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Navigating Pregnancy After Loss

Hi all! Since the last time I wrote a lot has happened. One major thing that has happened is that I am pregnant again! Yay! We are very excited, but also nervous at times and I have been feeling like I need to write about how it is going and how we are handling another pregnancy after going through a loss. My hope is to be honest, real, and raw with how it has been going in hopes to help other mama's who are trying to navigate the same road, to not feel alone, and to feel supported. Also, I understand not everyone will relate to what I say because we are all different. At the end I have some experiences from other mom's who have had losses at different stages of pregnancy as well! Hopefully something will resonate with you. I am currently 34 weeks pregnant with out second baby girl. Our first baby, Josie, was stillborn at 39 weeks just a little over a year ago (you can read more about our experience with that in my previous post).  It's been a roller coaster to be pregn...
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The Calm After the Storm

I just wanted to write a little update about our life. Between my last post and now a lot has happened. But hey, what's new? As you have probably figured out, I am not the best at writing on my blog, but I still love having it and I really do enjoy writing on it. This is a doozy, so if you make it to the end I will be very impressed. From last March (when my last post was written) to December were some of the best months of my life. And then December hit and it was the hardest month of my life. Seth and I found out we were expecting a baby girl to join our little family last April, 2018. My pregnancy really wasn't that bad. Yes I was uncomfortable, sick, or in pain sometimes. I was growing a human and it's definitely not that easy, but from other stories I have heard about pregnancy I feel like I had it easy. We were due December 8, 2018. We were so excited for this little girl to join our family. We were getting everything ready and making sure we had everything we neede...
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"Find Joy in the Journey--Now"

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At the beginning of this new year I was thinking about what kind of resolutions I could have, like many of you. I thought about maybe doing something with eating healthier, exercising, reading more, all the typical ones that usually come up in New Year's resolutions. As I was pondering these there was one phrase that kept popping into my mind over and over again. It was so clear to me what Heavenly Father wanted me to focus on this year. I couldn't get it out of my head. The thought was, "Find joy in the journey-- now." - President Thomas S. Monson Since then I have thought a lot about this. I have read his talk multiple times and every time I think about what this year is going to bring I can't help but think of President Monson's words. One paragraph from his talk I really love is, "This is our one and only chance at mortal life—here and now. The longer we live, the greater is our realization that it is brief. Opportunities come, and then they are...
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By Small and Simple Means

So this blog post is one I actually started writing on October 18. I didn't finish it, but I wanted to still post it because sometimes we forget that God loves us and that he hears and answers our prayers. Even if it is in small and simple means. Here is an example of Heavenly Father showing me that he loves me, even though he didn't take away my trial. He helped to carry the burden and helped me see that he loves me and that he knows I can handle what he gives me. He gives me these trials to become stronger and closer to him. I hope this can help someone else who is also struggling with any kind of trial. October 18, 2017 This is going to be a bit more personal of a blog post, and I'm sorry if it seems jumbled up because I don't really know how to write about it. I'm feeling extra grateful tonight and so that is why I am writing. Mostly because I don't want to forget the love God gives me and the prayers he answers even while I am in the middle of a rough pa...
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A Little Introduction

Hey everyone! Welcome to my blog. This is my first post since my mission (I have another blog I posted on before then, but wanted to start fresh). So I am going to introduce myself a little bit and how I got from my mission to where I am now. I served in the Taiwan, Taipei mission from June 2013- December 2014. I came home on New Year’s Eve in 2014, and moved up to school 5 days later. I lived in what was called the "boy scout house". It was a quirky house that I LOVED. It was called the "boy scout house" because it kind of looked like it was built by boy scouts and was a little tilted... I had the best roommates and we had so much fun. I got back into dating and socializing. I made some of my best friends those few months and into the summer. I moved home for the summer and worked at the Parks Department in Centerville. It was a fun job and I met some more friends. That summer I got closer and closer to my family. I left for school 5 days after I got home from my ...
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