Free Baby Clothes!

 Some people in the Marriott School put on a free kids clothing exchange every year and Bill and I went to it this morning.  It was amazing!  We came away with three bags of baby clothes that are in fantastic shape for free.  How cool is that?!  The entire gym was full of tables with clothes for every age of kids.  Apparently they spend the whole year gathering donations from people and then Kid to Kid also donates a bunch of clothes to help the student families invited to attend.  Talk about generous! 

Our favorite find of the day? Crocheted chuck taylors.  Score!

One Week Down and Halfway There

Here's to a successful completion of my first week of school.  It was busy!  Classes weren't such a big deal, but adding a TA job plus my standby transcribing one makes for some busy days and late nights.  For the most part my classes are great.  I have one I'm still trying to get into and one I would rather drop, but we'll see how that all goes.  I'm taking an intermediate tennis class and by sheer luck I have the assistant BYU men's tennis coach as the instructor.  He is awesome!  It's essentially like getting tennis lessons for free. He has already tweaked a couple things in my technique that were causing me problems and my strokes are working out so much better.  I love it!  It's a two-hour class twice a week, which seriously wipes me out by the end.  It's only for the block so hopefully I will still be able to play reasonably well by the time it finishes.  The little guy is growing like crazy so we'll see how big I get in the next two months, but I'm having a great time with it.

Our apartment is close to 1.5 miles from campus.  Bill and I decided that we would walk to campus every day.  If we have a reason to go back a second time then we can drive, but the first time walking is it.  It's really having a positive effect on our exercise habits, but with that plus my tennis class and Bill's volleyball and racquetball classes, both of us are really tired today.  We did our best to stay in shape in Las Vegas, but the hot weather definitely slowed us down.  It's definitely a fast way to get back into shape. :) 

Today is officially the halfway point of my pregnancy.  I'm so excited!  I can't wait to see this little guy.  So many things need to happen between now and then, and I have a feeling the time is going to go so fast.  I did just jump over one huge hurdle, figuring out who I want to go to for prenatal care here in Utah and how I want my delivery to go.  There is a midwives clinic attached to Orem Community Hospital that I just learned about.  They have access to everything doctors do at that hospital, but are also midwives so are very supportive of letting me make my decisions about induction, pain management, epidurals, etc.  My sister delivered at that hospital and I was really impressed with them, so I'm super happy with this information I now have about the midwives clinic.  I am going to schedule an appointment soon and I'm hoping for the best with it.  I just don't care for the idea of cookie cutter birth plans that so many of the OBs in the area have where when and how I deliver is so much more about their convenience than what I want or what is good for me and the baby.  This feels like a way better option and I've gotten great recommendations about this place. 

Purple is 18 weeks, blue is 20.  Apparently I haven't grown any these two weeks.

Ultrasound Pictures

Watch out friends, but this little boy is a cutie.  A bit alien, but we like our little alien. :)

Chilaxing with his hands behind his head and elbows poking out. I love it!

He had his thumb in his mouth right before they got this shot.  That is really cute.

He's waving at us.

Definitely a boy.  No question there.  Can I embarrass him before he is even born?

If you look close you can see his lips are the famous big Ashman lips.  I love it!

He's got his hand right next to his face.  Just posing away.

What can I say? I'm in love. :)

It's a boy!

The ultrasound was this morning.  The tech asked us if we wanted to know the gender and we said yes.  She turned the machine on and bam! there was a cute baby bum with a definite presence of boy parts for all to see.  The tech made this sound of surprise and snapped a quick shot to show us.  It was so funny. We are most definitely having a boy and apparently he did not want us to have any doubt.  It was so fun to watch him flip around as the tech got all his measurements.  He is measuring right on schedule and performing like a champ.  He was super active and just the cutest thing I have ever seen.  Now just onto coming up with a name...that is going to be interesting.

So much traveling this weekend

Bill and I drove 800+ miles in 24 hours.  It was insane.  But we got the majority of our possessions moved to Utah and got to celebrate Bill's sister's graduation from BYU while we were there.  We head back to Utah for good next Saturday.  I'm excited for it, but I will be so glad when all this driving is done.  Three trips to Utah in 4 weeks is just too much driving on the same road.

