Okay well, I have not done this in a while. So I guess I need to get with the program. I really need to keep a journal! I just can't make myself write in one for some reason! But right now I am going through something in life right now though that I should be keeping track of... so I can remember it later in life. So I may print this off or something and then stick it in a journal, I don't know.
Well, I am now 13 weeks pregnant! As exciting as it sounds, it still has not hit me. I had morning sickness for like 3-4 weeks before I took the test. I knew that I was pregnant, but I just wanted to take the test to show it to my husband... he didn't really believe me. lol. So I found out from the test on a Sunday morning before church, it was 9 am here. And both of our parents live on the east coast of the USA so they are 6 hours behind us in time, so it was 3 am there. I thought it would be awesome to call them right when we found out! Its totally something that I would do! LOL! My mom answered the phone and said, "You better have a pretty good reason for calling this early!" And I told her and she totally had a change of attitude. It was so funny! And I let Drew call his parents and tell them. It was GREAT!
Well, I went to the little doctor's office on the base that we live on to go and take a pee test so the doc's could have proof that I was pregnant. And it came up positive. So, they signed me up to go to this class, pretty much telling you how to take care of yourself while being pregnant, it was pretty dumb if you ask me. Anyways, before I get to rambling a ton... I had to take another test, pee & blood test and the results take 3 weeks to get back. I should get it this week. And then I can make my first oppointment. I will be going to see a German doctor who is off base, the hospital is like 1/2 a mile or so away. I hear the doctor is really good! Lots of ladies from church have used him. Speaking of church, its just me and another lady who are pregnant right now, and so far I am the first one having a baby in 2010 from church. Its so funny! This Spring/Summer there were like 15 women from church who had thier babies! A ton!
So I am due in mid February according to the first doc that I went to. I don't totally understand how I can be that far, but I guess they know more of what they are talking about than I do. Whether we have a boy or girl, I do not care. I just want a healthy baby! If we do have a boy then he is going to be named after Drew, he'll be a third. And if we have a girl I get to pick the name. I still do not know what to pick though. I have always wanted to name my first girl Elizabeth and I like McKay for the second name but my Dad suggested naming her after his mom who past away a couple of years ago, Dorothy Amanda. But I will have to think and pray about it, if the baby is a girl.
Anyways, I guess I have run my mouth enough for now. I will have to write more later. So til next time, Buh bye! :D
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Monday, June 8, 2009
It is Sunday night/Monday morning right now. About 1 AM. I must say that I have had a great weekend! I mean, nothing extra-ordinary happened but for some reason it was just great! It rained all weekend. And we couldn't use our car, because the people that were supposed to fix it this past week didn't even start on it. So we were at home all weekend. Maybe that was it. We got to spend the weekend together doing nothing. Well we watched like 4 movies together on Saturday and we watched a few on Sunday. We walked to the comissary together on Saturday and we walked to church together on Sunday. It was just nice to spend time together and just talk to each other!
Last Monday I started keeping track of my water intake and my daily exercise. I have been doing pretty good at drinking my water, and I have only missed one day with no exercise but thats because I had to babysit all day that day. I looked over my weight in diary this past week and I noticed that since January I have only lost 5 pounds. I have just been working hard at staying on track and it seems NOTHING is helping me out! And in December I lost 10 pounds and I wasn't really "watching" what I ate. So I don't understand it. I mean, because of me losing that weight in December it got me wanting to really work at losing more. And I just don't understand, its so frustrating! I mean I want to get pregnant sometime soon and I was hoping to be able to lose some weight before it happened and its just frustrating! I mean, my husband talked to me about how much I have lost and he said, "At least you lost 5 pounds and didn't gain 5 pounds." I guess that is true. I am just trying to change my habits and see if I can do anything that helps me out.
Anyways, I don't really have much else to say. I am trying to clean the house this week. (We'll see how long it stays that way!) ;P
Last Monday I started keeping track of my water intake and my daily exercise. I have been doing pretty good at drinking my water, and I have only missed one day with no exercise but thats because I had to babysit all day that day. I looked over my weight in diary this past week and I noticed that since January I have only lost 5 pounds. I have just been working hard at staying on track and it seems NOTHING is helping me out! And in December I lost 10 pounds and I wasn't really "watching" what I ate. So I don't understand it. I mean, because of me losing that weight in December it got me wanting to really work at losing more. And I just don't understand, its so frustrating! I mean I want to get pregnant sometime soon and I was hoping to be able to lose some weight before it happened and its just frustrating! I mean, my husband talked to me about how much I have lost and he said, "At least you lost 5 pounds and didn't gain 5 pounds." I guess that is true. I am just trying to change my habits and see if I can do anything that helps me out.
