I don't have gestational diabetes which is good. I didn't think I had it until I drank the glucose and during the hour I had to wait to get tested, I began to feel awful. I thought I surely must have gestational diabetes since I felt so extremely bad but my blood sugar at the end of that dreadful hour was 128 so I was in the clear.
On June 27th I painted Grady's room while Mark was spending the next 27 hours driving to Chicago, IL and back. It was a very long day but it turned out great! It actually wasn't what I had in my mind but I loved it all the same. Since painting the room, I changed the baby bedding I wanted so that I could have orange in the bedding. Originally, I wanted a blue and brown room. So I registered for some bedding that was blue, brown, and what I was thinking was orange. When I went back to look at the bedding, it was yellow and I already fell in love with the blue, brown, and orange color scheme so I changed the bedding to jungle bedding that has lots of orange but it should look good with the walls. I still have to decide what I will put on the walls. I know I want to make curtains that are thick (to help keep the sun out during the day, it is a very bright room) brown canvas type material with a wide orange stripe 6-9 inches from the top. I want them to be floor length, I think. We'll see how this goes. I have never made anything besides 3 quilts. Curtains seem simple enough. I really want to take sewing lessons and also the Wilton cake decorating class but who knows if I ever will. Anyways, I also want to put crown molding in Grady's room but that may never happen either.
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Monday, June 15, 2009
25 Week Check-up
Today at the doctor's office they checked my iron, blood pressure, Grady's heartbeat, and measured my ever growing belly.
My iron was great! the doctor said I must be doing a great job at taking my vitamins. Yeah, not so much. I've probably taken them 5 times in the last month. I never got the prescription filled for the vitamins I guess I'm supposed to be taking and so when I do take the prenatals, they are the Wal-Mart ones we got the day we found out about Grady! I guess this mean I am already a bad mom since I am already a slacker when it comes to the health of our unborn child! On the up side, I think it also means that I am super healthy since my iron levels are apparently fabulous!
My blood pressure has gone up to a more normal level which is great. I can tell since I don't feel faint very often anymore.
Grady's heartbeat is at 140 and my belly is still measuring ahead one week (26 weeks). I really hope this means he comes before the official September 26th due date. Mark just bought tickets to his 10 year class reunion which is October 17th. So, I'm not going to have much time to pull myself together by then! I told him I will just wear a girdle if I have to.
I've also given up on my goal of only gaining 25 pounds but I'm still hoping I don't go over 35 pounds. I've gained 19 so far and it's all in the belly so either he is quite the fatty or there is a lot of fluid flowing around in there.
UPDATE:
Just thought I'd clarify that I'm not obsessed about gaining weight, I just have to be sure I can fit into my old clothes by January because that is when I start student teaching. I eat when I am hungry and sometimes when I'm not. Not gaining a lot of weight is something I am more hoping for than actively pursuing. I love food too much and I also want a healthy baby :)
My iron was great! the doctor said I must be doing a great job at taking my vitamins. Yeah, not so much. I've probably taken them 5 times in the last month. I never got the prescription filled for the vitamins I guess I'm supposed to be taking and so when I do take the prenatals, they are the Wal-Mart ones we got the day we found out about Grady! I guess this mean I am already a bad mom since I am already a slacker when it comes to the health of our unborn child! On the up side, I think it also means that I am super healthy since my iron levels are apparently fabulous!
My blood pressure has gone up to a more normal level which is great. I can tell since I don't feel faint very often anymore.
Grady's heartbeat is at 140 and my belly is still measuring ahead one week (26 weeks). I really hope this means he comes before the official September 26th due date. Mark just bought tickets to his 10 year class reunion which is October 17th. So, I'm not going to have much time to pull myself together by then! I told him I will just wear a girdle if I have to.
I've also given up on my goal of only gaining 25 pounds but I'm still hoping I don't go over 35 pounds. I've gained 19 so far and it's all in the belly so either he is quite the fatty or there is a lot of fluid flowing around in there.
UPDATE:
Just thought I'd clarify that I'm not obsessed about gaining weight, I just have to be sure I can fit into my old clothes by January because that is when I start student teaching. I eat when I am hungry and sometimes when I'm not. Not gaining a lot of weight is something I am more hoping for than actively pursuing. I love food too much and I also want a healthy baby :)
Friday, June 12, 2009
An UPDATE is here!!!!
