Here are those Halloween pics. There are more but these were all my mom posted on face book at the moment.. Ellie had a blast! Even though her costume was to big and the wings wouldnt stay on.

Any difference?

So I was thinking about what has changed since being back in Arizona.... The weather.. But what else?? Yeah all our family is closer to use now and I have seen my sister loads more since being back.... But day in and day out I still find my self sitting with the computer or TV in front of me with the kids running a muck! Least in Illinois I had a moms group and friends that I could get out of the house and talk to... I have old friends here, but none I  hang out with or really even talk to. My one close friend is now 2 hours + away and though we used to have a meeting point when we lived in Chino, its just to far to drive in a day.

My brother is waiting to hear about a job here in Bagdad also.. He's waiting on the background part to check out and then hopefully the process with speed up. (Its always hurry up and wait with this company) If he gets the job then he and my SIL will be moving down here too.. Im oober excited about this because before they started dating her and I were close friends. We will be able to hang out, scrapbook together, lounge around, go to Prescott together.. Ill be so happy to have her (and of course my brother) here!

So the Halloween photos that I promised, well they are on my Mom's camera card and I dont have it... But these ones are from before we left Illinois. I wasnt sure if we would get the chance to T-or-t, so we dressed the kids up and took them out for pictures. Ellie was "Batarina" and Garrrett was just a brown puppy.

Rocky Road....

Ice cream is nummy! lol So Ive been wanting to blog for soooo long! We have make the trek across the US and finally made it home to Arizona. It took a little over a week to get our own house. Now we are almost all moved in. Its a 3 bedroom, 1 1/4 bath. Has nice yards and the lay out is just like the one my parents and I lived in when we first moved to Bagdad.. Oh and its also like right behind that house, lol.  I just got the internet hooked up today, woot woot!

Wow, over the passed 3 weeks I have thought about sooo many things to blog about, good and bad and now I cant seem to remember a single one of the topics.. Booo.. Oh well, now I can blog again as it comes to mind.

The kids are both sick rights now, but we got antibiotics this morning so hopefully they will be filling better soon. As soon as they are well again Im going to check into the child care/day care so I can start going to they gym. I bough some super cute clothes the other day at Fashion Bug :) Im sad though cause the store in Prescott is closing :( However, it will keep me from spending anymore monies that I do not have right now.

Back to the kids, Garrett is full on crawling now! No stopping him anymore. He is also pulling up onto some things. He is a little flirt and looks just like Daddy. I have almost got him completely weaned from the boob. He takes a bottle with no problem all day long and even falls asleep with it.. But come night time, he doesnt want the bottle... He wants the good stuff.. Hopefully soon he will rely less on me as a pacifier and start sleeping through the night.

Ellie is a monster! She's a little diva, bad attitude, moody little ball of fire. She has quite the vocabulary and asks a million questions. She is doing so well with potty training, though we still have accidents, wear pull ups a lot, but Im proud of how good she is doing. Sleeping is a whole different topic though. She doesnt want to go to bed at night, has pushed her naps back later and wakes at night. A 2 yr old is every bit as hard as a baby!!

We had a good Halloween and actually got to go TorTing with my sister, BIL, mom, niece and nephew! Ill post pics soon. Ellie got the hang of it fast. :)

Thats all for now. So happy to have internet again!

Sweet Home Arizona

I guess now is as good a time as any to blog this. Logan got the job in Arizona! He starts November 1st. We are leaving Waterloo on the 29th. My mom is flying in on the 22nd to help me pack (Thanks goodness since Im such a procrastinator!) Then Logan's dad is flying in on the 28th and he is going to drive the pinski truck back. We are soooo greatful for all of our parents and all the help they give us.

So we have little over 2 weeks to pack up and move 2100 hours across country! Crazy crazy crazy! I cannot wait to be home in Arizona again. Dont get me wrong, I really have enjoyed our little vacation in Illionis, but like all good vacations, this one has come to an end.. I am very sad to be leaving some super gals that I met here. I dont know what I would have done with my self this past year had I now found the mommys group! On that not, it also makes me sad to go back to Bagdad where I have a small chance at making good friends. Bagdad is a town where everyone knows everyone and is in everyones business. I know many people there but cant see my self hanging out with them. Some were even high school friends, but people change over the years. But I guess with all the free time, Ill be able to push my self to go to the gym more and slim down!

