We have since bought a house! We bought it in Jan of this year (2012). It is 3 bed, 2 bath, 2 car garage, .25 acres of perfectness. Haha. It is such a perfect little starter home for us! The payments are only like 650. The back yard is unfinished, but we are hoping to fix that soon.
I don't have any other pictures as of right now, but that is the living/dining/kitchen area. I love it!
We also have more exciting news........ We are pregnant!!!!!!!!! We started trying at the end of Sept 2011. We tried for about 7 months, but as soon as I was starting to really get discouraged, we got pregnant!! That seems to be how it usually happens. We found out on April 19, 2012. I had been taking pregnancy tests pretty often so I kind of had a routine. Normally, I would do my business, set it on the counter with something over it, so I couldn't see it... Wash my hands and all that junk, then stand around for what I felt had been long enough for the test to to its thing. I never took a test when Chris wasn't home, because I wanted him to find out with me.
So I waited for a day that Chris would be there in the morning, did my business, set it on the counter with something over it. But for some reason, this time I went and made my morning coffee, and did a couple other things before I looked at the test. I think I was just so discouraged by this point, and I had just taken one the week before that was negative... It was just routine for me now, and I was fully expecting it to be negative! ... When I went back into the bathroom and picked that test up, I was literally in shock! I had never seen those 2 pink lines together. I just stood there and looked at it for a while. I didn't know what to do! So I went to show Chris, he was out on the back porch playing with the dog, and I just sat next to him and handed him the test. I still couldn't form any words, haha. And he looked at it for a minute and said, "What did you do?!?!?" All I could say was, "I don't know, I just peed on it!" And we just looked at each other, HUGE grins on both of our faces, and we just hugged for a while. It was so awesome, it's making me cry just thinking about it. Haha..
This is our first ever positive pregnancy test!
It just so happened that it was the last test in the box, of course! And I wanted to take more to be sure, just because I was still in shock, I think. So we went to Walmart that morning and bought another box, and a big ol' jug of Sunny D. When we got home, I opened all 3 tests and took them all at the same time. This time, I waited in the bathroom with them, and sure enough they were all positive!
And here is a picture of all of it together... I may have gotten a little picture happy :)
Our due date is Dec. 26, 2012... Today, I am 11 weeks 4 days along. We have had 2 ultrasounds, the first was at about 5 1/2 weeks, just to figure out how far along I was, because my monthlys have always been pretty irregular. Then we had another one at about 9 weeks, again to verify how far along I was. But we did get some pictures with that one!
There is our little nugget! It is all just so crazy! I don't think it has quite sunk in yet, it still weirds me out a little to think that someone is growing inside of me.... But I am SO excited, I have wanted to be a Mommy for so long and Chris is so ready to be a Daddy. I just can't wait until our little guy/girl is here.
It was so much fun to tell our families! So, like I said, we found out on April 19th but we didn't tell anyone for a few days. My Dad was in SL at the time. (My parents have split up since my last blog. My mom is living in SL again, and my Dad is currently staying with Chris and I ... But I will write more on that later.) So, my Dad got home from SL that Friday, I believe. So April 20th, and I couldn't keep it in, I had to tell him! He was so excited... Then I told him that he couldn't tell anyone yet, and he was a little irritated hahaha. Because he and my Mom still talk, so I told him that he COULDN'T tell her because I wanted her to hear it from us! But he stayed strong and kept a secret.
Chris and I went to SL on April 23rd, and we told my side of the family on the 24th. We had arranged for everyone to get together for dinner "just because we were in town." So we all met at my Mom's apartment and before we headed out to dinner, we were all just visiting in the living room. So Chris looks at me with a "come on, tell them!!" kind of look. So I stood up and said, "So we wanted to get everyone together because we have an announcement to make." And my Mom says, "No!" And everyone else kind of gasped, haha they knew what it was as soon as I said that... "I am pregnant!" Everyone got so excited! Kimberly cried, it was so cute, she got so emotional! Kyleigh and Kaitlyn went crazy. And Mom, David and Kristin were all so excited. It was just awesome! Then we went to dinner and we all talked about it, and it was just awesome!
