Wow 12/18/2009

Happy 5 Year Anniversary to Jason and Me! I can’t believe it’s been 5 years, it’s gone by so fast! Our little family has grown and a lot has happened in 5 years.

Married, lived in apartment in Sandy Springs, had ghetto neighbors, I taught 7th grade, Jason graduated from GA Tech, bought our first home in Johns Creek, Jason’s had 2 jobs, Kate was born one month after 3 year anniversary!, baby girl  2 will be born in 12 weeks! I love my husband and I love that we still have so much fun together! Jason was sick on our anniversary so we’ll be celebrating another day, though I feel like we already celebrated with our Grand Teton trip.

We were so happy on our wedding day, practically giddy and we’re blessed to still be so happy together.  

~I love this last picture because Jason can’t stand icing so the piece I fed him was pure icing :)

Thanksgiving in Columbus

   

We spent Thanksgiving in Columbus with EVERYONE! The whole family was there, all 22 of us which made for a full house but also made for a very fun time! Katherine had so much fun playing with all her cousins and running around and jumping on the trampoline. She was exhausted every night.  Thanks to Jason’s Mom we ate amazing food all weekend too!  We have a lot to be thankful for this year. I’m so glad we live near family. My side and Jason’s side. We just need to get Jennifer to move back now :) I’m thankful for a healthy family and a healthy pregnancy. I’m excited for this baby to join our family!

Family Portrait

  

 

 

 

 

Kate has to keep up with all the boys!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

She’s such a happy child!!!

Making s’mores, singing songs, hanging out

One month short of our 5 Year Anniversary

Kates Bedtime Routine

Kate goes 100% all day up until she goes to bed. She will be jumping in her bed as I leave her room at night. Before I can get downstairs she’s out. To prove it I taped Kates typical bedtime routine. You can see for yourself how she turns it off like a switch:

A Little Too Helpful

I realize this makes me sound like a serious complainer but it’s been annoying me for awhile now. I grocery shop mainly at Kroger and sometimes Publix. I love them both.  When I go to check out I put my items on the conveyer belt in a certain order.  Cold items together, pantry items together, squashable items together, bath items together…. This way they’re bagged in that order too.  However, lately every time I walk up to the line an associate hurries over to unload my groceries. Nice right? Well they never do it right! They put eggs next to bread and milk next to toothpaste…  I’ll even try to shoo them away by saying “Oh I can get it.” It doesn’t work, they insist. And then I feel bad and can’t start rearranging their hard work while they’re still standing there. I’m afraid it would insult them, so I’m stuck with a bunch of groceries that are all bagged incorrectly.  Thank you Kroger/Publix for being so helpful but please lay off a little!

Trick-or-Treat

We really drug Halloween out this year. It started with our ward Trunk-or-Treat.  There was food, candy, games, and tons of cute kids. I didn’t know how Kate would do with trunk-or-treating but by the third car she was holding her bucket out saying “trick-or-trick.” It was probably the cutest thing I ever saw. Jenny came with us so while Jason manned our trunk we took Kate around to all the cars.

Dalmatian Dog

Katherine is still obsessed with dogs so I had to dress her as one!

Jason and I went to a Halloween party which meant we used an actual babysitter for the first time! When Kate was little we just toted her around with us and put her to sleep in a spare room/BR/closet, or we left her with my parents.  Kate’s older now and I knew my parents would be busy so we asked a girl from church that we really trust and everything seemed to go fine. 

Jason was a Cobra Kai and I was his Pregnant High School Girlfriend

Actual Halloween was kind of a nasty day but we still had to take Kate trick-or-treating.  We went to my parents then went around to a couple of homes in their neighborhood. Kate really has the hang of the whole trick or treating process.  After awhile though she was over it and became kind of scared to go up to the doors, so we went home and handed out candy to the kids in our neighborhood.  We were left with a ton of candy and I have been eating HANDFULS every day!

Too Cute!

“Trick-or-Treat”

Kate with chocolate all over her mouth – she definitely had a sugar high!

About a week ago my sister came home to visit and Kate went straight to her and even tries to say “JenJen”

More Mountain Fun

Back in August we went to the mountains (NC) with Ty and Dana. We love taking Kate on hikes plus it’s so pretty there and was a way to escape the insane August heat. It was a fun trip considering Dana was 7 months pregnant and I was around 9 weeks and sick all the time!  Something about mountain air really makes me feel better because I wasn’t as sick there just like when we were in WY. Dana even managed to do all the hikes with no problem!  I forgot my camera but Dana took a ton of pictures for us with her fancy camera.