This is going to be a great week.  My ultrasound is scheduled on Thursday morning.  I can't wait to find out what I'm having!  Bill thinks it's a boy.  My old roommate has had something like 20 old roommates have babies and all but 3 were boys.  My FIL and one SIL thinks it is a girl.  And what do I think?  I have no idea.  Early on I thought it was a girl, then a boy, now I haven't a clue.  Since we don't have really any boy names in mind, that probably means that's what we're having. :)  Although today I told Bill about my many greats grandpa whose name was Absalom Wamsley Smith.  He had 5 wives and 32 children.  How about that for some posterity?  Absalom Ashman has quite the ring, right? Just kidding. Apparently Bill has a many greats grandpa with around the same number of posterity.  Oh how we love our crazy Mormon ancestors.  I'm rambling now, but I just can't wait for Thursday.  Woot!

Fun new sensation

I can feel the little nino now if I focus.  That's so awesome.

By Popular Demand

My SIL politely requested that I put some pictures up of what I'm looking like these days since she lives in California.  It's funny because until Bill took the picture last night, I didn't realize just how much bigger I've gotten in just the last couple weeks. I can still wear a lot of my clothes, though I had to say goodbye to some of my fitted dresses like two months ago.  No surprise there.  I have zero dollars I care to spend on maternity clothes at the moment, so here's hoping my rubber banded pants will last for awhile longer.  Can I just say thank heavens for the current long shirt styles?  It really helps to have so much material to cover everything. 

10 Weeks:

12 Weeks:

14 Weeks:

16 Weeks (today):

So there you have it.  I imagine I am going to get quite a lot bigger before I look like any of these pictures again. :)

Good Times in Utah

I've spent the last week in Utah at a family reunion and looking for an apartment.  The reunion was great and I found an apartment on Tuesday night, so I would call that a successful trip.  It's been so nice to be in Utah. I stayed at my sister's house and we have had tons of fun together.  We had a girl's night we my mom last night and went to a Bees game afterward with my brother and fam. Fun times!

Last night we had the sweetest thunderstorm.  It actually rained off and on while we were at the game, but not enough to be too much of a problem.  I got Bill a sweet DSLR camera for his birthday last year that we haven't put to near enough use, but last night while we were talking on the phone he talked me through how to use the remote we have with it to catch pictures of the lightning. Some of them turned out so sweet!  Here's a sampling:

I'm heading back to Las Vegas today.  Hopefully the weather will be good.  It rained and thundered all night long last night.  So sweet.

Fun and Interesting Prego Update and Other Randomness

I had my OB appointment this morning.  Apparently I am measuring three weeks ahead of schedule.  No wonder I suddenly popped out recently.  At least it feels like I did.  I still don't look that big but you can definitely tell I'm pregnant or just seriously gaining weight only in my stomach. :)  Maybe one of these days I will actually post a picture.  The PA was so surprised she started searching for a second heartbeat just to see.  No worries folks, none was found.  It did prompt her to have me schedule my ultrasound before I go back to Utah, three weeks from today.  I'm so excited!  I can't wait to find out if it is a boy or a girl.

I had this memory of something like that happening with my mom, so I gave her a quick call after the appointment.  Turns out I was remembering right.  She always measured big, so they always made her go do an ultrasound.  Apparently when she was having kids ultrasounds were not automatically scheduled.  She would always tell the doctor that this was normal but they would schedule the ultrasound anyway to see if her due date was wrong.  It's kind of fun to find out I seem to have inherited that same trait, at least for this first pregnancy.  I did not inherit her pattern of being so sick she was almost green for the first three months for which I am grateful.  We shall see if I get as big as she did early on. She hit her biggest size at 7 months and stayed that big all the way to the end without gaining much more weight.  I could do without that, but it wouldn't be the worst thing.  Mostly I'm just excited to be so close to finding out this baby's gender.

In other news, we're off to Utah for the weekend for a family reunion.  I'm so excited!  It's for Bill's family, and then I am staying longer with my sister to find an apartment.  I can't wait to see everyone!

I learned the fine art of dehydrating fruit this week.  I successfully dehydrated strawberries, apples, bananas, mangoes, and some nectarines.  They are so good!  Here's a few pictures.  Bill's parents kindly let us borrow their dehydrator.  That is definitely on the list of things to purchase sooner than later.

And finally, the finished dining room that I have been posting about all summer.  One beautiful table, six chairs, and a console table.  I'm a bit biased but I think it's a good looking room. :)

An annoying symptom

Does being pregnant include having a headache EVERY DAY for anyone else?  I drink enough water, try to eat when and what I'm supposed to and it doesn't seem to matter.  I've always gotten headaches easily growing up so it shouldn't be a surprise to me, but it's getting old.

