains, we love the mountains and the people up here with us.  Not all of it has been good though.  On the 26th of September one of our staff members had an accident while working on the climbing wall and didn't survive.  It was a tragic accident and we all had a pretty rough week as we grieved.  We've had so many people praying for Calvin Crest and those of us on staff and have been able to take time to talk about and process what happened and that has helped a lot.  So thank you if you have been and continue to pray for healing and wisdom as we move forward.

Goodbye Watson House

On Saturday my parents, the Nickells, and Buck and Jamie came over to help us move our stuff up to Calvin Crest.  We managed to fit everything into my dad's van and trailor!  With everyone's help it went pretty quickly and we were soon on our way up to camp.  The unloading went even faster and we all headed back down to my parent's house for pizza. 

On Sunday Jonah and I spent the day cleaning.  That was probably the hardest part of the whole process it took a long time and we were exhausted by the end.  I decided that it was probably good that we had to clean because I was really starting to hate that duplex as the day went on, so much that I hoped I wouldn't be sad leaving it.  Unfortunately that was not true.  When we were finally finished and ready to leave it hit me and I was very sad to be leaving the first place that Jonah and I had been able to call our own (even though we were renting).  I cried and Jonah comforted me and that was that.

Quick Trip

We got one last trip in during our week of packing up the house and getting ready to move to camp.  We went and saw our good friend Caitlin and met her boyfriend Jack.  We had a wonderful visit, the only bad part was leaving! 

Dinky Creek

We went camping with Jonah's family the last weekend of August.  We camped at Dinky Creek, a favorite from Jonah's childhood.  It was a great trip and fun for all of us who had never been before but have heard so many stories from.

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August 6th

Jonah celebrated his 26th birthday this month. 

We had a nice morning together which included breakfast and presents.  Then Buck and Jamie came over and we went hiking at the Kaweah Oaks Preserve. 

It was a little warm so we got in the river and found a giant tadpole!

We passed through a section of trail that was filled with spiders, yikes!!

 We got in the river again and if felt so good!

We finished the evening up with movies, coffee, and ice cream!

 On Sunday we had breakfast with Jonah's sisters and their families.  Sarah made homemade tortillas just for Jonah!  After breakfast we headed to Mill Creek to hunt for crawdads with my sisters.  Unfortunately there was too much water in the creek and despite our best efforts we didn't get any crawdads.  We still managed to come up with a feast at my parent's house.

 We had a "feed" outside on the picnic table

As per his request, Sarah made Jonah a chocolate coffee ice cream cake for dessert!

Calvin Crest

Jonah has had some Saturdays off so we've been trying to take advantage of them. One of them we drove up to Calvin Crest and spent the night Saturday night.  We had a nice time walking around and visiting with people, we especially had a good time talking with Rachel while she worked in the laundry room.

Jonah loving the mountains

Hanging out with Rachel

We are going to be moving up to Calvin Crest in about 2 1/2 weeks to live there for the school year.  I'm going to be working in the kitchen and Jonah will be on the accommodations team.  We're a little nervous about the move but also really excited for the change and to live in the mountains again!

"Stay"cation

My parents, sisters and the kids went on vacation and we've been taking care of my parent's house.  We've enjoyed the pool, TV, internet, big kitchen, and tempur pedic mattress so it's almost been a vacation for us too.  The negative part was battling the ants in the kitchen, fortunately for the majority of the time I felt like we were winning.  If you want to know what my family was doing you can check it out here and here on my sister's blogs.

Yummy dinner

Working on our moves

Dinner with Isaac Sunday night at Orange Blossom

The sweet potato fries after we devoured them

An awesome castle we built!