Our New House

We're Moving! Granted it is just across town, but still we are moving and we are pretty excited about it. When we moved into our current house 3.5 years ago we had not intention of staying in it forever. We started talking about putting it up for sale last year, but then threw around the idea of moving somewhere else rather than staying in Douglas. We looked into different towns in Wyoming, different states and finally decided that it would be best for us to just stay put. We both have good jobs, its a nice little town, and we've met some good people here. So we decided back in March that we would put the house up on the market July 1st and plan to have a house built in town. We created a 3 page list of things that we wanted to do to the house prior to putting it on the market. Nothing major, but lots of small little things. We knew it would take some time as Cohl was going to be arriving, and we knew once he was here we wouldn't be able to get a lot accomplished but figured we could get it done prior to July 1st. So much to my surprise my husband called me just 3 weeks after Cohl was born and said we sold our house. I said we haven't even put it on the market, are you serious.. Sure enough he was serious. It was a little stressful as we were not real sure what we were going to do. So I started looking at houses in the area--all of which were way over priced. We thought that since we were needing to be out of our house so much sooner than planned that a new construction was out of the picture. After looking at several homes we decided to talk to one of the contractors and see what he could do for us. It was our lucky day as they had a house that was in the process of being built, but was only framed. We went and looked at it, decided we liked it and that was that! SOLD! We were still able to pick out everything for the new house--the flooring, paint, cupboards, doors, countertops etc. So we feel like we are still getting "Our House" just didn't pick the floor plan prior to it being built. Still all in all it is just what we were looking for. 3 bedrooms 2 baths all on one level; 2 car garage; central air; full unfinished basement. Granted the location is not where I really wanted it to be, but we couldn't be too picky there and for 30K under the prices of the other homes we were looking at, we just couldn't beat it. So I am attaching some pictures we took tonight--it is all dry walled :) We should close and move into it the 2nd week in July. We are super excited and will update the pictures as they move further along on it. So many wonderful new changes happening to our family this summer! What a great year it has been so far :)

Front of the house
Garage
Living room looking into the kitchen/dining
kitchen
Living room looking at stairwell to go downstairs into basement.

Stairs going down to basement

Entry way/Front door.

6 Weeks Already!?!?

Wow where in the world has the time gone? It truly seems like just yesterday that I was still pregnant (not happy about still being pregnant, but regardless pregnant :0) and now its been 6 weeks since he has arrived. So much has happened in the past 6 weeks that I think it has made the time go so quickly. Cohl has been doing really good. He is sleeping pretty good at night--normally in 4 hour spurts so we can't complain too much. There are even some nights that he will sleep for a 5 hour stretch woohooo! So he is doing good there. He seems to be putting on the weight--I am sure he is probably close to 8lbs now which is great considering he had lost so much when he was first born due to his jaundice. He has starting to smile, which you can see from the pictures I posted earlier in the week. He has rolled over from his stomach to his back, and will roll onto his side from his back. We have a feeling he will be an early achiever of rolling, crawling and walking. He is so strong! So we are good.
Jyllian is doing good as well. She will be three next week. Can you believe 3 years old already. It really does seem like just yesterday that we had her. I can't believe how big she has gotten. Not so much in size but just in her maturity. She just cracks us up. She is doing good with Cohl. She gets jealous at times but that is to be expected. We are trying to get her to do more things with her dad as she is very much a mommy's girl. Cohl seems to be a mommy's boy as well, so poor Justin gets neither of them. So we are trying to change that :-)
We had a busy two weeks as my dad was out visiting from Michigan. It was great getting to see him and was glad that he was able to meet Cohl and see Jyllian. It had been far too long since he had seen her. So that was nice. We look forward to his next visit.
Other than that not much is going on...we are just thankful for everything we have. We are truly blessed with such a wonderful little family! We're loving every minute of it :)
So I am attaching some pictures of Cohl from today. Happy 6 week Birthday Cohl!!! ENJOY!

