It's Been Awhile

Man it has been awhile since I posted anything, and I have so much to post now! Travis has instructed me that I need to be better at posting often because he leaves this weekend to start his training for the deployment. He said that reading my blog helps him feel connected to our family, so I am going to try really hard for him to be better at keeping it updated.

Anyways, in the past couple of months we have had a lot going on. First off, I thought that I would share our news that we are having another little boy!! We are so so excited to be having another boy. Parker understands a lot more this go around and seems excited to have a baby brother. I am exactly 24 weeks today, so I only have 16 weeks to go!! Hooray!

We also have made some changes to our house in the past couple of months. We are just renting right now, and our house had carpet in the kitchen and bathroom(two of the worst places for carpet in my opinion!) So we talked to our landlords about replacing it and putting in linoleum tiles. They were fine with it, so that is what we did!! We started with the kitchen, and got it all put in and the new baseboards put up in no time at all! (We do still have to fill in the nail holes and touch up the paint on the baseboards!) Then we decided to get started on the bathroom. We wanted to paint the bathroom first and then redo the floor, so we got ready to do so, and ended up finding mold in the walls. So our bathroom painting and re-flooring turned into a complete bathroom redo. I will do a separate post just on that!

When it rains it pours, and for a few weeks it was pouring at our house. During the same time that we found the mold in the bathroom, Chloee ended up getting really sick and had to go to the emergency room. She had a fever of 107.5!! That is HOT, and scared us to death. Luckily they put her on some good antibiotics and she was better pretty quickly. Also during this time our dog got hit by a car. (Speaking of dogs, we got a new dog since I posted last! I will do a separate post about her also!) Luckily it wasn't too serious, and we didn't even have to take her to the vet.

I also had Youth Conference that same week, and then the following week ended up with pink eye. Life has just been crazy! I told Travis that I think Heavenly Father was giving us plenty of other things to think about and worry about so that we didn't have time to focus and worry about Travis leaving. In a way it has been good, because I really haven't thought about it too much until just the past couple of days.

Now we are on the brink of this next trial/stage of our lives as Travis leaves. I am doing pretty good so far, but we will see once he actually leaves. I will let you know how it goes!!