let me just take a minute to show off my cute family real quick...

jeeeez... I love these guys!!!

Facebook Detox...

I just got done looking back at several years worth of blog entries. 4 years to be exact. While reading these entries, I kept thinking to myself, 'wow, I'm so glad I have these stories to look back on'. My entries range from, kids. financial wowes. house stuff. marriage. pregnancy. bedrest. wishes. wants. vacations. friends & family. hard times and good times. I can honestly say, I am so glad I have blogged over the years. CAN I SAY THAT ABOUT FACEBOOK???? Will I look back and say, 'wow, I'm so glad I facebooked about this & that'? No... probably not. And because of facebook, my blog has been horribly neglected. Facebook is a great way for people to connect. But I'm starting to feel too connected. Facebook is part of the reason why I didn't feel the need to go to my 10 year high school reunion. I already know what EVERY. SINGLE. person from high school is up to. I know if they're married, single, gay, how many kids, where they've been and what they ate for breakfast that day. And honestly, there are just some things that I don't want to know about certain friends & family. So my friends, this is why I'm doing a FACEBOOK DETOX. Starting on Monday, October 3rd , I will remove facebook from my favorites list and have Tim change my password. Instead, I will blog each day. I will do this for a week straight {and maaaybe even longer, who know!}. And I will be sooooo glad I did. :o}

I DARE YOU TO JOIN ME!!!!!!

Where did the time go?

HOW DID I GO FROM THIS...

TO THIS, SO QUICKLY???

I still remember the day I found out I was pregnant with Allie. The day I found out she was a girl. The day I first felt her kick. The day she was born. We were new parents, neither of us had ever done any of this before. Everything that Allie did was new & exciting and at times, new and terrifying.

When she was a baby, I couldn't wait for her to role over, crawl, walk... go to school. Now, fast forward 5 years, and here we are. I always thought that I wouldn't cry when I let her go, but as the first day of school got closer and closer, I got a little more nervous. And then finally came the day. We were both excited! We got out of the car and I walked her to the playground. I could feel her clinging to my leg and her body was tense. As soon as the bell rang, all the kids scattered to their different line up spots. I quickly ushered Allie to her line and she was all 'nervous smiles'. I stood back and waved and and kept nodding my head while giving her the thumbs up to assure her that she could do this and she would be just fine. While standing in line, she just couldn't take her eyes off of me. So I kept reassuring her with my big cheesy smile and my thumbs in the air. Before I knew it, her teacher was leading them to the classroom in a single file line. Thats when MY tears came. I knew from there on out, I couldn't be the one to protect her when things got hard at school. I couldn't lead her in the right direction if she got lost in the hallways and I wouldn't be there to hug her when she needed me. I will never forget Allie's first day of kindergarten.

It's kind of a special time for me right now. I'm ushering my first born off to kindergarten, a time that so many parents dream about, while one of my very best friends is about to welcome her first child. Shane & I grew up together.... we were best friends, and that is an understatement. As we became older we sort of went our seperate ways but we never forgot about eachother. Shane has always held a special place in my heart. Today, I am so thankful to have her back in my life and help her welcome her first born.

Shane,

you will always remember the day you found out you were pregnant, and today... the day you find out if it's a boy or a girl, the first time you feel that little kick and the day your sweet baby is born. But don't rush things... take it one day at a time. Be patient. Because before you know it, you will be giving that big cheesy smile with your thumbs in the air, waving goodbye as your little one walks off to kindergarten.

10 minutes of free writting... READY? GO!

