FULL TERM!

I am officially full term this week! I am so excited to have this baby! I have loved being pregnant... until the last few weeks. I have heart burn almost 24/7, my feet are so swollen and sore, my right hip/groin hurts to move and makes it really hard to sleep, my lower back hurts after 30 minutes of walking or doing anything really, a lot of foods are making me sick and I am starting to get really bad back cramps. But soon it will all be over! I just want my mom (and maybe my mother-in-law) to get here so we can finish the baby's room, buy a car for me, and have this poor nameless girl human!

Time to write!

Now that I am not living with all of my family in California, I want to start blogging again! It didn't make sense to blog when most of my readers are family and they knew  everything I was doing anyway!
Well, we made it to Chicago! We live forty minutes north west of the city in Schaumburg. We have a little two bedroom apartment in an older building that has been kept up nicely. It will be great for us for the time being! The hallway outside our apartment smells funky. I have tried to Febreeze it a few times... like drenched the carpet. It didn't work. I think we  have some ethnic cookers by us that just stink up the place. But our apartment smells fine so at least there is that. We have beeen here for a week but the movers have not come with most of our things yet! We needed to get some more furniture anyway so we got the things we needed and set those up so at least we have something! The movers should be here any day now. We had a great trip out here that I can't wait to share with you soon!

Woah...

So I have not posted in a billion years! I guess I have to go all the way back to December!
WE GRADUATED! Jordan graduated magna cum laude (top in Economics with a 3.9 GPA in just 3 years of school. He is a stud! I finished my 2000 hours of school, the 200 theory class hours, all of the service requirements, and passed both the practical and theory cosmetology/barbering exams! The last bit of school was really insane...and we had to pack up our whole house in our few extra minutes of free time! I just wanted to get it all done so badly! Leaving was bittersweet though... I made some amazing friends and I had some of the greatest teachers that became my great friends too. We loved living in Provo and we really miss it already! As soon as I finished my last few hours at school, we hopped in our cars and drove home to California for Christmas! We had to drive separately to get both our cars and all of our stuff down here! It was a loooonnnggg drive!

alllmost done!

9 hours left of school
1 practical state board left to take
4 theory assignments left

the finish line is in sight

alive!

We are still alive and doing great! Jordan is about to graduate next week and I will be done around the 20th, and taking my state boards the morning of the 21 and 22! We are for sure moving to Chicago, probably around August so we are moving home at Christmas to spend time with family until then! Life is busy, but we are blessed.

Grateful

I am feeling especially blessed tonight. Even after a 77 hour week at school last week, a 9 hour day today, my husband gone again, I am just overcome with gratitude for all I am given.

I am so grateful to have my sweet Jordan. He really is the best thing that has ever happened to me! We have never once gotten into a fight because he just wants me to be happy. He works so hard to make a great future for us. He supported me so much in going to hair school and following my dreams. He is my best friend and I will love him forever.

I am so grateful for our wonderful families! My parents raised us to be such a tight knit family and my parents and my sisters really are the best friends anyone could ask for! I am also so lucky I married into such an amazing family who loves and welcomes me with open arms!

I am so grateful for my school! I never thought in a million years that I would be grateful for school! I was definately led to this career and I love love love being a hairdresser! It is my calling in life! It makes you close to people in a way most careers don't even allow! For most people it is illlegal to even touch clients when I am allowed to connect with people on a whole different level! I love making people's day and making people look amazing!

I am so grateful for friends! I am blessed with lots of great friends! In school, I have the best group of friends that make me want to go play with them everyday! They make me grow and want to be both a better hairdresser and a better person! I also have great friends from Rexburg that will always be my sisters and my best friends and I will always be their Lil Meg!

I don't know why but it seems like a lot of people are going through the hardest times right now! So many people I know are dealing with the loss of a loved one, sickness, financial instability, and many other hard times. I am so blessed to be where I am and I know I owe that to my Father in Heaven. I love you all so much!

Halloween!

This year I dressed up four times in three different costumes!! First, I dressed up at school for our Halloween party the Wednesday before Halloween. I was Wilma Flinstone, Katie was Betty Rubble, and Ali was Fred Flinstone! We had so much fun! We even made a car for us out of a big box!

Then Friday night, we went to a Zombie Prom. I has custom latex cuts on my face. After having them on for a while, they were reaaalllllyyy irritating my skin so I peeled it all off and my skin was welted and had a rash. I assumedthe irritation was just because I pulled it off but it got worse and got swollen and I got hives! It went down by the middle of the next day, so i guess I have a sensitivity to latex!!


Then we went to our annual party at Jimmy and Kira Secor's house! It was our third year going and they are always so much fun! We dressed as lumberjacks! We always play the funnest games and laugh and eat the yummiest food! I also used this costume again for school on Halloween day and stole Jordan's hat and suspenders then!