Getting Caught Up!!

So here is what I haven't posted from the past couple of months that I'm finally getting around to! Fall pics Talena took, Jackson's 2nd Birthday Party and Birthday, and Christmas! :)



My two boys :)



Carson hugging Mama's belly :)



Mama's boys!



My little Mama's boy for sure! I just love this one!!



I love this too! Me and my wonderful hubby with our two little men :)



There is like 10 of these, and this is the best we could get. Someone always had their hand in their mouth, looking the wrong way, you know how that goes. And PS I think my hair looks terrible here.



Daddy and his boys :)



I just love this!!



This one too! SO us!!



So sweet!



I love these.



Chasing bubbles.



Around 30 weeks, I believe?



Love this one of me in the field beside our house. Hey, I am a farmers wife!! :)



At our neighbor's pond. Carson was actually scared!



Showing them the fish!!



Kissing our babies :)



Another one of my favorites. Yet we couldn't seem to always get everyone looking ;)



Back to acting silly!



Jackson, where are you going? :)



Boys not looking .. but I still love this one.



And now Jackson's 2nd Birthday:


Cupcakes I made. Girl/boy cupcakes I might add, since Jackson loves Belle from Beauty and the Beast :)



It's my Birthday Party and I'll be naked if I want to!!



Getting ready for the party!



Toy Story/present table



Belle/girl table :) And Nemo table in the back.



Dora table!



Barney Table!



The Garage.



Boys jumping in the castle. It was freezing .. but why not break it out, it's ours!! We'll seriously have one for every party, ha! :)



Food bar .. my yummy cheese dip (making me want some, lol)



All the themed plates, napkins and cups! All of Jackson's favorites.



2nd cookie cake!! Of course my clumsy self dropped the first one!!



Hubby and me!



Singing Happy Birthday. He thought it was funny!



Blowing out his candle.



Probably still trying to get him to blow the candle out!



Boys eating cake!



Birthday boy :)



Carson hitting Buzz!



Kids ready to hit the pinata!



My little cousin Tyler.



Daddy helping Jackson!



Carson taking a swing at it.



Jackson loved it!



Candy!!



Opening presents!



Check out that perfect little belly bump, ha! :)



Jackson, me and my sister. They love this Dora backpack!



After opening all his presents! This child loves to color!



Playing with Dora hats :)



Ethan and Carson :)



Aunt Kim and Jackson.



Jackson loving his new desk!



Next day/Birthday boy :)



Opening his card and present from Mama and Daddy!



Big present!!



Woo Hoo! They love this too!



Jackson officially in the big boy bed!!



Carson on the top bunk!



My boys first night sleeping in the same room :)


Christmas Time:


Our Christmas tree and mantle. I LOVE LOVE LOVE the fireplace .. so warm and cozy!!!



Our mantle and stockings!



The boys talking to Santa! They loved it!!



After seeing Santa!



The $15 pic I bought at the mall, yet this is a pic of the pic taken with my iPhone!



Santa came!!



Boys ready to open presents!



Carson was excited about this movie!!



They got tractors too!!



Hubby with a few of his presents.



Belle with her new squeak toy.



Me with my presents.



The boys opening their train table from us! They loved it!!



Daddy and Carson at Grandma Clelma's Christmas for lunch.



After leaving Aunt Kim's with his new Woody!



Our only Christmas picture together, ha! Taken by my phone going down the road. Notice Hubby's cigarette and him looking at the road!



Boys at Grandma Jo Ann's and Papa Don's Christmas night.



Helping my little man with their new basketball goal.


Whew .. glad I got that over!! :)

Now it's baby time darn it!!!!! :)

38 Weeks!

How far along: 38 weeks!!! 10 days away from my induction date!!
Weight gain/loss: 28lbs gained so far!
Maternity clothes: No maternity pants. Lot's of Hubby's shirts. Comfy pants. Regular jeans with my Bella Band.
Sleep: Not sleeping good lately! It's hard to get to sleep and I wake up a lot! I can't get comfortable!
Best moment this week: Tomorrow starts the single digits! 9 days from baby! :)
Food cravings: None really. Just eating a bit more!
Belly button in or out: It definitely pokes through my shirt now!
Movement: It's so much fun feeling him move now! He's so big, we can now tell when it's a foot moving around! So cool to watch!
What I miss: Sleeping on my stomach! Other than that, I love being 38 weeks pregnant! Everyone is so nice and I get so many friendly compliments from strangers!! I love it! :)
What I'm looking forward to: Seeing my baby sooooon!!! :)

37 Week Appointment

My week 37ish appointment was pretty much useless.

I weighed 137 ..

and guess what?

Baby had a heart beat, imagine that. Ha!

Here's a few iPhone pics at 37 weeks! Full-term baby!! Woo Hoo!! :) I knew I could do it, lol!