I'll be glad I did this once the 10 minutes is over! Just thinking about sitting down and blogging gives me cramps. We are one busy family right now but I love it! I think I thrive on it! Tim started school. So he's typically busy typing away at the computer most evening and sometimes early mornings. Although sometimes are hard not having him 'around', I am so glad he is doing this. There is no doubt in my mind that he is going to be where he wants to be {career wise} in the next 5 years. That makes me happy! He'll also be starting EMT school in the fall on top of working on his associates degree. As you know, we have 3 kids now. lol! That's why I don't blog much. My Hannah bug is 8 months old now. 3 kids sounds like a lot but I feel like I've really really gotten to enjoy this little gal to the fullest extent. I'm not a first time mom anymore... I've been there, done that so at this point nothing scares me. I kind of have a passive personality anyways. I'm naturally just not a worrier... and I'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing. But I kinda like it. It makes my life a lot easier. lol! In fact, on Saturday, Kole took too big of a bite of pancake and sausage together and was choking on it. I calmly picked him up, bent him over my knee and beat the hell out of his back and did the ol' fish hook down his throat. It eventually came flying out. All while Tim is freaking out, breathing hard, sweating & shaking. And he wants to be a fire fighter? lol! Anywhoo... I need to be better about this blogging stuff. I know I'll regret it in the long run if I don't. One night last week, I went back and read all of my blogs from the very beginning {2007}. I soooo enjoyed it. I laughed & I cried and I'm so glad I have some of those memories, whether good or bad, on record. Welp, there's my 10 minutes of randomness. I'll post photos someday. For now, those photos remain on my camera {all 1000+ of them!} because my laptop has a stroke anytime I try to download anything to it. :o}

It's a GIRL... and she's 5 months old...

LOL!!!! I'm ba-aaack! Wow... one blog post in a year??? I'm embarassed. Well, my cerclage & progesterone injections were a SUCCESS! I delivered our (gender suprise) baby at 12:12am on November 16th 2010. Yes, thats almost 5 MONTHS ago! Sorry Hannah... let the 3rd child syndrome begin! Here's a short version of the story. On November 9th (a Tuesday), I got my cerclage removed. It was sooo painful but I was glad it was over with. I immediatly dialated to 2cm and was about 80% effaced. That Friday, I was kind of not feeling well, but decided to go out with some friends to watch the BSU bowl game at Buffalo Wild Wings. When my friend Lynsay picked me up, I had been contracting every 5 minutes but failed to tell her this until we actually got to the resturaunt. I contracted the whole time we were there and was really freaking everyone out. lol! Finally Tim & I decided we should head straight to the hospital. When we got there, I was 4cm dialated & 100% effaced. By the time they admitted me into my room and hooked me up to an iv, it was like midnight. This is my 3rd kid... I know how things go and I knew I'd need pitocin to get me past 4cm and figured they wouldn't give me pitocin until the morning. So, knowing this, I sent Tim home to sleep. Have you ever slept in a hospital chair? He has many times (remember, I was in the hospital for 7 weeks with Kole?) and vinyl hospital chairs are not comfortable. So I get cozy in my hospital bed and settle in for the night, basically knowing nothing would happen that night. Several hours later, the nurse comes in and checks me... no change. I'm still 4cm dialated. So, she goes and calls the on-call dr. (they couldn't get a hold of my own dr.). Pretty soon, the nurse comes in and says... 'Dr. so&so wants you to go home.' WHAT??? WHAT?!?!?! I am 4cm dialated, 100% effaced and contracting every 4 minutes... AND IT'S 2AM... AND I AM HERE BY MYSELF?!' So after crying & begging, it was apparent that this kumquat of a dr. was still hell bent on sending me home. The nurses felt sooo bad. One nurse even offered to drive me home, and get this... one nurse offered to CALL ME A CAB. Seriously?! lol! No thanks. So, I'm sitting on the edge of the bed sobbing and I call Tim. He answers the phone (still sleeping!) and I tell him that they're sending me home. His reply? 'ok'... and hangs up. Well, he apparently wasn't going to be picking me up. lol! So I called my mom and she came to the rescue. I think I returned to the Triage center like 3 more times over that weekend. Finally that Monday, I went into my dr.'s office and he broke up my scar tissue from my cerclage. That scar tissue was holding me at 5cm dialated for the whole weekend. I was admitted that night into the same room that I was in the Friday before (funny- huh?!). I got my iv, got my pitocin and QUICKLY got my epidural after that. That epidural was a joke! Tim, my mom, and my friends Lynsay & Anna were there with me. I think I went from 5cm to 10cm within about 30 minutes. I pushed out our suprise baby within about 15 minutes or so. Tim got to help deliver her. And it was a GIRL! I have to say, it was so much fun not knowing the gender but in my heart of hearts, I knew it was a girl... I just knew. Miss Hannah was 6lbs 5oz. and she was totally healthy. She was our first non-nicu baby. WOW! That was long! Just one of those stories that you want to remember forever... so why not write it down... right? Pictures! Pictures!

Saying good-bye to the kids. Hannah was born about 12 hours later.

my bestest friends suprised me! :o} (look at the narly bruise on my arm from the iv they put in on that dreadful Friday they sent me home. %$#@!)

