20 Weeks, A Fever, and A New Job!

So today, I am really wanting to go to church! I love being there and feeling the Spirit! It always helps me through my week. I can't though cause I have a fever, a hacking cough that is settling in my chest and I ache all over. I get a little upset when people are sick and go out in public cause I don't want what they have. So, I better stay home! I think I will read from the Ensign and the scriptures, but I thought a great way to start was by thinking of and expressing some of the things I am grateful for today!

I am grateful for an understanding Father in Heaven who knows me and my stuggles and helps me even when I can't see it!

I am thankful for the blessing of being pregnant! This has not been an easy time in our lives. We had not planned on moving foreward with this until after Tom finished school, but I feel like if we are obedient we will be blessed!

I am so grateful that yesterday I hit the 20 week point! I am halfway to seeing our little miracle! Pictures will come on Thursday!!

I am grateful for the days that I don't feel quite as nauseated as most other days!! Those are good days!

I am grateful for ultrasounds and we will be able to find out the gender (hopefully) on Thursday! We are very excited!!

I am so thankful that the Lord allows us to feel the movements of those little ones!! I can only feel them if I am lying on my back and there is some background noise going on, like the radio or TV. I have to really concentrate, but I can't deny that those little flutters are there!! I can't wait to feel them more strongly!

I am very grateful for friends and family that are going through the same thing I am right now and how close we have become because of it!!

I am grateful for parents who were so patient with me and taught me the right way! I am so excited for them to come stay after the baby comes!!

I am grateful for in-laws that are the best anyone can ask for! I am excited that they will be involved in our child's life!!

I am so grateful for brothers and sisters who love us and support us!

I am thankful for a job that helps me pay the bills and allows me to work with great people, even though lately it's so hard for me to be there!!!

Last but not least I am so grateful for a loving husband, a partner in this life and for eternity, a daddy for my baby, and the love of my life! He has had a hard time lately because he really wants to work in the electrical field. He is going to school to become an electrician. If you knew him, you'd know how perfect of a fit this is as a career for him! Because of the current economic crisis he hasn't been able to find work as most electrical companies have had to lay off most of their staff because of the lack of work!! He has always told me, ya make more money flipping burgers than you do doing nothing!! He promised me from the time we were engaged that he would support his family, no matter what! Well, today he starts his job at Auto Zone! He has worked there in the past for 3 1/2 years and vowed he would never go back! His friend is the manager of a store up here in SLC and offered Tom a job! Even though he hates the idea of going back to retail, we are so greatful he has a job and he is excited at the prospect of working with his friend!! His first day is today and he just arrived there ready to be put to work! It has been very nice having him be available for whatever needs to be done, but we are even more excited to be paying off bills!!

Thank you baby for being such a wonderful husband and example to our baby!! I couldn't have picked a better father for my children!! I love you so much and look foreward to the many wonderful things this life has in store for us!!