Year in Review: 2008

One of my friends did this on her blog and I thought it looked like a good idea. Plus I'm bored outta my mind at work (which isn't bad with only 10 days till my due date...better than nonstop running) and am trying to not fall asleep...something the nurse I'm working with today was incapable of. She's been asleep for like 30 min! haha....

Anyway....here is our 2008 year in review....

January - Our first New Years as a married couple. Mike joined ROTC at BYU to see if he wanted to be in the Air Force after he graduates.

February - One year anniversary! Rocky is one year as well. Mike decided we were going to go on a cruise and booked it (thank you Pell Grants!)

March - Spring break for us...we went on a Mexican Riviera Carnival cruise. It was 7 nights and it was awesome!!! Two days after we got home I took my NCLEX-PN and passed, recieving my LPN nursing license!

April - I stopped birth control without telling Mike, thinking it would take us a while to concieve...guess not...two weeks later I was pregnant, but didn't know it. We went to France to visit Grandma Gisele after school ended at the end of the month. Mike got his Private Pilot License.

May - We cut our week trip to Europe short after 4 days because Grandpa Keith died and his funeral was a few days before our original date of return. We moved (drive) to Baltimore, Maryland for Mike to do summer sales (NEVER AGAIN) Rocky stayed with my family in Colorado and was spoiled. Found out I was pregnant. Learned that we don't like the east coast. Mike has a new love....Blue Crab....Obrycki's is his new favorite place to eat....much cheaper than his other fav, Ruth's Chris.

June - Baltimore is HOT! Mike sweats to death everyday doing door to door. I give it a try with him a few days...not so great being pregnant! I threw up for the first and only time my pregnancy. First OB appointment, we see the baby do a little dance and find out how far along I am....due date Jan 13.

July - Baltimore is still hot and we still don't like it. I teach kids craft classes at Joann - not worth my time! We go to Bath, New York to visit my best friend from high school, Alyssa and her family for the 4th of July. We severely miss Utah summer....all the city days and the freedom fest. NASCAR at Dover and trips to Washington, D.C. I learn that theme parks are not fun when you are pregnant. We go to Anapolis to see what it's like and eat at Leune's...slightly cheaper and better than Ruth's Chris, which is next door.

August - We flew home for a weekend for a family reunion...Mike got to meet two of my cousins who got home from missions. On our trip home we bumped our flights twice and each ended up with $800 in flight vouchers! Tyler flew to Baltimore to visit, see the sights including the Air and Space Museum(s). The three of us drove back to Utah, stopping in Dayton, Ohio at the Air Force National Museum for a whole day....the boys LOVED it. I got more swollen possibly than I have this entire pregnancy on that 31 hour drive at just 18 weeks. We picked Rocky up in Colorado Springs on the way home. We got to go to Lake Powell, just us and Mike's parents and had a great time. Mike turned 24 (old man!) and the next day we found out we were having a little girl!!!!! Soooo excited! School started again...Mike took 20.5 credits! Crazy! My last semester!

September - I started my nursing preceptorship in Labor and Delivery...and that's definately what I want to do! We both just trudged away at school. It kept us pretty busy! We decided to name the baby Lilly Anastasia Robertson.

October - Mike got hired at Cabela's in the footwear department. Too bad it's not a commission job...cause he kicks butt at it. I got hired at the Utah State Developmental Center as an LPN. We'll be able to live a little more comfortably and not really have to worry about money as much. We used our travel vouchers and went to Alaska to visit the Tippetts for a week. It was really cold and snowy. Mike suprized me with two nights at a cute lodge style hotel on a frozen river. I had NO idea. I'm starting to feel a little big.

November - Both jobs are going good. We never get to see each other though. All we do is work and school. I get exhausted quickly from being up so early and then waiting up for Mike to get home and have lots of break-downs because of it. People start predicting that I'll have the baby by New Years because she has dropped a bit and I carry her completely in front. My first baby shower was at Grandma Mert's...huge turnout...tons of stuff! Turkey day comes and goes...I worked and then we went to Brad and Jody's new cabin. My family was here for the week.

December - I finished school completely! YAY! Freedom! I turned 22. Mike did very well in school this semester and his GPA should be going up quite a bit. He took the AFOQT, but we still don't know how he did on it. He'll be applying for an ROTC scholarship in Jan!!! Christmas came and went. We had to open presents at 4:20am because I had to work. My family is here. My mom is staying until the end of January now. My 2nd baby shower was at Lynette's...lots of loot! Lilly is set!.......and.........................NO BABY! gah! I'm huge and just want to be finished!

A lot happened last year for us. We feel so blessed to have survived all the ups and downs and to have so much support from our friends and family. We are adjusting to never seeing each other and are hoping to see a lot more of each other while I'm on maternity leave. We are so excited to become parents in the next few days and feel so blessed to be entrusted with one of our Heavenly Father's children.

Hopefully my next post tells you that Lilly is here.....or that we got a new car.....either one should happen soon!