*Making the cut*

After almost 10 long years I finally decided it was time to cut off all my long hair. This change has been long since needed but never could muster up the courage to do it. I have not felt good about myself for awhile now, feeling fat, and just not pretty, so this change was good for me and I feel a little more confident now. My sister cut my hair at her new salon she works at and did an AMAZING job. She is so talented and always knows just what to do to help improve my look!

                                           Then and Now

*Soon to be a party of 4!!!*

We are excited to announce that we are expecting baby #2 at the end of January!! I'm currently 13 weeks and baby and I are doing great. This pregnancy has been very different from Jaden's in that I'm not sick all the time, but only get nauseas if I don't eat for a long period of time. I was super tired in the beginning and don't have the energy I used too, but other than that doing well. I'm still going to the gym on a regular basis, so that has really helped with getting energy. Although I can't lose weight I hope to try and maintain a decent weight, and not blow up like I did before haha.

Ultra sound at 9 weeks!

Everyone says that since I feel different this time it's probably a girl, but I believe firmly that it's going to be a boy so I guess we will just have to see. I bought Jaden a big brother shirt that is super cute and that's how I told Josh. He was definitely shocked at first because we weren't really trying for another one quite yet, but really the timing couldn't be better, so we are both very excited for Jaden to have a little sibling. It's really cute too because I tell Jaden all the time to kiss the baby, so he comes up to my stomach and gives it a big kiss, which totally melts my heart. I know he is going to be an awesome big brother and hopefully mommy's little helper too! I'm a little nervous about how it's going to be with two kids, but with the help of my Heavenly Father and our two loving families so close to us now :) it's all going to be just fine!

*San Diego and Update*

It has been forever since I have had some time to sit down and blog, and wow so much has happened since my last post. So first off we moved home back in June, and are basically renovating our entire house (this will be a whole new post later). Because of all the new things we are doing to our house, we are currently staying down the street at my in-laws until our house is complete.

Anyways admist all the crazieness we found some time to get away on our Bracken family vacation to San Diego. This year Josh and I rented our own trailer. Which the company we rented from drops the trailer off right at the beach for you, sets it up, and when your done hauls it away SUPER easy, conveniant, and we LOVED it. We spent four fun filled days on the beach of San Diego with Josh's family. The first day we just relaxed and swam in the ocean. The second day we went on a Kayaking tour, which was so fun and a great arm/back workout. The last full day we went on a 25 mile bike ride around downtown San Diego and up to a huge park, another great workout. Saturday we pretty much just slept in and then packed up and came home. Lots of fun pictures to enjoy!

We are now back from vacation, but being back in Arizona makes me so happy that I didn't mind coming back hahha. I can't wait for our house to be all finished and moved in. Hopefully we should be done with everything by the end of the month. I promise once our house is finished I will post pics. Jaden is loving being in AZ with all the new found freedome of actually being outside. It is hot but we don't mind because it's better than depressing rain ever single day. Oh back trak a little, 4th of July was fun, haha we pretty much worked on our house all day, then sat in my in-laws backyard and ate bbq, sipped root beer floats and saw maybe four or five little fire-works. So nothing big but who cares the weather was so nice that day and we were with people we love! Well I think that is about it for now, but I promise to be better from now on and keep up with my blog, because I treat it like a journal and don't want to fall behind on documenting memories.