Sunday, April 4, 2010

Week of March 29 - April 4

Okay so 3 posts in 1 day is kinda alot but I'm playing catch-up so please bear with me!
This week has been a pretty busy week, monday & tuesday I went and worked on my parents farm again, I do this pretty much every monday & tuesday unless something big comes up. So it was a successful but otherwise not too out of the ordinary visit. I had fun visiting everyone and getting my hands in the dirt. The weather was great and Brandon had a great time jumping on the trampoline. On wednesday we got to see my mom, dad, aunt summer and some of her friends as they all came up to St. George to go to Laser Mania for Summer's birthday party. First they all came over to my house and we had pizza and salad for dinner, then we went to the park for a few minutes after which we headed over to Laser Mania. Brandon loved running around looking at all the flashing arcade games. He also liked looking at the prize counter! My dad took some great pics of Brandon playing on the bumper cars and I'll have to post them later. When the girls were all finished we all went home and simmered down :) Four 10 yr old girls can be pretty exhausting even when I'm just watching them! Thursday & Friday I buckled down and got all my school work finished. I am happy to report all A's still :) This saturday and Sunday have just been so amazing! I loved all the conference messages and I heard so many wonderful things that have bouyed me up and given me determination to do better and it also was great to feel good about what I think I've accomplished so far in life. Also, MOM! Thanks for being my mom. You are the best mom ever! I love you!
Happy Easter All!!

Brandon's 2nd Birthday, the most recent one, he also got 2 parties! Well, the one at home was very low-key, I'm not sure we should consider it a party in the sense, but anyways, Brandon got to open his presents, help mom make his cake, and then pretty much do whatever he wanted, or that mom knows he likes to do! We went outside to the park and played for a long time, he got in a nap and then he got to eat his finished cake after dinner. So ya, pretty low-key on his actual birthday, but the 2nd party was a bit more exciting because Grandma & Grandpa Omer came, Aunt's Nicole, traci, & Summer came, Uncle Josh and Nicole's friend Andrew were all present. We grilled up some hamburgers, opened some more presents and then played some games. Brandon loved it! Anyways, here are all the pictures :) Enjoy!

Brandon opening his Birthday presents from Mom & Dad

Do you wanna help mom? You're watching pretty close...

This is how Brandon best likes to help make the cake!



Candles in his 2 Birthday cupcakes... He tried so hard to blow those out!


Frosting has always been a little kids favorite part, but he did eat the whole cupcake.



And away from the face goes the cake and we have a frostingstash.



Brandon's 2nd party got a fancy rescue vehicle cake, he is still playing with those toys! Auntie Nicole helps with blowing out the candles.


Presenting the cake to the birthday boy


So this is going to be just a little different this week. I decided that I needed to add all the important events in the last little while in here so that it can also be put into the journal I make out of this blog. So this week's feature is going to be Brandon's past 2 Birthdays. In two different blogs.

Brandon's first birthday was casual yet fun. He had 2 parties, one with the extended family (my side) the night before his birthday, and the next day he had a little family fun with mom and dad.

Brandon trying to touch the flame of the cupcake... Silly Boy!
Brandon demolished that cupcake pretty quick, but if you look at the tray he didn't actually eat much of it!
Brandon's cousin Emily is helping him open their family gift to him, it was a nice soft blue blanket :)Books from Grandma, Brandon loves to read books!

So that was a fun night with the family :) The next day to celebrate for his birthday we took Brandon to the toy store that was having huge after Christmas blow-outs and helped him wander up and down the aisles picking out the toys he liked. He ended up picking out a Clifford stuffed animal and a few other things but the clifford was/is his favorite animal.








Brandon got to sit on his Birthday table and view the toys he had help pick out (lol) and pass the cake plates out to everyone.















We got Brandon a candle that sang Happy Birthday and it kinda scared the poor kid, Dad had to do some fancy coaxing and removal of all weird singing objects from the top of the cake before Brandon would touch it! But once he did he once again, demolished the poor thing!














