The year started by looking for a house. We'd been looking for over a year, but had skipped over this one. I don't know why. But when we finally scheduled to see it, I was hooked. Thankfully my husband just agreed. It had the garage for him. The basement for me. The large yard for the puppies and space for all of us. The downside... One bathroom. We figured that was a small problem compared to the huge amount of promise it has. We bid on it.
I also started the year with I'm gonna get healthy! I'm gonna find out why I've been sick for the past year. I figured a hormone imbalance. The doctor did too. Several tests were strange. Then he suggested a pregnancy test. Ha! I haven't been pregnant for a year! But the test was positive and the ultrasound was the next week just after they accepted the bid on the house... I was just 14 weeks pregnant due in July.
So we began our year looking future in the face! Painting, remodeling and moving. New plumbing and a new furnace install. Trips back and forth to Utah because we picked our provider there to deliver at the University of Utah. We both worked and worked. I tried to take extra time with Heavyn while cooking our new baby. It was trying and exhausting, missing Calvin, nervous to even have another baby despite that I knew our baby would grow fine with me.
Then we lost our Lucky. What a fine pup. The most sincere loving pitbull. A tragic loss for our family to really bring to light all the scary things on our mind right before having a baby.
Spent some time in SLC incase this baby decided to debut early. But she stayed. July 21st - planned c section and the doctor said, "oh boy! It's a girl!" John response was... "I'm gonna need two shotguns now." She was perfect. Our little Morgan.
Celebrating Morgan was easy, but also terribly hard. Every day I'm still missing her brother. Everything she does, he should've had the chance to do.
We did good getting home except I was sick. Thought that acid reflux was still a major issue. You know that's why Morgan had a full head of hair. But it was much more serious. As the pain got worse and I couldn't hold anything down. The ER said my liver numbers were 6 figures. I was not doing so good. Back to the University of Utah on a plane. I had to wait a couple days with no food or drink to get my numbers down. John brought Morgan too. When I had my gallbladder removed for stone induced pancreatitis she had to be formula fed. Thankfully it was brief. After I healed from that too, life got better.
So we ended the year spending lots of time with our girls and family. Christmas was amazing and I'm going into this new year ready.
In my business, 2014 was trying. I did very little work this year. The move and baby and Heavyn were my priorities. But the art studio has seen some action and I'm ready. I'll tell you some 2015 goals in my next post. You can help keep me accountable.
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