before and after

well its been VERY VERY slow in getting done but I now have a living room finished and almost a whole kitchen done...YIPPIE!!! Chuck is doing all the work and with working full time and for the first time in years he is getting over time the house gets put on the back burner, ( I 'm getting use to that) and the fact our house is the money pit...anything we fix takes a few other things to fix also before you can get to the first thing your were working on..lol... like our living room floor we had carpeting we switched to a pergo floor wellllllllllllllll in order to do that he had to fix the old sub floor since the builders who did our addition didnt level it right when they took out a wall they stuffed the hole with cardboard...gzeeee, that took the whole day to fix the floor before Chuck could do the pergo..TG he had a lots of help. So the living room received one new wall, part of a ceiling, a paint job and a new pergo floor :O) I love the living room now.

this is Christmas of 07 a bit crowded...lol this is my lost wall and carpet

this is that crowded area changed a

few things around this is my new floor :O) isn't it pretty!!

My kitchen is ALMOST done he has the new walls and ceiling up ( that was a job in itself) its painted a new sub floor...major pain in the *ss.. had a beautiful corian counter top put in but the faucet was another pain in the behind for Chuck took all night to get it right, and I have a pergo floor in there too :O) doing the happy dance!!!!

The only thing left to do in there is to do the floor moldings, a new window ledge and to bring down the tile on the wall to the counter top ( didn't do a back splash wanted the tile instead....yea I know more work for Chuck...lol)

So after he finishes the kitchen which is on hold for a week now since Adam and Chuck will be gone for a week to go deer hunting...he will come home to finish the kitchen, then start upstairs and start the hallway...need new walls, total paint job and a floor, ...then the bathroom again walls, paint and a floor same thing in my bedroom....hummm I think I can keep Chuck busy till spring time then he can start on the yard...lol just dont tell him I said that

Bear Hunting

Well Chuck left last Saturday for bear hunting. His brother went with him a 13 hour drive to get to the upper part of Michigan yea a 13 hour drive that when Chuck called the NEXT day said it took them 18 hours...lol just a little lost he said. I really hope they had nicer weather then we did Saturday and all day Sunday it rained here we had flood warnings out starting Saturday night, the kids loved the puddles which soon turned into ponds..they had a ball running through the streets with the water up to their knees at some parts all the ditches were filled ( TG I dont have a ditch in front of my house) the kids were using them like water slides..at least 4 of my kids found out how much fun it was to slide down a ditch full of water and mud and just how much fun it was till they came home and mom seen that they had on their school shoes, and they were full of mud walking on my nice new living room floor....all and all I didnt yell that much, I did grumble a lot as I was washing the clothes I had to wash them twice just to get the ground in mud out and to see what color the clothes really were.

My poor baby has an ear infection :O( I thought it was him getting teeth in since he wasnt running a fever or pulling on his ears, he was just a bit cranky and just starting to get a runny nose, I wasn't even going to bring him into the Dr but I had to take Samantha since she had an ear ache, so after a nice long long wait at the Drs office I found out that they both have double ear infections, and Samantha also has a sines infection..I just love winter coming....not really

Only 3 more weeks till David should be home from Iraq...Crystal and I are TRYING to see if the two of us can go down and greet him when he comes in. We haven't told him because its a long shot if we can, and if we do we want it to be a surprise. I would love to go!!!! I haven't even told Chuck about this one yet...got to find some way to break the news to him and see if I can find someone to watch the baby and Christopher durning the day...Chuck does have vacation time left :O) We still don't know the date he will be in on, only the week so it makes it hard to get a hotel room or make plans so if we don't find out soon we will have to give up going down to see him..I don't know I'll keep you posted if we get to go and don't tell anyone of our plans just in case if could get back to David.

I have WALLS!!!!

