So much can happen in such a short time

I can't believe I haven't posted anything since May!

I want to start talking about what's going on in this country first. Since my last post we have lost, I believe more than 10 officers in the country due to people shooting them! Are you kidding me?!?! For the most part I don't worry about my husband. This is the life he wanted. He is very good at it and has always had pretty good interactions with people. Plus he is a strong man of God so I know his protection is all over him and when it is his time there is nothing I can do about it anyway. But I am not going to lie, the morning of the Dallas PD shooting, I was crying pretty good. My DH had just been back on the road for about 2 shifts since he was okayed by the doctors after his motorcycle accident. But as I cried, I prayed and just asked God to cover him like he always does and to bring him home to us ever shift bc he needs to meet his little boy soon. And it was pretty amazing to have people check in on me. I got calls and text to make sure I was okay and to pray over my DH. The funny thing is, at least I thought so, with all of this being a "race thing" everyone who checked on me was black. It just goes to show you that this really isn't a race thing. It's a media thing, it's an education thing, it's a culture thing. I really want people to think about this. How many of you know someone who was shot by a police officer? Now how many of you know someone who was shot by another person? Better yet, how many of you know someone who got in a fight us in another weapon or just their hands? If people actually asked themselves these questions, we would see we don't have a police brutality problem, we do not have a gun problem, we do not have a race vs race problem... We have a media problem making it look this way, we have a culture problem that this younger generation doesn't fee they need to work to get what they want just take it, we have a culture problem where it's okay to "spread your legs" and when a child comes from it not take responsibility in raising them! 

Okay I think my rant is over, now for the fun stuff! ONLY 2 MORE WEEKS TILL MY DUE DATE!!! I just can't wait to meet our little boy. It's crazy how he can already have so much personality in th womb. I don't think he is going to be a baby to be swaddled bc he is already trying to stretch out all the time! And how he knows our voices! My DH sings on the church praise team when he gets Sunday's off and last week he had a beautiful solo. Right away when he started singing, our little guy started moving all around. It was such an exciting thing to see/feel. We did decided on doing a "Chp-ish" theme for his nursery, focusing more on the blue and gold colors. Then my mother in law found a CHP designed fabric and now he actually has a pillow and quilt with it on it! We recently realized that his due date is the CHP anniversary so it really fits perfectly. Poor kid is going to be born to be a Chippy. But we are proud to be a part of this CHP family and even more so the whole Blue Line family too! 

When life give you lemons

I have to say I live a pretty basic, normally, busy life. Not only being a CHP wife, a mom to be, part time high school teacher, Mary Kay beauty consultant, board member a chapter of Soroptimist International. I have a pretty good routine I am in too, especially with my husband still on desk duty (i'll explain later) but overall I think I handle it pretty well. Except for last week... last week, by Sunday I believe I was allowed to give up just for a little bit. I don't want to bore you guys with every last detail of it but to hit some major points

• Monday- left work computer at home so everything else that day just decided it didn't want to work. Seriously, every class had something wrong. 
• Tuesday- horrible indigestion and exhaustion... looks like 3rd trimester is welcoming me with all kinds of symptoms.
• Wednesday- We had an attempted suicide by a student, craziest thing I have ever been a part of
• Thursday- Glucose tolerance testing, no profit Mary Kay event.. just a long day
• Friday- meetings at work, trying to get a hold of someone to explain my glucose testing for like 2 hours
• Saturday- fun but not so profitable Mary Kay event, then my alternator in my car decided to die
• Sunday- my last living grandparent, my Dad's dad, passed away

So I am very happy it is Monday... new month... new week!

Back to my husbands hand now. We went back to the doctors about 2 weeks ago and they took off the cast! (Don't get excited yet) Did more x-rays only to find out it is still not healed. Back on a new cast goes. For another 4 weeks! We were told that the bone that is broken doesn't get great blood circulation which causes healing to be slower. :( But whatever needs to be done to get this healed properly. Again, his office has been so understanding, keeping him busy working with accident investigations which he is really enjoying. As much as it sucks that we ere hoping to rock some OT right now and have a nice chunk of change but aside for baby expenses, but that must not be God's plan. We are always able to save just on our paychecks anyway so maybe God is trying to get us to realize that we are just fine where we are. :)

So today I choose to be positive, like I did last week at least up until Sunday, and remember how blessed we are right now and take each day as it comes! :)

2 years in... a lifetime to go!

So this post is a little late but better late than never right?

