Catch Up

Now that I have more free time on my hands, I have decided to once again take up blogging. Hopefully I can keep up with it :P

A lot has happened over the past year that has changed my life immensely. I wouldn't take any of it back for the world. On June 9th, 2010 I met an amazing man by the name of Joshua Friedman. Little did I know at the time that he would later become my husband and the father of our soon-to-be-born child. I remember so clearly as I was driving down to San Antonio after graduation, to spend a few days with my big brother Matt, and his family; my brother telling me to be a bitch to his friends so that way they wouldn't hit on me. I laughed and said, ok whatever. I honestly did try to be a little bitchy is the funny part. I tried especially hard to be bitchy to Josh, most likely because from day one I was crushing on him ;) I made him carry things for me, I gave him lots of shit, I wiped my sweat on him. Okay, now writing all of that out, I wasn't being bitchy at all I was flirting. LOL

But I was Matt's little sister, there was no way this man would see me as someone to date... Little did I know...

This was at a point in my life where I was just tired of dating, I was tired of looking for a boyfriend, or just going through all those motions. I had decided it was off to school and to just put a relationship on the back burner until later. It's truly amazing what you stumble into when you're not looking.

The last night I was at Matt's house was when I finally pulled my face out of my butt and realized that Josh was flirting with me. There was no denying the chemistry that was flowing between us, and after our first kiss there was no denying that something was happening.

I went home the next morning, very reluctant to leave, but with butterflies in my stomach. I had no idea where this was going to lead, or if it would go anywhere at all. After I arrived back home, Josh and I started texting and talking on the phone daily. We really got to know each other, and it was amazing to me that we were on same level with so many things regardless of our age gap.

At this point I was serious about moving out of my mom's house. I had no privacy, no respect, and there was no way I'd get any homework done if I went to college while living there. So I made a wild decision, and I got the hell out. I honestly can say that moving out was the best decision I have ever made. I moved down to San Antonio to live with Matt and Ashley in their knew rental home, I was going to get a job and start looking into school.

Before I had moved though, my relationship with Josh had blossomed, after he had come up to visit for a week and we started officially dating, things just got better from there. I knew there was something super special about this guy, and I wasn't going to let him slip away. I will admit that he was part of my decision to move to San Antonio. I didn't have to move to San Antonio to get away from home, I could have gone to Idaho to live with my sister. But something in my gut told me that San Antonio was where I needed to be. I went with that gut feeling...and now here I am.

After a month or so of living with Matt and Ashley, Josh asked me to move in with him (since I spent most of my time at his house anyways), and so I once again packed up my stuff and moved it over to Josh's house. Thank god it wasn't any farther than up the road :P

Now things really get fun :) We'd been living together for several months, and it was only a couple days before Christmas when we got some really shocking news. Even though we'd been careful, fate had taken its hand in our lives; I was pregnant. Josh and I have a very open and communicative relationship, so for the past month or so before we knew we were pregnant we had been talking about the possibility of marriage. We definitely wanted to get married, but we figured there really wasn't any rush. After discovering that we were expecting though, our attitudes towards marriage became more serious. And on Christmas Day right after the Cardinals beat the Dallas Cowboys, Josh jumped off the couch, got down on his knees, and asked me to marry him. There was just no way I could tell him no ;) not when his team had just won, he was rocking his Guiness pajama pants, and I was so helplessly in love with him.

I knew then and there that I was going to marry him, and he was going to be an amazing father to our baby. We got married on February 5th, thanks to the wonderful planning and help from his family. It was the most beautiful wedding, it was better than what I could have hoped for.

Now, here it is June, and I am in my 7th month of pregnancy, we're getting our little baby James's room together, because in a little over 2 months our little man is going to be here. We've decided to name him James Robert Friedman, he'll have the same initials as his daddy :)

I am the happiest I have ever been! Josh and I have almost been together for a year now, and a lot has happened in that year. But I can honestly say it was the best year ever, and I know that with him I have lots more amazing years to come. I am truly Blessed.