Sooo.. We have news!!!!!!!!

On January 23rd we found out that we are expecting our first child! So I shall share our story :)

The day before we went to Wal Mart and I decided that I wanted to get a pregnancy test. I had told Jake that I just wanted to get it (sorry TMI for those guys who may read this but you know what comes before pregnancies so it is nothing new :)) so I could just start my period. Jake said then why waste the money if you are going to buy it just so you can start your period. I am sure many others out there have ran into the same problem as I have.. Take the test, start your period the next day. So I got a little frustrated with him and put the test back on the counter. The next day while Jake was at work I had decided that just for my sanity I was going to go and get a test and take it. So I run into Harmon's pick up the two test pack and think to myself that I don't want anyone to know that I am buying this so I put it under my purse. Then I almost ram my cart into some of our friends not paying attention to what I was doing. So lucky for me I had it hidden :) So I come home take the test and I see this plus. I was in disbelief. I call my best friend Amy and I think scared her half to death. I told her that I needed to talk to her and asked if I could come and pick her up to talk to her. I told her that I really needed to talk to her. Of course she being the bestest friend ever agreed. I pull up to her house. Walk in and she is getting ready to come with me. We get to the car and she starts asking if everything is ok. I said so... Then I pulled my pregnancy test out of the bag! She looks at it and yells SHUT UP!!!! She then said that we needed to go and take another test. So off we go to Albertons. Again buying a two pack :) We head back to her house and I head upstairs take the test.. Same result. So I come down and show her.. Her husband Todd was in the kitchen with us and she asked if it is ok if she told Todd ( I know that he would have know as soon as I left :)) so I told her go ahead. So she says Todd you need to tell Misty Congratulations! Todd says Congratulations. Then a few seconds later he said for what.. I just LOL at his comment :) He then came over and found out :) So we started talking about ways to tell Jake since he didn't know yet! This was at around 4pm and he was getting off at 6 so I had to think fast :) Well.. My mind wasn't very creative so I decided that I was going to go and get our baby an outfit that said something about Daddy on it and wrap it in our Christmas paper (since I was still picking up after Christmas :)) and tell him that as I was cleaning up the soon to nursery I found a gift that I had failed to give to him. So He comes home sees this gift sitting out and picks it up and states that it must be Mr. Potato Head parts.. I said no. Then he said a Tie. Again.. No... If you don't know me you must now know that I have an obsession with both things. So he opens it up and looks at it all weird thinking that I had put the wrong name on the gift and that it was actually for our little favorite friend Oliver... Then he realizes the size and reads what he says and asks if we are we really pregnant? :)

Here is a picture of Jake with the outfit that I bought!

Here is a picture of us on the day that we found out that we were going to be parents!

Sorry for the bad pic! My self taking photo skills have sucked lately. They come back blurry all the time now. Maybe I dropped my camera one to many times!

We had our first appt on February 2nd and were given a expected due date of September 25th. We saw our babies little heartbeat!

Today we went in for our second appointment. The doctor wanted to do another ultrasound to gain a better "guess" to our EDD since I failed to know when my last period was. It was amazing to see our little baby! While we were peaking in the baby got hiccups! I cannot believe how much the body jolts when they are that little! It made me laugh seeing our baby have the hiccups! :)

SO there you have it our friends. Our secret that we have been keeping for over a month!

I will keep him. A reason why I love him!

So the other day before I left for work I left a little note to Jake :)
I LOVE YOU SO MUCH!

You are the best husband. Thanks for being there for me and always showing me unconditional love.
I love you with all my heart!

Love,
Misty

Then I come home to find this!

Dear Misty

You mean the world to me; I know that I have had the best years in life being with you. You have exceeded every expectation I could have ever dreamed of. You truly fill my heart with everlasting joy! Time spent with out you is agony, I crave every second I am with you. No one else could match the love we share. I am so grateful to be called your husband. I am so happy I made the right choice to be with you.

I love you
Jake

Could I be any luckier? I think not!

Elders Quorum Valentines Dance Pictures :)

Here are my pictures from the Valentines Dance this last Saturday! It was SOO Much fun. I hope that others had an equally fun time!

