Parents to Be

Well folks its offically, Paul and I are pregnant. It took a lot less time than I was planning on, but none the less we are very excited. The baby is due mid September, we will keep everything updated when we get our first doctors appointment under our belts. I am six weeks along and feeling the morning sickness, but thus is life. So we are thrilled as are the Grandparents to be, we will keep all updated.

Holiday Photo's

Well I know it is a little late, but I promised some pics. So here they are in all their glory!! In our family we play a white elephant game every year. Everyone always laughs because the white Angel that Paul is holding has been passed around for 13+ years. If you notice its head has fallen off. So in order to retire the as we like to call it "Dirty Angel", my brother went to the DI and found our new family Dirty Angel. So we will see who gets it next year!! Paul didn't really get it but it was still fun!
The last major holiday for Elder Davis Van Wagoner as a cardboard cut out thanks to my wedding. Luckily for him he has been present at almost ever holiday. Can't wait for him to come home in June!!
The whole Crew on Christmas morning the tradition family picture on the steps. Dad is missing because he is taking the picture.
Here are during the christmas story. I looked druged, for some reason 7:30 was still to early even though we had a long day ahead of us.
My brother laughed so hard because for Christmas he got Paul a hoodie and a shirt and for me he got an electric screwdriver. Curtis just told me that should be the other way around so wrong. But hey someone has to do it.

The Wasatch Mountains during winter one of my favorite scenes!!

Family pictures, this is one of the many of Paul and I. Might I add it was snowing and 19 degrees outside. Cold!!

The fam minus one. Dad, Mom, Cutis, Me, and Paul!

The Boys

Just us girls

The First Day is the Worst

So for any of you have a had your husband leave for an extend amount of time know how hard the first day is. I always think each time he leaves it will get easier and easier, but somehow it never does. For us military wives we know that he won't be gone just a day or two, it is a matter of two weeks to six months or longer sometimes. I think what makes it the worst in not knowing the exact date he is coming home.

So you can only do one this make it through the first day and then you are usually okay. You usually drop him off at the airport or pick up point in the morning trying not to cry, but letting a few tears shed. Then in my case this morning you go to the hospital for more tests that you wish he was there for. You find yourself in a slump. Trying to get busy but knowing all along that he won't be beside you for a while is hard. So cry a little more and get on with the day. That is how your survive, ocasionally you wish your best friends who you have either moved away from or have moved away from you are here. But you always cherish the friends you have around you. I think that is how I make it through.

Maybe one day it will be easier but as for now I am thankful to have a job and wonderful friends surronding me, but I do miss those who have moved and family also.

On With the New Year

Well as the New Year begins, so do our lives begin again. The Holiday season is over and I find myself thinking of setting New Years resolutions or having Paul telling me to. I don't believe in resolutions, they never last, but that is probably my mind set.

For those of you who are interested we had a wonderful time back home in Utah for Christmas. It was one of the best Christmas's I have ever had and I think that was a combination of many thing. One being a newly wed and having our first Christmas which was priceless and the other was being home with family who we hadn't seen some of them for many months. But all in all we were glad to get back to Lemoore, which honestly really surprised me that I would ever say that. I guess deep down somewhere inside me this has become a place I like and it has become home. I think it is the great friends and house we have. Sorry there are now Christmas pictures yet my mother hasn't sent them too me.

We then celebrate New Years with a bunch of friends on base here and it was a blast. I never knew men could be so good at Mad Gab and that women just sit and laugh because it sounds like Chinese people talking. It was a great night and we managed to stay up until midnight.

And now the New Year has started. I find myself cleaning a bunch and organizing. Paul has got me in that mood and he keeps consolidating his things that are packed away. It is another one of he wonderfully cute, yet weird ways of helping me ease into the thought of become pregnant sometime in the coming months. We are also preparing for Paul to leave for the month of January, he will be spending about 2-3 weeks in Yuma, AZ and then a week on the USS Ronald Regan. I will be glad when he returns, hopefully it goes fast. So this is how we are kicking the New Year off cleaning and Paul leaving, real eventful. :)