Yep I do I have walls in my living room and a ceiling too :O)

The living room is almost finished we just have a few things to finish like some of the moldings, Chuck forgot that ER came in and took some of the moldings that had water damage. The room has been painted and a new pergo floor put in...my sweetie has to crawl under in the dirt to find two yep not one but TWO heater vents that the guys covered up with the pergo floor...lol so now Chuck has to some how find them, then we have curtains to put back up and my pics to finish it all off...Chuck then leaves for bear hunting for a few days and when he comes back we get to start on the kitchen..oh what joy..I want it done but I hate the thought of doing it, the living room was a smaller job and that was a pain in the behind I cant image the kitchen!!! Cant I just stay in the nice clean living room..lol

Jorden is all over the place these days he is crawling and pulling himself up on things. He can say da-da like there is no tomorrow I m still working on the ma-ma...Chuck and I had a bet on which one he would say first and guess who won...I swear I think he stood in front of that baby and babbled da-da all day long just to win...lol

I haven't taken too many new pics of him not with the house being ripped apart, didn't want to see the mess in the background but I did take this one I thought it was cool since we had a butterfly in the house

David will be coming home from Iraq soon...I cant wait!!!!!! It feels like its been forever even if its only been 8 months. Sometimes he gets a few pics up on his my space page for me ( not nearly enough) or he will e-mail me a pic here and there.. This is one he put on his my space page I cant believe how beefy he is getting. He left he was so tall and thin now he is really filling out I think he use to weigh 155 when he left now he told me he is 180.....wow!!!! He should be here in Michigan for Thanksgiving, that seems like its such a far ways off before he will be home but at least he will be in the states in Oct.

My niece Anna got married over the Labor day weekend..she made such a beautiful bride :O) Steven was her ring bearer..he had a blast of course he loves to be the center of att and with him being all dressed up and cute looking with those 2 front teeth missing he got a lot of it..lol

Ok here is a rare pic of me this is one with my sister and my mom..here I was so proud of my self for fitting in this dress and thinking wow I lost a lot of my baby weight till I seen some of my other pics...think it time to go on a diet...lol this pic isn't too bad I sucked it in :O)

quotes

well phase one is done with the house. The restoration company left on Tuesday. They left me with a MESS and half a house. My living room ceiling has a 3 by 6foot part cut out, one full wall is gone and a 3 by 12 foot section of my carpet is gone..then we have my kitchen the whole ceiling is missing half of a wall, the floor and my cabinets. The upstairs half the hallway carpet is gone all the walls has a 3 ft part missing, the bathroom needs a new floor and all new walls and the cabinets..oh then we have my bedroom carpet it needs to be replaced and all the rooms that were affected will have to be painted of course ...this is going to be A LOT of work.
I have had 6 different companies come out for quotes..here is what I think..

1)first company....he did way too much writing...lol he wants to take down walls that were not affected and really didn't tell me anything, I didn't like that.

2) second company he was cute..lol he went through the house told me this and that had to be done, he would wave my deductible, would let us say what we want done and how the funds would be spent..sounds good right....a few days later I call him to see if there was a quote in writing and the whole time he talked to me it was honey this, sweetheart that, baby you name it I was called it...now if by any chance I hired this guy first off my hubby would NOT like it if he called me these names, plus I don't think he would like seeing a hot looking guy in his house all day..

3) he came out wrote all kinds of things down also, then as he was leaving he hands me a paper to sign, I asked him what it was and he told me it was a work release...that in order to get a quote I have to say I would let them do the work..Grrr ..don't think so

4) he seemed nice told me what needed to be done and had details

5) he wanted to patch my drywall not replace, wanted to do as little as possible

6) he told me everything he wanted to do how I could go with a wood floor in the living room instead where the money would go, and if we wanted to hire certain things out to someone different we could..he seemed honest and had lots of info

So #1,2,3 and 5 are out of the running.. it is a tossup between 4 and 6..but so far 6 is in the lead...lol
hey I like the ideal of wood floors in my living room :O)

frustrated

have you ever been so frustrated that you cant think straight? That you feel dammed if you do dammed if you don't? That your told you should act one way but when you try that's not what they want? But if you don't your told you don't care or your not good enough...i know I am being vague but in this situation I need to be..I just want to run and keep running till I cant go anymore..I don't know what to do anymore, I feel like so much of me is lost and I'm not sure where or how to find it anymore. How do you try and help and your not told anything and when you are told its a slam

omg can you believe two post in one day....lol

just had to share the latest pic of the baby..

I still wonder how in the world he can do this, looks like it wojld hurt but then again babies are so flexible...

how does a person know???

