Sad yet still quite amusing

So a couple of weeks ago when we had one of our many snow storms that we have been having Jared was driving his car and got stuck. Well when he was trying to get unstuck he apparently revved up the engine to much and some how ruined the engine. To get a new engine for his car was going to cost about the same as the car was even worth. A couple of days later I found a guy on craigslist that wanted wrecked cars and trucks so I contacted him and told him we had a car that was in good shape except that it needed a new engine. He came by and looked at it and was going to buy it for $475, however Jared couldn't fine the title to the car. We moved to Iowa the same time as he paid of his car so we never received the title from the bank. Jared called the bank and they sent us some releases form so that we could get a new title. Jared sent off all the stuff to Utah (because Iowa said we needed a new Utah title) a couple of days ago and we have just been waiting on that so we could sell the car to that guy. Here is the sad but amusing part. Jared has had the car parked in our neighbors car port since they don't have a car and with all of the snow there isn't room to park it on the street. Tonight the snow on top of the car port got to heavy and the whole thing came crashing down on Jared's car. I don't think that guy is going to want to buy the car anymore at least not for as much as he was going to. Jared is over at the couple house right now helping them fix their window that is now a gapping hole because the carport ripped out the air conditioner that was in the window on its way down. So we may not have a car but at least we don't have a big hole in a wall in the middle of this very cold winter.

6 more weeks

I am now 34 and 1/2 weeks along. I went to the Doctor today and everything seems to be going great. I have not gained any weight since my last appt which isn't a bad thing because I was gaining almost 2 lbs a week for the last little while. My uterus measured 34.5 cm which is right on schedule. The baby is already head down so hopefully she stays that way. The only down side to having her head down is that her feet are in my ribs and she knocks the breathe out of me sometimes when she kicks and she kicks a lot. I am really excited to have her here where I can hold her but the closer it gets the more scared I get. It is so much easier to take care of her while she is in my tummy. She just goes everywhere with me no need for a sitter.
I had a rash on my tummy and I was scared that I was getting Puppps like a friend of mine had, its a rash that just keeps spreading and does go away until you delivered, but my midwife looked at it and she just thinks it is from my maternity pants rubbing on my belly. Thank goodness!

long ride home

I just had to tell someone about my long trip home from work today. I left work at 4:30 to catch the 4:36 lakeside bus but after waiting nearly 20 min I decided that the bus wasn't coming so I caught a different bus downtown so I could catch the 5:00 Mall bus. Well I ended up waiting another 20 min downtown because the mall bus was late. Then when the bus driver got to the sycamore mall he said he wasn't going any further and we had to get on another bus so I got on the other bus and took it to P&G and walked from there. Well I got home and I didn't have my keys to the house because I couldn't find them this morning. I tried the open the garage with the key pad but it wouldn't work it was frozen or something. Since I didn't have my keys I purposely left the back down unlocked in case the garage wouldn't open but when I went to go around back I found the gate frozen shut so the 34 week pregnant lady had to climb the fence to get in the back yard and then pry open the frozen shut back door. I just thought it was funny and I am glad that no one saw me trying to climb over the fence and very greatful that I didn't fall.

Our crazy week

So my goal lately has been to keep the house clean by picking up things every night and doing the dishes right after dinner so they don't pile up and I have to say I was doing pretty well I think the house stayed clean for two whole weeks and then this week hit.
Our week started out great last Sunday we had our friends the Goodsons and there dogs Kippen and Sam over for lunch. Tito and Kippen enjoyed each others company since they both have been pretty much confined to the house with no friends because of our crazy weather and the humans enjoyed a nice lunch of taco soup and we got to learn a new game. I don't know what it was called but it was a card game involving planting beans and thou it sounds weird it was really fun. At this point the house was still clean of course since we had guests over. For dinner we were invited over to the knolls house with a new couple in our ward it was nice to get to know the new people.
Monday was uneventful I can't even remember what we did except that is when my tooth #14 for those of you of the dental community started to hurt. Jared did some at home test and told me he thought I might need a root canal, granted he had just started endodontics that day so how reliable could his diagnosis be. Well it was still hurting on Tuesday, but there was no way in my present condition (pregnancy) was I going to go see the students about a possible root canal. For one thing they just switched rotations so I would most likely be there first patient and second it take 4 4 hour appt if you go to the student. However, we don't have dental insurance and it cost a lot of money for a root canal. Jared found out that a resident had an opening at 3 so I went in and sure enough I had an infection and ended up getting a route canal. I was only in the chair for 2 hours which wasn't bad and I was numb so it didn't hurt but when the numbness wore off it really hurt and I was only allowed to take Tylenol. So I went home took some Tylenol and a sleeping pill and went to sleep so obviously I didn't do any cleaning. Wed the tooth pain was gone thank goodness and I had Dede that night so again no cleaning, but Jared did clean the kitchen for me. Thursday was Valentines day and you can read previous post for info on that. Then came Friday and as I mentioned before we were going to a breakfast theater. Well Jared who just started super block this week at school was stuck in the lab trying to finish something so I went home to change my cloths and get ready and I was going to then go back to the school and pick him up. Well when I went to get out of the car I had a horrible pain and I couldn't walk. I forced myself to walk in to the house. I only had 10 min to get ready so I just went straight back to the bedroom but it took me 10 min just to get to the bedroom. I started to think that maybe I was in labor I had no idea I had never experienced it before, but when I sat down the pain went and came right back when I stood up, so I thought I must have pulled something because the pain would just go away like that. So I painfully continued to get ready, picked up Jared and we made it to our show a little late but they hadn't started yet. So it turns out that they think I tore a muscle or ligament in my stomach and i have been pretty much in bed since Friday night except for our ward party last night.
To top things off for the week I am now sick with a cold. I had avoided getting sick all winter and it finally caught up to me. Dispite all of this the baby is fine she is still moving around as usual and I am getting plenty of rest considering I can't do much else.

