One More Year To Eternity

December 29th Carson and I celebrated our 3rd Anniversary!

Carson surprised me with a Flip recorder!- We'll use it to film the birth (kidding)

I can't believe it has already been 3 years since I married my best friend. I am so grateful I stumbled across him at a gas station of all places :) The Lord works in mysterious ways...I won't go into it, but it definitely wasn't just a coincidence that we met. I absolutely needed to meet Carson at that time and the Lord knew it. I think that is why things happened so quick. We only dated about 4 months before we were engaged. :)

These past years have been great! A list of some of the things we have experience the past 3 years together:

We have lived in 3 places, both go accepted into our educational programs, we have experienced job loss and also a new job (for Carson), position changes at work (for me), then stepping down after working 4 and a half years in management and switching stores, getting debt paid off, then adding some more (student loans- I guess it's a good one to have if we're to have some :)) hanging out with awesome friends and sharing our families with each other, enjoying the addition of 2 new nieces and 1 nephew, being able to travel (Disneyland, DC, Cruise to Mexico), helping each other through heart ache and sickness, church callings, Netflix changed our lives :), coming up with nicknames for each other, sharing the journey and excitement thus far in bringing a new member to our little family!

I couldn't ask for a better spouse to share all of lifes ups and downs with. LOVE YOU CARS!

Half way there!

This is kind of a late post. I am actually over half-way through my pregnancy...can't believe it! I am 22 weeks (about 5 and a half months).

We went to the doc for our 20 week ultrasound a couple weeks ago to check on the health of the baby and to verify that it was a boy....as you will see from the picture, it is in fact a boy! Hard to miss it :)

He is looking perfectly healthy as far as they can tell. Carson and I couldn't believe how much he has grown since our first sneak peek at 16 weeks!

They do want us to go back for another ultrasound to double check the heart. He was in a difficult position for the tech to get good, detailed views but from what she could see, it looked normal. So we may just do a 4D ultrasound when we go in cuz why not????

One other exciting happening: Not only have I started feeling the baby (first felt the "flutters" at 18 weeks) Carson was able to feel his first kick on Thanksgiving! What an awesome experience for the both of us! Since then, we have enjoyed feeling him move around before we go to bed (he's more active at night for some reason).