Thanksgiving

First of all I want to say I can't believe how fast time flies. We are only a week away from our ultrasound and it's actually been going by pretty fast. It's definately making me think that I can hold out for those two and a half weeks. Just wanted to do a list of things that I'm thankful for even though it's a few days past Thanksgiving:
Our earth. Cam says that when we start populating other planets that he would be the first one to sign up and go. I don't think so! I don't think that it will happen in our lifetime (Cam does), but I would definately rather stay here. Along with the other, I'm thankful that I live in America and even more than that, that I live in Cache Valley. I couldn't ask for a better place to live.
Cam, all of our family and our friends. We are so blessed with wonderful people in our lives. I love the holidays and the time that we get to spend with people that we love.
Our dogs, they keep me laughing! Our house would be so quiet without them. As some of you know, it was about this time three years ago (wow I can't believe it's been that long), that we had quite a loss at our house. When I was ten years old I talked my mom into letting me take home a puppy that they were giving away at Macey's. I loved that dog to death, even though she was definately not the cutest or cleanest dog in the world. She had long scruffy hair and she was always out rolling in something disgusting so it was just a matted mess of fur all of the time. Atleast until I started having her shaved. She was a mutt if you ever saw one. But that dog was with me through all of the hard times. I remember when I was a teenager sometimes feeling like she was the only one that I could count on. I could always lay on my bed and cry into her fur and she was always there for me. Luckily when we got married Cam was willing to let me bring her along for the ride. Chessney lived until she was thirteen years old. About a week before christmas that year, she started having problems breathing, so Cam took her to the vet. I couldn't get the day off of work and I'm thankful that that is the way that it happened. They took x-rays and came back in to Cam and showed him that her lungs were filled with cancer. When I got home that day, Cam told me what was going on and we decided that we needed to put her down. That night was one of the hardest nights that I've had to go through. All that we could hear was her having a hard time breathing and of course I didn't sleep that night. She had stopped eating at that time. So I cooked her some hamburger and had a good friend, who knew what was going on, stop by that night with a cheeseburger from McDonald's. Sometimes if I had to take Chessney with me somewhere I would stop and get her a cheeseburger and they were her favorite. Neither Cam or I could stomach the thought of being the one to take her to the vet to be put down. We were both just sick about it. So in the morning, my dad came and picked her up and we spent our last few minutes with her. After he left, Cam ran me a bath and I got in and just cried for a few hours. My dad then took her to the place where we grew up and buried her underneath a tree overlooking the pond in our backyard. Very fitting, she loved being out there. I took her over there regularly after we moved into our house because I could tell that she missed it. She was such a good dog. Always waiting at the end of the driveway for us to come home. We never had to lock her up because she always just stayed near. After she was gone, Cam wanted us to wait a little while before we got another dog. I thought I would go crazy in the two months that we waited. Yes, only two months, but our house was so quiet, I couldn't stand it. I'm just excited that now it won't only be our dogs that keep our house busy, but the baby too!
First and foremost, that is what I'm thankful for this Thanksgiving. That we are so blessed to be able to bring a child into this world. We can't wait! I've never wanted anything more in my life then to be called Mommy and for Cam to be called Daddy!