Happy Baby!

This morning Cohl was wide awake and not ready to go back to bed so we decided to take pictures instead so he could show off his smile. Hope you enjoy....I am going to try and get a video of him on here soon.

Cute Pics

Not to toot my own horn or anything but I do think my kids are pretty cute :)
Jyllian got to go on a special date last night--she got to go watch Horton Hears a Who with her Grammie. Mom came and picked her up for her date and Jyllian was all dressed up. So I have some pictures of that. I also am sharing some cute pictures of Jyllian and Cohl. Hope you enjoy.
We are doing better. I am getting more and more energy every day and am finally off bedrest. YEAH!!!! I had my follow-up apt with my Dr. and we are not sure why it all happened but it seems it is all fixed. So that is good. I wish I knew why it had happened but I guess it is just one of those freak things and it happened to me :) Lucky ME! But I am okay that is what counts. Thanks to all of you for your thoughts/prayers. Hope this finds you doing AWESOME!

On the Up and Up!

Some of you know about the problems I've had, some don't. I won't go into great detail but will update those of you who don't know whats been going on. On Sunday (Mother's Day) I woke up in the middle of the night hemmorhaging. At first I didn't think it was that big of a deal but was a little freaked out. I tried to get ahold of my mom but she wasn't answering the phone, so I called labor and delivery. The nurse told me to get to the ER as soon as possible. Tried to talk me into having the ambulance come and get me, but I honestly live 2 blocks away from the hospital. I had Justin go to my mom's and wake her up to come take care of the kids. We got to the hospital and luckily they took my situation seriously. They gave me IV's in both arms, examined me and got my dr called and in to perform a D&C to try and stop the bleeding. I got into surgery by 6am. I lost a lot of blood during the whole ordeal and ended up having get bags of blood. I went into shock during the surgery and when I came to I was being put into an ambulance to be transfered to Wyoming Medical Center in Casper. My Dr. was sitting right by my side along with other EMT's. I wasn't real sure what was going on but she explained that the surgery didn't stop the bleeding so she wanted me to get to a hospital that could perform an emergency hysterectomy if needed. So I went to Casper and spent Monday and Tuesday up there before they finally let me come home. Luckily I didn't need to have the hysterectomy, and the medication they gave me while in Casper helped to slow the bleeding down enough to be able to send me home. So thank goodness all is okay. I am on strict bedrest right now, not able to do much at all, but also do not feel like doing anything. I am very weak and have no energy. I hate not being able to do much with my kids and while in the hosptial not being able to hold my babies. Gosh it was so hard. I just ask that if you could please keep us in your thoughts and prayers that everything is finally over with and we will be on the up and up!
Luckily my mom was able to take some days off to take care of Jyllian and Cohl while we were in Casper. Justin has been awesome even though he hasn't gotten much sleep. God has truly blessed us with a wonderful baby as Cohl has been doing awesome and sleeping good and eating good for us. I am not sure that I would be able to do it all if Cohl was a fussy baby. Jyllian is such a great help. I know she is ready for mommy to be back to her old self and be able to play with her. Its so hard not to be able to pick her up.
So that is what has been new with me. I am hoping to be feeling like my old self again soon! Until then I will just keep truckin' along waiting for that day to come :)

Happy Mother's Day

What a wonderful mother's day I had this year! I was able to spend most of the day with just my litle family--Justin, Jyllian, Cohl and myself. We then met up with mom and Shane later in the day to go out to eat and do a little shopping before coming back home. I enjoyed my day and wanted to share some pictures of our day!
Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers out there! Hope you had a great day!

One week old!

My precious little boy is one week today~doing wonderfully and is just cute as a button! Don't you agree???

