Sunday, January 12, 2014

Happy Anniversary!




This day seven years ago was one of the best days of my life. That's when I married my best friend. That means we have been together a total of nine years! Wow time has flown. We've been through so much. Here's what the past seven years have looked like through pictures.


First anniversary 
We celebrated our first anniversary at the hotel we got married at in Arizona. People always say the first year is always the hardest but it was actually very easy for us. We were both working full time. Me in a salon and Jordan at a property management company.

Second anniversary

Our second anniversary we celebrated in the White Mountains in Arizona. We stayed in a little cabin up in the mountains.
One of the fun things we did this year was take a trip to the Grand Canyon with my best friend.
We looked so young!



Third anniversary

This was a fun and very eventful year. We spent our third anniversary at the same place we spent our honeymoon. The happiest place on earth. Disneyland!

A few weeks later we got a big surprise. I was pregnant with Jessalyn!

The end of April that year we made our big move to Kansas.
October 2010 we welcomed our baby girl into the world. We were officially a family of three.

Fourth anniversary

Our fourth anniversary was our first one we celebrated with Kansas. And we didn't celebrate it alone. We got to spend it with this chubby girl.

Fifth anniversary 

Our fifth year was very special for our whole family. 

We were able to be sealed for all time and eternity in the Kansas City Temple in October of that year. 

Sixth anniversary

The day after our sixth anniversary we found out we were expecting our sweet little Jayven.

It was an action packed year filled with a growing belly, moving, lots of doctors appointments...
 And one big early debut!
The year our tiny baby boy was born.
Jess became a big sister and we became a family of four.

We have grown so much with each other in seven years. We were 19 and 20 when we first started dating and 21 and 22 when we got married. We were still babies growing up and learning. What better way to grow then with your best friend. We've become the people we are because of each other. Although this past year has been the toughest as far as trials go, I still feel like each year gets better. Marriage doesn't take that much work when it's with someone who knows you and loves you for you no matter what your flaws and downfalls are. Marriage has actually been the easy part. It's life in general that can get tough. But with your best friend and partner for all eternity is by your side... You make it through and become stronger together. Happy anniversary to the love of my life!


Tuesday, December 31, 2013

2013: A Year in Review

January 

We starts this year off with a bang! We celebrated our 6th wedding anniversary and the day after we got a pleasant surprise and found out we were expecting baby number two. I went in for a routine check up and wanted to talk to my midwife about trying to conceive but to my surprise the test was already positive. 



February

We got a blizzard and a lot of snow this month! 


We also  all three got bad colds and the flu. That was not a fun month considering I was pregnant and couldn't take anything for it. 


March


I debuted my baby bump for the first time! And we also took a trip to Minnesota.



April

We celebrated Easter!

Went hunting for eggs...
All while my belly was expanding.
At the end of this month we packed up all of our stuff and put it in storage. We moved in with a loving couple and next door to some dear friends.

May

Jess made a best friend this summer. She spent a lot of time with her buddy Parker and his sisters since we were living next door.


We found out what I had suspected since the beginning. Jess was getting her very own baby brother. And I also found out I had placenta previa on the same day.

I celebrated my 28th birthday with a whole day planned out by my thoughtful hubby.


June

We spent a lot of time at the pool.


And next door with our neighbors.

I even had a little baby scare which landed me in the hospital a couple times.



July

We celebrated the 4th of July and it was the first year Jess wasn't scared of the fireworks. She was actually pretty obsessed.

And my belly grew bigger and bigger!



August


We were not expecting Jayven to make his entrance into the world this month but he had other plans for us all. 
He was born at almost 34 weeks. 6 weeks early via emergency c-section. A whopping 4 pounds 15 ounces.
He was oh so tiny and oh so cute! 
He spent the first four weeks of his life in the NICU. 
That was the longest four weeks of our lives.



September 

We finally got to take him home!

And were all together as a new family of four.

Then we finally got to move into the place we waited a whole year for so patiently.

This is where we will call home for about the next four years.





October

We had Jayven's baby blessing.

Jessalyn turned three years old with a Sofia the first themes birthday party.
Jayven celebrated his first Halloween.
We all got dressed up!


November 

Our newest nephew Krew was born. Jayven has a built in best friend to grow up with.


We celebrated thanksgiving and Jordan cooked his first turkey. Jayven pretty much slept through his first Thanksgiving.



December 

We celebrated Jordan's 29th birthday!

Jessalyn and Jayven met Santa and Mrs. Claus with no tears.


And Jayven celebrated his first Christmas!


All in all we had a very eventful year! We were blessed with our new baby boy. I can't wait to see what 2014 brings. Happy new year!