tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48639810781007768102024-03-14T01:46:54.969-06:00A Snapshot of Our LifeJesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01157511425006084437noreply@blogger.comBlogger246125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863981078100776810.post-78127947562334088212015-09-02T10:24:00.001-06:002015-09-02T10:24:47.161-06:00and baby makes 4! AAAAND WERE BACK!<br />
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When trying to unregister my domain names this week and getting extremely frustrated with Google Apps, they don't make it very easy to login and cancel auto renewals do they, I decided to take a look back at this sweet little blog I used to be so fond of. A lot has changed since my last post in February 2014, and I thought i'd post some updates as to what's been going on with us.<br />
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We welcomed our second sweet baby girl Finley Mae Norris on June 21st, 2014, and it's been incredible ever since. She arrived on a Saturday night after a full day of hustle and bustle, a hike, the farmers market, a visit to the chiropractor, and a beautiful little girls birthday party, at which I was contracting from the minute we got there. We called the midwives on the way home to let them know I'd been contracting for about 2 hours and they were increasing and getting closer. We were told to check back around 9pm, as they were with another mother who was laboring much longer than I had been. This was around 7pm, and we headed home to prep and wait out contractions, things moved pretty quickly. We called around 8:45 to let the midwives know they should probably head over soon, that my contractions were less than 4 minutes apart and increasing in length and intensity, all good things! They headed over immediately and within 45 minutes we had a midwife and birth assistant at home with us prepping for a baby to arrive. We called over our neighbor to come watch a movie and snuggle with Stella, as things were too intense and she was way too excited to go to bed, she wanted to meet her baby sister that night!! We were still waiting on a second midwives arrival when I started to feel intense pressure to push, and with my waters still intact, I moved to my safe spot, the same safe spot I loved when in labor with Stella, the toilet, haha. It was just sooo comfortable to sit and relax everything and not worry about what was happening, just focus on getting through the back to back contractions, focus on my breathing, Brent's hands on my back, Stella's excited smiling face peeking at me from across the hall, she also came over and gave me a big hug and kiss at this point, and told me how much she loved me and how excited she was, I love her so much for this. I had been feeling the need to push for some time, and the second midwife finally arrived a bit after 10pm, so they set up the birth stool for me to move too when I was ready. I made my way back down into our living room, sat down, and began to push. I remember it being maybe 5 minutes, but Brent says it was longer, not much, but it wasn't only 5 minutes haha. My bulging bag of waters started to slide out with Finley's head, and broke as soon as she slid out of me, pink, pissed, and so so beautiful! She arrived just after 11pm, and was immediately placed on my belly, started nursing within minutes, and was just happy as can be. Stella came out to hold her for a minute, and then daddy finally scooped her off to sleep. The midwives stayed with my until around 3am, when they packed up and headed back to the other mother in labor. It was such an incredible experience giving birth at home, I wouldn't have traded it for anything, and wish I could do it just one more time. Finley has added so much love, light, laughter, and so much more to our family, we couldn't imagine life without her.<br />
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Jesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01157511425006084437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863981078100776810.post-8000990324204574032014-02-28T14:09:00.000-07:002014-02-28T14:09:00.380-07:00So, We're Pregnant! AND IT's a GIRL!!!<br />
