Two Years to Long

Let's just say that I have been feeling really guilty about this little blog of mine, oh how it has been neglected!

..... two years, to long.

I honestly don't know where to begin. I shouldn't be so hard on myself, I am a new mom and I guess you could say I have taken "a break" these last two years trying to figure out the secrets to being an amazing mom who is on top of everything in life, even her blog. Well I am here to tell you that I still haven't figured it out yet. So any advice would be appreciated. I guess I have my entire life to figure it out, right?

So, I guess I will begin where I last left off with my last "Usual Update".

Same Old:

• We are still living in Woodland Hills. I love this beautiful woodland paradise, it will be so hard to leave one day. I have come to love our friends we have made here and especially our ward!

• We are still living vicariously through the youth with our callings in the church. Tyson is with the Deacons (12-13 year old boys) and I am still with the Beehives (12-13 year old girls).

Woodland Hills Ward Youth 

The Last Two Years (2013-2014):

• Soon after graduation Tyson was blessed with a amazing job opportunity. He got hired at Perry Homes as one of their superintendents. He loves working for them and it's exactly what he wanted to do with his degree, build homes for families. I am extremely proud of him and his new career. I am happy that he loves what he is doing and he is such a great provider for our family.

• Added our new addition, Ryker Ty Auger. He truly is the pride and joy of our lives. We have never experience this kind of joy that we have felt from being parents. It truly is a hard but rewarding experience. Ryker has always been so full of life, he makes everyday a new little adventure. He has the most adorable grin with the cutest little dimples. Oh, how I love those dimples and his silly little laugh! However I will admit I am kinda in denial, I can't believe that my baby is no longer a baby but a little boy who will be two years old this May. 

Two Weeks Old

One Year Old

• With a new baby and a new career we had to sell both of our cars. Yes, I unfortunately had to give up "The Rover" however I am liking my new ride and Tyson especially is on cloud nine with his. He got a 2011 Ford F-150 truck, for him this new addition has always been a dream of his but it is also a huge help with his career.

• He is finally home! My little brother Zac was "Called to Serve" a two year mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Fortaleza Brazil. It was fun to watch Zac grow as a person and as a missionary. I am extremely proud of my little brother for serving a mission and am especially happy to have him home after a long two years!

The Newest News:

• We are excited to announce that our little family is continuing to grow. Baby Girl Auger will be joining our family come this May. Let's be honest Ryker has no idea what is coming and Tyson and I may or may not be slightly nervous to be having a girl. I think we'll figure it out pretty quickly though. May can't come soon enough!

         
Updating you all I have to admit that I am a little disappointed in myself. I absolutely feel awful that I have never shared Ryker's birth story or been doing any monthly updates with how much he has grown. It especially makes me sad that over the last two years of his life I haven't been documenting anything. And we all know that a lot can happen in just two years. There have been countless memories and special moments that I wish I would've taken the time to have written them down.

I am going to consider this update a fresh new start to many, many more blog entries. Which is a good thing, this blog needed some lovin'! Thanks for taking a moment to stop by and I hope you come back soon!

The Awaited Graduation Day.

He did it! 

Tyson graduated from Brigham Young University.

With a Bachelors Degree in Construction Management.

Him and I have been waiting for this day.

Well, he has been waiting longer. 

Happy Day! 

I am so extremely proud of him. 

I have watched him work so hard for this. 

All the..

late nights

endless projects

lengthy papers

pep talks
and
those dreadful tests!

However in the end it was all worth it.

(Wasn't it babe?!)

You'll never have to write a paper or take a test again.

EVER

It was the best feeling in the world to watch him walk across that stage.
I was one proud wifey.

Now onto adulthood with..

A New Career
and a 
Baby on the Way!

Here's to our up coming adventures!

Tyson I am so proud of you.
Congratulations!
I love you.

Baby Bumpin'

The end is drawing near and I have not yet written one thing about my little one inside me. How awful am 1? Where do I even begin the beginning of how it all started, the middle of all the ups and downs of pregnancy or how the end is just around the corner? It's almost to overwhelming to think back about the last 9 months of all the trials I have overcome, blessings I have received as well with who I have been growing as an individual and my body shape..

I guess I will share a little bit about everything. (It is a longer post, but I do have 9 months to cover!)