I HATE working with insurance and builders!!!! This is just the start I know it, the water removal guys have been here for the pass three day the first day they did nothing since they didn know what the insurance company would pay for the next day they didnt do anything again since the insurance adjuster had not showed up at our house yet so they just dropped off blower and a hepa filter machine..the blowers are HOT and we have 2 huge things blowing hot air in the house it feels like it 100 in the house and I have the air on..So today they showed up again to remove my kitchen ceiling and part of my carpeting upstairs they were here ALL day just for that. The adjuster came he was cheerful..not he kept taking pics and measurements of everything in the house even things that werent in the accident zone..he didnt give me much info just to let the guys do what they think needs to me done, so I asked him how do I know that what they do will be covered he said "you dont"...omg I am suppose to let these guys rip apart my house and not know if they are going to cover it...I dont think so! So every little thing they wanted to do I made them double check with the insurance company.
Tomorrow they want to take down my living room wall, kitchen floor and bathroom floor oh and the living room carpeting...I'm NOT looking forward to this!!!1
The kids were so amazed with everything they were doing I swear if the guys would of let them help they would have been in their glory.
The guys finished up for the day at 4:00...darn it just in time for me to make dinner..

wow thats all I can say

you just never know what could happen in this house. Just when you think you have seen it all something else happens...I didnt get upset when I seen the kids playing Tarzan hanging from the tree branch and jumping off the playhouse, I didnt get upset when one child dumped dirty turtle water out her window and her sister heard some strange noise in her downstairs bedroom so she stuck her head out the window..and got a bath in turtle water ( in fact I thought that one was funny :O) I didnt get mad when they were throwing water balloons out the upstairs window, or when one was using the shovel as a catapult with dog poo at the neighbors house( ok he did get grounded for that one and had to clean up the mess),,,but when a 4 year old comes up to you and says the water in the toilet is too high..I would say question it dont ignore him...so now for the riddle of the day?????

What do you get when you have a 4 year old little boy, a roll of tp and an upstairs toilet????

Wow look at him go

I cant believe how much Jorden is starting to do now. For the longest time he was happy to stay on his back and look at us if he was in his pack -n-play, he wouldnt even try to roll over, or he would bounch like a mad man in his MegaSaucer. But in the last 2 weeks the little stinker has learned its fun to move.. He can now roll all over the place to get what ever he wants, he gets up on his knees and rocks back and forth and lunges forward to get places , he goes from his knees to sitting and will sit there for a long time before he falls over..he is just all over the place. He now has two teeth that has just broken through, he is leaking soooooooooo badly stillfrom teeting, poor kids clothes are soaked all the time. Anything in sight he puts in his mouth, and his new thing is gram crackers he loves them..have you ever see or touched a gram cracker after a baby gummed it to death..yuck a soggy mess, and they always somehow seem to get more on their face, belly or chair then in their bellies. It still amazes me how much a baby learns that first year of life.

David gets to call us about once a week from Iraq, he sounds so good!He told us he will not re-enlist that he wants to go back to school. He wants to go into nursing :O) he is going to start taking classes when he gets back into the states. He might be redeployed back to Iraq before his time is up in the Marines he will be done Jan of 2010...ya I have count down going already :O)

My brother in-law is getting married!!!! Major shock he is what we all thought of as the confirmed bachelor he has been with the same girl for the pass 6 years be never in that time did he even hint that marriage would be in their future so when he told everyone they got engaged you can image all of our amazement and now he did one better they set the date and even got the church booked, so I guess this is really going to happen :O) I am so happy for them I am really looking forward to them having kids I have a lot of years to torture his kids after half the things he has done to mine, and after some of the gifts he has bought...oh boy I am going to have fun.....lol

What was I thinking

Dont ask me how it happened, honest is just snow balled. I said yes to Samantha having a friend spend the night her friend is also d, then her brother who plays with my 7 year old asked if he got to stay too..ok I think thats not bad its very hot out we have a pool and a camper in the back so we can go for night swims have a camp fire and sleep out in the camper...before long I have my other son putting up a tent in the back yard saying dad said that he and a friend could camp out. Then came that kid's sister who plays with my daughter and stright out asks if she can stay too..so the total is 4 extra kids including my 10 that are still living at home ( one is in the military) then I get a call from my oldest saying she invited a FEW friends over to go swimming and play cards, I ask what is a few she tells me no more then 5 or 6..now I went downstairs a bit ago and I found 3 more kids standing in my kitchen and my son eyeballing me...I just shook my head no and walked a way. I know I am a push over if I stayed in that room I would have 3 more staying..I just got done feeding the mob it took 8 pizzas and almost 7 2lts of pop I can hear splashing and yelling right now and my sweet hubby is the middle of all the kids in the pool...crazy or not I love days like these, tommorrow I 'll be a bit insane but thats ok...wish me luck if you dont hear from me I didnt make it...lol

