Updates

So its been awhile? A lot has happened.

First...I finally graduated with a BSW in May. Rock on! This was a milestone. I had gone back to school several times and gotten a couple different associates degrees but never my bachelors. I was/am so excited about this because it is something I love to do. I love helping people in need.
So there i am....Greg is taking the picture. I was done!


Once school was out for the summer Greg was home with me and we started the ever daunting experience of remodeling. This year is was the kitchen. So here I am 5 months pregnant, and no kitchen. Not everyone was happy. Greg and his dad were going to do this major project and sometimes they don't always get along. It was going to be an interesting summer.

Before picture Mid Way


A little lead up to the main event....Since the moment I found out I was pregnant I had been sick. I was sick in the morning, afternoon and evening. Crazy. So finally in July I started to feel a little better. I could finally eat. But i didn't have a kitchen. Moving on...Greg and i went on vacation with his family to Myrtle Beach at the end of July.
And here I am drinking a 'virgin' something!

Soon after ( like 2 days) we got back from vacation, I started feeling crampy and my back was really starting to hurt. I was at 26 weeks and 5 days.......

And Rowen just woke up So I will finish this in another blog.

10 weeks

Did I know 4 weeks ago, that I would have spent those 4 weeks sicker than I have ever been before? Thats a big no!

But I am rounding the corner, I see the light. I ate spaghetti O's today, so thats a lot better than most days.

I had another doctors appointment today and learned that I am high risk. So I am taking it very easy.

But here is an updated picture. I will be so happy to be done with work in the next 2 months.

Life is grand.

It's Official

We are pregnant! WooHoo......very unexpected but pretty awesome. The due date is November 4th.

how we met

how you met your love.
1. Where did you meet?
match.com

2. What was the first thought that went through your head when you first met?
He is really tall.

3. Do you remember what he/she was wearing?
He was wearing his doc martens, jeans, bruce shirt and some jacket thing.

4. Where was the first time you kissed this person?
In my apartment on our third date.

5. How did he/she ask you out?
He asked me out over IM

6. Where did you go for your first date?
We went to FrappHouse in Chambersburg for coffee

7.How long did you know this person before you became a couple?
About 1.5 weeks

8. Has this person ever proposed to you?
Yes. He did.

9. Do you and this person have kids together?
on the way.

10. Have you ever broken the law with this person?
ummm....yeh we download movies.

11. When was the first time you realized that you loved this person?
After our second date after he asked to look at my scapbook from Colorado.

12. Do you get along with any of the ex's of your partner?
I don't know any of them.

13. Do you trust this person?
100%

14. Do you see your partner in your future?
Absolutely and forever

15. Whats the most expensive thing this person has given you?
Everything. my ring. our house. our vacations.

16. What is one thing he/she does that gets on your nerves?
sometimes he plays on the computer for hours on end

17. What is the thing you do that gets on his/her nerves?
sometimes I forget to take my cups to the sink

18. Where do you see each other in 15 years from now?
wow....I would be 42, so I guess i see myself and Greg with kids in the house that we built. Greg would still be teaching and I would be a trainer for CCJJPO.

'Twas the night before Valentine's Day...

...and Greg and I are still sick. We are on our 2nd snow day. You would think people would know how to properly remove snow from the roads but not here.

I spent the day doing research for my field practice. Yikes...I feel like I am getting no where. I found about 20 different articles telling me that Juvenile Deliquency is high and so is recidivism. DUH. Risk factors are the same all across the board. Parental involvement and environment are the two main factors. How many different ways can you present that information in a research study that needs to be 70 pages long....ahhhhh.

ok. I will not buckle under the pressure but I have been swamped lately. Greg and I feel like we have no time anymore. With me no longer working at the school with him our time together is limited. There is a job opening in this agency (cumberland county juvenile probation office) and I have been asked to take the interview for it. Who knows, maybe it will be the best thing for me.

more news later...now is time for bed. long day tomorrow.

Snow Day

I think the biggest difference from northern PA and southern PA is how they deal with weather.
You wouldn't think there would be such a difference but believe me, since I have moved down here almost 3 years ago, I have seen school cancelations over 2 inches of snow.
My husband, a kindergarten teacher, thinks snowdays are wonderful. They have never a TRUE snow storm.

So today I start my rant because there are 197 school closings in the surrounding counties. We have an inch and a half of snow. I laugh.

I have lived in northern PA, Maine, even Colorado (2002). I know what a real snowday is and it is not 2 inches of snow.

Anyway....here I sit. Ten in the morning, did I mention Greg and I are both sick. In a way this snowday has been a blessing, a way for Greg and I to get better without having to miss work.

Now that I am done with the ranting....We have pretty much settled into being married. We love it.

A Day Away

Our wedding picture from December 23.......festivus

and so my journey begins....



but not alone.