Newborn Pics

Sorry for the Newborn picture overload, but SO CUTE right? Lincoln has been such a blessing. I dind't know how I was going to do this away from family, but I have met families out here that have become family to me and have helped make this Texas journey survivable. Special thanks to our friends Stephanie and Taylor for Lincolns beautiful pictures! 

The Tongue

I have been saying for months now that I was going to create a post about Lincolns tongue, and I am finally getting around to it! This boys tongue is ALWAYS sticking out! I absolutely love it! Sleeping, smiling, staring, you name it and it is sticking out. So cute.

I am so in love with this baby. Got blessed me with two very handsome boys!

Lincoln Reed White

My baby boy is finally here! On Wednesday June 5, 2013 at 11:51 a.m. we gave birth to this beautiful little boy, Lincoln Reed. Weighing in at 7 lbs 9 Ounces 20 1/2 inches long, and healthy as can be! We are so in love with this little man! On Tuesday the 4th of June I had my Dr appointment and he said that I was 1 cm dilated and my cervix was 50% thinned.... He said that because I was 39 weeks we had the option to be induced and he had an opening the next morning, well I was right on top of it and said yes! (the hubby was not very happy with me). I was so uncomfortable and the humidity and heat was killing me. After going home and talking to Reed about it and praying about my decision we both felt good about it and knew that everything was going to be okay!

 So early Wednesday morning we got up and took Jace to his friends house and headed off to the hospital. Doc came in at 7:30 and broke my water and OH MY HELL that hurt SO SO SO Bad. Shortly after, the contractions kicked in and were killing me, i tried to tough it out as long as possible but gave in at 9:30 and got the epidural which kicked in right away which aloud Reed and I both to sneak in a little nap. I woke up at about 11:00 a.m. with a lot of pressure in the pubic bone area and quickly called the nurse and she checked dilation and I was 10cm dilated and she said lets call the team because it's time to start pushing! I pushed for maybe ten minutes (pain free and laughing and joking with my husband through it all) and then I heard the first amazing cry of my little boy.

 The whole time pushing the nurse kept saying "oh I can see his hair", this shocked both Reed and I because we were expecting another bald little boy. Let's just say I have myself a little gorilla. (That is his nickname).

The next day Reed brought Jace to the hospital to meet his little brother and he was so in love. He would not leave my bed and when the nurse came in to take baby for circumcision Jace got VERY concerned that his baby was not in the room with us. Now that we are home things are going pretty good. It has been VERY hard getting used to the new sleeping schedule and the pumping at crazy hours of the night, but overall things are wonderful and our home is filled with so much love for our boys! It's crazy to still think that he is all ours! I am so obsessed and so in love with this little boy! We are so excited to go home in September and share this amazing little spirit with the rest of the family!

Texas thus far.

Let's not beat around the bush.... TEXAS SUCKS! The humidity is KILLING me, the scenery sucks, and the storms scare the living hell out of you! You might just think i'm negative about it but I really don't think I am. This state is AWFUL! I remember always thinking "oh how I can't wait to move out of Utah, I hate the cold." Yeah no, you will NEVER hear me complain about Utah again. I want my GORGEOUS mountains back, I want the cool mountain breeze back, and I want to go hiking and see water falls and gorgeous flowers! The only thing you can see in the distance around you is water towers.... not so gorgeous. Lol.
In the month that we have been here we have had 2 Tornado warnings. One was not so bad but the one we had a couple of days ago scared all of  us. All the Vivint wives thought for sure that we were going to have to grab kids and run to the basement. SUPER scary stuff. I hope and pray that we don't have to experience one while we are here.
As far as actually being out here, I am loving it. Sure I miss family (Like A LOT!) BUT my relationship with my husband has grown so much stronger. I honestly feel that we have both grown so much having to leave everything we cherish and love back in Utah and come out to Texas and start fresh. I am grateful that we chose to do this this summer because it has already taught us so much.
So... as you drive out here every block or so you see a church or two, and I have been telling Reed I am going crazy because I have yet to see an LDS church building. Well Ya'all a month into our journey we found one! It was the most beautiful thing I have seen since I have been out here. It honestly put a smile on my face! Now we just need to work on getting there on Sundays and everything will be great! So Reed works with a bunch of guys who are not LDS, and know nothing about being a latter day saint. But as they have been teasing Reed and Reed teasing back they have learned A LOT about our religion. Some things not so true.... like we can only make love in missionary position so that our children will grow up to be missionaries...... LOL, now this is only funny because 2-3 of the guys he works with believe him. But man, some of the questions that are asked about why we follow what the prophet says shock me. It is a WHOLE other world outside of Utah, and I don't like it AT ALL. I am so out of my comfort zone. ANYHOW, I cannot wait to get back to Utah in September!

