On the Move
Awhhhhh. I am so beyond ready to move, and yes, it is finally happening. Dave and I qualified for an apartment in North Logan and are so excited to be out on our own. Halleluja. It will be really tight income wise, but Dave is currently looking for better paying jobs, and possible internships or jobs that have to do with his Sociology degree. Alot of the jobs are in Ogden and Salt Lake area, which I am more than ok with, so we will see what happens with work. The place we are renting we will move into the beginning of August and we only have to sign a 6 month lease, which is so perfect in case Dave is able to get a job far away. We can move sooner than later to be closer to his work, and If I have to do hair at a salon a few nights a week it will be so much better out of the Valley for me to do that, because the pay is better outside of Cache Valley. Sorry to bash this place so much, but when it comes to hairstylists, this valley is the worst place to make money. Nobody tips, nobody wants to pay what we need to charge to pay our own bills. It makes me so sad when Great Clips or large chain salons do these $6 haircut deals, the poor stylists. Did you know that places like that, the stylists only get commission? So if you have thick hair and are super picky, and it takes 30 minutes to cut your hair, they usually only get 35-40% of the $6, so if they do two haircuts in an hour, they only make around $5 in an hour. That's less than minimum wage people! Phew, I think I'm done with that rant. Anyway, so excited to move, be on our own, and feel like we have our own life again. Trust me, if you have never lived with your parents or in-laws while married with kids, you will never understand or be able to give me or anyone advice, or be able to make valid comments about it, especially when I have lived here for almost 3 years. So please think before you do. Thank You. Man alive I have alot of prego sass this time around. So Happy. :)
Weddings
There were so many girl cousins of mine on the Purser side that got married these last few months. I am so happy for all of them and feel so blessed to have such beautiful people in my family! Here is Rachelle, Kassie, Sheena, and Shawnie!
Blessed & Beyond
I have to write about our experiences yesterday. A couple of months ago I saw tickets for Chris Young for really cheap, so I asked Dave if I could get tickets for us and he said YES, thank goodness, Dave is not a country fan, and I am. :) Even though I thought it through and knew that I would be pregnant and it was a mid-day concert outside in June, I figured I would be fine and I really wanted to do something fun before I got any bigger than I knew I would be. Anyway, I read online about the concert and it said that there would be a few singers headlining and then Chris Young, so I figured it would be like any other concert and be anywhere from 2-3 hours long. Well, when we got there it ended up being an "EagleFest", and Chris Young wouldn't be performing until 8:30ish or so. I was soooo mad, because nothing online or on our tickets explained that it was a 7 hour event. Bleh! It was soooo hot and I was soooo miserable. We didn't bring any snacks or food because they weren't allowed, and there was no re-entry to the event, so we couldn't leave and grab food and drinks. We ended up paying a ridiculous amount of money for fattening, disgusting food, with no nutrition for my little baby. Thank goodness there was an air-conditioned food place with bathrooms, because we ended up hanging out in there for awhile so I could be comfortable for at least a little bit. Basically by the time Chris Young came out to perform, I wasn't even excited or having fun anymore because I was so exhausted. I really just wanted to crawl into my bed and sleep! We ended up getting home just before midnight. Oy! I must say, that my main point of this post is the little miracles that happened during the day. It kind of relates to life in one day, it's long and miserable at times, but there are blessings along the way that make-up for it. First miracle of the day was right when we got there. We layed out our blanket for a good spot and I put some sunscreen on and of course needed to use the bathroom. As I was leaving the restroom I went to move my wedding ring on my finger to wipe the excess water from underneath it and realized my ring was gone! I searched my pockets and purse, and then headed back to the sink that I washed my hands in, it was nowhere to be found! I was having a mini panic attack and Dave came out of the restroom and I told him what had happened and he also became very concerned. He checked with me where all I had checked and suggested that we return to our blanket in hopes that it was there. It was! Thank goodness nobody stole it while we were gone, I figured I must've set it down when I was putting sunscreen on and completely forgot to retrieve it. The other mini miracle was as we were pulling out of where we parked, it was time to pay and the total was $17.oo, geez, that was not the amount we had expected at all, and with our low funds these days, we had yet another panic attack. The lady scanned our card and it wouldn't work at all, so she said it was our lucky day and let us go free! Wow! What a sense of relief and we were so thankful. Our ride home went much smoother because of that tiny miracle. We feel so blessed in many ways, and ended up having some happiness during our day.
Prego with Legos
This baby is sucking the energy out of me. I feel like such a lazy bum and I feel bad for Dylan, because he has soooo much energy, and constantly wants to play all day. Me playing with him consists of laying on the floor stacking legos while he helps me out, and knocking them down once it becomes too tall to stand. I've been trying to come up with ideas to get us away from the house, so today we went to the temple and walked around. Then comes a problem, the sudden urge to pee, this is the urge I have everytime I finally get to a destination for Dylan to finally have some fun, which ends up being 15 minutes and then packing him back in the car so I can find a semi-nice bathroom close by. The joys of pregnancy.
