Christmas Rundown

We haven't blogged in quite a while, so here's a quick rundown on what has happened in the past few weeks. For Christmas we went back to Coeur d'Alene to stay with my parents, along with about 10 other people. :) It was a packed house. Meagan and Brent were there with there three kids Coen, Atlas, and Emmy, as well as Mike DeMotte and his two kids, Alexis and Carter. Tawni was able to stay for a week, too. It was a packed house, but it was absolutely awesome. It was so good to be with everyone for a little while. As you can see from the pictures, there was just a little bit of snow. The first picture at the bottom of the blog was the first full day that we were there. After that, it snowed another few feet. Yeah, feet. The picture above is from before we went home. There was so much snow that we were shoveling roofs.
Christmas day was great, as always. Food, presents, family, friends. Doesn't get any better.
The back deck of the house after shoveling off the roof. Dad and I ended up jumping off the roof onto the front lawn afterwards, because it was just easier to get off that way than try to get down the ladder.
Coen, Emmy, and Atlas. It was a lot of fun spending time with them. Love those kids to death.
This is the sight we got home to. It was beautiful the entire trip.

So now we're back at school. Things are busy to say the least. I'm loving the classes I'm taking this semester. I'm taking one class on compressible fluids and supersonic flow, which is a lot of fun, and my other fun mechanical engineering class is a biomechanics class, going over how the body moves and the mechanics of the different tissues in the movement process. I'm also doing my mechanical engineering research project for Union Pacific. I'm still in charge of the wind tunnel, and things are very busy. Along with the engineering research, I'm still doing research for the Neuroscience department. Also working.

I signed up to take the MCAT on May 2, so Saturdays are filled with studying for the test, as well as a three hour lab I have in the afternoon. Poor Jessie now only gets to see me the whole day on Sundays alone. She hates it, but she is so good to let me study. I love her to death.

Jessie is a little over 4 months pregnant now. Her little belly is starting to show now. :) It's really exciting. We were able to go to the doctor a few weeks ago and got to hear the baby's heartbeat. The heartbeat was 166, which according to Mom means that it is a girl. Although Tyler's heartbeat was very high, but he came out a boy. Sorry Teej. It's all very exciting and we are having a good time getting ready for everything. In about two weeks we get to go back to the doctor, Jessie will get an ultrasound, and we get to find out what the baby is going to be! We already have names picked out. To be truthful, we've had names picked out for months and months. If it's a girl, we are going to name her Kali Jo Griffitts. If it's a boy, Aiden Alan Griffitts. Jessie keeps claiming that the baby is a girl and says she will be really surprised if it's a boy. We'll let you all know when we find out. Jessie also bought a little journal for the baby Friday. She's really excited about it. She made sure I put it in the blog. We're excited and happy. Things are going great.