Maui Life

Hello friends!

Let me first start off by saying, "Merry Christmas!" I hope your year has been most enjoyable and you are excited to start with the next one. Safe to say it's been a crazy one for us! Here's an update for you:

1. We are back in Maui! We moved in August... hehe. The original plan was to only come for a visit while my sister, Sariena, was getting married but opportunity arose and we decided to move back. That's the best I can do at explaining because it was done in a way only God could do and He works in crazy ways (as we all know)! 

2. We moved (mostly, kind of, sort of) because Caleb got a job offer, he is working for a company called GP Electric. He's an apprentice and will work towards getting his journeyman's license... so he is an electrician. I'm super proud of him!
  
3. I'm working back at Ruby's... (: you can all laugh at me... I know I may have said over and over before about how I never wanted to be a server again. Ha! Caleb and I realized I needed to go back to work for a short season and God has completely blessed us in that decision. I'm working part time and recently received my liquor license and became a supervisor. We are learning to make wiser financial decisions and setting ourselves up for a brighter future. 
 
4. Harrison is turning 1 in February! I don't know if life seems like it's flying by for you, it definitely feels that way for me! I can't believe I had a child 10 months ago... He is growing way too fast. I'm excited for Harrison's first Christmas, he already has so many presents (currently the only grandson/nephew on both sides of the family) and I don't think he will have any trouble learning how to rip the wrapping paper off. 

Well, I think I will leave it at that for now! Thanks for reading this short update. We will see how I do next year with the whole blog thing... (:

xoxo
-Sharon  

and the days are flying by...

is it just me or does everybody think it's insane that June is practically over!? I look back on all that I wanted to accomplish this past month and sadly not a lot has been done... I keep thinking, "tomorrow" and then tomorrow turns into "next week." I'm realizing more and more how beneficial it would be to have a little more of a structured schedule. Things were much easier when I didn't have to feed a baby every few hours and make sure he has a few naps throughout the day. Nap times are hard to schedule around, but hey, I can't complain that I now HAVE to nap through out the day.... I mean Harrison has to nap... (;

So I'm getting more and more excited for our trip! It's only two short months away! I'm also super excited for Sariena to get married! It'll be so fun to have a married sibling... then eventually a sibling who's also a mommy! and Harrison is getting another uncle! he doesn't have very many of those. (; I'm trying to think of all the things we want to do while we're there in Maui but I'm predicting a majority of the time will be wedding prep and relaxing with the fam. I know I'm gonna bawl my eyes out when I see my family... I miss them all so much! Yeah, I'll pretty much be a hot mess in the airport... 

I'm looking forward to going to Chicago too! I've never been except for when I was on my way to Germany... I spent about two minutes running from gate to gate in O'Hare International Airport. (: There's so many cool things in Chicago... I hope we get to see at least some of them. (: of course we'll be visiting my beautiful sister in law and her hubby. It'll be more time of rest and relaxation!

Well, I better get going... Sorry I didn't really write about anything new. Harrison is getting a bit fussy and keeps spitting up everywhere... so fun being a mommy! ooooh, p.s. I got a new sling from sevensling.com and I absolutely love it! What I like most about it is the convenience and ease of slipping it on and off. Also it's the only thing Harrison will fall asleep in. He only likes the Moby Wrap sometimes and I hate the front carrier we have. ): So, yeah, yay for baby wearing!

xoxo

Sharon

I can't think of anything enticing to put here...

I'm at Starbucks by myself... yep... by. my. self. It's seriously so weird. Harrison has been extra fussy since Saturday and this afternoon I told Caleb I had to get out for just a little bit. I just texted Caleb and Harrison is sleeping, what a champ. So here I am blogging... I couldn't think of anything else to do. (: We got rid of our internet at home cause we're a bunch of crazies. We decided we could do without the distraction and extra cost of internet/hulu/netflix. We're actually saving a good bit of money. Haha, there's a group of highschoolers at the next table stressing about SAT's. Oh, to be in high school again.