Where to start.....A lot has happened since January. I'll try listing it all in order.
-January 19th- Mark finally got his new Toyota Tundra! He bought it in December and had to have some repairs done to it which ended up taking almost a month to complete. At 5:42pm we found out that we are going to become parents! This was a bit of a surprise since we weren't planning on having kids quite yet. Mark was excited from the beginning. Me-not so much. I wasn't excited mostly because of school. I was supposed to student teach this fall and graduate in December! It was so close. I was able to say that I will graduate this year for a whopping 17 days. Graduation was so close and student teaching in the fall is way better than doing it in the spring. And, student teaching next spring with a baby at home is going to be tough. Oh well. Obviously heavenly father did not like our plan at all and for some reason we needed to have a baby in September instead of anytime after December 10th.
The reason I know the time that this new addition was discovered is because we were supposed to be at Nate and Scarlett's at 5:30 for FHE but we were still driving home from picking up Mark's truck and I had to throw together some kind of dessert in about 5 minutes so we could get to their house ASAP. I also had to pee really really bad since I had been holding it for a couple hours since Mark wanted to be home when I took the pregnancy test. We ran in the house and I headed straight to the bathroom. I took the test and laid it on the floor for Mark to watch for the results as I threw something together for our FHE dessert. A minute later Mark called my name. His voice sounded different but I couldn't decide if it sounded like the test was positive or negative. All month I had this feeling that I was pregnant but I thought it was just me and that there was no way I was and that the test was going to be a negative. Mark held it up for me when I got to him and I said "oh, no baby." He said, "No, look again" and held up the instructions that had a picture of what a positive test looks like and I then realized that our test matched that one! it was a strange feeling. I laughed a weird nervous sounding laugh and we embraced. I then finished putting together some magic cookies bars and we went to Nate and Scarlett's for FHE. Mark wanted us to wait until the end of the first trimester to tell anyone. I agreed to try and wait.
-January 29th- I got laid off from my job. This wasn't really a big deal. I worked 6 hours a week and I cold now work more at 20/20 Research which is the job that I love but couldn't work at because of my school schedule and salon schedule.
-February 3rd- Mark's company decided to close the Charlotte office. This came as a total surprise because they had just had the best January sales wise EVER. He found this information out from his last customer of the day. She asked why this was their last day open. He responded with "it's not." She said "when I called to schedule they told me I had to have it done today because it was the last day you were going to be open." Mark called the Raleigh office and the secretary said they weren't closing. He then called the owner a few times and he eventually answered and confirmed that ZEROREZ Charlotte was not going to be open after that day and that he was coming down to get the truck and clean out the office. This news was quite a blow to us. After the shock wore off, we were ok. We had savings and stocks that we could sell if necessary and we had food storage. Mark has been able to collect unemployment and it is enough to cover our bills. He is also receiving money each month from the V.A. He looked for a job for a little while but we have since decided that he is going to be going to UNCC starting this fall and he will get his masters in computer science. It is going to take 3 years and it will be 100%paid for by the ARMY! We will also receive about $1200 a month to cover living expenses! So the news of mark being out of work and a child coming into the world in September is a lot more exciting now! Mark should be able to collect unemployment until July or August of 2010 and by then I will have a real job bringing in real money! We will both be able to finish school without having to worry about working and going to school. Heavenly father has really blessed us! If heavenly father hadn't surprised us with this baby when he did, we probably would have put our baby plans on hold until at least one of us had steady employment and who knows how long that would take. It has all been so great and we are so grateful for all we've been blessed with.
-February- we went to a Bobcats game with Shannon and Justin. We knew they were trying to get pregnant in January and Mark was trying to get Justin to tell him they were during the game and Justin became suspicious that I was pregnant through Mark's comments. We went to Cookout after the game and Justin and Shannon asked if we had heard the latest gossip. We said no. Justin said "Shannon's pregnant" Mark said "so is Ashley". It was kind of funny. we made plans to get the rest of the old FHE group together and tell them all at the same time. Justin and Shannon made a cake that we brought out and it said 2 ppl here are knocked up (except it wasn't the word up, it was an arrow pointing up). There was screaming, laughter, talk of baby names, and the string test. The results of the string test: Ashley is having a boy, Shannon is having a girl.
