Growing belly!

It is crazy how fast time flies!!! I am 35 weeks now and the countdown is on! just a little over a month depending on when he decides he wants to come. I am now going to dr appointments weekly and my belly is really growing! my mom always tells me that she thinks we are going to have a big baby cuz of how big my belly is. Thankfully its mostly all belly with a little squish everywhere else so that's nice. I stopped throwing up around 25 weeks and that was amazing!! clients and everyone keep asking me how i am feeling and i am feeling great! still sleeping like a champ wake up once during the night to go to the bathroom and it takes a little effort to switch sides and roll over but i sleep great. He is a super active little guy i feel him move all day everyday so maybe he sleeps at night i don't know but even if he moves i don't feel a thing! Guess i am super grateful for the Stephens sleep through everything curse at this time in my life haha. He is more of a roller these days with an occasional jab to the rib on the right side. i feel like my belly is never perfectly round its always bulging on one side or the other. I am definitely not one of those anxious pregnant people, he is welcome to stay in as long as he wants to. we still have a lot to do and i have clients scheduled up until Thanksgiving! so the longer he cooks in the belly the better! I am still able to go to the gym 5 days a week but i sure get tired faster, i shoot for 30 min on the elliptical or treadmill 5 days a week and 3 days on the weights. The people at the gym that i see everyday are now more frequently asking how much longer i have so the belly must really be sticking out there haha. hoping this gym time helps me labor easier but mostly i just feel much better when i go!

We are getting super excited for him to get here. the other day i actually stopped and imagined dressing him and pushing him in the stroller and it made me super excited! Scottie has a countdown on his phone which i think is so super cute but it in now in the 30 day range! crazy soon!! yay!!

i thought i was getting big at 28 weeks.... just look at me now at 35! crazy how much the belly really popped! its great must mean baby boy is growing big and strong!

baby BOY Williams!!!

Pregnancy has been everything that i heard that it was supposed to be. I was very sick and had a really hard time keeping anything down for the first like 16 weeks! i went to the doctor for a normal routine appointment and i still had not gained any weight so she prescribed me zofran and holy freak that stuff is amazing. i was really against the medication thing and was trying really hard not to take anything but she needed me to start gaining weight. She just needed me to stop throwing up so i tried to only take it when i felt really really horrible, more at night than anything. I am 21 weeks now and am still nauseous pretty much all the time but i feel like a million times better than i did at the beginning. still trying to make it past a week and a half without throwing up but that is a huge improvement and i am feeling human again which is soooo nice. Actually not going to lie being sick has been comforting to me and i actually prayed to feel sick at the beginning so that i could know that something was really growing in me.... prayers are answered that is for sure!!! i felt the little guy move at about 19 weeks . i was in denial for a couple days cuz i just wasn't sure really what i was trying to feel but then i kept getting huge kicks and i knew that was the baby not me! that is an awesome feeling! Scottie has felt him a couple times and the other night we were laying in bed and he was going crazy and Scottie wasn't feeling it and he was like that's it, lets just look and see if we can see it. i was like ya right we aren't going to be able to see it this soon and sure enough like 5 seconds after i pulled my shirt up 2 huge kicks one right after the other!! his eyes lite up and get huge and we both just started laughing cuz it was so crazy that we just saw him. it was pretty awesome! he always puts his hand on my belly and rubs in and tells me how cute it is getting which i need  cuz i am getting bigger and it is super weird! on Friday we had a gender reveal party with all our family and some close friends that are here and we found out that we are having a baby BOY!!! i am sooooo excited to have a little scottie runnin around. he was the cuuuutest little kid so i have high hopes that our baby will look just like him!!!!

i am so glad my aunt Kristin is the best photographer ever and is always there to capture the moments. we had a great time at the party and it was so fun finding out the gender with our friends and family!!

i have been having scottie take a pic of me every week after church and i thought i was getting bigger at 13 weeks and now i look back and was like dang i was little haha i'm sure that closer to the end of this whole thing i will envy my old self, so i am so glad that we have been taking pics!!

