Happy Holidays

So, another holiday has come and gone.

This Thanksgiving we hosted it at our new place. We invited our neighbors from downstairs (these are the same neighbors who helped us out before we had a car.) I decided I wanted to make all of the Thanksgiving food by myself and let me tell you, I will NEVER do it all by myself again. I was so exhausted by the end of the night that I could barely keep my eyes open. I did a Ham (no turkey for us as Daniel doesn't like it,) mashed potatoes and gravy, stuffing (made from scratch), green bean casserole, rolls (made from scratch), deviled eggs and a cheese/sausage platter. I also made 2 pumpkin pecan pies (OMG, are these good. Thank you Cindy Holyoak for the recipe.) It was fun and like my sister always says, I love being the little homemaker; but I was a hard job. 

Now it's on to Christmas. We are hoping to be able to start shopping for Christmas presents here soon as it takes so long for the gifts to make it back to the states. 

Our baby is still growing and doing well. We go back and see the Dr for my next appointment on Dec 4. We have found out the sex but since a few family members still don't know, we are going to wait and say what it is. 

Baby Tyree

So as you read in my last post, we have found out the sex of the baby but aren't revealing anything just yet. Once our families find out, we will include everyone else in the reveal :)

Hopefully our little baby will start to move soon. From what the doctor has said as well as family and friends, I should be feeling it already or soon at least. My sister has told me that now that she is pregnant with her second child that she can tell much earlier what is a baby kick and what isn't. I'm sure I'm feeling it but don't know it. :)

I go in next week for the fun glucsoe test. I did it with my doctor back in the states when I first found out I was pregnant and it was NOT fun!! I've never passed out in my life and this was the first time. I don't have very good blood veins and the nurse that was trying to take my blood had to stick me 3 times and by the 3rd time, I was not feeling well. I kept feeling like I was going to pass out and then the nurse asked me if I was ok. I told her that I felt like I was going to pass out so she stopped and she said that she can and stood right in front of me and tried talking to me. She said that I was looking right at her and then all of a sudden my eyes rolled in the back of my head and I passed out. Next thing I knew, I was being shook awake by another nurse and was trying to get me to talk to her and make sure I was ok. I swear passing out isn't meant to be fun but boy it was hard especially since I was by myself at this appointment. Hopefully when I go in next week, all will go well.

Not much else is going on with Baby Tyree. We are starting to stock pile everything to get ready for our little one and is it just SOOOO much fun :)

And so our adventure begins

OK, I know.....bad me.....I haven't posted in about 9 months. Honestly, I forgot that I had started blog as we have just been so busy with our lives.

OK....so I mentioned in my last post that we had some big changes in our lives but I couldn't say what. Well I think now that 9 months have passed that I can finally share the big news.

Daniel has joined the Air Force!!!!!!!

In January, Daniel came to me and expressed that he was interested in joining the service. He knew that wanted to join the Air Force as he eventually wanted to become a pilot. He finally decided to go to a recruiter's office in town in March and expressed interest and wanted to know what he needed to do. About 2 weeks went by and we never heard anything. Daniel called the recruiter back and found out that we didn't know if he was going to be able to make it on time as the age limit to join was 28 (he was to be turning 28 in June.) The recruiter said that he would do what he could for him and try and push up his paperwork and get him through quicker. (I've heard that the process can take quite a while....I have a friend who it took 7 months from when she expressed interest to when she started BMT.) Little did we know that in just a few short weeks that he would be leaving. Daniel got all his paperwork finished and we just had to wait and see what they could find for him. About a week later, Daniel called up Alysha and said that he found out that they had found him a job and that he would leaving for BMT (basic military training) in just over a week. BRING ON THE STRESS! Between trying to make sure that Daniel had everything he needed to leave, trying to spend time with each other and doing all the fun things that we knew he would miss ((who knew that a person could miss CHIPOTLE (a Mexican restaurant) so much.))

BMT lasted 8 weeks and it was both physically hard and emotionally hard for the both of us. More emotional for me as I didn't get to speak with him. Daniel was able to call me a total of 3 times and that was it. Thankfully each and every time he called, I was able to answer it and wasn't working. Daniel graduated on May 30, 2014 and thankfully I was able to make it out there to Texas for his graduation (thanks to his parents who helped out with my ticket.) I was also joined by his parents and all his siblings. It was great that they were all able to be there and be there to see him. Technical training came next and that lasted another 8 weeks....unfortunately it lasted more like 10 weeks because he had to wait for his orders to be ready before he could leave. This time around we were able to speak alot more often and did so every day and every night! :)

About 2-3 weeks into Daniel's tech school training, he called me up and let me know that he found out where we would be stationed next. They have what is called a Dream Sheet and basically it's every place that you wish to be sent to. Italy was number 1 for us and then it was a few places around the states....a few on the east coast and a few on the west coast as well as one in Colorado and one in Texas. Daniel called me up and we found out that we would be going to....wait for it....GERMANY!

We were both so excited to be going overseas even thought we would both be so far away from our families now.

Daniel traveled to Germany at the beginning of September and unfortunately I had to wait as my passport hadn't arrived yet. Note to self: never go a no-fee passport again as you can't have it expedited. If I had paid for it myself, then I could have had it expedited and we could have flown into Germany together.

So, with that out of the way.....onto some other good news......I found out in July that I was expecting our first child.

We couldn't be more excited and are so grateful that the Lord has provided us with this child. When I found out, I had to tell Daniel over Skype as he was still in technical school. We decided to wait to tell my family as well as his so that he could see the expression on everyone's face. Unfortunately, since I was living with my dad and step mom at the time, they figured it out. With all the morning sickness and not wanting to eat, or eating very little compared to what I used to eat, they figured it out. When Daniel came home, we went out to dinner with my family and informed them of the news. My sister who is also pregnant was able to share the news at the same time, so that was nice that we were kind of able to plan it together. My sister-in-law is also pregnant.....gotta say, it must be something in the water....lol.

I am due in March (as well as both my sister and sister-in-law.) We have already started buying baby things and thankfully we are still able to find what we want even though we live here in Germany. Although, I do miss Walmart....I swear the prices out here are a little ridiculous and I just wish I could go to Walmart and finding something that was good quality but cheap. We are already stocking piling the baby's room with clothes and what not and thankfully we were able to buy a crib the other day as well.

We do know the sex and will be telling everyone very soon but for now, you'll just have to wait :)