Many Thanks

Thanksgiving is such a wonderful time of year. It reminds me of how much I have been given and how much I am undeserving of it. The greatest blessings in my life are my two boys. I have found such joys in motherhood and being a wife. I look at my son and am amazed that someone this perfect came from me. It is overwhelming at times to realize that he is my responsibility, but I am so very grateful for him. He is giggling now on a regular basis. I love playing with him and hearing that cute little laugh. It makes my whole day. He is growing so fast and I'm so amazed to watch as he learns new things.

I have such a wonderful husband. I love him so much. He spoils me rotten and treats me like a queen. Which I've gotten used to. I take him for granted sometimes, but he is the best thing that has ever happened to me. Bruce has taken to being a dad like a pro. I watch him cuddle with G and am so happy! I love my little family so much and am so grateful for my many blessings. As we are now in the holiday season, I hope that our wonderful little family will start making some of our own traditions. Happy Holidays!

Itsy Bitsy Spider

So, G has a new favorite song. You guessed it. "Itsy Bitsy" is my song. I love the fact that he is finally getting big enough to smile and is just starting to giggle. It makes my day when he giggles when I start to do the song. I couldn't ask for a more loving, cuddly little boy. I think one of the best things about motherhood is to see my son happy. My job is to hopefully keep him that way. I love him so much! He has grown so much and I'm amazed at how much he can now eat in a day. When did that happen? He still isn't sleeping through the night, but I will take the four to five solid hours that we are getting right now. Especially when Bruce is such a wonderful dad and seems to get up with him far more than I do. The joys of being a really heavy sleeper! It's still hard to leave him to go to work, especially when Bruce has time off of school and gets to spend all day with our little monster. But I'm glad that he has a daddy who loves him so much!

Bruce and I finally got callings in our ward. I am now the CTR 4 teacher and Bruce is the Ward Athletic Director. I think both of us were surprised by them, but it will be a great growing opportunity. Yesterday was my first day in the class with them and I was surprised by how many of the primary songs I remembered. It's good to know that those songs stick with you, especially now when I can use them in our home with our child. Bruce is excited to work in the athletics program. They are trying to introduce new sports to play, like dodgeball. It should be a lot of fun. He will do so well with it.

Holding the G man

So, I have been home from work for two and a half hours and have yet to cuddle with my little G man. He has been sick the last couple of days with a horrible cold and when I picked him up from Grandma's house, he was asleep. I decided he needed the rest more than I needed to hold him. But now it's almost nine o'clock and I'm having withdrawals. Bedtime is approaching and he is just barely starting to stir. I want him to get hungry and scream and cry until mom takes him in her arms. Then suddenly, he should be perfectly content. Follow the plan, kid! Mama needs cuddle time!

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.