Sunday, March 28, 2010

Week of March 22-28

This week has not been the funnest week ever. Monday I read over my school assignments and got Brandon and I ready to go to Moapa to work on my parents CSA farm. When we got there Brandon immediately started playing with his aunt Summer, who he has started to call Bumbum or something like that, and I got to work planting some cabbage with my mom. My dad and Josh were both gone in SLC while we were there so there was tons of work to do. And since it was just us girls there, (mom, me, traci, & summer) we had a girls night family home evening where we sat on the floor and ate popcorn and fruit and reminisced about our favorite family vacations. We were going to paint our toenails too but we were all too exhausted from all the hard work we had done until 7:30 that night. In the morning we got right to work picking vegetables, cleaning them, dividing them up for the baskets and then putting them into the baskets. We got all this accomplished by 10:00 and then Traci & I took the truck and drove to Las Vegas to deliver all the baskets. This was my 3rd time doing the deliveries and it went very smoothly. I only had to turn around once and never got lost. I did get in a bit of trouble at the very last delivery because it is a housing community with a gate and a guard and I tried to "run the gate" behind someone who had opened it with a gate opener and the guard let me know that that was not allowed! Oops ;) After the incident with the guard I delivered Daniel & Kara their baskets and got to stay and visit for a few minutes because I got done a few minutes early with all the other deliveries. At least for me. That was so fun to see all their girls and to talk to them. I don't get to see them nearly enough. I wish Brandon had been with me so he could play with them too! Anyways, Brandon did great all day with his Grandma and his Aunt Summer. He just loves to go and visit them! He gets to play outside and jump on the trampoline! In fact he likes the tramp so much that it gets a little tedious. He would love to just jump for hours but it gets hard for the babysitter to just sit there and watch lol. But Summer is such a good sport :) The only bad thing that happened the whole trip was that while we were there Summer got a little sick, and it didn't get her real sick but since Wednesday morning Brandon has had a runny nose and has been a little ornery. And since Thursday I've been sick! Ugh! Not so nice! I think we are all starting to get over it today but its been a miserable last couple of days. The only things we have really done since Wednesday have been to go to wal-mart and go shopping, and to play in the back yard. Yesterday I started to clear out a little area in the back yard in which to plant my tomato plants, green pepper plants, cilantro, basil, onions, and flowers. I am actually excited to plant them and get some veggies and herbs for my cooking :) On the note of school, I finished my last two assignments yesterday because I was procrastinating all week because I didn't feel good. All I have wanted to do this week is to sleep! Oh, I'm getting more worried that Hope might be pregnant. She has been sleeping a TON this week, like she did when we first got her, and her belly is starting to widen a little where it used to be nice and slim! Oh I really hope she isn't! I'm not equipped to deal with a dog pregnancy and birth! Anyways, I think that is all my news for this week!

Brandon & Aunt Summer hanging out on his Lightning McQueen bed.

Sunday, March 21, 2010

Playing Catch-up!















































