I have been such a slacker with my blog this summer, so hang with me while I catch everyone up. June 30th we were sealed as an eternal family. It was an amazing day! Words can't even describe the overwhelming feeling of peace I felt that day. We had lots of family and many friends come out to share our special day. I am very lucky to have the family and friends that I have. I don't know what I would do without their love and support in this big change. If you had told me over a year ago what my life would be like today I would have called you a liar. I never thought that all of this could be mine. I hadn't lived a spot free life and I am not perfect. It took a lot of prayer and self examination to realize that I was just living a small part of the life I could live. Ever since I decided things needed to change a little I have never been happier. It's kind of funny cause when I was younger I was the outsider cause I didn't go to church and that was okay with me, but I find it a little hard to be the outsider because we now are active in the church. The people that are suppose to be your friends kind of look at you different and treat you different. We are the same people we used to be. We just have chosen to not do some things that we used to do. We still love to hangout with friends and have fun. But anyway that's a little heavy and I have more stuff to write about ;)
We have been having issues with Jordyn and her stomach for the last few months. Finally after trying all kinds of meds we went to see a Peds GI and he ran a ton of tests. I am hoping that we will finally find out what is causing her so much pain. Jake is now working out of town again. He called me on his way home one Friday and said "I quit my job" I just about died! What was he thinking?? Well he likes to make me sweat a little before he tells me that he got a offer to work lots of hours and make a little more money. The catch is he has been gone for a month now. But we are hoping that they will have some work in Salt Lake this fall! He should be headed back this way next week.
The kids are growing up so fast!! They are very excited to start school in two weeks! Wyatt will be in 2nd grade and Jordyn will be in kindergarten. Jailey will be in her last year of preschool. It is so crazy how fast time slips by. They however are even more excited for the 1st of March cause that is when their new little brother or sister is suppose to arrive!
Yes you read right, we are expecting #4 the first of March. I know what all of you are thinking "They are crazy" or "Why start over" I'll fill you in on that. Last fall why redoing our living room Jake kept saying that the girls should move downstairs and their room would make a great nursery. I looked at him like he had sprouted another head. He has never in all the years I've been married to him suggested we have another kid. I have secretly wanted one for awhile now but I thought I had know how Jake felt about it so I didn't bring it up. Well when he said that I decided we should talk about it. He told me to find out with my doctor's what all I would have to do to even think about trying. The meds I have been on for over 3 years have done damage to my liver and are very dangerous to a baby. The doctor's told me that I had to go off all my meds for at least 6 months so in December I stopped them all except one that I had to only be off of for 1 month. They told me that it was going to be hard and that I would experience lots of pain coming off the meds. Which was the truth, but I just kept thinking about the end results. When we got the okay from my doctor's they warned me that it could take awhile for me to get pregnant because of my RA. Well being the (as my sister likes to call me) Fertile Mertal that I am it took 2 months. We found out the week before we went to the temple so that made the experience even more special, cause all of our children were there. I had a hard time telling a people cause I'm scared of their reactions and we kept it quite for awhile too cause I have had a few problems, but everything is going good now. I am really nervous and excited. I have never been so sick in my life. I was never sick with the other ones. I feel like this is the first time all over again.
So that's a little about our crazy summer!! And I hope nobody is made about me keeping our secret for awhile!! Hope everyone enjoys the last 2 weeks of their summer!!!
