And now it's the end of June

Yay for summer!

The school year wrapped up perfectly. I was asked to come back next year during my end of the year evaluation and cannot wait for a second year of teaching in Pensacola!

As many of you know, my school year will be more like a semester due to the BABY coming in December.

I have to start with John, otherwise my pregnancy will take over this entire post.

John had his first solo in the T-6 a couple of weeks ago. He is finally starting to move through school at a more acceptable rate. More recently, he soloed in the aerobatics phase of school. Solo = flying alone ... crazy. He still continues to amaze me. Please continue to pray for all of his flights and for the weather to continue to cooperate in order for him to complete the needed flights. The goal is for him to fly every day Monday thru Friday. The more frequent the flights the better. He does a lot of studying in his office (thank goodness for a split floor plan ... he has one side of the house and Belleau and I have the other). When he is not studying ... he hangs out with me (movie, dinner, walk, Jeopardy, etc.), plays golf, or goes bowling. He does occasionally let himself have a little fun.

Belleau is still a nut. She was spayed two weeks ago and it about broke our hearts. She had to stay the night at the vet. It was so weird coming home after dinner to an empty house while she was gone. She was not quite the same the first two days (didn't want to go outside, didn't want food, didn't want her toys), but boy is she back to normal now! She is currently barking in our room ... but this was what she was doing when I walked in ...

She often likes to pretend she isn't up to anything, but there are two pillows on the floor. I let her believe she outsmarted me ... probably not a good idea.

On to this pregnant belly of mine. We found out in late April and had our first ultrasound on 15 May. Baby Lynch was quite the mover! Arms and legs were moving like crazy, it was magical to see.

Since then we have had one more ultrasound and two other heart beat listens. It amazes me every time. Today I am just a little over 15 weeks and finally starting to have more energy! The last 15 weeks have not been the greatest ... started with nausea, then no desire to cook or even look at uncooked food, then zero energy to do ANYTHING, then a nasty metallic taste. The taste and the zero energy were the "worst" in the first trimester. My biggest complaint today is the gagging. I gag roughly 20 times a day. And there is nothing specific that triggers it ... it is everything! Quite annoying. Hoping and praying it goes away in the next couple of weeks.

Please pray with us for a healthy pregnancy and very healthy baby (with John's blue eyes)!

Here are the links to the videos of us telling our parents. They are very worth the click to YouTube.

First is mom and dad Vandament via FaceTime using the song "We're having a baby" from I Love Lucy. Second is mom and dad Lynch at the airport when they arrived.

Mom and Dad (Vandament)

Mom and Dad (Lynch)