Yeah so to the point, lol, WE ARE MOVING!! Whoo hooo!

OMG! This has got to be one of the funniest pictures of Ellie ever! I downloaded Picasa and it does facial recognition. Its does pretty good. In Ellie's folder were of course her pictures, but then there were a few of Garrett, her brother. Thats cool to see that they do have similarities. Also it had one of her cousins Holly & Jace and I could see similarities in Holly and Ellie. So neat.

So since I have this cool program that also make collages, it also makes posting to my blog easier. To cool. Maybe Ill keep up on my blog more!


This picture of Ellie was one of the first times she ate baby food. She's probably around 6 months old.. Hahaha I laugh every time I look at it. Priceless!

Rememberence

Today is October 15th. Many people would reply, "Ya so?" and a few understand the importance of this day. This day is the day that all across the world we celebrate the lives of babies and children who passed way before their time. So every year at 7:00 all across the world on October 15th, a candle is lit for these little souls. In rememberence of who they were and who they could have been.

Tonight, I light these candles for very special ones; My brother and his wife just recently lost their first baby. It was very early in the pregnancy but still just as hard. Another candle is lit for my friend who's little girl, Emily, lived for 6 days and was taken away with no explanation. Two more candles are lit for another mommy who has had a very very hard time. Her first, a son name Ryan was taken at 33 weeks (born sleeping) and her second, a daughter named Lailani, was taken at 21 weeks (born sleeping). Another candle is lit for a friend who lost her second baby early on in her pregnancy. The last candle is lit for all the other babies lost all over the world. No soul should go uncelebrated.

Forgot Not Me

My little one
You have left us too soon
Though my body can no longer hold you
I hold you forever in my heart
As precious and beautiful as this flower caught in time
A mother's love does not forget.

Holy Moly!

 So a lot has happened in little time.. I told Logan last week that there was a position open in AZ for Empire. Well he just brushed me off kinda.. The next night his dad called and talked to him about it.. Well guess that gave him the push that I couldnt to apply for it.. He actually applied for two positions, one in Bagdad and the other in Prescott.. Not even 24 hours later a guy from the Prescott office called him and said they could interview him when he is down. Awesome... Well today Logan texts me and says his Aunt told him about another job position in Bagdad and the head over it really wants him to apply.. I wish and hope he will apply for it.. I guess his Aunt is seeing what they will do for us in way of moving. If they offer to help move and pay is good, we could very well take it. Heck we could move into a house in Bagdad and rent would be low.. Least lower then what we are paying here now..

I really am trying not to get my hopes up or get to excited because I have had my share of let downs in the passed and its just easier not to get all worked up until he signs his name on the dotted line... Do they still use dotted lines? (.................................) or is it more a solid line? (________________________)

Until something comes up, we are pretty much going to be pinching pennies.. The crazy booze hound we have for a land lady changed when rent is due and it totally messes everything up.. Broke broke broke..

On a more excited note, in about 1 1/2 weeks I will be leaving to go to AZ.. The kids and I, on the road for 3 days.. Im kinda nervous about the drive and something happening.. Guess that just makes me more of a cautious driver. I just have to watch the idiots out there.. I couldnt imagine something happening to any of us. The hotel stays kinda freak me out too, but Ill be carrying my buddy with me to back me up.. I just hope the kids are good riders and the road part of the trip goes fast!! Zoom zoom!

Oh yeah and my SIL & brother are finally pregnant! Yeey! After having TTCed for over a year and being on fertility drugs for 4 months (i think) they finally got the BFP! So thats another thing to be happy for..

Big Celebration

 So I was going to go with a 4th of July theme for my blog being as it is the 4th coming up.. But you know what is coming up even sooner then that?? In just 2, yes count them TWO days my beautiful, sweet little monster is
going to be 2 years old..  Its just so hard to imagine that 2 years have already gone by. To think on the first was the night my mom and I went to the hospital because I hadnt felt Ellie move all day. They kept me over night for monitoring.. I had no signs of going into labor prior to that.. At four AM on the 2nd I started having minor contractions.. They checked me at 7:30 am on the 2nd and said I was 3 centimeter but even they didnt think I was going to go into labor that day. Sure enough only a few hours later we were back at the hospital.. Elisabeth Quinn-Maxine was born at 5:40 PM, weighed 5 lbs 8 oz and was 19 inches long.. Now though you would have never know she was so tiny.. She is my Ellie Bellie! I think she is pushing 31 lbs.. lol She is such a chatter box too.. Its crazy! Just to name a few:

