4 finals between me and my juris doctorate...

Its day one of studying for my last round of final exams at South Texas. While I've been through the finals mayhem many times before this is my first time on the caffeine-free study plan.

Ordinarily, you'd find me cracked out on coffee, redbull, and any other caffeinated or energy charged beverage to keep my attention on the books morning, noon and night...but this time its different. I have a little nugget inside me, and since I found out I was pregnant I have sworn off all coffee and redbulls. I do, occasionally, allow myself a glass of iced tea (which does nothing for me BTW), but other than that I went cold turkey on the caffeine.

Unfortunately, I did not change any other aspects of my study plan, so as usual I'm cramming a few days before my exams with a semester's worth of information to learn- only this time sans caffeine. I'll let you know how well this works out for me.

We're Engaged!!

This weekend took a very unexpected turn when Micah popped the question on Saturday night!! :) I think I'm a pretty hard person to surprise - I'm a bit of a control freak, but Micah really pulled one over on me. Here's the story...

We were supposed to go to New Orleans this weekend, but Micah ended up having to work. So I hung around the house painting all day (another story in itself) and decided I wanted to BBQ that night so I was thawing hamburger meat and getting dinner together when the phone rang. It was my sister, Emily. She started telling me how her and Matt (my BIL) had plans with her neighbors to go to Shakespeare in the Park at this outdoor theatre downtown, but her neighbors bailed on them and she wanted Micah and I to come.

After I thanked her for the second-choice invite, I told her I didn't think we could make it because I was already cooking dinner and Micah was still at work. She immediately went into full-blown guilt trip mode - telling me how I always make her go do things that she doesn't really want to do and yadayadayada... Then she tells me she is going to call Micah and "talk him into going". Nice try, I was thinking in my head, Micah wouldn't want to go to Shakespeare in the Park and I would be off the hook. So it came as a little bit of a shock to me when Micah called me on his way home from work saying he told Emily that we would go with them for a little while and that I should be nicer to my sister.

After much more complaining, I reluctantly threw on a dress and some make-up and we were on our way to Shakespeare in the Park. Micah called my sister and Matt on the way there to make sure they were on their way too. We arrived at the park and made our way toward the theatre.

I called Emily again to make sure she had something for us to sit on and she assured me she was on her way with a blanket. Micah suggested we walk around the park until Emily and Matt arrive. It was a really pretty park with a lake and really neat looking sculptures and statutes everywhere. We made our way over to one statute in the middle of the park and Micah sat down on a bench. I was about to follow his lead, when I stopped and said that looks like the most uncomfortable bench ever (I was still being a brat)! Finally, tired of standing, I sat down on the bench next to Micah, and as I was reaching for my phone to call Emily again, Micah stood up and said Emily and Matt aren't coming.

He told me that he wanted to bring me here to ask me a very important question. I was so completely shocked, surprised, and excited when he got down on one knee and asked me to marry him!!! I pulled him on the bench with me and immediately started kissing him and apologizing for being such a brat and making it so difficult for him to propose to me. I still can't believe I didn't pick up on what was going on, but I really had no idea!!

I was even more shocked when he pulled out a gorgeous, vintage diamond ring circa the 1920s and told me it was one-of-a-kind, just like me!! It couldn't have been more perfect - and I couldn't be happier engaged to such a perfect man.

We have so many reasons to celebrate lately between the baby, my being done with law school and our engagement, but I am most excited about spending my life with Micah and having a family together!!

LAST DAY OF LAW SCHOOL EVER!!!!

At this very moment I am sitting in my last class ever at South Texas College of Law!!

I can't believe the past three years, that I thought would never end, have come and gone! It's an eerie feeling, but in the words of my Aunt Debbie, I'm closing one chapter of my life and beginning an exciting new one!

Four finals to go, and ONE (hopefully one) bar exam!!

IT'S A BOY!!!!!!!

This morning we found out that we will be welcoming a beautiful baby boy into this world on September 3, 2009!

Micah and I had pretty much settled on the fact that we were going to have a girl, so we were both completely shocked when the nurse told us "there HE is, and there's his third leg"!!! I made the nurse show me his "third leg" three times until I believed her. Micah was beaming when we left the doctor's office... I think we're both glad we can start calling the baby "he" now instead of "it".

I'm already in crazy "nesting" mode... I'm thinking about a Tommy Bahama/ Nautical themed baby nursery (p.s.- High Fashion Home is my new favorite place to shop. It's great for finding fun fabric! I don't know why I had never been there before today?)

Micah D's Birthday!!

Today is April 13th and Micah is finally 24!! We are officially back to being the same age again, and I can no longer be called a "cougar"- well at least until August 13th when I turn 25 :(

We spent the weekend at Micah's lakehouse celebrating Easter with both of our families - minus my Dad who was stuck in Saudi Arabi working. There were ten of us all under one roof and we had a blast fishing, cooking out, and making bonfires!

I'm surprising Micah with a cajun dinner tonight - complete with crab cakes and shrimp etouffee (the baby has been craving this all day, or maybe its just me). Delish!!

my not so relaxing summer...

We received our summer barbri schedule today, and all I can say is...YIKES!! I guess I knew all along that this summer was going to be full of studying and no fun, but it wasn't until today that it really hit me. I'll be in my bar study class six-days-a-week for approximately eight weeks, and then its crunch time before the bar!!

I guess I can't complain too much though, poor Micah will be working full-time this summer AND trying to take the CPA exam, which he constantly reminds me is MUCH harder than the bar exam ;-)

We will both be looking forward to the 4th of July in Red River, NM.

Boy or Girl!?!?!

So we find out in exactly one week what the sex is. I can hardly contain my excitment these days and have trouble concentrating on other things, hence the 7 different chinese baby predictors I did online yesterday while in class. Result: inconclusive. 5 said it's a girl and 2 said it's a boy!

My friends tell me they think I'm having a boy, but my family thinks it's a girl - and for good reason - my family is prone to having girls. In fact, I've been told since a very young age that my genes eat male sperm. I don't know how much truth there is to that, but here's the stats- my father had 3 sisters, and 3 daughters - no brothers and no sons. My mother had 5 sisters, 2 brothers, and 3 daughters. I have 27 cousins on my Mother's side of the family, and all but 5 are girls.

I'm also having vivid dreams about my baby, but these seem to be even more confusing than the chinese baby predictors... Every night is different - boy, girl, girl, boy. Not only is the sex of the baby different in each dream, but my motherly tactics are becoming questionable. In one dream I tied giant balloons to the baby, this time a girl, until she floated into the sky and out of sight, presumably never to be seen again :( And in another dream, I left my baby in the car and went shopping!! I've decided that these dreams are supposed to be little life lessons about what not to do to my baby - I think I'll be a much better mother in real life, or at least let's hope so...

Seven days and counting... We find out on April 16th!!