it's me again!

Well I have completely neglected this little family blog of ours! I really do feel like I have a good excuse, more like a list of them...here's what we've been up to since Andy CONGRADUATED!

1. bought our first home

2. moved from California to Washington

3. watched the moving company pack our house in Cali...t'was glorious!

4. cried when everything arrived in Washington and we had to do the unpacking

5. started a new job

6. boating trips to the Columbia river

7. spent 4th of July in Oregon with Andy's grandma

8. got the sweetest, cutest puppy and named him Milo

9. gave Milo back 5 days later and he was renamed Jasper ;( Milo was so much better

10. started to make progress on decorating the house

11. way too many trips to Target and Wal-Mart to count

12. oh and did I mention growing a baby! I am so excited to meet the little man who has been boxing inside my belly!

Git... in... meh... belleh!

Yes I know that I am getting huge, please don't remind me. Today at work one of the female Docs casually mentioned that I'm getting bigger by the day. I smiled said thank you and quickly waddled away! I swear that every time I look in the mirror, miraculously my belly seems to grow! I no longer recognize my hands and feet. In fact, on the way to the river Saturday, Andy informed me that my hands looked HUGE and I could karate chop a loaf of bread with one hand! So sweet of him ; ) Then later that day we had been watching 48 hours Mystery about a husband who murdered his wife and I was super creeped out. He then comforted me by telling me that he didn't think either of us were capable of murder, however if one of us did kill the other it would be me who murdered him! He said I'm the hot blooded one! Come on me, hot blooded no way! What can I say, I'm a Jolley, our blood is naturally hot!

Congraduation Mandrew!!!

Wahooo he did it! My Mandrew graduated with his Doctorate degree in Physical Therapy on Sunday, June 12, 2011, I am so proud of him! Our families and I flew in from Washington and Arizona Saturday for the festivities that of course started with an Angels baseball game Saturday night!Sunday we went to the ceremony which was so good. One of my favorite Attending Physicians, Dr. Walsh from my job here in Loma Linda spoke and gave a very inspirational talk. Afterwards we came back to our (soon to not be) home here in Cali to eat and open presents and watch the Mavs destroy the Heat woohoo! I was so bummed I broke the lens on my camera during graduation so most of the pictures are out of focus : ( We have spent the rest of the week playing and entertaining Andy's family here in CA with lots of beach trips, paddle boarding, shopping and eating! The moving company came today to pack up our house, I can't believe our days here are so numbered. Being students and living in CA the last five years has been so wonderful we will truly miss it and all of the wonderful friendships we have made. I am so proud of Andy for sticking to his goals and working so hard. He never once complained or let school get in the way of what really matters in life.

I really do have way to much to blog about I am so behind, I don't even know where to start! Come Monday, we will be Washington state residents!

oh and here's a belly shot for your viewing pleasure of me at 23 weeks...

p.s. this is what all mature doctorate students do during their graduation ceremony, well at least my husbnad!

the results are in!

Well, my daddy has been training a little weightlifter in Heaven to send down to us...it's a BOY!!! When I first found out I was pregnant I had a feeling it was a boy, I knew my dad wouldn't have it any other way. The poor guy was as macho as they came, trained elite athletes and was stuck, I mean blessed, with three daughters. He always said he deserved a handy capped parking pass because surely having three girls made him disabled. He was only kidding, he loved having frilly girls! He always use to bribe us that if we named one of our kids after him he would pay for their college education...somehow he better find a way to hold up his end of the bargain ; ) We can't wait to meet the little guy! At times I feel so weird and not my self and then seeing the baby on the ultrasound makes my heart melt and remember it's all worth it.

cha...cha...cha...changes!

AHHHH I don't know if I should cry, scream, be thankful or just plain scared!!! I've been doing a little bit of all of the above. If you've noticed, I haven't blogged in quite sometime. Needless to say, life has been just plain CRAZY! In addition to having our first baby, which Mandrew refers to as Skeletor, Rambo and now Egon, we have both accepted jobs in Yakima, WA and I'm moving there May 28th (I'll be back in Cali for Andy's graduation in June though). Oh and on the last day of visiting the Northwest I decided we were going to buy a house so I walked through one for 5 minutes, it felt right and I told Mandrew we were buying it...and WE DID!!! Well we are trying to... Going through the whole home buying experience has taught me that having more government control is the worst idea ever!!! They don't know jack, there's a million of crazy rules, I feel like I'm being watched by little hidden cameras! Yet somehow we want these morons to control our healthcare? grrr that's another topic for another post.

Anywho, we are very excited yet scared at the same time. We have loved our life in southern california pretty much foot loose and fancy free, as my mama would like to call it. Soon we'll have a little bundle of joy to keep us tied down and I am so thankful for that and the opportunity we have to become parents. I am so proud of Andy for doing so well in school in a very rigorous program. It's funny, people always ask me if PT school is tough because Andy never talks or complains about it. YES it has been tough, its a Doctorate degree for cryin' out loud!!! Thankfully, my husband is a worry free kind of guy because I do enough worrying for the both of us. We are excited for our future and we are sure going to miss our past.

p.s. there will be no belly pictures until I start looking fat and pregnant because right now I just look plain fat!

It's about time!

I'm 11 weeks along and everything is looking good, so I couldn't wait any longer to announce that baby Martin is scheduled to make an appearance October 2011. We are very excited and feel very blessed to finally be having a baby of our own. It's kind of funny how the little stinker has already changed things, well for me at least! Before I was pregnant, I always said I would continue to exercise just as hard and eat as healthy as possible. Yea um the thought of running makes me want to cry, and even looking at a cooked vegetable makes me want to vomit. This baby has already proved me wrong. Can't wait to see what the next 18 years brings!

Moosejaw Men's Andrew Martin Fleece Vest

Hulda Crooks

In the nearly 5 years that we have lived in Loma Linda, Jen and I have frequently gone up in the hills by our house. We have been up there literally hundreds of times to either hike, ride mountain bikes or do a trail run. Its up in these hills where I broke my clavicle. We know these hills well, but today was the first time I have ever headed up there with the purpose of just taking pictures. I saw things that i never really noticed before and gained a new appreciation for the scenery. The hills are only green like this for a few months in winter, shortly they will be brown and dry as a bone. Enjoy the photos.