So Happy Together

(Jamie) (Loren)    It's finally come! We're down to 3 days till we'll have a new member of our family. Last week at our doctor's appointment they told us that our baby isn't growing anymore so to keep her safe they will induce me on Thursday. We'll go to the hospital Wednesday night to start the process and then hopefully have a new little one sometime Thursday! I can't decide if knowing when she's coming is better or just waiting. It feels weird to finally have a date set. I'm all a bundle of nerves and have no idea how I'll keep myself sane till Wednesday! So exciting though!    My parents were originally coming out next Friday, a week after she'd be born, but my dad pulled some strings and was able to get my mom on a flight out here this Saturday! I'm so excited and grateful. I was a little worried about being alone with her while Loren's at school the first week so my mom's coming is a great blessing.    Speaking of S...

  I am loving this cooler weather! It's been in the 60's and 70's the past couple of days and you can just smell that fall is in the air. I love this season and can't wait till the leaves start changing.   Well what a week it's been. Loren has been studying non-stop and by the end of the day his eyes are bloodshot. It was a rough week but he's now an official second week survivor. Yay! This is one of the gem's we took this week while face-timing mom and dad peck:    Ahh! He's so cute, I sure miss this little guy!   Tuesday night there was a meeting for the Christian Law Society at an Italian restaurant, in which they'd be serving free pizza. Free pizza?? Lately I've been slacking in ambition to make dinner so it sounded great and we decided to check it out. I was surprised at how many law students were there- around twenty or so- and they all were of Christian faith. They had a speaker talk about life as a Christian attorney- how to stay tr...

(Loren here) This is my law school class.  Classes started on Labor Day, and it was a busy week for me.  Everybody told me how much work it took to get ready for classes, but I just couldn't have imagined.  I spent 10+ hours a day studying this week, and some of my classmates put in more than that.  On my second day, my Torts professor told us that teaching law to first year law students is like teaching someone to fix a carburetor in German.  The law is complicated enough, but it's worse when we're using like  non sui juris, habeas corpus, in personam, quasi in rem, ex parte, abatement, distraint, sina qua non, executrix, nudum pactum, corpus, legatee,  recidivism, abscond, prophylactic , the list goes on and on!  No wonder dad is so good at scrabble. It's been interesting to meet the professors.  They all have different methods -- some take attendance, some never do, most use the traditional law school "socratic method," ("cold ...

We're happy to report that Loren survived the first week of orientation! Sunday night we had a bit of the jitters and Monday morning looked a little like this: (Loren) The beginning of the end of free time as I know it.  (haha, I was thinking,  'set it to manly ' ...) At orientation, I met a lot of my classmates.  The incoming class has 112 people, most from the south, northeast, or california.  I'm the only Utah in the bunch.  We had some mock classes and they assigned about 1 1/2 hours of homework almost every night.  The classes are not like undergrad at all, there's no assignments, you just read and brief (aka summarize) cases, find the important legal points, and in class the professors often "cold call" students randomly and ask questions designed to get at the heart of the issues.  We'll see how it goes! Wednesday was my doctor's appointment in Lexington. Everything check's out great and I was relieved to hear her heart rate bac...