In better news, I finished the last coat of polyurethane on my last two kitchen chairs.  Inexplicably, the back rest on one of them is a little crooked.  No idea how that happened.  Yay for DIY!  Maybe that will be the chair that gets pulled out when we have guests instead of always being around the table.  I am so relieved to be done staining and finishing wood items.  I am not a fan!  It is really hard to finish a piece well.  I've heard painting is way easier.  Maybe I'll go that route the next time I feel like building something.  I didn't take pictures of the chairs, but I do have a picture of how our table turned out.  I love it.  The chairs match it and it looks great. I made a couple cute placemats with material I had left over from a runner, so I'll take a picture of the finished project with it all there and post it the next time I have my camera, am at home, and actually have internet. 

Random Things

I haven't posted in a couple weeks because I honestly haven't thought of anything worth posting.  It's been a bit boring around here lately, but that's all good... Here's a few of those not too interesting things :)  :

1. I played the organ in sacrament meeting for the first time in four years on Sunday.  Loved it.  I kept sliding off the bench that was too high.  They always are. Skirts have no traction on them.  It might have helped if I had my organ shoes but I left them in Utah and my feet were a bit sweaty from nervousness.  Oops.  Sorry whoever played after me. :)  My playing could have been better.  I blame it on sliding off the bench.  Maybe I'll get called to be organist in my new ward in Utah if we are actually in a church.  I would love that calling.

2. I also taught Relief Society at church on Sunday.  It was the Jolena show all day for the ladies.  The lesson went well.  I love all the wonderful women in my ward.  I will not miss the heat, but I will miss how accepting and fun and lovable these women are.  Most of them are old enough to be my mother or at least a significantly older sister, but they are just fantastic.

3. I finished the table I posted about the last few times I blogged.  Sorry, didn't take a picture, but I will sometime.  It's beautiful.  I have one more coat of polyurethane to put on the last two chairs and then my carpentering plans for the summer will be complete.

4. I read the entire Harry Potter series in, I think, 5 days.  I definitely won't be able to do things like that any time soon after we go back to Utah. Two crazy semesters and a new baby might fill up my time just a bit. :)  Loved it.  Book 7 is much better than I thought the first time I read it.  I missed half of the interesting stuff that time because it had been too long since reading the others and I was trying to read it so fast.

5. Found out Bill's aunt is going to give us a bunch of her baby stuff.  Can I just say that is the nicest thing in the world?!  Thanks Debbie! 

6. Bill left the light on in the Jeep the other night and the battery died.  Oops!  The heat is not helping it come back to life.  We have jumped it a couple times, but it is still struggling to fully recharge.  Cross your fingers it's not dead. I'd rather not buy a new car battery, but we shall see.

7. Will be moving back to Utah exactly one month from today.  Have 2 trips planned there between now and then.  I'm so excited!  I will be sad to leave my ward and in-laws.  They've been wonderful to be around this summer.

That's about it for today.  Anyone know of any interesting things to do to pass the time that don't involve spending money, going outside in the 110+ weather, or internet? I'm running out of ideas.

More Work on Projects

My MIL kindly let me use a piece of fabric from her VERY large collection of fabric to make a tablecloth for the console table I made.  I finished it today and it looks great!  I won't have the plants on it when we go back to Utah, but it will still be so cute.

I also finished staining the kitchen table and it looks amazing!  I just need to de-rust the screws, hopefully get new wheels, and put it all back together.  It's going to be gorgeous.

The Little Squirt is Active

I had my first real appointment with my OBGYN yesterday, and got to hear little squirt's heartbeat.  So cool!  The first thing the doctor said when his PA was trying to find the heartbeat was, "There it is! Oh wait, this kid is active!"  No surprise there as Bill and I are the parents, but apparently the wee one was doing somersaults while we were trying to hear the heartbeat.  Good times.  It feels just slightly more real now.  It amazes me how unreal it feels to be pregnant right now.  I'm just feeling strange and sometimes nauseous and expanding in interesting directions.  But that doesn't signal to me that I have a baby growing.  Yesterday made it a little more real.