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We are so excited to be having another little girl! Stella is stoked about being a big sister, and once she realizes she'll have a baby sister to boss around i'm sure that'll be even cooler. I'm right about the 23 week mark, this weekend, and so far so good! We figured out the reason I had been miscarrying over the last two years, I have Hypothyroidism, brought on by pregnancy. So sometime after Stella's birth, my hormones just couldn't self regulate, and my thyroid just gave up and went on the fritz. 3 weeks into taking medication last fall, we got pregnant, found out a few weeks later, and have been keeping close watch ever since. I'm not a huge fan of all the ultrasounds and unknown repercussions of them at this point, but when your high risk for early miscarriage, I think they are worth it. We found out a few weeks ago that it was a girl, and little #2 looks super awesome and healthy! She was wiggling and turning and punching the wand out of her way, she's a mover for sure! I feel her all the time, mostly after eating, which I do constantly, but she always gives a few kicks or adjusts after, and I love the feeling. Brent felt her move around 19 weeks, and the little thinks its creepy so she doesn't feel much. We are so thankful for this second little girl and for her health and growth, she's doing awesome. I'm feeling much better in the second trimester thankfully, it was a long few weeks of exhaustion for me.<br />
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So with that huge news, i'll leave you to enjoy some of our latest winter pics, were now enjoying warmer temps, I am super tempted to plant my whole garden of cold crop, and were loving being outside more often. Spring is here!!<br />
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We went up to a friends cabin in Garden Valley, and there was SO MUCH SNOW!! </div>
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Warming up and a snack after playing in the snow</div>
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The dads built a snow cave, super cool for littles! </div>
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Coffee dates happen often now, and these ones, they come with a huge pile of whipped cream on top! </div>
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'Arrrrggghhhh matey' </div>
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and of course a shoutout to the 12th man, Woo Seahawks!! </div>
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<br />Jesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01157511425006084437noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863981078100776810.post-69073798915269825042013-12-16T16:36:00.001-07:002013-12-16T16:36:15.941-07:00Real Foodies Swap = Sheer Awesomeness! Over the summer I joined a fantastic group of women here in the Treasure Valley for my first ever real foodies food swap, and oh my goodness, was it the best decision ever! This morning we had our monthly meet up, and I swear, this thing just gets bigger and better each month! Our swap organizer posted an awesome amount of photos from the swap today, and I have her permission to link up to her blog post here, I'm so excited to show you all the goodies we had at this event!! And all of it homemade by all who participated! I had offerings of Rocky Road fudge, Vanilla salted caramel sauce, and a variety of whole spices, turmeric, cumin, celery root, and mustard seeds. I truly feel like next month I need to step up my game again! These women are outdoing themselves with their offerings! Here is a picture of the goodies I brought home, it's just too good not to share!<br />
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The goodies above are as follows, jalapeno pickled green beans, honey, chai concentrate mix, pumpkin puree, letterpress coasters, lotion bars, chapstick, pomegranate jelly, elderberry syrup, nutella, chocolate mint extract, tangerine orange sauce, toffee bark, and soap! Not pictured is the amazing loaf of sourdough bread that we were already munching on. I seriously feel so blessed to be apart of such an awesomely talented group!! We have some great swaps!!<br />
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Head on over and check out <a href="http://inspiredmamamusings.blogspot.com/2013/12/real-food-swap.html" target="_blank">my friend Erika's blog post</a> that explains a bit more what our swaps are all about.<br />
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And if you do something similar i'd love to hear about it! or if you want to learn more about how to start a real foodie swap in your area, i'd also love to hear that as well!<br />
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<i>Jessica </i>Jesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01157511425006084437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863981078100776810.post-76784332827296737612013-09-11T13:38:00.001-06:002013-09-11T13:38:02.469-06:00Photo Book<object width="425" height="425" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000"><param name="movie" value="http://images-community.shutterfly.com/flashapps/slideshow/slideshow-ui.swf"/><param name="flashvars" value="configXMLURL=http://images-community.shutterfly.com/flashapps/slideshow/config/config-share.xml&slideshowModuleURL=http://images-community.shutterfly.com/flashapps/slideshow/slideshow-module.swf&projectGUID=1AcMWTFi3ZNDee&swfName=slideshowFlashContent&showReplay=true"/><param name="menu" value="false"/><param