Not working today
I can't even stand up. I feel so weak! I know I need to eat, but I am worried I'll fall down the stairs. :/ I'll be okay I'm sure.
A bear got into our garbage last week. There's cool claw marks on the trash can, it's pretty neat.
Had our first ultrasound last Thursday. The little one is 1.5 cm long and had a heart rate of 150.
Grow little one, GROW! (and please stop making me sick!)
My pants are getting snug…..
.... and not just after I've eaten. Yikes. This is going to be crazy. I started this pregnancy at like 129 pounds, we'll see how much I gain over these 9 months. Our first doctor's appointment is on Thursday. It's one day before I'm technically 8 weeks along. Roughly 32 more to go. It doesn't seem that long? I'm sure mothers of all ages can tell me it is goes fast and slow! I'm in the "is this normal" stage right now.
Anyway, that's all. Hoping to get a picture Thursday. That'd be exciting!
OB/GYN called…
A lady from the doctor's office has called me twice to discuss my insurance. From everything I read, I thought I had pretty good coverage, 100% of the prenatal visits were covered with $0 deductible after the first visit. The first visit was to fall under my normal coverage, or so I thought! Anyway, she called yesterday to tell me I have one of the best coverages she's ever seen! Every visit is 100% covered up until birth! This kid isn't going to cost me a penny until it enters the world, then I only pay 1500 to meet my deductible, then 20% after that. Yahoo!!!
Failed on hiking a 14er today! 
We drove to Aspen with our friends Ben & Libby Woodworth to hike Castle Peak and Conundrum, but ended up getting rained out... er clouded out maybe. It was storming all night and hailing when we were supposed to be on the trail. The clouds kept breaking up and then getting back together. I insisted we don't even start. Adam wanted to, I could tell, but thankfully I got my way 
Glad I did too cause as we were packing the last of our things up to leave, the clouds got thicker and thicker. SUCH a bummer!!!!! But at least we got to see Aspen for the first time! Attempt #2 coming next Wednesday! This will be our 27th 14er!!! I am so excited!!!!!
Julie=with child
We're so incredibly happy to announce our wonderful news!!! Adam and I are having a baby!!!! I don't even have a proper pregnancy journal yet, so I'll have to blog for now. I know what I want, I just can't find one! So here goes:
In February of this year Adam and I discussed when we'd be "ready". I was slightly upset that he got to go on 2 trips across the country to go snowboarding while I stayed home and worked. I told him I don't mind working for us as long as I feel like I'm working FOR something special... like a family. I felt as though I was working to provide him freedom to do whatever he wants--which I don't mind--but I wasn't getting anything in return! I don't think I was really pressuring him, but I did make it clear to our friend Floyd (who is a dad himself) to plant in Adam's head that it's OKAY. Soooo after he got back we talked and we thought it'd be a good thing!
Fast forward to June.... totally thought I was pregnant! I was completely devastated when I found out I wasn't.... which happened to be Emily's wedding day! Oh well, we made it a happy day anyway!
I found out I was pregnant at work actually. I had a test in my purse and I guess I just wanted to check (why? I don't know) early. Totally thought it'd be negative since I had seen a lot of negatives in the prior months, but a line came up INSTANTLY. Took another test that afternoon... positive. Even took one 2 days later... still positive!
So here we are, having a kid, due April 1st! My first doctors appointment is August 19th. I chose a doctor suggested by my insurance company, though I may want to look for a midwife instead. I just don't know who is more expensive. No homebirth for us! Gross!!!!
And if you're reading, and you're curious, we will not be finding out the sex of the baby. I feel that is the only TRUE surprise in life--unless the stupid doctor/midwife accidentally tells us, we will have no way of knowing. What a great surprise.
Per the request of my wonderful friends and family, I will be going to Minnesota sometime for a baby shower.
That's all I know so far. I'm nervous, excited and verrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrry hungry.
Love you all, thank you for the congratulations!!!!
Minnesota, Wedding, Moving!