Smuggling a basketball....

This basketball that I have smuggled is growing.... A lot! and moving A LOT!!!! and already weighs a whopping 6lbs and that was at last weeks check up at 35 weeks. Doc did an Ultrasound and said baby is DEFINITELY without a doubt a boy... LOL. But yes baby is already weighing in at 6lbs and doing great, and is in position to come into this crazy world. I am a little nervous to know what this sweet boy is going to weigh when he gets here.... Jace came at 38 weeks and weighed 7lbs 10 ounces, so hopefully he wont be any bigger then that. Doc said that pregnancies tend to all go about the same with childbirth so he is expecting me to go into labor between 38 and 39 weeks so we will see.
UPDATES:
Total weight gain- 55 lbs(with Jace I gained 70) So far I am on track to deliver at the same weight I did with Jacer man.....
Cravings: Cheerios and bananas. Bananas and Buttercream, Rootbeer floats and Gum.
Mood: LOL. Bit***, SUPER Exhausted.
Nesting: I had a hard time excepting nesting here in Texas, I felt that I cound'nt nest here. I don't know why. But finally last week I put the crib together and got the clothes all folded and hung up and things started to go crazy inside me. I started getting really excited and felt that I can nest here and I am just so excited and can't wait to bring my baby boy home to this BEAUTIFUL home.

Jace: He LOVES the bump! He kisses baby brother at least 40 times a day. He stops me all day long and asks if he can kiss his baby brother. Hopefully once baby boy gets here Jace will still feel the same way. He loves helping get things ready and LOVES looking at the baby clothes and talking about how his baby brother is going to wear them! SO CUTE! He had a blast on mothers day at the store helping daddy pick out the carseat and stroller, it came down to two that we could not decide between so we left the decision to
Jace and this is what he picked. The decision was a black and green design or this Graco Blue and Brown design and man was it a tough pick for him but he went with Blue and Brown and his mommy LOVES it!

Contractions/Braxton Hicks- ALL DAY EVERYDAY! I swear they don't stop. I can't go shopping with out worrying that my water is about to break due to how hard my stomach gets. It hurts so bad that I have to stop or walk SUPER slow!
Me: I feel like a beached whale that can't move! We live on the 3rd floor... which means 3 flights of stairs and one exhausted girl that HATES to go downstairs because I know im going to have to climb those stairs again. I have like 3 pairs of clothes that fit me and out here in Texas it is humid as hell and so the second I get inside the blinds get closed and I rip my clothes off! (Sorry if thats TMI) But hey the Hubs enjoys it! People tell me all the time how cute I look and how I don't look like I have gained 50 lbs.... I wish I felt it. I am seriously starting to get depressed about it all and I can't wait to get on a freakin treadmill!!!!

Beginning our Vivint journey.

Oh my land so many changes and craziness have happened already this summer.
Okay so middle of April Reed and I began our journey to Texas. But it was not an easy start. We intended to leave on a Thursday and so all day Wednesday I had gotten everything packed and ready to put on the trailer and get it all to storage as soon as Reed made it home from work. Well.... he was delayed at work till 6:30. So he hurried home and loaded the trailer and right before we were about to take off I called storage only to find out there closed at 8:00, so we thought we would get up early Thursday morning and make a load to storage before we hit the road. Yeah, well it ended up POURING that night! I woke up at 5:00 a.m. to the sound of cars driving in the rain, and I ran outside only to see all of my stuff wet! Lets just say I stood out in the rain and cried. It seriously seemed that if it was not one thing it was another delaying us. So Thursday we decided that there was no way we could leave with everything wet and we would leave Friday morning. So Thursday Reed headed out to a job that was only supposed to take a few hours and he was delayed and delayed and delayed all day at this job to where he got a not very nice phone call from his very exhausted prego wife that was pissed because storage closed in an hour and a half and I was not about to be delayed another day.... Lol. Well lets just say he got home quickly after that phone call and we made it to storage just in the nik of time. Friday morning we hit the road and had a great trip to Colorado where my hubby dropped me off at Nicoles house where I stayed two weeks and he headed out to begin his sales in Witchita Falls Texas. Not one week into him being there did I get a phone call from my poor sexy hubby crying telling me that he was working out and pulled something in his back and he couldn't move.... and he didn't know what to do. WORST FEELING EVER! My stomach dropped thinking how am I going to get to my husband and clearly there is no way that he can sell if his back is out so we are going to need to go back to Utah and figure things out...... So that was the plan, Reed would drive and get me and we would go back to Utah, so I start looking for apartments and scheduling Dr. appointments. Later around 10 p.m. Reed called me back in a much better mood and said "Babe, I got a preisthood blessing and I feel that the right thing to do is carry on and go to Texas." Instead of Reed being a sales man he is now a technician and is kicking butt at what he is doing! I am so grateful for Vivint and how much it has already changed our lives! It has been hard adjusting but I am LOVING it! We have a beautiful 3 bedroom apartment, and a pool! What more do we need?

