Baby!

I finally feel like I can tell people and blog about this! A few days before we moved I took a pregnancy test (well, I took a few just to be sure) and it was positive! We were so happy, but also a little surprised because it happened so quickly! We had to wait until we got to NM for me to find a doctor and go make sure it was real. A couple weeks ago we saw a doctor and it IS real. And yesterday, I got to SEE and HEAR my little jelly-bean baby on an ultrasound. The first time I went to the doctor the due date was June 19th, but yesterday at my ultrasound the doctor said that I'm not as far along as we thought and the new due date is July 3rd. That was a little disappointing because that means 2 more weeks of being sick (I've been pretty sick for a couple weeks.) But I know I can handle it and I'm doing it for a very good reason! I was planning on waiting a while before telling anyone, including my family. But I just couldn't wait. We ended up telling our families after we got a few positive tests. Both of our families are so excited for us and it's been really fun to share this with them. We feel really blessed for all the wonderful things that are happening in our little lives right now. New job, new home, new baby. Everything is coming together so perfectly all at the same time and we count our blessings every day.

My first positive test!


Here are some pictures of my little baby.... Cody thinks it looks a little weird at this point, and I kind of agree. :) But it was still exciting to see it and know it's there.







I was having a really crappy day being sick one day and someone knocked on my door and handed me flowers and a sweet note! It totally made my day/week! Turns out my best good cousin friend, Kiley, sent them. I love her!

Land of Enchantment

Leaving Boise on Monday

(I would put in some pictures of our drive here, but there wasn't much to see. nothing I saw up to this point was worthy of picture-taking.)

Welcome to the Land of Enchantment!

Welcome to Hobbs

There's a lot of this...

Driving into town

There are our apartments!

Cody opening our apartment

And that was our move! So when we got here, we immediately noticed that the apartment was not clean for some reason... There were crumbs in the cupboards, the walls were dirty, the carpets hadn't been cleaned, the bathroom hadn't been cleaned etc. Since we needed to move in that day, they didn't really have time to clean everything. The only thing they cleaned was the oven. So instead of kicking us out to clean it, they agreed to clean a few important things and let us off the hook for cleaning when we move out! This is actually awesome, because I REALLY hate doing all of that when you are just trying to move. Here are some of the pictures I took upon move-in.




I know, really gross... But everything is good now. They feel really bad. She tried to tell me we came too early?! They had 10 days between the time we got the apartment and the time we pulled in. So I don't feel bad.

Anyway, right when we got here, the people from church came together to help us move in. It was really amazing how many people showed up. They moved in all of our stuff in about a half-hour. I've already made tons of friends here and I haven't even been here a week. They come over to visit me, they invite us over to their houses for dinner, and they call me to see how I'm doing. We were excited because we got to celebrate Halloween at the church party. I was sad this year because I didn't think we would get to do anything. So it was really fun. It was a little bit of a challenge to recognize everyone at church the next day because they had been dressed in their costumes the night before. lol :) I'm so thankful right now to be a member of this church. I had instant friends because of it. Anywhere I go, It's the same and it's something familiar and comforting. Without it this week, I would have been really lonely and probably second-guessing this move.