Living this crazy thing called life!

Yup it's been about a month since I last posted! For starters, Maddison is now 4 years old! I can't even begin to believe it! Time really does fly when you start having kids and each moment with them is so precious. Before I know it she will be graduating high school and moving on with her life! I can only hope and pray and do my best to raise her to be the woman God intends for her to be.

I remember the night we found out we were expecting! Matt was playing his xbox and I had gone on a walk with some neighbors of mine while we were in Japan. It was a beautiful night out and while on our walk we were talking about kids and what not. It dawned on me that I was late LOL and they both look at me and was like I'd take a test when we get home. Sooo I drove to the shoppett and got home and well took the test and I couldn't believe what I held in my hand....Pregnant! WOW I am having a baby!!! MATT MATT and he knew and with out even taking our time and waiting we were calling family and a few friends in Japan! 9 LONG months passed by and she was born on my due date May 25, 2008 at 11:02 pm weight 6 lbs 11.2 ounces and 19.5 inches long. The day she was born didn't go any way that I had expected but was I ever so blessed that Matt never left  my side! Both of our mom's flew over to see her too. They were only there for 2 weeks and the first week both of myself and Maddison were in the hospital but they didn't care! As long as they could see her they were fine. 4 years later and she is just a vibrant, independent, outgoing, fun, loving, energetic, happy, outspoken, FULL of attitude 4 year old! I love her so much and so honored and blessed to be her mommy! She is growing up so fast! Next fall she will be in kindergarten!!!! Shew, not sure I am ready for that! She loves her daddy to the moon and beyond! She can't wait for him to get home and is always the first to get to him which I don't mind. I love to see her love him!!! She is just so awesome!

Mollybug is doing what all 8 month olds do!!! She is into EVERYTHING! Such a fast crawler! She also stands up on her own now and has taken a few steps! She doesn't like to hear the word No, she beats up on Maddion even bit her toe the other day which was sooo funny!!! She has 6 teeth all the way through her gums and two more on the way! She loves, LOVES, loves Maddison. Loves to play in her room which most of the time Maddison doesn't mind! I love seeing them together! She also LOVES her daddy!!! She makes all the noises she can, her two new words are Dadda and Baba for her bottle! She loves the park which makes it so easy to go there! Maddison does her thing and Molly swings and here lately she likes the slides! She is just so awesome!



I was doing great until June 7. I woke up in the middle of the night at 1 am or a little later with the worst abdominal pain I have ever felt in my life. I went to the restroom thinking it would get better after I peed however it continually got worse and worse FAST! I followed the base protocol and then the vomiting began and I couldn't get to the ER fast enough. Poor Matthew kick into super dad mode (which is one thing I LOVE about my man! He really steps up in time of need) he had the girls up, dressed, diaper bag packed, and himself all together while I was trying to get myself to the car! I love my husband so flipping much! That man hung the moon! As soon as I got there I began puking in the er waiting room (go figure) and they got me back there kinda fast! Gave me meds for nausea and the pain I was in. Blood work, urine test, ultrasound (not the fun one either), and a CT later I was diagnosed with a really bad case of appendicitis and it was coming out NOW! Matt got the girls to a friend of ours which I am forever grateful for at 6 am that took both the girls while Matt was with me at the hospital. After surgery I was not in the best mood, anaesthesia does horrible things to me! It takes a while to wear off before I feel "normal" again. I couldn't eat and all I wanted what my pain button. I hurt so bad. I have also found out that morphine gives me really dry mouth. I couldn't drink enough water! Which then in turn made me have to get up and go to the restroom ALL THE TIME! I ended up with one long incision on my right side, I had an open appendectomy which has a longer recovery time than having it done laparoscopic. I was discharged the next day in the worst pain ever and well Matt ended up having to take the whole next week off. I was not allowed to pick up Maddison, Molly, or anything heavier than a gallon of milk, no sex, no running around, all kinds of restrictions. I slept in our lazyboy for a few nights. I couldn't stretch out. It was horrible. It's now been two weeks to the day that I had my surgery and I was doing great until my follow up yesterday. I hadn't taken any pain meds yesterday wasn't having any pain or soreness and then he pushed around and done all he had to do to make sure I was healing properly and well I have been hurting again ever since! I still have pain and I hurt almost all day. I'm allowed to pick up the girls but  nothing heavier. No running yet. I'm just so over it! I can't stretch out without it feeling like I just had it removed! I am healing though and healing well so I shouldn't and won't complain. I am blessed it was caught right before it ruptured. I was with hours of that happening that is how huge and swollen it was. Matt is amazing and still taking great care of me and helping me out so much with the girls!

