Monday, June 8, 2015

Hey there! I'm not going to say that I've been slacking off because that's obvious. I DO have a reason. The past 6 months have been crazy and exciting!  I'll start with the beginning. Finishing off January, there wasn't much to tell about that I can think of. The excitement starts in February. We have both just been working.. same place, different day. Most of you probably didn't know, but we have been trying to conceive for a few months now. If you want to hear the details on that.. and I mean DETAILS.. see my other blog. I separated that just incase there are some of you don't want to read about that. Haha you've been warned. But anyways, February 12, 2015, we found out we were pregnant! It seemed like it was a long time coming, but I had mentally and emotionally gotten to the point where I was starting to wonder if we would ever conceive, so I just decided to NOT think about it. It really does happen when you aren't worrying about it. There were other factors that went into it, but that's for the other blog.  I had only taken a couple of tests on previous months and then finally got the positive. I took it in the morning before work on the 12th while Adam was in the kitchen eating breakfast. When he came back to our bedroom, I just showed him the test without saying anything. It may or may not have been because I was emotional and couldn't believe it myself. He just asked me.. "What does that mean?" so I just said "That's positive!" We were both just speechless. He was slightly unconvinced. Haha obviously he believes it now, but it's such a surreal thing.. who can blame him?  That day was easily the most mentally & emotionally crazy day for us both. I felt like I just wanted to burst and shout it to the world! I had thought about the day when it would happen and wanted to keep it on the DL for the first little bit.. besides from close family & friends.. so when I felt like I just wanted to tell everyone, it was a bit of a surprise. We told our parents like a week or so later using a shirt I made for our dog, Tobey.

 I've been so grateful for the love and support that we have received from everyone so far. So we didn't last very long on keeping that a secret.. at least from family. Haha! I still haven't told most of the people I work with. I am almost 21 weeks right now. I was slightly worried about telling work about it since I'm a contractor. I was worried that would put me at the top of the list if they had to make any cuts in employees. I ended up telling my team leader within a couple weeks after we found out. I wasn't planning on lying to anyone about it.. so it just happened. I'm not someone who likes being the center of attention. So I told everyone at work yet for that reason. I'm sure it's becoming more apparent especially since I'm blowing up. We found out the gender on May 21, 2015. We wanted to be sure to tell all our family the same time so that no one was offended or being favored.. so we waited till that following Sunday to have a gender reveal party with family. We decided to reveal it using a pinata. Someone on facebook offered to give me a pinata that they were going to use for gender reveal, but didn't end up using. So it worked out great! We filled it with the color of candy representing the gender. So the little kids obviously got the first few hits so that everyone could get a turn. After that, we let the grandpas destroy it. It worked out well and I'm so grateful for everyone that was able to come and celebrate! We decided to wait till we knew the gender till we would announce it to the facebook world. What better way than to have some gender reveal photos taken? Especially when I have so many photographers in my family! My sister did a great job as usual!

You can visit her photography page here. So since then we've just been doing the usual! It's been getting so surreal as we get further along in the pregnancy.. especially feeling the baby move more and more!
My best friends wedding was recent as well.  It was a beautiful wedding and I love seeing my friends get married and experience marriage for themselves!

 It's funny.. people always have something that they are going to be bugging you about. What I am referring to is.. after you graduate highschool (at least as a mormon), people are always asking you.. are you dating anyone... when are you getting married? As soon as you get married, that quickly changes to "So, when are you having kids?" Then once you get pregnant, people leave you alone for 9 months. Then people are like, "So, when are you having another?" Haha but really, my friends need to have babies too so our kids are close in age! Haha ;) I've actually been pretty lucky to have some of my friends that DO have kids or are pregnant right now as well! I didn't tell some of my friends that we were trying to get pregnant, so it's been pretty crazy how many of us have ended up pregnant.. and at the same time. I have 2 other friends that are due in the same month as me! So awesome and grateful! I'm the only one out of the 3 of us that doesn't already have a kid, but still, so great. So I really can't complain or get greedy in wanting more of my friends to make that step. I'm already so lucky.
As many of you know, we live with my parents right now. In my parents house, it's us, my parents, and my sisters family all under the same roof. I've actually loved it. I don't know the difference, so that COULD be why. Recently, my sisters family found a house in Queen Creek/San Tan Valley so they won't be around much longer. I'm actually really bummed out. I was looking forward to being a stay at home mom with my sister, but I'm also really happy for them in getting their own home! So obviously I can't be mad at that, but it's still a bummer. One perk in that situation, is that we will be able to move to the upstairs area of the house which my sisters family lives in right now! It will be super nice to have some extra space and privacy since that area is much more separate than the end of the hallway that we have right now. Such perfect timing as well. As far as OUR plans to get a house go.. we're obviously wanting to ASAP, but want to be smart about our money especially with all the upcoming changes we'll be experiencing. Adam has been trying to get a promotion of some sort for a while, so hopefully that will come! He is also still doing his MBA which isn't cheap, but we're able to manage it right now. Once I am done working, things are going to be a bit unpredictable on how much finances will change. Right now with  my sisters family living at the house, we all split the water, A/C, and electric bills. So once my sisters family leaves, that will change to just splitting between the 2 couples.. which is more expensive. So we'll see how that goes. Adam finishes school in about a year from now, so there will be a few months that we'll be without my income before he finishes. Things will work out.. I know that. Especially because we're doing what we need to do- start a family. I have faith that we'll be blessed for that. So anyways, after all that craziness is over, we will be able to see when we can afford to find a house of our own! We'll get there.
My car was giving us trouble, so we got rid of that on memorial day.. and got me a new car FINALLY!!! I've always just paid cash for my cars and never had a car payment, so it's a bit of a change for me. We got a Nissan Rogue. It's a world of a difference compared to my 2003 Honda Civic. Haha! I wanted a small SUV in preparation for the baby, so we went for it and I'm pretty happy with the car we chose! It's better than I've ever had- that's for sure!

What else have I missed out on updating? Valentines day, we just went out to eat! We had a gift card to Abuelos, so that was the choice. We're cheapos incase you haven't gathered that. We decided to dress up kind of formal for the dinner just to make it a little more special. It was nice to get dolled up and pretend we're going to a school dance or something. (Obviously my idea). We actually planned on going to Top Golf after dinner since neither of us have been before, but once we got there, it was a REALLY long wait so we decided to try again a different time.

The Scottsdale Arabian Horse show was that day as well, so I ended up going with my parents, my sister in law Chandra, and her daughter, Kaydence. My sister in law Jodi and her son Afton met us there as well. It was fun this year because I had my nicer camera and was able to play with it. I would love to do horse show photography, so it was nice to get a feel for that. Chandra is one of the best photographers I know, so it was nice for her to be there to show me the ropes on how to use my camera. I am still figuring that monster out. It has been a learning experience for sure! So anyway, we stayed there for the morning/afternoon and then came back for the evening which was spent with Adam like I said.  It was a good weekend.

Our birthdays.. I can't remember a lot of it. I know it was spent with family.. just something low key. Birthdays are overrated anyways, right?
There was Lehi Days in March as well. I always look forward to Lehi days because it's something that's always been my dream- just being a part of rodeos. Before we had Rhazja, I took lessons using other peoples horses and got to be in the Rodeo a couple of different times, but Rhazja is probably NEVER going to be able to be a rodeo horse.. unfortunately. :( But here's some of the shots I got from Lehi Days this year..

 I guess that prettymuch sums up the excitement in our lives the past few months! The upcoming months, I am going to try to update on my pregnancy more since it's public now. Most of that will go in the other blog that I liked above, so if you want to follow that, be sure to click that link!