This is the point where our intrepid pioneer looked around, said “FUCK IT” and went home.

Craters of the Moon National Monument

More info:HERE

I watch a lot of Giada

I find myself wanting to force feed her.Ya, I watch a lot of her these days…

I’m just going to ignore the fact that I haven’t posted for 6 months. I was depressed. I am not depressed anymore. I was pregnant.

This is us, the morning I went in for the C-section. A family of 3! Soon to be 4...

40 lbs lighter! Literally!

And then I wasn’t pregnant anymore! I had polyhydramnios and pre-eclampsia, so I was very glad to no longer be pregnant, and to have a healthy baby. Who is scrumptious!

Brian shot this photo, just after her first bath. She was 19.25 inches long, and 8'7".

Alice is the sweetest baby ever, I promise!  I get to enjoy almost every minute of her, since I’m now at home full time with her. I am still in school, so when Brian has her in the mornings, when I hit my classes. He is, predictably, a great daddy. Emma, as you might guess, LOVES her baby sister!

She calls her "my baby". She carries her everywhere. I did try and stop her...But now I am glad of the help. She even changes poopy diapers!

I am finally feeling better. I had to have a minor surgery to fix something awry, but more on that some other time. I know you want another Alice picture!

My beautiful girls! Do you like Alice's dark hair??? She got that from her daddy!

Depression sucks, even when it’s just situational. We are done with it. Things are looking up. No worries, it wasn’t anything to do with the baby, or marriage or anything.

Some skin to skin time. She is so cute! I love this picture...

I look like hell, but I was sick, and then the surgery wasn’t a ton of fun. I was puking. Happy, but puking.

Anyway, here I sit, 14 weeks later, finally feeling like myself. A little, anyway. My hair is falling out (post baby, normal), and I can’t exercise yet, although I expect to get the green light on Friday. Alice is precious and snuggly, very smart and trying to talk already. She loves to be held, loves her toys, loves her sister… She is a great baby.

She slept through the zoo...

I like butterflies!

She was an angel in Montana...

Brian always manages to take photos when I’m eating!

Last Sunday she snuggled happily into her grandpa's arms for a nap.

So this is what I’ve been up to, how about  you?

8 May, 2011 12:50

At Wicked! Best mothers day ever!

18 April, 2011 21:15

I love my life!

Back, I guess…

Well, it appears the reason I went private is not to be.

Jeff had sent me an email offering to let Brian adopt Emma. And then never returned my phone calls.  We are disappointed, but not in any way surprised. Same story, different day. He’s never done what was best for Emma before, why would he start now, really?

It would have been nice. But I no longer feel like curling myself around my family and keeping secrets, since that was it, you know?

Last week was spring break, for both Emma and myself, and it was lovely. An entire week of watching nothing but junk television and reading what I wanted to read, instead of textbooks.  Brian laughs at me, since my idea of junk TV is cooking shows and ones about animals. It’s back to A&P for me tonight. And finishing my taxes and registering for classes for Summer and Fall. As tired as I get with school I love it so much.

We started on Alice’s room, and got into one of our rare tiffs, because I moved the suitcases and the old car seat and stroller out of the closet and into the garage, which he had just organized. FORGET that we aren’t even parking in it right now, due to the chair rails drying, etc… I finally told him “I’m nesting, damnit!” and offered to take half of the suitcases and the old car seats to  Good Will. So now the baby stuff (I didn’t call it shit, here– my kid will come out cussing…) is in the closet, and I feel better. We picked pale lavender and antique silver as the colors, and I think it will look really nice once the second coat goes on, and the chair rail is put up. Yes, of course, I will take pictures.

There is still job stuff up in the air, and school stuff– I applied for surgical tech, but since I applied late I know I won’t get in this year. Which doesn’t break my heart, since I didn’t even KNOW about the program until a month ago, and it’s an intensive program, so it might have been hard with a brand new baby. Plan is to take medical billing classes next year, and apply for nursing program at BSU, since I’ll have done two full years at my little community college by this time next year. I can work in Medical Billing and do the nursing school stuff and see where we go from there.

In other news, I’m huge. Emma is smart, and the best thing ever, and we are good. Brian continues to be wonder-dad, and wonder-husband. We were play fighting about something yesterday in the garage and Emma says “Girls, Girls! You are both pretty! Can I go home now?” We love Megamind, you should see it…

I’ve taken to consulting the magic 8 ball my boss gave me when tax clients call, and thus far, it’s been fairly right. Some clients think I’m joking when I say I’ll consult the magic 8 ball…

30 March, 2011 22:37

30 March, 2011 22:35

9 March, 2011 09:25

Waiting for the summer…

2 March, 2011 13:36

We are having a girl! Everything looks good!

27 February, 2011 19:09

You shall have no ham!