Whoa...

Okay, all you people out in blog-land...this one is going to be a LONG one...you better hold on to your britches... (although i'm really not sure what good that would do because you are probably sitting down and will remain sitting down until you are finished reading this extremely long, blabbery post and your pants will remain on as well, so disregard the whole holding on to your britches thing)

2008. Holy cow! Where did the year go?

Well, it went to meeting an amazing man and his amazing family and falling in love with all of them. It went to spending all my time laughing and loving and playing and figuring out my future with this amazing man. It went to developing a relationship with his girls and loving them just like they were my own. It went to getting engaged in August in the middle of the woods with a 4-wheeler idling beside us. It went to planning a wedding in 2 months and watching as my wonderful family and friends pitched in and made it the most beautiful wedding I have ever seen. It went to the last two months of wedded bliss, or the roller coaster of emotions that come with joining two very different lives. It went to finding out I am having a baby next July and being so excited and so tired and so sick to my stomach for the past two months.

It went to watching my amazing sisters become very different than they were a year ago. We have all grown up this year in leaps and bounds. It is amazing how quickly things change. Darcy married Brandon in July and moved to California to start her new life with her new boy and her new language. Shelby started college, decided it wasn't for her, and started a career. She is in love with Barrett and they are so close you couldn't put a toothpick between them. My two wonderful, lovely, beautiful sisters have grown up and started their own lives, just as I have.

It went to seeing my parents work as hard they possibly could to make two beautiful weddings happen. They are the most hard-working, generous, thoughtful people I know and I am so glad I have them as role models as Kyle and I begin our own family.

It went to spending 3 months being a nanny for two adorable little kiddos, getting told they were all moving to Virginia, searching for a job for 2 months until I found a wonderful job as a teller, which I enjoy very much.

It went to being in the hospital during Darcy's wedding week for a stupid infection. It went to taking Kyle to the Heart Hospital, Nick to the Heart Hospital, and making sure Shelby wasn't going to have to stay in the hospital. Blech. The next time I go to a hospital, it will be for a good reason!

It went to losing some old friends, gaining new friends, and learning so much about myself along the way that I don't even feel remotely like the person I was at the beginning of 2008. What a year!

That brings us to 2009. The Year of Clumpy. :)

The Clumpster is now 10 weeks along and roughly the size of a kumquat (whatever that is) or a prune. He has all his fingers and toes and they are no longer webbed. His joints are working and he is kicking and flailing like a madman all the time (I can't feel it yet though. That won't happen for another couple of months.) His brain is forming and sits high in his forehead right now. Oh, and guess what? He has fingernails! Tiny, tiny fingernails! and his skin is beginning to grow peach fuzz like hair. He is turning into a human after all! Yay Clumpy!

We go to the doctor on the 8th and I am SO ready. We should get to hear the heart beat and make sure it's just one, and not two. (Kyle wants twins...I wouldn't be entirely opposed, but man, that's a lot of poopy diapers :))

Alright, 2009, let's see what you can do. I made it through the year of two weddings, several hospital visits, and a new pregnancy. Bring it on!