Annoyed

Now that I finally have the knowledge of what's going on this week, I'm so completely excited!

Wednesday: I will finish packing my apartment with my mother-in-law. This will happen in the morning after we go pick up boxes from Raising Canes. Christopher will work his morning shift from 9am to 6pm.

Thursday: I will make sure that everything is packed and directions are printed out and put where people can see them at the apartment because I will be at the house telling people where to put things in the new house. (Christopher will be working from 9am to 6pm.) Then I will start cleaning the apartment.

Friday: We FINALLY close on the house at 9am in Linda's office!!! I really hope that Christopher's dad will be home for at least the signing! (Christopher will also only be there for the signing because he has work from 11am to 8pm.) People will help us move at 6pm. I'm hoping that my mother-in-law will be there to designate what we need help with and what can stay at the apartment that Christopher and I can take on our own. (When I asked her about it she seemed kinda reluctant, but I WANT to be in my new house to tell people where I WANT things to go. If that selfish?)

Saturday- On this day there might be a little dilemma... The Suddenlink guy will be coming at some point during the day to set up our security and TV/internet services. The dilemma is this: My baby shower for Lilly is from 2-4pm and if the suddenlink guy decides to come during that baby shower time, I will have to have some one go over to our house at that time while giving them a blank check with my name signed on it making it out to Suddenlink for the set-up charge fee of our home system. I might have to call the guy back to change my appointment time sometime to make my mother in law happy. She wishes that we had set it up for the next Monday, but we have no control of when the set up the time.. they give us a time and we have to take it.

So that will be my next couple of days.

YEAR UPDATE!

Christopher and I just had our first year anniversary!!!! What a year it has been! Looking back I'd say that we've had a pretty good one. There had been so bad moments, but I think the good really overcomes the bad by far!
Good Things That Have Happened This Past Year:

1. Received my endowments- This was an amazing accomplishment in my opinion. I feel really blessed and relieved that we have something as amazing as this wonderful gift for Heavenly Father. It brings tears to my eyes to know that I am worthy to receive such a blessing like it.

2. Got married for time and all eternity!- Again, this is one of my greatest accomplishments not only because I thought that I would never find the guy that would accept me for me, but because I can receive the blessings that are promised to me. By getting married in the temple I have the greatest blessing of all- An Eternal Family!!!! I will also receive other blessings because I got married in the temple, but by far, an eternal family is probably the best one.

3. We got our first car!- (this actually happened before Christopher and I got married), but I still helped pay for it. I have always wanted a car of my own, and it was definitely a plus of getting married!

4. Christopher got a fantastic job!- At a place called Citi Trends. It's a big promotion because he is making double what he was making at his old job at Gordon's Jewelers. Now he sells clothing and accessories. So far he rally likes it, but it takes a lot out of him. I hardly get to see him too. he has to work 45 hours every week so he gets two days off. (Usually Sunday's and Thursdays)

5. We are in the process of buying our house!!!!!- YAY! I can not even begin to scrape the surface on the joy of buying our house! I'm so tired of living in these stupid apartments! Pretty much everybody who lives here smokes and is a young college student. So we have loud nights and cigarette butts on our door step and trash thrown into our deck. It's pretty nasty. Then everyone who lives here thinks that they have to have a dog! Every time we open our front door we get a big whiff of dog crap! There is a designated area that you're supposed to take your dog to go potty that's separated from the apartments, but everyone is too lazy to do it. They pretty much just open their front doors and take five steps onto the grass and then let them poop right there in front of the building on the grass. It is for sure gross and I'm just done with it. (what really bugs me about moving though is that we will have to pay 1000 dollar fee to break our lease because no one would take it from us. :-( )

6. I'm pregnant with our first baby!!! Lillian Michelle Windham is due on September 3rd, 2011, but I'm pretty sure she's going to come before that because she has already dropped and I am already about one centimeter dilated! I'm ready for her to come out because quite frankly she is starting to annoy the heck out of me! I just want to meet her and see her!! Christopher is going to be a great Dad, and I can't wait to see him with our baby.

So those are the good things that have happened. I don't really want to write about the "bad things" that have happened this past year because I don't like to think about the bad things all the time, so just know that the good definitely outweighs the bad by far!

Well, that's the year-update that I'm sure most of you already knew about!

And waiting....

So right now I just feel like a bump on a log. I really just want to MOVE!!!! I'm soooo tired of this stupid apartment and the people upstairs and the people across from me that flick their cigarettes on my doormat! I feel like I should pack and do tons of cleaning. Technically we can close by next week...except for the fact that mama and papa Windham are gone till the 24th. I want to get started on moving in soooo bad! I would be able to do so much more to set up the house before the baby comes. I really want to paint and set up the nursery. I really want to paint the walls of the dining room and kitchen and I want to have time to deep clean EVERYTHING before we move in there! I really want our house to be inspected for termites too, but Christopher doesn't right now. He says we can just do it later. Doesn't he know that I'm a cleaning fanatic and if I find bugs around our house (ESPECIALLY in the kitchen) that I would have to spend hours cleaning everything out so that I can rest assured that my house will be bug free??!!! I know it might sound crazy to anyone but myself, but I really don't like bugs in the house. Bugs outside of the house are fine though. I don't mind them living in their natural habitat.
On a different note; I hate how Christopher is so loud when he gets ready for work in the morning. I was hoping to sleep in a little later than I did today because I've been so tired lately but I couldn't find the strength to ignore the loud bangs of Christopher brushing his teeth. All well. Maybe I will pack up more stuff and make our house look totally bare for these last couple of weeks living here (exactly 14 days!!). If I really wanted to I could just leave out enough outfits for Christopher and I for two weeks and pack up EVERYTHING else so that when it's time for us to move, we'll be so ready we could move in a day! Course after we close I want to go to the house and clean everything really well first so that I can get that nasty, grungy smell out. Then we can move in the next day!

