Christmas is Coming!

So as I'm finishing dinner my wife Tiffy disappears. out of nowhere she runs over to me jumping up and down in excitement trying to pull this huge sweatshirt over all of her already on and probably all of her winter clothes. Now I'm thinking... OK whats going on? Our turtle Sticks could have winked at her and she would have been probably just as excited. She says lets go! I ask her knowing that she just put on all of her winter clothes on "do I need to wear anything?" She says just come on! I'm all sorts of confused at this point. She needs all of these warm clothes and I am fine in my t-shirt. I put my shoes on and we hop in the car as she continues to refuse to tell me where we are going. It wasn't snowy yet, It's too cold and wet to do anything, I'm so dang confused. Turns out we are going to the store! She's really excited at this point practically pulling my arm off going to the back of the store to the Christmas Trees and gets Soooooo excited. I love seeing Tiffy so happy. This is our first Christmas together and she just cant wait! So we look and look and finally find one that is only $40! well it so happens that is is 7 feet tall and is really full with a good color green and branches everywhere. So we buy it and are all ready for Christmas to come. Our house is getting closer to the finish of the remodel and our Kitchen is nearly done as the counter tops were just installed a few days ago.

I have just been offered a job that pays me 3 times what I am getting now with no sales! I really don't want to leave my current job as I enjoy working there but for this kind of money right now I cant pass it up plus it fits my school schedule a little bit better. I start Monday!

So things are great! I have a wonderful wife who does so much for me all of the time. I have great family on both ends. I'm going to be a Dad! The Lord is taking care of us financially, and I have wonderful friends. I have had the last 2 weeks to think about my life, others, and how things really work. It has been to be honest a hard week... The things life will throw at you are so sad. It hurts to see my friends hurt so much and to see them so sad. To see my wife cry after a brutal day at work, has the power over my heart that nothing has ever had. It almost feels as though my heart is slowly stopping by the second and is about to just crumble into my stomach. As I see and experience these things all around me, I can see that God really does give us every opportunity we need for our ultimate growth to enter the kingdom of our Heavenly Father. It hurts so much at times. I have a hard time seeing everyone break down into tears.. Exhaustion from the trying times of the day, their family or lack there of. What I have learned is that all we can do is take it. BUT grab what you can from every situation and learn from it. Apply not only that which we have learned but forgiveness and love especially in our everyday lives. Everything will work out with these things. We will all be happy, more loving, and be a strength in building up our families and relationships with others. Though it has been hard, I still look up grateful to God for Tomorrow Always Comes.

Crazy Week!

Well This has been one crazy week. Sunday my wife Tiffy and I went to her brother Ryans house for a family party with everyone. Tiffy has been having stomach pains, so naturally everyone got excited and she went and took a pregnancy test. I couldn't help myself as I gazed(like a hawk) down the hallway time and time again awaiting Tiffy to come out. Me as I do am trying to play it off like "yeah no big deal its just a test". Tiffy later came out with a sad look. she seemed like she was going to cry. I was thinking how? This has to be it! Her emotions have been going crazy all week, cramps and stomach pains, what is going on? Thursday we just decided on our way home from a night on the town to pick some tests up and see. We get home and she ripps the test open and there is a line and something coming in very faint. She gets all sorts of excited and is jumping up and down and I being me wanna make sure and ripp open the other test and sure enough its also positive!

Yes, another Grover running around! The only thing I don't really like about it is she always says(in a playful but nagging voice) "You're gonna hurt the baby!" Music and habits have to change too I guess cause I don't wanna "hurt the baby."

All I can think about is making sure I can provide for the family and getting a name for the little one. Reality has as I see it has set in... although I doubt it really has. Things in the past week have been really great. I have talked to every member of my family and some close friends, Spent time with my parents even though my dad and I still argue over the dumbest of things. I've enjoyed every second of all of this.

Saturday rang in as a great day... My alarm didn't go off early in the morning! I didn't do much but a Costco run. Tiffy picked up some hours at the Macy's fragrance festival and BYU finally played a complete great game! I don't care if it was a Wyoming team they won. The rest of the day I spent with my father in law helping with the electrical work in the home and putting in the 7 can lights in the kitchen but talking to him for awhile was just great!

To sum up how everything has been going I would say great, and/or wonderful! The Lord has been answering our prayers time after time and helping us realize what a great marriage we have. We started out with some really really hard times getting to know each other. I am grateful that we did because we really know how to talk to and help each other be the best we each can be. Going in now having a little Kiki of our own I pray and thank the Lord for all the blessings in my life. An amazing and loving wife and soon a Kiki to call my own as Tomorrow Always Comes.