Everything else that happened in 2008....

Well, I'm back... I've decided I don't like to scrapbook so I will blog to keep track of all the happenings of our family! 2008 was a big year but 2009 is even bigger! Read below to find out what happened during the rest of 2008...

I left off at Patrick's 30th surprise party. Not long after the party I took a trip with some of my dear friends and mom to Florida for a women's conference. It was an amazing trip and God really moved in our hearts as we listened to Holly Wagner talk about health, healing and being in constant training! We also got to enjoy the beach!

I had too, it was just too funny!

Brandy got us all matching beach bags!

In June I turned 30!!!!! It was a blast. I had several celebrations and I don't seem to have any pictures! We celebrated the weekend before with my family at the ranch and then the day of with friends for dinner and then we had a girl's night at Gabby's house with all my friends... It was a blast. We had girly food and then swimming...

The next week was probably the most exciting week of the year. We were getting ready to leave for LA for Patrick's brother's wedding. The morning we were to leave I woke up extra early... I went into the bathroom and came out three minutes later with a positive pregnancy test!!!!!!!!! Patrick's response: "You did it without me!" Kelli's response: "Didn't you hear me going to the bathroom?" Below are the excerpts from my journal...

October 7, 2008:

"On June 19th we found out... I got up early that morning, knowing I would take the test. I flew out of the bathroom and yelled, "Patrick, it's positive!" He said, "You did it without me!" I thought he heard me get up and assumed he would know, but again, another communication lesson. NEVER ASSUME, ALWAYS COMMUNICATE! We were so excited! We were overwhelmed by God's glory and grace. It was awesome. Then we got on a plane headed for LA. We were traveling with Patrick's family and it was hard keeping it in. We didn't want to announce the news until after the wedding so we had to wait 4 days... We had so much fun with family at the wedding and on Sunday we told everyone. They were all so excited. It was a blast sharing the news with all of our friends. And now, we are half way there. I feel you all the time. I have no idea what to expect, how to be ready, but I'm not worried. I can't wait to see you out here... one week from today we will know what you are."

Below are the pics of the wedding weekend...

Jamie's pregnant too!

My first pregnant pic!

So, we are back from the wedding and now moving!!!! We have lived successfully for two whole years in 600 sq. feet! Check out the love shack:

Unit 1

We got all moved in thanks to the help of some good med school friends! Our new place is great. We have so much room and love having people over to grill out!

In August, my brother Tony moved to Colorado Springs. I went to visit him at the beginning of November. We went hiking and hung out with his new friends. I had a blast. He also took my preggo pic!

Another excerpt from my journal...

October 31, 2008: The Proud Papa
"Two weeks ago, we found out you are a boy! I picked Patrick up on the way to the doctor's office. He was on call the night before and VERY out of it. On the way there he said I would have to tell everyone because he was too tired.

We started the sonogram and it seemed like it was taking her forever to get down to what we wanted to see! She was measuring everything. Your heart, bladder, stomach, head, abdomen... It was all interesting but we were getting really anxious. You had your legs together tight and as she measured your femur bone she asked who had long legs. Then she came up from behind and we knew immediately you were a boy. Patrick really woke up at that point and before "boy" was ever said he yelled, "YES!" He called everyone after that!"


In the mean time... Patrick has started rotations. He loves that he does not have class anymore. Some of them are very time consuming but he is having a blast doing procedures and actually getting to see patients...

This brings us to Thanksgiving... We had a great time with the Sommers family for Thanksgiving and took some great family photos.




Patrick's extended family always celebrates Christmas early with a family get together and Chinese gift exchange. The day of the celebration was also Jamie's baby shower. All the women went to the baby shower in the morning and then we all went to the Sommers house in the evening. After we were done eating we were getting ready for the gift exchange. We all drew numbers and everyone put their gifts under the tree. Patrick's aunt Cindy was first and she went to get her gift to open. As she opened it I was surprised to see it was a Baby Bijorn! I thought Patty had accidentally wrapped one of my baby gifts up and put it under the tree! Then Patrick's other aunt, Susan, opened a gift and it was baby boy clothes! Everyone was looking at me and I was in complete shock. Why was everyone opening baby gifts and not Christmas gifts??? Well, it was my surprise shower! It was so wonderful and I was completely overwhelmed by Patrick's family. I almost started crying as I opened the remainder of the gifts. It was a wonderful shower! If anyone reading this has the pictures from this night please send them to me!


Christmas 2008...

Yay! Body Pillow!

Baby Will's first Christmas gift

Cade and Parker

And this brings us to the last event of 2008. Our trip to Steamboat with some great friends...







Random Pictures...

