Ricardo & Kylie

I figure this is important enough to merit its own post. My dad recently qualified for the Boston Marathon!! He has been working towards this goal ever since he got addicted to running marathons two years ago. He will be running the race in April 2012. In the meantime, he'll be running two other marathons. He is nuts. :) We are so proud of him and excited that he has achieved his goal! Look out, Boston!

I feel like a broken record, but..I know it's been awhile since I've posted! Life has just been too good to find the time to write about it! Good excuse, huh? Considering the fact that tomorrow is the last day of February (and my half birthday, to all of you who care), I shall recap our "winter" for you. November: We had two Thanksgiving dinners, which was awesome! At Ricardo's house it was more like a Thanksgiving dessert party, but I'm always okay with that. We loved it. December: Ricardo turned 24! Like the crazy, non-sugar loving person he is, he didn't want a cake. So he blew out his candle on a baked potato. Sometimes I am concerned about him. :) Christmas was also great. We had so much fun seeing my brother and sister and her family. We actually took family pictures which turned out great! I will post those when I get copies from my parents. Her daughters are so cute, we loved hanging out with them. We also had a great time at Ricardo's house. N...

I usually don't use my blog as a forum, mostly just a super delayed update of our lives. :) However, we have been learning OB/GYN in school recently and I've learned a lot of things that I think anyone getting ready to have a baby should know. Actually, mostly just one thing. GO SEE THE OB BEFORE YOU GET PREGNANT! The main theme for our lectures has been that there are a lot of problems that can occur in pregnancy, but tons of them are also preventable. However, it gets tricky to fix these problems after you're pregnant. For example, let's imagine you find out after you're pregnant that you're actually not immune to Rubella, despite having the vaccine as a kid (it can happen). So you need the vaccine... EXCEPT you can't get it after you're pregnant. So now your baby has a 1/4 chance of really serious birth defects if you were to catch rubella. The same goes for a bunch of other diseases that cause congenital defects. There's a blood panel that your d...