Oh wow! It's been a while since I wrote in here, but I have been wanting to get more regular with Brandon & my journal entries and my friend Sarah gave me this great idea. If I write in this blog regularly and include me & Brandon and pics and then in a while I can just print it off and it will be easier for me and at the same time I'll be doing my journals! So first off, I'll start with me, I just recently started going back to school online, and so far it's going great! I finished my first class, each class lasts a month, and I got an A in the class! Yeah! So that was encouraging and I've started my second class and so far I have an A in that class but its only the first week so I have a bit of work ahead of me. I have fun doing my achievement day activities, the girls are great and I think we all have fun getting together. The last one my mom came up and taught all of us how to plant a garden and so that was really awesome! I'm kinda worried that Hope (our puppy) isn't pregnant because she was in heat just barely and she escaped and was running around for about 2 hrs so I'm hoping that even if she was with a male dog that she isn't prego. Okay so that was some catch-up about me, now to catch-up for Brandon. He is now over 3 ft tall! He is growing so fast and he really needs some new clothes but it's almost time for spring and summer clothes so I don't wanna go shopping yet! So for a few weeks he gets to wear pants that are a little too short for him. He is getting more and more proficient at the alphabet, he loves to point out letters! The only letter he has trouble with is W, he still thinks its an M. But all the rest he has no trouble with. I'm slowly introducing lower case letters and he has picked up on a few of them. He is also becoming more familiar with numbers. He obviously doesn't know what they are for but he can count to 3 and he knows them on paper. 2 is his favorite number although for me to tell him that he is 2 years old he gets a little upset cause he doesn't know what the heck I'm talking about :) Just this past friday he started counting to 3 and he did it without any prompting from mom or dad. He has this game where he has mom or dad count to 3 and say GO and he runs through the house, well he has been saying GO for a while now but has never counted and I've never even encouraged him to try, and just out of the blue I hear him count to 3, say GO and then run through the house! And he did this several times and he has done it the days following! YEAH!! I have such a smart boy! His vocabulary has been bursting out lately as well. He adds words to the ones he can say everyday and will now try to say words when I encourage it. Dad has taught him how to say the word "V-TEC" which he is super proud of. He is also starting to like to socialize with other kids his age. And he likes to actually play WITH them not just beside them. Okay so I think that's all for this week but I will post next week and I'll have pics from the week!

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

It's been way to long!

A whole bunch of stuff has happened since I last wrote in here! I'll start with the fact that Bobby's job has just taken off! I can tell how happy he has become with being able to provide for me & Brandon. He works really long hrs driving his truck & trailer loaded with cars to L.A., SLC, Vegas, and occasionally Phoenix. But I can tell he likes his work and he likes the paychecks. Which isn't a whole ton but we are so grateful to be able to support ourselves and to start to really get back on our feet. It has taken quite a while to get to this point together but we are so happy now! We moved into our new place which is a house that we split with some roommates. They have the upstairs and we have the downstairs and so far the arrangement has all parties happy. I still have a few boxes that are unpacked... I'm a little afraid to completely unpack in case we have to move again soon, which we hopefully won't. I can't see why we would. Things are going great and the rent is super affordable & cheap. When we first moved into the place it took us 2 weeks (well more just me cause bobby was working) of painting, shampooing, and cleaning before I could even start to unpack! We got a puppy! A whole new ball game for me, she is a jack-russell terrier, mostly white with a black & brown mask on her face and she is the friendliest puppy ever! Her name is Hope and she has finally started to play with Brandon and I love to see that! We got her in the first place to be a friend to Brandon and it took a while for them to get used to the idea of being each others friend. Brandon still bullies her a little, not on purpose or anything, he just doesn't know what kind of attention to give her. But we are working on him being nice to the puppy :) Brandon is growing bigger every day and I love to watch him! He is learning his ABC's right now and his favorite letter is "O" he can pick it out anywhere! But he is starting to learn other letters and its amazing to see. He is talking more and more legibly everyday and his vocabulary is growing as well. He loves to race up and down the living room and kitchen floors yelling "Go! Go! Go!" and he does like to go go go. Everytime we step outside he points to the car and tries his hardest to drag me to the car so we can go somewhere. He doesn't seem to care where, just as long as we go! This morning Brandon painted the pumpkin Grandma Omer gave him for halloween, its a cute small pumpkin and just the right size! I first helped him paint a smiley face and then he thought it needed to be improved and he finished smearing the paint all over :) He did a great job! I love that he is finally at the point where he can be patient enough to sit and paint/draw/color. About 2 weeks ago my family had a scare when my older sister Corrie went to the hospital severely dehydrated and sick with viral meningitis. She is still recovering. I went up to her house for about a week and babysat her boys so she could stay at my sister Nicole's house and recover without the noise and distraction of being a mother.

