The Epic Return

So many things. So. Many. Things. It's been a busy few months!

Here's what happened:

1. We went to Disneyland for Halloween! Yep, I'm blogging about Halloween in January. Permission to judge.

You can find this same gangsta picture of my mom and I on almost every trip we've ever been on.

My favorite part of this picture is the guy in the Chevron shirt in perfect Bigfoot pose.

Love this kid.

My favorite food in the world, tied only with Disneyland corndogs

I can't remember why this was going down

Rachel, Sean and Jakob looking like a Hallmark card

This little sleepy face kills me

Tickle attack from Uncle Jirski!

In line for our favorite Toy Story ride. We are all a little competitive, even the newlyweds. P.s. How much longer do we get to call ourselves newlyweds?

2. We moved! We found a little apartment in Scottsdale and moved all our stuff in early November, probably with a huge sigh of relief from JR's parents. During the time that they so graciously let us live in the guest house we broke the air conditioner twice, broke the dishwasher, moved all their stuff around, and made a cozy home for some giant rats (I killed one! All by myself! With my own trap and cheese bait!). Anyway, we decided to move out to give the poor house and our parents/in-laws a break from our constant abuse.

I have no pictures of the experience, except for this one of the high-tech trap covering that our rat-trapper guy made. Brought me joy everyday

He wrote "please" first, but then went back and corrected it with "pleace". I also love that the e's look like tiny breast cancer ribbons.

 Now for the reason I haven't blogged since October. During the move, we packed up my old trusty computer and made way for JR's recently custom-built (by him) fancy internally-lit computer. Which did not have a built-in card reader for my camera card, and everyone knows that you can't blog without pictures. Anyway, it took us a while to figure that out and then the holidays came and yadda yadda. Long story short, we got the card reader last week. More blogging!

3. We found out that I am pregnant! Well, we found out in like October to be a little more accurate. Anyway, I'm due June 17th, which means I am four months along right now. We find out if it is a boy or a girl two weeks from today, so tune in. 

Here I am at 13 weeks

And here is a picture of the baby cupcakes we took to Disneyland at Halloween to tell my family

Get it? "Baby" cupcakes?" Oh, too cute if I do say so myself. We brought home a tiny Mickey Mouse onesie to JR's family to give them the good news. 

I will go into further detail of my pregnancy so far in my next blog post, I promise.

4. I had a kidney stone! I woke up one Monday morning with crazy pain in my lower right side and I was like "JR, I am dying I KNOW it", so he got an appointment with my doctor's nurse and we ran over there. She said it could be appendicitis and scheduled an ultrasound for me that afternoon, to make sure the little fetus was all safe inside there. We returned home and JR left for work since it was noon and there was nothing more he could do for me. I started getting ready to make the forty minute trek to the ultrasound place and then all of a sudden I was on the floor in my hallway and that's when I thought to myself "I don't think I can drive all that way or also even get to my front door", so I called my doctor again and they basically said uh please hang up immediately and go to the emergency room. So I did. I don't know how I got there, I have no idea how I even got to my car let alone found my way to the hospital. But I did it, and I called JR who left work immediately to meet me. 

Anyway, two hits of morphine, an hour-long ultrasound with the creepiest nurse I've ever met, an MRI and then a hit of something stronger than morphine that I can't pronounce and I was fine! There was no definitive evidence that I had a kidney stone, but JR's mom has had several and knew exactly what was going on from the very beginning. She should have been my doctor because they didn't even think of it. When one of us mentioned it they were like "oh yeah, that would make sense". Go back to school! Just kidding, they were really nice. 

People say that passing a kidney stone is way more painful than giving birth. I will let you know in about six months. 

5. Christmas came! And it was FANTASTIC. 

First, we had Fake Christmas at JR's parents house. It was the best Fake Christmas I have ever had. We started the night off with the best Mexican food in the world at Manuel's. Then we went on to open one bajillion presents, the floor looked like Times Square after New Year's Eve. Among some really fabulous gifts, JR's parents got us a red Peg Perego stroller. It is the fanciest! It comes with a carseat, a basonnet, and some other extra goodies. I have since learned that it is one of the safest brands on the market and also my sister Micci covets their strollers. And if it's on Micci's Want List, then you KNOW it's good. Best Fake Christmas ever! They spoiled us like crazy.

Two days later, we traveled on over to Redding where we spent four days in perfect Christmas bliss. I love it when JR doesn't have to work and he can just hang out with me all day. Best ever. We spent the vacation playing Scum, Hand and Foot, watching all the cousins running around on the new trampoline, watching Disney movies, and eating tons of good food. 

This is the only Christmas picture I have. We went to see a really cute production of a Christmas Carol right before Christmas

I was going to go into more detail about Christmas and then talk about New Year's Eve, but I am tired of blogging which means you are definitely tired of reading. So, that's it, now you are pretty much up to date!

Also, as I was writing this post some random words hyperlinked themselves. I have no idea how to fix it, if anyone has any ideas then tell meeee.