Lots of News

Caroline and her bestie Bekah on their last days together, good thing they are cousins and will see each other often!!

mommy and Caroline

Well to start, we are FINALLY finished with Brett's six month training program. I say we because it has truly been a joint effort to make it through this long journey for our family!! I am so glad to be in the next phase of our life, and to have Brett home with us at nights, not just on the weekends!! We are now residents of Louisiana, yep the past two weeks have been quite chaotic for us, we went from Brett finishing his training and still not knowing where we were going to be relocated, to the company finally telling us we were going to be in northern Louisiana, to having only a few days to pack up our things, find a place to live and be there for Brett to start work. Needless to say, it has been quite the stressful time for me- I would be lying if I didn't say this has been a really hard transition for me. I have known all along that we would be moving at the end of this whole thing, I guess because everything happened so fast it didn't really hit me until we were already here, away from family and living in a totally new and foreign place. Even though where we live is only a few hours away from Dallas neither Brett or I had ever even been to Louisiana before now. The past six months have definitely been a test of my faith. I have learned I have to trust in my heavenly father and his plan for our family and things will work out, (even if it isn't what you had planned). We have now been able to settle down a little, just in time for things to get all crazy again with a new baby right? We were able to find ourselves a little duplex that will do for now and a really great doctor which was my biggest worry about moving at 36 weeks and we have been able to meet a few nice families in our new ward already. We are enjoying exploring our little town and life with just the three of us before we become a family of four.
As far as a pregnancy update goes, I am doing well, 38 weeks along now, bigger everyday. I have been able to see my doctor here 3 times now and feel really lucky to have someone I like. The baby is 6 pounds already and I am dialated to one and a half centimeters so we are just in the waiting game of things to see when this little guy is planning to show himself to the world. Also, we have finally decided on a name for him- Gunnison Carl Larsen will be his official name, but he will go by Gunner. We can't wait to meet him!!