Bumpdate: Week 20 a.k.a. HALFWAY

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That was Cheeto's contribution. Why do cats like to walk all over keyboards?... I am too lazy to delete it haha.

Anyways, today I am officially halfway done with this pregnancy!!!! I never thought this day would come. It's kinda weird. I still love this stage I'm in! I feel her move all the time with no pain so far, and I'm not huge yet ;)

So not much has changed since last week when I did those question things, but something awesome did happen today!!!! I felt her hiccup for the first time. Let's just say it was sooooo coooool. I loved it! I was lying in bed this morning and felt her moving around as usual, but eventually the movements seemed more precise and more on rhythm. Thus resulting in me realizing I finally felt her hiccuping!!

So this is me at 20 weeks!! Still feel like I haven't grown really, but I thought I'd document it anyways. :)

In My Life as of Lately, I am...

Cooking : brownies. before dinner hehe
Drinking : my lovely VeMMA products that i absolutely love :)
Reading: Bloom. A story about a remarkable woman and how she handles life when she delivers a beautiful baby girl who has down syndrome. I am so touched by her story, and I would highly recommend her book. HIGHLY.
Wanting: my mom and whole family and friends to buy tickets right now to come to Sweden in February to see our baby. 
Looking: at pinterest for a lot of DIY's.
Playing: Mexican Train. this was on Friday, but it was the last thing I "played".
Wasting: time on FB. i hate it. my goal is to only get on once a day, and if i am tempted i try to look at something else! like read a book. scriptures. anything really :) crazy how much time i realized i wasted on the internet when i saw my habits and how often i was tempted to get on.
Wishing: i could paint all day.
Enjoying: spending time with joel. we've watched a bunch of movies lately, and spent some much needed time together. my love language is "physical touch", so I am pretty happy when we can have a good cuddle sesh on the couch! 
Waiting: to feel our little girl move more and more every day. what a miracle :)
Liking: spending time with my mother-in-'love' (she prefers me to call her mother-in-'love', and not mother-in-law. i think it is the cutest!) everyday. today i rambled on and on about my life as a kid.
Wondering: if we should breed Cheeto. Anyone know how to breed cats or how it works??
Loving: our apartment, and loving the idea of our next apartment we are moving into in a month. it will be smaller, but newer. we are SO excited to move on and do new things in our lives!
Hoping: our baby is really a girl. haha.
Marveling: at the miracle of life. i know this post is a lot about baby stuff (i seriously tried to think of different answers so it wasn't all about the baby) 
Needing: more clothes. makeup. scarves. that list is long ma friend.
Smelling: joel's skin. he seriously has the best natural smell ever. ask anyone who knows me, and they can tell you how obsessed i am with smells. and joel smells GOOD. all the time. unless it is after the gym.
Wearing: ma pj's. soft monkey pants and a bright orange shirt that makes my boobs look huge(er).
Noticing: how dark it is starting to get in Sweden already. We loose 1/2 an hour of sunlight every week now. kinda depressing, so i try to think about the coziness of it.. only way to survive really.
Knowing: how much i love joel, and how he inspires me to be a better person every day. he is way into personal development right now (if you follow him on FB or insta, you would definitely know this... speaking of it, he is listening to talks and speeches right now) and it is helping our marriage blossom.
Thinking: about one of my dearest friends Alyssa Davidson coming home off of her LDS mission NEXT TUESDAY. I just got an email from her (literally two seconds ago) saying, "talk to you next week!" and I almost died of happiness.
Feeling: excited about the future, and what is in store for our little family!
Opening: Instagram. WAY too often. (i'm the same way Madeline!!)
Giggling: at joel's farts. i don't know why i find them funny, but i sure do. 

PS. I may have stolen the idea for this from Madeline Casey who stole this idea from The Daybook who stole it from Meet Me at Mike's. Yes. :)

Bumpdate: Week 19

A few nights ago Joel and I stayed up pretty late watching The Great Gatsby. We couldn't finish the movie because things got in the way and we eventually had to go to bed! It's the end of the week, and I was just exhausted yesterday morning waking up. So tired in fact, I forgot I was pregnant. Yes. THAT tired. Thankfully our little girl kicked me 'back to real life' and scared the crap out of me. I was thankful for the reminder ;)
After this incident occurred I was with Joel and he said, "Mollie! Hurry and look to the left!" (there was a pretty sunrise goin on) and I looked to the right. Yep. Still tired I guess! And I missed the sunrise.
I have also started forgetting little things here and there. Is this what pregnancy brain is?... If so, it does not work well with being tired.