Mommy
Daddy
Brother
Garrett (sorta)
baba
cup
paci (waci)
blankie (kiekie)
ball
dog
kitty
listen
sit
up
down
sit up
side (outside)
She can say so much more then that. She's even starting to repeat stuff of the tv. She came running into the kitchen the other day saying "Which way? This way? No.. That way?? No.. This way!" They were treasure hunting on her cartoons.. I really hate how much time she spends watching TV, but she has learned a lot of works from it. She can count to 3 in Chinese, says Ting (listen in Chinese) and puts her hand to her ear and soo much more!!

Kids are just plain amazing!

The Power of Music

 Have you ever stopped to think what the world would be like if there was no music? If no one new how to sing?? It would be pretty damn quiet, road trips would be long and boring, house work wouldnt be as much fun.. Think of all the things that couldnt happen because there was no music! (Dancing)

 How many song come on the radio that you can apply to something that has happened in you in your life? I know there are many song that I can think of for my self. Some are just song that make me remember certain things that happened in life.

When my now husband and I split up over 2 years ago, I stopped listening to country music. It just made me more sad and depressed as it was the genre of music we listened to.  I then started listening to alternative. The song that pretty much summed up my life at the moment was "Timebomb" by God Smack. Talks about your life being a living hell and wondering why your even alive. Totally fit for how I felt. I messed my life up so bad.

One day in December my ex came to the house that I was staying at to talk about thing. Along with him he brought a CD. The artist was Jason Aldean. I hadnt yet hear of him since I was on a hiatus from country music. He put the CD into the stereo and turn it on. The song was "Do you wish it was me?" Instantly I broke into tears, the song, its words, they just fit with out I felt. I listened to that song almost every day after that night. I did wish it was him I was still with.. Luckly we did end up working our problems out and are now married!

Another song that catches my heart any time I hear it is "Fix you" by Coldplay. I can hear just the background music and it give me goose bumps. Someone I know, but not very well, had lost her baby before he was born. She had to go through birth at 31 weeks to a still born baby boy. She made a video to remember him by. She said this was his song because she had once sang it to him before she knew he had passed. I have watched that video so many times and even as I type this get tears in my eyes. No one should ever EVER lose a child. It doesnt matter if its a still born, SIDS, a car accident, murder.. No one SHOULD EVER lose a child.. Its my biggest fear.. So this song, though I liked it before all this, will forever be in my heart as will the mother and her perfect little boy.

 That new song of Carrie Underwood, "Undo It" applies great to someone else. When my DH and I had split up (you know 2+ years ago before we were married) I had left him because I was lusting after this "bad boy" He lead me on. We had a great time together for about 3 weeks, then it went down the drain, as did my life at that time.. This song makes me think of the hell he put me through, the hell I put my self through and how much I thought at the time I had messed my life yup. Although he is a thing of my past, rarely to be thought of or even spoken of, he still comes up in moments when I least expect it. Im so over him and hate him or what happened.. So I would like to undo it, get my happy that he had stolen along with my heart and erase the memories we had together. I just want to copy that song on a CD and mail it to his dumb ass. However, I do not want to go back and do it all over because in the end I got something amazing out of that little blip in my life.. I got Ellie.. I got my beautiful baby girl.. I love her so much and cannot imagine life with out her.

So it is just crazy how music has such an impact on every day life. There are songs that I can relate things to from years and years and years ago. I couldnt imagine a world without music..

A little bragging

Its been a while since Ive posted much in this blog.. So here goes with some bragging... Garrett is 4.5 months old. He can roll over from his back to belly with no problem at all.. Once there, he pushed his front half up with his arms. Then at times tries super hard to pull his knees in (like to crawl) I sawer it wont be long till he is on the move! He already can make little circles. He is my big boy! I cannot believe that he is almost 5 months. Its crazy how time just slips away..