Next Step: Staining

I woke up earlier than normal this morning so I was able to get out working at the same time Bill left for work, around 7AM.  It was great because it gave me more time to stain before it got too hot for it to work well.  I stained all the table parts save for the back of the tabletop with one coat of stain and all the parts that you can see I even had time to get a second coat on.  It worked out almost perfectly with the amount of stain I had left.  I had to scrape the bottom of the can to finish the last table leaf.  I did realize that I missed one inside edge of the tabletop, so I will have to get some more stain to do that, but I have two more chairs to make anyway, so that is fine.  Here's the results:

And here are what my feet looked like afterward. I had already washed my hands and arms so I couldn't take a picture of those. Staining is messy work!

Next Step in the Kitchen Table Redo

I just finished the stripping/sanding part of the kitchen table redo.  It looks good!  The wood is a really cool color underneath the two or three layers of paint and stain it had on it. 

 This table has seen some serious use.  This is what the back of half of the table top looked like.  Pretty gross. I couldn't get the wood brace all the way off because one of the holes has a plug in it so I just had to let it swivel around while I stripped and sanded.

These are the finished base and table top pieces. Well, finished with taking off the old paint and stain.  It looks like the table was originally a light oak stain and someone stained it darker red brown at some later point.  Then the table top had the brown paint on it too. 

It was quite the job getting all of that off.  The table top was the hardest part.  I used stripper a couple times, but it didn't get all the paint off.  It did loosen it up though, so that was nice.  I didn't want to be near the stripper as I was worried about the fumes, so I did it outside and put it on really quick then stayed away while it did its magic.  After I used up the stripper I decided sanding would probably have better results and the wood is solid so I wasn't worried about it taking too much off.  Sure enough it worked like a charm.  Well, a very long and time consuming charm.  I worked on this all morning and it's 1:30PM now.  I don't really want to add up how many hours that means I spent sanding. :)  The good thing is that it is essentially done now.  There is a curved wood piece that goes on the underside of the table top that I have not finished, but all in good time. I'm done for today for sure.

Kitchen Table Redo

I wish I had a beforehand picture of the table, but I neglected to take one.  Bill's parents gave us a table they had picked up at DI several years ago.  It's a sturdy nice-looking table, but the DI people put packing tape on the top of it and when my FIL went to take it off, the varnish came off.  So annoying.  He tried to fix it by painting the table top, but he used the wrong kind of paint and it ended up being really sticky.  It's been sitting in their garage for years and they said we could have it.  I've never refinished something, but it seemed definitely worth the effort. I took it apart this morning and started the stripping process.  I think Las Vegas temperatures were a bit too hot for the stripper, so it only kind of worked.  I'll have to do it again, but at least some of the paint and polyurethane came off.  I want to finish it in the ebony stain we did everything else in.  The original stain was beautiful, but it doesn't match our chairs and the table top is a problem as I mentioned. 

The table is round with two leaves that will let 6 people sit around it if we put them in.  It is solid wood. No laminate here!  It was rather old and dusty when I took it apart and the screws are pretty rusty, but it will finish nicely with some effort.  Hopefully it works out like I am planning because if it does than we are totally set up furniture-wise when we go back to Utah.  Well, for us at least.  Add the baby in and that's a different story, but we'll cross that bridge in a few months.

Here's the base and the underside of the tabletop that I dismantled. If you click on the picture you can see the color the tabletop was painted.

Here is one half of the tabletop that I am working on stripping plus the two leaves.

About those Projects

We've had a bunch of unfinished furniture floating around our laundry room and extra bedroom for weeks now waiting to be stained and finished.  I finally decided to work on them this week and get them done.  I have to say, I hate this part of building furniture.  It is so hard to get it perfect.  Not that it is ever perfect, but I at least like all the visible surfaces to be fairly smooth and varnished evenly.

Bill and I hit a real snag when we had varnished the chairs and he went at one with the polyurethane.  The stain is so super dark that everything shows up on it.  I love how it has turned out, but on this chair Bill did, for some reason the polyurethane made whitish grey streaks all over the chair.  Hideous. And we have no idea why.  So we set it aside and finished some of the other staining.  The next morning I tried again with a similar result, though on a smaller scale.  I think the polyurethane must have gotten left out in the heat and is bad now. Very annoying.  I went over a picked up a new can from Lowe's and kept on going.  Apparently it is not just the polyurethane, but something with the varnish as well.  I don't really know.  You can see it on the picture with both nightstands on it. The drawer on the left has some grey streaks on it too.  I decided it was not worth redoing anything over, and the few places that ended up a bit streaky are not super noticeable.  It's do it yourself anyway so it's supposed to have character, right? :)

