Officials.

It's been about a month, and there's bits and pieces to update on. Our most exciting piece of news is that Julie has officially applied for graduation! We found out late last December that her final exam grade was 3 points shy of what she needed, so she retook it the end of January. It wasn't too long before we found out she had passed and was officially done with her last class. Julie will officially graduate April 23 (the day after her due date). Needless to say, we won't be going to Utah for the ceremony. But having the baby is way better than sitting through any graduation ceremony for Julie.

Speaking of the baby, she officially has a name. It is Emery Salem Denney. Julie just had a doctor's appointment earlier this week. She's now seeing the doctor every 2 weeks (how time flies). He says her belly size is just right, she's not diabetic (woohoo) and has gained the normal amount of weight. So all in all the pregnancy is great. He is planning another ultrasound in abotu 8 weeks to check on the size of little Emery to see if we can tell if she'll be like Joseph (he was 9 lbs at birth) or more in the average 7 pound range. It will be fun to have at least one more ultrasound before she's born. Oh, and she is head down (thank goodness!) so we're not too worried about her being breech (which would really mess with Julie's plans for a VBAC).

In other news, Aaron has started his student teaching, and has started taking over the classes with his own lessons plans, etc. It's only been a week, but he feels good about it. Thanks to his MTC teaching, seminary, and Rialto, he's more comfortable infront of a classroom of teenagers than most (Julie thinks so anyway). His English mentor was impressed with his first day taking over. He tries really hard, and is enjoying the variety of teaching english and spanish classes.

Joseph is doing great. He's getting more and more aware of Emery's coming to our family and seems pretty excited about it. Julie is only watching Olivia 3 days a week (starting the transition to a new care provider) so Joseph enjoys his Mama Mondays and Fridays all to himself. They've been trying to do special things on those days to give him some good attention, and do some fun things before Emery is born.

In some exciting Denney news, Aaron's brother Tim and his wife Anna are expecting twins in July. They just found out late January, but they had a hunch. They recently moved to Elk Grove (Tim just graduated from BYU Idaho) and were switching health care providers, so Anna had not had an ultrasound until late January. That's why they didn't know for sure it was twins until then. We are so excited for them and hope Abram will be a helpful big brother!


In fun pictures, this is Joseph exercising. Julie hasn't done this for months (being pregnant and all) but he must have remembered before the pregnancy when Julie would do these type of exercises. He just got the weights all on his own (3 lb) laid down and started doing "exercises". He's so darn cute.