And speaking of time just disappearing, miss Ellie is going to be 2 super soon! I cannot believe I am going to have a 2 yr old already. She has accomplished so much in the past year.. To name a few:

She learned how to walk at 13 months
Became a big sister at 18 months and loves her little brother.
Started sleeping in her toddler bed at 20 months
Started talking up a storm some place between 20-21 months! She says so many things and her vocab just grows and grows every day.. Maybe Ill blog about what all she can say.

These little people just amaze me every day.

Moooooody

 I am having a craptastic moody day.. Bluh. Both my kids were screaming at the same time and I just cant take it.. Finally my son cried his self to sleep, which I totally feel bad about, but I had to get what I was doing done.. My DD is being a brat and Im just not in the mood to put up with it right now.. As of right now, I do not want to have more kids! I dont have the patience most of the time for the two I have..

 I have to take Ellie to her skin doctor today, which makes me mad. Its a follow up.. I could just tell them over the phone, Yes the issue is fixed... No I have to drag my kids 40 minutes away, sit in a waiting room and then fight with Ellie.. What is worse is that the doctor isnt even going to get to look at her. She freaks out every time he comes into the room. Its not like he is an old man. He is probably in his early 30s and not bad looking.. But she loses her mind..Then of course Garrett will start crying and by the time we get back into the car, I will be ready to drink... I just hope I get a parking space close to the door..

Oh and my house is a total disaster.. I mean a bomb went off in here and it just puts me in a worse mood.. lol Sucks!!

Ok off to load kids up in the car..

Proud Mommy Moments

As a mommy there are so many things that your baby does that makes you proud. From the first smile, first giggles, first time rolling over, crawling, walking, talking and it just goes on and on. There will always be more proud moments then disappointments.

Ellie shocks me with something new everyday. Right now my proud mommy moment is when she spots something, recognizes it and says what it is. Hearts, stars, birds, trees, dogs, something on TV. This list also goes on. She is so bright, full of spunk and great personality.

My So Called Crazy Life

This is mainly a recap/ vent about our crazy land lay and the issues we have had with her.. Skip to the end if you wish not to read about it.. lol

I might just possibly lose it.. lol Monday night Logan got a call from our land lady.. She is drunk and mind you this was at 9:30 PM. She starts ripping his ass about one of our dogs getting out of the yard the previous Friday.. I guess our dog, which ever it was, went through the bushes at their house and scared one of their guests, who already is scared of dogs... So she is ripping into Logan about this... Why she waited till Monday to do this?? She claimed it was the first time she had seen Logan home since Friday.. Umm.. Hello, we were both home Friday.. Why not make a quick stop in and say "Hey your dog got out. Please take better care in keeping the gate closed...." Noooo. That would have been way way to easy... Her husband said she had a bad weekend. Bad weekend or not, that is no way to treat someone who is paying you money to live in your house.... So... This isnt actually the first time our crazy land lady has pulled this crap.. We have had two previous issues with rent.. Our fault, not really.. After having first moved in the agreement was set to $500 per pay day.. Well Logan asked her husband if it was ok if we paid the full amount on the last payday of the money, it would just be easier for us... He said yes.. So after the crazy loony calling 2 different times, months apart, ripping our asses for no paying rent as agreed upon, I took it upon myself to get this shit straightened out.. Even though I stressed probably 100 times that her husband said it was ok to pay it that way, she didnt want to hear it and said it was our fault.. Then we had issues with her.. She would offer to watch Ellie any time I needed but when I actually asked her to, it was an inconvenience for her.  The first time was so I could go get a new drivers license.. Well Logan ended up getting of work early and we went together, which made having Ellie easier cause we both got to watch her.. I tried knocking on the door to tell the crazy bat that we didnt need her to watch E.. No answer... So I let it slip.. We she flipped out saying she waited around all day, she was probably just down stairs and I should have went in.. BS! Im not going to enter into anyones house without them first opening the door for me.. The next time was for when I was going to be induced to have Garrett.. She offered to watch Ellie, then got super sick and couldnt.. No prob.. I set it up for a friend to watch her... Well the night before I was scheduled to be induced she comes over (After 9:30 PM) bombed off her ass, crying about issues her family is having and all this crap.. By the end of her 2 hour cry fest she says she can go ahead and watch Ellie for us..  (My mom was there too and planned to watch her until it was time to have the baby, then she would come to the hospital, thus leaving E with the land lady) Well I get a call from my mom, right when things were getting heated up at the hospital, her asking me of it was alright for the land lady to go to dinner.. Um, no! Hello... She said she could watch Ellie for us... Soooo the next time I had asked her if she could watch Ellie when I went in for my 6 week check cause I didnt think I could watch both kids while up on the table with my legs in the air. She said she wasnt sure of her schedual and I said that was ok, I wasnt sure what time it was at any ways.. So a few things happened while over there that made me mad, so me and the kids left.. I ended up asking a friend if she could watch her for me, she said yes.. I tried to call the land loony but no answer, I left a message telling her not to worry about it, I got a friend to do it.. Later the night Ellie is playing with my phone and hits send which calls the last person back, her... I just hang up the phone.. The next day she corners Logan and tells him she can never watch the kids again. This it always seems like such a big deal. That I need to make friends that can watch them for me and that she doesnt appreciate being called and hung up on..  Logan explained that that was Ellie.. So like 3 weeks ago, I was busy working on some craft projects and she told Logan that if I needed her to watch the kids so that I could get them done, she would... WTH, are you freaking serious? Then the dog issue occurred.  This lady has no back bone unless she is trashed.. She is a crazy booze hound and we are tired of it..