Matt is doing great and as usual busy with work. He will be leaving us in August for his first two tech schools and then after that will be finding out about his last school will be. I am planning on flying out to Texas in between his first two (he has a week off) so we can celebrate Molly's first bday a few weeks early with him. Plus I know Maddison is going to be so heartbroken when he leaves! She has a daddy doll and I will be getting Molly one as well! Matt is truly a blessing to me. I am ever so reminded when situations happen like my appendix. He really just takes it all on and does it amazingly. He loves me and has seen me at my absolute worst and at my best. He loves me no matter what and I am so thankful for him. While I was stuck in the lazyboy he was up with the girls taking care of me and them. He just flowed! I know the girls enjoyed their extra time with him!

The pugs are well...being pugs!

And that is how we have been! I plan to work better at updating these better. I do have a crazy life that keeps me busy and on my toes! I'd have it no other way though! I hope everyone else is doing great and creating your own life memories!!!!

Throwback Thursday!

AWWWW lol this is Maddison 2 years ago right before her 2nd birthday! She looks like a baby here LOL :) At this time we still lived on Kadena AB in Okinawa Japan in Marek Park 10327 C :) She was playing in our bedroom (looks like daddy was laying in bed) I can't believe she is almost 4!!!! She loved playing with my stethoscope (which she still has and does) she was such a fun toddler! And girl loved Dora LOL So much including her has changed since this picture! We ended up having to move like two months after this picture to Camp Foster a little bit after this due to them renovating this house. It so crazy I look at some of these pictures from May 2010 and I see Molly!!! Like this one!

 LOL I just see Molly in these expressions pictures also from May 2010! It's funny I don't remember her in diapers. My my how things have changed :) Happy Throwback Thursday!

Evening with Maddicakes...

Well now that Molly is on a normal schedule and sleeps at night, I get to have some one on one time with Maddison in the evenings. Tonight we colored, made a map, she helped me make dinner, she helped me do dishes, and now we are chilaxin watching "The Big Bang Theory" LOL She was telling me about her monkeys and I painted her toe nails (of course with her Biddidi Bobbidi Boutique nail polish) she is something! I still can't believe she is about to be 4 years old. I was asked today if she was 6!?! I was like umm no she isn't even 4 yet LOL I am kinda happy she didn't get selected for preschool one more year with her all the time will fly by! Plus Matt will be leaving soon for tech school so she will have a lot of change. I am hoping and praying that Pampered Chef will really start going so I can put her in this christian preschool on my terms of what days and times. She is such a great little person! I can't wait too see the person she grows up to be!!! She is so loving to Molly which just makes my heart smile! I know that won't always be the case but for now it's great! We have been thinking about them sharing a room next house but we shall see :) for now I'm going to continue to enjoy my evening with my girl before bed!!!

7 months already...

