My Valentine

Well a lot of you are posting blogs about your hubby's.... so I thought I would jump on the wagon too. I woke up this morning and on my bed was a dozen roses and in the corner was balloon tied to a bag with a gorilla inside. For those of you who don't know, I am a sucker for stuffed animals. We don't usually do Valentine's gifts, but it was fun to wake up to that. I love you so much Kevin. Even though most of the time I am a "woman" (a little inside joke between me and Kevin). I cherish everyday that I have with you. We both know that I wouldn't be around much longer if it hadn't of been for you whipping me into shape. I am eternally grateful that you have helped me change my life and that will have a few more years together here on earth. I can't wait for this little person (we both know its a girl, you can admit it now) to come and be a part of our lives. I see how you are with Kestin, Wyatt, Tyson, Kenton, Kenzie and even little Kaitlyn and know that you are going to be an awesome BIG BROTHER! cause we both know you aren't a grown up yet! Anyway bay-bee I love you and I thank Heavenly Father every day for leading us to each other. We have both been to "Australia" and back in our lives and now we are finally on our way to "Ireland".... together. Oh and one more thing.......... I HATE YOUR FACE!

Home at last!!!!

So we are home at last, well we have actually been here two weeks but it has taken us that long to get the internet and that long for me not to be quite so bitter at U-Haul. So I will recap the looooong trip north so you can all give us sympathy.
Well we pick up the U-Haul on Friday the 18th and first off the guy tells us that it is an old truck so if we don't want to use it, then call 1-800-go-uhaul and they can get us a new truck. RED FLAG #1! So we leave and have to drive approximately 12 blocks to our house. It is suppose to have 1/4 tank of gas and as soon as Kevin starts driving.... it goes below empty. RED FLAG #2! So we call and they just tell us to go put some more gas in it. Anyway, so then Saturday morning comes around and it is leaking antifreeze... come on now, give us a freakin break. So we get all packed up and get ready to head off. Our caravan pulls out of the driveway at 1:00 p.m. Sweet we wille be home by 6:00 at the latest. So off we go. Me and Kevin in our cars take off ahead of my dad and sister in the truck and her car so that we can say bye to Lorris and Robyn before they hit Cedar, since that was meeting place #1. So we are standing at Lorris and Robyn's house and my dad calls me and tells me that he has no power and is off the side of the road. RED FLAG #3 (He was only 40 miles out of St. George.) So he says that he is going to try it again. So he finally makes it to Cedar which is mile marker 62 where we pulled off. Um by this time... it is almost 3:00. RED FLAG #4! So we hurry and eat some grub so that we can get back on the road. So we take off and only a few miles later we are all off in the emergency lane doing 5 miles an hour!!! What the crap, but hey we did get good gas mileage. So we drive this slow for quite a while until dad feels that he can try the truck again. So off we go..... not for long. We finally made it to mile marker 92 and had absolutely no power what so ever. So Kevin gets on the horn with the tow truck and he is in Page, Arizona! He said that it is going to take him about 2 1/2 hours to reach us. So what where we suppose to do in the meantime?? We are on the side of the road, 17 miles from Beaver with 2 dogs, 4 sugargliders, a pregnant ME, my sister, hubby and my poor dad who had to drive the crappy truck. So me and Raelyn drove to Beaver to use the much needed toilet. We come back to dad and Kevin and just sit and wait. Um, by the way we had left St George 7 hours ago! So the tow truck comes and tells my dad to just gun it and if he starts to break down again that he will just push him into Beaver. So we get to Beaver and he is working on the truck and found that there is water in the fuel filter, so he fixes it and sends us on our way. PHEW! Some relief! So we get all cocky about finally getting the truck to go the speed limit and BAM!!! It breaks down again at mile marker 159.... I have had it!! So we call the two truck and he tells us to just leave it in Meadow and he will haul it to Salt Lake tomorrow. In my mind I am thinking just put a bomb under the truck. I have insurance on it and nothing is that valuable inside. So we finally arrived in Hooper at Midnight, 6 hours after the time that it should have been.
So long story short. When we finally got our truck on MONDAY- there was a big snow storm. The U-Haul got stuck twice in the snow, same with my brother's truck, other brother's jeep and the truck that Kevin had borrowed from his brother-in-law. None of this would have happened had we had a decent truck. So then we try to call U-Haul about getting our money back and no one wants to take the blame. So after talking to someone where we dropped the truck off he reimbursed us $200! That's it! We paid that in gas alone to drive 112 miles. I was so pissed. So U-Haul made $600 off us driving 112 miles in 7 hours and another 40 some odd miles 2 hours after that. So I am going to get Gephardt on channel 2 and see if something can be done about my money because it is bull and now I am mad about the whole situation again.
*OH and the real reason that the truck didn't work, was because of the fuel pump which they had to replace in Salt Lake. MY ADVICE TO ALL OF YOU- DON'T EVER USE U-HAUL.... THEY HAVE LOST MY RESPECT AND MY BUSINESS FOEVER-

