Looking Back for the Future

I thought I would try going through the last year and recalling some memories, good and bad. I've seen other bloggers do this and I thought it would be fun. I probably won't remember all that I want to, but it will be fun to think through the last year.

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!

Snow Days

Ever since Uriah could crawl, I have been waiting for a good snow day to come around when I could take him outside and let him play around. Well, Saturday night we finally got a good snow dumping, and I decided it was time to take him outside before baby sister comes. He had a good time but didn't like falling down into the snow. He wasn't used to wearing such bulky clothes and had to get used to wearing his boots, but after we had been out there for a while he decided it wasn't so hard to get around. Well, there are only 10 days left until my due date, and hopefully the baby will come in less than that. I have decided to be induced on the 23rd if the baby hasn't come before then. I will ask my doctor about it this week and see what he says. I am definitely ready to have this baby out of me, but more than willing to wait if it means I don't have to be induced!

Updates

It's been a while since I've blogged. There's not a whole lot to say right now, but I've got lots of pictures to update. Uriah is doing very well and he likes to make animal sounds now. He can tell you what the lion, snake, monkey, cow, and kitty say. For Halloween we decided that he would be a little lion since he could make the sound for it. It is getting close to D-Day. I am 34 weeks now, so only a little more than a month now. I am getting excited for my baby girl to come, especially since I am getting more and more uncomfortable. I just don't get a very good night's sleep anymore, but I do what I can. Uriah has started sleeping in a twin bed, which went a lot smoother than I thought it would, but he seems to be waking up in the night a lot more lately. I think the cold weather wakes him up. He moves around so much at night that when his blanket falls off of him he doesn't know how to pull it back on. I guess we'll have to start using the heater more than we do, or give him an extra layer under his jammies. Pretty soon we are going to start moving things around in our apartment to make room for the new baby and to give her her own room. She will be in our room for a few months but now that Uriah has a twin bed AND a crib in his room we decided we should move the crib into another room. Well, that's about all I can think of for now. More to come some other day.


Daddy found an old croc head in storage that his parents gave to him a while ago. He decided to leave it out for Uriah to play with (yuck). At first Uriah didn't like it, but once he got used to it being around he decided to carry it around with him. Hopefully he doesn't get too attached to it, cuz it might just disappear one day ;)

Haircuts and Illnesses

Life goes on...the countdown to baby #2 is now 9 weeks. Pretty crazy! We are doing what we can to get ready for the new addition, but I'm sure we will never be fully prepared. We were given my nephews twin bed and we will use that for Uriah when we have to put the new baby in the crib. That is still a ways away but we put the bed in his room for him to get used to. I'm hoping that the transition from crib to bed won't affect him too much. I still haven't bought any baby girl things yet. I have that lingering feeling in the back of my mind that is telling me that she could still come out being a boy. Luckily, my aunt offered to do a second ultrasound for me this weekend and then if she still tells me it's a girl then I will believe her. If we can't tell for certain by now then we never will!

Uriah is growing up so much. Last week when I picked him up from grandma's he had gotten a haircut, and I didn't even know about it! I was sad that his curly long hair in the back was gone, but he actually looks like a little boy now and hopefully people we pass in the store will stop calling him a girl.
Every time I see a new picture of him, I can't believe how great his eye looks. I never realized how bad it was when he was little because I was around him so much, but now that I have before and after pictures that I can look at, I can really see the difference. Modern medicine is a miracle, and I feel so blessed that we had a doctor concerned enough to recommend the surgery for us. In other updates, I got pretty sick last week. I pretty much got a bad cold, and being pregnant and sick at the same time is no fun, and I wasn't sure what I could take besides Tylenol so I was so stuffed up and achy that it was just a rough weekend. Luckily I didn't get a fever. Then Uriah got sick with a high fever and was a poor, grumpy baby for a while. We are both better now and back to ourselves. Uriah can now tell you what the lion says and what the snake says. It's so cute. Usually we ask him what the "beast" says because he knows that better than lion, but he does this cute little "rarr" and it is just so much fun!

Parking It

Last week my mom decided she wanted to get all the grandkids together and take them to the park. Uriah loves the park. He loves to swing the most. I think he could just sit in a swing and be pushed all day. If we took him out of the swing he would want back in it in less than 5 minutes.

I got tired of pushing him in the swing and decided to see how he would do on the slide. At first he wanted help up the stairs but after he went down the slide the first time he wanted to go up the stairs by himself every time. When he would get to the top, he didn't understand that he had to sit down in order to go down the slide. He always tried going down standing up, so we had to make sure we helped him sit on his bum before he went down.
I love taking Uriah to the park, but being 6 months pregnant and chasing around a 15 month-old toddler can really wear me out! I should take him more often so that my body can get used to some activity and in so doing hopefully not wear out as fast!