It's been awhile again...

Ok, I am going to attempt to download some of the lastest picture of the Malecek Family. As I mentioned in the earlier post, we have been enjoying our pool very much, especially with the hot weather last week. This Saturday we go on on our vacation to Lake Vermilion (northern MN) with my parents and my sister Christy and her gang (husband and 4 kids!). We are all sharing one cabin so it could be interesting, and Christy's youngest is just about 6 wks old! Actually I am not worried at all, and am very much looking forward to the vacation and spending time with each other. I guess I should give an update on the pregnancy. I am now 31 weeks... 9 weeks to go and I don't think it could come fast enough. It is getting hard to sleep, hard to go from lying down to sitting to standing, my feet and fingers are getting a little swollen, and the heartburn is starting to kick in. Other than that everything is great! It actually isn't that bad, but being pregnant sure makes a girl appreciate her "normal" sized body, no matter how much you really don't like it when you are "normal" sized. All the check up with the doctor have been uneventful. Heartbeat of baby has been 140's. Activity of the baby is abundant... I don't think it ever sleeps and it definitely knows how to kick my bladder! I am getting pretty excited to hold a little newborn again. Gracie has grown so much in 15 months! It seems like forever ago that all she did was just lay there and we were thrilled when all we got out of her was a giggle or a smile.

Enjoy the pictures!

Riding in the tractor with Uncle Kevin

I thought you might like to see the pregnant me... but this is about a month old... so I am bigger now! Gracie and Cousin RochelleGracie and Marty swimming

Willie... almost jumping in... he has never actually "jumped" in but a few times "fell" due to his excitment... and one time is was pushed in (poor guy). At least we know he can swim

Playing at the park with Cousin Jesse

It has been awhile...

Well, it has been awhile since I wrote anything or posted any new pictures to the blog. I am sorry for that, but life has changed a little. The beginning of June I started a new position at the hospital in the Diabetes and Nutrition Center. The position goes along with my Master's degree of being a Clinical Nurse Specialist, of which I am very excited for. I really didn't think I would get a job using my Master's education for a year or two. Living in a rural area the jobs with this title are not quite as available as in the metro area. Anyways this job was posted in late April... so I immediately submitted my name and resume... they call for an interview shortly after (2 interviews actually), and then mid-May BINGO I have a new job offered to me before for I had even actually graduated! Besides this going along with my new degree the job is also more clinic based, which means no weekends, no holidays, and mostly hours during the day. Monday's I work until 8:30pm because we have a class we teach... but for surely no overnights! and better pay! It doesn't get much better! So why this effects my blog posting is because I usually did all my picture and computer stuff during my on-call shifts working in the Recovery Room. I live to far awayfrom the hospital (we need to be within 20 minutes when on-call) so I would always stay in a sleep room at the hospital and oftentimes I would only end up working a hour or so... which meant time to do other things without those extra little hands of my darling Gracie getting in the way. Right now I have my Guard weekend which means I am at a hotel for the night and therefore I can do some of my picture stuff without those two little hands getting in the way! About my new job -I very much like it and am certainly learning many new things about the outpatient world of treating patients and about the disease of Diabetes. I will tell you more in a different post... on to more exciting things like pictures....

We have has some visits from some of Gracie's cousins in the last few weeks too, which is a delight. The weather has been fairly warm... so a common pasttime is enjoying time in the swimming pool. Gracie likes the pool and as you can see in the pictures Willie gets pretty excited to. He has never deliberately jumped in, but in his excitement he did fall in! He immediately swam towards Marty to save him! Then the rest of the pictures are cute ones of her just being goofy. Her Grandpa Joe and Grandma Betty says she is such a clown... and I tend to agree. She will make the funniest faces and do the funniest things and make goofy noises sometimes. Makes me wonder where she learns all this from. I say her Dad or maybe at daycare, certainly not her Mom. Her latest thing is she has learned how to give real kisses with puckering of the lips and the smacking noise and everything. Again it is so precious.

OK now I am kinda upset... after I get done typing this all out and want to upload my pictures to the blog something is not working right am I could only get the one picture to come up!!!!! How upsetting. So I have decided I will still post this (hopefully that works!) and I'll try later to post the pictures. Maybe the wireless connection is bad.