Check out that belly button!! It never did that before with Carson or Jackson!









Alright baby, Mama is ready to see you now! ;)

My New Camera!

I love our new camera! It's a Nikon D3100. The majority of these pictures are taken by hubby. I swear he knows how to use it better than me. I'm just glad we have it! I love taking pictures and having pictures. I take so many a day I couldn't possibly share them all. I wish I had the time to upload them all!! :) Here's a few from the past few days of having the camera. I've still got to come back and add Jackson's birthday and some new bump pics!! That will have to be another post. Plus our pictures we took back in the Fall and Christmas! I'm so behind! Heck soon enough I'll be posting a birth story, I'm sure! :)


This is what pregnancy and raising two kids does to you. One tired lady!! :)


Oh my, this pose. I love it.


Relaxing .. talking about baby :)


It was a rather odd warm day. And Carson loves sticks, ha!


Our house!


I love seeing my boys be boys! :)


Had to get my other cutie in his undies :)


And a naked butt .. in my boots!! They love mommy's boots!


I just love this fireplace. It gets the house so warm!


Hubby getting me at my worst, yet I must say I rock the men's size large pretty well while pregnant, lol.


So handsome.


They were loving playing outside and on these trees.


My gracious these two are a handful together.


This is eventually where we may build a house one day. It's in our plans. One step at a time I guess.


So cute. He loved sitting on all the trees.


Mama just loves these boys!


Mama's baby :)



Hubby's hard work he's been doing this week. I'm so thankful for him!

A Day To Remember

Oh my damn .. what a day it has been.

First, Brandon walks in this morning, waking me up saying, "You need to take Belle to the vet."

I think okay, I'm going back to sleep, I'll take her later. He's like, "You need to look at her."

I looked at her and she had whelps all over her body and her face was swollen. "I'm thinking, shit .. really?"

Jackson was up off and on last night, in the bed with me crying. I have no idea why my two year old insists on waking up in the middle of the night now that he is two .. it's like a newborn all over again (yet I'll eat those words in a couple of weeks).

So, lazy me finally rolls over and calls the vet at about 9:45 am. They said they'd see me at 11am. Great, I've got an hour to get up, get a shower, get ready, get the kids ready, get Belle, and leave. I've got this.

10:45 am : I can NOT find Belle, anywhere.

11am I call the vet and tell them we can't make it, I can't find the dog. I probably sounded like a great dog mommy. So we rescheduled for 2:45 .. to later reschedule again at 2pm. What a mess.

Around 11:15 Belle finally shows up. She was looking like a fat pig. All swollen, poor dog.

I go have lunch with the boys at the store to waste a little bit of time. We come back, feed Belle some leftover chicken from lunch. And we left (with Belle this time) to take care of a couple of errands and take her to the vet. 2 and 1/2 hours, easy right? Yeah, no this day doesn't go any way easy at all.

I run by the thrift shop to do my good deed and drop off some old clothes and little here and there mess from the house. Left there had time to burn still so I decided to run into Walmart (leave Belle in the car, obviously) and get her a cute pink collar since she needed one for the vet anyway. Hey, I FINALLY have a girl to buy some pink for, lol.

Get back to the car and DUN DUN DUN ....

I smell SHIT.

I start freaking out. Belle is in the far back of my Suburban laying down, no crap there though. I think I'll just pick it up with wipes and throw it in the trash at the carts. Again, not happening.

I find crap IN Jackson's car seat! Pee IN Jackson's car seat. Not only is it shit in my child's car seat, that is not his .. it's DIARRHEA. I mean, it literally could have came through a straw. And it was everywhere.

I started to try to clean it up and nearly threw up all over the Walmart parking lot. I'm sure that was nice to see. My nearly full-term pregnant self heaving in the empty parking space next to me.

I threw the car seat in the back with Belle and grabbed the boys and headed back in Walmart. Grabbed a bottle of Pet Odor Spray and a booster seat.

About 10 minutes late to the doctor appointment, Belle had crap all over her and I'm sure we smelt awful. My car sure did.

Not to mention, I had to drag her 37lb ass in there.

She proceeded to shit all over the waiting area. All over the walls, the door and the floor. The whole place now smelt like my car, and my child's car seat. And Belle now had even more crap all over her. This place had to hate me.

They started to freak out and made all the other people and dogs move to another side of the building and started to tell me I had to wait outside, but thank God, the dude came out and said "Belle" Just before they sent us out.

So we went back to the room and they swabbed her ass for every thing a dog could possibly have and came back forever later to tell me, she's contagious to humans, especially children. She has roundworms. The whelps are from something else, probably fire ant bites. Of course they had to give her loads of expensive medicine while I was fighting a two year old and three year old ready to go home.

