Yesterday the hubby had his wisdom cut out of his mouth. With the hubby on pain meds, we thought it was best that he didn’t blog so he asked me to guest blog over at brookjames.com!
Click here to read my recap of the fun day we had!
To my Valentine…
You are my best friend. The love of my life. I love you for a million reasons, but here are just a few.
There is no one else in the world I can be completely vulnerable with, but still completely comfortable with. I can laugh, cry, wear no make up, be afraid, be confident….be the REAL me. You know the real me, and you love every bit of me. That is something I will never understand, but will be happy to continue to try to understand for the rest of my life.
You have been there for me for the past 9 months through the ups and the downs. Thank you for taking me to Babies R Us just to play on the days that I thought I couldn’t take it anymore. Thank you for constantly telling me I’m going to be a great mother when I doubted myself. Thank you for taking care of me. It hasn’t been an easy ride, but you’ve been there every step of the way to help make me as comfortable as possible and be my constant encouragement. Only 26 days until we meet our daughter!
In 5 years. In 20 years. In 50 years. YOU are the one I want by my side. You are the one that makes me laugh. You are the one that holds my hand through the hard times, and rejoices with me through the good times. You are the father of my children. You bring more joy to me than I could have ever known. You are the one I want by my side until our time here is done.
You’re sexy. And we’ll leave it at that, because after all our parents are probably going to read this 
You will always be my #2 love. You encourage me to walk daily with our Savior, and you help me understand how much God loves me through the love you show me. I never knew a love so deep until I knew you, and could even get a glimpse at how much our Father loves us. You are the leader of our relationship, and I know you will be an incredible leader for our children. What an amazing earthly daddy our baby girl has.
I love you baby, more than I can ever tell you. Thank you for being the love of my life, and teaching me how to love. The past two years being married to you have been more than I could have ever hoped for. Happy Valentines Day!
The hubs and I got away this weekend to enjoy a little time together before the baby comes. It was a brilliant idea, and we had a great time shutting off from the world and just enjoying one another. Since our 2 year anniversary will be when I’m about 38 weeks/miserably uncomfortable/ready to pop this was also to celebrate our anniversary.
Friday I took off from work a little early and we headed south down the coast. We stayed in place right outside of Carlsbad, CA. We spend the evening roaming around, had dinner at a really cool little pizza place and just enjoyed some time together. Saturday we hit the outlet malls…which of course was my choice 
Saturday evening we headed home to stay the night so we could get up super early and do the church thing on Sunday. Right after church we headed to the desert. We stayed in a really great resort in Indian Wells, CA (Palm Springs/Palm Desert area). The drive through the desert was gorgeous and there are tons of resorts in the area so it’s super nice. We checked in and took advantage of the pool. They had a slide so Brook fought off the kids so he could play. Shocking huh?
Pizza in bed, 2 hours of Jack Bauer, homemade cookies, and a very relaxing evening in! What a wonderful weekend we had. I’m so thankful for the time that we had to spend together and enjoy the little bit of time we have as just the two of us!!
Brook James…I love you more than you know baby!
31
Dec
2009
a year in review – 2009
By karakaejames. Posted in Cute Little Parasite in my Belly, Family, Israel 2009, Our life! | No Comments »What an amazing year we had!!
Here are a few highlights:
*Started a new job at House of Blues in Anaheim
*Brook went on staff at Kingsfield
*Celebrated our 1 year anniversary…a trip we’ll never forget
*Started training to run a half marathon
*Lost 15 pounds
*Held my niece & loved on her. What a sweet girl!
*Took an amazing trip to Israel
*Stopped training for marathon…because…
*WE’RE PREGNANT!!!
*Threw up for 6 months straight. Best 6 months of my life.
*Found out we’re having a GIRL!
*My life began to drastically change as it centered around growing & preparing for this child! Can’t wait to see her face in 2010!!
It’s interesting to look back at what I had hoped to do in 2009. A lot of what I wanted to do couldn’t be done because we got pregnant, but I would trade it for the world!! I did lose 15 pounds before I got pregnant, but didn’t run the half marathon, learn to snowboard or get a tan. I guess there’s always next year!
A few things I’m looking forward to this year:
*Getting this baby out of me!!!!!!
*Seeing my baby girl’s face for the first time
*Learning how to be the best mom I can be
*Losing weight!!!!!!
*Our first trip to Alaska for family vacation
*Growing closer to my husband through the birth of our first child
*Morning sickness to be GONE!
Here’s to an amazing year that will be life changing!!!
After a trip back to Oklahoma for a few days, we have a lot to be Thankful for! Yes, we celebrated Thanksgiving and that always helps people be thankful. But I’m in a state of shock at how blessed we are!
A huge thank you to the amazing women who threw us our shower. We had a blast! I’m so thankful for the friends and family who are pouring blessings and prayers over our little one.