BABY TIME!!!!!!

we are having a baby!!!!! and we are soooo excited! I thought that once this time came i would be better at the whole blogging thing but turns out that is not the case considering i am over halfway and this is my first post. lets start at the beginning shall we..... October 1st 2012 we decided that we would start trying. we were ready for a baby as our 2nd anniversary was approaching in April! Well turns out we are very lucky and very fertile and we were pregnant in November. We decided that we would wait to tell our families until Christmas when we were about 8 weeks because it would be the best Christmas present for all of them! The day came and it was the best surprise ever just like we thought it would be. Everyone was crying and we officially gave the best present! it would be an understatement to say that we were excited!!! we were soooo excited, Scottie had wanted kids since the day we got married and probably before that so he was stoked and we were both super happy! our second appointment was the 27th, 2 days after Christmas and we were excited to get our first ultrasound and see the little bean in there. We went to the ultrasound and of course before we went i had been researching for weeks what we should be seeing at that point so i knew exactly what it was supposed to look like. We got all situated in the room and were anxiously awaiting the images i had been seeing all over Google for our baby at 8 weeks. To our disappointment we did not see anything that i had been hoping to see. The ultrasound tech showed us around and didn't say anything to us really i thought it was kinda weird that she wasn't pointing out anything and after only like 5 min she said she was done and had me tell the front desk i was ready for my follow up appointment that i had not even scheduled. With this being our first time with the whole pregnancy thing i still had high hopes that our baby was just too small to see and maybe i just wasn't as far along as i thought i was, but the longer we waited in the waiting room the more and more anxious I got. So they called us into the room and told us our midwife would be with us soon. I could feel my face getting hot and my eyes welling up even though I thought everything was fine, in the back of my head i knew something was not right. Scottie was really calm and just kept telling me we needed not to think anything was wrong until they actually told us that and we could go from there. so soon enough the doc came in and sure enough she told me that i had miscarried. I was in disbelief. why and how did this happen? I am healthy and young how did i have a miscarriage? Scottie immediately grabbed my hand and we both held it together really well while she went on telling us what the next steps were going to be, and gave me my prescriptions. she told us that it was very normal and that one in 3 women miscarry and tried to make me feel better. We walked out of the office with a lot less bounce than we had coming in and rode down the elevator and to the car without saying much to each other. i think we were just trying to take in all in. Scottie was just squeezing me tight and kept giving me hugs and squeezing my hand. once we got to the car i broke down!!! I was very sad and disappointed and just in shock i think. Scottie was very good and stayed really calm and talked me through everything. I could not be more grateful for him and the support he gives me. so they gave me pills to make everything come out and lets just say that was not a good time. fast forward a couple months cuz it took forever for my blood numbers to get back to normal and it wasn't until Feb 28th that i had my first normal period again!!! normally it doesn't take that long i guess but it took a while for me. they told us to wait two cycles to get pregnant again but that was forever so after the first one it was on and 2 weeks later..... positive pregnancy test once more!!!!!!!!
          I am soooo grateful to be able to get pregnant easily and i do not take it for granted for i have known so many women that have had a hard time with that and i know it is such a blessing!!! let me tell you it was a whole different experience this time around. we were soo super excited but also very very nervous about everything going right. we told our parents the day that we found out, no reason to keep it in this time. We had a really early ultrasound this time to make sure that everything was forming like it needed to and they said everything looked good. I took my sister Alisabeth to this one cuz she was leaving on her mission that next week and i wanted her to  feel like she was apart of it before she left. We had another ultrasound at 9 weeks and saw the heartbeat and the little tiny baby it was so awesome!!!! we felt much better after seeing that but were still anxious until we reached the 12 week mark!!! we feel very blessed to be able to be pregnant and it sure is an amazing experience sick or not! mommy and daddy here we come!!!!!

Fabulous 1st YEAR!!!!

Wow its been long enough i think! trying to catch up and think about everything that we have done in the past year is crazy and so much fun!! we have been having a blast being married and are staying very busy!! work work work and a lot of play. we love our vacations and our time together so we definitely make sure we have time to do plenty of that. We have been married now 1yr and almost 2 months!!!! crazy how the time flies. No it was not the hardest year i hate when people say that and YES we still love each other dearly, more than i could ever imagine loving someone. We have grown up so much in the past year and learned a lot about each other i LOVE it! So lets see this year we were able to do many things.... lets start right after we got married we were able to enjoy an awesome honeymoon to the Caribbean! it was fabulous a perfect place for a honeymoon! 

Also 2 days prior to getting married we were able to close on our first home! nothing like last second but we were able to close and move in right after we got home from our honeymoon so it was perfect! Its a duplex so we live in one side and rent out the other! it works just fabulous and our tenants are very very nice! we love it and its keeping Scottie plenty busy:)

June after being married 2 months we were able to go to a convention for Scottie's work when he was working for his dad. we spent the weekend in Portland all expense paid and had a blast.( well at least i did i spent the weekend watching shows, reading, shopping, and working out haha Scottie was in meetings all day so we had fun together at night) We were also able to go to a Jason Aldean concert it was soooo fun!!Of course there was hoopfest at the end of June which is something that Scottie looks forward to every year and boy was i excited to finally get to see him play!! nothing is hotter than your man in gym shorts shootin some ball!! i love it and he looked great doin it:) they may or may not have won any games but they had a good time and it was so fun getting to watch all the center court games when their games were over!