-February 19th- I tell my dad that he is getting another grandchild! I bought Valentines Day cards for him and my grandmother (I was planning on going over there on V-Day but that didn't work out). I brought brownies over with the cards and we chatted for a while. I stayed for about an hour and then had to leave to meet Krystin at IKEA. They ate brownies while I was there but didn't open their cards. I left and a couple minutes later got a phone call from my dad. He and my grandmother were excited and they didn't say anything about being sure I finished school so that was good! I also told my mom and sister. I couldn't wait any longer without slipping up and accidently telling my family.
-March- I had my first Doctor's appt. I was hoping we would be able to hear the heartbeat but they made us wait 2 more weeks to hear it.
-March 27th-30th- I went to Dallas, Texas to visit a friend! It was the first time Mark and I were apart since we started dating! It was a fun trip and it was great to see an old friend and her kids!
-April 20th- I am 17 weeks pregnant and we get to find out the sex of the baby! This was so exciting! As soon as the baby was brought up on the ultrasound screen, the technician said "well there you go dad." I immediately knew what we were looking at. It seemed very obvious but it wasn't so obvious to Mark. He had NO idea what the picture on the screen was! The technician then pointed to the screen and said "see this right here, it's a BOY!" We were so excited! We got tons of pictures and even a DVD where you can see him rolling over! There are even a couple of 4D pictures where he looks like an alien but his mouth looks like Mark's! It is so cute! We also found out that he is a week ahead of schedule so our due date isn't going to be changed officially but he is track to be due September 18th instead of the 26th! Hopefully we can hit on one of many family member's birthdays in September :) I am also hoping he decides he would like to come maybe around 36 weeks or pretty much anytime before 40 weeks, just as long as he is healthy enough to hack it in the real world!
After the appointment Mark asked if I was excited. Of course I was excited! I want all boys and my family was really hoping this was going to be a boy since my brother and sister both have girls. My dad said he needed someone to give all his train sets to. Mark then confessed that he always wanted a million girls and only girls but that he had gotten his hopes set on a boy ever since we did the string test and that he thought he probably would have been disappointed if it had been a girl. Before finding out the sex, we had agreed on 1 girl name and 1 boy name so our baby had a name right away which was kind of cool because everyone else I know didn't have a definite name for their baby until after the baby was born. Our girl name was Aubree Elisabeth and our boy name is Grady William Lee or Grady Lee William. I want William Lee and Mark wants lee William. We'll see who wins.
I had to go to work later and that is where I felt my little man kicking for the first time! mark didn't believe me and said I must just have gas and just think I am feeling Grady!
A few weeks later we found out that Shannon and Justin were having a girl. The string test is 2 for 2 so far. Interesting.
-May2nd- Mark feels Grady moving!
-May 6th- My last day of exams EVER!
-May 10th- Mark and I leave at 12am to drive to Miami to embark on our 8 day cruise! It was an 11 hour drive. Mark drove most of the way and it wasn't a bad drive at all. We arrived at the ship at about 12 and began our babymoon! Monday was a day at sea. We then went to Grand Cayman where we rented a scooter and drove around the island. The next day we went to Honduras where we got a taxi ride to the beach and then around the island. Then the next day we went to Belize where we went cave tubing and enjoyed some local food. We spent another day at sea and then our last day of our babymoon in Key West. We rented a car and drove up the keys. We enjoyed our day and ended it with the best key lime pie ever!
Sometime around the end of May or beginning of June, I can see my belly move when Grady moves! It's my favorite thing to watch. I also realize that I really like being pregnant and look forward to doing it again and again and again. I haven't been sick or had heartburn at all and feel great! We go to the gym 3ish times a week and I hope I can keep going up until the end!
-June 7th- I decide that I am definitely going to go the all natural route for labor and delivery. No epidurals here! I hope this makes the labor and delivery go much faster, I feel it will better for Grady, and also myself since I will be able to better push and I will also be able to move/walk around during labor. We'll see how this goes. It makes labor and delivery a little scary but I always said I'd go all natural anyways.
