The Magical Growing Belly ♥

The Day We Found Out We Were Expecting.. So Tiny Still But Daddy Loves Baby!!!

In the past few months my belly has been magically growing! IMAGINE THAT! haha I have always had a very small and petite waist and tummy but within the first 3 months it has grown tremendously! I LOVE SEEING MY BELLY GROW EVERYDAY! i know alot of it is bloating and gas inside my belly but even having a belly at all makes this pregnancy more real!

right at 7 weeks

about 9 weeks

10 weeks

11 weeks



11 weeks



 I am counting down the days until i feel lil peanut kick and move.. 8 more weeks until we know whether youre a boy or a girl.. THEN THE SHOPPING BEGINS! you'll be moving and grooving well before daddy gets home.. WE LOVE YOU SO MUCH ALREADY!!

Drizzy.. THE PUPPY!

THE FIRST DAY WE HAD HER!!!

before Jus and I moved into the townhouse we decided that we wanted to expand our family and add a new member! I have had a dog of my own previously which I no longer own (my aunt fell in love and cyrus became a member of their family) and it made me nervous to think i was entering the puppy stage of things again! I was SO worried our new addition would tear up the carpets and furniture or worse eat my clothing or shoes.. not to mention the potty training aspect! Jus has had a dog as well but his all ended up running away (ANOTHER ISSUE I WAS WORRIED ABOUT!) haha when we decided on drizzy we knew we were in for some sleepless nights! We picked her up from her first family at 8 weeks of age and instantly i fell in love! she is a cuddler from the word go, and really wants to be close to anyone as much as possible! she is a bulldog/lab mix which is really unheard of but its a GREAT mix if you ask me! she has the smarts of the lab and the cuteness of the bulldog! The fear that i had about potty training and the messes i foresaw werent really an issue at all! she had a few accidents in the beginning but when we brought her over to my parents house and introduced her to my parents older dog she picked up on the potty training right away! She hasnt had an accident in over 3 months which is a BLESSING!!!!



jus with driz the second day we had her!



Jus is such a good papa to drizzle and our families love her so much! she is a love bug and in the last few weeks i got to see her interact with a baby! SHE DID AMAZING! i was worried if she would be able to handle herself considering she is a puppy still, but i was so surprised how well she did! We still are leary of how she will handle a crying unhappy baby though! hahah but who likes crying anyways! ;) she is now 6 months and still getting herself into trouble a little lately but when i listen to the babies heartbeat she is always right next to me and completely interested in whats going on! i have a feeling she will claim the new baby as hers and will protect him or her as she does me and her daddy!

one weird thing about drizzy: SHE LOVES SLEEPING ON CUSHIONS AND THE BACK OF COUCHES.. its a strange quark of hers.. but its our puppy for ya!

all in all were so very blessed to have her in our lives!!!

The Story Of Our Lives!



jus at age 10 (far right)


 Ive known my soulmate since the age of 12. We passed in and out of each others lives until over a year ago when God brought us together again. Justin and I met at catholic church when i was 12 and he was 14. We met again my sophomore year of high school during fitness class when Justin would ask if i ever needed a ride to school... (OF COURSE I SAID YES HE WAS A POPULAR HUNKY SENIOR) after a few weeks of bumming rides off of Jus and a few kisses later we parted ways and until almost 4 years later. Again, my Sophomore year of college i got a random text asking if i was in Boise. As always, i didnt respond because i had a boyfriend and wasnt interesting in finding out who this mystery text was from. Of course, it was Justin who has gotten my number off of facebook and was relentless when it came to being in contact! About a year later I was single but entering into a new relationship with a guy from the Boise area. Justin was up in Moscow for a weekend and asked if he could stop by my apartment with some friends. After all this hard work he had put in i decided to let him stop by.. (I WAS ALSO CURIOUS AS TO IF HE WAS STILL AS HUNKY AS I REMEMBER) well.. HE WAS HUNKIER THAN HE WAS BEFORE. Justin had filled out and was no longer the 6'5 150 pound boy that i remember from years past. We instantly hit it off but i was stuck in a new relationship that had just started. I gave that a shot as Justin had a girlfriend too but we couldnt stay away from each other. Eventually God's plan took over and both our relationships ended at the same time. I called to let him know i was now available and his very next words were, "SO YOURE MY GIRLFRIEND RIGHT?" haha i couldnt help but laugh on the phone! WHO DID HE THINK HE WAS?? I loved the confidence and that he KNEW he wanted to date me! within a week or two i was flying to California to see him during his pro ball season and we had sparks fly! I left Cali with a new pro baseball player boyfriend, but with that job title it also made me leary of where our relationship would go. Over that summer we saw each other 4-5 times and each time our relationship grew with love and trust. I loved traveling to Visalia California to see the one man that made me smile without needing to say anything at all.