So I felt like doing those baby questions again! Gives me something to blog about other than more random and embarrassing stories ;)

How far along? 19 weeks. Basically/almost halfway there!!!

Size of the baby? a bell pepper, large mango, dragon fruit, or a pickle. Take your pick :) Yes, my apps are confusing! Basically she is 15 cm, or 6 inches I think :)

Weight gain/loss?  I still have no idea, and I am kiiiinda scared to look. I know I am gaining weight of course, but it is still hard seeing those numbers go up to places I have never seen before. I am trying to be extra cautious of how much I eat (because I want to eat EVERYTHING. For five people, too) soooooo hopefully the weight gain is going to the "right places"

Sleep? Better. I'm not waking up near as much to pee, but I did have my first leg cramp this morning waking up.

Best moment of the week? Finding out our baby is a GIRL. We may have a name already picked out, but it isn't set in stone yet! Also feeling her move more and more!! I for sure thought she was a boy... I still don't think I have grasped it all yet. At the ultrasound last Tuesday they needed to get a measurement of her head, the most important measurement to track how she is growing. Unfortunately for the nurses her head was kinda stuck behind my hip bone somehow, so they tried and tried to shake her to get her to move. I felt bad because they were so frustrated, but at the same time two wonderful things occurred!! I went  up to go to the bathroom to see if her head would move, and when I came back her legs moved so we could see if the baby was a boy or girl!! Before I was so so sad because her legs wouldn't budge either, and we would have had to pay 400kr (60$) to go to a specialist another day to check the gender. But her head was still in the same position, so I get to come back for another ultrasound in a couple weeks! So I get to see her again hehe :)

Symptoms? Oh do I still have a sensitive nose! I have a hard time being with a large group of people unfortunately, just because of all the smells they bring I guess. Church is probably the hardest for me. Oh, and riding the bus and train. People really stink on those things haha. I feel like I am in this perfect stage of pregnancy right now! People keep on asking me if I am sick, and I am long past that (hopefully haha). I'm not huge yet, my back doesn't hurt and I feel her move all the time. Not as much pain, and I feel the baby. I'd say pregnancy is perfect right now haha!

Food cravings/aversions? No super strong cravings yet, although buffalo wings sound divine right now, and I guess the past few days actually. I also can't stand the smell of coconut cream. Super weird.

Labor signs? Nada (thank goodness!)

What I miss? Being able to smell normally.

What I am looking forward to? starting to buy things for her!! 

Nursery? Nothing yet :( It's times like this where I wish I had my mom and sisters to come shopping with me. But, I do have a wonderful sister-in-law and mother-in-law that can help too ;) I did go into the baby store for the first time a few days ago (I have been forcing myself to stay away until we found out what the gender was.. and now that I know I just couldn't stay away any longer!!) and got SUPER overwhelmed. I realized how much we have to buy. I just don't know where to start!! Any suggestions?? I tried narrowing everything down to the necessities when she comes, but even that was overwhelming.  

And here is our little girl! with her stubborn head in an inconvenient position ;)

We Finally Know.

I have been waiting for this day my whole entire life.

Even as a kid, being a mom was a dream to me. I would shove pillows up my shirt all the time, and sneakishly read my mom's "What to Expect When You're Expecting" book and mark all my favorite pages. Today was the day when my pregnancy became real. As if being sick didn't make me feel pregnant... I just felt like I was getting fat.

Even though I have been feeling the baby move off and on for a few weeks now, it still hasn't become a reality. Until today :)

Yesterday we found out we are having a little girl!

Knowing that there is a human INSIDE me that is a girl amazed me really. I was sure the baby was a boy, since that was my first instinct from the beginning.. even though I was hoping for a girl. I asked the nurses so many times if they were sure! I was in shock, and still am! That is how positive I was that our baby was a boy. Girls are all I know! I have four younger sisters (who are the cutest, by the way) and no brothers. Boys are verrry foreign to me, hence the reason I was hoping for a girl.

I have over used the words, "We are so excited!!" today. But we are :) all of her organs look healthy and working well!! We feel extremely blessed. ♡

Yes... she is sitting on her head. 

I felt like blogging today.

