Busy Week!

Hi everyone!!

I am such a horrible blog owner.  I haven't written in more than 10 days and I'm so sorry about that.  It's been such a crazy few days though, I have hardly had time to do anything other than eat, sleep, and work. 

I'm in my last two weeks of training at work, and instead of following other people around, I'm now in charge of running the shift.  It's really fun, but it's really stressful too.  All last week I was working mids, so my shifts were from 9:30am to 7:30pm.  Add an hour drive both ways in there, it makes for a long day.  This week my schedule changes up a bit, so that's nice.  Gives me some more time during the day, or at night, to get stuff done. 

My friend finally had her baby! And she went through a lot to get her, too!  She had mild pre-eclampsia when they induced her.  Over the course of 2 days, she only dialated 5cm, so they ended up doing a c-section, which is good because her cord was wrapped around her neck 3 times!  She was born at 6lbs, 4oz, and 20 inches long.  She's beautiful!  And then a couple days after coming home, she went back in with post labor pre-eclampsia.  Her blood pressure was super high and it was scary, but 24 hours of meds and she was right back to normal.  Holding her baby is making my baby fever go through the roof!!!  Cody got to hold her too, and his thoughts are the same...he wants a baby, just not now.  Which is fine, we will wait.  :)

So yesterday, we went into the car dealership to get new tires and an oil change for my car.  We have been talking about getting a truck for a while, so we had them give us a trade in estimate.  I dont know exactly how it happened, but at the end of the day, we went home with a 2013 Chevy Silverado! I love it, but Cody loves it more.  We ended up trading my car in, and I'm going to be driving Cody's car.  I am not the biggest fan of his car, but that just means that the next new car we get will be mine! :)

I hope everyone is having a wonderful week!

1 Year, and Many More! (Lots of pictures!)

Yesterday was our 1 year anniversary!!! 

It seems so, so crazy that we've been married for a year already.  We've had a crazy year - we got a puppy, we bought a house, I got a new job.  It's been an amazing year, and I can't wait for many more!

Here's a few pictures from our wedding.  :)

We got a hotel room last night at a local casino, and had a great night together.  We were nervous about eating the top layer of our cake, because we figured that cake that was a year old wouldn't be great - we were wrong! It was still very good!!  I'm glad too, because we didn't get very much at the wedding! 

Like I said, we've had an amazing year, and I am very excited to have lots more together!!! <3

Baby!!

My friend Amy is at the hopsital having her baby!!!  :)  She was induced last night, they think she has mild preeclampsia, so they induced her 8 days early.  We're all so ready to meet her, so we are all welcoming the induction!  :) I can't wait! This is the first one of my close friends to have a baby.  I hope her baby helps get rid of my baby fever haha. 

For those of you moms out there, what is one thing that people did/gave you/helped you with when you first had your baby?  This is her first baby, and she's got a big family but I have a feeling that once the newness of the baby wears off, there might not be as many people around and I want to make sure I do what she needs! Should I make her dinners?  Help with her housework?  Stay away and let them rest?  I need ideas.  :)

Sorry it's been so long since I've updated.  I know I sound like a broken record, but work has been keeping me so busy!  I have been training in the kitchen for the last 4 weeks, and I'm finally out front and I love it! I'm finally where I feel comfortable at, and learning the things I felt like I needed to learn.  I'm anxious to finish training, and get to my store so I can get comfortable.

As far as working out goes....I've been sucking lately.  I really need to work on getting motivated, but my mind has been so wrapped around learning the billion and a half things I need to learn for work, that I just don't have the energy to motivate myself to work out.  I know I need to, and I will hopefully soon.  Any tips on how to motivate myself?

This weekend, Cody and I, along with his mom and my dad, are all going to a University of Michigan football game! I'm so excited! Last one I went to ended up getting rained out, and so I hope that this one doesn't, because I'd like to see an entire game!  And Monday is our one year anniversary!!!! I can't believe we've already been married for a full year.  It went quick!  Cody got us reservations to a casino/resort up north, so we're going Monday, and going to do a wine tasting, hang out at the casino, and hopefully do a lot of relaxing! I love September, so many cool things going on!

Have a good weekend!

Stay at Home Wife

I often find myself wishing that I could be a stay at home wife.  I've always been "that" girl....I love being home. I like decorating for holidays, and making meals, and running errands.  But the responsible side of me knows that I have to work.  I wasn't born into a family with money, and I didn't marry a man who has a lot of money, therefore in order for us to live the life we want, I have to work. 

But my ideal day is spend working on my home, instead of working at a business.  While I enjoy my days off with Cody, I like my days when it's just me.  I wake up around 9, make breakfast, start the laundry.  Do any dishes from the night before that I was too lazy to do.  I go to the gym, run any errands. I can make lunch, clean the house a bit, and then figure out what to make for dinner.  I've gotten lazy at it, but when I was working 5am-1pm, I'd have the whole evening to make a real dinner, and sometimes dessert.  We ate so good back then - not always the healthiest, but we had good food, and I had the opportunity to try out a lot of different recipes.  I love the days that I can take care of my home, and my husband.

We've decided to put off having kids.  It really breaks my heart more than I care to admit, because as much as I want to be a stay at home wife, I really want to be a stay at home mom.  Being a mom is one of those things I was made to do.  But as I have already discussed, I have to work, and so does Cody.  That leaves a very small window of free time during the day, which is already filled with errands, a house, and my gorgeous puppy.  That is not enough time for a baby. 

The thought of having a day care raise my child is very unnerving.  The thought of having to work the long hours that I work now, and Cody working the hours he works, and missing out on some important things in my childs life (first steps, first words) or missing out on when my child goes to bed at night, or wakes up in the morning, all because I have to work, just seems ridiculous to me. 

So, we're going to wait. 

I wish I knew what path God was trying to lead me on.  Back in February, I thought I had everything planned out.  I was going to run my butt off for the next year, and run the Princess Half Marathon.  I was going to get into shape, and get under 200lbs, and begin trying to get pregnant after the race.  By 2014, I was going to be a mom.  And all of those plans are not unfolding for me the way I wanted them to.  I guess I just need to continue on and learn what His plan is along the way.

Disney Day

I finally have a day off!  I did have to wake up early this morning.  I'm training at a restaurant that is about an hour from my house, but when I'm done training I'll be at a restaurant that is about 15 minutes away.  I've been in contact with the GM at my future restaurant for a while, and he wanted to meet today to see how my training has been going.  I was hoping to have the morning to sleep in, but he wanted to meet at 9 this morning. So no sleeping in for me.

I've been sick, so I decided today was gonna be a lazy day.  I went through my movies and found all my older Disney movies - Cinderella, Fantasia, Bambi, Snow White, Pinocchio.  So, I'm hopefully going to watch them all today.  My sister is coming over later, and we're going to look at houses to rent for our family vacation in February to Disney.  I'm also super excited, because I was able to get reservations to the Be Our Guest restaurant at Magic Kingdom when we're there in February! I'm so excited about it! 

I hope everyone is having a great Holiday Weekend! :)