A huge thank you to our friends and family for gifts to our baby girl. I can’t believe how much she already has and she won’t be here for three more months!! We were very blessed with all our friends and family have given us. We’ve been getting lots of stuff in the mail everyday for her! So much fun!!
A huge thank you to my brother & sis-in-law. They gave us bags and bags of clothes!!! Our niece will be 10 months older than our baby, so she’ll be outgrowing clothes as we are ready for them. Couldn’t be better timing Thankfully Taelyn is a spoiled little thing with tons of cute clothes!!!
A huge thank you to Marty & Nancy for doggie sitting our first born! The hard part about going to visit OK is having to leave the pup behind, and we’re so thankful for people willing to take in the famous Jack Bauer James.
An extremely huge thank you to Lee Jackson. Our trip to OK wouldn’t have been possible without the huge blessing from him. We met Lee on our trip to Israel this summer, and had a great time getting to know him and his son Wes. When we were stranded in Atlanta after Israel and disappointed that we were going to miss a couple extra days with family, he promised to help get us home at Thanksgiving. And he totally followed through! What a great guy!! Lee, it was great to see you! Thank you so much!!!!!!!!
In the words of my mother-in-law….I’M FILLED
I’m taking the next few days away from the blog to spend time with family & friends! I am so excited and really enjoying our vacation!
Friday – My brother, his wife & my precious niece Taelyn are coming to my parents to spend the day. We haven’t seen Taelyn in 6 months and I can’t wait to love on her!! So bummed that the other niece, Tallie can’t be here 
Saturday – FOOTBALL FOOTBALL FOOTBALL!!! Gooooooooooo POKES! Spending some quality time with Brook’s brother, sister, & bro in-law. Going to dinner with Lee & Wes Jackson…so thankful for great friends!
Sunday Part 1 – We’ll be making our grand appearance at an OKC area Lifechurch.tv Campus. Haven’t decided which one yet. It’ll be like Where’s Waldo. Be on the lookout!
Sunday Part 2 – Baby Shower!!!! I’ve never had one of these before for me! Kinda excited! So thankful that we were able to make it to OK and our amazing friends/family put this together for us. Can’t wait to see everyone!!!!
Monday – Probably a little shopping with mom & then off to the airport! Home to the OC and pick up our first born. I sure miss that little guy!
Going to be a great weekend and I’m looking forward to all the amazing time with friends and family. Be on the lookout in a few days for plenty of pictures!!
(Skipping a week on the Friday Belly Shot…I’ll still post one on Twitter & Facebook )
Hope everyone had an amazing Thanksgiving!
Thankful that I have a healthy beautiful little baby girl growing inside of me. I’m going to take good care of her this Thanksgiving and feed her all kinds of yummy things!!
Thankful for my husband and best friend. I couldn’t ask for a better man and everyday is an adventure with him. (yes baby…i DO like adventures with you!! )
Thankful we get to spend this Thanksgiving with family. (We’ll miss Brook’s parents & Reagan!)
Thankful that we have some amazing friends/family throwing us a baby shower in OK! We’re so excited to bless our baby girl.
Thankful that I’m pregnant and no one will think twice when I devour an entire pumpkin pie by myself.
Thankful for pumpkin pie.
Happy Thanksgiving my friends. I hope it is a day filled with blessings and joy!
Where the wind comes sweeping down the plain!
Today we are off to Okie-homa to spend Thanksgiving with the family (minus the in-laws and reagan. bummer!) This is my first trip to Oklahoma as a pregnant woman. I have been craving things that you can only get there. So here is a list of stops we must make while there.
Braums: cookies and cream shake
Chicken Express: chicken, okra & sweet tea
Raisin’ Cains: chicken, Texas toast, yummy sauce & sweet tea
Steve’s Rib: gooooood okie BBQ & sweet tea
McAlisters: sweet tea
Hideaway: Little Kahuna Pizza
Rodney’s Pizza: pepperoni pizza
Janets: Baked Potato Soup
Teds: about 20 tortillas & queso.
Now I’m hungry! Can’t wait to be there!! And interested to see if I can actually fit all of this yummy food into 5 days with Thanksgiving dinner. Stay tuned my friends.
Welp it’s officially been a year. We love this state.
LOVE IT.
Can’t beat the beautiful weather, the beaches, the yummy frozen yogurt on every corner. Our dog, Jack Bauer James, loves it too. His allergies cleared up when we arrived in CA.
After Brook and I got married we fell into the statistic of people who gain weight after marriage. Yikes. When I look back at pictures of us from when we left Texas, I cringe just a bit. But once we arrived, we decided to jump into the healthy California lifestyle. Brook dropped around 35 pounds, and I lost 15! Of course then I got pregnant and have gained all that back!
FAT (Nov. ‘08) SKINNY (June ‘09)
So thank you California for helping us get healthy again. My husband is SEXY!!!!!!