Shew can't time just slooooowww down for a few! Today we celebrate Molly Elizabeth being 7 months old and I can hardly believe it. October 4 at 8 o'clock my water broke here at home and I kinda had an "are you serious" moment because I was only 37 weeks preggo and NONE of our house hold good's were here yet from Okinawa!!!! I called labor and delivery and to my surprise they told me to not come in...I don't think they really believed my water broke it was almost as if I didn't know what I was saying maybe I had peed on myself but my water broke with Maddison at home as well and I knew I hadn't peed all over my bed! So I was like well fine, I will just say home and hope I will start contractions on my own maybe I would get out of a c section! My plan was to stay at home as long as possible and hope to go in at like a 8 or 9 and go from there...I found out that they don't do VBACS here and well they can't make you have an elective surgery unless it's medically neccessary. BUT as the night went on nothing happened and by that morning I knew a c section was my future and it was going to happen that day...so the following day at 9 am I called and they had me come and and well I was sent to the hospital from there :) A friend we were stationd with in Okinawa is also here and she was graceious enough to take Maddison for a few while Molly was born! At 2:05 pm, weight 7 lbs 7 ounces and being 18.5 inches long Mollybug came into this world a healthy baby! Before the doc showed her to us as they were getting Molly out we heard her say "All you look just like your sister" and well she did! She looked just like Maddison the day Maddison was born!

Maddison was so excited to see her little sister and to hold her. She kept asking if we were going to keep her and could we take her home :) It made my heart smile! I didn't think I could love another little person as much as I love Maddison but shew I was way wrong!!!! These little girls are our world and it made my love Matt even so much more!

Molly was born here in Valdosta, Gerogia at Smith Northview by Dr. Courson. Her clinic also gave Molly her first bible with her name stamped on it. Such a blessing! I wanted to leave the hospital and go home ASAP and they were so great about making sure I was ok and helping me along so that I could get out of there as quickly as possible. I went in on a Wednesday and I was able to go home on Friday. I wanted a great nice shower and to lay and rest in my own home even if there wasn't much there! My amazing hubby went out and bought me a glider since I couldn't sit in the camping chairs anymore because of my surgery. He is so sweet to me and takes such great care of me and the girls! Maddison was just so in love and couldn't leave Molly's side.

 

The one thing I wanted more than anything was for Molly to nurse. Maddison didn't and I was and am ok with that, her jounry into the world was a little different than Molly's. Molly did great and latched on no problem and well she nursed strong up until two weeks ago and I am ok with that. That's almost 7 months longer than I did the first time :) Molly is such an amazing little person. She is already trying to walk, she pulls herself up on all kinds of things and already has two teeth through and possibly some upper ones on the way! Gibber gabbers away, always has to be checking out what is going on around her, LOVES TO EAT! She is just so much fun, such a happy baby!!! Happy 7 month's old to our sweet girl! We love you so much!!!!



All our dreams came true!!!!

Well our 2012 Walt Disney World vacation came and went...all tooo fast!!! Our trip started last Saturday (21 April) to which we dropped of Daisy and Dukie pug to the kennels and cleaned up a bit, then we were off to Orlando airport to pick up Mamaw and Papaw Blevins! Living in Valdosta we are only about 4 hours away so it wasn't too bad of a drive down there (or home either). That day we just kind of rested, by the time we picked them up and go to the Shades of Green on Disney we were pooped LOL :) The next day we got our day started, walked around Shades of Green and checked it out. Walked over to the Polynesian resort which was right across the street and rode the monorail and just checked out everything. That night we watched the lights parade and the fireworks at Cinderella's castle at the Magic Kingdom. So Monday started our 4 days at Disney one day at each park. Monday we did Animal Kingdom. Maddison enjoyed the safari, she did the boneyard, we watched the Festival of the Lion King, we did Rafiki's plant watch, and Matt and I rode Expedition Everest...we were so bummed that It's Tough to be a bug was closed :( we also watched a parade that afternoon.
On Tuesday we took a break as we needed to get some supplies from Walmart and Matt wasn't feeling too great. So Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday we hit it hard and went to Magic Kingdom, Disney's Hollywood Studios, and Epcot. We watched parade's, met characters, rode as many of the rides we could, went to shows, stuffed our faces and just had a blast at Disney!!! Maddison really enjoyed doing the Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique in Downtown Disney on Saturday!!! Althought it was expensive I would trade her fun for the world! She is also a roller coster junkie and enjoyed all that that she was tall enough to ride!!! This was her second Disney experience and I hope she has many more! There is just something about that place!