Family Photo's

Not a whole lot to say other then I have the cutest little boy on the planet! Jace did so well during the photo shoot and smiled the entire time! His little smile melts my heart! I LOVE HIM! Well ya'all here they are. BE AWARE.. PICTURE OVERLOAD!!!!

 

See what I mean? Such a stud!

      Cute family if I do say so myself!

Showing off a little bit of the Bump. Jacer man loves that bump! 

The only shot we were able to get with just the hubs and I.

Proud momma to a smart, handsome, adorable monster.

The two most handsome boys alive!!! Like father like son right?

Clean House

I told myself I was going to take a break from Netflix for a while because once I start a show I am glued to the dang TV until the show is finished. I have gone about a month now without being glued to anything (which is dang good for me) because I have so much sorting and packing to do for the big move, which in in 33 days!!!! Anyhow, I finally decided I needed to watch something while I pack and sort because music was getting old. I wanted to find something that was not going to take ALL of my attention and I could just glance at now and again and still know what was going on. SO...... I found Clean House.

Let me tell you I am NOTHING like the people in this show, NOTHING! But as I am sorting through and packing up something I am finding that I am sort of a pack rat.... KIND OF. I hold on to things because of the memories they bring.... and as Niecy says, you can get rid of that item and still have the memory, so.... that is just what I have been doing and let me tell you it is not easy but I just don't have the room for it anymore, and what is the use of hanging on to something that is just going to sit in a box?
I can say that there are a few things I am having a hard time letting go of, my mother in laws christmas decor. As many of you know she passed away and she LOVED everything Christmas. The family went through her things and picked out and were given some of her things. A lot of the stuff we ended up with was her Christmas decor. There are a few of her Christmas things that we use each year but the rest just sits in a box. I hold on to these things because they remind me of her and her beautiful spirit, but I really need to just let these things go because the memory of her will ALWAYS be there.
All in all I am so glad I decided to watch this show and declutter my life a little bit. Thank you Niecy Nash!

Play that funky music white boy.

 Today I feel like I have been in a funk. I HATE FEELING THIS WAY!!!! It's so bad that the idea of shopping does not even sound fun.... and that is CRAZY for me! So what do I do when I feel this way..... NOTHING! I have sat at the computer all day and browsed the internet and browsed through pictures and baby videos of Jace. Jace came and sat on my lap and would tell me what a cute baby he was! I just love him! I cannot believe my little boy is 3 1/2 years old and about to be a big brother!
I also pulled of previous pics from when I was prego with Jace, just to compare because I thought I was a lot bigger this time around then when prego with Jace. BUT... comparing the pics there really is not a whole lot of a difference.

These first two pics are me at 16 weeks pregnant. 1st pic is Pregnancy #1 and 2nd pic is this pregnancy.

 These two pics are me at 26 weeks. Again 1st pic is Pregnancy #1 and 2nd is this pregnancy.

It makes me happy to know that it is all in my head about me being so huge already....LOL. Pregnancy is such an AMAZING thing! Lately I have felt the need to bug my little boo. At night before bed I will poke and prod at my belly and if baby does not want to play back I will play music from my phone and put it to my belly...(HE HATES IT). Baby boo immediatly moves from one side of my tummy to the other and starts kicking and turning! LOL. He HATES country and apparently he hates soothing music.....and he is not a huge fan of Israel Kamakawiwo'ole. Such a picky boy already! 



Scratch that..

Well as of this week we found out that we will no longer be going out to North Carolina. Our new location that we will be is Fort Worth Texas!

When Reed told me about this I was not sure what to think. I was so excited about going to North Carolina and having that new adventure. BUT Texas is going to be a great adventure too. I will admit I was a little bothered about the last minute change because I spent SO much time looking into the hosptials and Dr's out in North Carolina and was about ready to send my records over but I am so glad that I didn't. I can say that I am excited about going to Texas and being a little bit closer to home for when it comes time to have baby. Hoping that some family may be able to come out and see us. All in all this is going to be a GREAT summer and I am excited for a change for my family.