Life Keeps Coming!

Wow...  I am really getting bad at keeping this up to date! But I am hoping that I will have more of an opportunity to post in the future.  I am not planning on really having more time just a different schedule. :)

Since January life definitely hasn't stopped.  Bubby and I finished another semester of school.  For my wonderful husband that makes two semesters down and a bunch more to go!  He had a fun time in his classes and I think he got wonderful grades!  For me that makes a bunch of semesters down and only two more to go!  I am super excited to be so close to finishing my first degree. :D  It will be so nice to be done for a while.  I plan on going back but only after Bubby gets further along with his education if not completely done.  As of right now Bubby is thinking about being a Spanish teacher at the high school level.  I think it would be a great job for him but we'll just have to see what he thinks of it in the future. :)  I am going to have my English degree with a Creative Writing emphasis and a Spanish minor.  There are a couple of things that I want to do with my education.  First, I want to use my English degree to write a biography about my dad.  He is such an inspiration to me and I want to explore his difficult life and share how far he has come!  That is one of the only reasons I am getting an degree in English.  Second, I think it would be so fun to translate/interpret for a job.  I don't want to work if it can be helped but it is definitely a great back up plan!  So there is the education part of our life.

Other than education, we have had some changes in our work life.  I am still working as a teller but that will change in the next month and a half. However, that isn't the biggest change.  Bubby was working for my dad at the beginning of the year but now he has changed his mind.  What he is doing now is starting up his new business.  It has been so great to see how happy and excited he gets to go out and work now!  He has started to salvage metal (or better known as recycle metal).  He goes around and picks up anyone's junk metal for free.  Then he either takes whatever he gets apart and takes only the metal in or takes things in whole and gets paid for them.  It has been quite the adventure coming home and first seeing my front room turned into a work zone, then the kitchen, and now the back patio.  I have somewhat chased Bubby to the patio.  The front room just isn't the best place to rip apart metals and such.  But the back patio works great.  :)  We are hoping that his business idea will be able to take off and really help out.  We will see how it goes as life keeps coming!

Now on to the more exciting part of life.  Babies and summer.  I am only five weeks away until our baby's due date.  I am hoping it will all work out because our little one is due the same week as high school volleyball tryouts.  This is a picture of me about 2 and a half weeks ago.  I am getting more and more excited to have this little guy in our home!
                                                  

This summer we have also been able to spend time with family and also a little camping and fishing.  Bubby loves to fish and he gets so excited to go.  It has turned out that we have gone nearly every weekend for short and long periods of time.  At first Bubby was really getting frustrated because everywhere we went there seemed to be no trout and that is what he loves to catch.  I was even starting to think that we wouldn't ever catch anything.  I haven't gone fishing really since I was way young, like elementary age.  But this last weekend we decided to go fishing yet again and spend some time together.  It was bit more successful then the past...  Ok so a lot more successful!

Bubby caught the first fish of the day....

Then I caught the next one.  These first few fishes were small mouth bass I think...

I was the one to catch our very first trout of the year!!  It was great!  I really don't like how it feels (all slimmy and wiggly) but I had to have proof that I caught something.  Haha.

Bubby wasn't far behind when he caught his Rainbow Trout too.  He was so so excited!  I am glad we finally got something to take home!

He really likes to focus and get serious when it comes to fishing.  It was a beautiful place where we were fishing.  We did get rained on and it completely soaked us. :)  But it was worth the time I got to spend with my amazing husband and seeing how happy he was!

Over all I think we can finally say that it was a successful trip!  We had two trout that were 14" and two that were 13".  The bass were super little but that's ok. :)

Some more exciting news is that I found out that Bubby's two sister's are expecting babies too.  I am pretty sure that is a record because that will make 7 babies born in my family in 8 months.  I have three sisters and three sisters-in-law (one just had her baby) plus myself that are due.  Baby number one was born at the end of June and the last baby will come hopefully by the second week of February!  I love babies and I am so excited that my little boy will have so many cousins to play with!!

I need to get ALL of the new pregnant mommies together for a picture... I only have one with my sisters. :)

Well that is a super quick version of my life with Bubby.  I hope I can post again really soon!

What a Year!

Well I have been slacking big time with my posting.  I meant to publish this post on New Year's Day.  Now that January is half over I figure I better find time to write.

This post is going to be about the last 12 months of Bubby's life and my life.  SO much has happened this year.  Our lives have changed for the better in so many ways!  I think the best way to go about this is month by month.

In January, Bubby got home from his mission in Honduras.  He fulfilled his mission in honor and hard work.  I am sure that the Lord is pleased with the way he served Him.  While Bubby was starting his adjustment into normal life, I was still in Guatemala starting my very last change (transfer) and worrying about how I would adjust to normal life.

Then in February, it was my turn to finish my mission.  I served the Lord to the best of my ability.  I also know, through the power of the priesthood, that the Lord is pleased with my work.  I came home and began my adjustment while helping plan my sister's wedding.  Bubby was job hunting and starting at the singles ward.  He found a temporary job and did well.

March was the start of "us".  After my sister's wedding things settled down a bit.  I headed to my MTC companion's homecoming mid-way through March and that's when I met Bubby.  We hit it off.  I was still on the hunt for a job.

In April I was hired on to be a head volleyball coach at a local high school.  Bubby found a more permanent job doing construction clean up.  We traveled to visit each other while we dated.

May was the month that Bubby purposed marriage and I said yes!  We started planning and getting ready for the wedding.

In June there were a few family reunions to enjoy and more wedding planning.

July was the biggest month for us.  It was the month of our sealing and the start of our eternity together.  We were able to travel a bit and relax.

In August we moved into our new apartment.  It just fell into place to get that apartment.  We also got ready for school to start.

September was the start of school.  Bubby was new to the college experience and it was the first time I had been back to school for two years.

October was a slow month and nothing much happened.

In November we had a great time celebrating Thanksgiving with Bubby's family.

December brought a new surprise.  We found out that we will be parents in August!  Christmas was celebrated at my grandparents house.

So those are the highlights of the year 2012.  So many blessings came into our lives. We finished our missions, we met each other, we started eternity together, and we found out our family is going to grow!  So many big changes in our lives and each has brought us joy and happiness!  Hopefully 2013 will be just as amazing as this last one!