BRING IT

As I am getting more and more ready for our lil one I am getting more and more excited. We haven't had the freak out yet of "what are we doing?" "can we handle this?" "are we ready?" etc. I do have to say that I laugh every time someone tries to warn me about how much my life will change and they ask "are you guys REALLY ready?" I think to myself A. Do I look like a teen mom with no clue about life? B. What makes someone REALLY READY?

I have to say I am thankful for all my family and friends who have already had kids to get me comfortable with the changes that will come. Sure it is much different when it is your own, do people really feel the need to explain that? Isn't that common sense? While I have witnessed many of these changes happen to those around me, heard the issues, seen the exhaustion, listened to the frustrations and concerns I know it will be on a much more intense level when it is me going through it. Yet I still say to myself "Bring it on, I am so ready for different." It's not like Aaron and I got married yesterday (almost 8 years) and we have been ready for "different" for awhile now.

I am excited for the SLAP IN THE FACE CHANGE that is about to happen in 6 weeks or so and you can remind me that if you ever hear me saying anything of the contrary (promise I give you 100% full permission to quote me).


The crib was delivered today (Nursery is in process)
Carpets get cleaned next week
Hospital bag is packed
Head is down

and with that I say BRING IT, let's get our baby girl here in the next 6 weeks.

Few more weeks to go so few more inches to expand!!!

A year....what?

Crazy what can change in just ONE year. Here Aaron and I are last year this time, enjoying at day at the beach. While it was a difficult year in terms of us starting a family and we dealt with all the emotions that came with it, we look happy. The human soul is pretty incredible, it can deal with so much and be still so strong and resilient.


Here we are this year just last week and even though I was happy in the picture above, you can tell that I am much happier in this picture. My face says it all I think. I am ecstatic and can't wait for what is to come for us. Even though I felt happy last year, I didn't feel like my total complete self. Yet here I am a year later and what a difference a year has made!!!


This last week was CRA CRA CRAZY and I have to be honest that I am still overwhelmed about it all. My friend Pam and I went to the Ellen Mother's Day Show. It was amazing and so much fun. Imagine a room full of 300-400 pregnant woman receiving amazing gifts. It was out of control. I was hoarse by the end of the show and was completely exhausted both physically and emotionally. What a great help it was to receive the gifts we received that day. We know this next year will be tight with me not working for awhile and the giveaways from Ellen are for sure going to lighten the load. We were not allowed to take photos inside the studio but here we are waiting before. And NO we did not plan to match.


Below are the beautiful flowers my Aar Bear got me for Mother's Day. He walked in the door tonight (Saturday) with them and I died. So beautiful and completely my style. I love him and am so thankful to know that we are about to start a crazy amazing adventure.


Our weekend has been full of baby shopping and organizing. We have re arranged some of our furniture and our place is on its way to being ready for baby. This next week I will be heading to Arizona for my last babyless trip home and for a baby shower thrown by mom's dear friends, most of whom have witnessed me grow up. I am so excited to celebrate the blessing that is on her way with them and continue to overwhelmed with gratitude for the generosity, love, support and care of those around us.

They make it look so easy

How do all the woman out there do it?

I have to say being pregnant has been the coolest thing in my life up to this point, something I am extremely grateful for. However I feel like there was not enough heads up about how emotionally difficult it is.

Please do not get be wrong, I am in NO WAY complaining, as it really is incredible and I feel extremely blessed.

I have got to say though that I don't know how many more nights I can handle waking up in extreme fear and worry for our lil one. While being pregnant is the greatest thing I have experienced it is the scariest thing I have ever been through.

• I remember thinking having my brother Matt leave on his mission was the hardest thing ever.
• Then it was when Jeremy left on his mission, I would stay up at night and just bawl in my bed.
• Then my parents left on their mission to Africa where they experienced a civil war and some of the craziest, uncertain situations ever.
• I then remember applying for graduate school and being so anxious about not getting in I felt at times I couldn't breathe.
• Then it was the decision to move to CA for Aaron to go to school where we up and left our home and our friends and family, everything we had established ourselves on since being married.
• Then came the time when we wanted to start a family and couldn't and we felt discouraged and started to process the possibility of not being able to have children.

Now here we are and we are pregnant and I have to say it is freaking scary. I have never felt more vulnerable in my life. Not just vulnerable as it relates to our lil one but also Aaron and my family. I worry more about Aaron when he is traveling for work and I worry and pray all the time for the safety of my family. Here we are so close to what we have wanted for so long and I feel like at any moment my life could just crumble.

Last night was one of those nights where I could not sleep (not really a new thing) and I woke up to feeling our baby going nutso in my belly. Something I really and truly love. However I have been having crazy intense pelvic pain over the last couple weeks which results in my feeling as if I can't even stand up (broke my tailbone and messed up my pelvic area pretty good when I was 14 and I am repaying for it now). So here I am just uncomfortable, deprived of sleep and left alone with my worries. Needless to say I totally became overcome with fear. Really and truly the way I think Satan shows up in my life. I am not tempted by other things or feel satan's power in my life except for when he shows up as FEAR. I should know better, my mom always has taught me that any prompting or feeling from our Heavenly Father would not present as FEAR, yet in the moment at 2:30 a.m. last night I just couldn't shake all my worries.