Ok its morning and I made it :O)

here is how our night went, 10pm I got the baby to sleep, oldest came home with 3 of her friends they stayed in the house playing cards so she listened for the baby incase he woke up..we had a campfire for a little bit till my 7 year old son was likeing the fire way to much for me to be comfortable, if you know what I mean..so at 11pm we went for a swim ( I sat in chat for a short time..had to talk to some adults) Then the kids had snacks, some stayed in the house and played the computers and others played playstation, only 7 stayed in the camper with me..1 am back for a quick night swim ...I thought I would tire the kids out and they would sleep..nope didnt happen..we then played some cards, watched a movie, colored and the girls ran out to the tent some of the boys were sleeping in to try to scare them..lets just say that started the war and they all were running after each other...lol by 4 am I am dying and the kids are still going strong...but by 5 am they are dropping like flies ..saddly the few that passed out around 2am were up and ready to start the day by 7 the ones that were still sleeping got a sharpie beards...Cooked breadfast at 8am went swimming again.. its noon and only one child has gone home but that child was replaced by another kid who lives down the street...it looks like its going to rain so MAYBE we might have a few more go home and I can go back to sleep.

Wish I could post some pics of all the lovely faces, but with out thinking I gave Rach my camera to take to camp with her..which by the way I pick her up this evening, cant wait till she gets home but in a way I can since while she was gone I killed her hermit crab...hey no one said I had to feed the think while she was gone..oppps, I should I figured that out yesterday since her room had a bad smell

its been a long time

I know its been a long time since I last posted.

The baby is doing great in fact he is getting so big and trying to do so many things lately, he just learned to roll over now the little stinker can roll himself all over the place, he is TRYING to get some teeth in poor guy is drooling like crazy...he has been having some pretty rough days when it comes to his teeth...most of the time he is such a happy baby.

Samantha just came home from camp yesterday. It was so strange not having her around. I didnt have to get up for those 2 am blood sugar test but yet I didnt go to bed till 2:30 every night, just couldnt sleep with her gone. The one thing that we did do was eat diner anytime we wanted to and have way too much junk food...no plans for dinner half the time just grabbed and ran meals. I do have to say it was a nice change, but its also nice to get back to normal now. Samantha said she had a great time and that she made a lot of nice new friends and she cant wait to go back next year...yeap she already has plans for next year :O)

Teething

Poor baby he is such a good baby but lately he is soooooooo unhappy. He is drooling so much and he bites everything...everything goes right in the mouth, then he cries. I hate when babies start getting teeth, they just look so darn cute with that toothless grin :O)

Yet another day of rain, sometimes I think thats all it does here. We have had rain everyday for the pass 4 days and now they say more rain for the whole weekend. It looks like we are going to have to put off doing the roof for another week. If this keeps up the money we have saved for doing the roof I am going to spend..lol

I just started back at doing e-bay I know like I don't have enough to do in a day. I just love sewing and if you seen all the fabric I have and still want to get...lol I have a big addiction to fabric so sewing and selling on e-bay enables me to buy more :O)
Plus I have to make some more pump pouches for Sam I told her today I would let her pick out some prints and we would do it together...that's after we get back home. I wanted her to have a lot to pick from..you know us girls be have to accessorize I cant have her wearing an orange top with a blue pump pouch..lol plus I am trying really hard to make a crappy illness a bit more fun that's if you can make Diabetes fun.

We have a birthday tomorrow. I cant believe my little boy will be 7.. I went and bought him a new bigger bike so that he will not have to steal his older brothers anymore..so now we will have the older brother stealing his...lol

posting just for LIsa...lol

since Lisa has pointing out that I have not updated my blog this is just for her...lol

Things at home are going pretty good for the most part.. Life was really crazy here since Aug and worse in Oct but I am starting to see the light again..lol

Crystal the oldest is out and about on her own sometimes, she still has hard times and the weather when its cold and rainy really takes its tole on her, there is a sight limp to her walk and she can walk without a cane now..still going to therapy and will for a long time..she has LOTS of work to do on her ankles and hips.