I think that is about all that has been happening that is big since I last posted...

Friday, July 24, 2009

Pioneer Day!

So today is July 24th, Pioneer Day in Utah. There was a parade in town that I missed, but wanted to go to so that counts for something right? I am remembering all those wonderful pioneers and I'm very grateful that I didn't have to do their job. It's so hot outside and they had no comforts whatsoever. I am feeling very grateful for all my many blessings.

On another note, my sister, Nicole, is running for Cottonwood Heights, District 3 council, and she has a website, www.nicoleomer.com, and I just looked at it, reading thru it I was feeling some really strong swellings of pride. I am so lucky to have such a great role model. And Good Luck Nicole!!!

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

cars.

I have decided that even though I used to like cars I now HATE cars. Oh don't get me wrong I still appreciate them. I am grateful to be able to drive places, I like to go fast too. But since January we have had, let me think, 5 cars. And we now have one. They take up a lot of Bobby's spare time too because in order for our car of the moment to run he has to work on it alot to make sure it stays running. And then as soon as it gets running he would like to sell it! Sometimes it is necessary and other times he just gets tired of that particular car. I don't mind him having a hobby... I just wish it was one that was less expensive and time consuming. Blah. But on the upside he is getting amazing at fixing them up. This is good cause experience will help him get a job and help him know for sure that he would like a career in cars. Oh one neat thing that I hope will be a good thing is that Bobby is gonna get his CDL. His new boss is gonna pay for the test and he is gonna be studying his brain out starting tomorrow. I hope that he can get it done and not be too distracted.

Other than cars... I haven't been feeling that great since sunday. I wake up feeling like my stomach and back were beat a few times during the night. It wears off but will reveal itself at times. Plus I feel a little crampy... that I'm not sure if it is pms or something else? I hardly ever have cramps. I was reading online and I'm thinking it might be a mild case of endometriosis? Nothing too serious.

Brandon has been talking so much!! He says gucky for yucky, and he says tickle tickle and then actually tries to tickle you! And thinks is hilarious when you laugh for him and he keeps doing it until you distract him with something else lol. He was loving a laundry basket the other day and I have a picture but I haven't put it on the computer yet and I'm thinking I'm too lazy to do it right now ;)

I have a job interview for a pt receptionist position that I really hope I can get!! We really need some extra money right now!

Monday, June 22, 2009

Just catching up

So I went to my sister-in-laws blog, but I wasn't expecting a blog... And it was really fun to read it and to get to know her and what is going on in her life a little more! So, now I decided that I would post in my own blog.
Okay so the past week has been a good week! Bobby found a new job installing devices in cars for a repo company, and he has been feeling better about himself :) and so me and Brandon are getting good repurcussions from that. Patrick and Joshua participated in the Utah Summer Games that take place in Cedar City every summer and Brandon & I went up to spend time with the family and to watch them race. We stayed in a 7 bedroom 4 bathroom house and it was pretty awesome! Everyone got their own room and bed for only $100 a night! That was a good deal. So we got to hang out and have alot of fun playing and helping each other. Brandon was having a little too much fun trying to figure out how to play nice with his little cousin Olivia lol. He would be soft for a minute and then push her away for some reason. He always felt bad when he was scolded for not being soft. He is still learning that concept of hard and soft. Josh and Patrick did great in their races and me and Susie had fun toting the kids around to watch the races. After the race Andrew took all of us to the Pizza factory which was really yummy but I got a headache shortly after :( Then Bobby arrived to take us home. But for some reason I was really tired so Brandon and me took a nap on the way home. When we got home the house was a mess and I was quite cranky for the rest of the day. Ha I'm just like my mom!!! The next day, or yesterday was Father's Day and it was a wonderful day!! Bobby got to sleep in, Brandon and I gave him the cards we had made and bought, had good food and just relaxed together all day! Plus Brandon and I went to church.

