19 weeks and counting

We are now 19 weeks along! I really need to get better at updating this thing especially when the baby is here. So far so good, no problems and no real pregnancy symptoms (which I am very thankful for!).  Besides having to give myself blood thinner shots every morning the pregnancy has really been a breeze. I'm hoping that the labor part can be just as much of a breeze.  I will be attempting (very hard, it's something I really really want to do) to have the baby as naturally as possible.  The doctor that I am going to is great and very pro-natural birth so I know that I will be able to have the birthing experience I want as long as there are no complications.  I am actually going to be delivering the baby using the hypnobirthing method, I'm kind of excited haha. The farther along in the pregnancy we get the more excited we are.

       I've been able to feel the baby, very faintly, the last couple of weeks and for about the last 2 weeks can sometimes feel her kick pretty hard.  Jared hasn't been able to feel her yet but I keep grabbing his hand when I feel the hard kicks just in case.  I know he's way excited to be able to feel her and have her.  

      The biggest surprise that has happened since finding out about the pregnancy was that the baby is a girl!! Jared and I could have sworn up and down that the baby was a boy. I couldn't even look at girl clothes and would just walk straight through them so it definitely caught us off guard.  We found out at 16 weeks 3 days and it has, just in the last week, started to really feel like it.  I'm still attracted to boy things but I think that's because for 12 weeks we thought it was a boy and like I told Jared, I'm just happy we have 24 weeks to prepare ourselves that it's a girl.  

        Other than the pregnancy, Jared has been able to hike the narrows and go jet skiing with some family up in Utah.  The narrows is something I've wanted to do the past couple of years but decided the risk isn't worth it right now, I will just do it next summer.  This October he will also be participating in the Ragnar Relay that I've been wanting to do so bad.... go figure he does these things once I can't lol.  At least he's doing them though and I keep telling him that since he will have already done them they should be easier for him next summer when I can finally do them to :D.

A new chapter... really!

I have been dying an dying over not writing an update on here out of fear that I would spill the beans and someone would read it before I was able to tell, but..... 4 days after writing that I wish a new chapter would be about something 7-8 pounds and 20 inches long I found out that it really is going to be about that! I just knew it and I guess something was telling me that I was but we officially found out that we are pregnant on May 17th!! :D  We have a lot to plan for and a lot to get ready for but I know it'll all happen.  We are now 11 1/2 weeks pregnant.  We told our parents and grandparents when we were 8 and were going to tell all aunts and uncles shortly after however my parents, my grandparents and an aunt and uncle went out of town and came back the week before July 4th so we decided we would tell the rest of the family during that weekend.  Once we told the family we decided that it was free and clear to let everyone else know... except my boss, we're going to wait until after the 1st trimester to let him know. 
       We are definitely soo excited to be able to add to our family and like Jared said, it needed to happen for us to realize how much we wanted it.  Although the pregnancy wasn't planned I know that everything was set into motion and all necessities were taken care of before it happened and we couldn't be happier.

A New Chapter

I wish I could say that a new chapter would be the start of a little something about 7-8 pounds and 20 inches long haha but it is not.  The new chapter is going to be for myself and it will be running and biking :D  I have been itching to get back into running for well over a year now, even was trying to get a group together to do a 190 mile relay race but plans fell through and I pushed it off but I've decided that I just need to do it and not wait on other people (not saying it's their fault, but I don't like to run alone for safety reasons). To keep myself going I am following a workout schedule that intermixes both activities and am going to start a blog to follow my training.  Once the blog is up I will share the web address with all of you.  I have about 6 different races I am looking at, 2 are in the same weekend so I will have to decide which one I want to do and another 2 are within 6 days of each other so I will probably have to choose between those as well (both of these races are incredibly hard, one is an uphill marathon/half-marathon and the other is a 195 mile relay race).  Either way, that would leave me with 4 races in 4 months and the next 3 months to train for the 1st one lol.  Add those to the Muddy Buddy race I did earlier this year and that will be 5 races, almost twice as many as I had said I wanted to complete this year! This will definitely be an experience and I hope I can share it with everyone!

I am Horrible

I know, I keep saying that I will get better at blogging but I must admit that I am an epic fail at it! Maybe (hopefully) when I have kids I will be better... maybe. Until then, sorry!