---> In short, our land lady is a crazy booze hound with split personalities. Our lease is up mid-July.. We are trying to find a new rental so we can be done with this nut job! So now Im stressed trying to figure out what can be packed a head of time, because the kids and I are due to drive from Illinois to Arizona July 23rd and be gone a whole month.... I cant possibly leave Logan with to much packing left to do as he has his own packing to do (the garage, shed, his clothes, etc) Not to mention he and a friend will be doing the moving while I am away.. It is like crazy hard to find a house for rent back here with 3 bedrooms, a big garage and a fenced in back yard that allows dogs!! It was pure luck that we found the house we are in now.. To bad the land lady is swimming at the bottom of the bottle.. I hope another house comes up soon!!! I wish we were just moving back to Arizona!! Not going to happen yet, saddly enough...

Morning After

 So I had to do something this weekend that I never thought I would have to do.. While out of town, hubby and I had a pretty fun, unplanned for night together while the kids slept... I hadnt planned for it to happen at all since I have has like 0 sex drive since getting pregnant last year... Anyways, the morning after we went to Walmart to get the Morning After/ Plan B pill. I dont think I would have ended up pregnant as I dont think I was Oing at the time.. But we didnt want to take the chance as we have a 4 month old right now.. Im going crazy with 2 under two, but I would have to be institutionalized if I had 3 under three!

Anyways, thats not what this post is about.. Do you have ANY idea how much the Plan-B pill cost?? WTH! It cost $55 and some change after the taxes... Are you kidding me? No wonder there are still teens pregnant.. I know its for those 17 and up, but I cant imagine a 17 yr old having $55 on them, let alone wanting to spend it on something like that.. I also cant imagine them asking their parents for the money, "Mom can I get $60?" "What for?" "Oh you know, the morning after pill." Yeah, I can see alot of parents freaking.. However, I hope to have a very open relationship with my daughter.. but still, that seems awfully pricey. (Not as pricey as actually having a child) Yeah so, I just think its totally crazy the cost of the ONE teeny tiny pill. That's my 2 cents.

Happy Anniversary & More

Happy Anniversary to ME!! Well actually I guess it should be to us. lol Cant believe its been 1 whole year already and I didnt have to keel Logan! I had no doubt that we would  make it this far. I know there are many many more years to come.. There were days that I did want to keel him, but I didnt.. I love him so much.
Tonight dinner at Texas Road house or maybe Lotta Watta Steak house (mmmm) and then movie.. Think we are going to see Shrek since we have the kids.. Ellie would love to was a HUGE tv.. lol And if Garrett cries, it should be that big of a deal since there will be kids running around being obnoxious.


Ellie now says "I love you" as of yesterday. Its so cute.  She is saying so much. Maybe Ill make a post of all the things she says..


I have a Fashion Bug credit card eating a hole in my pocket!! lol I want to go get a new top to wear tonight, but probably wont... I just keep telling my self to wait that I am losing weight and dont want  waste money on clothes that hopefully wont fit long.. I want to someday be that "stylish" mom... Working on it... slowly..

A good start would to get dressed and go to the gym after the kidos wake up from their naps...

