Long Ago and Far Away...

Writing on the blog has seemed to be my last priority the last few months. Yet, so much has happened and Bruce and I have been so blessed. On July 27. 2010 our son was born. What a blessing he has been in our lives. After a rough start and a week in the hospital, he is as close to perfect as any mother could hope for.

Motherhood has been very different than I ever imagined. The sleepless nights were expected. But I never expected to feel this amount of love for our little man. It has opened a whole new world to me. What an awesome responsibility it is to be in charge of this boy! I have never wanted to be successful this much in my life. I have to raise him to be strong in the gospel and smart, capable, and independent. I am so grateful for the blessings of motherhood. I wish that the situation were slightly different and I could be a stay at home mom, but right now I need to continue working. I went back to work three weeks ago and the first day, I cried the entire time to the office. It seems like I don't get to cuddle with him or spend near enough time with him. Hopefully the day will soon come that I can be a full time mom.

Bruce has been such a wonderful Daddy. Lucky for me I have a husband who believes that we should share the night duty. Yay for me! He loves our little monkey so much and I am so proud of him. With school and work, he has been pulling long days and long nights with a sleepless baby. Hopefully that will change soon and we will all start to get some sleep soon.

I am so grateful for General Conference and all of the wonderful inspiration and advice that will help me to be a better mother and help us to be a stronger family. I hope that we can all enjoy the inspirational messages that will make our lives better!

Way too long

This time, I truly have waited way too long to update the blog. I would love to say that life has just been too busy, but I think the truth of the matter is that I was just too lazy. But life is wonderful for us. I am officially twenty four weeks along and am loving feeling the baby move. It's a boy, for those of you who didn't receive our exciting news. We are so excited to welcome him into our home. What a great and exciting time in our lives. Gideon Warren Walther will be joining our family at the end of July and we can hardly wait!

Bruce is still pushing through school. But we did get him a new(er) car this weekend. He got a 2005 Ford 500. Since Daddy is going to be the one picking up baby and transporting mainly, Bruce ended up getting a nice family vehicle. We love it! It may be a boring sedan, but it is fun to drive. Bruce would claim that its the V6 engine. I say it's just that its newer.

Hopefully life will continue to go smoothly for us. We have been so blessed!

11 months!

It is amazing to me that I have been married to my best friend for eleven months. I think back to my life before Bruce and I am so grateful for the type of man he is. I think about people who say things like "I wish I was single again" and I think they are absolutely mad. I wish everyone could be as happy in marriage as we are. Sometimes I feel like I shouldn't be so giddy with it. But then I think about how it has changed my life and I hope that all of those that I hold dear are as giddy with their lives as I am with mine.

About a month ago, we discovered some exciting news. If all goes well, which we pray it will, we will have a wonderful, healthy baby in 31-32 weeks. Bruce is so excited and spoils me rotten as I deal with constant morning sickness and even more constant worrying. He reminds me that someone else is in charge and that I need to trust that all will go as it is supposed to. His perspective is amazing and keeps me humble.

My sweet husband

So, I have to start out with a small fact. Bruce hates Stephanie Meyers "Twilight". He has never read them and never will. Don't get him started on why. He will give you a list that will shock and amaze you. He didn't see the first movie and I thought he would never see the second. I was shocked when our friends Amber and Stu called with free tickets and he said we would go. Now, that's true love! He endured the whole movie because he knew I wanted to see it. The only thing that would have made it better would be if he could have stopped snickering during the movie. But I'll take my small victories.

We have so much to be grateful for as we start Thanksgiving week. We have passed ten months of marriage and it has taught me so much, particularly how blessed I am to have such a wonderful man as a husband and the patriarch of our home. Since I'm the one writing this, I get to extol all of his virtues. :) He is so patient and kind and a true gentleman. I love that he opens all of my doors and insists on spoiling me, which I will gladly accept. He is doing so well with school this semester and I am so proud of him. It's tough taking 17 credit hours and still working, but he is muscling through.

I am also grateful for the new family that has entered my life. The Walther family is so strong and such a great example to me. I now have such a large family and its so nice to know that there is always someone there. This Friday I get to participate in making an advent calender for our home, which Bruce's mother has used in their home for years. I am so excited to bring this tradition into our family and am grateful that she would make such an effort to include me.

I am also grateful for my family. I am lucky to have a mother who is also my best friend. She is always so much fun to hang out with. I miss my sisters a lot, especially since I don't get to see two of them very much. But they are so fun and it always nice to get together. Other than that we all seem to follow my father in the clutziness factor. What can we say? We're all daddy's girls!

Happy Thanksgiving to our friends and family! We love you so much and are so blessed to have you all in our lives.

Life is ...going

I wish I had something fantastic happening in our life to update. I've put it off for longer than I should have hoping that something exciting would happen. But alas, with school for Bruce, I'm not sure he could handle much more in the way of excitement. My hard working husband is taking 17 credit hours while still working another 30 hours a week. So far, he is doing great!

My life is fairly boring. I have just been working and have been enjoying learning some new hobbies. My friend Amber has been teaching me to crochet. Next, it's on to knitting! Hopefully it will be something that I get better at. Right now, the only thing that has come out of it is a very utilitarian scarf for Bruce to wear on his cold, recess duty days! I hope it keeps him warm.

Wedding Weekend

We've had an exciting couple of weeks lately. But this last weekend was wonderful for our family. Bruce and I got to travel to California to be at his brother's wedding. Lewis and Renee were married in the Redlands temple. It was a beautiful wedding and we had a wonderful time with Bruce's family. Almost the whole family was together.

On Friday we went to Newport Beach where we spent the day playing in the waves. Bruce ended up as a lobster! He doesn't apparently handle sun exposure well. But we had a blast. It was so much fun hanging out with all of the nieces and nephews. The adults wanted to stay and play longer! Saturday we spent the morning at the wedding and got to play by the pool for the afternoon. That evening, we went to Renee's parents house for the reception. It was so beautiful. About the only time I can ever get Bruce to dance with me is at a wedding, so we need more people to get married. I love dancing with my husband!

Capital Reef

I finally got to take Bruce to my favorite place on earth, Capital Reef. The Loveless family reunion was down there this year and we got to spend three days with my wonderful family. It was beautiful and we had a lot of fun. We got to go on two hikes, Hickman Bridge and Cohab Canyon. I was silly and planned the hikes back to back, therefore killing Bruce's ankles for the rest of the weekend, but he was a great sport and still rescued when I inevitably fell. Yes, I know, a shock for those of you who know me. These reunions always seem far too short and I wish we could make them last a lot longer. One weekend a year is never enough! But we loved spending time with everyone and realized how very blessed we are to have such a wonderful family!