I hate being sick, and not just morning sickness

Well,  as the world has come to know; TJ and I are expecting a little one. We are way excited and guessed the baby will be arriving sometime in the summer of next year-Which is a LONG time for mom!- But we are slowly preparing ourselves and reading up on all we can, gearing up to meet our little one soon. This past week I quit my job (probably not on the best terms, but I am better off now) and got to spend time finding myself...and that has been nice!

Recently -as in Tuesday- my step dad suffered from a severe stroke that has started a new journey in my moms life and as I sit by and watch and visit I see the struggles that are just beginning. I know that by faith that he will continue to heal and progress!

Spending quality time at home and making it a good one, as far as getting to clean and make it look good has helped my moods and make it feel more homey rather than before I rarely did anything because I was always so busy with work; so this will be a nice change working less!


So, on Thursday TJ got sick; and I being super cautious about everything now days tried to prevent the sickness from spreading to me...well that didn't get too far I am getting better but I know that I need to kick it in the butt soon since it is not healthy for the baby as well. That is my big thing right now is to get the adequate nutrition that I need and as well as sleep so that I can feel better.

We are both excited to be going to the doctors soon so we can meet our little one in the ultrasound. I am anxious as well as nervous as far as me being a candidate for high risk, and seeing if the baby is healthy (any worries or concern a mom-to-be would have). But besides the fact of the worries we get to see him and see when he will be due. Now I say he...I as well as most of my family think we are having a boy. I had a wonderful dream last night that we had a boy and we was so beautiful and healthy! I guess you could say it has been a "mom revelation  but I keep feeling like it is a boy, not a girl. I know that I really want a baby girl more than anything. But this baby doesn't feel like a girl (I know it is crazy since it is too early to detect) but I just have this gut feeling its a boy and he is so beautiful!

Any morning sickness? Heck no! I am still anticipating that to happen but I might as well enjoy the time that I do have not puking my brains out, right? I have experienced a ton of cramping, which I hear is super normal since your uterus is growing and causes cramping (I guess you can say I have read up on it everyday) but other than that I feel great! I am nervous still waking up every so day and freaking out since I have something growing inside of me. -I do hear that it gets better, haha, that once you feel the baby kick its so wonderful!- I can't wait to feel that connection with our baby that every mother talks about!

Other than that, its just time to wait and see where our journey goes as far as baby, moving, and more baby!

I Love Fall!

Well, it has been some time since I last blogged my heart out on here ;) so here it goes.

A lot has happened since the last time; so its time to catch up! Recently TJ was promoted at work and he has a pretty darn good job if I dont say so myself (He works with computers-which he loves- and will get to travel to different parts of the world to sell this program and teach them how to use the program. All in all the PERFECT job for him, he is good at selling and teaching and I can possibly travel with him!

I used to hate the fall, and what it brought; not a huge fan of the cold, windy, brisk weather and honestly I am not a fan of the Holidays (I know call me Scrooge) but I hate that Christmas music starts the day after Halloween and it kinda hides the other important Holiday -Thanksgiving-. I mean are there any songs that we play a lot of for Thanksgiving? No, it is a great Holiday celebrated and then focus again is on Christmas, which is great but it feels like go go go!

Well, TJ is a huge fan of Pumpkin anything really and I like eating it I am just not so crazy over it. Well, since it has turned Fall and pumpkin is the flavor of the season; we are 'entitled' to go get everything that is made of pumpkin. I must say I have turned into the perfect pumpkin lover, eating and craving anything pumpkin flavored and I must admit I love it!!!!

As for me, I have decided to quit my job and go to another company. After much discussion  TJ and I feel its best we no longer work together for comparison reasons and stress induced level. So after ten months I am finally saying goodbye to FOCUS and Hello to a TGIF. I will be working less hours so I can get my home back to shape after being sick so long. Which also brings up the next point that...WE are moving! (well planning on moving) We are starting to get serious on looking for another new place to live and we could not be happier! This was part of our PLAN B, that was never a blink in my eye a few weeks ago until TJ got interviewed for this job. PLAN A was to go straight into the Military and get a career there either with computers or Linguistics  Either way it would have been sweet, being able to travel and go different places. Well PLAN B was presented after the interview as far as what our action plans were going to be. I basically told TJ that if PLAN B was in action then I would like to move to a newer place and I would like to get a dog. Well, the dog thing is still a topic of discussion and the place we are looking into getting might not permit it :( so we have to figure another plan out, which still makes me sad since I really want a Yorkie and my moms Yorkie is prego with babies. :(


So maybe next year or so when we are else where, we can have a puppy...but now it is just the two of us still figuring out our marriage and spending time together and just making sure we are happy. We do love to spend more time in the temple's these days, feeling close to our Heavenly Father and being out of the world for awhile :)

This Fall has began to start off on the right foot so all is great and dandy! I sure LOVE Fall!!!!

Good thing opposites attract

Hey, so finally I am seeing the end of the mono tunnel; let me tell you it has been a miserable two weeks and I am glad I can now swallow and eat food! I am so excited I really haven't eaten anything and if I did I would not keep it down for long. (resulting in a resent weight loss of 6 lb.) BUT that is besides the fact...its going away!!!!

I just now have to keep myself still healthy and make sure to eat and get the nutrients that my body was lacking. 

TJ was telling me tonight that I am more myself now, I was running a high fever last night and until about one this afternoon and after my long nap I woke up refreshed (still a little sore mind you) and ready to go! I even started cleaning the house --which TJ did a great job on keeping it not...unbearable for me; haha, he is a GREAT guy!

