The Roller Coaster of Our Lives... Part 1

 So to say that our lives got pretty crazy this last year would be an understatement. Last year in August Andrew decided that he would like to really follow his dream of becoming a Marine. We were also 2 months pregnant so you could say that i was a little less enthused to deal with all the training (almost 7 months worth with about 4 weeks leave through out) but, it was Andrew's DREAM so we made it work. He swore in in September, which was also the same time i started 12 credits, and 3 jobs. Keep in mind I was also now 4 months Prego. Yeah life got a little crazy, Andrew tried and tried to find a job but sense the marines would never give us a definite leave date and so nobody wanted to hire him. But the good thing was that being that busy made it so being prego went by super duper fast!

Leave dates had come and gone and come and gone with no avail. It was getting closer and closer to our due date and looking like it was going to happen either happen when the baby was going to be born or after, which as you can understand wasn't the greatest of options. But like before we kept on trucking, we both really felt like the marines was the path for our little family, and we were just going to be introduced into the life of a military family early on. 

When school and one of my jobs finally came to an end i was burnt out. I was gladly taking life easy, by then Andrew had gotten a job at target so everything was much better. Ambitious quilting loving me decided to make Addie's baby bedding on my own so i started focusing on it and taking life easy being i was now 7 months pregnant. We still weren't for sure that our little baby was a girl or not, our doctors reputation was not so great. So her bedding was made and going to be red and aqua and well if it turned out to be a boy, to bad. 

That was how we ended 2011, Andrew working at Target, Me helping babysit for a family and working at fongs and 7 months prego, and oh did i mention we had Andrew's Cousin living with us, yeah... . Up till then we thought just getting things ready and talking about the marines and a baby was tough, we had no clue what was in store for us up ahead.