20 weeks!

As of tomorow January 20th 2013 I will have reached the 20/20 mark. I will be 20 weeks pregnant with only 20 more to go! HALF WAY BABY! The first half of this pregnancy has been a rough one. Like I said I have experienced things with this pregnancy that I did not have to go through with Jace. On the plus side I have not gained as much as I did with Jace. So far we are only up 15 whopping pounds. With Jace I went from 140 to a delivery weight of 210.... YIKES. I'm really hoping to be able to keep my weight down through this pregnancy and try and gain no more then maybe 30 pounds.

Oh and....... We are having another little boy!!!!! I have had a feeling from the start that we were having a little boy but everyone in the family besides Jenn thought it was a girl. I was told that I was carrying differently then I did with Jace, and all of my cravings pointed to girl, but when we got the ultrasound at 16 weeks the very first thing Reed said when he looked at the screen was... "Is that what I think it is?" Lol. Sure enough, it was what he thought it was. Anyhow, we are all excited that we are having another little guy and can't wait for him to come into this world so we can snuggle him.
(As soon as blogger quiets being dumb and startes working I will post pictures of the ultrasound.)  

A very WHITE christmas

I have felt like the grinch this year. I have been so busy at work and working late nearly every night that I have been so tired I have not wanted to do anything for christmas, I even got a small tree for Jace and let him have at it this year. I did manage to get a letter to santa though, so Jace did get his christmas. Santa paid Reed a visit a few months ago. He was such a good boy he got a Remington 870 Express shot gun for an early christmas present, and the price on his face was worth every $100 that was spent. Jace got plenty of PJ's and a few board games and halo toys from santa and I got a Tablet! So overall it was a great christmas spent with both sides of the family and lots and lots of laying on the couch!

There may be hope

As many of you know, my situation with my family(mainly with my parents) has been a very rough, rocky road relationship since I was 18 yrs old. Well, after 5 years we are finally working through our issues and my mom and I are becoming a family again. I am not going to say a whole lot more other than I am so grateful for my mom and I am excited to be able to have this chance to build a new relationship with her and have Jace get to know her.

Oh the cravings!

Can i just say to all those people who said each pregnancy gets easier, ya'all lied. My pregnancy with jace was so simple up until delivery, this pregnancy is a completely different story. I have cravings up the wall, i have morning sickness occasionally, and i have been sick non-stop since October. Things i never experienced with my 1st pregnancy. My 1st trimester i craved cheeseburgers and cheese sticks, and now in the 2nd trimester all i want is mountain dew and Dr. Pepper. This baby is going to be off the wall hyper. I am now16 weeks and I'm feeling great and jace is excited to be a big brother!

Nicole is coming to town!

Nicolie Olie is coming to town! (in my head I am singing that along to 'Santa Claus is coming to town...) LOL. Colie is coming to town for a WHOLE FREAKIN WEEK on Dec 4th!!!! Ever since Colie moved to Colorado I have felt that a part of me has died. I know that sounds really pathetic but Colie is my best friend and has been there for me through every single thing. Once she moved I lost my girl talk and all I really have around me is a house full of boys (and we all know what men talk about....... video games, not exactly my cup of tea). But ANYHOW, my best friend  is coming home for a week and I intend to spend every free second of mine with her and Olivia (jaces girlfriend). So seeing how it is a couple hours till THANKSgiving I thought I would let my bestie know how grateful I am to her for always being there for me, and for having my back throughout our teenage years... and for letting me know what an idiot I was being in high school and keeping me in check. Thank you Colie Olie O for being my sister and staying by my side and crying with me and laughing with me and having a baby with me! lol. I am so grateful for little Liv. LOVE YOU COLIE O and I CANNOT wait to see you!

Many months & many tears

As any mother would know after you have your first child and you see them growing up you really start to miss when they were so tiny and snuggly. Well for the past couple of years I have been trying to convince the hubby that it was time to start to expand our family. He wanted to wait till Jace was 2. So once my little boy turned two I went and got my IUD taken out and the journey began. I seriously thought it would take no time at all before I would get pregnant, boy was I wrong. Month after month I would cry and did not understand what was going on. I wanted to be pregnant so bad, and nothing is worse then being late and then getting negative after negative tests. A few months ago I started working for a doctors office and heard so many things about thyroid issues and how it can make you infertile and as I started to think about it I noticed that I had a lot of the same signs of hypothyroidism that the doctor would talk about. So, I scheduled an appointment to have blood work done and low and behold I have hypothyroidism. Doc put me on levothyroxin to help balance everything out and within a few days I had finally gotten a positive ovulation test! Hubbs and I knew this was it. This was our time to MAKE a baby! Within a few weeks I was tired as crap, the smell of food made me sick, and of course I was 5 days late. First thing in the morning on Oct 11 I took the test and I could not look at it in fear that it would be negative. I finally got enough courage to glance over and....

We are due June 10th 2013. As of today 11/11/12 I am officially 10 weeks along and feeling huge (BLOAT). My cravings have kicked in already and we made our first midnight run to Burger King last night. Jace is not fully sure how he feels about mommy having another baby... he tells me all the time that he doesn't want a brother or sister... So I think it's going to be a little tough for my little boy to accept. 