Motivation

 Im so sad and hate my belly.. Why is it so hard for me to get motivated to go to the gym? I dont like using my kids as an excuse, but after dealing with crying kids first thing in the morning really doesnt put me in the work out mood.. Ugh!! But it isnt really just about working out.. Im so unmotivated to do much of anything, house work, anything.. Im so unorganized, ta boot. I just wish I could be motivated and organized every day.  Id settle for 4 out of 7 days even.

Every night I tell myself "Tomorrow Im going to get up and go to the gym and work my butt off." I know that the end results will be great, but when morning comes its like , bluh....... I just want to be able to wear normal pants and normal shorts without having to buy new ones to fit me. Heck I cant even buy new shorts to fit me right not.. Not cute ones.. The only ones Walmart has in 18+ are like long  shorts that are dorky. Not what Im wanting to wear. Plus Id love to be able to sport a cute swim suit this summer. Doesnt even have to be a bikini, just long as my "hate" handles arnt bulging out.

I love Logan and Im proud of him for the progress he has made on losing weight, but some times when he is talking about it, I just want him  to stop.. He talks about having dropped so many lbs already and I havent lost any yet...

I did manage to get motivated enough to make a couple lovies today. But not motivated enough to get them all done. I have to make 6 by Friday. Now thats a hard thing to do with kids of this age.. Ellie has been good for the most part. I have the travel DVD play set up for her and some toys to play with in the basement where I do my sewing. But they cant always be good.

Alright, I got my vent out for th night. Its almost midnight and Ellie is still awake, though she did just say she is ready for sleep.. Daddy will be home soon.. So I guess it should be meemee time..

testing moble updates.....

My Son

I just realized, that because I am just starting to blog again I havent blogged about my son.

Garrett Michael-Wells was born January 25, 2010 at 7:10 pm. He weighed 8 lbs 11 oz and was 20 inches even. Here's our story.

I went in on January 25th, 2010 to be induced. We were scheduled to be there at 6 AM but of course we were a little late. Once we got there and admitted, the hooked me up with IV fluids and a drip for GBS. Around 8 they started the Pitocin drip. They checked me at 9 and said I was still 3 cm and baby was still high. My OB wanted to break my water, but decided to wait til the baby dropped more. Contractions started to get stronger but nothing serious or painful. 12:45 they checked me again and I still hadn’t dilated passed 3 cm, though baby had dropped little. They had me laying on my side saying it would help to bring him down. I was so hungry since I hadn’t eaten anything since 8 the night before. Around 3 pm, my OB decided to brake my water since I wasn’t dilating. After he did that the contractions got way strong and painful! I was for sure ready for my EPI! The nurse said she wanted to wait at least 15 minutes to see how baby reacted to my water being broke. I finally got my epi at 4 pm and OMG it hurt soooo bad!! First doing the numbing shot, I didn’t know she would be poking me more then once, so when she poked me the second time it scared me and hurt, I pulled away.. I had a pain down my hip. Then the lady doing it said I may feel “electricity in my legs or back.” She wasnt kidding! I got this weird electric pain in my leg, my leg jerked all by its self.. That was enough to make me almost cry. It was horrible.... HOWEVER, it was totally worth it because it make all the pain go away! It was also done good this time again, like with Ellie, I could still move my legs some and still feel minor pressure from the contractions.. I also started itching instantly! EVERYWHERE! My tongue itched! My eyes itched (lol) everywhere itched. The nurse came and checked me again around 5 pm and I was between 6-7 cm. The epi made me a little jittery too. Not much longer! I called my mom to let her know she should come to the hospital. By six my mom was there and I was 8 cm. Shortly there after I started feeling pressure down there. I told my nurse. She got me all set up and turned the “flood light” on. She held one leg and my mom held the other. She told me to push.. We did a few “practice” pushes to see if baby would come down. I was kinda embarrassed at first cause Logan was there, I was afraid Id poop on the table and he would never let it go. But I finally had to tell myself to get over it and push. My nurse says “Stop! He’s about to come! Have to get your OB!” So off she went to fetch my doc.. They came rushing back in. It took two big pushed to get his head out. That was a weird feeling. I could feel him crowning, no pain just the pressure. Then two smaller pushes to get his body out, which also was a weird feeling! Baby Garrett Michael-Wells was born at 7:10 pm. He weighed 8 lbs 11 oz and was 20 inches long. Everyone kept saying how big he was, but he was still small to me! I only tore a tiny bit. They called it “skid mark.” lol (I had “road rash” with Ellie) We had to stay in the hospital for two days. So glad to be home now!