Anyways, I don't really have much else to say. I am trying to clean the house this week. (We'll see how long it stays that way!) ;P
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Become A Better Me!
I am the seventh of nine children, four boys and five girls. I was raised in The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter Day Saints, and I am still an active member. As for childhood memories, even through now, I could not tell you much. I try to keep journals and make scrapbooks to help me remember things better.
My earliest childhood memories were from the hospital that I stayed in when I was six years old. I had been hit by a car and received traumatic brain damage and was in a coma. The doctors had told my parents that if I lived that I wouldn't be able to do everything that I used to. I had been in the coma for sixteen days before I had come out of it. They transferred me to another hospital where I could begin my occupational and physical therapy. The people in charge of me at this hospital told my parents it could be anywhere from six to eight months before I would be able to return to live at home. I had lost all of my memory and ALOT of my strength, especially in the left side of my body. Physical therapy was painful and hard to do but I stuck with it and gave it my all! Went through alot of tears and alot of getting back up and trying again! I remember being in a wheel chair and not being able to walk. (I remember once I got to go home and spend one night with my family and I sat on the couch while my four brothers would take turns doing tricks in the wheel chair!) Eventually I was able to walk with lots and lots of physical therapy. Once when I was having therapy in the indoor pool I remember a camera crew coming in and rehersing with me and my therapist what to say. We were put on Good Morning America! They got to choose one patient to put on tv and they chose me! The hospital crew that worked with me were amazed at how well I was doing! I ended up only having to stay at the hospital for three and a half months before I was able to return home to live with my family.
I was able to return to school the next year! But I still had to return to the hospital three times a week for therapy. I couldn't even get myself dressed for school in the morning, I was always had to have others help me. I was put into resource classes to help me out a bit. School was tuff! Kids were always making fun of me and leaving me out, so I had always thought that there was SOMETHING wrong with me. I have never felt like a normal kid, always being told by peers and teachers, "No you can't do this! No you can't do that!" So I started telling myself that. And I still do! I don't know how to let myself just try something! And its frustrating!
This year, 2009, I am taking a stand and trying to, "Become A Better Me!" I am working hard at losing weight and I will succeed at this! I am not going to let ANYONE hold me back!
There is another story to tell about my life but this has taken up ALOT of space! So I will tell my next story another time. All of these things that I have written are true and have happened to me! And it has taught me a lesson in life! NEVER GIVE UP! KEEP ON TRYING!
My earliest childhood memories were from the hospital that I stayed in when I was six years old. I had been hit by a car and received traumatic brain damage and was in a coma. The doctors had told my parents that if I lived that I wouldn't be able to do everything that I used to. I had been in the coma for sixteen days before I had come out of it. They transferred me to another hospital where I could begin my occupational and physical therapy. The people in charge of me at this hospital told my parents it could be anywhere from six to eight months before I would be able to return to live at home. I had lost all of my memory and ALOT of my strength, especially in the left side of my body. Physical therapy was painful and hard to do but I stuck with it and gave it my all! Went through alot of tears and alot of getting back up and trying again! I remember being in a wheel chair and not being able to walk. (I remember once I got to go home and spend one night with my family and I sat on the couch while my four brothers would take turns doing tricks in the wheel chair!) Eventually I was able to walk with lots and lots of physical therapy. Once when I was having therapy in the indoor pool I remember a camera crew coming in and rehersing with me and my therapist what to say. We were put on Good Morning America! They got to choose one patient to put on tv and they chose me! The hospital crew that worked with me were amazed at how well I was doing! I ended up only having to stay at the hospital for three and a half months before I was able to return home to live with my family.
I was able to return to school the next year! But I still had to return to the hospital three times a week for therapy. I couldn't even get myself dressed for school in the morning, I was always had to have others help me. I was put into resource classes to help me out a bit. School was tuff! Kids were always making fun of me and leaving me out, so I had always thought that there was SOMETHING wrong with me. I have never felt like a normal kid, always being told by peers and teachers, "No you can't do this! No you can't do that!" So I started telling myself that. And I still do! I don't know how to let myself just try something! And its frustrating!
This year, 2009, I am taking a stand and trying to, "Become A Better Me!" I am working hard at losing weight and I will succeed at this! I am not going to let ANYONE hold me back!
There is another story to tell about my life but this has taken up ALOT of space! So I will tell my next story another time. All of these things that I have written are true and have happened to me! And it has taught me a lesson in life! NEVER GIVE UP! KEEP ON TRYING!