Saturday, April 11, 2009

Phew... glad that's over with!

So, the past 2 weeks have been so hectic, stressful, and crazy! Bobby was trying to sell our nice integra, which he eventually successfully sold to a guy in Vegas. But only after making quite a few unsuccessful trips. Waste of gas & time. Then we had to move into a new place, which I like, but I ended up packing almost everything so that was kinda stressful. Then we had to move and then unpack, and I have almost completely unpacked all my stuff! Which I haven't done in over 6 months! So that actually feels really good to have all my stuff available once again. We have another new car. It's a white honda civic that came without a bumper, fenders, and came with, a busted in door. So its been taking some work to fix up... which is right up Bobby's aisle and he quite enjoys working on it. So Brandon is kinda sick, he has an ear infection, and has a bit of a cold, runny, stuffy nose, and now he has a little cough. Anyways, thats life. So now I want to go to Dental Assistant school, but I am a little short on cash cause of all the stuff going on. Anyways, thats all I got for now.






So, its been a very very very long time since I wrote on here!! lol So lots has been going on, Brandon is one years old now, and he is walking!! I am living in St. George with Bobby and working as a cashier at Wal-Mart, which I am grateful that I have a job, but I don't particularly like this job! I have lots of pics of me and Brandon, some are of Brandon at the water park, some are on a walk to the temple, and in those pics I have a new hair job going on that I really like :)

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Thanksgiving week

Okay so Thanksgiving week! Wow what an incredibly exciting yet hard week! So Brandon got slightly sick the weekend before thanksgiving, and then he started teething. So he had a stuffy/runny nose and a slight fever from the teething (at least I think that's where the fever came in) So the wednesday before Thanksgiving Brandon & I went to St. George to visit Bobby and to help him celebrate Thanksgiving since he was gonna be alone on the actual day. We had lunch at IHOP, with Brandon snacking a little but not eating much, and then we ended up staying the night there in good ol' st. g cause Brandon got tired and fell asleep really early! So we got take-out from The Pizza Factory, which was yummy, and then we talked for a long time. Until we heard Brandon being sad. He had a really rough night. He woke up at about 11 and had a fever over 101 and he wouldn't relax and he was shaking a little bit and it really really scared me! So I prayed and gave him a bottle and he immediately cooled off and settled down and slept for the rest of the night. That was what I was grateful all Thanksgiving day! But so Brandon didn't much enjoy his first Thanksgiving. He took a nap all through Thanksgiving dinner, and was asleep by the time we had pie! So he didn't even really taste it until a few days later when he was actually eating food again instead of just snacking on cereal until he couldn't stand the pain anymore. I had a good Thanksgiving though, yummy food, I made the stuffing and everyone liked it lots, and yummy dessert :) (the above picture was taken on Thanksgiving morning before heading to Moapa for the dinner)

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

hi

so, today has been a slightly rough day... but that's okay. I'm 23 now, it was a fine birthday... For Halloween I was a jogger and Brandon was a Scarecrow! He was way cuter than I was for sure! I lost my babysitter and can't find another one that I can afford so I haven't been to work for a week. And since Patrick & Susie are going to be having their baby in a month I gotta move in a months time, and since I don't have a babysitter and I am not working full time, (thus, not being able to afford a place of my own) and also Bobby is moving to Salt Lake and we are trying to make things work, and so since I will have a babysitter(thanks Corrie!) there and the job market is up there in SLC I am planning on moving to SLC by the end of November. So thats what is going on for me at the moment... Hope everyone had a good halloween!