Once Jus came home in September and we were closer together it was clear to both of us that this was something special. He would travel up to Moscow every weekend with my parents to tailgate and celebrate vandals home games! (OF COURSE IT WAS TO SEE ME TOO!) haha

I finished my bachelor degree in the middle of December and moved home and thats when Jus and i lived together for the first time! haha i remember the day i got home and i was unpacking my clothes Jus kept kissing me and kept saying, "It still feels like youre going to leave like you did to go back to school!" it was amazing to be around my best friend EVERY single minute! We had talked about getting engaged but agreed that the ring would be too expensive to have for this christmas and thats the last we talked about it! On Christmas eve night we open our presents as a tradition on my side of the family. We had just about finished opening all the presents that were under the tree when Jus looks at me and says, "There is one more present for you in your room!" I ran into my room like a 5 year old on Christmas morning and opened a giant box to find a piece of paper in it. Instantly im not going to lie i was a bit bummed... i was thinkin jewlery or SOMETHING! I folded the paper open and read it. I instantly started crying, the words on the page meant more to me than any jewlery every could. At the end of the letter he had written me it said, "Come out into the living room and ill show you how much you mean to me!" so i braced myself for what could be out in that living room. I took a deep breath and opened my bedroom door. When i turned the corner I saw my entire family now in the living room! Justins parents had showed up as well as his brother. He was pasing and when he saw me he smiled. He turned towards me and grabbed my hands and got down on ONE KNEE! he simply said, "WILL YOU MARRY ME?" and of COURSE i said yes! It was exactly the way i had always pictured that moment to turn out, and he was the only one i wanted to share it with!

So we had become engaged and now what! WE STARTED TO PLAN THE WEDDING! Jus had decided he was going to leave for another season of ball so that only left a fall or winter wedding for us! we decided on November 11, 2011! 11-11-11 ♥ The wedding colors changed about a MILLION times in a two month time period but we had most of the beginning stages complete. We had rented a beautiful townhouse at the beginning of March and made lasting memories in our first "PLACE" together! Just after living in the townhouse for a month i felt a odd need to take a home pregnancy test! it was beyond me as to why because we never thought that would be in our future so soon! I took one on a saturday afternoon and it was negative! exactly like i had thought! we went out that night with our friends but there was something inside that said, "You can take a night off and be the DD!" so i hung out with my fiance and his friends but refused the shots that were handed out. The following day on monday i had the day off and Jus was at work. I was tidying the house and putting things away when i found the other at home pregnancy test. Of course when its laying there i decided to take it so we didnt have it taking up space. I took it and left it lying there for about 15 minutes because to be honest i forgot i had even taken it to begin with. When i walked back into the bathroom and saw a faint pink line in the positive section i actually stopped breathing! I thought, no way.. this isnt real! i waited until Jus got home and asked him if i was seeing things. he agreed that it looked postive and hugged me :) My HCG levels were screwy in the beginning which made the doctors a bit concerned that i might be experiencing a miscarriage. We waited two days to see if my levels doubled as they should... (THOSE WERE THE LONGEST TWO DAYS OF MY LIFE!) when the doctor called me on wednesday morning to say my levels went from 32 to 89 i could JUMP FOR JOY! WE WERE HAVING A BABY! being a first time mom and ever hearing the word miscarriage made me SO nervous that it could possibly happen! i fell in love with my future child instantly and it would be more than we could handle to lose it. ♥ We went for our first ultrasound appointment 12 days before Jus left for ball and this is what we saw!



IT WAS A BABY!!! thats for sure... Jus had a smile from ear to ear when he saw his future peanut.. We saw the heartbeat and the tiny but very visible limbs.. it was something i will never forget and can only describe as life changing. I knew i had refused those free shots for a reason :) ever since this ultra sound its been more real to us future parents! we talk about boy or girl and names practically every single day and i cannot wait until i feel the flutters of my baby boy or girl kicking and moving inside. We had been planning on waiting to find out the sex until he or she made their grand enterance into this world. After making a much needed trip to babys r us with my madre i felt so overwhelmed with the amount of things a child needs. Jus and I then decided that we wanted to know, and be ready when the baby arrived! Im 11 Weeks 4 Days along, and have about 8 more weeks to go until we can know if we will call him carter or call her marleigh.. either way, that baby will be loved and cared for more than you can ever imagine! We were MARRIED on April 30, 2011 ♥ It was a small ceremony at the catholic church we had met at when we were 12 years of age. It was absolutely beautiful and a day full of love! We plan on having a big fancy wedding inviting all of our friends and family after the baby arrives! a double celebration, of love and life! ♥

A LIFETIME OF LOVE.. THATS WHAT WE HAVE! I AM SO VERY BLESSED AND SO VERY LOVED BY MY HUSBAND AND FAMILY! ♥ I WOULDNT TRADE MY LIFE FOR ANYTHING, AND KNOW ONE THING FOR SURE... OUR BABY BOY OR GIRL WILL BE THE LIGHT OF OUR LIFE!!!!!