Lists

So yesterday I realized that I only have about one month until this baby girl gets here. When I thought about this I had a little bit of a freak out moment. So you would think that with this whole baby thing being nothing new to me that I would have nothing to worry about. The only problem is that since this is nothing new to me I kept thinking I still have time. With only about a month left I thought about all the things that still need to be done and things that still need to be bought. After I had my few seconds of panic I wrote a list. Five lists to be exact. I always do better with lists, that piece of paper that I can cross off things as they are done, a little visual reminder that things are getting done. So here are my lists:

 <---This list as you can see is things for the hospital bag. (please don't mind the sloppy or missed spelled words) It is then broken up into three smaller list; Colt, the baby, and myself. I have looked over the list and I keep thinking I have forgotten something. Can you see anything that I forgot?

Below is the list of things for the baby. It is broken up into two smaller lists. To do and To buy.

             
All this has to be done before the baby comes. All this has to done somewhere in between, homeschooling, cooking, cleaning, doctors appointments, church duties, and all the other things I have to do around the house to keep things running. This does not include my crazy "nesting instinct" that is in full force making me want to deep clean every inch of my house. Well I will have to be enlisting the help of my husband and kids to help me get this all done.  Even with the craziness that is our home we are all looking forward to welcoming a new baby.

Baby Selinda "Lindy"

Playing Catch Up

I have almost 10 years to catch up on so this may take a while! :)

This tale begins;

 Long, long ago (10 years) there was a young boy named Colt and a young girl named Genavie. Colt was a 17 year old senior in high school and Genavie was a 16 year old junior in high school...okay, okay enough of the story form. I (Gen) had moved with my family to an area that we had once lived before, in Las Vegas. I started a new school and reconnected with a best friend. Every morning before school we went to seminary, then after seminary we would walk across the street to school. One day as I was walking through the hall of our seminary building with my best friend I saw a boy sitting on a chair. I heard a voice in my head say "See that guy, you are going to marry him someday." Now thinking I was a little crazy, I said this out loud to my friend, but I phrased it as a question, "See that guy, I am going to marry him?" She looked at me and with a bit of shock said, "What did you just say?" I then repeated it again but this time with a surety, "See that guy, I am going to marry him!" She then asked me if I even knew who he was, and if I had ever met him, which to booth I could say NOPE. We then just went on with our school day. A few days later as I was sitting reading a magazine this same "guy" came and sat next to me (ahh OMGoodness)! We started talking. We introduced ourselves and found out we were in the same ward at church(that was a surprise to us both). We started reading our horoscopes. His said something like; your love life will come to an end and your significant other and you will be no more. We both thought it was kind of a depressing horoscope, and just ended our conversation there. Until the next day when he tracked me down to tell me how much he hated my magazine(his girlfriend had broke up with him). So a few weeks later he asked me out on a date, and of course I said yes. A few of months of dating later he asked me to be his girlfriend by playing me that N*Sync song Would You Be My Girlfriend? (very cute and a little corny) but I loved it.

After five months we decided we wanted to get married (no we were not pregnant)! We told our family and friends and we were married two weeks later on October 5, 2002. We were the ripe old age of 18 and 17 years old. Many people thought we were to young and that we would never make it. Just to give those people a big fat "in your face" we will be celebrating our TEN year anniversary this year! 

Next part of our tale;
Three months after we got married Colt left for basic training in the US Air Force. From basic training in San Antonio, TX we made our way to Biloxi, MS for the first part of his tech school. We were in Biloxi for about four months, then we made our way to Augusta, GA for the rest of his tech school. We were in Augusta for about six months.

While we were there we found out that we were expecting our first baby!
We soon got stationed in Colorado Springs, CO. Four months after arriving in CO, in February 2004 we welcomed our beautiful little girl Malayna (Nay)!

 We were both scared and excited to be parents! Fast forward six months, we were celebrating our second anniversary and we found out we were expecting our second little bundle of joy! In June of 2005 we welcomed our second baby, a handsome little boy Robert (Bobby)!

 I knew nothing about boys(I have all sisters) Colt was ready for what a boy would bring(he has four older brothers) so we would be ok! November 2006 we found out we were expecting again! This time it was TWINS! We were so crazy with fear and panic, that meant 4 kids under the age of 4! As the weeks went by we were getting more comfortable with the idea. But sadly at 14 and 15 weeks along our sweet little babies went home to heaven.

 After a few months of depression and grief we started looking forward again. We were now expecting our next baby! In January 2008 we welcomed another handsome little boy, Colt Jr (CJ).

 He is a junior because we didn't find out what the baby was going to be but in my gut I KNEW "it" was a girl. So there was no need for us to pick out a boys name. When the doctor said it's a boy, and asked us his name, we had no idea! So the first thing out of Colts mouth was, "I guess we will name him Colt." and that is how HE got his name. In the summer of 2008 Colt left the AF and as a family we began a new adventure as civilians!

And the tale continues;
We stayed in Colorado Springs after Colt separated from the AF. He was hired on by Raytheon. Doing the same thing he was doing while in the military in the same exact office (satellite something, if he told me he would have to kill me. LOL). In December of 2008 we were happy to find out that we were expecting a baby! In July of 2009 (four weeks after I finished esthetician school) we welcomed a beautiful baby girl, Evangelina (Eva)!

Two weeks after Eva was born we closed on our very first home! Moving with a new born is no fun. We have now been in our home for 2 1/2 years and have slowly made it our own! OH and before I forget we are expecting a little girl some time in the next two months!!!

So this is our last ten years in a nut shell. There is a lot more I could tell you but I don't have the time and I don't think you want to sit here and read for hours. We have had many happy and sad moment. We have had many ups and downs. Colt and I have literally grown up together. It hasn't always been easy but it has always been worth it. 

My First Time ;)

So, this is my first ever blog post. I never thought I would want to keep a blog. I thought it would be to much work and that no one really cared to know about our family. After reading many of my friends blogs I learned that most of them keep them for the benefit of their own families. So that one day their kids can know all about how life was when they were little. I love this idea. I keep a journal but this whole blog thing seems more fun and more like a family journal, that one day all our kids will get to have. I am not sure yet when I will be able to post or even what to post about I guess that will all evolve over time. Keeping in mind that this will be a record for our family, I will start the next post from the begging of "our family". So if you are interested, the next time I find a moment I will tell all about how Colt and I meet and fell in LOVE!