Life's Little Surprises...

So as of yesterday, my hubby is on short term disability, without the short term disability pay. Since his shoulder surgery in January he has been off of work. He was only supposed to be off of work for a week. Well, that week turned into 5 months of no work and no pay! As the bread winner in the family, this became hard really fast! He has tried to go back to work twice now, and they won't let him return. He is a body shop tech, and they won't take the liability of him getting hurt. (which is understandable) His boss told him before he had the surgery that he could come back as soon as possible and they would put him on light duty status and work. Well, Human Resources of the company decided that wasn't a good idea and now he is without a job for the next 4 months. We wish we would have known that before he had the surgery and we would have waited.
It has been a very frustrating day or two in our house, but we are wondering what new surprises will be in store for us. As they always say, one door closes and another one opens.
Were hoping that other door opens soon! We are currently deciding on going back to school and getting our educations. We were already thinking of doing this, but i think the oppertunity came a lot sooner than expected or planned for that matter.
As you all know, Jack will be here in 2 and a half months. We are without insurance (we lost it with Jared not working), trying to get on government assistance. We hate doing this, but we are also grateful that they have programs for people out there that do need the assistance. We are hoping everything will fall into place soon.
It is crazy how life's little changes happen so sudden, and very unexpectedly. Last week, we had double coverage health insurance and thought Jared was going to return to work. Now it is my very small paychecks supporting our family, and a 30 foot Prowler camper trailer to live in.

I'm just grateful for wonderful family and friends that have been there for us the past little while. I don't know what we would do without them. They have helped buy us food, clothes for me (since we dont have money to buy anything for me being pregnant to fit in) and help us with all the other odd ended things that have come our way. We love you all!

27 weeks!

We haven't had a picture with just the two of us in a while... so this is what we got.

Finally in the 3rd Trimester!!!! YAY!

I felt like this day would never come. I can't believe it is here all at the same time. I officially look like I am smuggling a watermelon (as my dad would call it). On the plus side, I can still wear the same pants that I wore pre-pregnancy. Thats a bit of relief. I'm all belly!

Can't wait to meet you little baby Jack!!

Christmas 2009!

So we know this is a little late, but we wanted to add our pictures from Christmas 09. We had a great Christmas with both our families and came home with quite the stash of goods. Jared got the sweatshirt he wanted and the 'ACT for Dummies' book. As he is preparing himself to go back to school to become a Physical Therapist. I got a body pillow that I really wanted and needed! It has been GREAT! I have been able to sleep so much better with my round belly. Jack was also spoiled by his grandparents and got all kinds of goodies and he is not even here yet! He has so much clothes now and a few toys. We love having family that are so excited for him.

Here is some pictures with the Dilworth side of the Fam. We were unable to get any pictures with the Rackham's. We did have a great dinner with all of them and had a fun time opening presents on the 26th of December.

This is our 'Griswold' Christmas tree. Yes, we found it 2 days before Christmas and put it up at the last minute. It was Shopko's $10.00, take home from the lot. What a steal! Right? The boys had fun picking it out, while the girls stayed at home. They thought they were pretty funny bringing that home. We all had a good laugh!

Here is my wonderful parents! They did an awesome job with Christmas this year. We all had a blast!

Here we all are with our Christmas Pajamas. What a bunch of crazies... I know!

Me and Jared, and Jack is in the picture too! I was 21 weeks pregnant at Christmas time.

Like I said before, We had a WONDERFUL Christmas, with WONDERFUL family. Now we can't wait till Jack is here so we can start spoiling him for Christmas and all the other holidays.

24 weeks!

Making progress!! Top picture I was 14 weeks....

24 weeks in the blue. 10 weeks makes a big difference! I love comparing how much I have grown, and also to be getting closer to my due date! We sure can't wait till he is here!

We are to the point now that we like to play with him at night. We have one of those glow worm dolls that the face lights up, and I'm not sure what he likes so much about it but he will start kicking up a storm as soon as he hears the lullabye from it and will always kick right where the glowing face is at on my belly. Jared loves to feel him kick and move. Its so much fun to know that he is cooking and will be here in 3 months!!!

New to the blogging world....

Hello everyone...

We are now just getting a blog and setting it up. Hopefully I can keep it updated with all the craziness going on in our day to day lives. We want to be able to stay in contact with family and friends.

Here is a few photos of what we have been doing the last few months, including some from our wedding. From most recent to back in July. Sorry everything is a little out of order!

Here I am at 21 weeks pregnant. Getting nice and round!


So happy together! As you can tell, I'm a little pale. These were my morning, afternoon, and night sickness phase with our little bundle of joy!

Here is our 3 pregnant tests that are all positive. We found out in the middle of the night that we were expecting. It was a veru eventful time for us! Only 6 weeks after we were married and BAM! We have a baby on the way......

Here is Wyatt's first birthday. He was so spoiled and SO cute! We loved attending our only nephews birthday party!

Here we are at my Grandma and Grandpas house in Idaho. We were there the first partof August 2009 for my grandmas funeral. We were unfortuante to get 2 deaths in less than 24 hours for Jared and I. His grandma Ruth Staubus passed away July 3oth at 3:50 PM. My grandma Carmene Dilworth passed away July 31st at 7:20 AM. Just after we go home from our honeymoon we got to attend both funerals. It was a very hard time in both our lives, as we were both very close to both of our grandmas. So here we are trying to have a little fun!

Here is our whole wedding party. The wedding was about 105 degrees! We were all dying of heat! It was a great day and I won't ever forget it.

I thought I would write a little about what we are up to these days after getting married this summer. We are currently living in Magna, Utah. Very small town, but we enjoy it for the most part. We live right around the block from Jared's parents and it has been a blessing having family so close for anything we need. My family is also not so far, only about 45 minutes. It is great not living a million miles from family. We are blessed with great parents and family!

We are both working full time. Keeps us VERY busy! Jared is a body shop tech and works on wrecked semi's everyday. I work as a patient coordinator for a sleep lab company. I run between our 2 clinics and keep up on all the paperwork.

We are expecting our first baby this spring. The baby is a little boy and his name will be Jack. I am now 23 weeks pregnant. Im starting to get the aches and pains that come along with being pregnant but for the most part I love feeling him kick me constantly and remind me of the little miracle that we have growing inside me. We are so excited to be having a little one join our family and can't wait for his arrival sometime in May. His due date is May 10th, so we will see when he makes his appearance. His is a few pictures we got from a couple of ultrasounds.

He is 17 weeks along here. I haven't uploaded his newest ultrasound pictures yet. But these are two of my favorites.

Jared just had his surgery on his shoulder yesterday 1/8/2010, that he has been waiting to have for about 7 years now! He tore his rotator cuff and a cyst was growing underneath it. We are very greatful to have that done and out of the way. And to meet most of our deductible before Jack is here! Because we all know that those bills can be outrageous... He is doing well besides the allergic reaction he has been having to the pain medication. He should only have to be in an arm sling for about 4 to 6 weeks and then after that he will have physical therapy for about 6 months. And hopefully he will be able to heal fast and be in better shape than he has been in for a while now.