Well, also good news is last night when I was running my high fever and home alone just in miserable pain around 8:30 -which was the usual time TJ got home from work- I see my knight in shinning armor walk through our humble abode run and give me a big warm comforting hug. It really was just what I needed- I already missed out on so much that day and nobody was around to help me out- He first told me that his shift switched and now he will be working the same schedule as I -YAY!!!!!! But at the time I just cried a happy...joyful...and painful set of tears. I was so happy that the switch was finally made, I was begging for this for a while! So what even made it better is he pulled out some lotion that he won at work (I know, weird prize) and he picked LOVE SPELL (which is my all time favorite scent ) -he said he picked it out for me, thinking I needed another bottle to add to the overgrowing collection ;) - 

So, he sat there with me as I was a baby as always and rubbed my feet. (His mom taught him really well!) I have loved him since we started talking over a year ago in April when we were bound together by an English assignment, he would Skype type me a lot at night and he treated me like a real princess.

Well, funny (and I don't mean funny-haha) thing now is that I am recovering from my sickness, TJ has come down with something. That something we are not yet aware of but he has an unsettled stomach and a lower than normal temperature. So I have been trying to be the good wife and help him out.

Ever since I was little I have known that when I throw up...I am on my own, I have to clean it up by myself. Now in no way was my mom a bad parent...we just didn't want more than one person puking their guts out and that is what would happen if my mom were present. 
 Well, I was in the bathroom one night and of course I shut the door and did my thing when all the sudden TJ comes in and starts rubbing my back (sweet, I know) but I of course choke out the words 'get out I don't want you seeing this' and since that time he has understood (until we went to Lagoon and I threw up in a trash can in front of a big crowd-talk about embarrassing)

I am saying this because I am glad he is going to be the good parent who tends to there kids who are throwing up everywhere per the lack of a stomach of the mother ;)
 Man, thinking of it I don't know how we are going to survive as parents; with throw up and pooped on...I cant even handle baby drool!!!!!! 

Well anyways, I am glad he can handle children for one and handle the messes they come with as well. It has been a long rough two weeks but I am so grateful my hubby was at my side as much as time permitted and yet went to work to provide an income for us. He surely is a blessing from Heaven and I don't think I could have made it the two weeks without him helping out with cleaning and making me as comfortable as possible. I love him with all my heart and count my lucky stars but more importantly I thank Heavenly Father for preparing this special young man to take care of this princess!

Three Months of Pure Bliss

It has been a magical, amazing three months of being married to my best friend. We have had our ups and downs just like every marriage has, but its only made us stronger; more as one unity. 
Since we have been married we have had a lot of adventures. Starting with the marriage, it was a rush...6 days prior to our wedding we were attending to my sister-in-laws wedding--okay I wouldn't just say attending, we were apart of their special day-- it was...amazing, they made the experience special for everyone! So after the wedding, we traveled out to Missouri and prepared for our own wedding, I was so lucky to have a loving mother who pretty much had everything planned out and done and we had very little to prepare for our day. So when our special day came it was very calm and relaxing, it was super nice. We had a beautiful ceremony with a lot of words of wisdom given to help us throughout our marriage. Honestly I could not remember much about it since I was gazing into my loves eyes and holding his hand so tight not wanting to ever let go. The reception was so beautiful and was done by an amazing woman (Connie Jorgensen) who already had a lot on her plate but put time aside to help me out on our special occasion.

So after that reception we headed to Nebraska for our open house, very lovely evening it was; we stayed up later than planning conversing with our parents as well as a really good family that I have known since I was little, and I am so glad they were able to make it out. We then realized it was super late and had to get started on our 14+ hour drive back to our apartment so I could head back to work on that Monday.

Since then, we have both gotten pretty far in our jobs. We both work for a company called Focus Services and we work for Century Link. They really seem to like TJ and how well he does doing his job. I have been 'promoted' to a new project which isnt much but I really enjoy it and it really an honor getting this position.

I was blessed to have my mom move back to Utah so now we get to be closer and spend more time together before any big changes happen. It also helps to have her near since I was 'diagnosed' with Mono a few weeks ago. Now, I have never had Mono before but it sucks hard core. I have had two trips to the doctors office for pain meds so I can at least swallow without crying. We even had an ER run on Saturday because my tonsils were so swollen it left a very small airway that caused some comlications when it came to breathing.

TJ has decided which jobs he would like to apply for the airforce, we had to resign paperwork since the medical records became an issue to get, but now things are on the go and we have all the paperwork complete and just a few things to complete before he leaves--which is predicted for December-February time and he will be going down to Texas. So that is the exciting news as far as that goes, things are working out great!

Since we have been married we really havent had a chance to hang out with any married friends, we basically dont have any friends as sad as that sounds; but its true, we dont live in young married couple central. ;) We have had a prospective couple that we have been eyeing ;) I actually work with the husband and we get along great! We have planned on this dinner for the past month or so but...first his wife was sick and I have been sick ever since. So that is still a work in progress!

Other than that, life has been pure bliss; my amazing hubby has been by my side and helping me the best he can since I have been sick--I normally never get sick but once I do I get really sick and it spreads throughout my entire body, this Mono has started an ear infection which normally isnt that bad but in my condition with my ears it feels like death--

But stay tuned for more updates especially as we begin our new journey into the AirForce, I am so excited for my husbands decision and I will support him all the way through!