life. and everything in between

I am 19 weeks today. Woah. That just seems insane. October 19th is when we officially found out that we were expecting a baby. My heart knew I was pregnant long before that, though. I can't tell you what led me to believe this. I just felt different. I felt God told me I was pregnant. Not in an audible voice but just the knowledge that I was pregnant. Even after I took an early detection pregnancy test that turned up negative, I know that was wrong. I had no doubts. After confirming my pregnancy, Levi and I were ecstatic. He went into work late so that we could go to breakfast together. We cried (okay, I cried) and laughed. Just living in this moment that our lives had drastically changed for the better. (Baby at 8 weeks) It seemed like a long three weeks before we could go to the doctors (I was technically 5 weeks when we found out). The anticipation was unbearable. But we survived and November 7th finally came. Seeing the baby in the ultra sound was cool but at the point it...

I have been thinking about this post for awhile. I truly want to look back and reflect on 2016. It would be easy for me to say that 2016 was the year from hell. That nothing good came of it and that I wish it would disappear. I don't want to do what's easy. I want to honestly reflect on all the things that happened in 2016. This post will be a combination of what happen in 2016 and our first year in CDA (since chaos ensued around the time of our year anniversary here). Levi and I were driving and talking about life, literally one of our favorite things to do. We were trying to think of the good things that have happened this year. He had to remind me that I completed my first full year at Whitworth University. Whitworth has taught me more then I thought possible. I would not change my time there or the people I have had the pleasure of knowing.  He started his own journey back to school at Northwest University  We went on more camping trips this summer then we ever hav...