Pregnant belly and other festivities

I have been meaning to post a picture of my growing baby belly for quite a while now. Thanks to encouraging reminders from Leslie it is actually happening! I figure why not show you some of my adventures in the past month along the way.

This first one was taken on March 21st when I was about 4 months alongThis next one was at the beginning of may - almost 6 months. These are some of my dance students that I taught in the BYU Creative Dance program.
This next one was taken a week ago, so just over 6 months and it is with a few of my dance friends who are due about the same time as me. We are lined up according to due date starting with early July on the right and ending with August on the left. These are girls that I spent many hours in rehearsals with, it is fun that we get to share this experience together as well.

This last picture is from today, Yay for T-shirts and awesome maternity shorts complements of my sisters/sister-in-laws. It's all about comfort at this point.

This picture is my attempt to get the baby to not be breech anymore. I know that she will probably turn on her own, but it was worth a shot.

Brad's Graduation

It is only appropriate that Bradley receive his own post of graduation after all of his hard work. Luckily he gets to look forward to another bigger graduation in just four years! Boy...I wonder who will celebrate more at that one, him or me. Anyway, it was wonderful to have both of our parents come and join in the festivities which included a delicious meal at Macaroni Grill. We are both so lucky to have such supportive families...we love you all! Yay Bradley!!!

"Yeah! Babies Everywhere!"

I think it is about time to announce the good news. Holly is pregnant! As you can see from the handy-dandy countdown, Holly is 13 weeks pregnant (on Wednesday at least). We found out on the 27th of December and really had no idea how far long she was. We went to go see the doctor 2 days later and she said, "well based on your most recent positive pregnancy test, (we had done several only a month earlier, all of which were negative) you are about 3 1/2 weeks pregnant."

To make sure though, she had us do an ultra-sound and we scheduled that for the following week. We went in and when the technician put the image on the screen I thought to myself... "I don't think she is 4 weeks pregnant..." It turned out she was actually 8 weeks pregnant and we were actually able to hear the heart beat that day! It was pretty amazing to see and hear all of that.

So, Holly's due date is August 18th. That probably isn't the best date because we will be moving to either D.C., San Antonio or Salt Lake City the middle of July and I begin medical school around the beginning to middle of August. Oh well, what can you do? But even with that time line, we are extremely excited.

Now, to explain the title of this post. Many of you are have seen the nutrigrain commercial where that quote comes from, but if not, check it out here. It is really funny and when we told Brooke that Holly was pregnant (Brooke is my sister who is on her mission in Singapore), she wrote in her letter, "Yeah babies everywhere!" She, of course, was referring to the fact that Holly and my Sister Leslie are both pregnant and Leslie had a baby (Miss Mary) just a year ago (who Brooke hasn't seen yet). Also, Holly's sister Melissa and Mary, Holly's brother's wife, are pregnant. So even more babies! Well, there is the good news!

"It's a Zen thing......."

I have great news!!!!! I AM GOING TO MEDICAL SCHOOL! I opened up my e-mail this morning and, viola! The acceptance is from the Medical School of Wisconsin, which is just outside Milwaukee. I really liked the school when I interviewed there and they told us that we wouldn't hear back until next week, so I was very surprised to get an e-mail today! So.... what does this mean Corkey? (sorry for those of you who don't get that line, or the title of this post for that matter... you should watch 'Waiting for Guffman' :) It means that I don't have to worry anymore! There is still a good chance that I'll get into a other schools, but I'll tackle that if that occurs. But for now... I'm just going to enjoy the moment... I've been waiting for this since I was a kid!

Here is the school's web page if you want to look at it. http://www.mcw.edu/display/router.aspx

Mormon Messages on Youtube

Some of you may already know about this, but on youtube there is a mormon channel. Each week the church posts a new video and some of them are really good. Here is one of the better ones. Enjoy!

Chunk, here we come!

You may be wondering why I am blogging about Goonies. I actually have a very good, and to me, exciting reason. Well I am at my lab on a late Friday night doing research. Yes, I am awesome. Honestly, I haven't had a wife for nearly three weeks now so my Friday nights are quite pathetic. Anyways, while I'm waiting on some samples, I decided to blog about my good news.

Holly and I have been planning our Mexican Riviera cruise since last July! Back in D.C during our internships, Gwen, Matt and Megs convinced us that we needed a vacation for just the two of us. So we booked the cruise. Little did I know or could have even fathomed, some stupid virus called the Swine Flu broke out in Mexico last month! Yeah, well we got a lovely message from Carnival saying that our cruise was being re-routed plus we would each get $100 on onboard ship credit ($Cha-Ching$). However, the news is not all that bad....

