Life as of Late

Sorry so long since our last post! Not having internet makes it hard to post frequently.

Baby update: We are having a boy! We found out in September and we could not be happier that we are having a son. :) He is healthy, and growing right on track. I have been healthy as well. I am very grateful that this pregnancy has gone so smoothly, and I hope it continues to go smoothly for the sake of my sanity, and the health of our baby. I will post ultrasound pics at some point; I just need to figure out how to scan them in to the computer. ;)

As far as names go, we like Nathan Edward Methot, (giving him Vince's middle name) or Nathaniel Edward Methot. We are open to others, but this is one of the only ones we have been able to agree on. ;)

At my next appointment, they are performing the glucose test. Needless to say, I am not looking forward to this appointment, and quite frankly, it is making me anxious. I have always struggled with things don't taste good. I am not the type to just eat it despite the taste. If it doesn't taste good, it's not going in my mouth. You can see why I might be nervous about said upcoming test... I was wondering if there is any alternative to this test? Or if this test is necessary? I would love to avoid it if possible... Then again, tons of pregnant women have had to do the same test, and have come out fine, so maybe I just need to "man" up (for lack of a better phrase) and deal with it.

I am currently 26 weeks along, and it is very obvious I am pregnant. :) My husband thinks its cute. I roll my eyes and make a bloated monkey face, cause that's how I feel. But fear not! For this too shall pass!

You know that feeling you get right before you sit down in the dentist's chair? That one you get when the dental hygenist says, "let's just get you some novacain and we'll get started." Novacain?! What?! No one told me about this!!! Enter panic, and that feeling of the floor being ripped out from underneath you. Not to mention the fact that your heart has begun to pound so fast, you feel as though you have just run a marathon, and you are hyperventallating. Now, picture feeling like this non-stop for a good 5 to 10 minutes. This is what a panic attack feels like for me.

I have also described that I sometimes feel "anxious." There is a definite difference between anxious and nervous. Have you ever been on a roller coaster? One that goes uphill really fast, and as you fly over the top of the hill, you feel like you've left your stomach at the top of it? Everything returns to normal once you get off the ride however, and sometimes sooner. This is what feeling anxious is like. It can last for long periods of time, (days or even weeks) or can last a matter of moments until I can master myself.

I am scared out of my wits about labor and childbirth. Plain and simple. It also makes me anxious. That said, please refrain from telling me horror stories!!! I do NOT want to know! I would rather be blissfully ignorant and have my own "horror story" to tell after our baby gets here. Horror stories will only make my anxiety worse, and therefore, make me miserable.

On a happier note, it looks like we have a house in Georgia!!! :D The seller accepted our offer as of this afternoon, and we have 10 days to get the house inspected. If anything comes up in the inspection then we can resind the offer. It is the cutest little house!!! :) It is a 3 bedroom house with an upstairs and downstairs, and a beautiful backyard. We are so excited!!! :D

That is life as of late!

Big News!

Hello everyone!

There are going to be some big changes taking place in the Methot household. Most recent of these changes is... WE'RE HAVING A BABY!!!!!!!!! :D We could not be more excited! Our baby will be making his/her grand entrance on January 28th, 2012!

I am only about 9 weeks (just over 2 months) along right now, but so far so good! I don't get morning sickness, and I only get nauseated on occasion. This baby sure makes me hungry though!!! I am generally pretty tired, and get mild headaches on a regular basis. We have already had our first Dr.'s appointment and everything looks great! :) We got to hear baby's heart beat, and see the baby for the first time. Surprisingly, I didn't cry, which is nice! Now I just cry over everything else... Including movies, anything the least bit sentimental, movie trailers, pretty much you name it, and I will cry over it eventually, or I already have. Hormones!!!

Vincent is so excited to be a dad! He is treating me very well, and making sure that I am well taken care of. He is such a sweetheart!

Baby names... Well... Here is where it gets interesting/frustrating. We have the HARDEST time picking out boys names that we agree on!!! Girl's name were a bit easier. We have come up with a couple of boy names and a girl name that we can both live with, and like. I will not be posting these here however... ;)

All for now!