Anyway, I am just super glad to be done.  These are all the completed projects: two nightstands, an end table, 3 chairs, and a console table I designed myself with plans I had for a bigger one. I'm pretty proud of that.  I wanted to use the scraps we had since we have nowhere to put them when we go back to Utah.  I was able to design and build this with only 2 boards purchased. It cost $4. :)  I wanted a place to put our plants besides our kitchen table and then it will get used as an entryway table in our apartment in Utah for keys and purses and such. We have one more chair built, but it's the one with all the grey streaks, so it is going to get stained and refinished again before being put to use.  

Console table. The plants will go on it once it is fully dry and I have a cloth to put on the top so the plants don't hurt the finish.

The end table to match the one I built earlier this summer.

The nightstands. I love the knobs and they will look fantastic in our bedroom.

The chairs.  I have two more with all the pieces cut out but not put together and one that needs to be re-stained to fix the funny grey marks for a total of six.  I think I'm going to make some cushions for these chairs. Maybe in bright yellow or lime green or even turquoise.  I haven't decided yet.  I love super bright colors these days.

 You know what the real beauty of all this furniture is? We don't have to buy these things when we go back to Utah and need to furnish an apartment!  I figured it out and with all the furniture we made, the total price tag came up to a bit over $300. That doesn't include the sander and saw we bought, but those are going to last forever.  Bill's parents gave us a kitchen table that I have just started the process of refinishing. When that is done, we will have a table and 6 chairs, 2 end tables, a coffee table, a console table, and 2 nightstands. Not bad for $300.  And now I have some serious carpentry skills that I plan to use for many projects in the future.  Some of these are going to last a really long time. Others probably not so much just because of the low quality of wood we chose to buy.  I'll do that differently in the future.  I think the chairs will be the first to kick the bucket, but hey, they're pretty now and they work.  

Why I Haven't Blogged Lately

I keep thinking I should sit down and write a blog entry, but every time I do I wonder what in the world I should write about. This blog has historically been a place to share projects I've done, adventures Bill and I have gone on, and other entertaining things that make our lives amusing. The fact is, lately things have gotten rather boring around here, and the things I am doing don't seem so interesting to share.  I read a friend's blog post today though, and it inspired me to write about something different.

I have been struggling lately with being content.  There are lots of reasons for this.  I'm in my first trimester of pregnancy and dealing with all that comes with that.  I can't even really complain about it because my symptoms aren't that bad. I have not thrown up, I have only gotten close a couple of times, and most of the time I feel pretty good. But there are times every day that I don't, and they are frustrating. Maybe if I was super busy and the days were passing quickly I would not find it a problem, but time is moving very slowly right now.  I am starting to expand in areas I kind of wish I weren't, though it's really only me that can see it. Call me crazy since I wanted to be pregnant, but hey, every pregnant girl goes through it.

It is very hot these days in Las Vegas.  I think it hit 113 degrees yesterday and that seems to be the norm for around 5PM these days.  I can bare the heat enough to work outside on some of my building projects until about 11AM or noon.  That is when the shade goes away on the back porch and the varnish starts drying too fast or I am sweaty beyond belief and can't deal with it anymore. In my friend's post I linked to above, she talked about getting married so young that she had not yet defined who she was, so now she wonders who she was before she was Simon's mom.  I didn't get married young.  I had plenty of years to find myself and I feel pretty good about what I found. I love the outdoors. I love to be active. I like playing sports and hiking and rock climbing and those kinds of things.  Adventures make my life interesting and that's why this blog is mostly about the ones Bill and I have.  This heat is seriously cramping my style.  Oh, and being in a new place without good friends and people to do things with.  I have felt more isolated this summer than I have in years.  I think it is the lack of interaction with people during the day and the lack of things to do.  We came to Las Vegas because Bill got an amazing internship that pays really well and we were excited to be near his family.  They are wonderful.  It is really fun to live near them.  But in the process I sacrificed a number of excellent internship opportunities of my own and nothing much has surfaced since we got here.  It does look like I have found some volunteer opportunities with the city, so hopefully some good will come of that.  I just got a phone call about it yesterday so I do not know the details yet. 

