It's been a little while!! It seems like we are always so busy trying to do all these different things, I hardly have time to just sit and do little to nothing. But then again, when I stop and think about it, I can't figure out where all of our time goes!! lol
We still don't have our house completely unpacked. Ugghhh... I've been trying to work on it slowly, but then it just seems like something "better" comes along or we are hardly ever home so it still doesn't get accomplished. I finally got things hung on the walls and the kitchen put together, but we still have a long way to go! We have tons of boxes in the basement that haven't even been touched yet. I'm hoping since Justin has the next 2 days off, that we can get a lot of it knocked out. We are hopefully having a "house warming party" on Friday so we'll see how much of it gets accomplished by then!! :) I just wish it would unpack itself! I definitely like the UNpacking better than the packing, but when there's soooooo many boxes it seems so overwhelming! I think if I didn't have to work I might be a little more motivated to do it. It just seems like after working all day, when I come home I either want to take a nap or just sit and relax, and then, before I know it, the evening is gone and nothing got accomplished. :p Maybe the party at the end of the week will be enough motivation to get it done. lol We shall see!
What else, what else..... We ordered baby girl's crib last weekend and got it this past Thurs. I was so excited to get it set up. Justin opened the box and we realized they sent us the completely wrong one. :( So we had to call and let them know it was wrong so they had the correct one (supposedly) sent out and we should be getting it on Tues. or Wed. this week. Let's hope! I can't wait to get it set up and get things put in their place. I also ordered a BUNCH of bows and accessories from a girl on FB that makes them. They are sooo cute and I'm excited to get them and to get more of her stuff! I find myself getting excited over the littlest things with this pregnancy. Every little thing just seems to send me over the moon. I'm sure I'm driving people crazy, buuuuttt I really don't care. :) I'm enjoying every minute of it.
Justin got to feel baby girl for the first time on Friday night! Oh it was so exciting!! I've felt flutters for quite awhile now, since about 14-15 weeks, (I'm 21 as of today) but she's been getting more consistent with little pokes and nudges now. I've been waiting and waiting and waiting until they were going to become strong enough to be felt on the outside. I usually try to feel her while I'm laying in bed before going to sleep, but haven't been able to. Then on Friday night she was super active, I could feel her all the time. So I told Justin about it and he (of course) put his hand on my belly (he's been REALLY anxious to feel her too) and I told him he'd have to push in a little harder than he was, and when I felt her move I looked at him and he goes SHE POKED BACK!! I said you felt that?!?! He goes yeah! And then he poked my arm like he felt her poke him and he was totally right. He's been saying for weeks, when he pokes my belly, "when is she gonna poke back??" So it was funny to hear him say that, "She poked back!" lol It was so exciting, and he was so excited it made it even better. Just the sheer joy on his face and how his eyes got so big... Ahhh it made my night/week/month! :) I can't wait til she gets even bigger so he can really feel her move all the time. I love it, I love it, I LOVE IT!
I think I get so excited about every little thing, because I was really starting to think we'd never get to this point. Having miscarriages, especially multiples, makes it really tough to keep a positive attitude about actually getting a baby out of becoming pregnant. I mean, don't get me wrong, when I got that positive test again this time, I was excited and bawling and happy and terrified. Even though I've literally since the beginning felt like this pregnancy was so much different than the other 2, that it just HAD to stick this time, I was still absolutely terrified to go through the pain and heartache of yet another miscarriage... I'm not sure I could've done it for a third time. I don't know how I would've made it through it. Thank goodness I have a wonderful husband. I really don't know what I ever did without him, or what I would do without him. He's everything to me and has gotten me through more than any other person in my life. *sigh* I am such a lucky girl!!!!
Justin is going to talk to a recruiter again on Tues. with our friend Aj who is also a Marine. Since he's already in the reserves, it's kind of a pain for him to go from reserve status to active duty, like he's hoping. He was told to talk to a recruiter about getting the paperwork done (since it supposedly can't take months and months to get accomplished) so he did that several months back. That recruiter told him he couldn't do anything for him since he's already in the reserves, that he'd have to go through his unit to change his status. So he talked to Admin. in his unit and they told him that he has to talk to a prior service recruiter and that the one he would need to talk to is out of KC. They gave him his phone number and told him to get in touch with him. So he did! lol He called the PS recruiter and he told him he couldn't do anything for him because he's not going on 'active reserve' which is basically just temporary active duty, and then you'd go back to reserve status, which isn't what he wants to do. He told him he has to talk to a regular recruiter (which, if you'll remember, he's already done) and he would have to do it for him. Ugghhhhh so he started talking to Aj again and Aj said (he's an admin Marine) that he does need to talk to that recruiter and that that recruiter HAS to do something for him. Aj & his wife Tara (My BESTIE!!) are coming back home from North Carolina this weekend for a week, so Aj is gonna go with Justin on Tues. to talk to the recruiter again. So keep your fingers crossed we get good news and can FINALLY get this ball rolling!! We're hoping that he'll be able to go to his new MOS schooling after the summer, around Sept/Oct, because depending on how long that lasts will depend on when he actually gets a permanent duty station, i.e. when we will move somewhere else. So anyway, hopefully he will be able to get everything going on Tues.
I suppose that's it for now. I really need to get started again on this house!! :) So I better get to it! :) If you've made it this far, thanks for reading! :)
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