Nicole & Olivia

So my best friend since 6th grade finally got to be with her husband. Her husband is in the army and for the past two years of their married she has only seen him a few times. Well they got stationed out in Colorado Springs, Colorado and they left at the end of July. Their little girl Olivia is Jaces girl friend and his best friend. We both miss Olivia and Nicole so much. A week before Nicole and Liv moved we went to 7 peaks and hung out, we had so much fun.

I had a month to prepare for Colie and Liv to move and everyday it got harder. I would be doing my make-up and randomly start crying thinking about them moving. Driving, looking at pictures, hearing jace say their name.... you name it, and it reminded me of them moving and I cried. It was a super hard month for me. Reed laughed at me a lot in that month. It has been just over a month since we have seen them and it is KILLING me. We just moved 4 houses down from where they lived and I HATE that I can't see my best friend everyday. On the bright side, I guess it gives me a chance for a good vacation. I LOVE YOU COLIE & LIV! WE LOVE YOU COLIE AND LIV!!!

California

I can officially say that I have been to California! It has been a dream (lame dream I know) to go and see the ocean ever since I was a wee little girl. Reed's dad decided to send Reed out to a seminar that was in California for a week to gain more knowledge and training on some Hot tubs, well the original plan was that Reed would go down by himself and I would stay home with Jace.... So he thought. There was no way in you know where that I was going to sit back and watch my hubby go to California without me. So we talked to his dad and asked if it was okay and what do ya know, it was! We decided that we were going to drive down and oh boy what a journey that was. We picked up Shane in Springville and then started our Journey at 9 in the morning, well 5-10 minutes on the road a car cut us off and hit our car... we were all okay but my car now has more battle wounds. Finally after about 10 hours of driving we arrived in Orange Califonia at Reeds aunts house! Anyhow, long story short, the wheather was AWFUL ugly the week we were down there and so we were not able to be outside to much. On the days that were a little better wheather we went to the beach and did lots of shopping. Over all it was such an amazing vacation and it was so nice to step away from all of the dad to day drama and breath for a bit.

Easter 2012

This year Reed and I were so lazy with Easter that we forgot to let the easter bunny know that Jace was a good boy and deserved a easter basket, so sadly the easter bunny did not come and visit us this year, BUT thats okay, I covered it for him. This year for easter I snuck out to the store and got Jace some much needed things, CANDY & EGGS of coarse. On Friday I got a call from my sister asking if she and my brother and sis in law and their kids could come down from Eagle Mountain and stay the night so that they can make it out to all of the fun easter egg hunts here in Pleasant grove, I said yes and oh my goodenss what a mad house it was, but it was so much fun! We colored eggs and laughed and had so much fun. The next day we all got up super early and hit up smiths for a candy hunt, then Lindon park for eggs, and than pleasant grove discovery park for more eggs and than Maceys for a hawaiin feast. Than Sunday we had a nice relaxing evening over at Jenn and Barrys for a delisious easter dinner. SUCH a crazy but fun filled easter weekend.


Mother & Daughter

Cousins causing trouble!!


Cousins all wore out after a long morning of hunting for eggs and candy!

HUGE update!

Well ya'all it is nearly december! YAY! I am so stoked for christmas! So much has happened since september when I last updated. Jesse and Lisa moved in right upbove us upstairs and had Michelle move in as well. So now I have two girls to talk to all the time and one really lame brother... haha. No but it has been hard but nice having them up their. With every couple comes arguing and so when they argue reed and I have to deal with it. But Jace just LOVES that they are up there. He will stand at the bottom of the stairs and yell 'Jesse'. Moving on... Halloween came and went so super fast. The ideas that we had were so good of what to be this year but I had gotten super sick and did not feel like doing much of anything for halloween so half hour before the family party started i got up from sleepin all day and through on some facial hair and dressed up as a cowboy, same with Jace. reed dressed up as a lumber jack! He was super sexy too!



and moving on... I also had the chance to meet my neice. For all ya'all that don't know Jesse has a beautiful baby girl named Brooklynn she is almost 1. Jesse has been fighting for his rights to see his daughter and he has finally been given the chance, so here she is.



I visited my daddy last week and found this Oh SO cute picture of me hangin on his wall. Reed said I look super dorky but I think I am cute! Cute, cute,cute!!! I look so much like my dad though it is really weird.

Also my baby boy turned 2 years old. I cannot believe how fast two years has gone by. I was going through some photos and videos of Jace as he has grown up and I started to cry becuase it seriously seems like yesterday that we welcomed this beautiful, fun spirited little man into our lives. Time needs to slow the crap down. But for his birthday we had everyone over to the house and just had fun hangin out together. We had a quiz about Jace and the winner was his Aunt Jenn. Jenn is like a second mom to jace and he just loves her and barry so much. We are grateful for the wonderful family and examples that Jace has to look up to. But as we started to sind to Jace he started to cry. Poor guy. There were probably about 15 or more people there so I think he just got frightened but it was the cutest thing ever.