 

Too cute

 

 

Pre-Hadley Picture! Such a cute family :)

We’re already planning our retirement to be somewhere in North GA or NC

Making S’mores

Had a little trouble convincing Ty to get in the water

A Day at the Zoo

Our friends, Greg and Lara, told us about this fantastic promotion Bank of America was having. If you’re a Bank of America customer you could go to the zoo for free this particular Saturday, which is totally worth it since it’s $20 a person to go to the zoo and there’s no way I’d pay that much to see caged animals. (On a side note – zoos really are kind of sad when you think about it)

This was Kate’s first time and she had fun. I don’t know how interested she was in all the animals but she liked the lions and the monkeys were her favorite. She mainly just liked being outside and watching all the people/ looking for babies. I really liked the kid area of the zoo. The have a playground, petting zoo, train, and other kid friendly animals. Except there was a worker dressed as a pumpkin head and he kept following us around even though he was obviously creeping Kate out!

We had a lot of fun and it was really nice to hang out with Greg and Lara since we don’t get to see them as often since they moved.

Kate was pretty nervous at first to touch the animals

She really liked the pigs

Kate, Jason, Greg, and Lara looking at the elephants

The giraffes were my favorite

Our little monkey trying to escape :)

Survival

During my first trimester I had a concern that I called my Doctors office about. I was talking to the nurse and she said, “Honey, the first trimester is all about survival.” How true!

I survived the constant worry of miscarriage. I was fortunate that I was able to hear the heartbeat at 7 weeks then again at 10 weeks. Even though I was extremely relieved after hearing the heartbeat the first time I still couldn’t help but worry. I don’t think of myself as a pessimist or even extreme worrier, except when it comes to being pregnant. I don’t know why but I worry about something wrong happening. I know it still could and even now there’s no guarantee but my worry seems to be mainly focused during the first trimester.

I survived the “morning” sickness, which for me means 24hr a day sickness. Literally, I would wake up during the middle of the night and it would take forever to fall back asleep because I was so sick. I was really sick with Katherine, but this was even worse. It’s hard when you never get a break. I had a few weeks straight of not even having a minute of feeling good. Then I got about an hour each morning and I loved that hour. It was still hard though because there was nothing I could do and I tried everything! You know how even when you feel horrible it still feels good to lay on the couch under a blanket, watch a movie, and have someone take care of you? Even when I was lying around, which I did A LOT of, I still felt miserable!  Plus you don’t want to complain because you want this baby more than anything and would suffer as much as possible if it means a healthy baby.  Luckily I’m not one of those few who are sick their entire pregnancy. I really don’t know how they do it!

So, I’m excited to be in this stage of the pregnancy. I’m still sick but it’s only in the evenings and it’s getting better every day! I can be more active with Kate and the house is no longer falling apart. I can actually cook dinner so we’re not surviving off quesadillas, cereal, fast food, or whatever Jason could find in the pantry for him and Kate to eat.  I should add that Jason was very patient with me during my “sickness” and really helped out with cleaning and playing with Kate. I know he’s glad for that stage to be over though :) And so am I since we definitely have different definitions of clean!

It’s Official

We’re having a

BABY GIRL!!!!

We’re so excited! I really really wanted Katherine to have a sister. Plus, I don’t have to change the awesome nursery or buy new bedding or new blankets or new clothes… This baby will be born in the same season as Kate was so the majority of the clothes should work. And, they get to share a room now.

I kind of thought it was a girl but wasn’t positive and Jason had no idea. It took the technician forever to officially say it was a girl because she would not stop moving! It looks like we’re going to have another very active baby girl :)

It was also hard to get pictures of her being still since she literally would not stop moving. We have a couple where she’s looking straight at you but I think it’s hard to tell on the computer so here’s a profile one of her perfect little spine :)

Day 5 Yellowstone

Our last day we left the Tetons and went to Yellowstone.  We were spoiled by being practically the only people hiking around the Tetons so it took us back a little by how crowded Yellowstone was, and this wasn’t even during the peak season! We only saw the southern half of the park and what we saw was definitely pretty.

My favorite was the canyons.

 

  Jason’s favorite was West Thumb, the geysers. 

The geysers were boiling hot and crystal clear, going down farther than you could see.

The waterfalls were really pretty too. 

Neither of us get the fascination with Old Faithful.  It was okay, nothing spectacular.  I figured the last day would be a good one to try and get some pregnant pictures.  

We spent the entire day there, saw some more Bison and then headed back to get ready for our flight the next day.    We would like to come back and spend some more time in Yellowstone some day.  You just can’t even scratch the surface of everything there in 1 day.

I couldn’t wait to get home and hug and kiss Kate.  I’m so thankful I was able to leave her with my parents. It’s nice leaving her with people you know love her and will keep her safe. 

This was the best trip ever (besides Cozumel).  Everything was better than we planned and was just so beautiful. I don’t know if we’ll ever go back since we kind of like to go to new places but I highly recommend you go.  And you must go in September, the weather was amazing and it never rained.