Tyson and I talked about starting a family but never really knew when. I felt like the time was close but I personally wanted to know when to "start trying". After praying about it and discussing a few things we decided that we would start trying in late fall. Time went on and we never really talked about it. Our one year anniversary was in June and I wanted to get some professional pictures done to celebrate. I also wanted to do a few "announcement pictures" for when the time came and we were in fact pregnant. I let my wonderful photographer know that I was not pregnant but wanted to get the pictures done so later we could use them. Funny story, when I told her that I was not pregnant well let's just say that I was in fact pregnant and didn't know. A few weeks later Aunt Flow hadn't come to see me so I took a pregnancy test. Sure enough it tested positive :]

Little did we know..

There have been quite a few trials in this pregnancy that I have had to overcome. The main one being my needle phobia. Now if you know me really well you all know that this phobia of mine is quite serious, like biting Doctor's hands serious. You may also know that with pregnancy there comes a lots of needles. At my first appointment I was absolutely terrified and uncontrollably bawling. The sweet nurse asked me why I was crying, and said that "this was a happy time". I couldn't even talk or I would just bawl, Tyson had to do all the talking. My doctor was and has been very patient with me along the whole way. He let me know that he wouldn't need my blood until I was 12 weeks along. It was time to get serious. I had previously been working with a homeopathic doctor who has been a miracle worker in my life. With his help, the help of my wonderful supportive husband, and also my loving Heavenly Father I was able to get my blood drawn like a big girl. Yes, I cried a little bit before they took the blood but after I had a total melt down. An emotional release melt down, I was so proud of myself that I was able to get my blood drawn without anyone holding me down or me biting anyone's hands off. I was especially proud that I did it for my baby, I did it for "him". Since then I've gotten my blood drawn again for my glucose test which I passed with flying colors and did it like a champ. I also received my tdap shot so my little one will be protected from whooping cough. Let's just say I am overcoming my phobia one needle at a time :]

Yes I did say "him". Our little one is a bouncing baby boy. Tyson and I always wanted to start off our family with a boy, I also always liked the idea of having a "big brother". Now from the beginning of my pregnancy I thought we would be having a girl, Tyson on the other hand thought differently and was convinced it was a boy. I kept going back and forth but when the day came to find out what our little miracle was I was absolutely convinced that it would be a girl. I couldn't believe how anxious I  was when we went in for our appointment. I was so anxious to know what we were having but also if our baby was healthy. I am happy to say that our little one is healthy and a wiggling, still. Towards the end of the ultrasound my doctor asked if we wanted to know the gender, by this point we were dying to know so we said YES!

 Note: This is how we found out what we were having and may I add these were my doctor's exact words, "I am going to use some technical terminology. Here's the left knee, here's the right knee and here is the winnie!" 
Gotta love Dr. Anderson!

On The Left: His Cute Little Profile

On The Right: Left Knee, Right Knee, and that little nub in the middle well I will let you figure out what that is..

My Family & The Cetraro's Guesses

Guesses of the Auger Family

Let's talk about what Tyson likes to call "Baby Bumpin". My big gorgeous belly. Not really it's got a funny dark line running down it and I no longer have my innie belly button anymore. Bleh. However Tyson can't seem to get enough of it (which in all honesty I am glad he loves it!). Tyson has always been excited that we have been pregnant but it has been fun to watch him along the way. I can see him getting more and more excited as the days pass, maybe due to my tummy continually growing to where he can't stop touching it or starring at our little one move and wiggle inside me. I would say that have been our favorite part so far, watching our little one do full body shifts and summer salts inside me. It's just so fun to watch my belly just move!

However there is something so special about my little belly. Not only am I carrying our first child who is a little miracle sent from God. But that my little one is listening to my heart beat. At one of my ultrasounds my doctor showed me that my baby's ear was only an inch away from my aorta and at that point was the only thing he was listening to. That really hit home for me and made everything so real. Hearing that was so special to me, knowing that my little one is listening to his mommy's heart beat. The heart that is going to love that baby more than words can even describe. I hope with every beat of my heart my little boy knows that, that heart is beating for him and loving him more and more each day. 

We can't wait to meet our little guy.

The Usual Update

Oh my goodness..

Where do I even begin..it always seems like whenever I work on a post I am always playing catch up and it always seems to be from August until now. I tell you the end of the year always gets so busy for us Augers.

