New Adventure of Life

I can not wait until it starts getting warmer. I am looking forward to being able to go out on walks during the day. They help past the time when James is at work. This spring though I get to go on walks with Payton, which I am looking forward too. I had to pretty much talk James into registering for a travel system stroller  He figured we really didn't need a stroller, but I told him it would be cheaper to get a car seat/ stroller combo, then buying a car seat and later a stroller. Plus it would give me an excuse to go on walks more. I didn't really get to go on much walks during my pregnancy because the weather turned cold and all the "good" weather happened when James was at work and I didn't feel comfortable walking by myself with the snow and the ice. So I can't wait until I can go again during the spring. We are definitely bringing the stroller with us when we go down to visit our families in June. I want to be able to go walk the pier and downtown in...

As I sit here thinking that the time is almost here for Payton to make his appearance, I can't help wondering if we have everything that we need. In the last week or two I have ordered some diapers and wet ones, so I know I have those coming to me. I also need to order some bath stuff and then I think I will have the bare minimum that we will need. I'm 35 weeks today.  So I have roughly 5 weeks until he gets here to make sure that we have everything. Sometimes I sit and wonder if he will come early and give us a January baby or if we will have our February baby. Also will he decide to come on his actual due date and be a valentine baby. Also I sit and try to think if we are going to give him the nick name of PJ or make it just Payton.  I keep telling James we need to make a decision so our family and friends will know if it's okay or not to call him PJ.  Part of me is glad that we are not giving him a middle name that starts with a "B". I know our families proba...

It's getting close to baby time. I'm 32 weeks pregnant now. Only 8 weeks to go, unless he decides to come early... Hopefully not to early since we are still working on getting everything we are going to need. I mean we don't even have diapers yet. Hopefully I will be buying some in the next week or two. I've been trying to figure out what the best type of diaper would be for Payton, but it's kinda hard when he isn't even here yet. So I'm going to buy at least 2 different brands and do a little testing of the diapers. We did think about cloth diapers, but right now they are not an option for us, since we don't have the greatest washer and we have hang all of our clothes to dry right now.  We got our car seat and stroller in the mail a couple weeks ago, thanks to my mom, older sister, grandma, and two aunts. We also got a johnny jump up in the mail. That was the only thing James really wanted. When he saw it in the store when we were registering he got e...

Well the holidays are coming, which means I'm gonna be a little emotional. Haha shocker. Poor James has had to deal with me going from laughing at something he said to crying the next second and not knowing why I'm crying. So this holiday season is going to be a blast for me with all the tears. Anyways, some exciting news. My mother in law is coming up for Thanksgiving this year. She will get to Bethel on the 18th and then James' uncle will fly down on the 19th to pick her and I up and take us to Aniak. We will spend the week there celebrating. James will fly up that Wednesday. Praying that he makes its since he will be flying non rev. He will have two chances to make it that day. Hopefully he will make it on the first flight that way he can spend some time with his mom. I'm really excited to be able to go up there for Thanksgiving. Haven't seen the family since July. We most likely won't make it for Christmas this year since it falls on James' work schedul...

If you are friend with me on facebook, then you probably already know that James and I are having a boy. We surprised our parents when we called and told them. No one knew when we were going. Originally it was going to be at the end of the month, but when I went to my 19 week appointment the PA told me I could come back in 2 weeks or continue with my every 4 weeks. After my appointment I went to the waiting area to talk to James at what we should do. We decided to come back in 2 weeks and that we should keep it to ourselves. Haha that was hard to do especially when I was talking to my mom  after that appointment. She was like "so when do you find out what your having? Isn't it at the end of the month?" I was like it's sometime in October. She was like okay and the topic was dropped. Everyone that would ask me I would tell them sometime in October. It was hard not to tell my best friend when we skyped. She really wanted to know what day it was, but I told her I was no...

Well planning for the baby has had its ups and downs.  We decided that we are going to buy/register everything in mostly neutral colors. That way when we have more children we can just reuse some of the bigger items instead have to buy new every time. Plus we won't have to store extra stuff if our next baby is a different gender then the one we are having.  We are also trying to decide if we want to by a crib or just get a pack and play for a crib and buy a crib mattress for it instead. All these designs are driving me crazy. We don't have a lot of space for a crib, but can make do if that is what we decide to do. It's just going to take some reorganizing  things to make it work. We have actually begun to do all that. Unfortunately we have a lot of totes that we have to figure out were to put. We are slowly emptying some of them and combining them with others, so we can stack the empty ones.  We are going to be finding out what we are hav...

Well I am getting back into being involved in the church. I was asked to help teach Sunday school with 2 other ladies. We will be rotating every week so no one has to be there every Sunday. Myself and one of the other ladies will only be there for a few months. The other lady is due just before me. I'll stay on until February. After I'm gone it will only be the one lady for the last couple months of Sunday school. This is new for me as I have yet to teach Sunday school, but hey there is a first for everything, right? So I ask prayer as I am to teach for the first time this Sunday. I also decided to get brave and volunteer to help out in Awana. It was really hard for me to decide if I want to do this or not. I didn't want to throw myself into so many ministries that I get burnt out. I've gotten burnt out before and it was hard to say no,but I always knew that I needed a break. Well after talking to James for almost 3 weeks on and off I finally decided that I can do Awa...