David he tires to call once a week. He is deployed now in Iraq and working the night shift so that means when he calls home its early morning for him but evening for us...that works for me...lol he use to call at 4 or 6am that was a killer. He sent me flowers for mothers day :O) I cried almost every time I looked at them for 2 days..I just miss that boy so much, I worry about him all the time and cant wait till he is back in the states which should be in Nov sometime.

The rest of the family is doing well...well Rachel is on an I hate dad kick right now..which I hate to see but dad is not helping her feel other wise...why is it guys can be sooooooooooooooooo clueless????

The baby is getting so big he is such a sweetie. He loves to be held all the time which can be hard at times but I look at it this way I can always clean the house later in fact he gives me a good reason not too...lol He just had his 4 month old check up and is now 14 pounds and 25 inches long poor baby had to get 4 shots :O( but he did so well after a very loud yell and a few seconds of crying he was back to all smiles...

Mothers day we spent it out to my bil's it rained the whole day but that didn't stop the kids and the big kids from going out and riding the 4 wheelers ..they said the mud was more fun..most of my kids had wipe outs Dillon, Nick, Anthony, Samantha and Steven all crashed with trees, bushes and a few ditches..no one got hurt just very muddy!!!!

The flowers David sent for mothers day

Crazy people out in the rain..lol

Anthony after his crash

Samantha coming out of the rain

Steven I think he was trying to see if he could get more mud on him then anyone else

burn out

I am having some MAJOR burn out feelings!! Some days are fine other days I just want to dig a hole and crawl in it. I know having a large family there is a lot going on and a lot to deal with but lately OMG its on over load or maybe its just that I haven't really had time to sit down and deal with everything thats been happening in my life in the pass 6 1/2 months. either way I am loosing myself!!! Some days I dont even bother to get dressed I enjoy the days I DONT have to go out and I dont have to get dressed I was always the type to make sure I was dressed and looked nice when I went out even if it was to the drug store well lately I will go out in sweats and relize when I get there that hey I didnt even brush my hair today and I dont care..now thats bad. I just feel as if everyone wants something from me and I dont have much more to give. Samantha is doing pretty good with her diabetes even if right now her numbers are all over the place. The Dr said her honeymoon phase is just about over so that is common till it ends then we can try and I say try to regulate her. She starts the pump in less then 2 weeks which makes me nervous since its all new to me, its kind of like when she first was in the hospital with the diabetes I was in the dark about everything I feel that way again :O(
Crystal is doing well in her recovery and doesnt need as much help but instead has me running 3 times a week to take her to therapy and at least 2 or 3 more times a week for errons and once a week for dental visits good thing this is durning the day, but I still have to pack up the baby make sure he is fed before we leave ( I am not nursing him as much as the others since I am on the go ALL the time and I feel sad for that) then I have to get the now 4year old ready and hope that he is going to be nice the whole time..for the most part he is great and I cant complain.
Rachel has softball practice right now 3 times a week after school so I have to pick her up and she has praise group 2 times a week so I have to take her there plus she has a club on Mondays after school ( same day Samantha has singing) so I pick her up from there then swing by and grab Samantha at her school. So I run all day then a short break and start in the evening again..ahhhhhh
Rachel is been sooooooooooooo moody and has been taking it out on everyone in the house but me. I am the one she complains to about everyone and everything. I am happy we have a close relationship but its hard because right now the things that bug her is her family and I dont feel she is right in the things she says to them or how she reacts to things she is just down right being mean to everyone and thinks it them..well maybe about 10%is them but she is being about 90% of the problem. I love her to death but I dont know what to do for her..she is just mad at the world and this was my sweet child that would bend over backwards for anyone, She is upset that my time is going to Samantha and Crystal and will tell me that she is jealous I try so hard to make time everyday for just her I think that its making her worse because she even more resents the time I have to make a call to Samantha's Dr for something or take Crystal to her therapy its getting bad just more pulling at mom and making me crazy!!!
Then we have David he is doing great but soon he will be deployed to Iraq I am not sure how to handle that one...I try not thinking about it but in the back of my mind its always there. I know that where he will be going is an airbase and he works on planes so he will not be in combat plus they say that base is like huge there is restaurants and stores everything he will need. He went out and bought a computer so he can talk to us every day via Internet, I am thankful for that..
Anthony is doing good but you know how a 17 year old boy can be..at times Chuck and him butt heads but nothing that bad.
Adam is Adam he is still pretty childish got to love that in him..in fact when I am having a bad day I can just look at him and see in his eyes that innocent look like duh way is mom upset
Dillon and Nicholas and Steven are at each other all the time its like trapped rats this winter is lasting way too long. Nick and Dillon are forever in fights about dumb things like who got up first, or why does Dillon think 2 weeks out of the year he is 3 years older then Nick instead of 2 years 2 weeks older..just because Nick was still 9 while Dillon was 12 already.rolling my eyes here!!!!
Steven I dont know what is his deal he is happy if he can get Christopher crying over something..makes me crazy
Then there is Chuck and I. He is trying so hard I know he is I just dont have the energy right now. He comes home from work makes dinner and sometimes cleans up his mess then he will relax and just as I get all the kids in bed he jumps up and wants us to shower and go to bed and of course he doesnt want to sleep. I know after 26 years of marriage I should be happy he still wants me ALL the time but thats just the problem its like he wants me they want me everyone wants me I dont have down time...I would just enjoy if after I get the kids in bed I could just sit and watch a show, or do something that I dont HAVE to do. Sorry this is just a rant and rave post I just need to get it out and if your still reading god bless you have more streangh then I do..lol But really life itsnt that bad its just I am being pulled all the time and I just need a break.
Recap of the pass 6 months
Samantha gets diabetes in late Aug
David and Crystal gets in a major car accident the FIRST day he was home on leave in Oct
Rachel starts with problems and wants to see a therapist ( she is feeling dumped on by friends and family)
Me I am pregnant while this is all going on..had my sweety Dec 20th
Hubby and I were at each other much better now.
Now my mother in-law is sick Drs dont know what is wrong with her

