So Blessed!

So I just wanted to take this time to share how blessed we have been this year and how we are so looking forward to this coming year!

This year has been full of surprises...good and bad...but have all lead to a great year of memories! This was the first complete year that Chris and I have been married which has been nothing but good times. On our one year anniversary, we were so joyed to discover that I was pregnant with our first baby!! After four pregnancy tests we were sure it was true!! Chris finally got away from Jamba Juice and into two jobs that he loves! After applying in April and hanging through all the drama, he was hired into the school district this past November. Yay good benefits, great pay, and a nice stable job! He also took on Gamestop for extra money and is having a blast! Chris completed his first full semester of college and came out with a 4.o! Boy do I miss those days!! Tee hee hee! I'm still subbing until my license expires in March...Just in time for baby! By July, we still had not heard anything about my sealing cancellation so Chris went on and was endowed on August 14th. I can not tell you what a joyous day that was. We attend the temple often and just love being there together. We continue to look forward to the day that we will be sealed as a family! On September 30th, we found out that not only were we absolutely right about being pregnant, but that we were expecting a baby girl!! I cannot express the mix of emotion that has come since then for Chris and I! The holidays went very well with many blessing flying our way and talk about the next one to come!
2009 promises to be a wonderful year for us. Hopefully with more ups than downs as we grow as a family. Isabella Marie is due March 8th and we continue to count the days!! Chris will be moving up in the district in March which will be a huge financial blessing to our family. I look forward to taking some time off come March to learn how to be a good mommy...although everyone swears I will be anyway... School will continue for Chris for the fall and spring and I hope to head back no later than the fall depending on living and financial circumstances. We cannot wait for all the new memories coming our way!

We wish you all a wonderful new year!!!!

Blizzards and doctor's visits!

I just can't get enough!!! Today was crazy though! We were driving through a blizzard on the way to the doctors!!! Scary kinda! Doctor went well. I'm still not gaining the wait I need but she is growing great and very healthy. I'm so excited!! Is it March already!?

Snow!

SNOW!!!!!! What else is there to say!!!!!

So here is our "cute" Christmas tree. We have plenty of Disney ornaments on there of course but doesn't match so well with our temporary angel...(hate it!) At least it beats our Charlie tree from last year! (Which we still put up!) Tee hee hee!! As per Chris' request, I even wrapped the Wii and yes it is fully functional!!! We had a blast putting it up and decorating everything else. Those "gifts" in the background are our pictures that were on the wall, wrapped! Crazy, huh? Anywho..Hope all of you are having fun decorating! HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!

Baby update!

So I'm sending new pictures your way from the ultrasound today. Everything is looking normal. She is growing very well and is two pounds already!! I only have three more months to go although I feel like I am already about to explode! Tee hee hee! Chris and I are doing wonderful. He finished up his semester early so I'm so proud of him and happy to have a hubby away from school for awhile!

Yay us!!

So we are beyond joyed this week!!! We have finally been blessed enough to schedule our first OB appointment. I know, I know....but those who know the struggles we have gone through these past few months can only imagine what a joy this is. I'm twenty five weeks along now and growing like crazy. She kicks me all day long and very, very hard! We will post new pictures very soon...promise. I need to grab a new pic of the belly and I hope to have lots to share come my appointment on the 3rd! Thank you all for all your love and support through this crazy time!

Pumpkin for Isabella..I know we are nerds!! The funnier thing is that we carved it the day after Halloween!

Happy Halloween!

So we though we would have lots of fun this Halloween! Memories before we make our family officially bigger. I cannot wait to dress up Isabella next year i the cutest thing I am sure to find but for this year we just enjoyed our time together! I was a fair maiden ( the costume borrowed from my Mother-in-law just so it could fit over my belly!) and Chris was a mobster. We went down to the little apartment Halloween party in the afternoon and Chris won us two little fishies! Then later in the evening we voted just before the polls closed, yes in our costumes, and headed to a friend's party!

This is too cool!!!! Today Chris and I decided to try the whole light on the belly thing. It was the coolest! She moved around a ton and even kept kicking the exact spot the light was coming through! If she doesn't like the light...she is just like Daddy....he hates the sun!!!!!

She's kicking me!

So on another note to this wonderful weekend....Isabella started kicking me! I know she has probably been doing it for some time but I have not been able to tell what was what! I know for sure now that those crazy feelings in there are her kicking me! It is insane to feel it and to have yet another confirmation that she is in there! I have these days where I just think I'm going crazy feeling things I have wanted to feel for years but nothing is really in there...I know that seems silly but I have wanted to be a mom for my whole life and if I had not seen the ultrasound with my own eyes, I would continue to believe I am just nuts! Any who...can't wait until the day comes when Chris can feel her too!

We're Back!!!

So....Disneyland was awesome!!!!! I mean, when is it not though! We had a blast being just the two of us. I have not been alone there with only one other person for a very long time so this trip was even more special to me. I usually have a horrible habit of turning it into a huge extravaganza all because of the Spring Break 2001 trip! Even with all the drama around me I still had a blast going with so many people because there was always something going on!
Chris and I did what is known as "Disneylanding." (Trust me, it is a real term.) We went on all the little rides you normally just pass up, saw all the shows you normally don't make the time to see, and took lots of fun pictures! We figured we would go now even with me pregnant because who in the world knows when we will be back! (Funny thing is, we already are planning Isabella's first trip next Christmas season!) The trip was even more fun because neither one of us had ever gone during the Halloweeen season!!! Hope you like the pics...promise to only post a few!

Whoa!!!

SO I was sitting around eating dinner tonight and felt this strange movement in my belly. I first said to myself..."No I can't be sick. I really need to go to work tomorrow!" But the movement was different. I realized after sitting still that it was a swooshing and rocking feeling instead of that nausea, bubbly feeling. It was Isabella!!!! I felt her for the first time today. Although, now that i look back on it, I might have been feeling her before and was just not aware of it!!! I am so excited!! Hopefully she will start kicking the junk out of me so it can be more interesting!! Tee hee hee!!

Baby Belly!

So I know many of you have asked for it and I refused to show you my icky self....but here ya go anyway!!! I'm currently 19 weeks!

Here she is!

She's a she!!!

So on Tuesday, September 30, 2008 Chris and I went for our first ultrasound!!! We heard the heartbeat, got a DVD of the whole session and lots of fun pictures!! The coolest thing is that we found out it is a girl!!!! We just can't believe it's real! The minute the ultrasound came up on the screen and I saw that I was not crazy and a baby was actually growing in there...I started to cry! Bawl is more like it. It is just a dream long time coming! We can't wait for our little Isabella Marie to make it here approx. March 8, 2009!!!!