 Then in July Scottie's family had a family reunion at the Oregon coast it was a blast. i got to meet the rest of his extended family we stayed in a ginormous beach house with like a million rooms, game rooms, theater room, library it was huge and so much fun hanging out with everyone!

 Then in August we were able to spend the week up at Priest Lake which is GORG!!! i had never been up there and i would have to say it is an unbelievable place to stay. We had our own private beach and of course our tiny 2 man tent that we love it stays so nice and warm. We just relaxed, hiked, jet skied, boated, wake boarded, wake surfed, suntanned (a lot!!), campfired, ate great food and had a great time with great people! definitely a trip we look forward to taking year after year!!

 October we took a trip down to Utah to go to a Primerica convention it was amazing to see all the successful people and get some great training from the people we want to mirror our business after! We have a great team and are so excited to do great things and help a lot of families:)

This year we decided it was Scottie's year to spend Thanksgiving with his family down in Tri-cities since he had not been down there for the holidays since before his mission! Usually we don't have to even choose where to go because our families live so close to one another but they always go down to Tri-cities for Thanksgiving. That was so fun! I love Scottie's family they are so funny and i really enjoy being around them! December was wonderful as always! I love love love Christmas time and can't wait to make a lot of money so i can just give things to everyone and every charity i want!! This year we were able to sponsor a family of 4 all of which have special needs and are being raised by a very giving and selfless single dad. We were able to get them everything that they needed and wanted on their list and that was the most rewarding experience!! I know that family will never get to meet us and we were unable to meet them but that brought the Christmas spirit into our home more than ever and I cannot wait to do it year after year!!! We spent Christmas Eve with the Williams and then spent the night at my parents and had a huge slumber party with all my siblings that night it was great getting to wake up to all the excitement since i still have younger siblings that was great!!

New Years Eve was super fun hanging out with a bunch of people i haven't seen in a really long time and some of our really close friends its always so fun ringing in the new year and someday i will make it to time square in person to watch the ball drop!!!!

 I have been so busy with work picking up and having record months month after month! I love what i do and i love all my clients. I am so blessed to be able to have a wonderful job that i enjoy and want to do as long as i can still move my fingers haha. Scottie is staying busy always finding a new project to be done and working away!! we just planted new grass from scratch and its starting to sprout its so exciting!! we also just ripped out our bathroom and Scottie is redoing that from the ground up. it is going to look so so good! he is so talented! To wrap up our one year being married we were able to take another cruise! this time to mexico and it was so so so sooooo flippin fun! we were able to go with our long lost friends that we hung out with a ton in Utah Sarah and Jerry! it was a blast going with friends and spending 10 days in the 90 degree weather with my babe!!! we look forward to going on more of those as well. cruising is the way to go and we are hooked! already looking for deals for next April 23rd:)

 This was a massive post but i had to catch myself up on the past year! we were just having too much fun to write about it as it was happening!!

MARRIED!!! and absolutely loving it!

Well here we go with this blog thing ( just a side note for any future bloggers it is not an easy task). All married couples have to have a blog so i thought it was about time to start ours:) We have been married for 4 and a half months already i can't even believe how fast time has gone. We had an amazing wedding, super fun reception, and the best honeymoon ever! We bought and signed on our duplex 2 days before we got married and we are loving and learning a ton about being home owners. Who knew that grass didn't grow without being watered all the time and when it does grow you need to mow it down or it gets as tall as the fence. We have had to invest in a couple key things like a hose and a sprinkler, lawn mower (we inherited from my gramps), paint brushes, paint (we learned that normal people don't buy flat paint EVER, no wonder the lady at lowe's looked at us so weird but hey it was cheapest) and most importantly the bug killer man! We called in the professionals and have been bug free ever since, thank you senske! We have adjusted well to being married and living under the same roof actually it hasn't been hard at all i don't know why everyone tells you that. I mean if you've lived with brothers you know that there are always pee drops on the seat and that there will be otter pop wrappers left everywhere i mean that's standard. Everything else about living with a boy is fantastic! And i'm never cold at night which is probably one of the greatest things. I'm trying to be a good cook for my hubbs but  he is the victim to all my cooking disasters so i'm sorry for him at least he is getting fed. We are loving going to the temple often and learning more and more about each other each day. I am fascinated at his drive and determination in everything he does in life. He amazes me everyday and i can't believe how blessed i was to find such an amazing eternal companion! This life we live is beautiful and i look forward to each day we get to spend together.