-June 12th- I want to paint our living room, dining room, and hall. Mark said I can do whatever I want but he's not helping because it will be the 3rd time it is painted in 2 years. OOPS! ha ha. This time it will last. I've never liked how it turned when we painted it a year and a half ago and I just can't take it anymore. I want a light beigy color. I am also ready to paint Grady's room so hopefully that will happen in the next few weeks.
Grady is always moving around now and it is great! It truly is one of the best feelings ever!
-January 19th- Mark finally got his new Toyota Tundra! He bought it in December and had to have some repairs done to it which ended up taking almost a month to complete. At 5:42pm we found out that we are going to become parents! This was a bit of a surprise since we weren't planning on having kids quite yet. Mark was excited from the beginning. Me-not so much. I wasn't excited mostly because of school. I was supposed to student teach this fall and graduate in December! It was so close. I was able to say that I will graduate this year for a whopping 17 days. Graduation was so close and student teaching in the fall is way better than doing it in the spring. And, student teaching next spring with a baby at home is going to be tough. Oh well. Obviously heavenly father did not like our plan at all and for some reason we needed to have a baby in September instead of anytime after December 10th.
The reason I know the time that this new addition was discovered is because we were supposed to be at Nate and Scarlett's at 5:30 for FHE but we were still driving home from picking up Mark's truck and I had to throw together some kind of dessert in about 5 minutes so we could get to their house ASAP. I also had to pee really really bad since I had been holding it for a couple hours since Mark wanted to be home when I took the pregnancy test. We ran in the house and I headed straight to the bathroom. I took the test and laid it on the floor for Mark to watch for the results as I threw something together for our FHE dessert. A minute later Mark called my name. His voice sounded different but I couldn't decide if it sounded like the test was positive or negative. All month I had this feeling that I was pregnant but I thought it was just me and that there was no way I was and that the test was going to be a negative. Mark held it up for me when I got to him and I said "oh, no baby." He said, "No, look again" and held up the instructions that had a picture of what a positive test looks like and I then realized that our test matched that one! it was a strange feeling. I laughed a weird nervous sounding laugh and we embraced. I then finished putting together some magic cookies bars and we went to Nate and Scarlett's for FHE. Mark wanted us to wait until the end of the first trimester to tell anyone. I agreed to try and wait.
-January 29th- I got laid off from my job. This wasn't really a big deal. I worked 6 hours a week and I cold now work more at 20/20 Research which is the job that I love but couldn't work at because of my school schedule and salon schedule.
-February 3rd- Mark's company decided to close the Charlotte office. This came as a total surprise because they had just had the best January sales wise EVER. He found this information out from his last customer of the day. She asked why this was their last day open. He responded with "it's not." She said "when I called to schedule they told me I had to have it done today because it was the last day you were going to be open." Mark called the Raleigh office and the secretary said they weren't closing. He then called the owner a few times and he eventually answered and confirmed that ZEROREZ Charlotte was not going to be open after that day and that he was coming down to get the truck and clean out the office. This news was quite a blow to us. After the shock wore off, we were ok. We had savings and stocks that we could sell if necessary and we had food storage. Mark has been able to collect unemployment and it is enough to cover our bills. He is also receiving money each month from the V.A. He looked for a job for a little while but we have since decided that he is going to be going to UNCC starting this fall and he will get his masters in computer science. It is going to take 3 years and it will be 100%paid for by the ARMY! We will also receive about $1200 a month to cover living expenses! So the news of mark being out of work and a child coming into the world in September is a lot more exciting now! Mark should be able to collect unemployment until July or August of 2010 and by then I will have a real job bringing in real money! We will both be able to finish school without having to worry about working and going to school. Heavenly father has really blessed us! If heavenly father hadn't surprised us with this baby when he did, we probably would have put our baby plans on hold until at least one of us had steady employment and who knows how long that would take. It has all been so great and we are so grateful for all we've been blessed with.