Below it all, I have some huge uncertainties about the future.  I'm so excited to get back into school in August.  At the same time, I only have one year left until my college education ends for good.  I just don't see a PhD in my future, so this looks to be the end of the road for full time schooling.  I imagine I will take classes in the future, but never a full time program again.  The fact is, I love going to school. I adore learning and having projects and papers and things that I feel like i have accomplished.  Coming back to grad school after three years in the workforce was a dream come true for me despite not having a clue what I was going to do with the degree or what path my life would take.  I am a firm believer in the value of education whether I am making big bucks from it or not.  But now that I see the end in sight, it is bittersweet.  I'm having this baby the first month of my last semester.  How the heck is that even going to work?!  I have no regrets over being pregnant now, but I am trying not to think about how hard those first three months are going to be.  Then when they are over, I'm trying not to think about what it will be like to be done with school and not have a clue what to do with myself.  I'm sure wonderful things will come with starting motherhood and having an infant to care for, but I still wonder and worry and particularly as my level of contentedness this summer has swiftly diminished over time, I just think about the future and hope something changes in me between now and next summer.

This has gotten a bit too serious even for me. :)  I'm not doing terrible, but I do have these worries and fears that I am dealing with and writing about them helps.  I know I'm not the only one out there who has thought of these things and wondered how they will survive and be happy and content.  Things will work out, and in the meantime I'll keep trying to find interesting things to do despite the blasted heat.  I have never been a fan of Las Vegas, but I made a valiant effort coming down here to give it a fair chance.  It really is a nice place, but this cramping of mine and Bill's lifestyle is driving me a bit bonkers.  Mountains and trees and beautiful hikes and mountain vistas, how I miss you!  Bill is going to have to get one seriously amazing job offer for us to come back to Las Vegas for good or go to Phoenix or some other place this hot in the summertime.  It really should not be allowed.  I will do my best not to complain about temperatures in the 90s ever again.  That is cool people!

The news is out

For all those lovely people that read my blog now and again, it's time for my announcement that has made me unable to think of anything to blog about for the last month.  I'm pregnant and due January 22nd!  I finally had my first appointment today after having to reschedule and they agree, I am most definitely expecting. :)  Things are going well other than a touch of morning sickness these days.  I know lots of people that have had it far worse, so I can't complain that much.  I just get to eat all the time now to avoid the sicky feelings.  I'm not particularly showing yet, though my stomach sure doesn't look the same as two months ago, but that should come soon enough. Yay for babies!

Great Weekend

Memorial Day weekend was awesome.  Wish I had some pictures to show for it... We had a big family breakfast Saturday morning, then spent the rest of the day lounging mostly.  That was great.  Bill took me out for a baked potato at Jason's Deli.  It sounded so good to me, so we headed over there. They are so huge!  We split one and it was still super filling.  That evening we watched Shrek Ever After.  Funny movie.  I recommend it.

Sunday we had a pizza palooza to celebrate my BIL Vince's birthday.  It's a family tradition.  We all go to Bill's parent's house and his dad makes a whole bunch of amazing thin crust pizzas.  He's got pizza stones, even a pizza paddle, and the process down to a science.  They made 16 pizzas.  Probably 20 people were there so we ate a serious quantity of pizza. :) 

Monday Bill helped his dad with a procedure at his dental office.  He worked for him as a dental assistant as a teenager, so he helps sometimes on family procedures when we're here.  The rest of the day we spent building.  Bill put a coat of stain on the nightstand I had already built and I assembled the second one.  I screwed one of the boards on half an inch higher than I was supposed to and didn't realize it, so I ended up cutting a bunch of the boards shorter to fit before I realized what had happened.  Not a big deal.  It looks great.  I just got to use my saw more. :)

We went out to Thai food with Bill's aunt and uncle Monday night. They took us to this restaurant up in northwest Las Vegas that was amazing!  Bill's uncle went to Thailand on his mission so he knows good Thai food.  He ordered in Thai and everything.  It was pretty sweet. 

Good weekend overall.  It's finally starting to get hot here during the day, but thankfully is still cooling down at night.  I think it hit a 100 degrees for the first time this weekend.  The worst is when it only gets down to like 90 degrees in the evening. That's what I'm not looking forward to, but so far I've really enjoyed the weather.  I used to think Las Vegas was ugly, but I kind of like it now.  It's definitely dessert, but a pretty one.

Anyway, I've got to get going on my day so I'm off.  Hope everyone else had a fantastic weekend too!