End of Adam's first year in grad school and baby updates!

So this week marks the end of Adam's second semester in graduate school! He has one more final due today but will be all done after that! I can't tell who's more excited for the summer, him or me haha. He has had a good semester this last winter although it's been tough balancing for him helping me with pregnancy stuff, work, classes, and preparing his master's project. At least now he won't have classes and homework (although he'll still have the rest of that stuff).

We have been so blessed by our Heavenly Father in how our work situations have been worked out. Adam's  digital humanities class that he teaches ends and he found out he was only going to work 10 hours a week with his BYU Online job. So we were quite worried about the decrease in pay right before the baby comes especially since he can work up to 40 hours a week during spring and summer terms. We kept faith that if Heavenly Father led us to become parents, He would help us provide for our baby and He definitely did! One thing after another worked out and he will be able to work 40 hours a week for both spring and summer terms with excellent pay!!! So Adam will work full time during spring term with BYU Online training a new professor, helping do data collection, and setting up a new section of IHum 202 for fall! And then in summer term, he will partly do that as well as co-teach a class about education and technology for secondary education :) we feel so blessed by everything working out so perfectly :)

We also found out a few weeks ago that our beautiful baby is a boy!! We are so excited to finally say "he" instead of "it", start collecting baby clothes, and pick out a name :) we have a couple names picked out but we're having a tough time deciding between them. It's tough naming a person! The ultrasound showed that everything is developing well and he's healthy. It was so cool seeing close ups of his brain and to see all the chambers of his heart pumping! He was breathing in amniotic fluid so his little mouth was opening up and his hand was waving at us. So cute!! 

He has also been growing big and kicking up a storm. Adam has even felt him a few times which is really exciting :) my belly is definitely getting bigger and my wardrobe is shrinking as this happens haha. 

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With all of that comes other fun pregnancy symptoms like back and hip pain, but I invested in a pregnancy pillow which has really helped :) Also this last Saturday one of my best friends threw me an adorable baby shower! I was so grateful for the friends that were able to come and it was so fun :)

 Next week we will be starting a hypnobirthing class and we just hired a doula! It's hard to believe that we're now only 4 months away from meeting our little one!!

<3 Ashley