Happy Birthday!

Matt's birthday was last Thursday and I think he had a good one! All he wanted were gift cards to Cabela's or cash. He got a lot of money to spend on some gadgets. Funny and scary how much he loves that store! I had to work on his birthday so when I finally got home I brought Yan's chinese food (another favorite). I also got him this Garfield balloon! On Friday we went to Red Lobster, which has become tradition for his birthday because June is when they have their four course feast for $15!! Saturday we went to Cabela's for hours and then saw MIB 3. Happy Birthday to my man! I love you SO much :)

 

 

Gussie is petrified of the balloon haha. So of course we keep pushing it at her and she runs so fast! Here she is running away from the evil balloon!

Long Time Coming

Well I've been waiting to write this blog post for a long time. Four years to be exact. Matt and I decided four years ago that we wanted to start trying for a baby. It didn't work out so well and we decided to just let it be for awhile. Then we moved to Phoenix and decided to see a doctor. The doctor asked me to do a bunch of tests and I didn't really have the desire so we put it off for another year. Last year I tried a new doctor and loved him. He had me do some minimal tests and then put me on Clomid (fertility drug). He gave me a prescription for three rounds and after the third round I figured it wasn't going to work so I made my appointment to see him for another prescription. Two days before my appointment I decided to take a test. I expected a negative test because I had taken so many and they were always negative. When it turned up positive I couldn't believe it and I just started bawling! I guess I didn't realize how badly I wanted this. When Matt got home I told him and he didn't believe me!! We have been in shock ever since. We found out today that we are having a GIRL!!! I'm so excited as is Matt! We are due November 16th which means I am almost 20 weeks along. I still can't believe I'm going to have a baby but it'll be extra real in November haha! Thanks for all the support from family and friends! We have the best family and friends in the world :) I also have to say thank you to Heavenly Father for our trials. Matt and I have grown a lot in the past four years and looking back I'm honestly glad we had this time to ourselves. We are now ready for this next chapter in our lives!

One More Story About Birds

So on Memorial Day I get a call from Matt (he is on his way home from work) and he asks for the animal social worker. So I humored him and said 'yes what do you want?' He then proceeded to tell me that he was just down the street from our house and had found a hawk in the middle of the road with a broken wing and what should he do? So I looked up the phone number for the humane society and hopped in my car to go see him. Sure enough there was a hawk the size of a cat with a gimpy leg and weird looking wing. We called the humane society and they gave us a number for a bird rescue. Of course the bird rescue did not answer so we called the Goodyear police who gave us a few more bird rescues in town. They all fortunately answered, however, most of them were swamped with birds or they were really far from Goodyear. We felt a bit discouraged but called the last resuce, Liberty Wildlife, and they said they had a few volunteers in our area! So finally one of the volunteers called us and came and picked up the bird. They said he was very dehydrated and they were going to take him in for an IV. Poor little guy. He was pretty good during those 2 hours and only tried to get away once but Matt just kept following him. I don't know what happened to his foot but it was all bent and looked like it was almost dead. We never heard from them but we hope he is doing ok! Now you know that my hubby is a huge animal lover (maybe more than me!!) and would never pass up the opportunity to help a poor helpless animal.

 

 

 

 

 

BABIES!!!!

Our owl frenemies had babies! Matt told me he saw them on the way to work yesterday so I made him take me to see them when I got off last night. They were just sitting outside their storm drain and their mom was freaking out. As Matt got closer to them the mom screamed and the babies zipped into their home. Too cute. Not a great picture but it was at night and I haven't figured out how to use my new camera yet!! More to come, I'm sure :)