I talked to Spencer for a little while today. He is on "liberty" this weekend, meaning they get privileges that they don't usually have during the week. Last weekend they were allowed to go anywhere on base they wanted. This weekend they got to go off base, so his company put together a little road trip and headed to Boston for the day to do some sight seeing. They aren't allowed to wear civilian clothes (even to church), so they were all in uniform. He told me he loved Boston because sometimes people would spontaneously start clapping as they all walked by. Some of his buddies went to a nice Italian restaurant for lunch, and the manager gave them all a bunch of free drinks.
Spencer said he went in to a store to buy a bottle of water, and when he came out he heard some women near him say, "I sure love a man in uniform."
"Are you wearing your khakis today?" I asked.
He said, "No, we're in our summer whites."
No wonder.
I'd be checking him out even in his less attractive khaki uniform, but the white one?? I'd probably be drooling...
Just for a general "Spencer Update," he is doing well. We've reached the end of week three today, so just two more to go! Ugh. That sounds like forever. But I'm flying out to Rhode Island for his graduation, so it's really only a week and a half until I get to see him. The "classes" portion of his training ended Friday, which he was relieved about. Mostly because class was 8am - 4pm, and if they were falling asleep they were supposed to stand up in the back of the room. Spencer said he was usually standing after the first 10 minutes of the first hour, so he would pretty much be standing all day. He mentioned something about firefighting and a simulation involving a sinking ship on the schedule for next week. Hopefully it will go by quickly for both of us.
As for me, I'm hanging in there. My friends have been
so wonderful at inviting me over to save me from boredom. I still have two more days of work (hooray!!) until the school year is over for teachers. So between working, traveling pretty much every weekend to visit family, and keeping up with my church callings, I'm staying pretty busy. Baby seems to be doing ok too. I love feeling those little kicks every now and again, and I certainly look forward to them getting stronger! I still don't really look very pregnant, but I'm definitely entering that weird in-between stage of just looking kind of fat around the middle. This was a temple weekend for me, and in my dress I felt like I maybe even had a noticeable little belly. Here I am at 19 and a half weeks:
Here I am at 22 and a 1/2 weeks... I feel like I'm getting huge! And I finally got my new glasses too- my first new ones in about 5 years. 
Also, not sure why Spencer said we don't have girl names yet... we've pretty much had the names of our kids picked out since we were first married. She will be either Sydney or Grace. She is getting to be a little traveler this summer, as we've already gone to Rhode Island, spent a week at YW Girl's Camp, and will be heading off to California tomorrow. She's kicking me a lot these days- Spencer felt it for the first time on Saturday, but hasn't been able to feel it since.