Happy Valentines Day!

It is Valentines day and I am alone writing on my blog. My husband fell asleep more than an hour ago and it is only 9 and Tito is cuddled up with him. He must have really been tired. We had our tradition of heart shaped pizza from Papa Murphy's and he brought me home some purple daisies so that wasn't bad, but now I am bored out of my mind and all the things I want to do such as putting together the babies crib requires help from Jared. We do have a fun date planned for tomorrow night we are going to a breakfast theater. Its like a dinner theater but they serve breakfast food.
A lot has happened lately. Jared installed wood floor in our house it was our Christmas present to each other. We also sold our big honking TV on craigs list and used the money to buy a flat panel TV that fits in our little living room much better. i wanted a long skinny console like table to put the TV on and I found the most perfect piece of furniture with storage under it and the best part about it is I paid $2.50 for it, I love thrift shopping. One of the drawers I am using to put all of Tito's toys in. The drawer was open and Tito was trying to pull one of his tos out but couldn't reach so he just hopped right in the drawer with all of his toys I tried to get a picture but by the time I found the camera he had already jumped back out. We also finally bought our video camera that my parents gave us money for Christmas to buy. As soon as i figure it our I will put up a video of a little tour of our house and all of the new things we got.

toilet in a box

So this is a countinuation of our plumbing problems. The rotto ruder guy came out monday night and stuck the snake through our pipes apparently there was tree roots that had grown into the pipe so he cleared them out. We tested everything before he left and it all seemed to be working fine. then the plumber guy left and Jared had to put the pipes all back together. It wasn't to hard but it did take him a little while. Once the pipes were put back together we did some wash and everything seemed fine, but then when Jared went to go take a shower the toilet started to bubble and then over flowed. So Jared made the plumber guy come back last night to try again. Since Jared diddn't want to have to redo the piping in the wall yet again they decided to go through the toilet but when Jared was movong the toilet out of the way he slipped and dropped the toilet and it broke into peices. This is where the toilet in a box comes in. Jared had to go to Menards to buy a new toilet since I was not about to go all night with no toilet since I need to pee almost every hour. At menards they sell a toilet in a box it comes with everything you need to install atoilet and lucky for us it was on sell. So I now have a nice new clean toilet and hopefully we won't have anymore plumbing problems.

I am a published scientist

The following our 3 papers that I was a co-auther on. The first one was published in Human genetics last month and the other two were published in Human Mutation. I don't think any of you care about reading the paper but if you do I can send you a copy.

Genotype–phenotype correlations for SLC26A4-related deafness
Hela Azaiez • Tao Yang • Sai Prasad •
Jessica L. Sorensen • Carla J. Nishimura •
William J. Kimberling • Richard J. H. Smith

SIX1 Mutation Screening in 247 Branchio-Oto-Renal Syndrome Families: A Recurrent Missense Mutation Associated With BOR
Amit Kochhar1,2§, Dana J. Orten3§, Jessica L. Sorensen2, Stephanie M. Fischer2, Cor W. R. J. Cremers4, William J. Kimberling3, and Richard J.H. Smith2*

Branchio-oto-renal syndrome: Novel mutations in the EYA1 gene and a review of
the mutational genetics of BOR.
1Dana J. Orten, 2Stephanie M. Fischer, 2Jessica L. Sorensen, 1Uppala Radhakrishna,
3Cor W. R. J. Cremers, 3Henri A. M. Marres, 4Guy Van Camp 5Katherine O. Welch,
2Richard J.H. Smith, and 1William J. Kimberling