On Our Way

Well, we are finally out of our house and on our way to St. George! We turned in our keys and are officially homeless for about the next two weeks. We were able to find a home to move into when we get back from our vacation. I can't hardly believe how well everything has fallen into place with this move. Heavenly Father sure has been looking out for us during this crazy and hectic time! We got to thinking about things and since we had given our landlady 30 days notice if we hadn't decided to move our things ourselves we really would have been scrambling to get things packed up at the last minute! Also we were able to find a house really quick. If everything coninues to go well we should be in St. George tomorrow! I'm so excited for our families to meet our little Rachel girl!

Even More Changes

So Jacob went into work this morning hoping that he would finally get his orders but instead he found out that instead of getting orders to leave here we are actually going to be here until March. I really wish we had known we were going to be staying a few weeks earlier. Yesterday we had some movers come and load all of our stuff into a trailer. After I found out this morning I called our landlady to see if it was going to be possible for us to stay in our apartment for a few extra months and unfortunately she already has our house rented out to someone else. So now we are house hunting, just in a different place than we thought we would be looking. It is crazy how our plans keep changing! Now we don't even know if we are going to be going to Arizona next or not! I am glad that Jacob and I are going to be able to be together for the next couple of months though. That is definitely the silver lining in all of this. We went tonight to look at a couple if places to live and we found one that we think would probably be okay for three months and they are okay with us only living there for a that long. I'll try to keep everyone updated on what is going on as much as I can but we don't have internet right now. I'm actually trying to type this from Jacob's phone which is actually quite difficult!

updates and pictures

I just wanted to take a minute and give a few updates and put up some pictures of our little Rachel-girl! She is getting so big! She had her two week check-up yesterday and she weighed 9 pounds and 5 ounces and she is 22 1/4 inches long! She has gained 1 pound and 2 ounces in 1 week and 1 day! She is such a good little girl! She has been sleeping pretty good at night, and she has long awake times in the morning and in the evening. This morning she was awake for almost 3 hours! Her belly button is finally all healed up so we have started giving her real baths and she loves it. At first she wasn't sure what to think and she kind of panicked a little bit, but she quickly got used to being in the water and just relaxed! She has recently realized that she likes to be held and snuggled more than she likes sleeping in her own bed alone, but she still does pretty well sleeping in her own bed. We just love this little girl so much!

As far as moving goes, Jacob still doesn't have his orders, but we are trying to move everything ourselves instead of having the Air Force move it for us because they will give us a certain amount of money to do it ourselves and we can move it cheaper than that so with the extra money we get from moving everything ourselves, I can hopefully use it to go and visit Jacob a little more while he is in Texas than I would have otherwise been able to do. We are trying to have our house ready to move out of next week. That is when the truck is coming anyway. Hopefully this little girl of ours will let us get everything packed up! And hopefully Jacob will get his orders soon and we can get everything figured out with that as well.

I just added these pictures so everyone could see what our little girl looks like, but now that she is asleep I'm going to take advantage of it and try to get some things packed up so enjoy!

CHANGE OF PLANS!

I really should be taking a nap while my little one is sleeping, I definitely didn't get enough sleep last night. Or if I'm awake I should be doing something productive like showering or doing the dishes, but instead I'm sitting here blogging and looking for a house to move into in Arizona on craigs list.

It seems that as soon as I get used to the idea of one plan, something happens to change it all up. Jacob was talking to his Sargents yesterday and they were telling him that it is almost impossible for someone in the Air Force to live off base while at Goodfellow Air Force Base which is where he is going next in Texas. They also said that the training there is as intense if not more so than it was here at the DLI. They said he will be in class all day long and then he will have even more classes in the evening after dinner. He doesn't even have the guarantee of having every weekend off! So I can't even plan on seeing him on the weekends. What we thought was going to happen is that the three of us would move into a little apartment and we knew Jacob would be busy, but I thought he would at least be able to come home at night. We were planning on just taking with us what we could fit in our car because it isn't a long enough time for the Air Force to move us out there. That said we have made the decision that Rachel and I won't be going to Texas to live during the time that Jacob will be at Goodfellow. It was a hard decision to make, but we feel at peace with it. Instead Rachel and I will be moving to Arizona which is Jacob's next duty station after Goodfellow. I am actually quite nervous about moving there and living there on my own for the 4 or 5 months that we will be apart, but for some reason I feel this is where I'm supposed to be. I will hopefully be able to visit Jacob during this time sometimes, but it is going to be so hard to be apart from him again. Just the thought of being apart again makes me want to bawl (and last night when we were making the decision it did!) We are going to take some time after Christmas while we are driving to Texas to stop in Arizona and hopefully we will be able to find a place to live and we can get all of that squared away then while I have Jacob there to help me. Also Jacob found out that he can't take his paternity leave right next to the other leave so we can't leave here as soon as we were hoping to. We will probably try to be out of our house here on 18th though so that is still about 2 1/2 weeks. We are hoping Jacob can take his paternity leave before then and that way we would get a little time together here before he has to leave and he can help me get the house ready to move. This is so different from what we were planning that it is hard for me to really grasp it.

1 week and 1 day old

So Rachel had a doctor's appointment last week on Wednesday. They told us then that she weighed 7 pounds 12 ounces and that she was 21 inches long. At her doctors appointment today she weighed 8 pounds 3 ounces and is 21.5 inches long. She has grown a whole inch since she was born and has gained 7 ounces in the last 5 days! Wow! I can't believe how fast she is growing already! She is just the sweetest little baby! I'm so glad that for now at least she has her days and nights in the right order. She only woke up twice during the night last night, and she was awake for about 2 hours this morning! It is hard to think about anything else besides this little one! I just love her so much! I look at her and think about how incredible it was that she grew all of those months inside my tummy into this perfect little angel. We are so happy to have her here in our lives.

So I'm not sure if I ever posted about this or not, but we found out for sure that we will be going to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tuscan, Arizona after we are done in Texas. We were actually quite excited to find that out and Jacob also found out from someone in our ward who just moved from there that he will probably get deployed a lot less from there than if we had been assigned to Nebraska like we thought we were going to be. We aren't exactly sure what his job will be like when we get there, but we are excited to be a little closer to home than we thought we would be. Jacob is going to try to take his paternity leave starting the middle of next week and then he has his Christmas break right afterwards so we will probably be moving out of this house and going and visiting family either sometime next week or the week after. Jacob just needs to get his orders and get things scheduled with the movers so we will know when it will be. It kind of snuck up on me what with our baby coming when she did! I could hardly believe it when Jacob told me today that his paternity leave starts next week! I totally don't feel ready to move! Oh well, I guess I will get ready fast!