The day we found out we would be PARENTS

Today is a Thursday and I thought I needed to write this down.  Monday, the day after mothers day, I took a pregnancy test.  The results showed up after about 30 seconds which shocked me because it says to wait 3 minutes.
I really wasn't expecting it to be positive.  We had so many months that I was slightly late but never was positive.  before I took the test I was thinking that I wasn't going to be pregnant but that it would be okay if I was.  Then all the sudden the results were positive and all I could say was "oh my god, we're pregnant" and then at that moment I walked around the house in a daze.  George was at work so I had no body to tell at the moment.   After I walked around the house in a daze for a while then I sat myself down and thought how I was going to tell George. I thought about all the ways I had wanted to tell him.  My original plan was to buy a car seat and put it in his back seat so it was there when he got off work.  But unfortunately that plan didn't work out because I didn't have enough time.  Instead I wrote a poem about it and revealed it that way. I met him at his work at the end of the day and his first words were "Are you serious?"
So here I am 4 days later, finally settled with the fact that I'm going to be a mom, and now I can't wait to decorate my nursery.  We aren't going to tell the parents until the first trimester is over and my first appointment is next Friday.   The first appointment will just be a health history.   The second appointment they will tell me how far along we are and then the third appointment we will here the heart beat. How Exciting.

~Jocelyn

Bachelors in Science of Nursing

Although I already had my degree and was working as a nurse at our local hospital I was determined to get my bachelors degree since it was what I had set my goal as when I first graduated high school. I'm proud to say I officially have my Bachelors in Science of Nursing.

The Day I Married My Best Friend...

We had an amazing rehearsal dinner with friends and family and our wedding day was even better.  The ceremony was at my parents house and directly after the wedding George and I went down to the river and my sister Christy took our pictures on the beach.   This let us leave the wedding a bit early and gave everyone else plenty of time to get down to the reception.  All day we were in the house preparing for the wedding and it rained all day. We watched the weather like a hawk and the radio even said "If you have any events outside, you should move them indoors."  We held out hope and a few hours before the ceremony the rain went away and we had a beautiful overcast day, which is great for pictures.
The ceremony was awesome... short and sweet with toast in the middle of it.

 

 

Rehearsal Dinner

We had a relaxed rehearsal dinner with lots of food and beer.  George's parents cooked ribs as the main dish for rehearsal and of course I had Den cook me a cheeseburger... ribs just aren't my thing.  Both the rehearsal and the wedding were held in my Parent's front yard.  It was an amazing weekend.

Engagement Photos

Welcome...

Welcome to the family blog of George and Jocelyn Drake.  I'm starting this blog to capture our lives as it happens, in hopes that our children will have something to look back upon some day. 
So it all began when George and I started dating back in 2002.  We had a math class together in college at Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston, Idaho.  We barely spoke in class however, George used to work for my uncle so we were both always at my aunt and uncle's house in Lewiston.  My uncle Jim finally got George to ask me out and it all was up hill from then.  Our first date was February 23, 2002.  It was a whirlwind and we were inseparable from the beginning.  We started dating in February and I found out I got into nursing school in Coeur d'alene Idaho and would be moving up north in the summer.  He had a job offer for Boise Cascade in Boise, Idaho.  I remember specifically the day he decided to take the job in Boise.  Not sure what the date was but we were hanging out in his apartment and he hadn't told me yet what he was doing. His brother called and he walked slightly out of the room to talk to him, I could only hear part of the conversation however he told his brother that he was taking the job and then his brother asked if he had told me yet, his answer was "No, I haven't told her".  At that moment, even though we were moving in separate directions... I knew that I meant a lot to him... he had talked to his brother about me!!
In May of 2002, George moved to Boise, Idaho.  Most weekends we traveled to each other, and then in July I moved to Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. 
We decided after a few months of being this far apart that we couldn't do it... George then decided he was moving to Coeur d'Alene.  He put in for a job transfer however, there wasn't an open position at the Spokane branch at the time so he laid everything on the line and said he was quitting and moving regardless.  He gave his notice and not long after he gave his notice (before he was done) a job came open in Spokane and he transferred to the Spokane branch.  Looking back I'm  not sure what we were thinking just letting him move without a job lined up... but we were young and in LOVE.

We dated from 2002-2004 when he asked me to marry him.  George asked me to marry him April 12th, 2004 .  I worked the evening shift at the hospital lab until 11pm and when I got home, he was still awake (which was rare).  We sat on the couch for a bit and chatted but he seamed a bit strange.  Pretty soon he had the camera out and asked me to look at a picture of something he had seen that day.  When I looked at the camera their was a picture of a beautiful wedding ring.  It didn't dawn on me in order for him to take a picture of it, he probably had to have the ring.  When I looked up he was holding the ring and asked me to marry him.  I absolutely said yes.  I don't remember the exact words that were spoken but I will say I'm so glad that he asked me!