I was nominated by Madeline for one of those cool little bloggy awards called the Liebster Award. The Rules are such -

"Liebster" means dearest in German, and it's awarded, blogger to blogger, to up-and-coming blogs with less than 200 followers.  The rules for accepting and giving the award are pretty simple.  Once you accept the award, you just have to do the following in a blog entry:

Answer the 11 questions posted by the nominator on her blog

Give 11 facts about yourself

Nominate 5-11 other new, up-and-coming blogs with less than 200 followers

Make up 11 more questions to pass on to the bloggers you choose to nominate

Thank your nominator by linking back to her blog

Upon your post going live, contact your nominees about your nomination for them

Facts about me.. you can find HERE)

1. What did you eat for breakfast today? I am bad at eating breakfast, so all I ate was a kiwi. Horrible, I know.

2. What is your favorite story to tell? How Joel and I met!! Quite the story and honestly I've been thinking about making it into a story book to read to our kids.

3. What is your best article of clothing? Oh dear. Anything comfortable at this point. I am at this awkward stage where my normal clothes don't really fit and maternity clothes drown me. But it has been fun getting new maternity clothes :) I'm sure I'll get sick of wearing them though!

4. If you could buy anything right now, what would it be? Gosh this list is endless. Does baby stuff count as one? I want a bed, stroller, clothes, etc... Like I said, that list is endless.

5. If you could switch lives with someone, who would it be? I've always wanted to be black for a day so I can dance and not feel like a lil white girl trying to dance. Sooo anyone cool that is black? :)

6. So the new iphone just came out. What color would you get? Not planning on getting an Iphone after my Samsung Galaxy... sorry ;)

7. Do you like it rainy or sunny? why? After living in Sweden for a year and having the darkness and cold during the winter that buries deep into your bones, I like the light and sun. A lot. But don't get me wrong... it is nice to have the sun evened out with the rainy days. Still, I like the sun :)

8. Favorite Amanda Bynes movie before she went psycho? I always liked She's the Man, but watched it recently and it was almost too much for me haha. But I really did like her in Sydney White, that was a super cute movie!!

9. Describe your future home. I always want to have the love of Christ in my home. When others come in, I hope that they immediately feel loved and at home! I always try to strive for that peaceful and homey feeling. I want a normal sized home but not too small where we all want to kill each other, and not too big where we can get lost. Something nice in the middle! There are a lot of things about houses in Sweden that I love. And since I am American, there are things about American homes that I love. If I ever find a way to mesh those two together somehow, I'll let ya know ;) I definitely want carpet. Nice, soft carpet. I also like the idea of a rambler? (I am not sure if that is what it is called..) house. Two floors that are big I guess. This is really hard to write what is in my head by the way...

10. Do you have a job? If so, what is it? I do! Thankfully, I am really blessed to have one actually. I work for my father-in-law, helping him sell his book! His secretary, in simple terms I suppose!

11. Why do you blog? I blog because my family will forever be split in half, and having a blog is a great way to keep family and friends updated on our lives. A little more personal than facebook as well ;)

Now I am supposed to tag some other folks to answer these questions:

1. What's your zodiac sign? And do you read your horoscope?

2. First kiss story!

3. Shuffle your Ipod and tell me the first 3 songs that come up.

4. What's your favorite website/blog/tumblr?

5. Who's your celebrity crush?

6. Top 5 ways to win your heart?

7. Tell me a joke.

8. No money reservations--where would you live/visit for a month?

9. 3 things that you always have in your purse/backpack/car/pocket?

10. What book could you read over and over again?

11. Your favorite TV series?

I tag (and I know you all read my blog since I got all your names specifically off my "traffic sources" page on my blog ;): Eva Herrey, Annette Wilson, Megan Rose, Micquellyn Jackson, and Shantel Peaden 

Bumpdate: Week 16

Hello everrrryone!! Sorry I haven't blogged in forever. I wanted to wait and blog until I would know what we are having.... but I can just blog again right??
Anyways life has been good. An adjustment for sure, especially after 6 weeks of vacation... haha. Tough life right?? ;) Now there is a plus side of living in Sweden! You are required to have 5 weeks of paid vacation ;)
A friend of mine is pregnant right now, and has been doing an awesome question thingy that I am totally going to steal from her! I want to blog about my pregnancy and such... but haven't quite decided how to talk about it really. So here I go :)

Not the best picture, but it is the most recent! Plus I love it because Cheeto is in it of course ;)

How far along?  16 weeks and three days

Size of the baby? An avocado! I hold one in my hands everyday and everything is becoming so much more real to me! It's ridiculous. And fun.