And here comes Goonies! Our first stop will be in Astoria, Oregon (for those of you who don't know, Goonies was filmed in Astoria)! For some people that might not be very cool, but I am way excited. I already rented a car so Holly and I go drive up and down Highway 101 along the coast and visit all the cool spots. Here is one of them below.



And here is the famous Haystack Rock



Anyways, it will be so much fun.... very excited. Our other two ports will be Victoria, Canada and Vancouver, Canada. It will be a nice adventure. And the cool thing about our boat is that the huge main pool can be enclosed by this glass roof, so lots of swimming... although, "there isn't any swimming in my show."

OK! So this is how this works…The first five people to respond to this post will receive something made by me for you. My choice made especially for you. Of course there are some restrictions and limitations:

1. I make no guarantees that you will like what I make! (Of course, I will try to make something that I think you would like.)
2. What I create will be just for you.
3 It will be done sometime this year.
4. You have no clue what it will be… it may be a story. It may be poetry or an article on properly cleaning your face before a masque. I may draw or paint something. I may bake something and mail it to you. Who knows? Not you, that’s for sure.
5. I reserve the right to do something extremely strange. (This could be fun :)
6. I will send it anywhere! It doesn’t matter where you live!

The catch? The catch is that you must repost this on your own blog and offer the same to the first 5 people who do the same on their blog. The first five people to do so and leave a comment telling me they did will win a FAB-U-LOUS homemade gift by me!!

(I am continuing this from Gwen's blog... I agree, its a good idea)

Valedictorian

Guess who's the new Valedictorian for BYU's dance department? If you guessed Bradley, you are way off for many reasons. No, it's Holly! Congratulations to Holly for her hard work!

Reminiscence

Again, today I find myself with "extra time" or.... I got sick of studying, so I decided to do another post. Yesterday's post got me thinking about Egypt and all of the good times. There was one story in particular some of you know, others may not, that I thought would be good to share.

After the amazing two week trip to Egypt, I spent a day in D.C. with my sister Leslie before I flew back to Utah. My luggage included my backpacking pack that I used all throughout the trip, plus a small duffel bag where I placed the valuable treasures I bought in the famous Khan el Khalili Market. I had a Rababa for Holly (the first picture below: a string instrument, nice fit for Holly, I know) some Zatar spice divided into little baggies (second picture below: some merchant convinced us it was awesome) and a few other keep-sakes.



As I was going through security at Reagan Airport on my way back to Utah the next day, a TSA agent informed me, "Sir, I am going to inspect your bag." Since the Rababa was so long it was sticking out of the top of the bag. He told me, "Sir, there is a long metal rod through the shaft of this." I responded, "Ok......." He went on to explain that there might be some issue with that on the plane. As he continued to search my duffel bag he came across the bow that you use to play the instrument. He asked, "What is that? I explained it was the bow for the instrument but for some odd reason he was skeptical. I even started to play it in the middle of the airport to show him! After that he said, "Well, I'm going to have to show this to my supervisor" Again my response was, "Ok....." A minute or so he came back and said, "Well, since you don't have any arrows, you can take it on the plane." You can only imagine the picture that came to my mind of someone trying to take over a plane with a 6 inch bow and tiny arrows.....anyways.


After that lovely exchange of words he continued to go through my bag when he came to the little baggies of Zatar spice. He looked at the bags, then at me, then back at the bags. I quickly responded, "That isn't what you think it is."

The Things Brad Has Done So Far In His Life

A post! A post! A post! As many of you know, our blog probably doesn't even deserve the title of "blog." In order to remedy this, at least temporarily, I decided to do the post that Meg did awhile back. And who knows!!! maybe we'll be good at blogging all of the sudden.... right

