Greetings! I had meant to start blogging more regularly after my last post, but things got really crazy. We got home from our month at the beach and we got an offer on our house, which was not for sale. The original owner's son wanted to buy it and was willing to pay well above market value for it. We would have been fools to turn it down so we sold it to him. We're living in my apartment over the dance studio right now while we figure out what we're going to do next.

In the midst of moving, I suddenly began to feel really tired and sick. I had no idea what was going on and was scared because I had never felt so awful in my life. I went to the doctor and the next day it was confirmed that I'm pregnant! Baby Anderson is scheduled to arrive in early May!

I spent most of my first trimester feeling really sick, but in the past few weeks I'm feeling better. I've got a nice little baby bump, which Josh thinks is adorable. I just hope he still thinks it's adorable when I'm 35+ weeks pregnant.

We just told our families a couple weeks ago. We got everyone together for dinner and gave them a copy of the first ultrasound pictures. There was a lot of excitement. My mom and Sky were pretty emotional. I have a feeling that this baby is going to be very spoiled by his/her grandmothers.

Lindsay is also pregnant. She is due in February so she's several months ahead of me, so it's nice to kind of get a real time heads up on what is coming.

That's the big news of the day! It's an exciting time in our lives.

Happy Summer!

We are down at the Anderson's beach house for the month. Josh had some offers to work this summer, but we decided that a benefit of his teaching career is enjoying some time off so that's what we decided to do. It feels really nice to have a prolonged stay at the beach. I miss having constant access to the sand and salt air.

It's going to be an interesting couple of days coming up. Lauren decided she wants to spend the long holiday weekend at the beach with her boyfriend (still Patrick...), and since this house belongs to the family, we had to agree to let them come. Josh has slowly gotten used to Patrick being around but 5 days of togetherness is a lot. On top of that, Josh had invited Keith to come down for the weekend. Keith asked if he could bring his girlfriend and we were okay with that, but then we found out his girlfriend is Laura - the Laura that followed Josh to England and tried to make me think they were together. So we've got my ex and Josh's biggest fan from 2007 coming to spend the weekend. Should be interesting...

The last time I saw Laura I kind of lied to her. It was the week after Thanksgiving in 2013 and Josh and I had just kissed at Natalie's party during a Jenga game. He had asked me to go look at the Christmas lights at a place near our house. We were walking around looking at lights and doing some window shopping. He was looking at something and I ran into Laura. She saw that I was with Josh and made a comment about us as a couple and I didn't correct her. I guess I didn't technically lie, but I let her believe that Josh and I were together. I hope that doesn't come up!

The last time I saw Lauren and Patrick, there was also some drama. It was Father's Day and we were at the Anderson's house. I ended up in the kitchen after dinner with the two of them and they were trying to get me to convince Josh that their relationship was a good thing. I've been really supportive of them, even to the point in getting in a couple fights with Josh, and I had decided I wasn't going to do it anymore. I politely asked them to back off but Lauren kept pushing and I lost it. I told her that if the three of them insisted on making me take sides, I'd have to pick Josh's side because I am always on Josh's side. That stopped her from pushing but the rest of the night was strained and I was annoyed.

And then there is Keith...Josh's college roommate that has never been super warm and friendly to me.

Yeah, should be a great weekend! :)

The Full Moon party ended up being quite the evening. Josh and I got there and Lauren showed up with Patrick. She broke up with her boyfriend and apparently is now dating Patrick.

This set Josh off big time. During the time that Josh and I were broken up, Patrick and I had a casual relationship. He lived in Florida and I was in Pennsylvania so it was never serious, but we would get together when we were in the same state. It started in the spring of 2013 after Josh's father got his new heart. I had hoped that Josh and I would get back together. We were so close during that time, but Josh wanted to focus on taking care of his parents and didn't feel that he could start a relationship at that time. Patrick happened to be around and we started seeing each other.

One night we walked over to Angelo's to pick up take out and we bumped into Josh as we were walking out. Josh started to give me a hard time about being with Patrick and we ended up having a big fight in the parking lot. I told him that he couldn't decide not to be with me and then give me a hard time for being with someone else. I told him that it hurt me too much to have him coming in and out of my life. He backed off after that and didn't say another word about Patrick.

So seeing Patrick set Josh off and he told Lauren about my former relationship with Patrick which got her all upset. We all ended up leaving the party. Josh and I went home and he was all worked up over Lauren dating "this guy."

It look me hours to talk him down and convince him that Patrick was always just a casual relationship to me. I mean, I'm kind of surprised that I even have to convince him. Josh has always been the one, and I live in our house with him, and I have his last name, and how can he even be worried about Patrick?

So on Saturday mornings I teach an early morning fitness class and then I grab a shower and meet Josh in town for breakfast or coffee. We started this little weekly routine because our lives can be hectic and it's a nice time for the two of us to just sit down and talk. Well, this morning we're sitting at breakfast and Lauren barges in and sits down with us and starts asking us to bless her relationship with Patrick!

Ugh. So much for a nice morning with my husband. This got him all worked up again and they were having a heated discussion. There were a lot of power outages in the area yesterday and today because of a storm that came through so the place was packed and it was becoming a little embarrassing. We all ended up leaving the restaurant ticked off.

I'd really like to ask Patrick what he's thinking, but I feel like it would make things worse. I also can't blame Josh for being upset that Patrick is around, because I'm sure I'd be unhappy if Laura came back into our lives.

Hello readers! Winter has been slow - which I think it how it's supposed to be so I'm not complaining. We've had a few nice snow days which means that I got to loaf around the house with Josh, watch movies and just enjoy being inside.

On Monday I'm heading down to Florida with John to meet with the employees in our Sarasota office. I'm looking forward to enjoying the warm weather. Natalie is coming with me so at least I'll have some fun too.

Arie is getting married in April so I'll be headed down again next month. Josh will be with me on that trip and it will be all fun so I'm looking forward to that trip a little more.

We are trying to figure out our plans for the summer. I want to get some travel out of my system. Josh has baby fever and I told him I don't want to get pregnant until we have a little more time together, just the two of us. I really do want to have a family with him, but I'm a little scared. It's such a big deal to have a baby and it freaks me out. I just have a hard time imagining myself as someone's mom. And I didn't have the best parents so what if I screw up the kids? I'm sure Josh will make up for it, but still... I'm sure he'll be an amazing father.

We are going over to Josh's aunt's house tonight. She is throwing another one of her full moon parties. I told Josh he has to come along this time. I'm not sure he really wants to go but he's being a good sport about it. Lauren and her boyfriend are going to be there so it won't be a bunch of women.

Well, that's all for now...