Weight gain/loss?  I think so.... actually I am pretty sure because I feel like an oompa loompa... but don't really know how much.

Sleep?  Eh. I want to invest in a body pillow! Maybe that could help sleeping at night. I wake up every night to go to the bathroom once or twice and that is annoying. Usually the first one is right on the dot at two a.m. Another thing that is hard is we don't let our cat sleep with us since she is super annoying. When I have to open the door to go to the bathroom she tries to bolt into our room. Every. Time. She stresses me out at two a.m. every. time. It's rather tiring trying to keep her out of our room...

Best moment of the week?  Earlier this week I felt the baby move 6 or 7 times in one day. For the past few weeks it has been once a day MAYBE if I pay reeeeally close attention. But one day this past week it was so much! I loved it.

Symptoms? Nothing too much.. except I get super car sick! And I always feel tired... I am growing a human, ok??!

Food cravings/aversions?  The only craving I have kinda had is spicey food. I just want spicey food all the time!! Nothing to do with other cravings yet, which I am a little disappointed in I guess! You hear about all these pregnant woman craving such random things instantly, and I haven't really had that. Before I was pregnant I was already sensitive to eating certain things... Like bananas for example. I really like bananas, but for some reason I can't eat them. Maybe it's the texture?.. So all the things I couldn't eat before I REALLY can't eat now. I gag on certain things. (like bananas)

Labor signs?  Nope. And hopefully not for a while.

What I miss?  Not getting car sick. And feeling skinny, and somewhat in control of my weight, diet, and exercise.

What I am looking forward to?  Feeling the baby move more! And finding out in a couple weeks if it is a boy or girl!! And spending alllll our money on baby things hehe ;)

Nursery? Nothing yet, and this makes me sad!! I haven't bought a single baby thing. AT ALL. I am proud of myself for resisting!! Since coming back from the states we have been tight with money (where we spent plenty of money hehe :) and since Joel wasn't paid during the summer, so we are on one income right now until the end of September!! Then I figured we will both be paid, and we will know what is in there!! We are also moving to a new apartment about 30 min away, so I don't want to buy anything too big because we will just have to move it anyways.

That's all folks!! I hope all of my thoughts that I have attempted to put down make sense :)

Say Whaaaa???

Yep. It is true everyone... we will have a lil one joining us in February!!!! Kinda crazy, and it just became a reality for us last week at my 8 week appointment:

Kinda difficult to see what everything is, but you get the idea that something is in there at least!!!

I wanted to start having kids when we first got married (I am glad we waited eventually, even though it was hard!!) but because of the Swedish system, Joel told me he would feel better about having kids once I had a job (because of the way the government works with the maternity leave). It is hard enough for Swedes to get a job.... and now this little American girl that knows ZERO Swedish is trying to get a job! Pretty tough, and I didn't have very much hope.

Time passed while I was studying Swedish, and Christmas was on its way after both of our birthdays right in a row. We found out Joel wouldn't have his job after Christmas, (Seriously??? Couldn't they have waited a few more months after the poorest time of the year to pass??) so we were both unemployed for a few months until March! Looking back on it, I have no idea how we survived. We were blessed, and somehow managed to eat and pay for our rent... and if I was pregnant during that time on top of everything else.... oh goodness I can't even imagine. Hence the reason why I am glad we waited until we were more settled :)

I was blessed to find a job working for my father-in-law!! Which also means once I started working, I qualified for paid maternity leave! FINALLY.
Finding out I could work for him happened a few hours after we found out BYU wouldn't accept Joels college grades, and that we weren't moving to Utah. When Per came over and told us about this job opportunity, it felt so right and comforting.
People kept on asking me how I was doing after it didn't work out with BYU, and I honestly felt fine!! I can honestly say I felt comforted instantly as soon as Per mentioned this opportunity... it just felt so right.

Once I had been working for a while, I found out on a Wednesday that I was pregnant!!! I had taken a test earlier that morning, and didn't want to look... just in case it was negative. I was on the bus headed to my in-laws house when I realized I hadn't looked yet! Ohhh my goodness I was nervous. I honestly expected it to be negative, even though I was feeling 99% of the symptoms! After I saw those two solid lines, I was in shock the rest of the bus ride. The first person I saw was my sweet mother-in-love (or so she has me call her) and as soon as she saw my face she knew, and I think almost passed out haha!!