FYI OR BTW

So I went to the Dr today and he told me that I am 7 weeks along, that's all. Nothing else. I didn't even get to listen to the little heart beat! I AM BEYOND PISSED. He is all, well I could do it for you, but they would just do it again when you move in a couple weeks. WHOOPTY FREAKIN DEAL!!! So just do it!! Anyway, so for $180 I got told that I - #1: I am pregnant, #2: I am 7 weeks along. WELL NO CRAP DR. JERKFACE, why else would I be here?? Anyway, so needless to say that I am not too happy with how things went today. I am glad that sticking fingers up my whoha is worth $180 and that he can tell how far along I am by that. Maybe I will consider Medical School after all.... I mean I could probably just do it all online and get the same level of knowledge as Dr. Rogers. I was just waiting for his next line to be "but you can save a lot on your car insurance if you switch to Geico"

"But everyone else is doing it"

So as I look at my friends blogs today, I notice that almost all of you have posted a blog and well "if everyone else is doing it" why don't I?
We don't have much going on in our lives to blog about right now. We are trying to pack the house, which sucks, I can't believe how many rubbermaids it takes to be able to store all of my Barbies, and second, I knew I had a lot of scrapbook stuff... but man, DO I HAVE A LOT OF SCRAPBOOKING STUFF!!! (Kevin has put his foot down and said no more until I use most of this, except for that new Cricut machine, I will have one of those).
I am also going to see the OB/GYN tomorrow to make sure that I still have an embryo in me (PLEASE PRAY FOR US TONIGHT). I haven't had any sickness... yet... so I am hoping that there is still something in me. So please pray for me, it is going to be hard enough being a pregnant diabetic, but is an even bigger challenge because women in our family have miscarried and that scares the living daylights out of me.
Kevin has been applying left and right to some Police Agencies, and we still haven't heard from any of them yet and it is very frustrating. Me on the other hand, I really don't want to work more than I have to when we move up so I am hoping to get on with Blockbuster... I know sounds like a real career huh... well they offer health AND dental insurance to both their full and part-time employees and that is what I am looking for.
Well that about sums up our life. Nothing cool going on. I just ask that you all please keep us in your prayers (even if you are a slacker in that department) and hope that all goes well with our baby. I pulled out, actually found my patriarchal blessing Saturday and decided to read it. It left me with tears. It said that I would be "a mother in Israel" and that made me so happy, and Kevin's says that his greatest calling will be "that of a father". So I believe in my heart that this baby will be okay, but we can use all the help that we can get.
There, now that "everyone else is doing it"... I did to.

The Best Christmas Ever

Well I was sick all weekend and just thought that I had a little of the flu bug. So when me and Kevin were at Costco on Monday, we decided to buy some pregnancy tests because I thought that my favorite friend that wears red should have arrived by now. So the test says to take it first thing in the morning, so we woke up around 6:45 Christmas morning (to go to Cedar) and Kevin goes and gets me a stick and I am still asleep while taking this and I said "it's probably just negative again" and Kevin is all "oh really" and he shows it to me and it has 2 lines!!!! Not just one for the not pregnant but 2 for the "you better believe that you are pregnant". So today we went to LabCorp and had my blood drawn just to be certain and IT'S POSITIVE!!!! We are so excited and can't hardly believe it. Talk about a good birthday present for Kevin today!! Anyway so keep us in your prayers as being a diabetic and being pregnant is not the easiest thing in the world. Well I am just glowing now and I need to go make some more phone calls..... MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

Family picture time

So I know most of you think that it is hard to take a good picture with kids cause they won't sit still.... well try 2 dogs with ADHD! After about 30 pictures we finally got them to actually look at the camera... well Kodi is looking and Roxi is looking semi at the camera. It was actually pretty funny to try and take these.... can't wait until we get to add kids in the pictures also.... It will be a swell time!

OH "cardboard" Christmas tree......

So alot of people have given me and Kevin grief for not putting up a Christmas tree. FIRST off..... neither of us really care to much about the holiday, it's just another day out of the year. SECOND, we are moving in just over a month and didn't want to deal with it. SO..... being the creative little buggers we are we decided today that we will cut a tree out of the big cardboard box that we received the treadmill in and then poke holes in it and shove some lights through them. So after a few hours of poking holes and fingers numb our tree has 1200 lights on it! That's right people 100 lights!!!! KA-CHOW!!!! So now we are not the grinch's like everyone thinks.... and BTW we have stockings hung up for me, Kevin, Kodi, Roxi, Bam & Em. And I have my Mary & Joseph out on the fireplace mantel also. So there you go. I don't want to hear anyone else complain that we don't have a Christmas tree up because we do and it freakin' rocks!!!