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Tuesday May 5, 2009
Okay, so I have not posted a blog for a LONG TIME! With so much going on I figured it was time to do so, so here I go...
Alot has happened since I last posted a blog. Robyn Christensen and I are pretty much best friends now! Which is what we both needed, a best friend! We go just about everyday to try and find a new adventure here in Germany! We have so much fun!
This month will be Drew & my 3rd wedding anniversery. We talked about it tonight and I think that we are just going to stay around town for it. We have done alot of traveling while we have been here for the short 6 months so far! Already we have been to Amsterdam, Paris, Belium, Berlin, Luxemburg, Switzerland, & Germany (of corse). Thats all that I can think of right now. I LOVE living here!!! I even got to go and tour the very house that Anne Frank went away and hid in with her family and a few others before they were taken to concentration camps! I love reading about her! She was a very strong young lady! Well besides the fact of Europe not having ANY WalMarts ANYWHERE! But we manage to get by without them. I do miss seeing people that I grew up with though. And I really miss seeing family! I call family EVERYDAY! Good thing we have free calls to the USA! And we set it up to where people with a 706 number can call us for free too! Otherwise people will just get charged with a regular long distance call.
I have lost 13 pounds since I have last posted a blog on here! I have been working HARD at losing weight! And it is finally paying off! I go with Robyn during the weekdays to a workout class here on base, it totally kicks your butt! I have heard women that are taking the class now say they have already lost like 7 pounds just from taking this class! I am glad that I found this workout class because it seemed like nothing was helping me anymore with the weight, I have even started to gain some back! I did lose 17 pounds but had already gained like 4 back! And I don't want to gain anymore so I am going to step up the working out!
I have a dog! We drove to Ramstein to get him! Which is two hours from here. The people we got him from adopted him and his brother in Tennissee but the apartment they are living in will only allow them to have one pet so he gave me his other dog. He is a Puggle... Half Pug... Half Beagle Mix. He is a beautiful dog! He is about 21 months old now. We named him Spanky. We think that he has been abused! He is very skiddish and very afraid of people, especially men! But he has been getting better about it. I take him out as often as I can so he can be around different people. He loves going outside and playing with the kids that also live on base!
Well I need to go and get ready for bed! Hopefully I will be on here sooner than 5 months the next time! lol
Take Care!
Em
Alot has happened since I last posted a blog. Robyn Christensen and I are pretty much best friends now! Which is what we both needed, a best friend! We go just about everyday to try and find a new adventure here in Germany! We have so much fun!
This month will be Drew & my 3rd wedding anniversery. We talked about it tonight and I think that we are just going to stay around town for it. We have done alot of traveling while we have been here for the short 6 months so far! Already we have been to Amsterdam, Paris, Belium, Berlin, Luxemburg, Switzerland, & Germany (of corse). Thats all that I can think of right now. I LOVE living here!!! I even got to go and tour the very house that Anne Frank went away and hid in with her family and a few others before they were taken to concentration camps! I love reading about her! She was a very strong young lady! Well besides the fact of Europe not having ANY WalMarts ANYWHERE! But we manage to get by without them. I do miss seeing people that I grew up with though. And I really miss seeing family! I call family EVERYDAY! Good thing we have free calls to the USA! And we set it up to where people with a 706 number can call us for free too! Otherwise people will just get charged with a regular long distance call.
I have lost 13 pounds since I have last posted a blog on here! I have been working HARD at losing weight! And it is finally paying off! I go with Robyn during the weekdays to a workout class here on base, it totally kicks your butt! I have heard women that are taking the class now say they have already lost like 7 pounds just from taking this class! I am glad that I found this workout class because it seemed like nothing was helping me anymore with the weight, I have even started to gain some back! I did lose 17 pounds but had already gained like 4 back! And I don't want to gain anymore so I am going to step up the working out!
I have a dog! We drove to Ramstein to get him! Which is two hours from here. The people we got him from adopted him and his brother in Tennissee but the apartment they are living in will only allow them to have one pet so he gave me his other dog. He is a Puggle... Half Pug... Half Beagle Mix. He is a beautiful dog! He is about 21 months old now. We named him Spanky. We think that he has been abused! He is very skiddish and very afraid of people, especially men! But he has been getting better about it. I take him out as often as I can so he can be around different people. He loves going outside and playing with the kids that also live on base!
Well I need to go and get ready for bed! Hopefully I will be on here sooner than 5 months the next time! lol
Take Care!
Em
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