Where's the baby?!?

Bryce has finally realized where the baby is and we caught it on film :)

20 weeks

Here's a few pictures of mommy to be at 20 weeks! Half way there, and I think she's got the glow! I love seeing her belly grow and calling her "preggo", can't wait for our little mystery to arrive in April!!

:: Love that lil baby bump ::

Brock's swimming lessons

I'm a little late on pictures from Thanksgiving break but finally getting chance to put them up since finals are done! I got to catch Brock's swimming lessons at the YMCA and it brought back to many memories! he's so brave too!

ready to jump in!

Vietnam Team 2011

Here's our first team photo!!! We had our last class today and finalized our mission statement, talked more about our covenant and all of the work that we will be doing over Christmas break (so much for a break!) to get ready for our classes in January and our departure in February! the 12th to be exact :)

Our mission statement in case you're curious:

"We seek to reflect Christ as we learn with integrity in a cross-cultural contex by strengthening relationships and demonstrating compassion while caring for the Vietnamese people."

Front row: Barbara (our professor going with us), Emily (my current housemate), Bethany, Leah

Back row: Michael, Courtney, Maggie, Jocelyn, Spencer and me!

We just finished reading "Last night I dreamed of Peace" The diary of Dang Thuy Tram if you need a good book to read :) my dad already finished it over thanksgiving break, and I finished it yesterday!

I'm done with classes for 2010 and only have 5 (yes 5!) finals to go next week then I'll be home for Christmas break! Praise the Lord! So ready for a break.

Housemates!

This week was my housemate Brittany's birthday and we tired out Palamino's in Bellvue Square :)

Me and Natalie

Lauren & Alexa (who live upstairs)
All of my lovely housemates plus some friends :)

Truman's Football game

Thursday night I found out Truman had a game in Kirkland, and Friday night my parents were at my door :) We headed out over 520, got some dinner, and got dressed to prepare for the rain! The school we played was amazing and parents even brought hot chocolate as a thank you :)

Guela me and mom :)

The dedicated fans!

The guys and Amy behind us

Me and my not so little cousin Truman :)

Shane and Truman

Under Water...

Prayer request: no more rain....

I don't know how well Seattle is going to comply with this but hopefully the rain holds off this week and we don't have torrential downpour like its predicted. Last year we learned one downside of our beautiful 100 year old house: when it rains it flows into my room. This year is no different, except that its already starting in October.

Waking up and getting your socks wet isn't the bed in the morning, so hopefully between my landlord and my dad we can figure something out :)

For now, the laundry and humidifier keep going....

Psych Clinicals

This quarter I have been doing my Psych clinicals at Navos Health Solutions in West Seattle. There are 5 students in our group and we are divided on 2 floors each with about 34 patients. We are so blessed to have such a great clinical instructor, he is actually a psych nurse and teaches our Psych theory. I have one more day left this Tuesday, and next week we will switch locations with the other half of our group. We have been doing psych for 5 weeks, and next we will do 5 weeks of OB at Valley Medical Center :)

Last week they had a coffee cart for the nurses and as student nurses we got to reap the benefits! Such a treat after long 8 hr shift :)

Our clinical group (left to right)

Ruth, Jenni, me, Krista, and Jocelyn (who is going to Vietnam as well!)
Attempt at a group picture....

All I can say about psych is wow, what a learning experience! I was terrified for this clinical rotation and definitely lost sleep the night before our first day. It all turned out well, I have plenty of stories and had multiple great conversations with patients! We got to lead community meetings and we did a "Grooming group/Spa day" for the patients once a week which they loved! They were so thankful to have someone paint their nails or help them with make up. One week we even brought in a parafin hand wax and did those :)

I don't think my calling is psych, but it is definitley a population that has a negative stigma and deserves just as much care as any other population. The nurses and staff we worked with were amazing and taught us a ton!

roadtrip to pullman

Few weekends ago, Rachel DeZeeuw and Amy Grambo drove to Seattle and spent the night at my house. 5:00am our alarms were going off and we were out of the house by 5:30. After getting coffee and gas we were off!

Destination: Pullman!

We went to visit friends from Lynden and were able to see other guys from Spokane as well :)

Rachel, Hannah (Charlie's housemate), me and Amy ready to go out

Saturday was Game day! WSU vs Oregon Ducks
we had sun, clouds, rain, the whole mix!

the girls!

So much RED!

HUSKIES GAME!!!

Last weekend I got to go to the UW game with Stacey and my housemate Natalie got to come with :) It was a gorgeous day and an Ah-mazing game! They played Univseristy of Oregon and went into double OT!

Tailgating before the game :)

Stacey, Natalie and I
The flag!!!

we were very excited :)

helmet car...

Final score!

Oh Jake Locker....

Took 4 years of living in Seattle to finally get to go to a Huskies game, but was definitely worth it!

Baby Heutink!!!

Here's the first pictures of the newest addition to the family! Shannon's due April 27, 2011!

Another April birthday :)

She's feeling great, no morning sickness which is a huge blessing!

More pics to come!

Part of how they told my parents, Guela, Tasha and lots of cousins!

Congrats Dave and Shannon! We love you and couldn't be happier!

Plus I get to be an aunt again!

park and king reunion

I think I said this at the start of my last post, but this is the first of 5 or 6 so make sure to scroll down and see them all! Shannon requested that I update the blog since I have failed to do so...so here it goes! (kind of in backward order....)

Met Tasha and the boys at the park one morning to let them run out some of their energy :)

Brock was collecting leaves....
and he was very proud of his collection!

Crashed out in my car after running errands with me :)

All the siblings :) take 1...

take 2...

and 3...

riding the gator

COUSINS!!!

me and tay :)

Taiji and Taylor

how can you not love him?!? he's cute and strong!

Well after an amazing long summer or work, online class and spending time with friends and family I'm back in Seattle and getting ready for classes to start on monday....hello Senior year! I don't know where the last 3 years went, but come June 2011....GRADUATION!

Watch for updates!