May 2009 Weddings
Huskerfanz
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Non clicky Poll: The last year...
What has changed since you got married?
Is it what you expected to happen?
TTC #1 since 08/11 IUI#2 = BFP!
Re: Non clicky Poll: The last year...
Our big change was buying a house in September. I've paid off half of my school loans which I'm really excited about. Most of that was because of our tax refund. I also got a newer SUV last month (2007 Tucson) which is a great fit for us but has our parents thinking about grandchildren.
I didn't expect that we'd buy a house in the first year but the tax credit, market, good rates, etc changed our mind. I expected to be buying the car as mine was getting older and we didn't want to rush into the purchase.
TTC #1 since 08/11 IUI#2 = BFP!
Sadly, not much has really changed since we got married. We were already living together for several years, so no changes there... I did get a new job a few months after we got married, though. I had been looking around and just happened across this one - turned out to be a great decision!
The hubs got laid off a few weeks after the wedding. He got a new job in Nov, but making 1/3 less.
Did not expect it and he's still trying to find a job that pays more. Not much out there in our area.
It seems like everything that changed happened immediately after we got married. We bought a house right before and moved in right after the honeymoon, his internship turned into a full-time job right before we got married, and we even started a new Sunday school class right before we got married. We got a cat in August so that was a change, and sometime (I can't remember when), H got a new(er) car (it was his parents'; we just had to trade in his old car and pay off theirs). I'm still looking for a job so unfortunately that has not changed, but I did have a good interview recently so I'm hopeful.
We dated a long time before we got married and already knew so much about each other, and it has amazed me how much closer we have gotten over the past year as well as what we have learned about each other.
We bought a house and had a baby - huge changes this year.
We had discussed both buying a house and having a baby, but both events happened much quicker than we expected. It has been a great and crazy year. I'm wondering what the next year will hold.
BFP #1 7/1/2009 ~ EDD 3/9/2010 ~ Ella Adeline (7lbs 4 oz, 19.5 inches) 3/5/2010
BFP #2 7/13/2011 ~ EDD 3/16/2012 ~Aubree Olivia (9lbs 1oz, 21 inches) 3/15/2012
What has changed since you got married? After seeing how much we saved to pay for the wedding ourselves we wanted to keep that going. We have paid off my vehicle (1.5 years early) and will had H's paid off by the end of the year (2.5 years early).
No major life changes though.
Is it what you expected to happen? Yes, didn't expect anything major to happen. We bought a house right after we got engaged, so just settling into it now and focusing on us.
Expected: We're having a baby! We knew we wanted to try right away since we are both 30-ish and we've been together almost 8 yrs now. We were blessed right away and our little man will be here in the next 2 months!
Unexpected: DH got pink slipped from his teaching job. Nothing is final yet, but all signs point to him losing his job. Its really sad. He's a tenured teacher of 9 yrs and loves his job. So that will be a major life change for us. But we will be fine. For all the bad that can happen in life, we have so many good things happening also.
What has changed since you got married? DH was laid off.
Is it what you expected to happen? No.
We've also been TTC since November, unsuccessfully.
A lot has change since we got married. We bought a house a few months before the wedding and I moved in just after the wedding. We got a new car for me in June of last year. We didn't live together before and while we did know each other very well, we are still getting closer and closer to each other all the time.
It is what we expected for the most part. We wanted to wait a year before we start trying for a baby and I take my last BCP tomorrow!
I've loved every minute of being married to him. I'm excited to see what next year brings us!
What's changed: H lost his job in November and started a new one in December. And I bought a new car in March.
Is it what we expected: the job, absolutely not. It was a big relief for him though, since he was getting more miserable by the day at the old job. The car was expected and I'd been putting money away to buy a new one before the old one needed another repair.
We already lived together, in a house we bought 2 years ago. And there was never going to be a baby in the picture by now, as we'd both agreed to enjoy being "just us" and married for at least a year before taking that step.
TTC #1 since January 2013