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Brave thing #1: Well tonight I FORCED Colby to go with me to get maternity pictures done. I wanted to do them for a few different reasons. For example, Colb and I have been married for almost 3 years now and have yet to have any pictures taken of us since our wedding! Also, I was referred to Abbey Kyhl for a photo shoot and she does some amazing work. Plus- it gave me a reason to get out of my FRUMPY maternity clothes and get ready for the first time in MONTHS! Hopefully I will be getting the disc with all the pics the first of next week so that I can post them and show ya'll how big my gut is at 30 weeks~

Brave thing #2: So I have decided that since I have a couple days off work, I am going to become very brave and attempt to make bedding for the nursery! I have also bought material to make a little dress for her! Here is a pic of the little dress that I have the pattern for but I am using a different fabric sheme.

This is kind of what I am hoping the bedding looks like~ We'll see how it turns out! I'm gonna bust out my amature sewing skills!

Crazy Couple of Weeks!

Well- starting the day of my last post- Colby and Ronnie were lion hunting and Chelise and I went to dinner then watched a movie and we kept wondering if we should start to worry because we hadn't heard from them and we always do at least an hour or so after dark!!! 9:00 pm came- still no word- 10 came- still no word- midnight- nothing- then finally at 2 am I had had enough of waiting and worrying- so I called search and rescue! Yes- I am the freakout wife! They told me they couldn't start searching till the morning- so they took some information from me. Well- lo and behold- at 3:30 am I FINALLY got a call from Colby. It turns out that the guy that they had been hunting with had gotten both of his trucks stuck in the snow so he could not get to where they were at to pick them up. They built a fire and took out their emergency blanket and snuggled in with the dogs! They were wet up to their waists and it was a cold cold night. Finally at 3- Jeff was able to get some snow mobiles up to where they were at!

Next crazy thing- did all you Cedar-ites feel the earthquake???? Well we did and it broke our back fence! Ugh!!!! It was a 4.1 magnum earthquake- so not huge (nothing compared to poor Haiti) -but it rattled us! We also felt an after-shock later that night-

Next crazy thing- my cousin Taylon Moody got in a horrible car accident on Tuesday the 12th. He's still in the ICU up at Utah Valley- he has had many complications, some sticky situations, back surgery and more surgery to come. He seems to be having a little improvment. We are praying for him and asking that he be in all of your prayers!

Colby has started his spring semester of school and it seems to be going good! He'll be glad when he gets through these pre-requisite courses and can HOPEFULLY have the summer off!

Prego update- little Hayden Millie is getting bigger and stronger- I'm at 27 weeks and counting! Next week is the lovely glucose screening and Rhogam shot ugh:( We still have so much to do to get ready it seems like!

Happy New Year!!

It's 2010!! Can you believe it?? Its crazy! I'm at work and I can't get used to writing 01/01/10~ I'ts totally throwing me off! What have we been up to lately? Well.......we went to good ole D-town for Christmas and made off with WAY too much stuff (Don't know where we'll put it all)! We had tons of fun hanging out with the fam's. Then Colby wisked himself away Sunday to go try and catch mountain kitties (no luck yet :( unfortunately for him and Ronnie)! I stayed home and taught primary and made my house the cleanest it has ever been- minus the kitchen floor- I can't bend over to clean it! I've got a growing obstacle in the way!

Speaking of the baby bump- Hayden is growing and getting stronger and stronger and Colby was finally able to feel her kick again on Christmas Eve. I told him that was her way of saying Merry Christmas Dad!

A little bit of discouraging information though- while taking care of one of my patients tonight his sweet little wife asked me when I was due. I am now getting used to everyone's startled reactions when I tell them, "Oh, not till the middle of April!" Needless to say, this sweet little lady had the exact same reaction that I have now become accustomed to- however, she tacked on, "Oh my dear, you still have a while-are you having twins?" Yes I know that my abdominal region looks as if I am about to explode; but, I do still have 3 1/2 months left to go!!!

I thought this cartoon was pretty funny because sometimes you just wanna blurt out that you just plain aren't feeling good while you're pregnant but in order to make the conversation go faster and to avoid sounding like a whiner- you just simply say everything is going good!!!

So here is my vent- I started the whole throwing up thing again after a five week break (thank goodness for that!) Every day when I get off work I want to cry because my back feels like it is breaking. Then, I can't peel myself off the couch for two days because I'm tired (and lazy). I have been wearing ted hose to- hopefully- help prevent the varicose veins but they annoy the heck out of me!!! Sleeping has become next to impossible. Bladder control is steadily declining. Stretch marks have appeared where I least expected them to (none yet on the belly, I stress yet, they will come). And last but not least- my poor husband gets to deal with my emotions. I think, for the most part, I have been emotionally somewhat stable however, I had a minor breakdown on Christmas Eve and my sister's rodeo horse had to be put down because of a broken shoulder and even though I didn't know this horse very well- I had a minor breakdown over that!