Things I've Done So Far in My Life

1. STARTED YOUR OWN BLOG
2. SLEPT UNDER THE STARS
3. PLAYED IN A BAND- I'm with Megs, I AM COUNTING ROCK BAND!
4. VISITED HAWAII
5. WATCHED A METEOR SHOWER
6. GIVEN MORE THEN YOU CAN AFFORD TO CHARITY
7. BEEN TO DISNEYLAND
8. CLIMBED A MOUNTAIN
9. HELD A PRAYING MANTIS
10. SANG A SOLO
11. BUNGEE JUMPED
12. VISITED PARIS
13. WATCHED A LIGHTENING STORM AT THE SEA
14. TAUGHT YOURSELF AN ART FROM SCRATCH
15. ADOPTED A CHILD
16. HAD FOOD POISONING
17. WALKED TO THE TOP OF THE STATUE OF LIBERTY
18. GROWN YOUR OWN VEGETABLES
19. SEEN THE MONA LISA IN FRANCE
20. SLEPT ON A OVERNIGHT TRAIN Egypt baby!
21. HAD A PILLOW FIGHT
22. HITCH HIKED
23. TAKEN A SICK DAY WHEN YOU ARE NOT ILL
24. BUILT A SNOW FORT
25. HELD A LAMB
26. GONE SKINNY DIPPING
27. RUN A MARATHON
28. RIDDEN IN A GONDOLA IN VENICE
29. SEEN AN ECLIPSE
30. WATCHED A SUNRISE OR SUNSET
31. HIT A HOME ROME
32. BEEN ON A CRUISE - In May!!!
33. SEEN NIAGARA FALLS IN PERSON
34. VISITED THE BIRTHPLACE OF YOUR ANCESTORS Thanks to Dad
35. SEEN AN AMISH COMMUNITY
36. TAUGHT YOURSELF A NEW LANGUAGE With a little help :)
37. HAD ENOUGH MONEY TO BE SATISFIED - ?????
38. SEEN THE LEANING TOWER OF PISA IN PERSON
39. GONE ROCK CLIMBING
40. SEEN MICHELANGELO'S DAVID - Every time my brother Dave logs into gmail
41. SUNG KARAOKE
42. SEEN OLD FAITHFUL GEYSER ERUPT
43. BOUGHT A STRANGER A MEAL AT A RESTAURANT
44. VISITED AFRICA
45. WALKED ON A BEACH BY MOONLIGHT
46. BEEN TRANSPORTED IN AN AMBULANCE
47. HAD YOUR PORTRAIT PAINTED
48. GONE DEEP SEA FISHING
49. SEEN THE SISTINE CHAPEL IN PERSON
50. BEEN TO THE TOP OF THE EIFFEL TOWER IN PARIS
51. GONE SCUBA DIVING OR SNORKELING
52. KISSED IN THE RAIN
53. PLAYED IN THE MUD
54. GONE TO A DRIVE-IN MOVIE
55. BEEN IN A MOVIE
56. VISITED THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA
57. STARTED A BUSINESS
58. TAKEN A MARTIAL ARTS CLASS
59. VISITED RUSSIA
60. SERVED AT A SOUP KITCHEN
61. SOLD GIRL SCOUT COOKIES
62. GONE WHALE WATCHING
63. GOT FLOWERS FOR NO REASON - That's kind of a dumb one, there is always a reason
64. DONATED BLOOD OR PLASMA - Thanks to England I can't!
65. GONE SKYDIVING
66. VISITED A NAZI CONCENTRATION CAMP
67. BOUNCED A CHECK
68. FLOWN IN A HELICOPTER
69. SAVED A FAVORITE CHILDHOOD TOY It got thrown away, so it wasn't my fault
70. VISITED THE LINCOLN MEMORIAL
71. EATEN CAVIAR
72. PIECED A QUILT
73. STOOD IN TIMES SQUARE - Not that exciting
74. TOURED THE EVERGLADES - Lived there!
75. BEEN FIRED FROM A JOB
76. SEEN THE CHANGING OF THE GUARD AT LONDON
77. BROKEN A BONE
78. BEEN ON A SPEEDING MOTORCYCLE - My experience was just as .... intense
79. SEEN THE GRAND CANYON IN PERSON
80. PUBLISHED A BOOK
81. VISITED THE VATICAN
82. BOUGHT A BRAND NEW CAR
83. WALKED IN JERUSALEM
84. HAD YOUR PICTURE IN THE NEWSPAPER
85. READ THE ENTIRE BIBLE - If you take out Chronicles, yes
86. VISITED THE WHITE HOUSE
87. KILLED AND PREPARED AN ANIMAL FOR EATING
88. HAD CHICKENPOX
89. SAVED SOMEONE'S LIFE
90. SAT ON A JURY
91. MET SOMEONE FAMOUS
92. JOINED A BOOK CLUB
93. LOST A LOVED ONE
94. HAD A BABY
95. SEEN THE ALAMO IN PERSON
96. SWAN IN THE GREAT SALT LAKE
97. BEEN INVOLVED IN A LAW SUIT
98. OWNED A CELL PHONE
99. BEEN STUNG BY A BEE
100. MILKED A COW
101. NEVER HAD A CAVITY
102. HAD A DREAM COME TRUE
103. HAD SURGERY IN A HOSPITAL
104. DROVE A STICK SHIFT CAR
105. RODE A HORSE
105. RODE A CAMEL - Egypt!!
106. HIKED MT. SINAI
107. SEEN MONKEYS IN THE WILD
108. LOVED AND HATED A JOB AT THE SAME TIME
109. WENT TO A FAMOUS RESTAURANT
110. WENT ON A PIONEER TREK
111. SET THINGS ON FIRE JUST FOR FUN
112. HAD YOUR LUGGAGE INSPECTED BY A TSA AGENT
113. WENT TO A RESEARCH CONFERENCE
114. SWAM A MILE

