It's Been A Month

My miscarriage was about 1 month ago. Things are better although I still have some hard days. Sadly, it's hard to be around other pregnant women. I find myself thinking that they need to be happier (even though I'm sure they are happy). It also seems like there are just a million of them too. Everywhere I look there is a pregnant woman! But I have to remind myself that I'm in Provo, Utah and that's just how things work here. I know my time will come! I am doing everything I can think of to prepare for the baby-future. So far, so good.

John has started school again and also so far, so good. He will be done April 2013. We are counting down the days let me tell you! We are grateful that we will (hopefully) have a baby of only a few months old by that time rather than an almost 1 year old. John always says things don't go according to plan but this time, they really have to! We already went through enough surprises that we need some calm.

I have a new calling at church, I'm in the primary teaching the 8 year-olds. It's only been once but hey, so far, so good! Well I'm just keeping busy otherwise and finding and reminding myself of things that make me happy. Thankfully, there are a lot!!!

Christmas in Arizona 2011

I've got lots I want to blog about today but will probably not get around to it all. So maybe there will be more posts than usual in the next week or so!

Today I want to post about Christmas. John and I drove down to Taylor, Arizona where my parents live. It's a tiny town in northern Arizona not next to anything. Almost the whole family was there. Only my sister, Cody and her husband, Jake were not able to make it. They live in South Carolina. My oldest sister, Bronmin flew in from Texas with her husband, Kirk and their daughter, Landon. My oldest brother Aaron drove up from Nevada with his family. His wife, Janet and their 5 children, Ben, Luke, Zack, Simon, and baby Roma. My other brother Brett and his wife and children KT, Sebastion, and Oliver drove in from California. I mention all this so that anyone who doesn't know my family will understand how spread out we are and how difficult it can be to get together and how much we love seeing each other!

We all got there on Christmas Eve in the evening and we stayed up late, well, pretty much every night. We opened presents, went to church, ate lots of food that we couldn't get enough of, played lots of Wii, rode horses, celebrated Aaron's 35th birthday, saw a mini train town, toured a rock museum, and just partied it up! I so needed time with my family and was so sad when we had to leave, I actually cried... It sucks that we don't see each other more than once or twice a year. Someday we'll all be millionaires and get to vacation every month and visit whenever and wherever we want!!!

Anyway, here are lots of pictures!