My Last Post for Two Weeks!!

WOW!!! SO much has happened this week that it is unbelievable! I thought my colonoscopy was hard enough to deal with but the news I am about to share, takes the cake. Yesterday, Chez and his co-workers along with employees from other nearby offices, were called in to a meeting. We knew last week that the company was going to lay off 4,000 workers, but we had no idea our office would be included in that. The meeting was to announce that the sales offices in Idaho will be shutting down at the end of the week! What scary news! So, I found out at 3PM that Chez no longer had a job. I was so nervous about what the future was to hold for us. Well, about 6 PM, Chez had two different job offers in another state through the same company, just at different offices that are staying open. Whew! What a relief that was to hear. We are not sure which office we want to move to. There is so much to think about. We have a few obligations here that will make the move a little hairy, but we will figure it out. Just when you think life is so perfect and you have a wonderful house, family, and life set up, you get a curve ball thrown at you. It will be a huge change for us but I am up for it and I will take everything that comes my way and swallow my pride. The good news is that with all of this stress all at once, we will be headed to a warm tropical place this weekend for two weeks where we can forget our problems for the time being. I hope everyone has a Merry Christmas!

Colonoscopy

So today I had a colonoscopy done which is a very routine procedure. However, I am pregnant so that scared me a lot. All last week after hearing that I needed it done, I was a basket case. I told every nurse at the surgical center and reminded my doctor before the procedure, that I was pregnant. Everyone assured me that the baby would be fine but to be safe, they didn't give me as much anesthesia as normal. Therefore, I felt the whole thing but I was still a little drugged up so it wasn't too awful. Just not pleasant. It was worth it for me though to have the least amount of medication enter my baby as possible. When I came home, grandma graciously came to pick up Kingston so I could run over to my OB and hear my baby's heartbeat as a little reassurance. The baby's heartbeat was strong and he/she was moving around all over. I feel sooooo much better now that it is all over with. What a week!

Timber!

On Monday when I was putting the last of the Christmas ornaments on the tree, all of the sudden, our enormous tree feel forward leaving a bunch of shattered ornaments all over our living room. At first I was sad and then I couldn't stop laughing. It was so funny. Well, Chez found a way to keep the tree steady again and so far it has not fallen again since. I posted a picture of when it fell and now when it is happy again, along with some other decorations I have around the house.

The Christmas Season is Upon Us!

I am so excited for the Christmas season. I have held out decorating until the day after Thanksgiving. It was hard since Thanksgiving was so late this year but I managed to wait. Now that the house is decorated, we are going to pick up our fresh cut Chrstmas tree today and our house will be complete. This time of year always brings back so many memories of the past years. Last year Kingston was only 9 months old but he had so much fun opening his gifts. This will also be our third year going to Cancun and we are so excited. I posted some Christmas pics of King last year in Cancun with my mom and Chez and I as well as Christmas morning, but when we get our tree all up and decorated, I will post some new Christmas pictures for this year.

Holiday High

Thanksgiving is next week and I am looking forward to it. Thankfully my morning sickness has not been all the bad the past few days so my fingers are crossed that I will be feeling okay Thanksgiving day. I am spending my very first Thanksgiving ever with Chez and his family. In all our years of even dating, I have always gone to Seattle for this particular holiday. I am excited to experience Thanksgiving with the Jones's. I am also very excited for the Christmas holiday. Every year Chez and I bake up a ton of Christmas cookies to deliver to our neighbors. We like to build gingerbread houses, decorate the house like CRAZY, and we absolutely love to set up our tree. This year will be extra special because Kingston will be old enough to understand a little more of what is going on. We haven't decided if we want to do our Christmas before our after our Cancun trip which is the 21st-31st. But whatever the case is, Chez and I finished all our shopping for Kingston yesterday. He is going to be thrilled! He still mostly has little baby toys that he plays with and hardly any big kid toys. After going to friend's houses who have tons of cool toys that Kingston adores, we decided to spoil Kingston this Christmas. I posted the pictures of his toys. The kitchen set was so hard to find. We bought one at Toys R Us that ended up having bad reviews so after much research, we found the coolest one ever at Sam's Club that was so much cheaper than the same style at Toys R Us only this one we bought comes with a table and chairs. I am so excited for Christmas and so happy to have a wonderful family to share the holidays with!

Another Bundle of Joy

The past couple of weeks have been crazy and adding morning sickness to that, makes it worse. Seattle was okay. The whole purpose was for my grandma's funeral which made it a very different and kind of sad. It is always a joy to see my family though. Friday I flew straight from Seattle to Boise, where I then drove to Idaho Falls, packed Kingston's weekend suticase, dropped him off with grandma and grandpa then caught another plane to Vegas from Idaho Falls. That day was nuts! Once I got to Vegas I was able to relax and enjoy my weekend. Saturday I watched Chez play tennis and hung out with his team members. Sunday we hung out with some friends who live in Vegas and played some table games while watching Sunday night football. Monday our flight wasn't until 3PM so we played "Let It Ride", a table game, while we killed some time before going to the airport. What do ya know?? I get a 4 of a kind and pocket a very decent chunk of change before flying home. Once we finally got home and were greeted by Kingston, who was very happy to see us :), we crashed until morning where we went to the doctor to get our very first ultrasound of our little peanut! It was so awesome to see and hear the heartbeat of our little baby. I am due June 21st. We are so excited to finally give Kingston a little brother or sister!

Gone Private

Lately I have been getting some comments from people I don't know or comments that I never got to read that were deleted. For confidentiality and safety of my family, I decided to make our blog private. I am only allowing friends and family to view our blog through invitation only. I am not really "blogger" smart, so if any of you notice that it has not gone private, please let me know so I can fix that.