Just an Update on the Barker family

Since its been awhile since I've blogged I guess I should update people. Lets see, currently Tanner and I are living with my parents trying to buy a house (which by the way is a major pain in the butt!!!) We had an offer in and was supposed to have the house close end of July, well it expired and so we would have to sign another contract, and so we decided to look at other houses to make sure that was the house we wanted well every house we loved that wasn't short sale would already be in contract and blah blah blah well our last offer on a house that wasn't a short sale ended up having more then one offer and we offered full price on the house but someone else offered more then the asking price. So now we have 3 houses that are short sales that we are waiting on 2 offers have been accepted by the owners not the banks so we'll just see how that turns out. Wish us luck because I'm really hoping we will have a house and be moved in before baby Joseph joins our little family.
Well these last few months have been crazy, my older sister Nikki got married so Tanner and I got to go to Denver which had its ups and downs, I for sure didn't get a lot of sleep and with all the work and walking we did I had NO ankles!!! But the wedding went great and Tanner got to see stuff from his mission. Unfortunately while we were there Tanner's Grandma passed away and so we had to figure out away how to get him off work while still in Denver and figure out how we were going to rearrange going from Denver straight to Utah since that's where the funeral was, it was a hassle but since we had a layover in SLC from Denver we just got off then and had the airport have our luggage off then. It all worked out we just stayed in Utah longer then needed and of course I had only packed long enough for like 4 days so I was always doing laundry, from the lack of sleep from Denver and the lack of sleep in Utah I ended up getting super sick so asking the in laws to be quiet Tanner and I went to sleep at like 7pm and I slept in until like 10 so the sleep was MUCH needed. Anyway besides the fact that we were in Utah for a funeral we did have a good time with family. The funeral was beautiful and well put together. Well we finally got home Sunday after being out of town for almost 2 weeks I was relieved but once home I got horribly sick again (morning sickness) and once I started throwing up blood my ob FINALLY gave me morning sickness pills! They help so much. Well we did have plans to go back to Utah the next weekend for Tanners brother and sister in law to see them get sealed :-) but since Tanner had to take off so much work that wasn't planned he wasn't able to get it off and so we stayed.
That weekend however was our Anniversary on August 9Th! We have been married for 1 year! We stayed Saturday night at the Grove hotel. We went and saw Ice age 3 and then went to our hotel. We took a nap and once again morning sickness killed me and so instead of going down to the restaurant we did room serves which I had never done so it was exciting, and they had GREAT food. Well Sunday being our anniversary we just went back to my parents house (since we didn't want to break the Sabbath too bad) we read and rested and just spent time being us. Well Monday guess what? I started going into premature labor! I swear I thought at first something was exploding in my stomach but calling my OB they thought I may of pulled a ligament or something but after hours of it lasting I called again telling them no better they told me to go to the Labor and birthing floor in the hospital and they called them to let them know I was on my way. After 3 hours of frequent contractions 2 shots and a pill they sent me home since I was dilating at all and told me if it got worst to go back. I was up until about 3am with them but they finally stopped and I was able to sleep. I was pretty sore the next few days but I'm fine now and the baby is 100% okay! That's all that matters.
Well now we're here at my parents waiting for a house and waiting for the baby and I'm NOT patient. Tanner starts school full time next week as well as working full time so his days go to work and his nights go to school. So my weekdays will eventually just be me and Joseph. It makes me sad, I'm going to miss Tanner SO much, and I worry about him burning out, but he thinks he'll be okay so I'll try my best to make sure to make life at home as simple as can be with a baby. Well I'm not going to bother with pictures this time but here's our life from now and hopefully we'll have more updates about a house SOON!