This has been a busy month!!!! We went home Friday, June 21st. We left here at about 6 pm and got to MN at 8 am their time. Spent a couple of days with the Bride to be and her family in Mantorville.... even went boating! It was much fun! Next we headed up to the cities... saw my Grandparents monday. Tuesday was the bachelor/bachelorette party at Steve & Barry's. We went to Mystic Lake's Seafood Buffet on Wednesday with ben, emily and the Dewey family. Thursday was the rehearsal and then the rehearsal dinner at the Mermaid! Painted Emily's nails with a purple french tip and then went home for the night! FRIDAY got up nice and early, packed the car with a bridal gown and my bridesmaid dress and left to pick the bride up from the Mermaid... brought her to the house where she got her hair did and got ready! Off to church we went!
Pictures went great! We decided not to go to downtown Mlps because it looked like it might storm.... so we had a lot of time to sit down and rest!
The wedding was awesome!!! Everyone made it down the aisle in time, Emily and Ben had time to spare even! We walked down the aisle to the Muse version of "Feeling Good". Margo (bridesmaid) sang "So Much Love" by The Rocket Summer during the unity chemicals and communion. We joyously walked back down the aisle to "I Feel Good".... who ever sings that! By then it was thunder storming out! It was awesome!
The reception was wonderful.... I think my speech went well. I wrote it down so I didn't forget anything. Messed up on ONE part, but no one knows but me For their first dance, they danced to "Out of my League" and then it faded into Thriller!!! 9 people danced to it. It was way cool!!!!!! June 25th was the 1 year anniversary of Michael Jackson's death. We stayed at the Mermaid that night--compliments of Grandma Ginny!!! Thank you Ginny!!!!!
After the wedding--had a gift opening day Saturday morning, then went back to my folks to get our dog and say goodbye! Went to Mantorville and hung out with more Tobiasons. Much fun. Disc Golf and a bon-fire. The next day we were going to go boating, but it was too windy. Headed back to CO at 5 pm, got here at 6am OUR time.
Came home to our old place to find a mess left by the maintenance guy. Not just a little mess..... mud/putty everywhere!!!!! If you've been in our place, imagine this: He repaired the ceiling by our garbage can in the kitchen and got mud/putty whatever all the way over on the computer desk! The counters were covered with crap! Even Adam's quilt had stuff on it! So lame! We called the property management manager up and told her to come look at it. Frustrating! Adam had cleaned everything very well before we left to go to MN now we've got to clean it again!
Anyway, we napped for 2.5 hrs and then headed over to our new place with some laundry and other things. Made one trip back home after that for some more laundry and more stuff. Adam got the surround sound wired (thanks to the help of his genius wife!). We also bought 2 rugs for the living/dining area... they look super nice. Figured out how we want to set our room up, and just kinda hung out for a while! OH Daisy fits through the TEENY TINY dog door! I can't believe it!!!!! It's so cool! We'll leave that open for her so she can go outside whenever she wants. She's kinda scared of it now cause there's neighbor dogs that bark at her... but once she gets used to it, it'll be so nice for her!
I gotta work at 4am tomorrow--probably working a double shift cause I heard it's a disaster!!!!!! Whoops! Tomorrow softball and then Wednesday we move completely! I can't wait to BE there. I can't wait to have everything unpacked. I'm excited. Pictures to come....
why is it STILLLLLLL snowing??
Come on CO. I blame all the whiners all winter long that were complaining we weren't getting any snow! I always believe if it doesn't come in the winter it'll come in the spring. Sure was right. So quit whining fellow 'radans!!!! You've got your snow!! Now me, I can whine because I'm the one who knew it'd come in the spring. Yup, I'm the ONLY one in the state of Colorado that knew it'd come eventually... haha. Just kidding. But reallyyyyyyyy, I'm over this! Woke up to 6 freaking inches this morning. It was actually REALLY pretty. All the trees looked like christmas card photos. Beautiful! Melted by noon, but it was REALLY pretty. It's snowing again though. The grass and trees are covered again.
Really wanted to go to a rockies game tonight, but the weather was bad. Good thing we didn't go, it got canceled. I don't think I would've enjoyed myself too much either, I've got this retarded cold... no idea where I got it from. Doesn't seem like I'm going to lose my voice so that's good... I had lost my voice in January this year, gone for close to a week! EEK! Anyway, maybe rockies this weekend?? We'll see. We need some cooperative weather first!
