It's a.....

Hello, hello!!! I have very exciting news!! Ben and I will be welcoming a little princess in our home in a few months!! We also got the chance to get a good look at this beautiful princess's face! It was the most amazing experience! The ultrasound tech told me that she is a little mover. My mom came to interpret for us and she told him that this baby takes after her mommy because her mommy moved around a lot too. I know I'll have my hands full with this little ball of energy! The moment we found out, I got the most amazing feeling and knew for sure that Heavenly Father picked me to be her mother.

I've been feeling very strongly that this little one was a girl. I've had a few neat experiences in the past few weeks. I am the Miamaid Advisor in my ward and New Beginnings was at the end of March. It was such a spiritual night and I grew so much. One of the speakers was telling a story about a princess and during the moment, I had a little whisper in my head that I was going to be entrusted with one of Heavenly Father's princesses and that she was exquisite.

I just can't believe I'm going to be a mother to a little baby! I'm so grateful for the technology we have now so that I can know for sure that my baby is healthy and strong. I am just amazed with the love that just fills my heart and I can't wait to meet this little one! Looking at her pictures...I just know she's so beautiful and the spirit that is to inhabit that body is even more beautiful!

I asked Ben a few minutes ago if he was disappointed. He told me no... not at all. I know he'll probably do anything for her knowing his tender big heart.

Here's a picture of her flexibility skills! Her cute little feet are all the way to her head. I was just amazed!

I better go. I have a lot more other things I need to post about, but I'll save that for another day and go to bed. Hope you enjoyed all the pictures!

Long time...

I have again not posted for a long time. I need to try to be better!!! This post will be short as I have to go to work soon. I just thought I would give everyone the update and let you all know how we are doing. I am doing well. Finally through with the morning sickness stage and relieved! The thing I struggle with the most right now is working and being on my feet all day. The first thing I do when I get home is sit down and put my feet up. Ben is doing well...keeping up with his studies and working at Best Buy. He seems to enjoy his new job and I'm happy for him.

We had our doctor's appointment on Tuesday and things are going well. The baby is growing and has a good heart beat. I got to hear it's heart beat on March 2nd and it was amazing! I was afraid I wouldn't be able to hear it but it was very loud and could not be missed! Ben also got to hear the heart beat on Tuesday. We will be getting an ultrasound in two weeks to find out if baby is boy or girl...if it cooperates! I have mixed feelings about this...I'm not sure I want to know because I'm afraid of being disappointed even though I don't care if I have a boy or girl. I have already had a nightmare about having an ultrasound so I'm starting to wonder if there's something deep down inside bothering me. :)

I have been able to feel the baby move for quite some time. At first, I could not really tell if it was just my imagination. But now I can tell and I love it! It likes to move a lot when I'm walking around at work. I'm still in denial that I'm actually carrying one of Heavenly Father's children. I feel so strange and at the same time I'm very excited!

I will have to post again soon. I hope...if I don't...those of you who live close-by can remind me!

Yes.....it's true.....

Hello everyone!! I'm back on this blog finally updating my blog. I have absolutely no excuse. I just never really had the time to really sit down and blog. I don't know where all my time goes but I assure you, it disappears fast!

Ben and I would like to announce that there's a new little one coming into our family! We went in to the doctor today and finally found out our due date. Little Curtis baby is due August 31st. We also had the opportunity to see the cute little bug in an ultrasound. Here it is... The little circles are the arms and the biggest blob is the head and the little blob is the body. I hope that makes sense. I had a hard time trying to watch the ultrasound and trying to figure out what they were saying. Next time, I am just going to ignore them and watch the ultrasound. I did have to laugh at Ben because he said, "it's moving around?!" and I just almost cried.

I know it isn't much but it moves around so much and was the neatest experience of my life. I just sat there and felt so warm inside. I can't believe Ben and I are going to be parents and I already worry for this little one but I know if I have faith and keep on going that the Lord will bless us.

We have felt so blessed over the past couple weeks. Even though I have been sick, throwing up and being exhausted, I feel that the Lord is preparing me to become stronger spiritually. This is silly, but I was convinced that because I couldn't hear, the Lord would not curse me with morning sickness...however, I feel that being sick has made me appreciate my own mother more. I don't understand how she went through this ten times, but I'm glad she did because I'm number 9 and if she stopped before that, I wouldn't be here.

I know many of you are surprised because we always said that we wouldn't start a family until after Ben graduated. We have both felt strongly that we needed to start a family and decided to leave it to the Lord and let Him decide. That for me was really hard....to completely trust the Lord and know that He will provide for us in the next year. That is one big leap of faith for us.

I will be sure to blog more often. I am also thinking about making my blog private because I've heard a lot of scary stories out there....especially over the internet. Anyway...that's all I have to share for now.