Our Family Update

He has arrived! It was a pretty quick and easy labor--they broke my water at 7:30 and I delivered him at 10:41 after only pushing for 10 minutes at the most. All went pretty well. I didn't need pitocin, so it wasn't a true induction. I was thankfulHe is perfect. Had a little trouble keeping his body temperature regulated but that was all better by Thursday. He is a little jaundiced so we have had to bring him back up to the hospital daily. The yellow in his skin and eyes seems to be going away day by day, and his levels are little down so hopefully we are in the clear. He is continuing to loose weight--all due to his jaundice as he doesn't have the best appetite.
He is a great baby. He sleeps great--even during the night. He feeds okay--still is only a snacker--doesn't eat a lot at one time. At night he goes 4-5 hours before he wants to eat again. Its been great :)
I am beginning to feel better. My blood pressure is still a little high and I still have a pounding headache--3 weeks of a daily headache is getting old but hopefully once my BP starts to go down my headache will go away. I know that once my headache goes away I will feel back to my old self--headaches just kind of make you feel icky.
Jyllian is a great big sister. She is a big helper and loves to hold her baby brother. She is a little jealous--which is understandable and has begun to be a little pill in the past two days but I know this will come and go and we can get through it. She is a mommy's girl so mommy giving attention to someone else is a huge deal for her. She still loves her brother though and just adores him.
Justin is adjusting to be a new dad again. He has taken some time off of work which has been great. He doesn't go back until the 3 week in May so he had 20 days off. Its been nice having him home and he has enjoyed spending time with the family. He is such a great daddy! I couldn't ask for a better husband or dad. I am truly blessed!
So I think that is all for now. I will try and get new pictures up as we take them. I love to take pictures-especially of my kids so I will be taking plenty. I am sure you will get sick of seeing new pictures. I will hopefully be better at keeping our blog updated.

Today is it!

Well we've waited 9 months--well actually 38 weeks and we are going to finally meet out littlest boy tomorrow. We are sooo excited. Its been a rough pregnancy--terrible morning sickness for the first couple of months, sick with severe bronchitis/phenomonia and was hospitalized, pre-term labor and was put on medication and bedrest for 3 weeks, and then preeclamsia and back on bedrest. Needless to say I am tired of being pregnant and ready to meet my Cohl.
We go in tonight at 5:00 to start the induction process. We will see what all that entails :) I am nervous but know all will be fine.
We took Jyllian fishing today and just enjoyed being outside and spending time with her. We got some cute pictures! Hope you enjoy. Will post more pictures after tomorrow of our little Cohl!

Easter

We had a great Easter. Due to Justin refinishing our floors we had Easter at mom's. Shane joined us both for the dying of Easter Eggs on Saturday night and spent the day with us on Easter Sunday. Jyllian enjoyed looking for her baskets hidden by the Easter Bunny. As you can see the Easter Bunny SPOILED her! We also took her to the mall and let her visit the Easter Bunny. It was a good day--good food, good people and lots of fun.
Because we have soo many pictures I did a slide-show.

It's Been Awhile....

So I didn't post anything the entire month of March--what a slacker I am. Or maybe nothing was going on???? Either way I am sorry its been so long.
Let me think back to March and see if there is something that happened that I can share....we did red0 our hard wood floors. Well by we I mean Justin :) I was on Spring Break for work so it worked out great that I was able to watch Jyllian and stay at my moms while Justin sanded, stained and polyurathained our floors in the living room and hallway. They turned out great. We really need to do our bedroom and the kids room but....just not the time right now. I also got the baby's room all prepared~because we only have 2 bedrooms upstairs and we don't feel comfortable spliting our family up yet we are putting the baby in the same room as Jyll's stuff. She doesn't sleep in there anyways so we figured what does it matter. At least we have a bed in there in case we just want to sleep in the same room as the baby at night. So we've divided the room up and I think it looks good. We are hoping to sell our house within the next few months and hopefully will be having a house built that has 3 bedrooms on one floor so we can all have our own bedroom :) Thats the plan.
Soo here are some pictures of the floors!

BEFORE

SANDING

A WORK IN PROGRESS ALL STAINED

FINISHED PRODUCT
HALLWAY