"Happy Halloween You Weirdos!"

So Wednesday night Jacob and I finally got around to carving our pumpkin! Well Jacob did all of the actual carving, I just took the guts out and sorted out the pumpkin seeds so we could cook them. Afterwards we watched "Watcher in the Woods" which is a movie that my family watched would sometimes rent and watch around Halloween time. It wasn't as scary as I remembered it being.

Isn't our pumpkin just so cute with a candle in it? We are going to take it with us to the trunk or treat our ward is doing on Saturday!

So Jacob graduated last week on Thursday and it was so fun to get to be there! What an accomplishment! He has worked so hard! I would put up pictures from his graduation, but I am the worst picture taker in the world and didn't get a single picture where he was looking at the camera or even where you could really see his face, but I'll just tell you he looked so very handsome! After his graduation he got the rest of the day off as well as the next day and it was just so fun to have that extra time with him! The time since he took his Korean tests has been really nice because he hasn't had any homework to occupy his time after he gets home from work. He has just got to come home and be home with me and I have loved it! He takes the Spanish DLPT this Monday and Tuesday. It has been nice for him to use this past week and a half at work to study for that test! Hopefully he will do alright on it!

So my mom is coming up next Tuesday and she will be visiting us here for a week. I am really hoping that Rachel will be born while she is here. My mom has been there for the births of all 11 of her grandbabies and it would be sad if she missed this one! I'm really hoping Rachel will be a little bit early! I'm feeling so huge and I'm just so excited to hold my little girl on the outside of me! Just the thought of holding her fills me with an overwhelming love for her! I can hardly wait to be a mommy! It has been fun just getting ready for having her here. I've done a lot of sewing and shopping and it will be fun to actually get to use all of those things we have made and bought. It is funny though, occasionally as I am buying yet another pink thing I have a thought "What if the doctor saw wrong on the ultrasound and our Rachel isn't really a Rachel?" Wouldn't that be so crazy? Our little baby would be wearing pink for the first 3 months of his life! I'm pretty sure the doctor didn't see wrong though, it is just a funny thought I thought I would share! Well that is all for now! I will post again next week after my doctors appointment! My doctor is finally going to check me to see if I am dilated or effaced! Everyone keep your fingers crossed for me!

More Changes

Like I have said before, you really can't count on anything with the military! Yesterday we found out that Jacob's start date for Texas has changed yet again. It seems like once we get settled on a plan something happens and we have to start planning and changing everything all over again! Now Jacob doesn't have to be in Texas until January! This will end up working out a lot better for us than the previous plan, but it just kind of drives me crazy having our plans change so many times! So now we will be here in our house for an extra month, we won't have to try to be out of it by November 20th anymore which is really nice, especially if our baby doesn't come until her due date. Also, Jacob might be able to take 10 days of paternity leave so that we might be able to come to St. George for Thanksgiving and then if we are lucky he might be able to take regular leave so that we could possibly go home for Christmas too which is something we definitely weren't planning on being able to do. I had talked to my doctor about us needing to be out of our house just days after Rachel is due and he was willing to consider inducing me a little early if he needed to, but with this change of plans that won't be necessary anymore. We can just let our little Rachel-girl come whenever she is ready which is a big relief! I'm 37 weeks along today which means that Rachel could be born anytime and be counted as full term! I've been pretty blessed during this pregnancy to not have any major health problems and I am so grateful for that! I went to the hospital yesterday and got pre-registered so that when I am in labor I can just go in and not have to worry about filling out any paper work or anything, so now this little girl can come anytime and we will be ready for her!

36 Million Weeks

Okay here it is Sarah. The newest belly picture. I am 36 million weeks along. (Okay it is only 36 but it kind of feels like I've been pregnant for 36 million weeks!) My tummy is HUGE! I can hardly wait to get this baby out of my ginormous tummy and into my waiting arms. According to what to expect when you're expecting, my Rachel-girl weighs about 6 pounds and is approximately 20 inches long. I swear she feels so much bigger than that! I go to the doctor this Friday to see if I am dilated or effaced or anything. I really hope that I am! I want to meet this little girl so bad! I've been trying to walk on our treadmill to hopefully get my cervix softened and ready to go!

