One spoiled dog!

So we took Georgie to Petsmart just to get her nails trimmed and ears cleaned, and ended up getting talked into a whole spa package that came complete with nails, ears, exfoliating shampoo and conditioner, teeth cleaned...and oh yeah her nails painted :)






When I picked her up 3 hours later, they explained that she was a very good dog and couldn't believe it was her first time getting something like this done. Unlike other dogs who are usually barking and trying to get loose the whole time, they said the only problem they had with her was that she was lazy and didn't want to stand up the whole time! After her bath she was so relaxed that all she would do is plop down and wouldn't stand up until they forced her too! Haha, that's our girl! She was stll exhausted when we got home as you can see here - she could barely keep her eyes open for a quick pic :)





Oh yeah, this is what Tony and Georgie did while I wrote yet another APA research paper. 5 hours and 11 pages later, they decided they couldn't wait up for me any longer. We have gone from them spooning together to now Tony using her as a pillow, and she doesn't seem to mind :)

This past week was a GREAT week...

because:


This is what I woke up to thursday morning:



Also on Thursday, I got to school and most of the people in my class had already gotten their letters about Grad School. I started worrying because I hadn't gotten mine yet. I couldn't concentrate on the rest of my classes and rushed home early to check the mail...nope...still not there! I was freaking out, I was wondering if they put me on the waitlist which almost would have been worse than getting rejected because it would have meant more waiting. Then, on Friday after work, I checked my mail again, and there it was sitting in my mailbox!

I practically skipped back to my house but couldn't bring myselt to open it because I was so scared! This year they had more applicants to my program than they had ever had before - over 150 people applying for 30 spots! I finally ripped it open and I was ACCEPTED! I called my mom almost crying and it was just so exciting - this is our future and the next two years of my life! I am so happy to have the opportunity to make myself better for my daughter and my husband! My mom wanted to go to a movie and dinner to celebrate. Since I am basically obsessed with Thai food right now, we went to a place called A Taste of Thai at Jordan Commons for dinner which was so yummy! Then Tony got off work just in time and came and met us for a movie and dessert at IHOP after :)


We also saw two GREAT movies this weekend! Like I said, Tony, my mom, and I went and saw this movie on Friday night

It was one of the BEST movies I have seen in a while - right up there with 500 days of summer! Tony really like it too because it isn't just a chick flick, there are a lot of funny parts and it has a good, completely unexpected ending too! I am definitely buying it when it comes out and if you haven't see it, DO it :)


Then, yesterday Tony and I got to babysit my friend Lara's ADORABLE kids - Jackson who is 8 and her daughter Bella who is 10 months! It was so much fun and good practice for us to babysit Bella especially. She is all over the place and never stops smiling! Tony loved her too and he was SO good with her


It was also Georgie's first time around a baby, and she loved her! She was so excited and kept licking her face and ears, so we are definitely gonna have to do some teaching about not licking so much, but we were relieved that she wasn't mean or anything.


Then, that night, we went to dinner at Red Robin and finally got to see this with Lance and Malena

I loved it! It is just as good as everyone says it is, and if you haven't seen it 3D and on an IMAX screen, you definitely should :)


Oh, and while we were getting ready to go to dinner and the movie, Tony told me to look behind me, and this is what I saw

She usually pouts like this on the floor when she sees us getting ready, because it usually means we are going to leave her, but this time it was on the bed like this haha!


Well, hopefully everyone had a great week as well :)

It's a...

*GIRL!!!!! We are SO excited to be expecting a baby girl due on July 8th!!!


On November 19th, I had been feeling sick for about a week. Not just any sickness, but a different kind of sick, one I had never felt before. I was SO tired I could not stay awake for more than a couple hours at a time before I had to take a nap. I also could not stand the thought of food. I knew something was up when I came home to Tony making pot roast in the crock pot and I could barely stand to be inside my house because the smell made me so nauseous, and I normally LOVE pot roast in the crock pot! Tony thought I was crazy. So after about a week of this, I decided to buy a dollar store pregnancy test, mainly just to rule it out. When it came up positive, I didn't believe it. I immediately went to Walmart to buy a better one, but since I had just taken the other one, I couldn't "do what I needed to do" to take the next one. I bought a huge thing of water and walked all around the store. When that didn't work, I bought some more water and went to babies r us to look around and walk around some more. By the time I was done there, I was finally able to take the test again. It was positive again! I just couldn't believe it! I was so excited and quickly put this together to come home and give Tony





