Our Apartment and East Coast Weather as of Late

So we finally got all the boxes unpacked and everything put away! Here are some pictures of our one bedroom apartment.

The kitchen had very limited cupboard space and no full size drawers (how weird is that??), so we had to get some extra shelving for our food.

Our only closet (besides our bedroom closet)

Ben is a permanent fixture at the desk

My belly has grown! It is exciting and feels good to have the weeks going by faster! I'm already almost 16 weeks pregnant! I have my first doctor's appt with a new doctor on Thursday, and then after that (in about a month) we find out the gender! Yay! I'm feeling like I have tons more energy and feeling more normal. The only weird thing is that apparently I had an anxiety/panic attack? I wasn't even feeling anxious... at the time. But I guess with lots of anxiety bottled up over all summer and pregnancy combined and decided to make the lower half of my face, especially my tongue, go numb! It is the WEIRDEST and scariest thing that has ever happened to me! I thought I was having a stroke, so I had Ben take me to the hospital. Everything was good though! No stroke, everything normal, excpet my blood pressure was really high (because I was thinking I was having a stroke and was going to die). But my blood pressure went down once I learned everything was pretty normal for anxiety (so weird, who would have thought?). I spent last week trying to relax, and getting my mouth back to normal! Currently, I feel great and am doing more things to help me relax and keep my mind busy.

Grumpy face because Ben was trying to position me...

ALSO, as many of you already know there was an earthquake and a hurricane all in the same week! The earthquake naturally (get it- because it's a natural disaster!) happened on the day that I was having an anxiety attack. Luckily I was waking up from a nap when it happened so I couldn't really tell what was going on. I thought there was a fat maintenance man on our roof- nope, it was an earthquake. The earthquake was a 5.8 and it happened in Richmond, VA. We felt it all the way out here- it was crazy! Also, Hurricane Irene made her appearance this weekend! Luckily it stayed east of us for the most part. We got a bit of rain and cloudy skies all weekend but other than that we didn't get any weather.

We are each settling into more of a schedule, which is so nice! This is what Ben does: wakes up, reads his scriptures, eats breakfast, works out, showers, reading/homework, goes to class. Then he comes home for lunch, more reading/homework, and goes back to class. Then he comes home, takes a little break, eats dinner, and hits the books again! By the time he finishes with that it's pretty much bedtime! Here is my schedule: wake up, do whatever I want. It's great! I get lots of stuff done around the apartment, and I also have time for crafts. So far we are enjoying life here- hopefully we won't have another natural disaster for a while :)