What a blessed year 2011 brought to us!

Well 2011 has been an AMAZING year for the McGarry family! Here is our top 11 things that happen to us! 1.March 18th Brandon and I got sealed for all time and eternity. 2.Moved to Rexburg from Rigby, it's great to be back! 3.March 23rd Krew Roy McGarry was born. 4.Brandon and I got new jobs that we love. 5.Moved into a HOUSE!! 6.Krew got his first two teeth on Christmas. 7.Financially really blessed! 8.I was blessed with a blue eyed, blonde hair baby (First McGarry grandkid out of 12 with blue eyes!) 9.Brandon got a truck. 10.Krew said "Dad" first. 11.We found out that baby #2 will arrive in July!! 2011 was a good year to us, excited to see what 2012 will bring!

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Happy Halloween!

Krew's First Halloween I love holidays now that I have a little bundle of joy. It's so fascinating to me that I'm already at this stage of life, where I get to look forward to holidays, to watch my child do his FIRST things. I was so excited for Halloween this year, I usually don't care for it, but now that I have Krew, everything is exciting to me! I looked forward for Halloween for a long time trying to think of cute ideas for a Halloween costume for Krew, I contemplated on a few cute ideas like a monkey and a frog, but I found the cutest costume at K Mart, it was a lion! I absolutely LOVED it on him. It was so much fun going to each grandparents house to show him off and boy oh boy did they love it!

Krew"s Lion Costume

Krew Roy McGarry

So i guess that i should tell you my pregnancy and delivery story since everyone does... Well i actually had a good pregnancy, of course i had morning and evening sickness, but nights were much worse. When i worked at Hair We Are and had to close of course right when I would get an appointment I would have to run off and throw up in the bathroom there were times when I almost didn't make it. So embarrassing! Half way through my pregnancy I got a new job at Tami's Salon (by far the best job ever!) I was working part time and was able to come and go whenever I wanted to, I didn't have close calls on puking on people, which was really nice! As the further on I was getting, the more miserable I was. I sure in heck did not have the, "Pregnancy glow." I was huge, hot, and swollen not my cup of tea.

One day I did have a scare that I was going to have a miscarriage. This happened when I was 23 weeks. I Started to bleed which of course is not a good sign, so right off the bat I panicked. I call Brandon and my mom, we rushed over to the Women's Clinic and they got me in right away, they checked me to see if I was dialating at all, and I wasn't. Then they did an ultra sound and the baby was breathing and moving regularly. Everything was fine, and still to this day we dont know why I was bleeding.

The very end of my pregnancy I was extremely sick, it was one thing after another, the mold in our apartment was getting worse after all of the snow was melting and running into our walls it was out of control so we had to get out as soon as possible! I had four weeks left and we didnt want the baby to be in with the mold and be sick all of the time. Brandons parents let us move into their place until our new apartment in Rexburg was available, it was very generous of them to do that for us.

I was finally at the end of the end. I was 38 weeks and had this massive headache and poor vision that would not go away! I had heard about preeclampsia and that was one of the symptoms so I called the doctor just to be sure everything was alright. They told me to come in right away. When i got there, I had to be on a monitor to see the baby heart rate fluctuating and it wasn't (not good) so I had to get an ultra sound and he wasn't moving or showing breathing movements for 30 minutes, so I had to be on the monitor again and the same thing was happening. So after all of the test they tell me everything seems "ok" and sent me home....Awesome.... Two hours later..... I get a phone call from the doctors and told me that everything wasn't ok and that I needed to come back in right away. Once I got there I was put on the monitor and still poor heart rate, then they decided to check the baby one more time from the ultrasound, still no movement or breathing. The doctor told me "well were having this baby tonight I dont like the signs that we are seeing, go straight to the hospital." I was shocked and had my mixed emotions. Brandon and I rushed over there and right away they induced me. Brandon gave me a blessing and all of a sudden the baby heart rate was perfect and everything was normal!

Labor seriously wasn't that bad once I got an epidural! The first time they tried to do it they drained my spinal fluid. Awesome. So we had to do it twice. After all of that commotion it was heaven! I was in labor for 12 hours and slept through it all! At 3:45 AM Krew Roy McGarry came into this world! Weighting at 8 lbs 5oz and 19 1/2 in. He was so big that he didn't have anywhere to move inside me and I didn't have a C-Section either. It was such a miracle that he was healthy from the scare, and I cant believe the love that I had for him just meeting him for a minute. He is such a blessing and joy into our lives!

The after labor and delivery was the worst! I was extremely sick from the epidural and couldn't stand straight for about two weeks. Brandon and I ended up living at my parents house til we could move into our new place. Krew was a week old and we finally had our own place. Never again will i move with a brand new baby! I am so thankful for all of the help and support from everyone getting into our new place

Sorry... A year later, lets catch up

Brandon and I were living in Rigby. Good ol' Rigby. We were living in the most ghetto apartments ever, with black mold, leaking windows, floor lifting up, and all of the appliances breaking down. The joys of newly weds!

The first few months were really hard on us with little money that we had, I quit working at Brouliums at the end of Beauty school, and was just working an hour each night cleaning a dentist office, and waiting for my licence to come in the mail to start working in a salon. Come to find out Brandon got laid off from his job in Rigby. JOY... Both jobless and panicking to find work. A MONTH later Brandon found a job in Rexburg for Sunroc, and I got a job at Hair We Are in Rexburg. It was one stressful month and no point in living in Rigby anymore.

The first three month came by and flew, I was starting to get really sick each night and couldn't figure out why? I didn't know if i was just not eating right, or if it was the apartment from the mold? Well it started getting worse each day and more in the mornings so I decided to take a pregnancy test. I was freaking out when I bought the pack and was thinking to myself. "What if I am pregnant? Brandon is going to KILL me!" So I went home and took a test and waited for the result. After a few minutes later it was positive! I almost didn't want to believe it. And I didn't, so i decided to take another one to be sure, and of course..... it was POSITIVE! Brandon came home, I was shaking and freaking out, sure didn't want to tell him, but when i did he was he said "I figured you were." AWESOME. Now the other hard part was telling my mom cause she sure in heck didn't want me to get pregnant this early in our marriage. A few days later we went over to my parents house and told my mom and of course was upset with us and told us that we needed to go to the doctors to make sure that i really am pregnant. We did and sure enough i was and only two weeks along. We were very blessed and I was excited for what this baby was going to bring to us and the joy.

The Beginning

Alright so I'm really new at this and we'll see how this goes...
Brandon and i grew up in Rexburg and both went to Madison High School, Brandon was a year older than me but we didn't know each other until after he graduated at Disney Land. A year and a half later we were engaged on Christmas day and got married on March 13, 2010. That day was the best day of my life! We went to Salt Lake City for our honeymoon and came home to our new apartment in Rigby. We are loving the married life and wouldn't change it for the world. I married the best man that I could ever ask for!