The next day, the 25th, we told Chris' side of the family. We just did the same thing, let's all get together "just cause we're in town" kind of thing. So we met at his Dad's house... Most of us, Tim had to work and, I believe, Sarah had to go to school for a test or something. But Ben, Hillary, Izzi, Becca, Chris' Dad and StepMom were all there. So we all sat around talking for a little while, then I kind of nudged Chris to tell them. So after a little while of that he announced that we were going to have a baby! We didn't get as big of a reaction out of them, but I think they saw something coming. It's kind of sad, but we don't get together with ALL of them as often as we do with my family. (Which I decided we need to work on.) But that kind of sent a red flag that something was up. But it was still exciting, the are all really excited to have another grandbaby/niece/nephew/cousin.
I have had some insane morning sickness. I started feeling nauseous May 2, and I only remember that because I was in SL for a food show at the time, and I hadn't told anyone at work that I was pregnant yet... That was the first day I started feeling nauseous... I remember because of all of the smells and different foods at that food show haha... It was intense. But I made it through the show without throwing up and blowing my cover. But as soon as I got back to Vernal, it went downhill. I felt so bad because Kyleigh and Kaitlyn were off track and wanted to come visit me, I had taken a week off work so they could stay, and when they got here, I was too sick to be fun. :( So, I believe they only ended up staying for the weekend. The plan was that my Mom was going to bring them out Saturday, and I was going to take them back like Thursday or something, but they ended up going home with Mom that weekend.
It was just horrible, I had trouble keeping anything down, and I was so frustrated with the whole thing and probably super hormonal. So I would just sit in the bathroom and cry. Chris would come in there and rub my back and I would just cry to him, "I don't see how I can do this for 3 months!" I was so upset... I am glad that my Mom was here for the initial part of the morning sickness though. After a couple of days of watching me nibble crackers and drink Sprite, she went to Wendy's and brought me back a cheeseburger. She gave it to me and said that I need to eat this. I need to just pretend that I am not sick, ignore it, and it will get better. So as much as I didn't see how that was going to work, I choked down half of the cheeseburger, and it actually made me feel human again! It was crazy. So I slowly learned how to cope with it and work around it, for the most part.
I still had bad days, but there were also good days. I did have to go to the ER and get an IV. I had a couple days off work and decided that I was just going to sleep, because I had been SO exhausted. So the first day I did just that, I slept... I got up to use the bathroom, try to eat something, or throw up, but that was it. I honestly kept NOTHING down that day. So the next day I decided to try a different approach. I got up, was going to eat something and get moving, so I wasn't so sick. That didn't work like I planned. I still wasn't keeping anything down, not even water. So I called my Dr. Office and they said that I had gotten so dehydrated the day before, and that's why I still couldn't keep anything down. They told me that I needed to go to the ER and get an IV.
Chris and my Dad were both working that day, so I called Chris at work and told him what the Dr. had said. I was honestly so upset that I was going to have to go to the ER alone, I was trying to be strong, but I think he could tell that I was upset. He tried, but couldn't get out of work, so I ended up going alone anyway. I remember after I hung up with him I just cried, for probably like half an hour... Just cried, I really didn't want to do this alone. I texted Kristin to tell her what was going on, and I told her that I officially hate Vernal. Haha... She offered to drive all the way out here to go with me, but I told her not to. It seemed kind of silly to drive 3 hours for that. So on 5/23/2012 I went to the ER alone and got an IV. It honestly wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, I just watched Friends for an hour.
When I left they gave me a prescription for anti-nausea medication... So I filled that promptly. It was just a pill that you dissolve under your tongue and it's supposed to make you feel better for 8 hours. It worked great... For like half an hour. So I had my Dr. appointment 5 days later, and that's when we got to hear the heartbeat, and see our little nugget in the ultrasound. It was just awesome. They also gave me another prescription for anti-nausea medication (it is called Zofran) but these ones are actual pills that you swallow. They work SO much better! I think it is a mix of the morning sickness finally calming down a little and the Zofran, but I feel somewhat normal for most of the day now. It is amazing!!
