I am so happy that it hasn't been as hot as last summer.  That has been a blessing to me.  Another blessing- It has been so wonderful to connect with a few friends on the Internet even if it is only once or twice a week.  Everyone has been so encouraging and sympathetic.  It has been a stressful few months and not just being pregnant but I can't pay my student loans right now for obvious reasons.  Trusting God and being content- those are the things I am currently struggling with. 

I am down to one pair of really ugly shoes that I can wear now.  It makes me laugh because I bought them for camp and being active in now I just wear them so my feet have room to grow.  My husband wonderfully massaged the swollen tissues around my ankles so that I can now walk on feet instead of balancing on small potatoes. 

This week I went baby registering.  I am very overwhlemed by the lack of non-gender specific colors.  Even though I know the baby is a girl and I actually love the color pink, I just know that nothing in the way of decorations or blankets will match.  Oh well, bring on the pink!  Hopefully it will all come together no matter the color or pattern.  I hear diapers are expensive so maybe I will just register for lots and lots of diapers.  Any way, that is what is going on in my pregnancy world.   

Our house almost always is a mess.  It drives me nuts, but apparantly for my husband he could just live with the filth and be perfectly content.  This week I have been washing lots of dishes, bleaching the bathroom, and crossing my fingers for the vaccuum cleaner to not blow up.  I don't mind cleaning very much because it is wonderfully distracting.  One very annoying habit of my husbands' is that he will pick up books at random and leave them scattered around the house.  There are very few books I have seen him read from start to finish without picking up another.  Today I was listening to Focus on the Family and the differences in spouses.  It is a God-thing that people who are very opposite can make marriage work.  I am trying to adjust and of course make compromises.  It is the right thing to do even when it is stressful. 

This week at my church has been Vacation Bible School.  I am helping with the Preschool group.  It is fun and fairly challenging.  They like to run away or in some cases sneak away when you are not looking.  They also cry more than one would like.  You can observe a VERY large difference between those who are three years old and those entering Kindergarten.  Any way I love singing the fun Arctic Edge songs (the VBS theme) and helping clean up after craft time.  It is nice to be out of the house and talk to people who are not at camp. 

 I lost all my planning skills once I got married.  It takes me a long time to get to sleep because my mind races with all the things I have to do.  There are letters to write, baby things to buy, money to earn, bills to pay, and things that need fixing.  I want to be an adult.  I feel like I am being held back by living at camp.  I am pathetic.  I am disappointed in myself.  I thought I could plan better than this. 

Seven months pregnant and sweating like a pig (although I know pigs don't have sweat glands), I am can not believe I have two more months of this.  Most of the things I want to say are somewhat negative because I am already sleep deprived and stressed over a million things.  Maybe I should just come out and say it- this pregnancy was not exactly planned and we live at a camp in a house that needs a lot of work.  I am tired of "hanging" out with camp people.  I feel very disconnected.  Any way, about the pregnancy itself-

I honestly don't feel horrible, just tired and hungry most of the time.  I weight about 149 pounds and the baby moves like crazy.  Sometimes I feel like I have internal bruises.  I haven't been to see the doctor in over a month so half of the things I am feeling I am not sure is normal or not.  My biggest concern is bug bites.  I have gotten so many and I hope it isn't doing anything crazy to the baby.  Also I feel kinda lazy because I am so sore all the time and I don't have a job.  Some days I just look at the ultrasound picture of my baby so I can keep going.  I didn't know I could get quite so big, so fast.  But once she is born there will be no regreting it.     

To fill in all the gaps:
-Neil and I got married December 16, 2006
-I turned 24 years old
-We moved to Silverton, Oregon
-Started our lives working together at Canyonview Camp (I was working as a housekeeper and Neil was teaching Bible release classes and doing office work)
-We are currently six months pregnant, it is going to be a girl
-Neil's job at the camp is now called Camp Chaplin (he teaches Bible Studies and fills in where he is needed)
-I am not working right now but I am basically keeping up the house and trying to catch up with an ever growing list of things to do: writing letters lots of letters, baby shower guest list, buy or find a few dressers, sort out bills and unpleasentrees (however you spell it), and the continual cleaning

Please pray for our ever growing needs and family.  Hope to get back to typing and stuff soon.