-February- we went to a Bobcats game with Shannon and Justin. We knew they were trying to get pregnant in January and Mark was trying to get Justin to tell him they were during the game and Justin became suspicious that I was pregnant through Mark's comments. We went to Cookout after the game and Justin and Shannon asked if we had heard the latest gossip. We said no. Justin said "Shannon's pregnant" Mark said "so is Ashley". It was kind of funny. we made plans to get the rest of the old FHE group together and tell them all at the same time. Justin and Shannon made a cake that we brought out and it said 2 ppl here are knocked up (except it wasn't the word up, it was an arrow pointing up). There was screaming, laughter, talk of baby names, and the string test. The results of the string test: Ashley is having a boy, Shannon is having a girl.
-February 19th- I tell my dad that he is getting another grandchild! I bought Valentines Day cards for him and my grandmother (I was planning on going over there on V-Day but that didn't work out). I brought brownies over with the cards and we chatted for a while. I stayed for about an hour and then had to leave to meet Krystin at IKEA. They ate brownies while I was there but didn't open their cards. I left and a couple minutes later got a phone call from my dad. He and my grandmother were excited and they didn't say anything about being sure I finished school so that was good! I also told my mom and sister. I couldn't wait any longer without slipping up and accidently telling my family.
-March- I had my first Doctor's appt. I was hoping we would be able to hear the heartbeat but they made us wait 2 more weeks to hear it.
-March 27th-30th- I went to Dallas, Texas to visit a friend! It was the first time Mark and I were apart since we started dating! It was a fun trip and it was great to see an old friend and her kids!
-April 20th- I am 17 weeks pregnant and we get to find out the sex of the baby! This was so exciting! As soon as the baby was brought up on the ultrasound screen, the technician said "well there you go dad." I immediately knew what we were looking at. It seemed very obvious but it wasn't so obvious to Mark. He had NO idea what the picture on the screen was! The technician then pointed to the screen and said "see this right here, it's a BOY!" We were so excited! We got tons of pictures and even a DVD where you can see him rolling over! There are even a couple of 4D pictures where he looks like an alien but his mouth looks like Mark's! It is so cute! We also found out that he is a week ahead of schedule so our due date isn't going to be changed officially but he is track to be due September 18th instead of the 26th! Hopefully we can hit on one of many family member's birthdays in September :) I am also hoping he decides he would like to come maybe around 36 weeks or pretty much anytime before 40 weeks, just as long as he is healthy enough to hack it in the real world!
After the appointment Mark asked if I was excited. Of course I was excited! I want all boys and my family was really hoping this was going to be a boy since my brother and sister both have girls. My dad said he needed someone to give all his train sets to. Mark then confessed that he always wanted a million girls and only girls but that he had gotten his hopes set on a boy ever since we did the string test and that he thought he probably would have been disappointed if it had been a girl. Before finding out the sex, we had agreed on 1 girl name and 1 boy name so our baby had a name right away which was kind of cool because everyone else I know didn't have a definite name for their baby until after the baby was born. Our girl name was Aubree Elisabeth and our boy name is Grady William Lee or Grady Lee William. I want William Lee and Mark wants lee William. We'll see who wins.
I had to go to work later and that is where I felt my little man kicking for the first time! mark didn't believe me and said I must just have gas and just think I am feeling Grady!
A few weeks later we found out that Shannon and Justin were having a girl. The string test is 2 for 2 so far. Interesting.
-May2nd- Mark feels Grady moving!
-May 6th- My last day of exams EVER!
-May 10th- Mark and I leave at 12am to drive to Miami to embark on our 8 day cruise! It was an 11 hour drive. Mark drove most of the way and it wasn't a bad drive at all. We arrived at the ship at about 12 and began our babymoon! Monday was a day at sea. We then went to Grand Cayman where we rented a scooter and drove around the island. The next day we went to Honduras where we got a taxi ride to the beach and then around the island. Then the next day we went to Belize where we went cave tubing and enjoyed some local food. We spent another day at sea and then our last day of our babymoon in Key West. We rented a car and drove up the keys. We enjoyed our day and ended it with the best key lime pie ever!
Sometime around the end of May or beginning of June, I can see my belly move when Grady moves! It's my favorite thing to watch. I also realize that I really like being pregnant and look forward to doing it again and again and again. I haven't been sick or had heartburn at all and feel great! We go to the gym 3ish times a week and I hope I can keep going up until the end!