My husband has officially been an officer for 2 years and thankfully still loving  it. I don't think that will change. We really are blessed that God put in his heart so early and that he followed it. This year he is getting to see many different sides to the job though. See in my last entry I shared he was in a motorcycle accident and luckily he only had road rash and bruising. Well turns out that he broke his wrist. He was still in pain about 2 weeks ago so we thought might as well get it re X-ray'd and sure enough now he has a cast. This means he is on desk duty for 2 months! Hopefully they will only do about 6 weeks but we will see. Anyway, he thought he was going to be hanging out with the clerical ladies for that time but so far they have put him in accident investigations, meaning he get to proof read everyone's reports. Doesn't sound very exciting to me but it is kind of perfect from him.The best thing is that they can even do that too. They joke around with him, of course, but overall everyone has been super supportive. Although it did ruin our mini babymoon since he lost his 6 days off to have to go work inside but to have him come home happy everyday is just fine with me. I have a substitute for my teaching position if we want to get away once he is all healed.

Speaking of baby... we are having ourselves a little boy! We are so excited about it! At first I thought I wanted a girl but week by week this want for a little boy grew stronger and stronger. And all the "old wives tales" were telling us girl so to see that ultrasound was such a shock and excitement! We are even going to go all CHP themed with the shower and nursery. I mean why not? We are proud of the life we live and the organization he is a part of. It really is a part of our family. Besides there is so much "just like daddy" or "daddy's backup" stuff out there I could just die!

Even though people don't stay at his office very long... watching friends leave more and more, I love this office and this career he chose. Ready to see what it bring with a little one too!

Reality Check

So first, fun, happy stuff... we are officially in the 2nd trimester! Yeah for feeling more like myself and getting back to doing what I want to do. :) And seeing out little one who actually looks like a baby now which is so exciting! It even had the hiccups when we saw it last so it was moving around, CRAZY!

Anyway... After our 3 month appointment my DH decided he missed his motorcycle and wanted to see if he could still do some of the things he has learned in training. Little did I know that about an hour later I would be getting a phone call from him that the paramedics were on their way to check him out because he took a "tumble" off his bike. When I finally believed him (he likes to prank me from time to time and his voice was way too clam) I panicked! I'm pretty sure I yelled at him "You are going to be a parent! You need to stop doing things like this!" LOL Anyway, it was much more then he said it was. When I got there they had him in the ambulance, on the stretcher, taking him to a trauma er. See we have Kaiser so I was like why can't we just go there? And they told me they wouldn't be able to be he needs more of a trauma center. Seriously??? Okay then off we go to a hospital in the ghetto. I probably arrived about 10 minutes after they did so I went to the er information booth and they guy told me I would have to sit down and wait at least 45 minutes before I got to see my husband. I lost it! I seriously lost it! Lucky for him, not on him. I went outside and just starting bawling. The called my sister and told her I needed her. Then I just sat there trying to get it together. I mean seriously? Who tells the wife of a patient sit down and wait 45 minutes!?! Anyway, the ER staff knows how much of a pain that info guy can be and his doctor actually came out to find me and bring me to him! So great! Set me up in the family room because I knew the friend that was with him was coming and now my sister. Little did I know my parents and his parents were coming as well. By the time my sister got there the info guy must have had a talking to because they had no problem letting all of them in. Anyway... long story short now after a cat scan, x-rays of his entire body he has bruised ribs, bruised kidneys, and some bad road rash. At first they were going to keep him over night because the kidneys worried them but they let us go around midnight instead. So it has been interesting taking care of my husband, making sure he isn't doing somethings but needs to be doing others. Being like a nurse and changing the road rash bandages daily. It has been interesting to say the least but for it just to be bruises and road rash I would be happy to keep doing it! Needless to say he will not be getting back on a motorcycle anytime soon, especially with our first little one on the way, even though he wants to in the future. That will be a conversation for the far future for me.

2016 is going to be a great one!

Man... When God has a plan there is no stopping it! 

Like always, lets begin CHP. Nothing too exciting recently which is just fine with us. Hubby has decided he is going to rethink the motor thing. As long as he is happy I am happy, and of course happier when I feel he is safer. But we got a pretty awesome schedule this quarter, Thursday-Saturday off. Yes, we have a weekend off! This just shows you how easy it is to have numbers at an LA office like this. Since I teach Monday's and Wednesday's we are getting so much time together which is really nice. Especially with all that's is going on.

That being said guess it time for big news... WE'RE PREGNANT!!! Seriously just as we have extra space in our new home, we don't have to think too long what to do with that extra room. So far I am 10 weeks along and oh so enjoying being nauseous all the time and trying to keep food down, and needing to pee 2-3 times throughout the night.. not! But if this is what is needed of me for this little one to be okay then I am so in. I could use a little less but hopefully in a few weeks that will happen. 

So there is going to be a lot more about how much I love/hate this life while being pregnant lol. So far, very happy! We have an awesome support from our CHP family and can't wait to see what the next few month will bring.