But there is a light at the end of the tunnel- 3 1/2 months and she's here! And to help me get to the finish line- Colby, very thoughtfully, bought me a pregnancy massage gift certificate! Wahoo! I'm so excited!! But I think I'm going to wait till I'm farther along and in more pain to take advantage of it!!

I promise that I do have a camera- I just forget to take it out of it's case except for on very rare occaisions- I hope that once our little one is here, I'll become a better historian, photographer, crafter, cook and everything else that it takes to be a mom!! I do admit that I am scared to death- but here we go!

Yay for 2010 and all the exciting and challenging things that come my way!

Yay for Christmas!!!

Well this is the first year since Colby and I have been married, that we get to have a REAL LIVE CHRISTMAS TREE!! I was so excited! Colby went up Thanksgiving morning with his dad and bro-in-law Ronnie to slay a couple trees. Of course, Colby had to find the best tree on the whole entire mountain!!! Needless to say, the tree does look beautiful despite my horrible decorating skills. I know there is a certain way that you are suppose to string the lights on a tree, but I didn't pay any attention to that!!!

Colby finally felt just ONE kick on Saturday night! He was so excited. He keeps trying to be able to feel her since and she just keeps playing hide-and-seek with him! But soon enough, we won't be able to get her to stop kicking!!!

21 1/2 weeks!!!

(I don't know how much farther the belly can stretch!!)

Colby is almost done with this semester at school (thank goodness). We are both excited for the 3 week break!! Next semester he has a pretty tough load again but he can do it!!!

Exciting News!!!

Since I am a fabulous blogger- we have had alot of exciting stuff happen since my last post!

First off- I wasn't able to get a job close to Delta but gratefully got hired at Dixie Regional Medical Center as an orthopedic nurse on the 4th floor. I really like working in St. George again! The people I work with are fabulous and really like the patient care.

Just a couple weeks into working there- we found out we were EXPECTING our FIRST little one! I am a nerd and on the first prego test we took I thought it said negative. So we went camping for the weekend with friends totally bummed about the result (but not bummed to be getting out). Then Sunday morning we took another test and it was a definite POSITIVE!! Let's just say that keeping it a secret for a few weeks was so absolutely HARD!!! But once I started getting sick, I had to let it out! It was fun being able to tell our families.

Then came decision time- with me working in St. George and living in Cedar- colby decided it was time to give his two weeks notice and move back in with me so that we could have our little family. He has always wanted to go back to school and we decided that this was the PRIME opportunity. He jumped right into fall semester and is completing his pre-requisit courses to become a RADIOLOGY TECHNICIAN. He went back to work with his old boss and bro-in-law working part-time as an apprentice electrician. School has been a battle but he is getting the hang of things and I am so proud of his decision to get a degree and better our situation for our family.



So he moved into my dungeon of an apartment. It didn't take both of us living there for long to decide that it just wasn't going to do for our growing family! After about a month of looking and a couple months of counter-offers. We were able to move into our house on October 7th thanx to the help of my wonderful dad who brought down the truck and horse-trailer to help us out! Thanx DAD!!!

But now for the most EXCITING NEWS OF ALL!!! We were able to have our BIG ULTRASOUND on Tuesday. We were able to see our little one on the ultrasound and in 3D. It was so fun to see. We found out that we are expecting a LITTLE GIRL!! Her name will be HAYDEN MILLIE BLISS. She was shy and wouldn't let us get a picture of her little face- however, she wasn't shy about showing us that she is for sure a little girl!

It was so fun and we are so excited to officially meet her around April 17th, 2010. She already has her dad wrapped around her little finger!!!

Someday I'll become good at blogging!

Colby and I got to go to Vegas in June where I took my DREADED NCLEX test. We decided to make a weekend outof it because it was also our TWO YEAR anniversary trip. So we stayed at the Stratusphere, went to American Superstars, ate tons of food and got to hang out with one of Colby's mission buddies.

A few days later I found out that I passed my test and became an official Registered Nurse. I thought the day would never come!

Here we are exhausted after walking up and down the strip seeing all the lovely sights Vegas has to offer! Ha Ha!

GRADUATION!!!!!

These are pics from graduation, the pinning ceremony and the one is of President Monson walking in to speak at the Commencement Ceremony! How freakin lucky am I that I had the prophet speaking at MY graduation!!! Anyways, I can't believe that this portion of my life is over! Now all I have to do is pass my test! (yes I know that I am REALLY cheesing it in this last picture while my friends stand there looking gorgeous!!)