I Love My Family!!

Is there anything better than being together with family? I say not. My brother Mike is halfway through a 4-year oral surgery residency in Minnesota, so my family hasn't been all together since Steve and Kalli's wedding two years ago. Even then, we were only together for 24 hours, because that was all the time that Mike was allowed to take off. Well, a week ago everyone flew into town for a week-long Lake Powell trip including Mike and Erin (and their kids Abbie, Landon, and Noah) and Steve and Kalli from Boston. I got to meet my cute, six-month-old nephew, Noah, for the first time. It was so fun to be together as a family at Powell. Given my current pregnant state, I wasn't able to participate in the boating activities. I still had a great time though. It was so nice to just float in the water and take some of the pressure off my back. The sciatica is back in full force for my last trimester. Oh well, you can do anything for 2 months, right? I can't believe that I am 30 weeks pregnant. I would like to say that the time has flown, but it really hasn't. While I was in Lake Powell, my belly went through another growth spurt. I REALLY look pregnant now. Luckily I have only 5 more days of work--oh the joys of working in the public schools! There are so many pictures that I want to post from the last week, but I'll try to contain myself. While there were a lot of cute Lake Powell pictures, the ones that I'm interested in posting are of a photo shoot we had the day everyone came into town. I'm not thrilled that we had family pictures taken while I am seven months pregnant, but I guess it's hard to get pictures without somebody being pregnant. I took one for the team this time.

Who knows when we'll all be together again. Love you guys!