-June 7th- I decide that I am definitely going to go the all natural route for labor and delivery. No epidurals here! I hope this makes the labor and delivery go much faster, I feel it will better for Grady, and also myself since I will be able to better push and I will also be able to move/walk around during labor. We'll see how this goes. It makes labor and delivery a little scary but I always said I'd go all natural anyways.
-June 12th- I want to paint our living room, dining room, and hall. Mark said I can do whatever I want but he's not helping because it will be the 3rd time it is painted in 2 years. OOPS! ha ha. This time it will last. I've never liked how it turned when we painted it a year and a half ago and I just can't take it anymore. I want a light beigy color. I am also ready to paint Grady's room so hopefully that will happen in the next few weeks.
Grady is always moving around now and it is great! It truly is one of the best feelings ever!
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Few and Far Between...
That is what my posts have become. There really isn't much to update. We still have both dogs. We live in the same house, have the same jobs and are still in school. The exciting part is that on Monday I will begin my last semester of classes. After that, it's student teaching and then graduation!!!! After that will come the babies. That is the scary part.
Mark and I both want kids and feel ready but we are still scared about that whole thing. I mean you are in charge of an actual human for the rest of your life.
As I write this post, I am thinking of ways to make posts more often since we don't have kids to make it interesting. Maybe I will post my favorite thing that happens each day. I guess we'll see what happens.
Mark and I both want kids and feel ready but we are still scared about that whole thing. I mean you are in charge of an actual human for the rest of your life.
As I write this post, I am thinking of ways to make posts more often since we don't have kids to make it interesting. Maybe I will post my favorite thing that happens each day. I guess we'll see what happens.
Friday, June 13, 2008
I wrote this post last Friday but I never finished it. I'm not sure what I was going to add to it so this is just what was saved as a draft.
One word to sum this past week up is work. I am tired. i worked 3 13 hour+ days in a row and then 8 hours today. Whew. Boy am I glad that is over. I am a money motivated person and when I agreed to work that much this week, I knew it was only one week so that is easy to handle.
Last Sunday I got my new calling in YW. I am very excited about and the other women in the presidency have a million ideas for activities as do I. I am in charge of Personal Progress as secretary in the presidency. i really hope I can come up with some really good ideas to get the girl motivated to complete their Personal Progress goals/values and get their medalions.
Tomorrow i am going to Blowing Rock with my mom and little sister.
One word to sum this past week up is work. I am tired. i worked 3 13 hour+ days in a row and then 8 hours today. Whew. Boy am I glad that is over. I am a money motivated person and when I agreed to work that much this week, I knew it was only one week so that is easy to handle.
Last Sunday I got my new calling in YW. I am very excited about and the other women in the presidency have a million ideas for activities as do I. I am in charge of Personal Progress as secretary in the presidency. i really hope I can come up with some really good ideas to get the girl motivated to complete their Personal Progress goals/values and get their medalions.
Tomorrow i am going to Blowing Rock with my mom and little sister.
Monday, June 2, 2008
THE BIG ONE!!!!
Yesterday was our one year wedding anniversary. The started by me waking up around 7:30am. I got up and let the dogs out and Mark was still sleeping heavily (which never happens). I had planned on making this huge breakfast for him that consisted of scrambled cheese eggs, bacon, grits, blueberry pancakes, and croissants with butter and honey. Well while I was debating on when starting this task of making a surprise breakfast I realized it was fast Sunday. So that plan was gone. I had gotten Mark a gift card for a one hour massage and a card and a couple of little things I thought he would like or at least make him laugh. Well those things were in our room under the bed and I realized that was dumb place to hide them because now i couldn't go get it because he might wake up when I am trying to walk out of the room with it. So I sat on our couch and waited for him to wake up. He go up right at 9:00. He went into a frenzy to get the smoker going because apparently it was suppose to get started at 7:30 or 8 so that it would be done in time. So in about 10 minutes the meat was on the smoker and he was tending to it up until it was time for church. As we were getting ready he was going out to "mop" the meat. This is just brushing bbq sauce on it and let me tell you, Sweet Baby Ray's bbq sauce is the absolute best. Well he was supposed to mop the meat every 45 minutes for 3 hours I think. So Mark wanted me to ride to church with Nate and Scarlett and then he was going to come late so that he could teach in elder's quorum. I didn't think this was a great plan but I didn't say anything. Well I guess he didn't think that was a great idea either because he went to church for all 3 blocks. I told him i thought that was a good choice and Heavenly Father rewards righteousness.
