Year in Review - May 2014-May 2015

Our third year of marriage was a great one! Wish I had more pictures, because this post might be a little boring without them, but oh well.

School:

My senior year of college began with summer semester, which was probably my favorite semester because it was so fun to be on campus when it was quiet and laid back. I spent lots of time at the library, eating lunch, watching project runway online, and doing homework.

My last semester was crazy busy. I had tons of readings and papers for each class. I took five classes: History of Africa, Russian politics, Latin American anthropology, Latin American politics, and a senior research class that focused on the Arab Spring. It was fun to study different areas of the world and as always I was surprised at how much the topics overlapped. I graduated in December with a Bachelor of Science in political science, with a minor in history. It is so exciting to be done! I wanted to walk in the ceremony in May, but it was less than two weeks after Jocelyn was born and didn't work out. 

Trevor had a good school year too. He did more secondary ed classes, did some clinical hours at a middle school, and had a pretty busy spring semester, plus had a new baby a week before finals! Luckily he worked with his teachers and was able to do some finals early, before baby was born. He only has one more school year now before he graduates!

We met one of my mission companions at Crown Burger when she was visiting from Canada! I think it was November or early December. 

Holidays:

To celebrate most holidays and birthdays this last year we ate out at Panda Express. This was true of Trevor's birthday, my birthday, Valentines Day, baby's arrival celebration, and our anniversary. We love Panda!!! For Halloween we went to a USU basketball game. Thanksgiving we spent at the Brown's. And Christmas we went to Idaho Falls. New year's eve we were at the Brown's also.

Our anniversary this year was great! We spent it moving to our new apartment that we love. It's so great to have more space for our own stuff and for all of Jocelyn's stuff. As we were unpacking some boxes that afternoon I said to Trevor, there's a box in our room with "SURPRISE" written on it! He acted like he didn't know what it was of course, and let me open it later. It was an anniversary surprise for me! Panda Express gift card, Legend of Korra season 4, and treats for the evening. Baby even cooperated and slept long enough for us to hang out and enjoy it all. It was so much fun and a good surprise. I really hadn't been thinking about celebrating our anniversary, so I'm glad Trevor did think about it!

In February we went to Salt Lake for a weekend when Trevor had a school conference he had to go to. I spent the day shopping and got to go to Europa Market, which had Eastern European imports, including a lot of brands that were in croatia. It was so fun to see that familiar did and get some favorites! 

Baby:

At the beginning of August we found out we were expecting a baby! I was so shocked because before I took the pregnancy test I was certain I was NOT pregnant, which just shows that it always happens when you least expect it. I had a great pregnancy, no morning sickness, only had heartburn like two or three times, no swelling up, I was tired but it was manageable, and I didn't get a ginormous belly until the very end. I actually was a little sad about that, I'd see ladies who weren't as far along as me and were bigger and I was a little jealous, which was weird!  I wasn't expecting that. After I finished school I kept working part time until a few weeks before or due date and had time to just get everything ready for baby to come. 

Jocelyn was born right on her due date too! It was a crazy day. I woke up around midnight Monday night/Tuesday morning and didn't sleep until after midnight Tuesday night/Wednesday morning. Even after she was born I couldn't believe that we had a baby!

 The belly - April 21st

Our sweetie pie! She was so small and sweet (and still is :D)

That's the short version of our year, which is all I'll do since I keep putting it off anyway! It was a fantastic year!

This is by our new apartment- it says "Beware of dog" and then says "no pas" - pas in croatian means dog, so it says beware of dog and then no dog. Hahaha!

Growth spurt

Last week Jocelyn could wear all her newborn size pajamas, and this week they are all way too small! She is growing so fast!

Baby Jocelyn

When she gets her arms free she likes to feel the back of her head/ play with her hair, it's the cutest thing and helps her calm herself down! 

 One of her many facial expressions, can be tricky to catch them on camera!

 Ready for a walk!  We have been trying to go on walks every day but it has been raining a lot :(

 Proud daddy, holding baby for the first time at the hospital! Trevor loves her so much!

One month to go!

Here's the baby bump as of March 21st, exactly one month to baby's due date!

As a bonus, I got free tickets to the cache Valley ballets's performance of Hansel and Gretel from work so we got to go to the theater! Our seats were on the third row! 

Here's an older bump picture, 34 weeks I think.

30 weeks

This is the first bump picture we've taken, wish we had done some before so we could see how fast it grew. Just a month and a half ago there was hardly anything there! Only ten more weeks to go!

Christmas break

Trevor got his wisdom teeth out a week before Christmas and was pretty miserable. But he had fun playing with the kids! 

 I made these stockings! Trevor made the table as a Christmas present to me, the manger to go with our new nativity set, and the entertainment center as a family gift and final project for his woods class. He also made me a frame for my diploma but I don't have a picture of it.

I made this blanket for our friends that just had their first baby!

Our Gingerbread houses! We also enjoyed looking at Christmas lights, playing games, shopping (for me, Trevor didn't have to come with since there were others willing to), and eating all the delicious food!

Summer Semester OVER!

Today I took my last finals for summer semester! Yay! Only one semester left!! I had a lot of interesting classes this summer because I took whatever would fill up a full schedule and get me credits so that I can graduate in the fall. I needed at least 15 credits and I took 17 because I wanted to take the first aid class. These are the classes that I took!


First Aid: We learned CPR and basic first aid. It was a lot of fun, a lot of hands on practicing, and the whole time I was thinking "Please, I hope I never have to use any of this!" I recommend that everyone learns CPR because you could save a life!


Human Development: We went over the whole lifespan from conception to death. We ended on death, which was a little depressing, but very interesting too. I thought the most interesting part of the course was middle adulthood, just thinking about mom and dad and what we all have to look forward to!


American history - post-Civil War to present: I learned some cool things, but there was a lot of review, too. I had to take this class for a history minor and I think that knowing this recent history better will help me with my major, too.


Dress and Humanity: This class was a lot of fun because I got to be creative, which I haven't been able to do in a while! We learned about fashion and dress. There was a lot of technical classification stuff with it that I probably won't remember, but it was fun to be doing something different. I took this class for a depth requirement.


Natural Disasters: We learned about tectonic plates, earthquakes, volcanoes, flooding, tsunamis, landslides, climate change, etc. etc. Very interesting! One of the teacher's main points was before you buy a house check out the hazards because the real estate agent will not tell you about them and you could end up with a rock through your house!


World Civilizations: Another history class for my minor. At the time I thought it was a really boring class because we talked about all of these weird things like metallurgy and things you find in graves, but it is kind of helpful to know the very beginnings of humans. The most interesting part was trying to compare what science and history has said about humans with what religion says about it. The two aren't always compatible.


It was a good semester and now I am so excited for the break before fall! Yay for real summer!