I'll never forget all the mixed emotions he went through in that first couple of minutes! At first he looked like he was going to pass out - he was scared! But then we were both just so excited and happy! It's amazing how our priorities have just instantly changed. She is on our minds constantly and we are trying to prepare the best we can. The timing is a good as it can be, because she is due 2 months after I graduate, and 2 months before I will start grad school if I get in, so we couldn't be more lucky!







Next came the fun of telling my family. My mom new before I even told her. I guess all the saltine crackers and seeing my not be able to eat anything gave it away! She is so excited, but doesn't like that I call her "grandma" now! We went to my aunt and uncle's in Vegas for Thanksgiving and told my whole family there. My mom said at dinner that she was excited to welcome a new member of the family and everyone went silent because everyone's first thoughts were that she was pregnant, then I think their next thought was that my little sister was, then after a long, akward silence and both of us blushing, everyone realized it was us! My aunts and my Grandma all screamed and my uncles came right up and gave us hugs, followed by everyone else! It was so special, and right away everyone was so excited for us! Well...I can't say that my Grandma is too excited to be a great-grandma... jk :) Tony and I both love my family so much!


As for Tony's family, I can't say they acted as excited...at least nothing compared to my family... I think they already knew and it isn't the first grandchild from our generation in the family... but they are definitely excited for us too and it IS the first girl grandchild, so that is very exciting!


Being pregnant has definitely had it's ups and downs. I can't complain too much though because compared to what I've heard some people describe it as, I can't really say mine is that bad. I haven't been that sick - I've never had to miss a day of school or work, just a lot of nauseousness and tiredness, but it has all been manageable and I know will be so worth it! We have the MOST AMAZING doctor, and here is a pic of our 20 week ultrasound! (she looks like she is sucking her thumb!)





The ultrasound was one of the most exciting and one of the scariest parts so far. We loved seeing her in there, but they are also checking to make sure everything is normal and healthy. With each pause the ultrasonographer would make, I was freaking out on the inside, wondering if she had found something wrong. But, everything looks healthy so far, and we are so relieved, because as Tony keeps saying, we don't really care if it's a boy or a girl, as long as she is healthy! As of today I am 22 and a half weeks along, so I am over halfway there! This is the really fun part for us - I just barely started feeling her kick, and Tony was able to feel her for the first time this past weekend! He just but his hand on my stomach and she kicked the exact spot 3 times - the first 2 were too soft for him to feel, but the 3rd one was stronger and it really took him by surprise! He yanked his hand right off and got "freaked out" for a second. He asks about her and how I am feeling all the time. And every night we can't go to bed without talking about our predictions about what she is going to be like. He is going to be an AMAZING dad! In fact, one of the first things people say when they find out we are having a baby is "how good of a dad Tony will be." I love it!


Well, sorry for the novel but it is definitely an exciting experience that I can go on and on about. I can feel her kicking right now and we both can't wait to hold her in our arms. We will keep you posted!!! :)

I am going to get better at this...

...especially because I have a whole new reason to blog! :) But we'll get to that in little bit.


First of all, I think there is a much needed update! Since September, much has been going on! Tony got a new job!!! He is a supervisor at an assisted living facility and really likes it. He took a quick course to get certified as a CNA, got hired, and just a few weeks later he got promoted! We also just found out today at his 3 month evaluation that he got a pretty big raise :) I am so proud of him! The residents love him and he is so good at working with them!


School has been keeping me super busy, I mean SUPER busy! I have never had to devote this much time to school in my life! Last week I spent over 40 hours on school stuff alone! But with 22 credits and it being my last semester of my undergrad, what can I expect? But it will all be worth it on May 7th when I graduate with not one, but TWO bachelors degrees: one in Speech and Hearing Science and the other in Psychology. The last couple of months I was bust apply to Grad School to get my Masters Degree in Speech-Language Pathology. Hopefully I will hear back on that soon! I cannot believe that in just a little more than 2 years I may have a masters degree, it seems like just yesterday I graduated high school!


