Thanksgiving Time Again!!

Well Blog, its definitely been a while. I decided to post something mostly because I didn't want the last post to be the most current one people saw. I've left in in my past for the most part... Moving on. 

Thursday is Thanksgiving. Holy cow, time flies when you're having fun. It seems like not too long ago the semester had just started and now its almost over. It looks like we will be doing two Thanksgivings again this year, its gonna be a little crazy, but its nice to be able to spend time with both of our families. James is excited for double the pumpkin pie :)

 James and I celebrated our first anniversary last week. It definitely doesn't seem like it should already be one year of us being married, but I am enjoying it nonetheless. We went to a restaurant called The Claim Jumper, and it was really good!! We got a piece of cake that was so huge!! Apparently its one of the signature things that they do. and it was so delicious we ate it two days in a row, that's how much cake we had :)

Everything is going well and we're so excited for our second holiday season together :)

One Of Those Not So Joyful Posts....

Well Internet, life has decided to hand me a couple lemons. and instead of doing all of the fun, positive things that people tell you to do with the lemons life gives you, I'd much rather do this:

Lemon #1

I lost one of the nicest jobs I've ever had. After a month. I suppose I just wasn't filling the old guy's shoes as quickly as they would have liked me to.

Lemon #2
This one is a little more complicated. Part one, isn't completely a lemon, but it definitely turns into one.

Part One:
Lets back up a couple weeks to the middle of May. It just so happens to be the same weekend I lost my job, I had been feeling a little funny and figured it was time to take one of "those tests". And by "those tests" I mean a pregnancy test. After making myself fairly nervous I "do the deed" and lo and be hold, I'm pregnant! So I have a nervous breakdown for a few minutes and it finally sets in and turns into excitement. Fast forward a week later.

Part Two, The Actual Lemon-y Part :

The end of that next week has made me feel more miserable than I probably have in my whole life so far. I woke up that Saturday morning to something no pregnant woman wants to see.

Part of me wonders if I hadn't waited as long as I did this baby would still be alive, but I know in the back of my mind it just wasn't meant to be quite yet. After spending a few hours in the ER that night and the doctors repeatedly telling my it wasn't my fault and there was nothing I could do to prevent it, I still couldn't help but feel like it was. I thought back to all the times I did things they say you shouldn't do when you're gonna have a baby, and think if I didn't do that, or if I would have done more of another thing, I'd still be having this baby.

But what makes everything worse, is having to to go through the removal process. Using medication to force the remnants of what was out of me, hurts a whole heck of a lot. And the medication I was given to manage the pain just puts me to sleep, I maybe get to be awake for four or five hours a day. And on the off chance that I'm awake for a while, I'm somewhere off in la-la land and I'm not all there.
 
I've done it three times now. Hopefully I'm done, completely done, without needing the D&C. But every day I'm losing optimism that it will happen.

But luckily I have a husband that cares for me. Who just wants me to be happy, and tries everything he can think of to help me be that smiling face he's grown to love. I'll get there, I know I will. But having me be a person who is relatively quiet about the bad things that go on in life, is definitely hard for him.


-So this is how I'm talking about it. Where people can find out if they want to, and know exactly how I feel, without the need for me to directly explain it. 

New Job!!!

So if you follow me, you know I got laid off from my last job about three weeks ago. 

Thursday I had an interview for a job. Friday I got the call that I was hired :)

I start bright and early tomorrow (Monday) morning :)

I'm so very excited to start working again. Mostly so I won't be sitting wound the house, practically all day, and every day. Just waiting for James to be done with school for the day so we could be together. But working is gonna be good for me :) And the pay isn't bad either!! Hopefully I'll be a good fit so we can keep saving up money to get a little place of our own :) So so so excited :)  Maybe this will give me more of a solid schedule so I can get back to working out again? Not that my busy schedule of sitting at home was interrupting that. Just more of having a solid routine to work by every week :) Worse comes to worse, I just get a little more job experience :)

James is wrapping up this semester at CGCC and only has a few more credits before he gets to move on to bigger and better things :) ASU here we come...eventually :) 

Easter was great :) Our little nursery kids were so cute in their little Easter outfits!!

Mother's day is coming up and that means we get to talk to our missionaries again!! I know my Mom can't wait :)

School, Work, and Summer Shenanigans

Here's how its gonna go:

School: James is all registered for his summer classes and his classes for next fall. Ten credits over the summer, and fourteen for the upcoming Fall (and final) semester at CGCC :) Then on to bigger and better things at ASU!

Work: Work for me is well, fairly quickly coming to a hault. Unfortunately, the company I work for, is shutting down a couple stores in our area. Mine, just so happens to be one of them. Which ultimately seems like a blessing and a curse. Its bad because I need to go on the ever so fun job hunt again. A blessing because I can stop being used as a doormat by my coworkers. Well at least by these coworkers. Hopefully its the last set of coworkers that do it. But more about them later. 

And last but not least, our Summer Shenanigans:

I feel like this is the summer of a million weddings. Like I think I've been invited to at least 13 or 14 weddings, from now until June. And that's not all of the weddings that are going on, those are just the ones wanting addresses off Facebook at the moment. But alas, I don't hate weddings, or loathe going to them, ( I particularly enjoy them) I just think someone started a chain reaction that seems like its never going to stop! Most are in-state. But there are a few that aren't. And only one out-of-state wedding that we will be attending :)

Hopefully we will be finding an apartment this summer too. I really want it to be just us for a while. I've been sending James links to apartment complexes that are posted on Craigslist. Hopefully, come summer time, we will collectively be making enough money to do so. 

But for now, we are living, loving, and enjoying our lives together. We're also going to Disneyland next weekend, so hopefully there will be some pictures or videos to come :)

Enjoying That Married Life :)

Well all, its been a little over 3 1/2 months that we'e been married and we're still loving each other just as much as when we got started :)

I've been busy with work and James with school, but we did get to go down to Thatcher yesterday and we had a long, but fun, day. Got to spend some time with the Thatcher kids a bit and had fun playing Quelf. 

Now we're watching my parent's house while they go to Disneyland for a few days. I think it'll definitely be nice to have a little privacy ;) 

But we're great, having lots of fun and can't wait for what the future has in store for us!!

New Year, New Phones....

So the Hub's and I did it. We each got an iPhone 4 :) Mine still hasn't been activated yet because of a couple technical issues. But hopefully tomorrow will be the day that I can actually start using my new iPhone!!! He already had an iPhone previously, so he's fairly used to it, and I have an iPod, so there isn't much of a learning curve to overcome, which is nice :) But having my first smartphone is kinda exciting :)

And in other awesome news, my "Girl Best Friend" got married today!! It was a beautiful ceremony and reception and she looked stunning!! It was wonderful to see her so happy marrying the man of her dreams :) Now we wait to meet baby Mason!!

And other things to talk about, I've got a calling in my new ward... I'm teaching the nursery. Which is fine :) cause I love the kids, but I come home with rug burned knees on Sundays. I won't have to teach too terribly often because there's a lot of teachers that have the same calling. Which is extremely nice :)

It's weird to think that James and I have been married for a month already!!! It feels like longer and so much shorter at the same time, but I sure do love him!! <3