Chris is still working at Savage. He is in dispatch at the moment, hopefully it will be permanent, but it is still up in the air. He is working a day shift and all is well.
I, on the other hand, am currently unemployed. It is kind of a long story, but I will start from the beginning.
I actually got a manager position at the beginning of March, I was the bakery manager. It was a little stressful, but I kind of liked being in charge and bossing people around. Haha. All was going well for a few months... When we found out I was pregnant, my manager was one of the first people I told, after family, because I figured they should know. I knew I was going to have morning sickness and all that, so I figured they should know. The morning sickness eventually kicked in and, initially, they were so understanding! They told me that I could cut my hours, work later shifts, whatever I had to do until this passed. So I did just that, I only scheduled myself for 4 or 6 hours a day and they were later shifts. I still occasionally went in late and called in sick a couple of times, because the morning sickness is not an easy thing to deal with.
So we did this for about a month, all seemed to be going well, until they called me into their office one day. The store manager, Sid, and the HR kind of lady, Jani, pulled me into their office and sat down with me. They initially asked how much longer I thought the morning sickness was going to last. I told them I didn't know, everyone is different, but it could very easily be another month or so. They legally couldn't ask me, but after they heard that they were laying it on pretty thick that they wanted me to step down from my manager position. So I did, I understood that they need a manager there 40 hrs a week and I couldn't give that to them at the time. Then they proceed to tell me that they still want me to do the ordering, write the schedule, and all the manager stuff.... But I wasn't the manager anymore. They also said that they weren't going to "announce it" but somehow the rest of the bakery was just supposed to know that they shouldn't come to me with manager questions anymore.... Whatever. I just wanted out of there, I was feeling sick again... So I sat in that for a couple of days and the more I thought about it, the more I thought it was bull shit. If they don't want me to be manager, then they should figure out the ordering and all the manager stuff, it shouldn't be my problem....
SO Friday, June 1, comes around and I wasn't feeling all that great, but mostly I just didn't want to go to work. So I called in sick. Then the next day, I honestly couldn't keep anything down, so I called in sick again... Well, Sid told me that I needed a Dr. note before I could come back.... Really dude? Don't you know that I am pregnant? Don't you know that morning sickness lasts MONTHS, not DAYS? Whatever, so I called my Dr. office Monday to get a note so I could go back to work. But they were closed, they are closed every Monday. So I called Sid and told him I couldn't get a Dr. note today, so I guess I'm not coming in. I was scheduled off Tuesday. By Wednesday, Chris and I had done some talking and we were both getting sick of the bull shit this company was trying to play. So we decided that we were in a place that I could quit my job. So I did. My original plan was to take in my Dr. note and then tell them that because they went back on their word, I was quitting.
Well, it didn't exactly happen that way. To skip another long story, I had my Mom's dog, and he was sick, and I didn't want him anymore, so I was going to quit my job Wed, and go to SL to take her dog back. So I called my Dr. office that morning to see if I could get a note. I was going to pick it up and go to my work on my way out of town. When I got to my Dr. office, they had literally JUST closed for lunch... I really didn't want to sit around for another hour, waiting for them to open, before I left town. So I just left. Didn't call my work or anything, just left, and didn't show up for work that day... Haha, so ya, that's how that went down.
I haven't posted anything since Chris and I got married, so hopefully in the near future, I will at least post pictures... But our 1 year anniversary just passed. We have officially been married for a year! ... We haven't really celebrated yet, Chris had to work and we kind of figured it might be better to wait until the morning sickness passed anyway. So when I'm feeling 100% again, in the way of nausea anyway, we will at least go to dinner and maybe a bed and breakfast kind of thing. Something special anyway. :) It will be fun!
"Just because you marked it with your urine doesn't make it yours!" hahaha love the sunny d and all the tests
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