Long Overdue Update

Wowzers, it has been a long time since my last post. Sorry for the absense. This past month has been very eventful for us and time continues to fly by. I’ll try to update the biggest news items in the order they happened, so this will probably be a fairly long post. Also, we keep forgetting to get our camera out lately, so sorry there aren’t a lot of photos, sorry.

On the 18th of June we welcomed my family came home from England FOR GOOD. It has been so nice to have them close by this past month. We’ve already had my younger sisters up at our apartment for the weekend, and are just so excited to be able to spend time with them again! They are all very happily situated in their old home (which turns 100 this year!). They are also having a garage built so it is always fun to see the updates as it is getting closer to being completed. Arek was very excited to be able to help with the concrete on the floor of the garage, since it was his old boss who was doing it. He sure does miss working with the “mud” as they call it. I am glad he still gets occassional opportunities to help his old boss out.

Anniversary! On June 26th we celebrated our 2nd wedding anniversary. It is amazing to me how fast these two years have gone by. I am so grateful to be married to such a wonderful man as Arek! This year he gave me a dozen beautiful roses and after work we went and got soup, salad and dessert at the Olive Garden. It is still crazy to me how short a time we have known each other because it feels like I’ve known Arek my whole life. He is my best friend and can always make me smile and laugh no matter how grumpy I want to be. I am so glad we get to spend eternity together!

my beautiful flowers

Our 4th of July weekend was a little more sobering this year than it usually it. That was because my Grandma Glad passed away the morning of the 4th after battling with a rare kind of cancer for 6 months. We all felt very blessed to be able to say our final goodbyes to her and to just have had her in our lives. She was a wonderful, loving woman. The funeral was held on July 10th, and it was just beautiful. The spirit was so strong and all the thoughts given by my aunts and uncles and dad were truly touching, just focusing on the celebration of what was Grandma’s life.

my grandma and grandpa two years ago when I recieved my endowments

The rest of the month has been filled with work and family. We are now officially in our third trimester of this pregnancy and the baby (and my belly!) continues to get bigger and bigger. It is so exciting to read about how much she is growing and feel her moving around inside me. Arek was finally able to feel her moving about a week ago, which was a very exciting experience for him. Previous to that occasion he was confinced that she knew when he was feeling my tummy and that she purposefully was avoiding moving when he was trying to feel her. :) We are so excited to meet this little one in less than three months! Oh, and we also made our first purchase for our baby - a onesie that Arek fell in love with that says: “My Dad Can Fix Anything”, which, since Arek is her father, is pretty close to the truth.

my belly one week ago at 28 weeks

Well that is it for the updates. I promise to post at least more frequently than once a month now! It simply takes WAY too much time to update when it’s been that long!