Update on Lilly:

Lilly is currently sleeping but I have a feeling as soon as I lay back down or get something to eat she will be up again. Lately when she moves my whole tummy moves like the waves of an ocean! Sometimes I get scared that because she's moving around so much she's going to make my tummy explode. I feel like she might be strong enough to punch a hole in my uterus sometimes. I only have 8 more weeks to go and I am begging to get really anxious! I just want to her come out but at the same time I want her to stay in there so that she could cook as long as she's supposed to. I have another ultrasound on Thursday at 2pm! I'm so excited for that! I hope she'll let us take a nice profile picture of her for her baby book. Speaking of baby books, I'm hoping to find the perfect one for Lilly even if it means custom making one. I'm willing to do that because I want to make sure she gets one because I never did.

Anyway, that's all for now!

July 10th, 2011- 8 MORE WEEKS!!!!

This weekend has been such a busy one! My dad and little brother came over for a short two and a half day visit. It was so nice to see them, but I feel like I should have planned something fun for us to do. It was hard because I have been getting so tired lately. Lilly is really starting to "weigh" me down! I hope that they didn't feel too abandoned and that they are loved by me no matter how boring I am. I hope that one day my dad can become as happy as he was before David passed through the veil again. I miss him and his old corky-laughing, joking self. Tyler is getting bigger!! He's going to catch up with David really fast. His arms are starting to look like David's and his hands are getting big too. Seeing the way Tyler is growing made me miss David and the thoughts of "what could have been". All I know is that without David around, Tyler is even more lost. I thought that things might be a little bit easier for him now that he is an "only child", but BOY was I WRONG! David kept Tyler at bay more than any one else could. Now I see that Tyler WAS being toned down from his usual craziness. It's amazing how things could change in the blink of an eye. You don't really know what you have till it's gone, do you? I fear that I have learned that the hard way.
As for my mom, She has been by herself for the past week and a half. She enjoyed the first week, but she really started to get lonely. I think that mom shouldn't be buy herself for that long either. In a lot of ways, she and I are the same in the fact that we are dependent on people interaction to stay sane. A day or two of complete and utter loneliness is enough for us. (apart from the whole "you're never alone" thing.) While my mom was by herself she did get a little sleep over with Emma and Ali last Sunday. That was nice for her because it was just mom and Ali and Emma. They had a nice girls night in.

I miss Ali. I got to talk to her for a brief second this week. I think we talked about how Christopher is doing in his new job. But that's it. Christopher and I (with Lilly of course!) are planning to fly out to California for the middle of the month in December so that we can see her receive her endowments. Hopefully we'll be able to catch up then.

Christopher and I are finally in the closing parts of buying a house. Though, it is different from the one that I had posted last month. Soon after Christopher and I put the bid on the previous house, the lady didn't like our offer so we took a step back for a moment. The next day Christopher got a call from the regional manager of the "Citi Trends" company telling him that he wanted to have an interview that next Thursday. To make a long story short, Christopher is now the Manager of the new "Citi Trends" opening up in Nacogdoches!!!! It's a sort of branch off "Citi Trends" though because they specialize in more custom and high-end clothes so his store is actually going to be called "Citi Lights". Right now he is training in Lufkin at that store and so far he is LOVING it. He works hard and can't wait fort his store to open up here in Nacogdoches at the beginning of October.
As for me and the update on my pregnancy, ONLY * MORE WEEKS TO GO!!! (till I'm a full 40 weeeks!) I'm kinda scared and at the same time I'm really excited. I can't wait till I get to see Lilly's sweet face and hear her first screams as she takes her first few breaths of life! So far she's getting really, really big. Packing on the pounds is what her final job is, and BOY has she been doing it! I feel like a walking bowling ball! I have to wear a back support just to walk around without my back starting to hurt so bad. Who knew that a baby could change your body in a way that you never thought??? I'm starting to go insane with all of the things that are about to happen. The baby should be coming soon and we are going to be moving into our new house! I have so much work to do and I hope that I'll be able to do it. I'm trying to pack as much stuff up as I can so that by the time we close on the house, I'll be able to start moving!
Mama and Papa Windham are in DC visiting Grandma Nila for the last couple of weeks on her mission and then they are going on a nice anniversary trip to Main and to see Niagara Falls! I hope that they have fun. They wont be back till the 24th of July though! (well technically papa is still out on a job and I hope that they will let him come back home long enough to relax for a night before he drives to the airport to meet up with mom who is already in DC since this past Thursday. If they don't, Christopher and I might end up FEDXing dad's luggage to him in DC after he gets there.)
I'm having my baby showing for Lilly on the 30th of July after mama gets back from DC. IT should be fun! I passed out invites today for the baby shower and left the extras in the RF sign-in book for those that weren't able to get one today after the meeting was over. My mom already bought some things off my registry for the nursery and I can't WAIT to decorate it after we move.

Well, I think that's all of the things that are going through my head for the moment. I'm off to watch the Harry Potter Marathon on ABCfamily!! Happy Sunday!
P.S. Here are more photos of our house!!!