To participate just copy and paste in your own blog, and bold all of the things you have done , AND add 5 of your own things to the list

Happy Halloween!!

For the past few years my family has had a little Halloween party for the kiddos. Something has always conflicted in the past but this year it worked out perfectly and Brad and I were excited experience the craziness. The kids were dressed up so cute, as I'm sure you will agree from the pictures. I always enjoy seeing the creativity that goes into the costumes. After the family party we went to our friend Elise Rasband's for a pirate mystery dinner which was a blast.

The DNA Dragon!!!

We won! I am part of the College of Life Sciences Student Council and for homecoming we made a float. Our awesome idea was to make a DNA dragon! Like a Chinese dragon float, but using a DNA stand. We spent a few hours working on it, including lots of sewing and lots of blowing up of balloons. And our hard-work paid off! We were awarded the Grand Marshall (the parade dignitary) for best overall entry... which was a nice surprise. Anyways, it was lots of fun and we got lots of cheers on the parade route (after people figured out what it was).

This is our 42' long DNA dragon.


This is the council after we found out that we won the award! Part of out float was that we all wore lab coats.


One of my friends, Sean, holding our trophy.


Us walking down the parade route. The people in front of us were also part of our entry. They were a couple that had twins through invitro. When they were in the very early stages of embryonic development, a blood vessel was delivering too much nutrients to one, and not enough to the other. And because of Medical research, they were able to go in, sever the blood vessel and save the babies! So it was very fitting for them to be part of it all.


That's us, I am fifth from the front. :)

Summer Activities!!

World of Dance!
Have you ever wondered what dancers do in their spare time?

Arches National Park
Taylor Family Reunion

Bradley, Cheyenne and BJ showing off their physical prowess

mothers and babes

More spandex!

Brad's internship buddies

My internship buddies

The Wind River backpacking adventure

Photographer's Point - what a view

Dance and the Child International Conference
my Native American hoop dancing class

Henry at his best :)

Brad's amazing birthday

lovely Gwen and little Evie

My dear friend Melissa Ward came to visit DC

Jeanette's Grandpa teaching me how to drive a sailboat on the Chesapeake Bay

Miss Curly Q Naomi

Emily (who is almost as tall as me)

Fun in the Sun!

I still crave this

The monuments at night - it doesn't get much better than this!

Goodness gracious! If ever there was a blog that needed to be updated it was ours. We have had so many incredible adventures this past summer. First and foremost we need to thank our dear family out east that took care of us during the summer. Especially the generous Droz family who let us camp out in their basement for two months. It was the highlight of the year and will always be one of our treasured memories.

Sorry the order is crazy! Hopefully the labels help you sort it all out.

A Tribute to Dave's Craziness

Most people know, or should know, that Dave has been staying with us this summer(save our D.C. excursion!). It has been awesome to have him at our home and we've enjoyed lately our late night watching of the Olympics. Sadly, our fun has come to an end as Dave has been called to Oregon to fight fires and he will be there until school starts. Today I was able to go to their practices...whatever they are called, before they head out. A warning to Mothers, if you have a fear of your sons jumping out of helicopters, brace yourself and perhaps close your eyes. :) Mother. This is our tribute to Dave. You are awesome. We love you and will miss you.
Bradley and Holly

P.S. I could only upload 100 MB of video, so this is only a fraction of the video I took with our new camcorder. Dave is the one on the left side of the helicopter (our right looking at the video). He is the one who speeds down, the first one... you can't miss him.