Getting the Crib ready

Patrick likes to build a fire... even when it is 70 degrees outside!

I'm ready to have this baby!

Thirtieth Surprise

Patrick's 30th birthday was March 24th and I got him good! I sent out an evite to mostly family with him on the evite. Then I decided to throw in a surprise and invite more people. My faithful party planning friend, Azu, helped me pull off this surprise. Because of Patrick's school and study schedule, planning get togethers is always a chore. I ended up inviting a lot of our friends at the last minute and then two days before the party we had to move it to a restaurant to fit all the peeps in. We had to tell him we moved the party so he wouldn't catch on when we drove to Bucca's instead of Ron and Azu's house. So, Azu came up with a great story. "Tell him Chassie had diarrhea all over the living room floor!" Now, Chassie is their dog and this story really seemed pretty likely as Chassie has had one thing wrong with her after the next. She was at the time wearing a cone around her neck so she couldn't rip out the incisions on her leg, which she had done three times before.

I thought the story would work. Who wouldn't believe another crazy Chassie story? So, I rehearsed the day of the party and then made the call. I was trying really hard not to laugh and I think he thought something was up. I had Curtis and Amanda drive him to the party. I told Amanda to be sure and be late! He was so annoyed with them... It was hilarious. He texted me to tell me they were running late and that he hated to be late to his own party. Then Amanda texted me and said, " He's really annoyed! HE..HE..HE!" It was perfect.

Everyone arrived at the party JUST in time for him to walk in and be surprised. We had a great dinner at Buca di Beppo. We love that place! I can't believe we're turning 30!

Finish Line

Okay, for the two people who read my blog... I ran a half marathon on February 23rd. I started running a year before this and I never thought I could ever run 13.1 miles.

It was amazing. The training was great and taught me a lot about discipline. I was amazed at how much my physical body could really handle. My wonderful husband ran the whole way with me, and he barely broke a sweat! He was cheering me on the whole way. He even talked on the phone to let our friends and family know where we were in the race.

During the first 6.5 miles everything was going pretty well. We started out with Lory, but she had to speed up because she was running the full marathon. My feet went numb at 3 miles, but that only lasted two miles:) At about 6 miles I saw someone dressed in black standing in the middle of the road taking pictures of me. The closer we got to him, the more I thought, "what is this crazy guy doing?" It was my brother, Tony! He was there to cheer me on. About 3 minutes after seeing Tony I got the most dreaded feeling! The Aura! Those migraine sufferers know this well. I was now on the verge of a migraine while trying to run the second half of 13.1 miles! I didn't know what to do. I very calmly told Patrick and then very calmly told him to start saying scriptures to me so I could repeat them. In my mind I knew I could not quit. I just couldn't throw away 1 year of training to the most annoying thing in the world, a migraine. The aura usually lasts about 30 minutes, but I had longer than that to the finish line. I got into the, "I'm not quiting" mode and kept going. I rounded a corner and there were four of my dearest friends (Azu, Janna, RussellAnn, and Cassia) in full out cheerleader mode! I could hardly look up, but it kept me going. I guess because of the adrenaline the actual pain help off until mile 11. At that point Patrick, still running with me, turned back to me and said, "Kelli, the really old people are about to start passing you!" I looked back and thought, "I've got to go faster!" The pain had really set in and I was going VERY, VERY slow. I tried my hardest to speed up, but my body just refused. Then, I started crying.

I really didn't think I would make it. There is absolutely no way I would have made it without Patrick. He stayed with me the whole time. He could have run the half in half the time I did, and he didn't even train for it. He kept me going. At one point he just held my hand as I was hunched over crying and doing a version of a jog, walk, trip... Then, we finally rounded the last corner. I saw Vanessa and Christie cheering me on and then my mom, stepdad and brother. Crossing the finish line was great except when I looked at the time! It took me exactly 3 hours. I fell on my mom as she pushed an Excedrin down my throat. The really great thing was Patrick's med school class was in the medical tent doing OMM treatments. I stumbled in and let them get to work on my head. It was great, too bad Patrick hates OMM.

We then waited for Lory to finish the full. She did great! She finished in 5 hours.

I ran a half marathon with a migraine! I can do anything!

The morale of the story... Training is hard, its not fun to get stretched and pulled. It's not easy to think of going into something where you will be stretched and pulled. But, it feels really good when it's over. And you never want to go back to the way you were...

What?

I love reading blogs. I really thought there would be no point to having my own blog, but I figured I should give some bored people, who probably should be doing or reading something else, something to do... I'm still trying to find out how to add pictures, because I really would rather look at pictures sometimes. This could take up a lot of time! Well, I guess this is my first entry. Will blog some more later.