3 Years in 1 Post!!

So our family has had some crazy times in the past 3 years! A ton has happened and it really threw me off of the whole online writing gig. I'm back now!! So just some major updates of things that has happened over the past 3 years.
To get the yucky stuff out of the way in the short version:There have been a few deaths in our families, diagnosis's given, accidents that have happened, we've moved 3 times, and we have worked our bums off!!!

PHEW!! Now that that is all out of the way here are some positives!
(These will not be in Chronological order they will be in order per person, I'm working with a scatterbrain now!)

Kimberly:

Switched careers and stopped going to the university for awhile. She went through a year long Medical Assistant program, graduated and started working in the medical field for a doctor. Over the past year she has worked for 3 different doctors in 2 different specialties. The last doctor she worked for was her favorite!!! He is a great guy and an amazing doctor! She still wants to continue her education at the university someday just not right now. She also would like to maybe move up and continue in the medical field when that day comes. For now she is working from home and has the best job EVER!!! She had also chopped off her hair and donated it in honor of her dad after he was diagnosed with cancer.

Brady:

Constantly working to provide for his little family, he is an amazing man! He has graduated from the University with his BS! WOOT!! He is tossing up graduate programs and possible career choices at the moment. He is still in the military. He has recently been promoted at the bank into a great Banker position. He is also currently working part time at nights at Lowes to help us out because we are transitioning to Kimberly being at home.






Family:

From 2 to 3!!

We are now a family of 3!!!!! The best part about the past 3 years: MAIZIE JANE!!!!! We found out that we were pregnant on my 25th b-day. (Let me tell you what, BEST Birthday present EVER!) The pregnancy was rough and there were a few minor complications but still went on! Was Due on October 23rd, 2014. Went into Early labor Sept. 24th. Stayed in early labor till October 9th. Water broke right before 5 am in the morning. Checked into the hospital at about 8:15am... Had a few complications throughout the day, some more scary then others. (almost ended up in an emergency c-section twice: my body wasn't progressing the way it needed to, and every time they tried to help it medically it negatively affected Maizie and we would loose her heartbeat.) Everything finally came to a close in the middle of the night. Brady snoring on the couch and being woken up by me yelling, "Brady wake up!! I'm at a 10 and I'm pushing!!" Pushed for about a half hour and then: Out came the most beautiful thing we have ever seen. Only 5lbs8oz of this little bundle of joy changed our lives forever at 12:45am on October 10th, 2014.

We've had some rough moments since then with some health issues but are doing better now. We are currently at Brady's Parents and it's awesome!! They are amazing!
We are excited for a few specific things in the near future! We get to have our first Christmas as parents. We are going to be seeing a lot of family this Christmas that we haven't seen for awhile. We will also be having our 5th Anniversary of being married.

Well I think that is a pretty good sum up of the past 3 years and where we are currently. I will be doing better from now on at writing online. Especially because I'm at home and have more of an ability to. :) I will also be revamping my other blog: Kimini's Space it will be more about me and projects I'm working on as well as other things I'm interested in.

Well enough for this post! Mommy Dear signing out!

WOW How Time Passes

It's incredible how horrible I am at blogs... lol Seriously though. Hopefully I'll do better this next year as it's part of my resolutions. Just a quick update on us. We are still doing great! Christmas break from school was amazing this year!!! We were able to finally take our belated and well needed honeymoon getaway. It was SO much fun being together for a week just doing fun things. Not having to go to work or school. It was Awesome. We are both still wishing that the break would be longer, yet we both look forward to next semester. Other than that not much else has changed in our lives. Nothing to exciting except our trip and being able to spend the holidays with family this year. That's all for now. I'll write again next year lol......but I promise it won't be the only one next year. ;)

This is a picture of us in an old fashion Horse-drawn Carriage going around looking at all the Christmas lights. :)

~Kimberly

Did you wear green?!?!

WE DID!!! HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY EVERYONE!!!

Hey everyone!

Well Brady and I are doing pretty good still. We are continually trying to settle more and look for a job for Brady. We are working on getting back into school and get busy working on the future.

Brady is doing pretty good working a temporary job right now through SOS. But is still really REALLY wanting to find something more permanent. If anyone knows of anything here in Utah county Please let us know. He is going to school for Business with an emphasis in International Business. So it would be nice for him to get a job that is related to what he wants as his future career. He is being VERY supportive and a great help to me as I continue to struggle through my pain and the life changing things that I have to deal with right now. He is the BEST husband I could have ever asked for. Actually he's even better than that. I love him SO much and I hope that I can continue to become a worthy wife for him. :)

I'm still working on healing up and trying to recover from the difficulties pertaining to the car accident 2 months ago. Right now I'm stuck and home still and I'm not allowed to work. I've had a lot of time on my hands and have recently been inspired to go after an old dream. When I was younger I used to write short stories and all sorts of stuff like that. I am a major book-worm and after being inspired and having a bunch of free time on my hands, I've been come an aspiring writer. Hopefully this will take me somewhere someday, but we'll see for now. Because I want to be a writer I have to be in the writers mind-frame, so I'll be on my laptop writing each and every day. Which means I'll actually be keeping up on my blogs now. :) I also have a new blog specifically related to my writing and what I love: BOOKS BOOKS BOOKS. So if you'd like to check it out and follow how my writing is going as well as some book reviews, etc. on it here is the URL.

http://kimberly-lunnen.blogspot.com/

We are both loving being home and spending time with Family and friends and for those that we haven't had the opportunity to see or spend time with, we still love you! We are working on finding time to spend out of the house, away from job hunting, and some time away from preparing for school lol. So Please Don't think we forgot about you!! We haven't.

