Wow! Has it been almost a six months since my last post?!? So much has changed in the last year. Let's recap:
First of all, We had a baby! Yes, we had our little boy. John Everett Knowles IV (Rhett for short). What a ride that has been. He is finally down for a nap, so this mom has a few minutes to type. Here is the abridged version of his debut. I woke up at about four a.m. and felt weird. I just didn't quite feel myself. I took a nice hot shower, and sank back into bed. No luck. An hour later I was still awake and uncomfortable. So I got up to walk around, and that really got things going. Within half an hour, my water had broken. As I attempted to not destroy our car on the way, we headed for the hospital. Forty minutes later, we were there. I was checked in and given the longed for epidural, and then we played the waiting game. It wasn't too long of a wait though because by ten a.m. I was ready to start pushing. I pushed for about 40 minutes, and there he was... The most beautiful little boy I had ever seen. Our little guy entered our world at 10:44 am weighing a whopping eight pounds and thirteen ounces. He was twenty and a half inches long, and since then has not stopped growing. A stud from the start, this little guy is now crawling, and attempting to talk, and he's got teeth! Well, he's got tooth... But there are definitely more on the way.
Second, We celebrated our first year of marriage. The time flies so fast. What a wonderful day it was. Nothing went quite right, but that is par for the course considering what our wedding day was like (see earlier posts if you are unfamiliar). We went to take a picture at the Temple from a year earlier, but it was closed for conference weekend. The gates were locked and all. We just could not get in. That set everything in motion. Because we couldn't spend any time at the temple that day, we were early for everything else. Dinner was still a delight. We went to Happy Sumo for sushi and it was delish. I had been craving it since I got pregnant, and this was just the treat I was looking for. Once dinner was finished we were still about two hours early for the movie we had wanted to see. Rather than waiting around, we decided just to spend a night together at home watching a redbox. We had watched so many redbox movies while we were dating. It was nice to revisit that tradition. And I had time to take a bubble bath! All of the mommies out there know how rare time for a bubble bath is, so I made sure to enjoy it! And after all of that, Rhett slept through the whole night. What an awesome anniversary.
Since then, we have started a few projects. I am going back to school for a double bachelor's program, I want to start a new business, and we are getting ready to move in the next two weeks. It's going to be a bit of a crazy time, but I'll try to keep up with my blogging.
Here's hoping the next blog isn't a year out.
