A Really, Really, Really Long Post

So I really haven't totally been a slacker at this blog thing... you see, one day my blog was just gone.  I have no idea where it went.  So after about a year I decided to cut my losses and just start a brand new blog!  Well then this one just reappeared.  So that's good news!  But now I have a year to catch up on and boy what a year it has been!  Honestly this blog is my journal so I am not offended if you see how long this post is and skip on by!  So I left off with my momma's birthday last August..  here we go... The rest of 2013!

SEPTEMBER

Woody and I went on our very first real life vacation together for our third anniversary!  We decided to go on a cruise out of South Carolina for the sole purpose of being able to see Woody's brother and his family in the same trip.  We were gone for about a week and enjoyed every minute of it! Except maybe Carnival's food...not good.  We only had two ports, both in the Bahamas.  The first port was A BLAST!  We spent the day at Atlantis resort with a cute couple we met on the ship.  I would most definitely go back there!  The next port was fun but we didn't have very much time.  We went snorkeling though and I loved it so much!  For sure one of my new favorite things to do.  After the cruise we spent the night with Ryan and Jessie and their girls in Charleston, S.C.  It was so fun to have some quality one on one time with their family.

Now taking a step back real quick... before we went on our cruise we decided to put our condo up for sale (in June).  We had tons of people look at it and a few offers to decide on.  After a couple weeks we were under contract!  Sounds exciting right?  Wrong.  We told our renters (who we adore)  that we sold it and that they needed to be out at the end of July.  They packed up and were on their way...the same day our buyers backed out of the contract.  Awesome.  So there we were, living in Heber in a house we loved with a huge monthly rent, a condo with a mortgage, no renters, and no buyers.  Not too awesome!  So after a lot of praying and advice we decided it would be smartest to move back to our condo in Saratoga Springs.  So that's what we did as soon as we got home from our cruise!  Unfortunately, my job was still in Heber so I began the commuting part of my life!  Although it wasn't the choice we really wanted to make, we knew it was the right choice and that has been reconfirmed to us over and over again this year.  Starting in October.

OCTOBER

As many of you know, we lived in Denver the year before last because Woody owned a company there.  Well when we moved back to Utah, he still owned his business but did everything from here while his partner remained in Colorado.  That lasted about a year until October 2013.  A very long story short, Woody went to Denver at the end of September to discuss the business and possibly stepping down as partner. His partner had a different idea in mind and gave up the whole business to Woody.  This sounds great except all the crappy things a partner can do when you split up.  And he pretty much did all those crappy things.  So Woody lived in Denver the whole month of October while I lived in our condo with my three dogs.  We didn't want to move me to Denver until we knew everything was going to stay above water...which it didn't.  So Woody cleaned up in Denver and moved home on Halloween.  Most things were still uncertain but one thing was certain and that was that October was the worst month of our life and brought us closer than we could have ever imagined.  We started our new life back in Saratoga Springs with our old house, 2 less dogs, a new job, and each other.  Things would start to look up in November.

NOVEMBER

Okay,  Many of you don't know and some of you do know that we started trying to add to our family in July of 2011.  We weren't very successful and were super frustrated so after about two years we decided to have me go on some fertility medication (we had both been tested and nothing was off with either of our systems). I was on clomid in August and September but when I called for a refill in October my doctor told me she wanted to meet with me before we went another month.  I scheduled an appointment but then canceled it when we found out Woody would be in Colorado the whole month of October.  I didn't want to waste a month when we would only see each other a couple of times that month ya get me?  So this part might be TMI but I don't give a damn. I missed my period but thought NOTHING of it because that has happened before and October was SOO stressful so I was not surprised at all.  I refused to take a pregnancy test until I missed two periods which I just knew would not happen.  Woody really wanted me to take one because in months past if I was late, I would take a test and start the next day so he just wanted to jump start it if you will.  Anyway, I told him if Thanksgiving came and I still hadn't had one then I would take one.  I decided to call my doctor and make an appointment to get back on Clomid since Woody was back in Utah for good. Surprisingly she had a cancellation the next day so they got me in super fast (at this point I still had not taken a pregnancy test).  I was planning on going to the appointment by myself but Woody's work meeting got switched to an hour later so he got to come with me to kill time. I explained everything that had been going on and told her that I refused to take a test at home and naturally she made me take one before we went on with the appointment.  So I peed in a cup and she walked in 5 minutes later with the best little piece of plastic I've ever layed eyes on!

This was the beginning of our next big adventure!

DECEMBER

I call this month.... Vomit.  That's all I really remember about it besides our epic family trip to Disneyland!  Thank heavens for Zofran am I right?!  Woody couldn't go because he had just started at a new company so I just went with my family.  We were crazy and went the days after Christmas... holy cow!  SO MANY PEOPLE! It was still so fun despite the fact that I only rode like three rides, it's all good, me and Ives enjoyed all the lovely, magical sights that is Disneyland at Christmas time! 

2013 brought a lot of tears, a lot of big kid choices, a lot of praying, a lot of happiness, a lot of peace, and a reassurance that our Father in Heaven knows each of us and is looking out for each of us individually.  I have never had so many testimony building experiences piled into 365 days! I am so eternally grateful for my Heavenly Father and the tender mercies he places in my life on the daily.  He has blessed me more than I feel I deserve and even though things sometimes don't work out how I want them to when I want them to, he always answers my prayers and everything ALWAYS turns out the way it was meant to.  I have learned how important it is to put my faith in him and trust him completely cause guess what?  He knows lots more than I do. I would come to realize this even more this year.

 So we said a fond farewell to 2013 and welcomed 2014 with open arms!