3 Months or 13 Weeks or 91 Days

How in the world did I get HERE?!?!? I've only got three more months until my due date and I have to mentally focus on not FREAKING out!!! ON multiple levels I feel so completely unprepared for everything that will be happening to our lives in the near future. Ammon and I still haven't found consistent work, although my sweety has gotten a few odd jobs here and there. When I got pregnant, we had a weekly income of over $1500... now with unemployment we get about half of that a MONTH. It's a miracle that we have been able to survive THIS long, and we may have to keep stretching things for an inexplicable more amount of time!! Bringing a baby into the world is scary enough, but having no idea about where we will be living or if and where we will get our next paycheck really adds to the pressure. Anyone who says they just want to wait until they are financially ready to have a baby just needs to take a look at our story and have a good laugh!

But...then again, my wonderful husband and I have a reason to get up in the morning and smile!! We constantly have something to work for and look forward to every day. This outlet of our future baby has helped to strengthen us as friends and as a couple that would be impossible otherwise. When talking to someone the other day about our plight, he made the comment, "Well, at least you get to spend a lot of time together!" and I felt like rolling my eyes and saying, "Well at least you have a job!!!" BUT I know there are a lot of couples that don't have the opportunities we've had to share this pregnancy together, and I know I have been buouyed up by Ammon's strength and humor. I don't know if our situation is making things easier or harder for us, but hopefully it's at least making us a little better.

Nursery Theme

We decided on our nursery theme: Chocolate Brown, Baby Blue and of course, BEARS!! At mutual the other night we were able to work on some scrapbooking pages, and since I don't keep a scrapbook, I decided to make a little summin, summin to hang in the baby's room. Of course, I did this before I realized how hard it is to find a 12" x 12" frame. Nevertheless, it gets me one step closer to having a baby's room!!!

The Joy of Yard Sales

A photo of all of the amazing stuff we have gotten from yard sales and craigslist. All of this for less than $50, smokin' deals!!!! Tons of clothes (from newborn to 12 months), a walker, a bouncer, a playmat, a boppy, diaper genie, infant bathtub, carrier, bouncer swing, some blankets and some fun little toys. It's hard to restrain ourselves cuz the baby-bug is really biting and I'm in my 'NESTING' phase. However, we also suffer from the dreaded disease Lackamulah (no money), so unless we can get AWESOME stuff for SUPER cheap, we have to refuse.

Our Second Ammoniversary

So Feb. 17th was our second anniversary, or Ammoniversary as I like to call it, so of course we had to do a little celebrating. We made ourselves a nice breakfast, complete with the waffle iron spilling over. Later we went to see a romantic comedy and then to dinner. It was a fun day since we tried our best to not let anything interfere and to spend as little money as possible (which totally backfires when you choose Olive Garden over Applebee's... heehee oops!). Ammon was able to convince his parents to chip in for some surprise roses, which always makes my day, no matter what day it is!!! Overall, it was a super-awesome time and I wish it came more than once a year, so more than likely we'll be doing something for our sealing-anniversary too!!

Furballs

My wonderful friend Kayla has a business with her husband of selling dogs (or rehoming them if you are a 'Craigslist' officianado) and occasionally she gets a bunch of puppies at a time. So, knowing that I currently have no life and that I love dogs, she offered to let me borrow a few at a time pretty much whenever I want. Here are some photos of our puppysitting. The white is a Maltese/Poodle and the black is a Shih-tzu/Poodle and both are OH SO CUTE!!!!!

Drummin Along

While babysiting on Valentine's Day, we were able to experience the true joy of sharing our love of music with our Nation's Youth!!! Of course, this came in the form of Mark (6 yr old nephew) pounding the heck out of the drumset we are storing. But HEY, beggers can't be choosers!!!

Bowser Bath

We decided to give Bowser a bath yesterday, and although he was very well behaved (never tried to jump out once) you could tell he was NOT happy about it!! BUT as you can see by the water, he REALLY needed it. Now he is so soft and pertty white... and black!

Grandpa Teller

We got a surprise visit from Ammon's Grandpa late the other night. He was down from the reservation to celebrate the Super Bowl... Go Figure! I had never met him before, and it had been years since Ammon had seen him, so it was fun to fill the house with the completely indistinguishable sounds of Navajo since Grandpa speaks very little English. Of course, Ammon speaks absolutely NO Navajo, so we were grateful for his dad and his cousin who sat in as translators!!

Da Christian

We baby-sat my sister's kids the other day, and Ammon got this great shot of Christian staring out at his parents as they drove away, sadly mumbling, "Daddy, ed is um wit ba Daddy." It was so cute i had to put it on here!!

It's a BOY!!!!

All that needs to be said is that the baby is healthy and relatively calm (the ultrasound tech got frustrated with him for not moving enough so she could get a 'good shot'). Hope you enjoy the pictures!!