Hope everyone has an alright weekend
JULIE
moving! yippee!!!
We went to look at a place I saw on craigslist this past weekend. I absolutely LOVE It. Adam loved it too!!! Showed pics to Ben & Em... they love it too! I found out at about 8:45 today that we got the place! I'm super excited because there was a chance we wouldn't get it. Another family wanted it... but they picked us! I'm so grateful! The other family wanted it furnished but we didn't.... and they wanted to bring the furnishings with them. I know we won't be able to make the place look as nice as these guys had it, but I'm still super excited to try!
Now comes the hard part... deciding what to get rid of here.... what we need to buy (rugs for sure cause it has super nice flooring I don't want daisy to scratch it up)
The place is like 3 times the size of where we live now, and Adam and I will be basically paying the same we pay here! I'm thrilled beyond words!!!
snowing STILL?
Man CO is being so crazy this year! 
This is a picture from Ft. Collins today. I just can't believe it! Middle of May and it's SITLL snowing. We have snow here too, but not that much. It's snowing n and off today. SO lame. I just want SUMMER. I want to go hiking, backpacking, camping, go play disc golf and real golf.... can't do any of that with this snow on the ground. I'm ALWAYS over winter around the time Keystone or Breck closes! BOO.
All my fun plans for today went out the window because of the snow! We were originally going to go play golf, then we were going to go to the Rockies game today (double header today). Stupid weather! I slept in, which was WONDERFUL, then I woke up and saw Adam had been trying to find things for us to do today. I was really bummed... he even trying putting together wedding pictures so we could FINALLY make a wedding album. Later he went to the store (without telling me what he was getting) and got me stuff to make potato dumplings! YUM!!! So I made dumplings today and then took a 3 hour nap this afternoon.
Looks like the 2nd game might be canceled tonight. Again, STUPID weather. 
Julie
bloggggggin
It's been a while. I thought for sure I'd blog every couple of days.. if not daily. I don't think anyone really reads this so I don't feel like I'm doing any good rambling off words.
Softball starts in 2 weeks. We're super excited. Hoping to have enough girls this year so we don't have to forfeit any games! We practiced last night. Man I stink! We went golfing last week and had a great time... I did pretty well too... so I don't get why I sucked so bad @ softball. Oh well! We practice again tomorrow night (if it's not snowing... yeah it's supposed to snow a lot!)
I'm going to Minnesota next Tuesday! Having dinner with my girlfriends from back home. I'm pretty excited about it! I don't get to go to Olive Garden like EVER so when I come home we all go there! Amy is picking me up from the airport and dropping me off at my mom's house! Ben will take me down to Emily's on Wednesday! I'll be in MN till Monday then will be home again in June for their wedding! I cannot WAIT!!!!!!!!!!! I am so happy for them!
We've gone to two rockies games this year. They've both been very fun. They won both games, that always makes it more fun, right?
AJ and I both won in a rail jam on Saturday. I'm glad they stopped thinking we were brother and sister. That was awkward. They said "this husband and wife duo always clean us out" Adam actually won bindings! I won a backpack I don't need. I did my peterpan... When they announced me as the winner they mentioned something about the peterpan I did. I totally thought I made that trick name up. I'll have to google it..... if only I had mindgoogle. For those of you who might read this that work at Target... I'm thinking mindmysupport would be pretty cool too!!!!
Oh I think that's it for now. Maybe I'll add tomorrow?
Julie
she’s gone
Jess left on Sunday morning. Sunday was a terrible day!!!!! Monday wasn't any better and today was just the same. I can't thank God enough for bringing us together this year. She truly has been a huge blessing to me since I finally got to know her. Why didn't I know her last year???? UGggghhhhh I'm so frustrated with that!!! This girl brought so much joy to my life, I am terribly sad she is gone. I plan to visit her ASAP. I actually looked @ airfare to go visit, it'd be 1053 bucks, but times two. I suppose it wouldn't be very nice to visit without bringing Adam, huh? She's still in the country, but the day she actually flies to OZ will be hard too. Dang it!!!!
Well, Gess, if you're reading this, I love you SO much and miss you too freaking much.
JULIE