"Rock of Ages, Still Rollin'......"

If you aren't a Def Leppard fan, the title of this post won't mean much to you. But for the rest of you 80's rockers, I chose this as the title because that's how our life feels. One minute we are up, the next minute we are down.... but in the end, we just "keep on rollin'" and the party continues. Have I confused you yet? Well keep reading and you will start to understand.

We left our home, jobs, and family like a couple of crazies and moved to North Carolina for a wonderful job opportunity.

At the UNC Homecoming Football Game

About two weeks later, we found out we are going to have a baby in July!

the cute little squirrel's first ultrasound picture :)

Then about a month after that, things started going bad at Josh's work and our faith was tested more than ever before, but we had to "keep on rollin'." We spent our first Christmas away from home/family and it actually turned out to be a really great party! We spent Christmas Eve at a church member's home with the rest of the Branch who had no family to go visit. The food was great and the company was even better! Josh even got to play one of the shepherds with the kids in the nativity pageant they put on for us adults....I'm sad I didn't take pictures because it was pretty dang funny watching him up there with all the kiddos. We will never forget their love and hospitality and are continually grateful for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and all it has done for us in our lives. We invited the missionaries over on Christmas Day for lunch and that too turned out to be pretty dang awesome! It was hard for me to be fighting morning sickness and still trying to cook and be a good hostess but it all worked out perfectly and Josh helped out a lot. It was hard to be homesick when we were constantly surrounded by amazing people.

Opening our presents on Christmas Morning!

The boys loading up on food!

Our guests for Christmas. They had awesome personalities and we had a  lot of fun talking for hours and eating way too much food.

Then a couple of weeks after that, I was offered a job opportunity as an Inpatient Dialysis RN in Las Vegas! It was an answer to our prayers for many reasons. The main one being that we could raise our baby close to family!! This kid is going to be so spoiled by my parents and sisters, and Josh's family will only be a 45 minute plane ride away! That's so much better than 2,000 miles away. Another reason we are so excited about this job is the HUGE increase in pay! I'm not going to give numbers, but let's just say that Nevada is pretty dang nice to its nurses ;). Just days prior, we were feeling really down and wondering why life was taking the strange turns that it was, and if there was anyone upstairs listening to us. Well, I can attest that there was! Now we have about two weeks to pack and move all of our stuff...again... and then......................

LAS VEGAS HERE WE COME!!!

So now does the title of this post make any sense? Our life has been one big crazy party! Sometimes the party was so exciting and wonderful that we couldn't believe it could ever get any better, and other times the party was so lame and sucky that we wished we could ditch it and find another party to go to. But in the end, we kept "Rock and Rollin'" and here we are! Onto the next adventure!