My Christmas Present from Jake :)

For Christmas this year (ok LAST year can you believe that we are almost in the middle of January already?) Jake got me a date :) On Saturday we went to the Silverhorse on Main and ate dinner. It was ok... I woudn't say what I would expect for $95.00! But it was sure fun! I had macadiam nut crusted halibut and Jake had some beef tenderloin. I think that his was better than mine! Since we paid so much for the food I just HAD to take a picture of it! With the tenderloin that ins't blood it is some sauce thing... Sure looks like a lot of blood. If it was blood Jake wouldn't have ate it! :)

After dinner went went to the Inn on Capitol Hill. It was really nice and REALLY clean. I was so impressed with how clean it was. It was nice to be able to cuddle with Jake next to the fire. I really didn't take many pictures because I forgot! I have just a few! This is a picture of the room from a weird angle!

This is the view from our window! You can't get any better than that! Ok so maybe you had to actaully stand on the couch to look out the window but I LOVED it!

I went back..

Back to weight watchers that is. After many months of doing nothing except not eathing healthy I decided that I needed to go back. I am still down 4.6 pounds since I originally started. I went in today and gained 1 pound. It is a lot better than I thought that it would be.

Now just to stick with it and take one day at a time. While at the meeting today there were a couple of comments that really struck me. One was in order to be successful you have to track. Track everything. When I was doing WW before I wasn't tracking everything that I ate. I was doing the core plan so I wasn't tracking. Which leads to under estimating your food intake. They said that if you don't track everything you eat on average 10-15 more points than you should. Also the other comment was thin is in think. In order to be thin you have to think about what you're doing...

That's it for now!

So many memories that start off January for us...

January is such a special month for us! On January 4th it marked three years since Jake was baptized. On the 6th (today :)) marks 2 years since we took out our endowments and the 13th marks 2 years since we were sealed. It is amazing at the chang that has taken place in our lives since we started going to church, taking out our endowments and being sealed together for eternity. I am so thankful that we were brought to the church. We have made so many great friends which whom I will cherish forever.

Our life through the Holidays!

This is going to be a huge post... HUGE I tell you! :) We have Christmas to cover and new years :) We hope that everyone had a safe and happy Holiday season!
This year my Aunt found this Santa hat and beard for the animals. She ended up putting it on all of our animals. They didn't like it.. I wonder why LOL but they did look oh so cute. It was a little small for Zoey but we at least got one picture before it came off! This is my Aunts cat Shiloh. She has had him since my Junior year so 98! He is cute!
Here is Santa Keisha. She doesn't look happy at all LOL :)

And last here is Santa Zoey! I love my dog! To think that I almost picked the cute dog out of the sad dog... So glad that Jake talked me into getting the sad dog :) On Christmas Eve we did our Christmas with both sides of Jake's family. When we got to Jake's sisters house, Lonni, we waited and waited and waited for people to show up.. One of two things.. We were either early, told the wrong time or people didn't show up on time. It was people didn't show up on time. Some of his family didn't show up for nearly 2 hours.. Yes 2 hours after the party was to start. Then when his Aunt showed up his cousins sugar went low so they had to call the ambulance on her. Her sugar went down to 34.... They were able to bring her out of it and she came and enjoyed the party.... :) We however had to leave before Jake's Grandmother got there because we had to go to my other Mother in Laws house because I was having Santa come. Can you believe it I got not one picture from both of these events? After both parties we had to go back to Lonni's house because I had one of her Christmas Gifts for her children at my house and forgot to bring it. When we were there earlier we exchanged our Christmas gifts. They got Jake and I matching PJs with their family. They do matching PJs every year! This year we were lucky enough to get some too! Here is a picture of all of us! Here is a cute picture of Gabe! He is getting so big! Oh yeah! I have a funny story about Santa at my MIL house. So after Santa had left my niece Bella had said that was Santa huh? Her mom had said yes it was. Then Bella said I didn't know what Santa really looked like. Then her mom said You have seen Santa at the mall before. Bella then said No I haven't those are Santa's helpers! Ahh SO cute! For a picture of this cute girl look at my posts from a few months ago.. I feel bad that I don't talk about all my other cute nieces and nephews but we don't see them nearly often enough which we need to work on....