School for Vinchenzo

This past Monday, Vincent started school! He is taking chemistry 2, which is a pre-requisit for organic chemistry. Basically he has a bunch of pre-requisits, for pre-requisits, for more pre-requisits... He won't be done with them until after we have been in Georgia for a few months. So excited for him! It is definitely different however having to ask my husband wether or not he finished his homework...

Change? Remember what happened last time...?

Things are changing in the Methot household. For those of you who don't know, Vince got accepted to attend Life University in Marietta, Georgia. That's right. Georgia. He is going to be studying chiropractic. Yes. My husband wants to be a chiropractor when he grows up. Don't get me wrong, I fully and completely support this decision, and he will have his Electrical Engineering degree to fall back on, but change and I don't get along so well. Here's why.

On April 10, 2010 Vince and I got married! It was the best day of my life! :) I have never been so happy! As some of you know, getting married presents a lot of change. A LOT of change. Said changes, caused me to start having panic attacks 3 months in, and I was clinically diagnosed with anxiety. Thank goodness I have a kind an supportive husband. Did I mention I hate change?

Thankfully, the Lord has blessed us with time to adjust to the idea. We won't be moving until January 2012. Vince will be taking some pre-reqs. here in Austin at Austin Community college this summer and fall, and then we will move to Georgia. The Lord has given me time to adjust to Vince going to school, which will definitely be a change. Once we get out there, Vince will take a couple more pre-reqs, and then start full time into the chiropractic program.

He hopes to study a specific form of chiropractic, called Upper-Cervical. We currently go to an Upper-Cervical chiropractor and that is what sparked Vince's interests.

Upper-Cervical Chiropractic is different because it only deals with your atlas and axis bones at the very top of your spine. Basically the two bones that are at the base of your head and top of your neck. They adjust your atlas bone by tapping it back into place with an adapted dental tool. They do some other adjusting, but the atlas is the main focus.

The reason Vince is so interested in this form of Chiropratic, is that is more successful at curing ailments from anxiety and mental issues, to digestive problems and heart issues. (Upper-Cervical can only cure problems caused by subluxations in the atlas. It is by no means a cure all.) Some one described the difference in chiropractic types this way.

Regular chiropractic is like hitting a baseball and getting to maybe first, or second base. Upper-Cervical Chiropractic is like hitting a home run every time.

And so, our life is changing. For the better, but changing none-the-less.

Wish us luck!

Work work work and did I mention work?

I am a dance teacher. I am paid to teach children to dance. This also means I am paid to choreograph recital pieces for said children.

Keep in mind that I absolutely ADORE my job, but as this is my first year working as a dance teacher, I am beyond intimidated by the daunting task. The studio I work for has been voted "Best of the Best" in the Cedar Park/Leander area for the past two years running. Pressure to perform? You bet your bottom dollar there is!

Side note: I teach 6 classes of varying ages. Coming up with music and choreography for all 6 of those classes is no walk in the park! Luckily, I have been able to finish 5 of the 6 dances.

The one that I am struggling with right now, is my Monday evening class. This class started out with 5 dancers in it. There are now 12 girls of the ages 5-7... Enough said? I think yes... They have trouble paying attention and some of them are very vocal about things. Did I mention there are 12 of them!?!?! It is hard enough to get them to listen to me, let alone remember choreography. The recital is in just over a month, and I still have 45 seconds to choreograph. Stressed? Me? Did you really just ask that question?!

On the upside, I pretty much know what I want them to do for those last 45 seconds. Now its just getting them to hold still, and learn, then do. They get costumes today, which means they should be more eager to dance.

Fingers crossed!

Tiffany

Engagement story!!! :)

So it was New Year's Eve, and Vince, Kylie and I were in the car on the way to the annual New Year's Eve dance. While in the car, we were discussing plans for the following day which we hadn't really made yet. He suggested that we should go to dinner, and I was like ok cool! Nothing out of the ordinary, we do that all the time. Well then he said he'd like to go somewhere "fancy..." Fancy? ok... He usually never has a preference as to where we go. I didn't really know any "fancy places..." so we decided on Cheesecake Factory, because I had never been there before. We danced our hearts out, and went home.