Yippie

after weeks of fighting with MiniMed I won :O)

MiniMed is an insulin pump company that Samantha's dr told us to go with for her pump. Well when I went to place the order with them they told me that Samantha had to be on insulin for 6 months before my insurance company would let her have the pump...I called the insurance company and they said there was no waiting time that she could have it right away..I called MiniMed back they still told me we had to wait...grrr now anyone who knows me knows I am not the best at waiting...lol so I of course called back and told them either now or never I would go with another company the very next day I got a call from them saying they would let her have it now..mind you that was 3 weeks ago. So today I was on a mission I thought we waited long enough for them to ship the pump ( dr told me it would take 2 weeks) so I called was getting ready to let loose on the women...when she said oh I was just going to call you we are shipping her pump out today :O) TG I didnt blast her like I had planned...lol most of the time I speak first feel like a fool later. So Samantha is on cloud 9 she should have her pump in a few days and start her classes in March. I cant wait I hope that the pump will help keep her under control right now we are having soooooooooooooo many 300's its crazy.



Jorden's cold is almost gone. The poor little guy. He had it so bad cold hardly breath at times.

My baby is sick

My poor little guy is sick :O( he has a sinus infection and an ear infection we caught it pretty early TG he just started getting sick yesterday with a runny nose and by the middle of the night he was caughing and not happy all night. I took him to the Dr today and spent 3 yes 3 hours there over an hour and a half just in the waiting room, I didnt wait too long in the exam room and the Dr did come in right away and spent a long time in the room with us. Jorden had a very good look over and we spent time talking. Its funny when I go in there its more like he talks to me like we are friends half the time he talks about his kids or a vacation now I know why I sat so long in the waiting room the man LOVES to talk...lol
Jorden has gained a pound in 2 weeks he is now 10 pounds 12 oz and 24 inches long.
He is doing a bit better tonight at least he is sleeping and not coughing when he is laying down like last night.

more snow days

Yesterday was our 3rd snow day in a little over a week. Last week the kids had two of them I even got one...my Dr called and cancel my 6 week check up due to the snow. Monday they had off because the news said there was going to be a storm but we didnt get it. then on Friday again we were suppose to get a huge storm but only got about 3 inches no reason to cancel school or my o.b appointment but the kids were happy. Yesterday was the first time we had a snow day that was for real...lol
Still trying to play catch up in this house I just cant seem to motivate myself these days. I have sooooo much to do here but as you can see I am here instead :O)

Jorden is getting so big his check up last week he was 9 pounds 14 oz and 24 inches long..funny how 3 inches can seem so much bigger!!! He is sleeping all night from 10 to about 8 in the morning but he isnt napping much if any durning the day time. I cant complain because he is happy, but even happier if I am holding him which I just seem to find myself doing most of the time. The kids are still all over him they cant keep their hands off of him. If he even makes a squeak they go running to see why. I am just happy he is so loved and wanted by the kids. Christopher, Steven and Samantha are already talking about another baby they even have names picked out...lol Speaking of another baby I know I must be crazy but the thought of another has popped in my head already. We are not be safe so there is always that possibility even if its a slight one.

