Eeee! Because James will be going to several math conferences in the next few months, I decided the coming months would be an ideal time to visit far-away friends and family before Amelia gets too big to share a plane seat with me. I'm super excited!
So the plan is this.
Firstly, I'll fly down to Utah to visit friends at BYU before they all graduate and scatter across the country. Maybe say hello to some family members and such... I'll stay for a week, staying at least part of the time with Clifton, Amanda, and baby Kate. Theoretically I will also say hello to the Copes and get tasty blueberry waffles.
Then Amelia and I will fly down to Arizona where my parents (and several other relatives) are. I'll be there for two weeks or so. I've heard that my home ward was split since I visited last, so I'll visit both wards with heavy fan club populations. I assume I'll go to my parents' ward first, then go to the other ward the subsequent Sunday. I am secretly hoping I'll get tons of invitations for dinner. (Just thought I'd plant that suggestion in your mind.)
Woo! Excited! After those three weeks are up I will return home and be (mildly) gross with James at the baggage claim.
But this isn't all! Most of James' family (with the notable exception of his dad) will be going on a cross-country road trip. They will eventually make it all the way from Pennsylvania to Oregon. Amelia and I may accompany them on the drive back to Pennsylvania and then we can fly back. I'm not sure who we'll see on the way back, but I assume there will be a number of far-flung relatives involved.
And then after all that I will come home... And then pack up all our stuff and put it in a storage unit. Then James, Amelia, and I will likely live in Berkeley, California for three months so that James can hang out with tons of researchers who also research general relativity.
I am pretty excited about this prospect, because when James originally told me about this three-month thingy, we assumed that he would have to go alone, and that I would be living all alone with a baby for the entire fall. I was sad about it, but I had a strong feeling that I should encourage him to go because it was important. I hadn't imagined that we could get funding to go with him! How exciting!
Then, when we get back to the Eugene-Springfield area, we will move into a new apartment. We don't know if it will still be in the same ward, but we figured since we'd be moving anyway, we should move in to a place with a washer and dryer hookup. And carpet. And without stairs. There's a place in our ward jokingly called Little Provo that meets these specifications, but we're far from certain about where we'll end up.
Amelia is pseudo-mobile. She's been scooting along the floor...backwards. She's just gone halfway across the room. And now she's frustrated.
Love and travels,
Jenna and Amelia
P.S. I randomly decided what to call our next child while he our she is in utero... Microraptor. Number three will be Triceratops.
P.P.S. No, I am not pregnant. As far as I know anyway.