Three hours later, I was up again. Every year on New Year's day, the Mount Bonnell Ward goes up to a place called Mt. Bonnell to watch the sunrise. (Go figure right?) It was lovely! On the way home, he asked me if I wanted to see the sun rise and set in the same day, and I thought, well sure! That is something I have never done before, and it sounded ridiculously romantic.

I had to work that day, and he had said that he had to go to "work" for something also. ;) I was talking to my co-worker about how I thought he might be up to something, like popping the question. I pretty much knew what was coming.

He picked me up at my house, and I wasn't wearing anything special. I was ridiculously tired as well, but excited about the potential the evening held for us. :) When I opened the door, I noticed 3 things that seemed out of the ordinary about Vince. He had dressed up a little, wearing my favorite polo of his, he had his contacts in, which he normally only wears for special occasions, or when asked, and he was nervous. The nervousness was the biggest clue for me.

We went to dinner at the Cheesecake factory, and I was thinking, wow! This is really fancy! I wonder if he'll propose here. We ordered food and ate, all the while, I was hoping the ring would be in our cheesecake, or my drink. Nothin'. No ring, no propsal, nothin'. I thought to myself, well, there is still the sunset. We paid the bill and left, cheesecake in hand. We went up to Mt. Bonnell again, barely caught the sunset. It was beautiful! After the sun had set,Vince took me to a secluded place, away from everyone. A woman even told us good luck! This is it, I thought! This is the moment I have been dreaming about for months! He pulled out a piece of paper and read me a poem with all the things he loves about me. It was very sweet! Then he grabbed my hand we started to leave. I was confused and dejected. It was the perfect set-up for a proposal and nothing had happened. Nothing! We had gone to a nice dinner, watched a gorgeous sunset, and he had proclaimed his love for me on a mountain top, but still no ring...

We headed toward my house, and I was thinking, well maybe it just isn't going to happen tonight, and if it doesn't, I might just cry! (keep in mind that I was running on only 3 hours of sleep...) Vince and I enjoy reading scriptures together and we hadn't done it yet that day, so he then asked if I wanted to go read scriptures. I said yes, and we parked in the pool parking lot that is by my house. Now, just so you know, there is a neighborhood pool just up the road from my house. Out in front of said pool is a cute little place called, "the ruins." It kinda reminds me of stone henge... anyways, there is a cute, little, circular alcove in the ruins, with a bench you can sit on, and if you look up, there is no ceiling so you can see the stars.

We got out of the car and I went to put my gloves on. Vince grabbed them from me and told me that he would keep my hands warm. HELLO!!! HINT AND A HALF!!!! and no.... I didn't get it.

We then walked to the ruins, and I walked into the alcove. He stops, sets the scriptures down, and just looks at me. I was like ok...? I looked up and above my head on the wall, were some red light. I thought to myself, that's a really stupid place for lights, no one will see them, and looked down again. Meanwhile, Vince is still just staring at me. He kinda forces me to look up again, and it was then that I realized the lights spelled out something."Will you marry me?" was suspended in mid-air above me. :) I jumped back! I said, "Oh my gosh!!!" and my hands flew over my mouth, and the next thing I knew, Vince is on one knee with a ring in his hand. He asked me to marry him, and I obviously said yes. 3 months later we were married. :)

Background Info Continued!

Hey y'all!

So after Vince got the nerve up to ask me out, we went to a Bollywood dance class and it was a blast! Definately a work out though... Those Indian dancers are for sure legit!

After the dance class, Vince took me to his apartment, where he made spaghetti for us for dinner. It was delish! There was a group of our singles ward friends that were getting together to go watch "Escape to Witch Mountain" in the dollar theater and we decided to go. (Keep in mind that we are still on our first date. And I do NOT recommend the new remake of this movie. It was awful...)

Well, what was suppposed to be a maybe 2 hour date, ended up being about a 5 hour date. Good sign? I think yes! Moving on... He took me home and I waited for him to ask me out again.

I waited... and waited... and waited some more... and then waited again.... Until finally, a month later, I had had enough! I asked him out. We made plans to go and have dinner after institute at a pizza place called Double Dave's. Dinner was alright, but the best part was the conversation! We just sat and talked in the car for a while after we had eaten, and then went our seperate ways home.