I am so proud of my cute Jakie boy for passing his tests this last week! He is so awesome and smart! It has been so fun since his tests are done because now he doesn't have any homework and I get to spend a lot more time with him! Before he was at work all day and then he would come home and have to do a couple of hours of homework every night, but now when he gets home from work I get him all to my self all evening long! His graduation is on Thursday morning and after he graduates he gets the rest of the morning off as well as the next day! I am so excited to get to spend so much time with his this weekend! Jacob went in and talked to one of his Sergeants about maybe taking the DLPT (Defense Language Proficiency Test) in Spanish since he knows Spanish from his mission and they got it all arranged so that he will take it on November 1st and 2nd. If he passes with a high enough score they will pay him a little extra every month. Also as a bonus he can use the time when he has to be at work to study for it until he takes it. If he wasn't spending this time studying he would be doing detail work on post instead which is like pulling weeds, sweeping, or other clean up work, so this will be nice for him to get to do instead of that for a while.

It was so fun, Jacob and I went to this little produce store next to our house where they had these huge pumpkins! Jacob let me pick which ever one I wanted so of course I had to pick the biggest one I could find and here it is. It weighs just over 20 pounds. I had to hold it next to my tummy to see if it was bigger or if my tummy was bigger and I was so grateful to find out that the pumpkin is bigger! :) The little pumpkin in the picture is one we bought the night after I took my NCLEX in celebration that it was finally done. I bought it planning on making something out of it, but so far it has just been too cute, I haven't been able to cut it up to cook it.

Jacob is has just been so good to me. For most of my pregnancy I haven't been the typical emotional pregnant woman. I've just been my normal mostly happy self, but just this past week I have been more and more emotional, and my poor husband has just been so good to me! He just hugs me and wipes away my tears that seem to come for no reason and tells me he loves me and that I am beautiful. I just love this handsome boy of mine!

A couple of weeks ago Jacob and I went out and bought some things so that we would be ready for our little Rachel to come and one thing we bought was a diaper bag. My sister Julie asked me to put a picture on here, so here it is.

Isn't it so cute? Here is one of the cute pink inside. It is all packed and ready to go to the hospital! We can hardly wait for this little girl to come!

So Jacob went in today to get his papers for out processing and stuff and he doesn't have his actual orders yet but he did get his assignment notification, and it just goes to show that you can't really plan on anything with the military. All this time we have thought that we were going to be going to Nebraska, but on his assignment notification it said that we would be going to Davis Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona. Everyone we have talked to has said we would for sure be going to Nebraska because that is where they send all of the Airborne Linguists to be trained, but apparently that is not so. It is pretty funny, I've been getting myself so excited to go to Nebraska, so that I'm almost disappointed with the news, but after thinking about it for a while I think Arizona will be a lot of fun too. The only thing is that on the paper that said we were going to be going to Arizona it had his previous start dates on it as if Jacob had to go to Texas November 1st. So Jacob has to go in and talk to them and make sure they know that we won't be in Texas until December and we aren't sure if that will mean they will change where we will be going after Texas or not. He'll go talk to them tomorrow and hopefully we will have more information soon, but for now we think we are going to Arizona.

Well this post is long enough so I better stop before it gets even longer! Kuddos to anyone who stuck it out and read the whole thing!

Awesome news!

Today we FINALLY found out when Jacob has to be in Texas. He gets to stay here a little longer and doesn't have to be in Texas until December 8! We are so overjoyed with this news! It has been a source of worry for the two of us not knowing if Jacob was going to be able to be here for the birth of our little girl, but after much prayers and fasting (the fasting was on Jacob's part. I would have if I could) Heavenly Father has pulled through again! We knew Heavenly Father would take care of us and make everything work out for the best, but we didn't know how that would happen! We are so relieved to have this later start date! I wish I could make cookies and have Jacob take them to the people that helped us make this work, but Jacob asked and unfortunately that isn't allowed. Our sincere thanks will have to be enough.

Test Results

Jacob passed his tests! All three of them! What a smart and handsome boy I married! I am so proud of him! He has worked so hard the past year and a half, and it has payed off! It was kind of exciting, everyone in his class passed all of the tests! It is so fun to think that Jacob isn't going to have any homework this weekend! He will get to come home and be home! Awesome! Now if only we knew when he had to be in Texas. We know that probably he will have to be their either on November 1st or December 8th. We are hoping and praying for the December start date, but we know everything will work out for the best either way. Jacob's Sergent said we should find out either way by tomorrow hopefully!