Anyway, I'll let you in on our upcoming plans! So, like I said, in September we'll be heading out to Maui for Sariena's wedding. We bought our tickets last week! They were actually $100 cheaper than we were planning, yay! We're packing up all our belongings and putting it into storage while we're traveling. We leave the 3rd of September and are planning on being out there on Maui for the whole month. After that we head to Chicago to see Erin and Brian (Caleb's sister and her husband) and then it's off to Ohio for another wedding and to see my long lost twin, Alisha!!!! I'm ecstatic to be reunited with her. You can go back and read some of my entries I wrote while in Germany and I guarantee you'll find her name in quite a few of them. (: After about a week in Ohio we're heading to Wisconsin to spend a few weeks with the in laws. I'm super excited to be there in October because it will be absolutely beautiful with the leaves changing. I will be taking SO MANY PHOTOS! Thennnn we're taking the train back to Portland where we will be living. I'm a little anxious for the trip, Harrison will be 7 months and I'm hoping and PRAYING all the traveling will go over smoothly. I will do my best to remain calm and hope he takes my cues. (: pray for us and our sanity/patience.

So for now it's just work, work, work. The cool thing is that summer is tourist season here in Bend and things are really starting to pick up for Caleb at work. During the winter we had to learn to not live on much and now that we're used to that we can put all the extra money he's making into savings for our trip and still live comfortably on what we're used to. make sense? I hope so... I guess you never recover from "pregnant brain".... it just dubs itself "mommy brain." So yeah! That's the plan for now. (: Thanks for reading. 

xoxo,
Sharon

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xoxo

Sharon

life in april.

so this whole "mom" thing hasn't been half bad. (: Harrison is a pretty great sleeper, has been getting better and faster at nursing, and is the cutest little baby in the world! 

I started on his baby book today and I'm excited for how it's going to turn out! hopefully I keep up with it over the next year or two... you know me. (: Here's a photo of Mr. Harrison and how much he's grown over the past 4 weeks!!!!

 

crazy, huh?

If you're reading this please keep us in prayer! I have decided to stay at home with Harrison and Caleb is going to work his butt off for me to do so. I realize what a gift this is to be here with him and take care of him as best I can. Please pray that Caleb would have enough work to support us and that I would be a better blessing to him in this season. I'm not sure how long it'll last but we decided to give it our best try... We'll also deciding what we will do at the end of the summer. We're ready to move on from Bend and have some weddings that we're supposed to be in this Fall (me in my sister's wedding in September and Caleb in a friends wedding in October). We need to make enough money this summer to fly out to both weddings and pay all the expenses that come along with it. (: 

I'm so excited for my sister! She is going to make an unbelievably gorgeous bride! I'm honored to stand next to her and watch her marry the man of her dreams. (: It'll also be her, my brother, and my older sister's first time meeting Harrison... unless Val comes out sometime this summer! very exciting stuff. Anyway, I'll let you be on your way... thanks for visiting!

-sharon

oh, hello.

If you are reading this, I'm amazed! not because I didn't think you could read... but because it's been SO long since I've updated this thing... I thought you may have forgotten about it. (; cause I almost did. 

A lot of my friends have started blogs recently and I figured, "hey! I should update mine so when I follow people they can follow me back." but it's not very enticing when your last post was over a year ago (so sorry). I do realize that you must have some idea what's going on in my life but the blogging world still deserves an update... so let's begin.

ummm.... I'm a mom. 

yes. a. MOM.

 kind of weird to say that, but it's true.

I found out I was pregnant June 19th of last year, it was Father's day, which I thought was pretty special for Caleb... and a cool day for our dads to find out they'd be grandpa's. To be completely honest my first reaction was that of trepidation. I was scared out of my mind! and God bless my sweet husband... he was ecstatic. We weren't planning on getting pregnant, our sweet baby was a surprise from God. I don't know about you but when God surprises me it's kind of scary at first.

Fast forward (from June 19th) 35 weeks and one day... I'm at the hospital having a baby! Going through labor is without a doubt the hardest thing I have ever been through. But it is also the most rewarding thing to go through all that pain knowing you're about to embrace your beautiful baby. It was a very overwhelming experience both physically, emotionally, and also mentally. I can't even describe to you what it's like, you just have to see for yourself.

So now I'm a mother to the most precious baby boy! It's really hard at times but always a joy. (: he's just so stinkin' cute, I can't get over it! Anyway, I think I'll try and keep this thing updated a little more often. I'll do my best not to just chatter on and on about "mom" things... but no promises. (; thanks for reading!

 Harrison Jude

xoxo,

sharon