February 7
Today I just want to let everyone know how blessed I feel. I feel like I have been hiding these feelings deep inside and for some unknown reason have not been able or willing to tap into them. I feel so blessed to have the gospel in my life. What a blessing it is to live with a knowledge and hope that we all have a special purpose in this life and forever after. Our Heavenly Father and our older brother Jesus Christ can be our best friends no matter what happens to our family and friends in this life. I feel so blessed for my husband, for his unconditional love for me, for his purity and goodness. I look to him as one who is steadfast and immovable, who loves the Lord and does not care what the world thinks. I love him so much and I completely trust him to lead our family in the ways of the Lord. I feel so blessed for my snuggly little Caeleb who brightens up each day for us and helps us live life to the fullest through the eyes of a little child. I am grateful for my parents, for their examples. We love going to the farm to see them! We feel so loved, cozy, safe and secure there and Caeleb loves his Nana and Grandpa and he so looks forward to seeing them. I am grateful for my Brother Nathan and for the friend he has become as we have lived together this last year. He is such a good uncle to Caeleb (Caeleb’s face lights up when he sees him coming home from work) and he has given me such good advice when I have needed it in my life. I am grateful for my sister and for the friend she is. We can talk and laugh all day and I miss her when she has to go from our visits. I love to look at how she is a mother and what a wonderful job she does at raising her Sterling and how she talks to him and I can see so much love in her eyes for him. It is fun to watch Chris and Doug as fathers. They are both such good Fathers. They take so much time out of their days for their little guys.
Feb 21 2012
We went to the farm after work on Sunday for family day Monday. Caeleb has stayed with Nana and grandpa these last few days and has learned a few words. I would say his first words have been Mama and Dada but he only uses them in context every once and a while with no specific reason. However, Kitty and Car have made their entrance after a week on the farm. It was a good relaxing day yesterday. We went on lots of walks around the farm and Caeleb liked playing with chickens and throwing rocks.
Feb 23 2012
I talked to mom on the phone today. They are patiently waiting for their mission call. More patient than me that’s for sure. I am excited to see where they are going and what they are going to be doing!! Mom gave me some valuable advice on the phone today. She said, “One thing I have been blessed with in life is to be content.” I know that mom and dad have never been rich. We never went to Disneyland growing up or had fancy vehicles or went out to eat all the time. We did, however, have parents who taught that we did not need all of that in order to be happy. I want to be content with my life. I feel like I am compelled to work alot because scheduling is always calling me and I am casual status. Mom did not work outside the home very much when I was growing up. I know that our day and age is a little different with the cost of living getting out of hand but I do just want to work minimal hours. I have felt good with the making $1000 a month and I am doing a least twice that these days it seems. I want to work 6 shifts a month, not 12. I want to be home with my Caeleb, to be a mom and wife, to live a simple life. I do so want that. I want to be content with that.
June 2012
Wow, time is sure going fast. Mom and Dad left on their mission on May 4th. They have been out a month now. 17 more months to go. Sounds like they are enjoying Korea but mom says the smells are taking a bit to get used too. Caeleb is growing up fast. His vocabulary is increasing a little. He loves to run around the house and get into everything. He is a peoples person. He loves to be around other people! His favorite word is still Car which was his first word besides Dada and he also loves making animal noises. We went to the zoo a few weeks ago with Wendy and her 3 boys and so Caeleb has added Elephant, Lion, Tiger, and Monkey noises to his vocabulary. He also has been saying, “awgone (all gone), uh-oh, agan (again) for the last 2 months or so. He won’t say water yet but needs to learn as it is a guessing game to try and know what he wants when he wants water. He loves going to Nursery!
I found out I was pregnant again on May 14. I just wasn’t feeling well and feel blessed for having that reason as to why I was not feeling well. I started bleeding two days later when I was at work and my manager sent me to Emerg where I found out I had a subchorionic bleed and the Emerg Doctor was not very hopeful. But I have taken almost a month off of work and things are going a lot better now. We are praying and appreciating the prayers of our family and friends. I am nervous because of what happened last time around. I do count my blessing though having my Chris and Caeleb. Life is good and always is if you look at it the right way. We moved out of the Drapers house the last week in May. Kurt moved back home to Victoria and Nathan is living with us in a Duplex in Ranchlands. We loved the Drapers and feel very blessed to have had the opportunity to live there. But, I needed this change, to have a place of my own to decorate and make mine. I have enjoyed putting my pictures up. I love the picture of the Temples that we have been too that Chris made for me on our 2 month anniversary. And I love the picture of Grandmas house on the farm and of my Lily from Ecuador.
July 18 2012.
Caeleb is so funny. He is sort of learning how to count. Well, if you call 2,3,2,3 counting. He loves rocks and when we are out for our walks, he likes to collect any and every rock there is around. We lined up about 10 rocks he had collected at the park today and I was counting them. Then he decided to count them too – “2,3,2,3,2,3.” He is a cutie. He loves the water now (he was having a scared of water phase at about 3 months ago that lasted for several months. But with this hot weather, he can’t resist it. A few nights ago, he asked Daddy for a bath by running to Daddy and then to the bath and back and forth and putting his toys in the bath. He says bath sometimes too.
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