We had the opportunity to go over with my family yesterday. My mom and I threw a surprise birthday party for Tim, Liz, & Bailey. We all miss her very much but I think celebrating her birthday was nice for all of us and a little therapeutic (for me at least). We were able to write messages on Baby Pink balloons and send them up to heaven to Bailey. Damian was having a blast, he colored on two balloons and made special pictures for his little sister. Then of course we HAD to make sure Bailey got one from Braxton too. So we gave him a marker which of course he gripped onto and held it, and Tim moved the balloon around. That way Braxton got to do a balloon for his big sister. :) It was an amazing day and I'm so Glad that we did it!

WE LOVE YOU BAILEY!!!!

Well I'm going to head out now, I've gotta go run some errands. There's an update on us and how we are doing. Love to all!!!

~Kimberly

Wow I need to be a better blogger!!! Update since last post!

Hey all!! Brady and I are back in Utah!!! We just moved back and we are looking for a job for Brady and working on us both getting back into school!!!

California for us this last year was awesome! However it was also hard because we were away from Family. We are back now and we are both loving being around our families again.

Here's a quick update! on what happened the last few months in Cali and what's going on now!

For Thanksgiving we were able to go up to a friends house in Scott's Valley. Through part of October and the first part of November, (up till about thanksgiving) we had a really good friend Shaun living with us. He has a family member living in Scott's Valley and we were able to meet him and his wife Nickie. Brady and I both admire them and they are such a fun couple to spend time with and be around. They invited us up for Thanksgiving with them because we didn't have any family close enough that we could go have dinner with them. It was a blast. Then we invited Dan and Nickie down for a Christmas dinner with us. We were able to get together with them meeting halfway at a restaurant shortly before we left for Utah and have one last dinner with them. I wish we had more time to get to know them better. I definitely admire them both and love being around them.

Christmas was good for us out in Cali, we both felt like we were showered in Christmas presents, especially for our first Christmas away from our families. Our families and friends spoiled us!

The main thing I got for Brady was the special extended edition of The Lord of the Ring Trilogy as well as a copy of the original story by J.R.R. Tolkien. I know that The Lord of the Rings is one of his favorite story lines and I definitely like it too! We were able spend an entire day doing a Lord of the Rings Marathon over Christmas Exodus where that's all we did was eat munchies and watch all three Extended Versions! It was awesome!

My main present from Brady was my new pair of Pointe shoes. (While we were in Cali there wasn't a lot of opportunity for me to do the Ballroom that I like to do, so I found a great Ballet coach and worked with her. She was able to help me get my technique and ballet focus back and I made it back into my Pointe shoes!)

For New Years we were able to go Whale Watching in and around the Monterey Bay with a Whale watching company with Marine Biologists on the boat and everything! It was FREEZING cold out on the water because it wasn't sunny or anything. But it was a lot of fun, we were able to see a small pod of about 5 dolphins and two different Grey Whales. it was a fun experience. We are hoping someday we'll be able to see Blue Whales, Orca's, Humpbacks, etc.

Brady turned 25 in January and we were able to take a drive down the coast and visit awesome sites and see great waterfalls etc. And we were also able to go to a beach covered in Elephant Seals and get some pretty good pics and videos. It was a nice relaxing day and we had a lot of fun just being together and going for a drive on a beautiful sunny day for his birthday.

At the end of January as we were preparing to move back home, I had the unfortunate incident of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. I was about 3 blocks from home, stopped at a red light and a guy in a big company van wasn't paying attention and didn't stop. He caused a 4 car pile up/bumper to bumper. Me and my little Blue car were squished in the middle. The car has since been repaired which is good, but there were over $5,400 worth of damages. The multiple impacts and the force of the impacts sprained my back, gave me whiplash, restructured the Cervical Spine in my neck and tore my Inguinal Ligament in my left hip. It's been a struggle but I'm slowly recovering. My body won't stabilize yet and I know that it's going to be a long haul.... I know in my heart I'll be able to dance again for fun and for the love of it, but I also can tell that I will probably never be able to handle the stress it takes to dance as seriously as I was before. It's frustrating but I'm just going to try to make the best of it.

On our move back home right before my 22nd Birthday we stayed in Las Vegas. We combined both Valentines and my Birthday and we went to see The Lion King on Broadway while we were there. It was AWESOME!! We also were able to go to the Titanic Exhibition. That was also way cool!!!! We stayed in St. George and got to see Nic and Britt and the girls while we were there.

Now we are back in Utah and just trying to settle in. We are trying to find Brady a job (so if you know of anything please let us know!!) Then we are both getting ready to go back to UVU for school. Brady might end up transferring later on to BYU or something but for now we will both start back as Wolverines! YAY!!! We are both stoked to be back and loving life. We hope to be able to see everyone soon now that we are back and getting settled!

Hopefully now that we are back and have the Internet I'll be a better blogger. :) At least I'm hoping and Praying that I will be. :) Until Next time. We wish you all the best!

~Brady and Kimberly