So step one of having a baby is knowing that you know nothing. I'm having a hard time accepting this step but all of this has been shenanigans!!! I got a blood test that I thought put me at about 2 weeks pregnant but then everyone says, "No, you go from the first day of your last period!" So that made us about 8 weeks. Two weeks later we got to go to the doctor who did an ultrasound and he said it was 6 weeks. 

WHAT?!

     I don't know. Mostly I think I'm just along for the ride. We go back to the doctor in two weeks so that he can take a proper measurement again and hopefully this little Jellybean grows enough in time! We told my whole side of the family on my mom's birthday last week in Bear Lake and Dillan wants to wait for Jackie (his mom) to come visit us from New Mexico to tell her in person which is fine- but it's not until October :-/ So we'll have to wait to tell Dempsey (his dad), too. The only reason why we made a point to tell my fam so soon is because everyone was together and with there being 16 and two halves of us now it just seemed easier. (Sorry, Jackie.)

     Otherwise I'm feeling well. Nausea only a little bit the other day and when I didn't eat breakfast so I have to make sure to keep the tank full but I am really tired. I'm keeping a journal that's kind of like letters to Baby and I hope it has a sense of humour like mine because I'm injecting a lot of personality. Maybe I'll give the journal to them in those awkward teenage years when life gets exponentially more difficult so they know how loved they've been from the beginning. Or maybe when they go to college.

     We have some names picked out and keep getting upturned noses at them! (Yes family, I have noticed!!!) For boys we like Parley after the wonderfully instrumental Parley's of the early LDS church, and also I just like it. And Walt Ellis after Walter Elias Disney. My dad has always said that he thought it was important for a child to know where the legacy of their name came from if applicable and I think these are insanely fitting for Dill and my priorities. For girls I have always loved Kairi and then Dillan has a great great grandfather that was trick shooter for Barnum and Bailey that I could tell you about for days but he was married to a woman named Nola who has quite a few stories of her own. I love Nola Jayne for a girl's name. Mom told me today she flat out hates it. I hate the name she gave me though.... so there's that :)

     And now just the waiting game for what Adam and Sara will name their little one! We're so excited for their excellent news and I'm just ecstatic that I get another little soul on this planet to love!!! Nieces and nephews are the best! I'm super stoked!

This is Us.

We look all normal and adorable- well... okay, we are adorable- but we are far from normal:

 An engagement photo in Payson, UT. I just love his smile in this one.

 And this one at Big Judd's in Archer, ID. Dill has used this as his profile picture for pretty much everything and I get mad because I wasn't even showered.... ew.

And I believe this was Dill's first trip to Idaho at my folk's house when we decided to make nose rings out of the bread clips. I can't believe he actually did it.... he's such a dork!!





         But we're happy!! We are Dillan and Ellis Pilcher, the self proclaimed "Team Pilch" who are just trying to live the most out of life one day at a time. We met forever ago but he was 15 so he was irrelevant- our first date was November 20, 2010 (He was 20, I was 23) in Provo, UT but since he actually lived in Las Cruces, NM and I was living in Mesa, AZ I didn't take this cute kid super seriously. We would Skype when he got off work, doing construction work on the levy spanning from Hatch, NM to El Paso, TX, and then I would say goodnight when I headed off to a date with someone else in Mesa. The weird thing is, we were hard flirting on that date, and I had to keep myself from expressing that I loved him while we were bowling.
        Sure, he was gorgeous and funny and amazing and cuddly and everything I didn't know I wanted, but he lived 6 hours away and I wasn't looking for a relationship. We talked every day and I kept him entertained when he was working and he kept me sane while I was in class or at work at Del Sol Scottsdale but I never thought anything of it.
       Buuuuuut then he came to see me in a Mesa just before Christmas. We had an amazing time together going to see the sights, seeing the temple lights, taking a million pictures, and he gave me a gorgeous diamond necklace for Christmas!!!!! He also gave me a Playstation 3, I mean he gets me! I knew after a few short days with him that he was something amazing and I |reluctantly| agreed to be his girlfriend. I met his mom in January when I went to visit Las Cruces, met his dad in March when we went to Utah for a road trip, and he met my folks in Vegas on the way up when they were staying for a weekend. He moved to Mesa in February of 2011 after being laid off from work and moved in with some church friends of mine that lived in a house about two miles down the street from the apartment where I lived.
      Dillan didn't have a chance to really learn about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints until I came around. He had friends that were members but he just didn't quite throw himself into it yet, it was after a session at the temple that I called him while still on the temple grounds in Mesa and bore my testimony to him about the great family history work and all that you can do that he really devoured it. He jumped in with two feet and started taking missionary discussions and doing family history work on his own family. On March 12, 2011 my dad baptized Dillan and confirmed him as a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in our stake building in Mesa. I was so happy!! He was like a new man and had a fierce sense of purpose. It was incredible to witness.
      So we toyed with the idea of maybe getting married- I'd been engaged three different times before Dillan was even in the picture though so I was unsure. It came down to the fact that I never got sick of him, we lived so close to each other and we were connected at the hip and I wasn't making up excuses not to see him like I'd had to do with guys before. I had a difficult time saying goodnight at the end of each day and felt like I just always wanted him around. Once I realised that, and got a hard confirmation from prayer, I'd made my decision that I wanted to be with him for eternity. Since he had just been newly baptized, we had to wait a year to be married in the LDS temple so we were looking at March 2012- that's when our singles ward bishop told us that there is no shame in having to wait to go to the temple when one of you is a convert. We got engaged May 7, 2011, I freaked out for a few months trying to figure out how to be a bride and...

I married my best friend on August 6, 2011 in my parent's backyard in Idaho Falls, ID. This is truly one of my most favourite photos we took all day. I was just enamoured with him. The photographer got a little mad at me because I wouldn't turn and smile at the camera but then she caught this which is my smile of unrelenting happiness and joy as I soaked in all the love and perfection that is my marriage. And Dillan looks so stinking cute in this picture I can't stand it haha.







So we moved to North Phoenix, lived there for 6 months but Dill couldn't get a job so we moved to Salt Lake City, UT and lived there for about 16 months and I hated every single second of it- well.... except for meeting my best friend, Shaun. We were sealed for all time and eternity on March 24, 2012 in the Idaho Falls temple where my parents, grandparents, and sisters had all being married and sealed. Then in April of 2013 we learned we were sinking fast and in order to keep us both sane, afloat, and to get Dillan through school we knew we needed some help and asked my parents if we could live with them.
     That's right, I'm 27 and live in my parent's basement. But you know what? We almost have all of our debts paid off, Dillan is starting his pilot program though Utah Valley University and AV Center in a few weeks, our credit is dramatically improved, we were able to go to Dave Ramsey classes with my mom, and my parents are seriously the most chill and amazing humans on the planet that right now it feels like we might actually make it.

     We also just celebrated our third wedding anniversary and with it...................... brace yourselves............
We found out..............................................................................................................................................

I'M PREGNANT!!!!!!!

Yay!! We're not making the official announcement until Dillan's mom comes to visit from NM in October but we are beyond ecstatic. Since I probably won't publicize this blog until I have a few posts and we announce anyway then I guess I can put it down here :) First doctor's appointment is August 26 and we're just friggen STOKED!!!! I'm healthy and happy with nothing but the baby growing cramps going on and Dillan is taking amazing care of me. I really couldn't ask for a better husband.

So, I guess to the point of this blog: We've both been wanting to have a family blog where people can come and read about us if they want but where we can also post recipes, food criticisms, photo, and crafty stuff along with all the other random crap we can think of I reckon.

Hope you enjoy!!
-E