Merry Christmas!

Grandma and Grandpa Fields usually spend Christmas at our house, but since mom and dad were in Utah, they called and asked if they could spend it with us. They came over Christmas Eve to spend the night. Grandma brought over some food and some snacks and treats for us. It was nice to be able to visit with them after being gone in Utah for so long and Chris in Georgia. We told Grandma the news about me being pregnant and she was so excited! Christmas morning we work up early and opened presents together. Then Grandma made us breakfast. It was so yummy! Here are a few pics of us Christmas morning...

Our Christmas Jammies

No, they are not Lincoln Logs Honey...Just an empty box I used.

Chris wanted 35 lb weights, but they were way to heavy for me to wrap up, so I bought two little 1 lb weights and wrapped them up. A first he was a little confused, but when I told him the real ones were hiding in my mom's closet he was excited.

Since I was not about to attempt an entire Christmas dinner myself, we decided to go with Grandparents to to Sean and Ann's for dinner. My aunt and uncle and cousin Chris were there too. It was a great dinner and so fun to share our baby news with them too!

This is a picture of us all dressed up before we went to dinner.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

Our Christmas Surprise

Christmas Eve morning I woke up snuggling in bed with Chris, enjoying the fact that neither of us had to get up to go to work. All the sudden it hit me...I hadn't bought anything for his stocking!!! What kind of Santa's lil helper would I be with no stocking for my love? Of course, I couldn't admit it to him, so I told a little white lie and said that I needed to go pick something up for dinner that I forgot. I ran to Rite Aid to get some candy and a few other things for him. When I was at the store, I walked pasted the pregnancy test isle...it got me thinking...when was my last period? I realized that I was 4 days late. My periods are so irregular I figured it would just come in the next day or two, but I thought to myself "I'll just pick up a test and if it doesn't come in the next few days, I'll take it!" So chocolate and pregnancy test in hand I checked out and headed home. When I got home curiosity got the best of me and I just had to know. I didn't want to tell Chris and get his hopes up if it was negative, so I snuck into the bathroom and took the test...waiting...waiting...waiting...POSITIVE!!! Totally not what I was expecting. I was so excited and I wanted to run upstairs and tell Chris, but I thought "What if its wrong?" I decided to wait an hour or so and take the second test. Sure enough...POSITIVE!

Now, how to tell my husband...hmmm??? It was Christmas Eve, so I thought about waiting until Christmas morning to tell him, but then I thought, I can't keep it a secret that long! We have a tradition of opening Christmas jammies on Christmas Eve, so I decided to wrap up both pregnancy test and give him them with his pj's. Sitting in our bed, I opened my new Christmas jammies and gave him his. He opened the jammies and then I handed him another present with a huge grin on my face! I could not stop smiling! He looked at me kinda funny and said "What's this?" I said it's a present just open it. With a confused look on his face he opened the present and sorted through the never ending pile of tissue paper I stuck in there. Finally he pulled out a small Ziploc with two little pregnancy tests in it. Still confused, he picked them up and took a closer look to see what they said. He looked up at me with the sweetest look on his face and tears starting to swell in his eyes and said with a little chuckle "Are you serious?" Still grinning I said YEP!

We called my sister's house and Chris wanted to tell my mom. It was so cute, because he was so excited and couldn't stop smiling. Then we called his mom and sister and told them too. It was the best Christmas present ever!

It's almost Christmas!

With all the packing and unpacking after the big move, I am glad Christmas finally came. When we got here from Utah, Mom already had the Christmas tree up and decorated. She always sets it up the day after Thanksgiving (a lil family tradition). Dad and Chris hung lights outside, helping to make the house look all sorts of festive! Mom and Dad went to Utah to spend Christmas with everyone. Monica, Ash and the kids--Brandon, Kamara, and the kids--Cassi and Gavin. They were all together. Since Chris and I had basically been apart since January, we decided to stay here and have Christmas together, just me and him!