Church was great! I wasn't really looking forward to teaching my class this week because they are a hard class to be with. After sacrament, I found out that Diane (my teaching partner) wasn't at church. I was like oh great 15 rambunctious kids all to myself!!! In primary the boys sit on one side of the room and the girls sit on the other. One of the women from the presidency sat with the boys and I was with the girls. After primary we went to our class and started the lesson. the presidency was worried that I couldn't handle the class alone but I told them that I would be fine. I didn't want someone new in our class to distract the kids and I don't like teaching in front of adults. So with the help of our incentive program that we started a couple weeks ago, THE KIDS WERE ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL!!!!! When people dropped by to check on us it was just great. I fell in love with my kids all over again. So church was over and as I was trying to find Mark, Nate, and Scarlett (because we all rode together) Bro. Baldwin said he needed to speak to Mark and I. I thought we were about to get a calling together in primary. So I told him I was looking for Mark and when I found him I would meet with him. Well he found Mark and they found me. We met in the room I used to teach the Sunbeams in and I was given the calling of YW secretary! I couldn't believe my ears. I was so excited and yet so sad. I love my CTR 6 class even if they are a little wired most of the time. I never thought I would love primary but I really did love my calling in there. Some weeks I hated it but all in all I loved my calling and I will miss those little rug rats. I am really excited about YW. Amber Campbell is going to be the president and she and I were in YW together back in the day so I think it will be really fun and I will grow a lot in this calling. So we finally leave church around 4:30.
Mark and rushing everyone to the car because he is worried about his meat on the smoker that hasn't been mopped in hours and may very well be ruined. We got home at 5. The meat looked fine but what do we know, we have never smoked anything in our life!
We get changed, set up all our extra chairs and wait for the masses to begin arriving. just before 6:00 15 people got here all at the same time. talk about chaos!!!
the meat finished around 7 maybe and let me say, it was PERFECT! we had 18-20 pounds of meat and the 23 people at our small home totally destroyed it! All the food got eaten and there were no leftovers at all which was great because it made cleaning up a lot easier!
It was the perfect day. Mark said it will become our tradition and we will celebrate our anniversary in the same way every year. We love our family and our friends and I hope that we are able to continue this tradition and that the number of people able to come will grow.
At the end of the night after everyone had gone home and Mark and I were cleaning up, I told him that I didn't expect him to give me anything for our anniversary but it would have been nice to have gotten a card. He responded with he hasn't gotten me my present and that he has just been saying that our backyard was my present to cover up the real present. About 30 minutes later he came into the bedroom with the laptop and showed me the screen with the receipt for Martha Steward Living magazine subscription that he had just bought. I laughed and thanked him. I have wanted this magazine forever so I was glad he finally got it for me.
We got ready for bed and then as I was about to lie down I remembered that I wanted to make him a delicious breakfast before he went to work today. I went into the kitchen to set out some croissants and it was a good thing i did. He had left a pot with the bones from the bbq boiling on the stove for the dogs and there was no more water in it! Our house could have burned down! So after saving the day I went to tell Mark of this but he was already asleep. So I crawled into bed with Reagan and went to sleep.
