Come What May and Love It

TRIGGER WARNING & TMI WARNING On Wednesday, July 26th, Gariet and I found out that we were going to be adding another baby to our family. We were happy, nervous, scared, and excited all at the same time. We told both of our moms. We started making plans for April 2018. We looked into buying a bigger car. I had scheduled my doctor appointments for September. Life was fitting in how we had planned. On Tuesday, August 8th, I started spotting brown discharge. I was nervous, but Gariet, my mom, and the doctor's office told me that it was normal at this stage and not to worry. I still googled a lot and most of the stories I read had good outcomes. This was normal. Baby would be okay. As the days progressed, the spotting changed from brown to pink. I called the doctor's office every day and they still told me it was normal and not to worry until it was red. I stayed off my feet (as much as possible with a 1.5 year old). I tried to relax. On Thursday night, I started seeing...

I started studying the scriptures from the beginning about a week ago. I did this because I have been feeling a little empty in my own testimony lately. Everything that has happened in the last couple months (my grandfather’s death, friends leaving the church, etc.) left me with a lot of questions. It left me with a lot of doubts. I am horrible at studying the scriptures every day, so I decided that this was something that I really needed to do. I needed to take on Moroni’s challenge once again for myself and make sure that my testimony is where it needs to be to be able to teach my son correct principles. How can I teach him if I am feeling doubts myself? Long story short…I started reading The Book of Mormon from the beginning. I have been using “Scripture Study for Latter-Day Saint Families” by Dennis H. Leavitt and Richard O. Christensen to help guide my study and make it more meaningful than just reading. As I have started, I noticed some interesting things about Lamen a...

Hello Blog Readers! I wanted to let you in on some of the 'secrets' that I use to make money from shopping. Here we go... 1. Shopkicks- I earned over $50 in gift cards using this app. That may not seem like much to you, but I got the gift cards without even spending a sent! CRAZY?!? Here is how it works. You get "Kicks" for different tasks. The kicks then turn into gift cards. 100 kicks= $1 Shopkicks gives you 'kicks' for 4 different things. A.) Walk-ins- You get 'kicks' for walking into different stores like Target, Wal-Mart, Carters, Macys, Best Buy to name a few. Normally it is anywhere between 25-50 kicks for walk-ins, but some days they give 100 for walk-ins. That is money in your pocket just for walking into the store. B.) Scans-   I LOVE THIS PART! I really am not exagerating when I say how much I love doing the scans. It is like a scavenger hunt through the store to find certain products and scan the barcodes. You get anywhere bet...

I almost called this post "Necessities for a New Baby", but let's be honest. If you have diapers & wipes, clothes, and some form of food (breast or formula), then you could survive! However, this is my list of "Nice to Have Things". They are great to have and make life so much easier! 1. Boon Bottle Grass If you are bottle feeding or pumping, I would  almost  say this is a necessity. I did not think that it would be when I put it on my registry and honestly it is not something I would have bought for myself. I got it as a gift. Can I just say that it is a LIFE SAVER! You could use some other drying rack, but I love this grass. It is easy to put different sized bottles, nipples, pumping parts, etc. all in one place. I don't have to worry about other food germs getting onto the bottles. We also have the "twig" attachment" and it is super nice to hang different small parts on to dry faster (especially when I was pumping). 2. Play Mat ...

NOTE: This is a honest review. I was not paid or sponsored to write this blog. Hello Friends! If you know me, you know that I wear little-to-no makeup on a daily basis. SOMETIMES I will put on makeup for a special occasion (pictures, weddings, etc.). I have 2 reasons for not wearing a lot of make up. Reason 1:  I don't like the idea of not looking like "Amy" if I wore makeup. I hate the girls that you can hardly recognize if you see them without their makeup on. I never wanted to wake up early to put on my makeup so that my husband would think I was attractive. I just wanted to look like me. I wanted to attract a guy who was attracted to me and not the face that I would put on in the morning. Reason 2:  I am lazy. Why spend an hour on makeup when it lasts 5 minutes before wearing off or smudging? I didn't want to have to worry about what my makeup looked like all day long. I have had 3 friends (at least) who have become LipSense consultants on Facebook, whi...

Dear Mitch (and my other future children)- You are 7 months old right now. Donald Trump just got elected president. This has been one of the dirtiest, most awful elections. More mud was slung everywhere that our country was left covered in dirty, mucky mystery liquid. I was counting down the days until the election so that we could finally start cleaning up the mess, but that is not the case. Which is why I am now writing you this letter. I did not like Donald Trump. I did not vote for him, or for the Democratic candidate, Hillary Clinton. I voted Third Party because I wanted to vote for the person that I thought would be best for the job of president. But that is not the purpose of this letter. The night of the election, your father and I knelt in prayer before going to bed. I prayed for our country that night. I prayed for myself for the peace to accept the person who was elected president. I prayed for understanding to know that the person elected president (who I thought wa...

I have been meaning to get a blog post written as soon as I read that it was Suicide Prevention Week on Facebook. I love the publicity that this is getting now, verses a few years ago. I think that by being open about talking about suicide, we are preventing a lot of suicides from happening. Why? Because that teenager or adult that doesn't understand what they are feeling now sees how to get help. They see that they shouldn't feel embarrassed or ashamed, but that other people feel this way too.  I have talked about my own thoughts of suicide before, but today I wanted to share some hope. I absolutely cringed when Robin Williams committed suicide and everyone kept saying that he was "free". Yes, he had fought a good fight, but I was so scared of it encouraging others to commit suicide to escape because they wanted the same freedom.  Today, I want to share something that I shared with a family member before about how to use Jesus Christ's atonement to receive sp...