Our anniversary was June 14th, the coming Friday... So I decided to wait THREE WHOLE DAYS to tell Joel, attempting to be slightly romantic. Honestly, I have no idea how I did that! On Thursday he had actually told me he was curious what was going on, since I had immediately stopped talking about babies and pregnancy and such... And I had to lie to his sad face when I told him I wasn't expecting it to be positive (even though I was feeling extremely sick at this point!)

Friday FINALLY came and I was dying to give Joel his "present" that I had "bought" for him. I had been giving him these hints to make him believe I had actually gone out and bought him something! Hehe I was trying to be soooo sneaky. Joel had me go on a little treasure hunt to find my gift, and afterwards I just gave him this little box with the pregnancy test in it with a few binkies!! Lets just say he was excited, but it hadn't really hit him yet. I kept on waiting and waiting for this freak out to happen, and he told me it would probably happen at our first ultrasound.

Last Wednesday the 17th was our first ultrasound... finally. I was suuuuper excited for it... but once we got back in the waiting room, Joel finally had his freak out. I think it was kind of funny, but he probably doesn't! He couldn't sit still or look at any pictures on the wall... in my eyes it was hilarious! I hadn't seen him this nervous in a long time. We finally got to see a little peanut in there! What an amazing miracle it was! I am amazed at technology!! I am even more amazed that my body knows what to do.

After our ultrasound we had a hard time keeping our secret, so I just thought why not tell everyone? :)

So far I have considered myself extremely lucky! I haven't thrown up at all, just nauseous the past week. I rode in the car up to Logan (hour and fifteen min drive... ish) and got super sick. So, car rides have been the worst for me so far! And if I don't eat. And if I eat too much. Or eat bad. Basically I need to eat good and healthy all the time to feel fantastic :) So I feel extremely blessed thus far!!!

If you know me, you know how baby hungry I have been since I was.... probably five years old. While my mom was pregnant with all my little sisters, I would be pregnant too by stuffing pillows down my shirts. While I was dating I was more excited to have a baby than to be married. So, when the time finally came and I found my eternal companion, I had physically only spent 8 weeks with him before we were married. I guess you could say I reeeeally wanted a baby, since I had finally found the man I would spend eternity with! I am glad we waited until the time was right for us :)

Mawwiage... Mawwiage is What Bwings Us Togeva... Tooday.

I don't really have anything at all to blog about... other than what I blogged about last time. Coming to the states basically :) We leave in ten days in case you were wondering, and are a little too excited :) One of my favorite parts about coming home is the scene at the airport. Since we travel for 20+ hours, that refreshing moment of WHY I have been traveling for so long comes true!!! It is zee best.
Side note... when my family flew to Sweden for the wedding last summer, I was late coming to the airport because one car broke down (or something along those lines) and it broke my heart not being there on time for my family!! Because I know how much it means to me I suppose. I still feel so bad about that, haha.

Joel and I celebrated our first anniversary last Friday!! Been married a whole year, quite awesome!! We got some gifts for each other, went out to dinner, and rented some movies! We love spending time together, fo realz.
So.... I know people say the first year of marriage is the hardest. Seriously, I don't know who says that but our first year was amazing. From only spending 8 weeks physically together before we got married, and 10 long months of skype, I would say we have a healthy marriage. But. That does NOT mean it has been easy necessarily. I have been homesick. We have both been unemployed at one point, not knowing how we could eat let alone pay for rent... and there are more instances of course. I look back at the winter season and realize how hard it really was! Trying to help each other out of the darkness (LITERALLY. It was dark here ALL the time. Rare sun rays) and we made it and helped each other through it. Sure we have had disagreements... actually, our first one was if we should get a cat or not. Hehe I won that one ;) Joel has never been a big animal person, but promised me once we moved out of our one room apartment we could get a cat to close the door off to our super nice bed. I thought that was a good compromise!
We look back at our relationship and are grateful for those ten months we had away from each other. All we could do was communicate. Our relationship is really based off of that, I believe... and I will always be grateful for that. We still haven't fought, and any disagreement we have had we have figured out together, respecting each others opinions.
I look back to when we were engaged and it feels like we barely knew each other!!!! Sometimes I think, "How on earth did we get married, we barely knew each other??!" But we must have known a little bit ;)
I also love living with a man. Best. Roommate. Ever.

