The Livingstons: Fall Happenings

Growing up, I was always a summer girl. But man alive, this year I sure welcomed the fall. Perhaps it was the beauty of the changing leaves, or the cooling temperature (which my pregnant body really loved) or maybe the fact that it meant my due date was approaching. Yeah, definitely that last one. But here's what we were up to besides waiting for the big day.

Carter was being a rock star husband. This semester has been NUTS for him. He has 16.5 credits of 300+ level engineering classes (no easy classes in there! and yes he has all As...crazy man), serves as an ASCE officer for BYU, works as a temple ordinance worker, is first counselor in the elders quorum presidency, TAs for an engineering class, and has a family at home that likes his attention. The guy has been out of his mind busy. Over the work week, if I can snag him for some dinner and a half hour of chitchatting I'm a lucky girl. The poor guy will really appreciate this upcoming thanksgiving break. But despite how busy he is, he never complains. He always takes me out for a weekly date, texts me during the day to see how I am, and lets me talk his ear off while he falls asleep at night (which doesn't take long). I really appreciate all that he does for us. He's doing an awesome job with his schooling and has been able to have lunch with some cool engineers. He decided to go ahead and finish his masters right after he gets his BS. Originally he wanted to take some time to work before continuing on, but we decided it'd be easier to just get'r'done. So we'll be in Provo for an extra year or two.

Before Jayden was born I was working on two online classes and frantically trying to get in 200 hours of an internship as an ultrasound tech. To graduate in my major, I need 200 hours of an internship, and although I still have two more semesters of school, I wanted to get it done before the baby came. If I could work normal work days this wouldn't have been hard, but the problem was that the bulk of the hours available to us were supposed to come from spending time in St. George at the Huntsmen Senior Games performing ultrasounds on athlete's carotid arteries. Before the games, we were just to spend an hour or two a day practicing. I stretched it 2-4 hours a day so I could get more clock time, but still only had 60 hours under my belt when the Games came along. This wasn't a problem though because I would earn 50 hours for each week of Games I attended (they went over the space of 2 weeks and if I went to both I could get 100 hours) and then the week after, my fellow interns and I had been invited to work at a fair in Spanish Fork, so that would've given me the remaining 40 hours. I had everything planned out and was going to finish...but Jayden had other ideas.