Woogy!

One of my favorite traditions is taking pictures of my friend Liza and her cat Woogy for her Valentine's Day cards.

Woogy is a very silly cat, but also beautiful!

It's so fun catching up with Liza and wandering around our old neighborhood.

#3

Before January was over, we found out that we were pregnant once again. I start feeling symptoms more than a week before I can take a pregnancy test. I can't really describe the feeling, it's just different than how I normally feel though sometimes it's accompanied by some of the typical symptoms of increased sense of smell, fatigue, and queasy stomach. I started feeling symptoms in the middle of the month and had to wait well over a week before I took the test.

Early Sunday morning, I had a clearly positive pregnancy test. It was a relief to see the two lines, but it also came with some anxiety. I've been here before and I wasn't sure how long this baby was going to stick around. I called my Reproductive Endocrinologist for an appointment. (The previous summer I saw a Reproductive Endocrinologist because I thought I might have endometriosis. Even though it seemed like I had it from my symptoms, I had surgery just to find out nothing was wrong. After my post-op visit he said to call him after I had a positive pregnancy test.) Dr. M was happy to see us and together we saw our teeny tiny baby at 4 weeks 5 days.

Aaron is that tiny white blob in that dark blob in the middle of the picture. At that point he was too young to have a heartbeat, but it was clear that a baby was there. Again I immediately felt relief, but still that anxiety of how long was this baby really going to stay with us creeped in again.

After the ultrasound, I had my least favorite part. The blood draw! I had a hard time with it the previous summer in the lead up to my surgery and this time was no different. My veins are not the easiest to get and so it took four different sites to finally get the sample.

This is our first family picture as the three of us.

In spite of the anxiety I was feeling, I wanted to record as much as I could of this pregnancy. I don't have any pictures from my first pregnancy and I haven't made that mistake again.

Jonathan was very happy that tiny baby A wanted In N Out.

Instead of making this one huge post, I'm going to break it down into where it fits with other things that were going on in our lives.

One More Time

 We made it one more time to the temple during 2020.

It was a sweet experience as we served not realizing that it was the last time until who knows when. I am grateful that we take advantage of going to the temple as often as we do. That way I don't feel any guilt now that I can't go.

One day the temple will be open again and we will go as often as we can!

We Did It All!

I have had a kind of an idea/goal/dream of doing all of the ordinances of the temple in one visit for a few years now. Well January 2020, we made it happen! We got there in the late afternoon and headed for the baptistry. It's been a long time since we've done baptisms thanks to my nephews that are old enough to go to the temple in California.

It was a wonderful experience especially since we haven't been able to go like we used to.

 

Six hours later, we were all done!

I am so grateful to do this work for my family. Each and everyone of them matter and deserve to choose whether or not they want to follow Jesus Christ's example. It's been hard not being able to go to the temple like we used to, but eventually we will be back and doing more work for our family.