Oh, and speaking of school, I have to say that with how busy I am with that and working full-time, I am SO lucky to have a supportive husband like Tony. Since he gets to be home more than I do, I always come home to a spotless, clean house, laundry is usually done, he usually makes me breakfast and has snacks for me to take on the way, and we usually cook dinner together and he helps me clean up. I love him SO much and don't know where I would be without him taking care of me.


Georgie is great, we love her more and more each day. I never understood how people could be so infatuated with their dogs until I had one of my own, and now Tony and I don't know what we would do with out her. She LOVES Tony, and has recently become pretty attached to me too. We have really enjoyed getting our exercise by taking her on long walks at least once or twice a week, and she has just been really funny lately! Here are some pics of her - as you can tell her and Tony are pretty attached to each other, it's kinda rediculous!


Halloween










And since this one is long enough, I will put the exciting news seperately in my next post...

"When do you get to take the gauze out of your cheeks?!?"

So about 3 Weeks ago I had to go through the lovely experience of getting my wisdom teeth removed. I did it through a research company so I actually got paid to do it, instead of having to pay for it. Although it was worth it to get paid to do it, I didn't get to get put to sleep for the surgery. Instead, I got laughing gas and TONS of shots in my cheeks to keep my mouth numb - about 5 times more shots than you would normally get to have your cavities filled, including shots in the roof of my mouth!!! Because of this, my cheeks were EXTRA swollen - the insides of my mouth are actually still a little swollen 3 weeks later! When my mom came to pick me up from the center a day later, this is what they looked like!!!





My mom looked at me, laughed, and said, "When do you get to take the gauze out of your cheeks?!?" Yeah... those are my cheeks, WITHOUT gauze in them!


I also passed out for the first time in my life a couple hours after the surgery! I got up to go to the bathroom and by the time I was done I couldn't even walk back to my room from the bathroom. I was so dizzy, nausious, and my ears were ringing. I leaned my head on the bathroom door to try and work up some strength to walk the whole 10 feet back to my room, and the next thing I remember was I started seeing black spots and I woke up to my head hitting the floor. Luckily instead of falling straight back on my head I landed in a sitting position on the floor first, then my head, so I was ok :)


The best part of it all was coming home to this:












I found these on my counter when my mom brought me home. Tony was originally supposed to pick me up from the center, but he ended up having to work. I walked in and saw these along with my prescriptions already filled and waiting for me. It made my day! I am glad to say I am almost back to normal, and I definitely am glad it's over!

I'm BACK!!!

Ok so, I am finally back to being able to blog! My laptop power supply has been broken since January and I FINALLY got a new one, which means we have the internet again and I can catch up! Many, many things have happened since my last post in January, so over the next few weeks I will be doing a lot of posts of things we have done in the past 8 months! First of all we'll just start with an update of where we are today:

*I am going to school full time at the U (20 credit hours this semester!!!) and will graduate this spring with majors in Speech and Hearing Science and Psychology. I absolutely love school!

*I will also be applying to Graduate School this semester to go on to get my Master's Degree in Speech and Language Pathology and hopefully become a licensed Speech and Language Pathologist! I can't believe I am already applying for Grad School and am so close to being done! Just a couple more years of school!

*I also just got a promotion at my Primary Children's Residential Treatment Center Job. I work full time now, but got to set my own schedule to where I only have to work 3 days a week! And the best part about this is we now have full benefits and I am now eligible for tuition reimbursement, and when I'm in Graduate School they will pay for even more of my school and I will commit to work for IHC for at least a year after I graduate! So this was a very big deal for me to get and has been a great blessing for us that came just when we needed it!

*We go to a new ward (obviously) and we absolutely love it! We have made some friends there and everyone makes us feel so welcome! We are anxiously awaiting our callings :)

*We are also looking into Tony going back into school in the near future! Between our opposite work schedule and school we don't get to see much of each other right now but I love being busy with work and school, it makes me feel so much more productive, and it makes the time we do get to share with each other even better :)

This is what happens when Tony falls asleep around my cousins...

 

 

 

 

HAHA! They all love Tony and want him to babysit them all the time, but this is what happens when he falls asleep around them!