I woke Aaron up and thankfully he was there for me and completely helped to bring me back to comfort and security.

I am okay with discomfort, it is not the hard part for me at all while being pregnant. Sure I can't stand or walk at times cause I feel like I will buckle at my pelvis, yes throwing up is still an all too familiar occurence, gaining weight is not necessarily comfortable, but really I don't mind all that stuff plus all the others. I really don't. I celebrate the physical discomforts. However I gotta say the worry and vulnerability is the hardest for me.

Thanks for reading, that is if you made it this far, I just had to get it out there.

Freaking out

Got the call this morning...it is official. I have tickets to the Mother's Day show on Ellen. I am freaking out...seriously dying. Can't wait. I honestly love Ellen. Her show brings me so much joy and is my go to everyday. She is not only hysterical but such a nice woman...I know right like I actually personally know her. But for real she does so much good and I am so excited to celebrate the arrival of our lil one with her and all other pregger mommas!!! Thanks ELLEN ahead of time.

Preggers at the park

We heave kinda been slacking on the pregger pics. I think cause I went through a phase of just feeling plump all over rather than baby bump. However I am feeling like I have made it to the phase of THERE IS ACTUALLY A BABY IN THERE NO IT IS NOT A NEW YEARS RESOLUTION GONE WRONG!!! This week I will be hitting the 28 week mark. I am feeling great and she moves constantly and I freaking LOVE it. I have major pelvic pain which is not cool and often leaves me struggling to even walk and move for a few minutes after getting up, worth it though OF COURSE.

ellen

Shout out to my most favorite talk show host EVER. Aaron and I were joking the other day how when we first got married he used to get calls in the afternoon and I would be on the other end of the phone crying because I was watching Oprah. Now while still an Oprah fan, I have to say over the years I have needed more and more Ellen in my life. For the last 3 years it has been a MUST everyday after a long day of work. Now Aaron hears laughter from the other room or is told he HAS to watch something from the show. I really love Ellen and I am gonna just say if you are not watching it regularly you and are going to have to have an intervention!

I have put in for tickets for awhile now and never have gotten called so last week when my friend Pam asked me if I wanted to go with her I of course jumped at the chance. Then I looked it up and found out my main man Timothy Olyphant would be on that day. Another MUST watch is Justified. Aar and I love that show and well Timothy's character RAYLAN GIVENS is my main star squeeze.

We went to the riff raff room in hopes we can get into the MOTHER'S DAY show as no lie I have checked the site everyday since I found out we were preggers. I have been dreaming of this show forEVER!!! I have written in 2x, Aar wrote 2x, Ash wrote for me, Katie wrote for me and others were planning on it. Hoping it all works out and we get in. I coulnd't sleep the night before the show because I was thinking of how I can get to the Mother's Day show and if you know me my mind tends to race and with that combined with the struggles of sleeping that come along with being 7 months pregnant resulted in no sleep for me. But I was on cloud 9 when we got to the show. Everyone was so nice, I couldn't believe how awesome the staff was. Never annoyed or upset with the hundreds of ELLEN fans.

LOVED IT.

Can't wait to hear back about Mother's Day show. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh yup freaking out.

Missing you

So Ash you may kill me for this pic, as it is a great classic pic of you after 3 days camping in Idaho. But I love the pic, because it makes me smile, just thinking of you looking like this all smiley and cute. I have to say I am FREAKING out. I haven't seen you since Idaho in August and I don't know if I will be seeing you before baby Murray makes her way here and it is KILLING me. Thankfully you and I talk pretty much every day either on the phone, text or gchat and that is the only thing that is making it not seem as long as it has been. But then I think about it and I am like "seriously it has been that long!!!" Anyway I just miss you, like in person. I love that nothing ever seems to change between us, we pick up right where we left off, you would think we don't live on complete opposite sides of the country. I LOVE YOU!!!



And then my better half Aar Bear. He has been on his monthly east coast trip and I can't wait for him to get home tomorrow night. I had a dream, no lie, that we were living in the Jersey Shore house and we were dating and best friends and then he decided he didn't want to be my best friend anymore. I didn't care much about him not wanting to date me, but he didn't want to be my best friend and it made me so sad. He was making fun of me and playing pranks on me with the rest of the Jersey Shore guys and I woke up at 5 am so sad. I had to text him right away (he was up since it was 8 for him east coast time) Anyway I love him it's true. And yes I should probably not watch so much "T SHIRT TIME" goodness.


I am pretty stoked because I get to see my Liam, Georgie, KT and MOM and DAD next week in AZ. I am going for a whole week!!! Can't wait...ahhhhhhhhhhhhh get me there. Actually get Aaron home for a few days first then get me to AZ.