There's me in January of last year. One change that happened shortly after this picture was taken is that Matt and I finally moved off post! I had been begging him to do this for a while but he didn't see the point in it. On post housing here is horrible, we had mold growing in our house, things would break and they'd take forever to fix them (if they ever came at all), and worst of all there was just so much drama no matter how you tried to stay away from it. Things came to a head at the end of 2009 and by early 2010 Matt was more than ready to move off post. He has since vowed that we will never live on post again, lol, we'll see. Anyhow, we moved off post and things have been awesome ever since! Another plus to this...we now lived closer to Matt's work than we did when we lived on post, pretty crazy huh? Here is our lovely off post house!
Our living room on post:
And our living room now:
Our kitchen on post:
And our kitchen now:
See...much better, right?
The next change that has come along since then is we went from having 1 dog and 1 cat
To having 2 dogs and a cat
We got Ruby at the end of June last year so we've had her for almost a year now. Max (the black dog) is totally a mamma's boy and Matt wanted a dog that would be "his" so we got Ruby. We looked around at a few of the shelters around here but the couple dogs we liked Max wasn't too fond of. We finally saw a really cute dog on petfinder.com (highly recommend this site if you're looking for a new pet, its where we found both of our dogs!) at the local pound so we went to look at her. When we got there we found out that particular dog already found a home so we walked through to look at the other dogs there. Of course as we're walking through most of the dogs are jumping all over and barking like crazy. There was this one really sad looking dog who was just sitting there looking at us like "please take me home!" so we asked to see her. We went into a room and they brought her in, she was scared to death! Matt sat on the floor and she went right over to him and sat with him. We knew this was the dog but we had to make sure Max would get along with her. We left her there and went back the next day with Max to see her. She and Max got along great and the rest is history! She was in kinda rough shape when we got her, she had just had puppies not long before, her ears were fly bitten, and her fur was all rough and thin. She has certainly come into her own since then and we can't imagine life without her now!
Ruby when we first got her:
Ruby now: (this is a few months old but its the best pic of her whole body)
Now onto the biggest and best change that has happened in the past year! Matt and I have been trying to get pregnant for 4 years. It hasn't been constant, thanks to the Army, but for most of those 4 years we've been trying. I went off birth control in January of 2007. We weren't having any luck so we tried getting help from doctors. The lovely Army doctors here will not help you get pregnant unless you've been trying constantly for a year with no breaks. Do you know how hard that is with the Army!? That means if he was TDY one month out of the year then they wouldn't help us. Finally we hit a spot where he had been home for a full year and we found a doctor to help us. 2 rounds of Clomid later we were really excited about the possibility because I actually got a positive ovulation prediction test. A couple weeks after that I woke up and decided to take a test and see (I was 1 day late) so I woke up and this is what I saw
I thought I saw a very faint line there but wasn't quite sure if it was just in my head or what, lol. I didn't want to get too excited so I waited till after Matt came home from PT and left to go to work then ran up to Wal Mart and got a digital test. And sure enough...
I think I stood there in shock for a good 5-10 minutes just staring at the test then I broke down in tears. I didn't want to call Matt and tell him yet, I wanted to tell him in person. I ran up to the hospital on post and got a blood test and luckily got the results before Matt came home for lunch...I just wanted to make sure! While waiting on the results I ran out to the Harley store and bought a little present to give to Matt when I told him. I had been waiting for this day for so long and if was finally here! The feeling of seeing him smile so big when I told him was amazing! He opened the bag and there was a onesie in there that said "My daddy rides a Harley" he just kinda looked up at me like...is this for real!? I yelled out "I'm pregnant!" and he just ran over and hugged me...amazing!
And here I am...now 18 weeks, 3 days pregnant and couldn't be happier!
I think I've blabbered on enough on this post, lol. If you made it to the end congrats!
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