This next picture I am going to title a magical moment. If you have read my posts before I have posted one other picture just like this! This is Gabe signing my name :) Or how he does it :) One of these days he is going to be too big for signing and will vocally say my name. He hasn't said it properly yet. When you ask him to say my name he does the sign then when you tell him to use his words he tries it and does something that consists of two syllables :) But it isn't the same as hearing the word MISTY :) This picture was taken on Christmas Eve. Lonni wasn't able to get him matching HO HO PJS (HO HO is what Gabe calls Santa :)) instead got him Elmo or as Gabe calls him LALA :) So I was trying to take his picture of him with this huge Elmo that I got him and he had thrown it down and did my sign and the camera just caught it at the right time :)

As I am looking through the tons of pictures that I have to post I found ONE picture I took while we were at Lonni's house for Jake's family Christmas! This is a picture of Gabe opening his present. Another funny story. I had wrapped both his present and his brothers present in the same size of box and I had told Gabe that the present that I had in my hands was his. We were walking over to the couch to open up his presents when he say his brother opening up the present that appeared to be Gabe. Gabe looked at him and said no and gave him angry eyes. So funny. I told Gabe that it wasn't his present that it was his brothers and then had him open up his present. It was fun seeing Gabe get excited to open presents this year! The next morning we had my Mom, Jer and my Aunt Lorna over for breakfast and to open presents. I started this tradition last year and hope that it continues! It is fun to have my family at my house.. Sometimes it feels like I have to beg them to come over.... We started off with breakfast and then went to opening gifts!
Here is a cute picture of Jake and one not so cute of me... I stayed in my Jammies almost the whole day! It is nice to have a day where you can just lounge around! Me with my Brother Jeremiah! My mom and Aunt Lorna with their stockings! Here is a picture of Jer, Jake and I with our stockings. Sorry you're either going to have to look at this picture upside down or turn your monitor to see it right side up! I didn't realize that it was upside down until now and don't want to go back and change it! Here is a picture of all of the presents out all over the place! Zoey wanted to be in the mess! She is so funny! My Aunt wanted me to take a picture of her with her presents :) I think that this picture turned out so cute! Here is a picture of me with Santa! My Aunt bought us this Santa the first Christmas we lived together! This Santa has been with us for 7 years! I hope that he is something that we can keep for many many years since it is something special for us being with us through our whole living together lives! Jer must have been exhausted from all of the excitement and fell asleep! Note that cute blanket :) It is mine! All mine. I have this obsession.. Well I have two obsessions.. One is weddings and one is blankets.. Oh so I Have three.. The third is ties.. Jake has put me on a no buying blankets and ties for a long time thing LOL :)
On New Years Eve and went and babysat Gabe for a few hours while his family went to a movie! I got him all dressed and we went out to Wal Mart so I could spend the rest of our money left on our FSA before we lost it and then we went to Jake's work to visit him! Isn't Gabe so cute? I on the other hand look horrible LOL. I know I should do my hair everyday.. I know.. Just why am I lazy and don't lOL. Guess it is time that I get a haircut so I can't pull my hair back hehe :)Later on that night we went back to Gabe's place and had our new years celebration over there. We brought Guitar Hero and Gabe so wanted to play :) So he helped me with one song. Half way through he was either bored and mad because we were losing on the song so I hurried and took over LOL :)Here is a picture of another one of Jake's sisters. This is Danni. Lonni's twin sister. My first picture of 2009!~
Now just some random pictures of us!



Finally after an hour and a half I am done posting this blog. I have had such bad luck posting it. First I did something that hid the URL address stuff. I don't know how to explain it. Then I got this all posted and posted it and went to view it and it posted it to another blog that I post on... Then I went to copy and paste it and that didn't work.... I had to go in and add all the pictures again... THEN I am freezing. My fingers are about to fall off. When is this cold weather going to be over LOL :)

THanks for reading my post.. SOrry that it is sooooooooooooooooooo long!