David will be leaving for Iraq next week they gave him the date of March 14th :O(
I dont even want to think about it. The only thing that saves me is he will be on an air force base since he works on plans. He said the place he is going has internet access so we can talk to him via internet TG. He keeps trying to reassure me he will be fine and is looking forward to going, the only down side he said is he will miss us and some of his buddies that are now in his squadron but most of his buddies are in his and will be going with him.

OMG I cant believe he said this

Chuck and I were talking today about our parents more like our mothers. My mom had told Chuck right after I had Jorden that he needed to go get snipped ... at that time Chuck agreed with her which made me mad ..its not that I am thinking of another baby its the fact they think they ( my mom) can try to run my life. well then a few days ago my mother in-law was at my house and she was on the phone telling who ever she was talking to that this was my last baby that she cant do this anymore...what????? I dont ask her to do anything I never have her babysit so why would me having another baby effect her? Anyways today when Chuck and I were talking I was talking about my mom and what she said..well I kind of jumped and said I really dont care what my mom said that its our lives its up to us not her or his mom. He looked shocked and said I was right and once we have all the bills caught up if I want I can do what I want...in other words I can have another baby if I want We should have that done by this summer. I am not sure if I want to try for another baby or not but I like the ideal that if I want to Chuck is with me.

Jorden is getting big fast I cant believe how fast they grow!!! I have to remember to take a lot of pictures. I got a few nice one today.

Phew the D&C is done

I went in yesterday and had my D&C. It went nice and fast.. My o.b said they found the piece of plecenta that was left behind it was small but causing a lot of problems for me..the Dr said it was only the size of a stamp but infection was already setting in. So I was put on some heavy meds in my I.V so I couldnt nurse Jorden for 24 hours. I had to rent a pump from the hosptial, I really really hate pumping!!! I am feeling a lot better now and even took down all the Christmas stuff...I know I was to rest but I swear it was calling to me I just had to get it done.

Wow its been a while

I really ment to post more often but as normal life got in the way and I forgot again...lol

Lets see what has happened since I last posted?????

Humm David is now back in N.C but is coming home next week for 3 weeks :O) When he went back to N.C after the accident he was stripped of rank he is now a Lance Corp, lost half his pay for 45 days, under room arrest for the 45 days plus a few other things. For awhile there we didnt think he would be allowed to come home for a long time but he is going to Iraq in Feb so he gets a block leave for 3 weeks he will be flying home on the 8th I cant wait to see him again.

Crystal is doing well she is still using either a wheelchair or walker but now she can stand and put weight on both feet and she is starting to walk not use slide across the floor with the walker...she has come a long ways. They say she might be able to go back to work in 4 to 6 weeks, she is so ready to start working again.

The other news is I am no longer pregnant.....yep after being 10 days late Jorden Scott was born :O) He was 9 pounds and 21 inches long. His birth was by far my best there was no pain at all with the help of a great epi...lol I even got to help pull him out after his head and shoulders were out. I will post a link of his birth story for anyone who wants to read it.

this is a pic of my little one on his birthday

Jorden is now a little over 2 weeks old the little stinker is already spoiled but thats ok I love holding him and after having older kids and seeing how fast they grow up I want to enjoy every min of him. I find myself not getting ANYTHING done but other then nursing (which he thinks I should do 24/7 ) or I am sitting cuddleing him. I think I am going to make a wrap for him maybe then I can get a few things done around here and keep him nice and close to me :O)

Jorden at 2 weeks had to get him in this outfit :O)

Wow its been a long time.

I really did mean to post more often, but as always life gets in the way and I forget...lol

Well lets see since I last posted David has gone back to NC and is now a Lance Corp again he got stripped of rank because of the accident and lost a month 1/2 of pay plus a few other things. He is doing great health wise.

Crystal is still using a wheelchair or a walker but gets around great. She is starting to walk putting more weight on her right foot now which is good. She should be back to work in a few more weeks, something she is looking forward to.