Couple days old

3 Months old- He is a great baby. So quiet, hardly fusses. Already sleeping through most of the night. I love his smiles and giggles! To cute!!

100 Things You'll Never Regret Doing

(copied from http://www.becomingminimalist.com/ )

100 Things you'll Never Regret Doing

1. Eat a healthy meal.
2. Keep a secret.
3. Send a thank-you note.
4. Give away half of your clothes.
5. Hike a new trail.
6. Offer an apology.
7. Recycle.
8. Refrain from gossip.
9. Write a poem.
10. Refuse to do a thing which is wrong.
11. Pick strawberries.
12. Overcome an addiction.
13. Ride bike with a 7-year old.
14. Kiss your spouse.
15. Give a nice wedding gift.
16. Bring fresh flowers into your home.
17. Exercise.
18. Read To Kill a Mockingbird.
19. Subscribe to Zen Habits.
20. Call an old friend.
21. Forgive a past hurt.
22. Take a day off.
23. Visit the beach.
24. Cultivate spirituality.
25. Say “thank-you.”
26. Take a picture.
27. Find a job you love.
28. Retell a funny joke.
29. Develop more patience.
30. Hand write a letter.
31. Order dessert on a date.
32. Say “I love you.”
33. Take the stairs.
34. Have a tea party with your daughter.
35. Tip generously.
36. Ask a grandparent about their childhood.
37. Stop a scandal.
38. Take a hot bath.
39. Drink a glass of water.
40. Become an early-riser.
41. Wave to a child.
42. Say a prayer.
43. Learn your mail carrier’s name.
44. Smile.
45. Find your passion.
46. Get a routine check-up.
47. Donate to charity.
48. Encourage a teenager.
49. Be optimistic.
50. Learn to cook.
51. Turn off the television.
52. Add ribbon to a present.
53. Pay for someone’s drink.
54. Remove unnecessary possessions.
55. Visit an art museum.
56. Laugh at yourself.
57. Learn a second language.
58. Stay faithful to your partner.
59. Buy local produce.
60. Withhold a lie.
61. Meditate.
62. Break up a fight.
63. Meet your neighbors.
64. Rock a baby to sleep.
65. Practice yoga.
66. Know your child’s friends.
67. Log off the internet.
68. Get out of debt.
69. Save money.
70. Hear both sides of an argument.
71. Get your next book from the library.
72. Show kindness to the elderly.
73. Identify your values.
74. Eat outside.
75. Be more grateful.
76. Appreciate classical music.
77. Don’t send e-mails in anger.
78. Dry your clothes on a clothesline.
79. Compliment a stranger.
80. Increase your self-confidence.
81. Buy lemonade from a child’s stand.
82. Bring your lunch to work.
83. Clean the kitchen.
84. Give up soda.
85. Get trained in CPR.
86. Declutter a drawer.
87. Eat like the locals.
88. Listen.
89. Do your homework.
90. Help a boy or girl find themselves.
91. Have breakfast.
92. Look people in the eye when you speak.
93. Look people in the eye when they speak.
94. Make a new friend.
95. Build a sand castle.
96. Share a recipe.
97. Provide clean drinking water.
98. Worry less.
99. Read to a small child.
100. Become a minimalist

I found this list very interesting. 

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Just thought Id link my other blog here.. It will pretty much be all the same stuff posted in either place..
http://lotsoflove2100.tumblr.com/

I also am going to post a link for my FB "store" Its called Lots of Love. Lovies, Clippies & Blankies Galore.
Saddly right now I am only actually makin the Lovies. Once I get a head on those, Ill start making the others. And hopefully even more stuff down the road.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/edit/?id=106227029419177#!/pages/Lots-of-Love/106227029419177

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I havent used this blog in some time.. I had only 3 posts, however I am deleting 1 or 2 of the posts.. They are about things of the past.. Things and people who do not mater to me anymore.. I do not need blogs of that bad time in my life to remind me of what happened. I have moved on and love the life I have now. So with that said, lets move on..