November

Life has been busy as we are approaching the holiday season. One of the biggest accomplishments in our family as of late, is that Jared finished his dissertation for his PhD. He is officially Doctor Jared Underwood now. He will be walking/graduating in Mid December. He bought his official robes and will be "hooded" on the day of graduation. I'm SO happy that it is finally over. Jared has been in school for 10 1/2 years, and luckily I have only been present for 4 1/2 of those school years. I'm so extremely proud of him for accomplishing this HUGE goal. He is truly an example to me, and will continue to be. With 2 months left before baby Cameron comes, we are starting to mentally prepare ourselves for what is to come. Having another child doesn't scare me, but dealing with the changes Brent will be going through will be tough. I have no high expectations for how he will react to another sibling. We will see how it goes! Recently Jared's sister Sarah came out for a visit from Utah. We had so much fun going to the beach, Legoland, walks, shopping, talking, and I enjoyed having a built in friend to do the mommy thing with.

Legoland

This last week, I went to Legoland twice with Brent. They let locals in for free for the last hour of the day. It is so close to our house, (3 minutes) and it is the perfect thing to do at the end of a day with a hyper little boy. On Saturday, Jared came with us, and we rode a couple of the kiddie rides. Then Brent saw one of the roller coasters, and called it the fast train. He wanted to ride it, and Jared and I looked at each other in surprised, and got in line with Brent. Luckily Brent is 36 inches tall now, so he is able to ride about everything at Legoland. However, he doesn't understand that we have to wait in line for things. He gets SOOOO frustrated when he has to wait. I was so surprised that he wanted to ride such a fast ride, but I was very excited to see how he would actually enjoy it. Jared rode with him in the front car and I was right behind him. When we went down the big hill, Jared held on to Brent so he wouldn't slosh around, he is still so tiny! Brent was a little unsure at first, but we were going so fast that he didn't have time to cry. I think he liked it, he wasn't bawling afterwards, he just kept on telling me "too scary momma". I tried to turn it around and talk about how fun it was and what a big boy he was. So, maybe he will want to ride it next time we go. It was alot of fun, and we were ALL tired at the end of the day. Earlier in the day we had spent the afternoon at the beach. The sun, and amusement park took all the energy out of us. Brent was asleep by seven and Jared and I dropped dead at nine.