You know this picture? Yep. I laugh at all his farts. I don't know why, but I find them so comical. Usually when he farts in the morning he has to look over at my face to see how I react... Oh the joys of living with a man :)

Also, this is one of my new favorite pictures!! We are completely obsessed and in love with this little cat... who woulda thought?? We had some friends taking Cheeto while we are in the states, and they wanted  to test out their allergies one night, and have her stay at their house! She was away from us for maaaaybe six hours, and we were dying. We missed her like CRAZY. It was ridiculous. We are way too obsessed... I don't know what we are going to do for six weeks. Joel started making cat noises pretending she was here.

Well. That is all I can think about... See ya in 10 days Utah!!!! :)

3.5 Weeks Until??...

WE COME TO THE UNITED STATES!!!!!! For 6 whole weeks. You can say I am beyond excited. My cute lil sis is getting married July 27th, so we will be there a whole month before the wedding! SO STOKED. I thank her everyday for getting married this summer, so I have a (legit) reason to come home!! We leave Sweden June 27th... Right after all the holidays here! Perfect timing that we didn't even think about haha. I have slowly been compiling a list of things we need to bring over, and things we need to buy! Thank goodness for google drive :) I would say my #1 thing that I would just love to buy is a niiiice camera. Sure, we take pictures with our phones.. but I want to really document our lives. One of my favorite bloggers (who is a professional photographer, but still) really inspired me. She is CONSTANTLY putting up pictures of her kids, and I just love it. Sure, it might seem over the top to some (and me sometimes haha) but I love how she captures moments. So. That is my new goal- learning about all that fun stuff :) Even when I sit on the bus I am thinking and looking how I could take different pictures! Possible new obsession?
Yesterday was my year mark of living in Sweden! Crazy, eh?? For your enjoyment, here are some pictures of us meeting at the airport, and me meeting my in-laws for the first time... two weeks before we got married ;)

We were SO NERVOUS to meet again!! We hadn't seen each other since January, and this picture was taken June 1st!! 6 whole months of being engaged and not being able to hold each other when the other was having a hard day.. the worst and hardest thing about long distance for sure.

Meeting my sweet mother-in-"love" for the first time! Yes we had "met" over skype, but this was the first face to face meeting :)

After leaving the airport, we really wanted to be together. Thus resulting in Joel taking me on a walk, and I guess showing me some horses?..

He thinks he is funny..

Gratefulness and Blessings

I just got done reading a blog post about The Disease Called "Perfection". It was interesting, and I believe had a good point to it. By the time I was done reading it, I had such a weird feeling... a mixture of gratefulness and also sadness. I felt grateful, realizing all that I have and seeing what other people struggle with (from what the commenters said on the blog)... from over eating, being lazy, not feeling good enough to take care of their kids, and cheating on a spouse... to depression, being over weight, and addictions. I felt so much sadness, realizing how much everyone is going through in the world today attempting to be 'perfect' on the outside. What I have come to realize is that most people that look 'perfect' on the outside, are struggling on the inside.

If you wish to read this blog post, you can read it HERE.

Thinking about this post, and after reading the comments on his blog post.. I have been trying to decide how I feel about it. Like I said, it made me feel grateful and sad. I made the decision to look at the positive side of this and not focus on the negatives, which was what everyone that commented on this post was doing. Sure I could list the negatives that I struggle with on the inside, but that would be terribly depressing!! Thus resulting in me wanting to look at the positives in my life :)

Here is the list of things I have been reflecting on that I am grateful for:
- my healthy marriage
- my husband loves and respects me
- we have never gone hungry
- we are not in debt
- we help eachother up, not push eachother down
- we communicate well
- we have public transportation to get around, so we didn't have pressure of needing a car right away
- we have such a lovely apartment. the guy that lived here before us was a painter, and redid everything
- we are (mainly, we try haha) healthy
- we have a wonderful support system of family and friends on both continents
- THANK GOODNESS FOR AIRPLANES so we can travel back and forth!!!!
- we have plates to eat on, and silverware to eat with
- we both have jobs
- we live in a clean country
- technology.. geez, where would we be without it??
- good friends


Basically, this list can go on and on... hopefully you get the point ;) What are you grateful for?
Happy Sunday everyone!!