So I thought that my crazy months were over, until end of May and June came...We have had 2 cousins who have gotten married and 2 who are getting married. Then there's Father's day, we also attended my brother's suprise 30 1/2 Birthday party that Traci threw for him down in Pleasant Grove. She was close to giving birth on his real birthday so she wasn't able to help him celebrate it like you should for the big 30. It was alot of fun and I can't wait to see my nephews again this weekend for the big Purser Father's day party, and one of the weddings.
I am so stoked about the 4th of July coming up, it is my favorite holiday, yes it even surpasses Christmas. There's just something about the hot weather, Bear Lake, Fireworks, the Cruise-In, and all of the fun festivities. I can't wait until July gets here, my favorite month out of the year!
16 & 20 Weeks
Here I am at 16 weeks. Let's be honest, Dylan is not a fan of holding still and holding up the sign...
Here I am at 20 weeks. I'm getting a huge belly, and appetite obviously...
Here's to hoping I don't gain as much as I did with Dylan. Oy!
It's a...
Mother's Day Weekend
This past Friday, Saturday, and Sunday was the most AMAZING weekend. Dave has Friday's off so it's like his "Saturday", we left Dylan with my parents for the day and headed down to Pleasant Grove to see Mike, Traci, Logan, and Liam. I wish I lived down there so I could play with my nephews and help Mike and Traci out more. My nephews are the sweetest little things ever, I am so glad I am their Aunt. After a couple hours of fun with them, we headed to see Dave's sister Sarah's new baby girl. This is their second adoption within a year! They will definitley have their hands full with two girls within a year old. Addison is so cute and on the move, she reminds me of Dylan at that age. Then little Olivia is so content and slept most of the time while we were there. It makes me excited for a newborn and I hope #2 will be as good of a baby as Dylan was! After visiting family we headed to the new City Creek Mall in Salt Lake. It is a beautiful mall, and I was so happy when we found out their was a Cheesecake Factory restaurant there, because that's where we wanted to go out to eat while down in Salt Lake. We had so much fun, long overdue fun...we have decided that the weight of Dave's schooling has been lifted off of both our shoulders, which makes both of us much happier people. It was literally a PERFECT day. :) On Saturday we headed to the Health Days parade so we could support our city and let Dylan get some candy. We headed to the little fair that they do at the park and looked around at the booths and let Dylan slide down a slide and ride the train. I was so exhausted from the day before and so we headed home to rest for a bit before I headed to another event. My neighbor and past Young Women's leader and Girl's Camp Director Patty Jones was celebrated for the amazing woman she is. A few of the Young Woman who were Laurels when I was a Beehive planned a huge event at our church and even had Michael McLean come sing to Patty. Patty has been such an amazing leader to the youth and an inspiration to many. She has been through a couple of cancers and now has terminal cancer. She lost a daughter from a Brain Tumor and has another who survived a Brain Tumor. Patty has been such a great Christlike example to many and has so much Faith and Strength. She is an amazing woman! I was able to go to the event and chat with her for a minute and thanked her for being my leader and an amazing woman. I of course cried and she told me "tears are ok, it's ok to cry." She also told me that it was HER pleasure to be my leader, what a huge example she is to me, I want to be her when I grow up!
It was so nice to see some of the other Young Woman I grew up with and visit with old neighbors and just be in Patty's presence. KSL also did a special on the Mormon Times on Mother's Day with her and the Laurels I was talking about, so go to KSL and look it up, and you will just feel the spirit she has right through this special. On to Sunday-Mother's Day...It was great. Dave brought me breakfast in bed, and Dylan jumped into bed with me and ate all my bacon and most of my meal, so cute! Dylan gave me a giant Mother's Day card and some candies. Dave gave me a card and a Willow Tree statue I've had my eye on for awhile now. It's the one with the husband holding the pregnant wife, so sweet.
I was definitely spoiled, and I would have to say that the BEST and least expected Mother's Day gift was Dylan staying in nursery all of church! He is 2 years old, and it has been six long months of nursery for Dave and I. So glad to be able to have some ME time at church and sit by some fun ladies in Relief Society and feel the spirit. After church we headed up to have lunch with Dave's family and then my parents stopped by and gave me a card. Dave and I slacked on Mother's Day gifts this year because we had such a busy weekend with too much spending. Whoops! Don't worry moms, something will come eventually, we love you both, and are thankful for your examples of motherhood! Phew. I think I covered mostly everything. We do find out what we are having in a little over a week, so I will let you all know then!
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