Catch up and Throwback Thursday!!!!

It's been a little bit since my last post, I  have missed a few Throwback Thursday's :( but life has been a bit crazy! The girls and I went up to Kentucky to be with my best friend in the whole wide world when her grandpa (which was like my own) passed away. She called me early one morning and that afternoon we were on our way! I couldn't imagine not being there for her and at the very moment for the first time since leaving Japan I was happy to be only 10 hours away. We have been BFF's since the 4th grade and I know know we will be those crazy old ladies one day :) Her family is like my family...I love them all. Of course while we were up there the Kentucky Wildcats won the NCAA tournement so that was fun too!!! I even let Maddison stay up really late to watch the game with me ha! She thought she was sooo cool! While being in Ky my brother and sister in law came in from NY where they are stationed. He had just gotten back from Afghanistan so it was our first time seeing him a very long time. First time they had met Mollybug and I believe Maddison was one and a half last time they say her...it was nice to spend time with them and see everyone else...we even drove up to Ohio to see some family up there where the girls met their great great grandma!!! It was a nice trip all in all but we were all ready to be back home with Matt...we sure missed him! I believe he missed us as well. Right now we are getting ready for a trip to Disney World with Matt's parents. Maddison is super excited and Molly well she will have a great time LOL :)

Now for this Thursday's Throwback picture:

This is a picture of our sweet Maddicakes and the same age our sweet Mollybug is now :) Matt was deployed it was our first one and we were living in Okinawa at the time. Maddison was such a great baby just as her little sister is. It's crazy how they are so much alike yet so different. Maddison had more hair than Molly at 6 months, her chicken hair as we called it because it always stuck straight up no matter what we did. I had already pierced her ears too. By this picture she could roll, she never crawled, and of course she was sitting up. She didn't have any teeth yet, her's didn't start coming in until she was 1 years old. She looks so much like Matt I think. I always have. I wasn't sure how this deployment was gonna go since I had never been a mom before but because of how great she was it was kind of easy...we had our routine and it made time fly while Matt was gone. She was and is amazing! I can't believe she is almost 4 years old :( It's so true as Darius Rucker's song says, she wasn't like this for long and I don't really remember her like this...it went too fast! I am so thankful for pictures! Hope everyone has a blessed Thursday!!!!

First addition of Throwback Thursday!!!

So I have decided to so my own segment of Throwback Thursday with posting an old picture and talking about it :) And what better way to start with a picture that started it all!

So this was on June 6, 2002 our last day of school Matt's senior, my junior year. By this time he had taken me to prom and already stole his first kiss! That day he drove me home from school in his red truck and that night we went to Walmart and did some shopping around and then decided we wanted to rent a movie. Matt hates scarry movies but we rented 13 Ghosts. I remember him saying how stupid scarry movies are LOL and during the movie ha! We went back to his parents house and started movie night...during the movie he asked me one question I had been waiting on LOL and I'll never forget how the converstation went ha! Matt "So if I asked you to be my girlfriend what would you say?" :D HA HA HA Jessica "I'd say yes!" Matt "Well how bout it?" Jessica "Ok" I still laugh about it ha ha ha but it was our special moment. To think that moment happened almost 10 years ago still is so neat to me. Matt still gives me butterflies even after 10 years! We have made it through me finishing highschool and college, Matt deciding to join the Air Force, and those hard deployments. I had no idea that saying yes to that question was going to bring me and us to where we are today and if I had to do it all over again you bet I would in a heart beat without even thinking twice! It's so neat to look back on all we have gotten to do together! We still enjoy that day June 6, 2002 :) it was our first anniversary so it's always gonna be special to us. It was a day that changed our lives and us forever! Who knew it would lead to the 2 beautiful girls we have now!!! But that's for another day! I added some other pictures from that day!!!