Long time...Lots to say...but not enough patience

I recently got a wall post on my facebook from my cousin saying I needed to update my blog! I really have no excuse but that I've been extremely busy. I also struggle with the getting some computer time as well. However, those are not really valid excuses so I will do my best to update you all on my life.

On October 18th, I flew with Nicole (my sister) and two of her friends to Miami, Florida to go on a cruise. It's a long story and I don't have any pictures with me right now. I forgot my camera and so Nicole took lots and lots of pictures as well as her two other friends....I guess I can say they are my friends now because I still keep in touch with them! :) I will do that in another post in the future when we are able to compile all the pictures that were taken.

Right now I am in sunny and warm Arizona visiting my brother and his family. They just bought a new house and are still in the process of unpacking in their new home. It is a very beautiful home and I'm happy for them. I've just been helping and relaxing and enjoying myself. However, Ben isn't with me and I miss him a lot! I feel bad for the poor guy, he's been stuck at home and going to school while I've been off having adventures! I thank him for letting me get away and putting up with my messes when I got home since I didn't completely unpack from the cruise because I knew that I would be leaving again.

I will be back in good ole, cold, freezing Idaho next week on Monday. I am looking forward to seeing all you Idaho folks again, however, I am not really looking forward to the cold and wind in Idaho. I told Ben that we will have to move to St. George or someplace that has perfect temperature year round! He just laughed.

I really don't know what else to say so I'll close for now...I don't have the patience to sit at the computer for a long time anymore. Hope everyone is doing well!

New Calling

I decided to do smaller posts for easier reading so here's on to my news. Two weeks ago today, Ben and I went to Mara and Gus Clark's twin girls baby blessing (Mara is a really good friend of mine from high school and she is amazing!!) We were planning to go to their sacrament meeting and to the luncheon after and be done with church for the day. However, Ben got a call from the 2nd counselor in the bishopric right after sacrament meeting asking if we could meet with him 10 minutes before Sacrament meeting started (our church started at 1 PM and the baby blessings were at 9 AM). So we went to the luncheon and then left to talk to the 2nd counselor. Ben was a little nervous because he already has a calling as 2nd counselor in the Elder's Qurom Presidency and he thought a primary calling was coming. However, I had a feeling that the calling was for me because I knew that Ben would stay in his calling...it was a strange feeling and I was scared. However, we went and talked to Brother Anderson. I accepted the call to become the Miamaid Advisor for Young Womens. I was a little shocked and excited. I look forward to all the experiences that this calling will give me. I admit that I'm a little out of my comfort zone but sometimes that has to happen in order for great experiences.

Our Young Womens is very small and so we all meet together every Sunday and have a combined lesson every week. I had the opportunity to give the lesson today. I don't think I've been this nervous to teach a lesson before. I love teaching but this was the first lesson I taught verbally. All the other lessons I've taught have been in sign language and I prayed all morning this morning. The Lord truly is watching out for me and He knows that I am capable of things that I don't think I am. I was able to get through the lesson and I just hope that I was able to inspire at least one girl as much as my Young Women's leaders inspired me. However, at one point during the lesson, the power went out and I was almost ready to panic because I could not see anyone in the room well enough to understand them. I said a quick little prayer and the lights came back on immediately. Amazing that the Lord can hear this small, insignificant prayer and answer it quickly!

I am so excited to be in Young Women's and am already loving where I am. I look forward to the many experiences I will have and hope I can do some good in this calling.

It's so good to be living!!

I just barely noticed yesterday that I have not posted for a month! The summer has gone by so fast and I can't believe it is half over. It makes me sad because in a month and a half, Ben will be going back to school. I'm excited for him though because I know he is ready to go back and finish what he set out to do in the beginning. We had a little scare and a little anxiety last Sunday when Ben was looking up into the readmission process into the nursing program. Ben was a little confused about the process and he thought that he would have to redo everything all over again and that since the application was not due until September that he would not be able to retake his nursing class since he was not in the program. He also found a little section in the application that said something about having to be able to hear the heartbeat, breathing, etc. Ben said that part was not in the application before and he knows that it was put there because of him. So...all day Sunday, Ben was a little sad and discouraged because he wanted to finish school soon. However, later last week, Ben's adviser called him and Ben made an appointment to see her. After the appointment, Ben was feeling much better. It turns out that he does have to redo some things but he will be able to retake his nursing class this fall and some other classes and finish by December 2010. We felt that the Lord is truly watching over us and whenever something seems impossible, the Lord helps the impossible become possible! I felt so relieved since...to be honest, I'm tired of my job and dealing with the big bosses has become a little stressful. I won't go into much detail though. I know I am half way done with my contract and I know if I made it this far then I can hang on a little more longer.

Apologies

Sorry the last post was so long! I tried....please forgive me for my ramblings!