Thursday, October 23, 2008

October 23rd

So it's been a stresser of a week but everything is alright now and I'm not quite so worried. Everything is going to be okay. Brandon's teeth aren't bothering him anymore so that is a great stress reliever for me! Brandon is getting very adept at crawling and he can pull himself up on furniture now. I'm thinking he is going to be cruising pretty quickly here, he waited so long to crawl and almost skipped to walking but now he is just mastering everything really quickly. He loves to eat!! He is such a big boy!! Oh my goodness! I love that little boy to pieces!!
Work is going okay, now that I've finished training I've got a raise but because of the raise they don't want me to work alot because they aren't making any money yet. They still let me work and they have me do odd jobs and stuff, like yesterday I put green fence wind break stuff onto the fence all around the perimeter of the challenge course, and tomorrow I get to cold call to see if I can get some people to come and try out the course for birthday parties... So ya. It's an interesting job for sure!!

Sunday, October 12, 2008

9 month old!!

Brandon is officially 9 months old today! Yeah! He is so big! On Thursday night I had a girls night out with Molly, Jen, & Tamir (not so girls night out, lol) and it was lots of fun! First we were supposed to go to this bar that was supposed to be like a coyote ugly bar, so lots of fun right? But it was called "Hogs & Hefers" a very questionable country & fat person place by the name of it lol, so we get there and it was scary looking and nothing was happening so we left and went to this other place called Stoney's, another "country" club. I got outvoted unfortunately so we had to go there lol. Anyways, it was fun when they weren't playing country cause they mix it up with regular good dancing music (thank goodness!). Anyways, so the night didn't end until 3:30am! Thats when I got home and into bed, then Brandon got up at 5:30am so I got a whole 2 hrs of sleep before my first day of work!
So I had my first day of training on Friday and it was a blast!! The first 2 hrs I learned how to tie knots & take care of the belaying equipment and then the last 4 I climbed telephone poles and crossed the tight-wire, the balance beam, the pirates cross and the rock wall and also practiced belaying :) It was lots of fun but everytime I belayed someone, they are all a bit heavier than me, not fat, just bigger guys and whenever they would practice falling or when I'd repel them I would get lifted off the ground lol and it was scary but fun!
The only hard part about it was that they had told me I could choose to stay for only a few hrs or I could stay all day, but they changed it up when I got there and I was supposed to work for 6 hrs, so I hadn't taken a lunch, and since I'm broke I didn't eat, and since the climbing stuff was all a good adrenaline rush so I was running off of adrenaline until I got home, then I came off the high and wow! I kinda felt a little crappy, but hey, that was okay cause I just ate and went to bed. Lara is babysitting Brandon and he has really taken to her! I'm so glad that they connect! I don't know what I would do if she wasn't helping me out! Thanks Lara!
Happy Sweet Sixteen Traci!!! You are such a sweetie & I love you so much! On Saturday I went to my parents to help Traci celebrate her sweet 16! If was a good day, I made chicken kiev for the family dinner, and it actually turned out good... It was a fun day :)
Today is October 12th and my niece Whitney got blessed and it was a wonderful blessing. Daniel & Kara threw a little dinner after church, they made green chili & corn bread, and I decided I like green (or white?) chili better than the original!
Now I'm just hanging out at home so so glad that Brandon has FINALLY! gone to bed (he only had two super short (about 20 minute) naps, when he usually has 2 1-2hr naps a day! So you can imagine he was quite the cranky little man...
Anyways, I'm so glad that it is fall and that the weather is cooler! I'm glad there is no snow and that there isn't going to BE any snow!!! Woo Hoo!!

