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!!!

Baby Time-13 weeks to go

Today I went to the doctor and heard my little girls heartbeat. She loves to kick and push off one side of my stomach to get to the other side. She hates the doppler machine that is used to hear her heartbeat, but I hear all babies hate it. I only have a couple more days until i reach my third trimester and let me tell you, I am READY for Lilly to grow some fat and get out of my belly! haha. My belly button is slowly getting closer and closer to popping out which I hear means I'm just that much closer to being done. I have 13 weeks before I hit 40 weeks (FULL FULL term). I'm hoping to really have her within the next 8. Technically she can be born now and be perfectly fine, but I want her to have enough fat on her body that she wont be see through. Once I hit 32 weeks it will all be smooth sailing.





Christopher and i put a bid on a house that we are really looking forward to getting. They didn't like the bid that we gave them which I think is totally stupid because we bid a full 15,000 dollars more than any other bid that they got!!! Hopefully they'll come back to us if we let them sit on it for a couple days. I mean, we bid full price and asked them to pay the 4500 closing cost. I don't think that they are going to get a better deal. So now I just have to sit here and wait.
I'm also not going to school right now. Therefore, I am REALLY REALLY bored! It's summer and I'm also only working one day a week (with the exception of picking up hours). Christopher just got hired onto a new job as the store manager for a new store that's going into the mall called "Citi Trends". He'll start training as soon as his drug test gets back to the regional manager in Lufkin.

My doctor said that I will be able to go to Missouri for the fourth of July celebration at my uncle's house. It can me my "baby moon", or my "last chance for a regular baby-free vacation". I'm looking forward to it very much! The only thing holding me back from going is Christopher. If this new job allows him to not go, that means that I probably wont be able to go either.

Well, I think that's all the big news for today. I'll update when I can!
Thanks all for reading!

-Melanie

Bored on a Sunday After Work.

Christmas has been an absolute blast this year! Christopher and I found ourselves in California for Christiana and Marcus's wedding. We drove back and forth from LA three different times!!!! (during rush hour traffic= NOT FUN!) We were excited to receive so many awesome presents this year, but most importantly to give presents.
I still have not gotten any news on SFA, but my hopes are still high! I plan to go into their Social Work program and graduate with a Bachelors in it.

Christopher is still going to school as well, probably at Panola college still. He only has one more year left before he's done with school.
On a different note, Christopher and I are trying to buy a house. It's such a long process but we are still looking for the best one for us at this point in time.

Well, that's all the new that I have this time.
I'll write more later!

November 11, 2010

Well, I seem to always have an issue writting on this. I think I will get better because I finally have a new computer.

I am married, and have been since July 23rd, 2010!!!

I am finishing up this semester at Panola community college in Carthage, TX. I will hopefully be transferring to Stephen F. Austin University in Nacogdoches, Tx which is located 5 minutes from our little apartment. Christopher is finishing up this semester up at Panola College and will be turing to work full time at his current job at Gordon's (Kay) Jewelers and will be looking for a better job working in the oil field full time.

Our marriage is going wonderfully! It will be our 6 month anniversary at the end of January 2011. As for kids, we have had a miscarriage and are still trying. Wish us luck!

The New Year

So a LOT of things have happened during the last time that I have written on this thing. I am engaged to the love of my forevers. His name is Christopher Clayton Windham!!! He's an awesome guy. We have been dating for 6 months. I met him through Christiana actually. Christiana had me answer the phone and pretend to be her. After about 10 minutes I realized that I really liked talking to this guy and decided to tell him that I was really Christiana's twin sister Melanie. We hit it off right away talking on the phone for hours at a time. It was a long-distance relationship at first, but it was so worth it. during the weekend of the October General Conference which happened to fall on my birthday as well, I went up to General Conference because Christopher had gotten us tickets from his branch president. We met on the 2nd of October for the first time in person. He was soooo cute!!!! He brought me flowers! Our first kiss was the cutest thing ever! HE went to kiss me after handing me the flowers and missed. He instead kissed my neck. After that miss he tried again and got my lips the second time. It was wonderful!!!! I got MAJOR butterflies and I'm sure he did too. Ever since then we knew that we were just meant for one another. Many other things happened thereafter. I invited him to come over to my house for Thanksgiving and then he invited me over to his house for Christmas in Texas. It was sooo great!! he met my family and then I got to meet his family. I just LOVE his family. His Mom is a lot like me. Christopher has a younger sister named Shauna that was adopted and an older Brother named Daniel. His dad is pretty cool too. he picks on me all the time. Christopher says that when he picks on someone it just means that he likes them. Shauna is kinda in the same predicament as Ali was in a year ago. She got pregnant by a boy. But her boy is a member. His name is Brian and they got married on January 2nd, 2010. She's going to have a baby girl. Brian does have a LOT of growing up to do though. I hope that they can make it okay. Hopefully in a year they will be able to get sealed in the temple.

Decisions

This weekend was.......I watched kids, and had a date on Friday, and on Saturday I practiced singing for an acoustic guitar thing that's happening sometime soon, then helped my friend who is in charge of a girl scout troop sell girl scout cookies, went to a baby shower, then went to a pool party which was fun, then today I taught my two classes, drove 45 minutes to singles ward like every Sunday, and then drove back after church at the singles ward.

haha

yeah.

it was kinda a busy weekend.

as for my decisions....

option one: stay here and take the job in santa clarita, and try to work at chick' fil' a in bako as well, I get a car, I will transfer my records to singles ward, I will get to be with nico longer... if things work out you know..., I can help out my family still. I get to stay here for my first niece to get born in july, summer in cali.. need i ... Unroll Parchmentsay more??? and I will get to go to the various weddings here...and I can still take online courses through byui.

option two: Get to idaho some how, no car, my sister christiana will be happy with me, I would have to leave nic (i don't think the whole long distance thing would work out with him too well... but then again I'm still learning about him so I don't know about that one.) I'll get off of academic probation.

so as you can see... there are more pros of staying here then going to idaho.... so I'm leaning towards staying, but ahhhhh.

so I really don't know what to do.

SIck and Stupid

Today I am really really sick! I have some kind of viral cold, and I have no idea where I go tit from. Apparently it's going around. My brother did cough the other day without covering his mouth, so maybe it was that that made me sick. my voice is back at least for a second. When I woke up this morning, my tongue was so dry! I guess I was just sleeping with my mouth open the whole night. I closed my mouth and it took like ten seconds for my tongue not to be dry anymore.
I'm eating a banana and blowing my nose while drinking Thera-Flu.
Tomorrow I get to see my high school best friend JENNY COMPTON! I'm really excited! We are going to see a movie, and maybe go out for a bite to eat, stay up all night, and just talk about girl things! I'm so really excited because I haven't had a girls night out in so long!
Maybe I can look for my Single Adult formal dress! I want it to be a green one so badly!
I have to remember to bring my little over covers so that I can tell what dress looks best after I've made it modest.
I miss my Christiana, and I can't wait to see her in April. My guess is that I haven't received the job because they still haven't called and it's Thursday. So I'm going back up to school.
I like Cheeze-its a lot right now. They are the perfect snack... especially with soup!
Tyler keeps on going into my room and stealing things like my food (gum), and my loose change that was all over my room when I was cleaning it, and other things of lesser value, but still important to me. I'm tired of having my little brothers steal my things!

Well, that's really all I have for today! I will for sure write more later!
~Mel