Hannah Dee Compton

I love this man... but thats a whole nother blog post! He has been through SO much with me.

The picture says it all...

... Thats right. I think pretty much everyone knows by now that I'm knocked up... again! We've made it 'out of the woods' and have hit the 12 week mark. Finally! We're a little bit of both... excited and nervous. But for me, I'd say mostly nervous! For those who know me, they know that I don't finish things that I start. I am soooo good at starting a craft/project and then not finishing it. Thats pretty much how my pregnancies go as well. I cook em' and then evict em' early! Not this one though... we're doing things a little different this time around. I go in on Friday morning for a cerclage surgery (if you don't know what a cerclage is, google it). I won't go into too much detail. That plus some progesterone injections each week should hopefully hold me up without any bedrest until November/December. Wish us luck! By the way, my due date is December 4th and we are NOT finding out the sex of the baby. :o}

omg... she's blogging!

wOw! Do I suck at blogging or what?

Let me catch you up on my life... We had a whirl wind of a Christmas. Our little family had the flu (yet again) for this last one. Poor Kole has only had one Christmas in his little life that he has actually gotten to celebrate without having the flu. We survived though! We visited all the families and on Christmas night Tim got to use his new BBQ that Mrs. Santa brought him and cooked us a delicious prime rib! The kids were stoked with their presents and all was well!

In December we got pregnant with #3. We were both so excited! I had all the regular fun symptoms up until I hit about 5 weeks. They started to go away. Soon after I started spotting (just barely). My dr. agreed to do an u/s and there was no baby. 1 week later (at 7 weeks) I finally miscarried. Emotionally it wasn't too hard on me. Poor Tim was heart broken though. I think the hardest part for me (and still is) is thinking about how far along I should have been by now. Thanks Babycenter.com for reminding me that I should have been 13 weeks today. Ugh.

January & February flew by, thank God. I hate January & February. Like... really hate. They're the worst 2 months of the whole year. Why did I have to be born in one of the worst months of the year?! Thanks mom & dad! The last couple of days have been sunny & warm. Ohhh, I love spring!

Allie definitly has given me a run for my money in these past 3 months. Who ever made up the saying about 'terrible two's' should be shot. Two is NOTHING. NOTHING! I think she broke me down to tears every single day in the months of January & February. Side note: are we seeing a pattern here?.... January... February? Bad months. Luckily, she seems to be doing better now. She is really transitioning from toddler to kid right before my eyes. It's crazy! Her favorite past time now is doing puzzles. She is really good at them!

Kole... Kole is just naughty. He also gives me a run for my money... just in a different way. I throw a load of laundry on the couch to fold and he throws them off. I sit him at the table to eat some cheese crackers and he squishes them all. I put the newspapers in a stack and he throws them around the living room. You get the point. He is all boy. He is a lover though. When I walk into his room in the mornings to get him from his crib, he turns over and says in his sweet little voice, 'hi mommy'. He can really melt my heart.

When people hear that I want 3 kids, I always hear the gasp like 'your crazy!'. I'm not kidding... every single time. I'm not going to lie, though, sometimes I gasp at the thought of having 3 kids as well. Sometimes I think to myself, 'Am I crazy???' These 2 kids already give me a run for my money each day! I'm already exhausted by the end of each day. Do I really want 3 kids? And my answer is... Yes, I want 3 kids and if we could afford it we'd have even more than that. As a mother, my kids are the reason I get up everyday. They are the reason that my heart smiles everyday. They bring the laughter into our home. Who wouldn't want to add more? Tim & I have always had a place in our hearts for 3 children. And yes, I want 3 kids... so get over it damn it! LOL! Enough with all of this gushy stuff. Basically when I really think about it... we already have two kids... whats one more?!

Anyways, here's to birds chirping, warm days & a sunny, happy spring!!! And I'll leave you with some random unedited pictures from the last 3 months...

Allie jumping at the trampoline gym in Seattle...

my sicky kids on Christmas Eve....

back to normal on Christmas Day...

oh they just lub eachother...

playing with playdough...

he's going to kill me when he's older...

she just loves this dog...

And I have to show off my new bedroom that we just finished this weekend. Ok... I wouldn't say finished. It still has a ways to go but the majority of it is done.