So let's do it, let's play catch up once more.

Back in August Tyson and I moved out of our first home in Provo. It was a very bittersweet moment, that was our first home as a married couple. There were lots of memories, tears, laughs and love made in that home. We officially moved up to Woodland Hills where Tyson grew up, and may I say we absolutely love it! It's so beautiful up here and very much away from everyone. In the summer I woke up every morning to little bambies and wild turkeys in my yard. Now I wake up to a winter wonderland. We get so much snow due to us being the highest house on the mountain. It's a very different neighborhood than I am use to. There are no sidewalks, no street lights, yet tons and tons of trees. To be completely honest at first I didn't like the "feel" of Woodland Hills, but now I am starting to.

Where a lot of "first" memories were made.

With being the highest house on the mountain and winter approaching we decided to buy a new car. We got a 2004 Land Rover. It's charcoal grey, tan leather interior, two sun roofs, and the back seats are set up like stadium seating. It also has four wheel drive which is perfect and exactly what we needed! We have already had quite a few storms this winter, bad ones too. This week we had a pretty bad snow storm and got a whole 26" of snow all in night! The next day we even got an additional 6" on top of that! Let me just say every time with out fail the rover takes us up the hill like a champ, even through the unploud snow on our street! Tyson and I don't know what we would have done this winter without "The Rover".

"The Rover"

With moving to a new neighborhood we also moved into a new ward. We love our new ward, we finally feel like we are apart of a loving ward family. When we moved in everyone wanted to know who we were and within a few short weeks we got callings. Tyson was called to be the new Deacon Adviser in Young Men's. He absolutely loves his calling! He gets to be a scout once again and the best part for him is he gets to go on camp outs with the boys once a month. I got called to be the new Beehive Adviser in Young Women's, which I also love! I have always known that my calling in this church is to work with the youth. Being in Young Women's is a lot of fun. It's crazy to think that I was in Young Women's just only four years ago. Tyson and I are so truly grateful for these calling which we have and also to be apart of the lives of the youth. 

Tyson started another semester back in August and boy was it a rough one for him. He had 19.5 credits and was working part time on top of that! He got through it however like a baller. I am so proud of him! Last month he started another semester which will be his very last semester at BYU! Yahooo :] In April he will be graduating with a Bachelors Degree in Construction Management. I am a little sad that I didn't get his (last) school picture. Shoot! I can't tell you how excited Tyson and I are for that big day in April! You can definitely expect a blog post on that big day!

Well Tyson and I have another exciting update for you all. I am sure you all know what that is but I feel like it deserves it's very own blog post. In that case I better get writing!

See you all soon!

One Year.

It's crazy how one year can fly by so quickly, remembering memories like they were yesterday..

My love and I have been married for one whole year. Our anniversary was on June 25th what a special day that is for us. This year our anniversary fell on a Monday so we made plans the following weekend for a special get a away to Park City. I started thinking what is something small yet special I could do for Tyson on our actual anniversary.

I then got a brilliant idea. I asked him to pick one of his favorite look out spots.

That night Tyson showed up at our door step looking all spick and span with a huge smile on his face and a bouquet of flowers. (I love it when he does this, picks me up for dates like old times.) Then we were off, to Ty's chosen look out spot up in Woodland Hills. Once we were there I told Ty to step away from the car for a moment so I could set up. Once I was done I had Ty come back to the car and this is what he saw,

A picnic in the car.

He loved it, the best was seeing his surprised face! The rest of the evening we just enjoyed our little picnic and cuddled as we watched a beautiful sunset. We also shared thoughts and memories of our wonderful first year being a happily married couple.

It's fun to look back at "Our History" together and how it all started. I love Tyson dearly. He is the love of my life and I pray to Heavenly Father each day so thankful for this wonderful man that he has blessed me with. I am so grateful for my husband and his love for me. He makes me want to be a better person each day. He makes me smile and with each of those smile he makes me fall in love with him all over again. It's a wonderful feeling. I love you sweetheart, happy one year!

Here are some pictures of our evening,

Tyson waiting so patiently for my little surprise.

The whole set up.

The works.

Totally stoked!

Stunning View.

Tyson asked me to post this picture. It was his favorite.

Figures.

Rawwrrr...