Life.

Once again, sorry for the lack of posts. I am so bad at this blogging thing, i think once we have kids I may get a bit better, seeing as I will have more to blog about! Any who...life is grand, well some parts are at least. Lets focus on good things first! I got called as the YW 2nd counselor, and I love it! I am really enjoying being in Young Womens. It is a small group of girls, which I really like. I am loving getting to know each of them, they are such wonderful girls! John is still the YM Secretary, and its fun that we are both with the Youth. Once he is done his Tuesday night class he will be coming to Mutual with me, yay!

I got a new job! I am still nannying, but I am back to being full time. It is with a family with 3 kids, 6 years, 2 years and 6 1/2 months. Lets just say I am getting great training for when I have kids! I love the family, they are so nice. I actually knew them from when I worked at the daycare, and long story short... they left over a year ago, and I left about 10 months ago, and they called the daycare wondering if anyone wanted to babysit occasionally for them. Well, I am still friends with one of the managers there and they called me because they knew I needed a little extra money. Well, one thing led to another and the mom was going back to work and knew I was looking for a full time nanny job, and BOOM, they asked me to work full time! YAY! It was a true blessing. It is so nice to being working full time again and not be freaking out about money as much anymore! We still have to be careful, but we are a ton better off than we were before.

John is of course still at his job, and my brother in law Avery applied there, and hopefully will get the job and work with John! FUN =). John only has a few more weeks of class for this semester, which he is happy about. He is really enjoying his classes this time around, and learning a lot from them. They are more focused towards his job and he can actually apply things he learns, at work.

Hmm, We both had wonderful birthdays. We both got spoiled! John got a PSP Vita, and I got an IPAD2, and a new camera! (thank you tax return.) We are both loving our new electronics! I use the IPAD with the kids all the time. I already have a bunch of apps for them on there, hah. We also got a new printer, FINALLY. We were using one that I got for free from one of my dads friends, back when I was in like 11th grade. And he had used it for year previous to that. It was ready to go! We got a nice new wifi one, and its sweet!

Abby is still perfect as usual. She is getting SO big! I am spoiling her SO MUCH. I just cannot help getting her cute outfits and headbands. But hey, I am her aunt, I am supposed to right?! I cannot believe that she is 3 months already. I love my little niece! It makes me want to see all my other nieces and nephews, July are you here yet?!!! =)

WOW, this is a long post. I guess thats what I get for not posting for 4 months! Okay I think thats about all the good things....now onto the not so good. I have to have ANOTHER ear surgery on May 7. Luckily this one is a lot less invasive than the last one. Basically tissue healed right over the tube they put in my ear, so they need to go in and pop it out and maybe put a new tube in. Everything else healed really well the doc said, which is great! It stinks I have to have another surgery though, but oh well! I am trying to stay positive. Hopefully after this one things will only go UP! And on another note...I found out about a week ago that I have a cyst (and a big one too) on one of my ovaries. I found out because i had SUPER BAD pains that caused me to almost pass out a couple days prior. My mom told me to go to the doc, and its good thing I did! I have not heard anything about what they plan on doing yet, hopefully I hear early this week. I am praying that they can just give me medicine and not have to remove it surgically. (But with my luck, it will probably be the surgery.) I was so upset when I found this out, it was the LAST thing I needed. I think that if i do need surgery for it, maybe they can do it while they do my ear! hah, I know they can't but hey, I am trying to have a good attitude! So that was the bad news of our life right now. Hopefully these next few months will bring something really good, I need it! I am so sick of health issues. I am so sick of doctors. I just want to be done with it all. =(

kudos to whoever read all of this. You rock.

New Car, New Niece!

A quick video I made for Abby <3

Our new car!

Well, John and I have a new niece! Abigail Zoe Hellstrom came into this world Monday Jan.9, 2012! She came 5 weeks early but she is doing very well! She is so perfect. I love her so much! John and I are excited to have a niece so close to us! I have already been spoiling her =) I had to go out and get her newborn clothes, and that was...SO NOT HARD. I had so much fun getting cute little outfits! She is SO tiny, my sis thinks she is probably close to 6 lbs. She is so adorable. She grunts and makes all these cute faces already. She looked like me oddly enough for the first day and then after that she looks a lot like her daddy. She has a full head of beautiful brown hair as well. Have I mentioned I love her? Why yes, I do!

On another note, John and I got a new car! It is a Mazda CX7. We LOVE IT. I am actually driving it and John took over driving my lovely ford taurus. My excuse was that I have to drive 2 kids around...so I need the bigger car right? heehee. He was very nice and let me drive it mainly. It is so nice, and surprisingly not bad on gas mileage, which is a plus!

Nothing else major going on, I went to my post-op appt. for my ear surgery and nothing was really discussed because he could not see much since there was icky stuff still in there. I go back in 6 weeks to find out if the tube is doing its job...if not we may have to start talking about ANOTHER surgery. I am REALLY hoping it is doing what it's supposed to. I am so sick and tired of ear issues!! I feel like I have lived at the ENT for the past 3 months, BOO.