Church was great! I wasn't really looking forward to teaching my class this week because they are a hard class to be with. After sacrament, I found out that Diane (my teaching partner) wasn't at church. I was like oh great 15 rambunctious kids all to myself!!! In primary the boys sit on one side of the room and the girls sit on the other. One of the women from the presidency sat with the boys and I was with the girls. After primary we went to our class and started the lesson. the presidency was worried that I couldn't handle the class alone but I told them that I would be fine. I didn't want someone new in our class to distract the kids and I don't like teaching in front of adults. So with the help of our incentive program that we started a couple weeks ago, THE KIDS WERE ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL!!!!! When people dropped by to check on us it was just great. I fell in love with my kids all over again. So church was over and as I was trying to find Mark, Nate, and Scarlett (because we all rode together) Bro. Baldwin said he needed to speak to Mark and I. I thought we were about to get a calling together in primary. So I told him I was looking for Mark and when I found him I would meet with him. Well he found Mark and they found me. We met in the room I used to teach the Sunbeams in and I was given the calling of YW secretary! I couldn't believe my ears. I was so excited and yet so sad. I love my CTR 6 class even if they are a little wired most of the time. I never thought I would love primary but I really did love my calling in there. Some weeks I hated it but all in all I loved my calling and I will miss those little rug rats. I am really excited about YW. Amber Campbell is going to be the president and she and I were in YW together back in the day so I think it will be really fun and I will grow a lot in this calling. So we finally leave church around 4:30.
Mark and rushing everyone to the car because he is worried about his meat on the smoker that hasn't been mopped in hours and may very well be ruined. We got home at 5. The meat looked fine but what do we know, we have never smoked anything in our life!
We get changed, set up all our extra chairs and wait for the masses to begin arriving. just before 6:00 15 people got here all at the same time. talk about chaos!!!
the meat finished around 7 maybe and let me say, it was PERFECT! we had 18-20 pounds of meat and the 23 people at our small home totally destroyed it! All the food got eaten and there were no leftovers at all which was great because it made cleaning up a lot easier!
It was the perfect day. Mark said it will become our tradition and we will celebrate our anniversary in the same way every year. We love our family and our friends and I hope that we are able to continue this tradition and that the number of people able to come will grow.
At the end of the night after everyone had gone home and Mark and I were cleaning up, I told him that I didn't expect him to give me anything for our anniversary but it would have been nice to have gotten a card. He responded with he hasn't gotten me my present and that he has just been saying that our backyard was my present to cover up the real present. About 30 minutes later he came into the bedroom with the laptop and showed me the screen with the receipt for Martha Steward Living magazine subscription that he had just bought. I laughed and thanked him. I have wanted this magazine forever so I was glad he finally got it for me.
We got ready for bed and then as I was about to lie down I remembered that I wanted to make him a delicious breakfast before he went to work today. I went into the kitchen to set out some croissants and it was a good thing i did. He had left a pot with the bones from the bbq boiling on the stove for the dogs and there was no more water in it! Our house could have burned down! So after saving the day I went to tell Mark of this but he was already asleep. So I crawled into bed with Reagan and went to sleep.
Saturday, May 31, 2008
Tomorrow is our 1 year anniversary!!! I can't believe it has already been a whole year. I got Mark a gift card for a 1 hour massage and I am going to make him a smorgasbord of a breakfast tomorrow. All if which he knows nothing about. We are having friends and family over tomorrow for a cookout. Mark got a smoker last weekend so last night we bought a pork shoulder and hopefully it will turn out good after cooking for 15 hours tomorrow. It is supposed to rain tomorrow so if that happens, well that won't be good since our food will be cooking on the smoker outside! We will just have to pray that the rain misses us! I want to get a big pergola for our patio and put a tin roof on it or something so that we can grill out even if it is raining. Today I worked at the salon. It was a quiet day. The phone rang 3 times. 2 of the calls were from the same client asking if we wanted anything from Starbucks. I enjoy working at the marketing place better. There I am training to be client services assistant supervisor. That may be interesting.
So, Mark has gone back to school this semester and I am glad. He is thinking of going to law school or going into the air force to be a chaplain. He was going to be a chaplain in the army but he blew out his knee and was medically discharged. Personally I'm hoping he chooses to be a lawyer. I'm not opposed to moving around but I want to be able to choose when and where and I'd rather be close to our families which mostly live in NC.
So, Mark has gone back to school this semester and I am glad. He is thinking of going to law school or going into the air force to be a chaplain. He was going to be a chaplain in the army but he blew out his knee and was medically discharged. Personally I'm hoping he chooses to be a lawyer. I'm not opposed to moving around but I want to be able to choose when and where and I'd rather be close to our families which mostly live in NC.
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