Not much new going on, Jared and I are still just plugging away at the house, getting things taken care of and trying to get it under control. I keep telling myself that I need to start taking before and after pictures of what we have done but it never happens and there has already been so much done that it probably wouldn't even be able to show the magnitude of what we have done since buying it. The last couple of weeks have been trying to get the garage taken care of. The entire garage (including the ceilings) was painted off white and has not been painted since it was built so it had yellowed. The previous owner had put make shift shelves and work benches in so there was a lot of nails holes... on one of the benches he had even built the thing with ONLY liquid nail... no screws... no nails, just liquid nail. That of course took some of the wall off with it so Jared took everything out of the garage and off the walls and re-textured the parts that needed to be and then painted the entire thing white. We are now painting the walls blue and this Friday will lay the epoxy floor coating :D Once that is dry (maybe sometime next week) we will be able to start building the work benches that we want and also the laundry system I want. Which brings the next project... moving the washer and dryer from the kitchen to the garage. This is something that I am soo excited for because we will then turn the old laundry area to a HUGE pantry for me :D :D :D This is definitely a must because the only pantry I have now is a small cupboard. I am very excited for this! Once that is all done we should be able to bring over Jared's Chevelle and he can finally have somewhere to baby his baby lol

Another thing that I am really excited about is the Logandale Fair this weekend. I have never been and have wanted to go for awhile. We had figured that laying the epoxy flooring on Friday night would be perfect (it takes 48 hours to cure) because we would be able to go to the fair on Saturday and since we were halfway to Zion already we could go up there on Sunday to go hiking and then come back. Did I say that I was excited! I love hiking! :D

Reception Day

The next day was the Reception Day. Jared and I woke up and got ready to go help with the decorating when we realized (after caring all of our stuff out) that our car had been decorated... not only decorated but wrapped in plastic also... once we got going we got to the chapel and almost everything was taken care of. Most decorations were up and only fine tuning needed to be done. My Aunt Katie and Grandma were decorating my cake and my aunts were taking shifts on preparing the food and leaving to get ready... Did I mention how great my family is for helping us with everything!!!... I had found out that they had gone up to the chapel to start decorating about 8 pm the night before and stayed til around 2 and then had come back up in the morning to finish it all up. The reception was starting at 4 pm so I headed to my parents house at about 1 to do mine and my sisters hair. Got back up to the chapel about 2:30 to get dressed and do my make-up then we had a ring ceremony, which my grandpa officiated, at 3:30 and took pictures and then the reception started.

We were afraid that the chapel we had reserved was going to be to small but after it was all done I was extremely happy that we had decided to hold the reception there because it was a steady flow of people coming in and going and it never seemed too full or too empty. We got so many great gifts and I am soo very thankful for all those that came to support us and help us with the most important day of our life!

That night we stayed at The M Resort and I honestly can say that it was such a nice place to end the wedding weekend :D

The Wedding Day!

It's taken me awhile to put this up so hopefully I don't forget any details! But the week before the wedding it was what anyone would expect --- hectic --- but still I was very relaxed and just happy that the wedding stress was about to be done. We were getting married that Friday and having the reception on Saturday. I had decided to take off that Thursday and Friday (of course) to give myself time to get everything together and then to get married!! Thursday comes along and I got absolutely nothing accomplished lol The day seemed to just fly by and before I knew it it was about 8 p.m. I had promised my sister Jessica that I would take her to the midnight showing of New Moon (from Twilight) that night (I would really do it all over again BUT would suggest everyone else to not go to a midnight movie showing and then get married at 10 the next morning!). For a quick overview of that night... Jared had also decided that he would go with us so we all showed up at the theater about 9:30 and stood in line. 11:30 sit down, movie started at 12:15, got over at 2 am, had to drop Jessica and Jared off, got home by 2:30, had to pack for the weekend... fell asleep packing at 3:30 am with NO ALARM SET!! I will never forget the feeling of waking up at 7:10 am the day of my wedding knowing that I was supposed to be leaving my house by 7:45 to get Jared so we could go to the Temple. Ugh! Amazingly I was able to get my hair done and my car packed and grabbed my make-up and was out the door by 8. Did my make-up out on my way to the Temple (Jared drove) and got there with time to spare. :D

The wedding went great. I had a lot of people telling me that it was one of the best sealing sessions they had been to in awhile. After the sealing session I got in my wedding dress (thanks to my Aunt Bonnie, Aunt Tia and cousin Amber for helping me!) and met Jared in the temple lobby so that we could walk out of the temple doors as Husband and Wife. After walking out we walked around the temple and took pictures and just enjoyed the rest of the morning.

After the wedding Jared's parents had set up a little luncheon for the family and we had fun hanging out with our family and close friends. For our wedding present from my aunts and uncles we had gotten the night at Lake Las Vegas and were headed there as soon as Jared got the ok... Btw, 2 beds is a must for newlyweds! One for play and a clean one for sleeping :D The room was gorgeous and it was such a relaxing and nice place to unwind and enjoy each other.