And we're hand sanitizing like OCD people in there because, I'm freaking out we could get roundworms. Which come from coming into contact with either her licking us or her crap. Yeah, that stuff I was just battling in the Walmart parking lot.

I go pay the $300 bill and thinking about just bailing on the dog and leaving her and the bill, but obviously don't.

And we got home after 4:30pm. So my entire day consisted of taking care of sick Belle, two kids and the vet.

Good news, Belle will be fine. She has been cured. Supposedly and she'll get over it eventually. We have to give her meds for a week.

I must say I have dealt with crap in every way possible.

I'm back!

We haven't had internet, well I guess like all month almost! Here is a few fast details!! :)

At 34 weeks I weighed 133lbs, appointment went good. She gave me a two week break.

Next appointment was at almost 36 weeks, I think? Anyway, I weighed 134lbs. I saw the doctor that will deliver the baby, Dr. Marzbani, same doctor that delivered both Carson and Jackson. He looked at my belly and was concerned about the size of the baby, thinking he might be too small. So he ordered for me to have an ultrasound the next time I came back for my 36 week appointment.

36 week appointment .. we did an ultrasound on baby, apparently weighing in at 6lbs 6oz!!!! Didn't get to see any boy parts, yet again! Baby is just too crammed in there and had his legs closed tight. So we're going off that one time shot we got .. but I'm sure he's a he! :) He's head down and looking just so precious in there! I weighed 136lbs. Saw the doctor after my ultrasound (hubby went with me) and we set an induction date for January 20th if baby doesn't come on his own before then. Which I am hoping he does. But whichever, I'm alright with both since both boys were induced, not anything new for me. Baby will be here in less than 3 weeks for sure now! How exciting?!

We took down another wall in our house and took out the cabinets in our hall before you enter the kitchen. So it's way more open in there. And we put hardwood floors down. We're forever remodeling! We have so many ideas for this house, just can't really spend the money on fixing everything right away. But it's getting done little by little! We also got new furniture in the living room, on Jackson's birthday to be exact, ha. New couch, recliner, coffee table, kitchen table, and computer desk. I love love love our living room now. And we hung the big screen on the wall finally. Our house is so much more cozy and live-able now!

Jackson and Carson our sharing a room now. Jackson finally moved into Carson's room. Carson is sleeping on the top bunk and Jackson on the bottom. It's precious.

Christmas was pretty awesome. I got a really expensive camera I have no freaking idea how to work. I seriously need some help with that thing, it's nice! I wanted a new pocket book and hubby didn't know how to pick one out so he bought me a hideous drug store pocket book (which I almost fell out opening) with a $100 visa card inside to get whatever one I wanted! :) I cried on Christmas morning .. damn hormones. I love my hubby for understanding. The boys had a great Christmas and loved all the presents (of course!) I just love my family.

Prozac is amazing. I feel so me still, and so much more at ease with everything. I love it. Yet, I don't plan on taking them the rest of my life. I probably sound like some pill head, but really it's only 20mg (not much) just enough to calm my anxiety and all.

I feel pretty good, as far as being pregnant and all. I don't feel huge yet. Although, most of my maternity clothes are too small .. the shirts anyway. I wear a lot of Brandon's shirts! Thank goodness he is somewhat of a little guy, ha! :) I still wear my regular jeans, just with a bella band to cover where I can't zip and button them. I love wearing Brandon's long sleeve t-shirts and my comfy pants.

Tomorrow starts a new year, and I'm so excited! I'm hoping and thinking it will be great :) We'll be welcoming our new little man soon and probably completing our little (or big?) family! One downer .. I dread the 2 day hospital stay! I'm ready to get that over, and I'm thinking I might need some second wife/nanny woman for Brandon over while I'm gone. I'm worried I'll come back to a house turned upside down!

Oh yeah and it snowed! Gosh it snowed so much it was a mess. We never see snow. Not used to it around here. We had no power for a full day, but luckily we have a generator so we had heat from our wood burner, the TV and we hooked up a spotlight in the living room! Glad that's over! :)

I'll come back and add pictures as soon as I get them put on the computer off my camera and phone! Haven't had a second to do it yet.

Random Quick Update!!

I have been so busy lately getting ready for Jackson's birthday party I probably haven't been on here in a couple of days.

Jackson's party was yesterday, and his Birthday is today! Little man is 2!!!

I had an appointment this morning but I rescheduled it because the boys are still sleeping and I have a few things to do around here. I didn't want to wake the birthday boy to drag him to my doctor appointment! I had heartburn last night so bad I woke up and thought I was going to throw up. Two Tums saved me! Baby is getting much bigger and his pokes are getting stronger. He has some legs or something all up in my right ribs right now! :)

I've got lots to do around here but I'll be back on eventually when I get around to it to upload some pics and write all about little mans party and birthday!!