Thursday, October 9, 2008

It's been way too long

Okay so I've been pretty lazy when it comes to my blog. It's been a bit of a stress filled time since I last posted a blog.
Brandon is now 21lbs 27in. He eats everything that I eat, plus stuff I don't like, such as formula :)
He has pretty much skipped that whole crawling bit and is now working on walking. He is trying to pull himself up on everything and gets very impatient when I think I have other things to do besides hold his hands and walk with him so he can wander around the house, or lead me to the doors so he can go outside! He has 4 teeth and has 1 or more coming in; I say 1 or more because anytime I try and look or feel around he gets upset or wiggles out of my grasp and won't have anything to do with me having my fingers in his mouth.
I've had to cut his hair twice, but the 2nd time he moved too much so I kinda made it real choppy... But he already needs another one and I'm hoping since his hair grows so fast we are going to both get better at the handling of the haircuts :)
Brandon says da-da without discrimination, but he knows me & will only say ma-ma or mom when he is upset and wants me to fix something. He also jabbers with the g-sound, the t-sound, and multiple other letters that I can't remember at the moment.
He is getting to be such a happy boy! The first 3 or 4 months he was always cranky and crying but he has really mellowed out and I've really learned how to respond with what he needs when he needs so most of the time outrageous bawling sessions don't happen, and everyone is much happier!
Brandon sleeps through the night very well, and if he does happen to wake up he rarely needs anything but to be flipped over and for me to give him his pacifier.
He loves to eat rocks & dirt, likes his jumper seat, LOVES bathtime, but hates lotion time that always happens after the bath lol
Let's see, a little about me, I'm doing okay, its been a rough go of it for my marriage, but we are trying to work through things now.
I'm living in North Las Vegas with Patrick & Susie, who are very tolerant of Brandon & I taking up their space lol
I'm going to start training for a new job tomorrow, I'll be a Rope Course Guide, which is basically being a safety guide and a team work guide for kids and teens. I'm excited that I'll be getting to work outside!! Hopefully I'll get a little bit of a tan and get in better shape.
I think that is a pretty good summary of what is going on right now... I didn't actually talk about what has happened in the middle lol
Well, thats about it for today, I'm gonna go wash some dishes!!

Monday, January 14, 2008

Baby Brandon Ross Gentry


Brandon Ross Gentry

Born January 12th 2008 @ 10:16am

7lbs 5oz

19 1/2 inches

Lots of Dark hair & eyes that look like they will go blue (they are gray right now)

Welcome to this world Beautiful boy!!!

Thursday, December 20, 2007

Christmas Stockings



So I decided to get creative with Christmas stockings this year and so I made Bobby & me new stockings. This is a rare occasion when I decide to get all crafty, so please enjoy! :)

Bobby should be here Saturday the 22nd and I am so excited!! I am having all sorts of prelabor symptoms happen so I'm getting all excited and ready for the day!



This is my pregnant belly at week 36!!! I'm almost there! I can't wait until he decides to get here!!

Monday, December 3, 2007

Catch up

Okay so I haven't posted in quite a while, but I just wanted to write a little about what's happening (or not happening) with me. So, I've moved in with my parents, and that is going pretty good and I like not being along. I have discovered this book called "Natural Birth the Bradley Way" and I really really like it. I plan on having a birth free of pain killers and interception (as long as interception isn't absolutely necessary for the baby's health) and this new book I've found talks about how to deal with the pain and determination it takes to have a birth this way. I am learning how to relax my body completely and just think about what it will be like to have all my regular muscles relaxed but then have my uterus contracting (a uterus is, after all, just a big bag of muscles, interesting way to think of it huh?) and not trying to relax or control it. I do that every night for about a half hr or so with my mom. She is gonna be my coach along with Bobby because he won't be able to be with me the whole time I'm in labor and I'll need a coach the whole time. I'm just praying that the Lord will be merciful about my situation and let Bobby be there for a good portion of the birth. Bobby is working in Logan for Big Sky Communications burying power/fiber optic lines. At least I think that's what he is burying. He doesn't tell me things unless I beg and dig for a while. Right now he has strep throat and is actually really sick and has lost weight and everything, and I feel so bad that I am not there being his nurse/wife! I get homesick for him a lot but I guess what can I do? He wouldn't even let me come up to Logan for Thanksgiving so we were apart our first Thanksgiving together. :( But I get to see him soon and probably for Christmas. So I'm really excited for that. I don't have anymore time left so I'll write some more later. Merry Christmas!!!