Now keep in mind, whilest I was waiting for Vincent to ask me out again, I was actively trying to get his attention. Flirting to be precise. ;)

After this date Vince and I went on a 3rd date. We toured his work, and played paddle ball at one of the volleyball courts there. We then went back to his apartment and made french toast. I was thinking at this point that I really was starting to become friends with this guy! Which is how its supposed to be right?

The Monday before our next date, there was an fhe activity for our singles ward. It was during the summer, and the plan was to go swimming. So we went to the pool and I flirted my little heart out with Mr. Vincent, and he picked up on my outrageously obvious signals. I was almost literally saying, "hey! I like ya! I'm right here! Make a move PLEASE!!!" Shows you how patient I am...

We made plans for yet ANOTHER date! We went ice-skating at Chapparal Ice, and as you know, it is typically cold in an ice-skating rink. Well, one of the times around the circle, I was skating along, doing my thing, and Vince starts to catch up with me. He takes me by surprise and grabs my hand. I held on. :) We continued to hold hands and ice skate around the rink, whilest flirting and being happy that we had breached the "physical touch" barrier.

Well in Vincent's mind, from that point on we were officially a couple. In my mind, being official meant kissing... So I was waiting, not very patiently, for that kiss to confirm my suspicions about where this relationship was going.

About a week later, we went to see Harry Potter 6 at midnight in the theater. I had been purposefully playing micheal buble songs in the car that dealt with kissing on the way to the movie.

Let me back up a bit... We had had a talk sometime before this point about how I wasn't going to be returning to Snow College that fall. I simply couldn't afford it. This news was a bit of a shocker for Vince. He thought that we would date over the summer, I would go back to school, and that would be that. He now had a decision on his hands. Did he want to continue the relationship or not...?

Ok. Now back to the theater. We had gotten there pretty early. Like a couple of hours early, and we just sat there and talked. It was wonderful! After the movie, on the way home, I played the Micheal Buble song, "It Had Better Be Tonight," in the car. Vince took that as a huge hint. He had made his decision. He kissed me at the doorstep. He was going to continue with the relationship! What a relief! Boy I tell ya...

Well, to make a long story short, (too late) we dated for about 6 months.

Engagement story to come next! :)

Background info...

So pretty much, we thought it would be a good idea to give you a little bit of background on us. For starters, how we met, how we became "an item," how we got engaged, and the wedding. We will do it several seperate blog posts beginning with how we met.

Once upon a time in a land called Austin, there was a boy and a girl who came from distant lands. The strapping young lad came from the land of New Hampshire and the beautiful young maiden came from Mormonville. Also known as Utah. Vincent, having finished his schooling at BYU and been offered a job at National Instruments, moved to Austin to start work. He started attending the local single's scene (ie the Mount Bonnell Singles Ward) and met a beautiful young maiden.

This maiden's name was Tiffany Matthews and she was in Texas due to a random series of circumstances surrounding her familial tribe moving. The leader of the Tribe (her father) had taken a work opportunity in Austin.

The young maiden recognized that there was someone new in the social circle. She plucked up the courage and said hello, nice to meet you , or something to that effect. Vince responded and told her that his name was Vince... That's pretty much all that happened at this point...

Flash forward one year and four months later, after Tiffany returned from her stint in higher education, the two young people met once more. Shortly after her return, having recieved a major heartbreak just before, the brave young Vincent decided to see if everything was ok. The beautiful Tiffany admitted things were not ok, but would be eventually.

A few weeks later, after having recovered from the recent heartache, Vincent has discovered an opportunity to go Bollywood dancing. The single people of the Mount Bonnell Ward were gathered together to welcome the new leaders of the single scene. Vincent had heard that Tiffany loved to dance and had taken dance classes for years. He decided to take the plunge, muster his courage, and ask the beautiful Tiffany on a date! He threw caution to the wind and despite the difference in age, Tiffany said yes! They had a fantastic time dancing, and getting to know each other better.

There is more to this story my friends. All for now!