We only had one car here, because I left mine in Utah when we moved, so shopping for gifts was kind of hard. Chris would take the car to work and I would be at home working all day. So when night time came around, we would either go to the mall together and just shop separate or one of us would take the car and go alone. I shopped with mom a lot while he was away at work. Somehow we got it all done and with all the presents wrapped, we were ready for Christmas!

It's Snowing

It snowed today! We were so excited, we went out to play in the snow. There wasn't very much, but it made for a few cute pictures. If we are lucky, it might just keep snowing for us to have a white Christmas, but probably not!

Our Dity Move--Part 2

Monday morning came and it was time to start the long drive to WA, but we still had to pick up Chris' 4-wheeler. When we got to Cycle House, his entire engine was in a million pieces and sitting in cardboard box on the floor next to it. They said they didn't have time to get it finished...??? 4+ months and they didn't have time to do it! Completely pissed off, Chris loaded it up into the truck and we took off.

The weather started out fine, but then it started raining and the wind was blowing like crazy. Being the last week in November, we were lucky it was just rain and wind instead or snow. The U-Haul was swaying side to side pulling the truck all over the road. Chris was holding the steering wheel tight trying to keep us from an accident. As we continued to drive and the wind and rain stopped, but the trailer kept swaying all over the place. We pulled over to get gas and saw a sign on the side of the trailer that we hadn't noticed before. It showed you how to load the U-Haul. It said to put all of the heavy stuff in first and then everything else after. So basically putting the mattresses and table in first will all the heavy stuff in last was totally wrong. That is what was causing it to sway all over the road, the weight was not balanced right. At that point, there was nothing we could do. It's not like we were going to unload our trailer on the side of the road and re-load it, so we kept driving. To top it off, Chris noticed that his 4-wheeler gas tank cover was not properly secured and was flapping in the wind. Just as we were about to stop to fix it, it flew off bouncing down the highway! We were driving too fast to stop and get it, so we drove to the next exit and turned around to go back for it. Driving back towards where we lost it, we saw it up ahead in the middle of the freeway still in one piece. Just as we drove past it to turn around at the next exit...a truck flew by and blasted it! It went flying again. By the time we got the plastic cover, it was pretty mangled!

After hours of poor reception, bad radio stations, and a couple dozen curse words (directed at the swaying trailer)...We made it to Washington, U-Haul trailer, 4-wheeler and all! Phew!!!

Our Dity Move--Part 1

The time is finally here! We are moving to Washington. Chris was released to come get me and all of our stuff. I set up the U-Haul rental and finished packing. Luckily most of our stuff was already packed in a storage unit since I was living with Monica and Ash and only needed clothes.

The Army pays for us to move, based on weight and distance, so when Chris got to Utah, we had to drive to Heber to a certified weigh station to get the truck weighed empty. Then we could get the U-Haul and start loading our stuff. We had our king size mattresses and table stored in Monica's garage, because it wouldn't fit in the storage unit, so we decided to load it first. We put the table in then the mattresses on top and loaded my clothes and stuff from the house under the table and around the mattresses. After all of that was loaded, Chris went to the storage unit to load up the rest. We also had to pick up Chris' 4-wheeler from Salt Lake that had been in the shop for the last 4+ months that he was gone. When we called, they told us it still wasn't ready. Chris and I were pisses...they had it for months and basically sat on it and did nothing! They told us to give them another day or two, but we had to get a final moving weight from the weigh station, so we borrowed my sisters 4 wheeler. We loaded it up and hooked up the U-Haul. We thought we could go back to the same weigh station in Heber, but they were closed. We called pretty much every weigh station in Utah and none of them were going to be open because it was a Saturday. We had to hit the road on Monday to make it back on time, so we didn't have time to wait. Finally we found one in Evanston, Wyoming that was going to be open. We loaded up 4 of Chris' cousins for a fun road trip (and added weight...hehehe) to Wyoming at like 4pm. It was such a long drive! We didn’t' end up getting back to the house until almost 11pm. We now had both our weigh in tickets and were good to go!