Life is Good

I always thought it would be fun to have a blog, but I never thought our life was quite exciting enough for anyone to want to read about!  But, now that things are getting a bit more exciting around here I think it's time to keep our family and friends who we don't see regularly up to date on the goings on of our life!

So for today let's just catch up!

Nate is currently doing an internship at JBS, a meat packing plant in Hyrum.  It is right up his alley and he has been enjoying it so far!  Me, not so much!  He comes home smelling like dead cows... not the greatest!  However, we got really lucky that he scored this internship.  Not lucky, blessed.  Things like that don't just happen and it is the perfect internship for him right now.  He also did classes at USU for the first couple months of summer, but now he gets to sit back and "enjoy" just working!  He will go back to school the very end of August for his last semester before he graduates!  He will get his degree in Business Entrepreneurship (which I can NEVER spell without the help of spellcheck!).  We are also very excited that in December he will commission as a Second Lieutenant in the Army upon completion of the USU ROTC program.  He has worked really hard toward this and it is fun to see the light at the end of the tunnel!  Well, the end that is really just the beginning.  But who doesn't love new beginnings??

I am currently working at Logan River Academy where I am a shift supervisor/adolescent counselor.  I seriously love my job. Most of the time anyway!  It can get stressful and overwhelming sometimes, but for the most part it is so rewarding.  I just graduated in May from Utah State University with my degree in Sociology.  I am so glad I finally settled on this major because it was so interesting to me!  I toyed a lot with different ideas (such as math and accounting) and finally decided to pick something that would keep me entertained and interested, instead of bored but "smart".  I am so glad I did!  I learned a lot of great things that will benefit my life a lot more than knowing how to do all sorts of ridiculous equations.

I had a lot of love and support along the way to graduation and I am so grateful for my amazing family and also for the great family I married into!  They are all so fantastic!  I was really excited to have so many of them come up to my graduation ceremony. Even more so because Nate and I wanted to make the day even more special by announcing to our loved ones that we are adding a little one to the mix!  We lined everyone up for a big group picture and said "1,2,3, say 'Lyndsey's pregnant!!'" At first, no one really reacted (and the poor lady taking our picture was SO confused!!), but then they all realized we were serious and everyone burst with excitement!  Some wonderful stranger was able to capture some pictures for us, which will be fun to look back on in years to come!

My brother was so surprised!  He'll be a great uncle :)

I love my Grandma Carole's face in this one! She just looks so happy

The whole gang who came to support me!  My fam accidentally all wore yellow, not planned at all!

It was truly a great day!  I am glad to be done with school, but I don't think it has really sunk in yet, I think it will once Nate goes back for Fall Semester and I am just kickin it at home still!
We are still living in Logan, for now!  We are hoping to move back to Davis County in December.  December is going to be a really crazy time, that's for sure!  Nate will graduate and commission, we hope to move, Christmas, and of course. Lil Miss is due on December 14th!  Except we really hope she comes on the 12th!  Because then her birthday would be 12/12/12, which is awesome!  Even better because my birthday is 9/9/90, it just needs to happen!!
We found out last week we are having a baby GIRL!  Well we sort of  found out last week.  We really found out on June 20th, but had to keep it a secret for a month because I was only 14 weeks when the doctor told us he was 90% sure we would have a girl.  Talk about a hard secret to keep!!  There were so many times I wanted to just scream it to the world, but I refrained!  We had an ultrasound on July 23rd that confirmed she is DEFINITELY a girl, and not scared to show it!  We decided we wanted to do something fun to announce the gender to our families because we had a some feuds going on!  My mom was CERTAIN the baby is a girl, and Nate's mom thought she was a boy, and Nate has a funny little fear of girls (he thinks they are dramatic and high-maintenance... not sure where that came from!!) so he was guessing boy.  A phone call to everyone just wouldn't do!  So...

We got our families together and put them into "teams" of who thought boy and who thought girl and then we made them count a whole jar of jelly beans!  There were about 3 more pink jelly beans in each jar. I am really mad that I got caught up in all the excitement and forgot to take pictures of the actual counting!  It was a mad dash.  The "girl" team finished first and my cute momma started jumping up and down and running in circles.  She was thrilled!  She was so certain she was right she had already bought Lil Miss a present.

Her first boots!  Stinkin' cute!!!

I asked her if she had a back-up plan and she said no, she was certain she was right! Good thing she was!  It was such a fun night.  All of Nate's sibling who live close were able to come (and we really missed Brandon and Carolyn), my brother and his wife came up, and Nate's "second family", the Law's also all were able to come.  We are so lucky to have such a great family!  I love them all.  We had a barbeque and did some swimmin and talked all about babies!  Jared and Katie are expecting their 2nd in November and Amy is having twins in just a couple weeks so there was plenty of pregnancy/baby talk goin around!  I am so excited that our baby will have other little ones to play with!  

Life is so good right now.  We have been incredibly blessed and I can't wait to see what adventures come in the future for us!  

Whew!  Sorry that was about the longest update ever!