100th post!

Happy 100th post birthday to my blog! Thats kind of a mouth full. It has only taken over 4 years to accomplish this feat but alas, it finally happened. I would like to take a moment and thank a few people who have contributed to this little slice of interweb heaven. Without them, it wouldnt be where it is today. First off my editor Tyler, you know who you are, and what you've done. 2nd: Lucy, for without her craziness I would have nothing to blog about. And lastly the Man up above for giving me the gift of a computer and internet to which I owe this awesomeness. Thank you academy!

Whew! Glad to get that over with (as are you, im sure). I wish I had something super exciting to commemorate this momentous occasion.  turns out, we arent moving to St George like we had hoped. The company whom Ty has been interviewing with decided to table the position for now. Possibly in a few weeks/months they will revisit this option and they still want Ty to keep in touch. For now, back to the job hunting grind. Will it ever end? We sometimes/often wonder. However, we are very confident that the right job for our family will pop up. Somehow, somewhere, Heaven only knows when. Until then, patience is what we are striving for. That seems to be the story of our lives. Is it that way with anyone else? It seems that with EVERY aspect of our lives, since the day we have been married, our patience have been in constant workout mode. Maybe the Lord feels that we are SEVERELY lacking in this area and he wants to get us up to the same level as the rest of society. What doesnt kill us makes us stronger right? Right? (I hear crickets chirping in the silent background.) Oh well, patience it is.

to make the time go by faster I have revisited my nagging urge to find a hobby, or something to help these freezing days of staying inside more enjoyable. What is this new found hobby you ask? Well, im not sure yet. I need something creative, relatively cheap, something lucy cant easily destroy, and something that I can feel accomplished and satisfied. And... maybe something that i can create a smashingly popular etsy shop out of where shows like the Today Show, Ellen, or Oprah will rave about (have i gone too far?). If anyone has insight to this amazing talent yet to be untapped with in me, please feel free to share!

Just because she is cute...

So im not exactly sure what to blog about today...

Ooh I know! Ty has an interview!!! On monday Ty has an interview with a company in St George called Contact Point. We are super excited because this is the first "bite" we have had in a while. So we are keeping our fingers crossed.

Lucy started a gymnastics class and she LOVED it! since she turns 3 next month (tear and sniffle) she can move up to the next level, or do dance instead. Not sure what to do

I started hormone therapy. I think my body needs to get used to ALL these changes/medications cause i feel a little funky. Hopefully in a few days or weeks ill be feeling great! but good news. We thought we would have to wait 9 or so months to be able to go back on the baby-makin band wagon (awkward, sorry) but it turns out its only 6!! And there is a great chance that we wont have to to IVF. But we will cross that bridge when it gets here.

I seriously cant believe its basically the middle of January. Im ok with this because I am not a fan of January. The dog days of winter is not what I call a party. Its just so bleak, cold, ugly, tons of sickness goes around, we are cooped up inside, and there is nothing to celebrate. At least in feb we have valentines day, and its a short month. But it is quickly on its way out of here, YEA!!!

Did I mention my baby is turning 3 next month. This has been surprisingly hard for me. My mom said the other day that she looks like a little girl now and lost that baby look. Now I know that its not only me that is noticing this change, its apparent to others too. I think I feel super guilty and sad about this because for the last year I have been so focused on having another baby that I feel like I have missed out on Lucy growing up. This realization has also been hard on me. Ive been so focused on my week to week and month to month life and it has been so blurry that all of a sudden my baby became a big girl in the blink of an eye. Well, whats done is done, I cant go back and change it now. So i guess I will have to make the most of the fact that she is still so little and relies so much on me.     

Starting the year off right!

Wow another year has arrived! 2012 sped by so quick, I can hardly believe its already gone. Last night we got home from a party and it was 11 so Ty and I watched the final episode of the Modern FAmily 1st season and when it was over we realized that we had 2 min before it was midnight! Nice timing! So watched our phones for when the clock struck 12 and then we gave a little smooch and headed off to bed. We are old, staying up to midnight is not our thing anymore. But I think last night was our FIRST New Years kiss! Can you believe it! Every other year we have had major stuff going on that we are just too tired to stay up (2 years had surgeries, exhausted from baby Lucy, sickness). So I will choose to believe that 2013 will be a super lucky year for us since we started it off right!

At least I hope its a lucky one! This year a TON of big/life changing things will be taking place (hence why we need the good luck). We have been applying for jobs for Ty for the past few months and have had no luck. We have 4 months to find a great career before Ty is officially done with school and the job he has now is finished. We have been applying EVERYWHERE, in the world actually. So that means we could potentially be moving as far away as England or as close as Provo. Ty is even taking the Air Force Officer test in a month and we could very well take that course. But come April, whether we have a job or not we officially have to move, time for other siblings to get a chance to live in the greatest condo ever! So we definitely have a move in our forecast, which is super exciting!

