It's a Christmas Miracle!

We are having a Baby!!!!

 6 weeks 2 days!

12 Weeks 3 days!

Coming to town on September 13th!!!!!!

Straight From New York!

Sadly, I have never been to New York. Although I have seen several movies that took place there. One of my most memorable would have to be the Ninja Turtle movies! Mostly they are about fighting the bad guys ( Shredder) and saying stuff like "Cowabunga Dude!" When we were little we played with Ninja Turtles, we pretended to be Ninja Turtles, and we always wanted to eat Ninja Turtle pizza!  In the moves they always ordered a lot of weird stuff, but it always looked like cheese with olives. So, we would always ask for Cheese with Olives when we were little! Oh, and biggest thing...It was New York style pizza!! It was these huge slices that you had to fold in half to eat! Living on the west coast ment we would never get to endulge in the true Ninja Turtle pizza. Until Now! A few years ago Josh and I found the coolest pizza ever! It was called, "Straight from New York Pizza."  They call them "pies" which I love saying, when we get to order "A Whole Pie," as apposed to a slice! Whenever friends come to visit we like to take them, for a Whole Pie of Ninja Turtle Pizza! Most recently Jordan got to experience it!

Looks Pretty Tasty huh!?

Jordan Really liked it!

Josh too!

Someday we will get to eat the real thing! Not just straight from New York, but in New York!

California, Michael #3, Up to date!

In November I got to go stay with my brother and sister-in-law for a whole month. My mom, Grandma, and I went down to help them get ready for their new baby! He expected arrival date was Dec first I believe. Although we had a good time, I safely say I wouldn't want to live in 29 palms! I had an awesome time with family, but I missed the trees and the green of Oregon. There were some crazy wind storms and some awesome sunsets, and I got to take some cool pictures of cacti! Michael is stationed there for the Marines. It was the longest time I had ever spent away from Josh. It was hard to leave home, but I knew how important is was for me to be there for Bud and his family. Not only that, it was also the longest my Grandma and my Mom had ever been away from their spouses. Shayna (my cousin) was able to come over from the LA area and spend the day and night with us too. It was a really good time. I did however miss home a lot and when it was time to go I was ready, although I still got sad to be leaving everyone. Baby Bud came into the world on Nov. 29th around 2:45 am. It was a pretty intense ordeal. It started as a pretty normal labor and ended in an e-emergency C-section. Let's just say it made me a little scared to have to go through labor myself someday. No worries though all is well with both baby and Mommy, as most of you can see on facebook. He was a big boy and continues to grow! I hope we will get to see more of him soon!
   Our drive home was pretty intense also. It was good at first. I drove from 29 palms to Fresno, then my mom took over from Fresno to Sacramento,(we had a little detour through some cotton fields) at Sacramento I drove till Redding. My mom got to drive through the snow over the mountains. We made it home safely and I was able to surprise Josh. He didn't know I was coming home that day. It was nice! A few weeks later Bud, Gina, and lil' Bud came up for Christmas. It was a really neat Christmas having everyone together for the first time in a while. We played games, danced, and ate a lot of really yummy food. We also got to take family pictures! Of course it is a Jarvis tradition to take pictures whenever Bud is back in town. I love my family and it was great having us all together. Sadly Bud had to leave New Years day because he had to report for deployment. He is on the USS DENVER Somewhere in the ocean. We pray constantly for him to be safe and return home whole and healthy. It makes it really hard to listen to any form of Country music. Through a website called Motomail.us we are able to send him letters as much as we want, and they are delivered to him constantly. We love you Bud and know it is because of your sacrifices and others that stepped before you, that we are blessed with the Freedoms we have today!
a quick update of the last three months. I know, I have been a slacker! In January it was my birthday. It was low key and fun! Josh has been working hard at work and school and I have been working hard at home and school. I have started a few projects... although I haven't finished very many. I am taking a photography class this term and hopefully I will be able to post some of our projects. I am also taking photoshop and had learned some really cool stuff. Other than that life has been pretty laid back for us. My sisters came up for a girls weekend and we had a blast! So much fun in fact, we have another scheduled for next weekend! After that Josh has a field trip to the coast for his Geo class and we are going to stay the weekend! Nothing like the Oregon coast in February! I will make a commitment to stay updated and post more often. Oh, we also bought a new camera and returned it. We having a hard time finding one that really fits us. Soon we will I am hoping! Hope all is well with everyone! Oh and Happy Valentine's Day!

Christmas Tree!

So, I am really late posting this. I am really late posting anything really... To all of my devoted followers I am really sorry! A lot has happened since I last posted and I will try my best to get caught up and stay caught up. I know that I will be really sad if I don't. I already look back and my blog and ask myself why I didn't post about all the things that were happening in my life. So, I vow to stay updated. For now you get to see our Christmas Tree experience! Getting a tree is a great tradition around Christmas time. Last year we went the weekend of Thanksgiving. This year, however, because I wasn't around then we had to wait a little longer. I was a little worried that we weren't going to have time, because Josh had a really busy work schedule. Fortunately he had a closing shift during the week, and the place we get our tree is open 7 days week, so we were able to go! It was really nice to because there was NO rain! nice and dry and chilly! So here are some pictures of our adventure and of our tree all decorated!

 Here we are getting our tree! Pretty crazy our pictures this year look kind of similar to last year!

Can you guess what our theme was!?!?!

It started as pink and green, but I found some really good deals on clearance Christmas stuff so there are few more colors in there. I think this might be my favorite tree so far! It is, so far, the one with the most personality! Oh and still no tree topper...we haven't found one we love yet so we haven't gotten one. But, this is tree number three! That is crazy!