Jeremiah and I joined his mother, her fiance, his sister Charlene, and a couple of our really good friends in Lake Tahoe during this past 4th of July weekend. On the way up (the ride is about 6 hours), we stopped in Sacramento and toured around the state capital and Old Town Sacramento for about 4 hours. It was LOTS of fun, and a very good learning experience for me as I'd never been there before. I'm excited to show the pictures to my students this coming year.
Lake Tahoe was beautiful. We stayed in Jeremiah's cousin's "cabin" - more like a mansion :) It was really nice! The cabin is located in the Donnor Pass area, so again I am looking forward to sharing our photos with my 8th graders this year because I teach about the tragedy that happened there.
We toured around the Donnor Pass museum, we ate a picnic lunch at a nearby park, we went on a canoe ride, we ate some delicious food, and we even got to cross the border into Reno, Nevada...There we slept through a wonderfully relaxing show about the planets in the Reno Planetarium. :) Best $6 we ever spent! (Almost all of us in our party fell asleep...they make those seats so comfortable!!!)
On July 4th, we traveled down to Tahoe City and enjoyed a very nice fireworks show on Commons Beach. I carried around a lit citronella candle and everyone laughed at me until the next morning when they looked at their mosquito-bitten legs :) By the way, Jeremiah and Aaron looking so handsome in their matching July 4th shirts :)
It was a fantastic mini vacation - we stayed from Saturday until Tuesday.
On May 19th, 2011, I took a pregnancy test and found out that I am pregnant!!! We announced the news to our family with the traditional lemon meringue pie during my birthday dinner in Valencia (it's also the night that I took the first picture of my "just-pregnant" stomach!) and I had my first ultrasound on June 15th. On that day, I was given an Estimated Due Date of January 23 2012, and we also had a chance to hear the baby's heartbeat!!! I was 8 weeks & 3 days pregnant on that day. I am currently 11 weeks & 3 days pregnant, and I simply couldn't wait any longer to share the news with everyone else! Jeremiah and I are so excited (perhaps a little nervous too?!) and look forward to seeing Baby Podczaszy grow and develop through the coming months. In so little time, we'll get to personally meet him/her - God is so good!
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