January 09- I started my last semester in college. There is nothing like graduation on the horizon to give you really bad senioritis! Jared started just another semester, and has many more to go. He finally decided to start working towards a Biology degree. Uriah turned 7 months old, and at the end of the month we got family pictures taken.
February 09- I don't remember much about February. Uriah turned 8 months old. I'm sure we did something for Valentine's Day, but I don't remember what it was. How terrible my memory is! Oh, we found out what kind of nice tax break we could get by having a child to claim on our taxes! That was a really nice bonus, and we were able to make good use of our tax refund.
March 09- Uriah turned 9 months old. I decided that with our tax money I would book us a room at the Black Swan Inn so that we could have a nice weekend away from parenthood and from school. My mom watched Uriah and Jared and I staid in the log cabin suite. It was very very nice. I love having huge jetted tubs that we can both bathe in together. We ate at Red Lobster after we checked in.
Right before spring break I stopped taking my birth control. I thought it would take another 7 months to get pregnant, like it did with Uriah...well, we'll see how that worked out in a few months.
April 09- I know it was around here some time, but I think Jared and I bought a new surround system with our tax money. It has really been quite nice for us and it sure can make a loud racket in a small apartment like ours. Uriah turned 10 months old.
May 09- I finished my last semester of college and graduated with a Bachelor's degree in English. I have never felt more accomplished. It felt like a great weight was taken off my shoulders. I have always enjoyed school and going to classes, but there was something about receiving a degree that is very satisfying. I had a graduation party with some food and friends.
Shortly after graduation, I was hit by someone who ran a stop sign and my car was totaled. We got $1300 for it. I was very sad, because even though it was a big granny car, it ran well and kept me feeling safe. Jared and I had to share cars for a while, and it didn't take very long for me to get tired of that.
Shortly after my car accident, I found out I was pregnant. I was quite a few weeks late but I didn't want to get my hopes up because I always missed a few periods when I stopped taking birth control. It wasn't exactly the best news to get after we lost our car, but we knew everything would turn out okay.
Uriah turned 11 months and started walking. It wasn't very long before we were chasing him around the house.
June 09- I had my first doctor's appointment and found out that I would be due on Christmas Eve. Not exactly the happiest news in my life, but I knew there was nothing I could do about it. Because I was no longer a student my job at the financial aid office was coming to an end. After working there for 3 years I was going to have to join the real world and start looking for a job. Luckily, at the beginning of the year I had put my name on the state job register for state jobs, and one day I got an email to interview for a job at the College of Pharmacy. It was my first ever real job interview, and I was very nervous. I was the very first interview and two days after my interview they called me and offered me the position. I was so happy! I thought sure there would be someone more qualified than me for the job.
My twin brother got married to a beautiful, fun girl. It was a good day.
Uriah turned 1 year old on the 21st. We had a little birthday party and we were lucky enough to have lots of family there, even though it was also Father's Day. We made cream filled cupcakes and enjoyed a nice BBQ inside, because it was hailing and raining.
July 09- I started my first real job. I was very nervous, and my first week included an overnight trip to Boise, but thankfully the girl who had the job before me was there to help. She has been the nicest person when it comes to helping me with the job.
I decided that I was tired of sharing cars with Jared and I went out while he was at work to look for a new car. I found us a nice Honda Civic Hybrid 2005 and I drove it over to Jared so he could see it. We both fell in love with it and have been very happy about it ever since.
August 09- I turned 23. I know it's not that old, but when I think back on past years it makes me feel old. I had my 20 week ultrasound and found out that we were going to have a baby girl. I was sad at first because I really wanted another boy, and it took me quite a while to get over it, but I started watching other peoples' little girls and it got me more excited about it.
Jared started another semester of school.
I started showing, just a little bit.
We took Uriah to a pediatric eye specialist and found out that he would need to have surgery to correct his droopy eyelid. We planned a trip to Salt Lake for early next month.
We enjoyed Jared's financial aid for about two seconds.
September 09- We took Uriah to Salt Lake to have his eyelid lifted. It was hard for me to see him afterwards because he didn't know what was going on and he cried and cried and cried, and so did I, but in the end we all turned out okay . We staid at my aunts house for three days and that was very enjoyable.
On the 18th Jared's sister got married and we made another trip down to SLC. We left Uriah with grandma so that he could continue recovering from his surgery.
October 09- Another successful Halloween party! We were up til 3:30am and played games all night long. I love having my yearly party. Funny thing is, I didn't put up any Halloween decorations this year. I was disappointed with myself, but being 6 months pregnant, I convinced myself that I didn't need to put up a whole bunch of decorations this year.
November 09- We had Thanksgiving with Jared's parents because we knew we wouldn't be able to be there for Christmas with a new baby. I started counting down the days until my due date.
December 09- We welcomed a new baby into the family. Jordyn Rae was born on the 23rd and has been such a blessing to us. Uriah has been a good big brother and has transitioned better than we thought he would. I will post more about our new addition in a different post.
09 had its ups and downs but overall was a good year to us. Here's to starting out a new year!