This year Ty will forever and always be complete with school!!! That means we will no longer be students!!! That means we can be grown ups and have a grown up job, with a salary, and with benefits, and a regular schedule, and benefits, and a salary, and hopefully NO MORE JOB HUNTING! My poor Ty... He has applied to well over 50 jobs and he hasnt been hired yet. It is so stressful for him and he works SSSOOOOO hard and doing literally everything he can to find someone to give him a chance. We are still hopeful and know that a great opportunity will find its way to us someway, somehow, someday!

In Lucy's year we hope to have her potty trained (we started again yesterday), and also have her thoroughly know her ABC's and numbers. We also have 2 months left of speech therapy and occupational therapy, so we hope to have improvements there as well. We also want to get her into dance or gymnastics.

As far as Im concerned my life should be changing in 9 days. I start hormone therapy. We have found a new route in our hopes to someday bring home another munchkin, and hormone treatment is it! I am really excited for this! From what I have studied and heard, I should feel like a normal person again! I hope that for the first time in 5 years, I will sleep through the night! That alone will change my life! But not only that, I hope that my pre-pubescent acne face will clear up and I can finally drop a few lbs (it is impossible with PCOS and out-raged hormones!). I hope to have more energy, not have a fussy mind, be a nicer (non mama bear) relaxed and chilled out constitution! I hope to get back to ME!!! But the one down side is we have to wait probably 9 months or so before I can get pregnant, bummer, but at least maybe it can happen naturally and we wont have to spend $12,000 for it to maybe happen.  Is this all TMI? Oh well.

This post is forever long. But I am so excited and hopeful for an AWESOME year ahead! I cant wait for all the changes and new things coming our way. Happy New Year everyone!

Christmas time is here

Wow I cannot believe how fast the past two months have gone. I swear it was just Halloween and now Thanksgiving is over and in 2 days its December! Its kinda weird, but how fast time goes by kinda scares me. Like it genuinely freaks me out a little. I feel like I am on a spinning merry go round and the last couple of years it has gotten progressively faster and faster. I feel like before I know it, I will be 50! Im not quite 28 but I still feel not a day over 24 and often times forget that I am actually NOT 24. Does anyone else have this weird phobia like me?

I am so happy that we have all our Christmas shopping done for the three of us! Beside stocking stuff, we just have to do family gifts and we are in business! We put the tree up, in all its glory, well half its glory. We decided to try and squeeze our giant fatty tree into the living room this year instead of our kitchen (that is just weird, and we have no space to eat at our table) so we decided to put it up right against the wall and leave off the branches in the back! GENIUS! It only looks a little funky when you walk down the hall and can see a gap between the wall and the tree, oh well i guess.

Lucy is Super stoked and even MORE helpful than she was last year (if you can image)

My cute little bums fixing the tree

I am a lights snob and they have to be done JUST right

Lucy being her adorable self. Whats better than a necklace? A necklace that lights up!

I didnt get a pic of the finished product though. I realized the other day that this is the first winter I have been a stay at home mom. And i realized it may be harder than I thought! I have been pretty stir crazy lately and I jump at the chance for any reason to get out of the house! I also realized I am not good at playing 2 yr old games and toys. Does that make me a bad mom? Im still deciding. Its just hard when Lucy REFUSES to play by herself (she never has, never, not for more than 5 min). I feel like a dancing monkey most of the time as she is constantly saying "mommy dance!" "mommy tickle" "mommy come get me!" "mommy kick a ball". This is about when I wish she had a constant playmate, like a twin or something. Im horrible!

Butterfield princesses

My lovely friend Meggan asked me to take pictures of her darling and GORGEOUS little girls before it gets too cold outside. Of course I couldnt say NO! We just love those Butterfields. Here are a few of my favorites

Spoooooky Halloween!

 To wrap up the October month it finally came, HALLOWEEN! We have been preparing for this moment for quite awhile. It takes me forever to figure out what we are going to be for halloween so I start deciding like in January. Just kidding. Kind of... But we were especially excited this year because this is the costume I have wanted to do since we got married and now was the time to do it! Ty and I were Mary Poppins and Burt and Lucy was a penguin. Our initial plan was to do the white dress up costumes when they are in the park and they have the cute little server penguins dancing along but once i realized how intense the costume making (or putting together) would be, we decided to go for the much easier costumes at the beginning of the movie. But lucy was still a penguin. Didnt make much sense, but oh well. In fact a lady at Ty's work said  to Lucy "what a CUTE little duck! What does a duck say?!" it was funny.

Trick or Treating with the Geilman boys and Lucy's loot after our ward trunk or treat

Fall fun

We have been so excited for the Halloween season this year! Ok we are excited every year, but this year Lucy can participate more and understand it a little more. I want to be a festive mom who really makes each holiday special and fun. Something that my kids will always remember as having fun and being together. So here are a few of the festivities we did this year. 

Awesome drive through the Provo Canyon

Decorating halloween cookies

Of course decorating!

Cornbelly's

Cornbelly's giant chair

 

Pumpkin patch in Orem

And painting pumpkins!