name="quality" value="best"/><param name="wmode" value="transparent"/><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/><embed width="425" height="425" align="middle" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" name="wrapper" quality="best" menu="false" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" flashvars="configXMLURL=http://images-community.shutterfly.com/flashapps/slideshow/config/config-share.xml&slideshowModuleURL=http://images-community.shutterfly.com/flashapps/slideshow/slideshow-module.swf&projectGUID=1AcMWTFi3ZNDee&swfName=slideshowFlashContent&showReplay=true" src="http://images-community.shutterfly.com/flashapps/slideshow/slideshow-ui.swf"></embed></object><p style="width:425px;margin-top:0;text-align:center;"><a href="http://share.shutterfly.com/action/welcome?sid=1AcMWTFi3ZNHnQ&cid=SFLYOCWIDGET&eid=115">Click here to view this photo book larger</a><div style="margin-top: 10px; width: 425px; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.shutterfly.com/photo-books" style="color: #6666cc;">Shutterfly</a> offers exclusive layouts and designs so you can make your book just the way you want.</div><img width="1" height="1" border="0" style="padding: 0; background: #ffffff; border: none; box-shadow: none;" src="https://os.shutterfly.com/b/ss/sflyshareprod/1/H.15/111?pageName=sharekey&c1=photobook&c2=blogger" /></p>Jesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01157511425006084437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863981078100776810.post-14170066540198823412013-08-31T14:57:00.000-06:002013-08-31T14:57:14.083-06:00The Wedding<div style="text-align: justify;">
I am overjoyed to share that my little sister is now married!! Congrats Pam and Kyle!! I'm so excited for them to start the amazing journey that marriage is, and seriously, my new BIL is pretty fantastic. Stella already adores him, she especially loves that he has boats at his house all the time and sometimes he lets her go on them, he's pretty cool. I wanted to share some photos of the day from their photographer, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/10mmSelect?fref=ts" target="_blank">Bill at Select Photography</a>. He's pretty amazing, and captured some great moments that day. I was blessed to be Matron of Honour, cause really, what choice did Pammy have. ;) It was a lot of fun helping her plan, and had it's share of stress involved, but thankfully she hired a wedding planner, and things couldn't have gone more perfect... except when the Bull got out of the fence and was up at the patio... yea that was fun. Pammy looked incredible, and her bridal party wasn't too shabby either, we all clean up pretty nice for fancy occasions. Enjoy some pics of their big day below, </div>
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And the blur that is our life continues. I cannot believe it's almost September when it really feels like it should just be the beginning of July. So many things have gone on here to pass the summer quickly, we took a week and renovated our bath, doing all the work ourselves, including all the new tile around our bathtub. The big event of our summer was my sister's wedding, she became Mrs. Kyle Chinn on August 9th, in what was the most beautiful wedding i've ever had the pleasure to attend. I'll do up a separate post with photos on that next. We had several camping trips up to the McCall/Donnelly area to escape the heat some weekends, which also happens to be where Brent goes Elk hunting, so they were camping/scouting trips. He was super excited to use his new trail cam that my mom got him for Christmas, we checked it almost every weekend in July, which is actually pretty neat seeing all the pictures, there was a particular cow elk that took a liking to the camera, and we have about 20 pictures of it nuzzling and licking it on the tree, they are entertaining to look through. I just hope it helps him bring home an elk this year, our freezer is completely empty, seriously empty, because Brent left it unplugged on accident and everything defrosted :/ so were in bad need of meat, it is pretty good timing actually to have a cleaned out freezer but still, it needs to be full soon. I took a few trips home to visit family and attend wedding events this summer, and honestly, i'm glad all the traveling will be done for a bit, my car, Stella and I are tired of driving back and forth on 6-8 hour trips. </div>
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Speaking of Stella, she's doing pretty awesome. Our little girl is growing like a weed, no seriously, she's grown 2 1/2 inches since she turned two in March! no wonder were almost grown out of her 3T pants and her 3T dresses are all short on her now. Thank goodness i've been stocking up on 4T. and her shoes! Oh my, she's just about in a 9..... which is pretty darn big for a 2 year old. We go through shoes so quickly it's sad. Thankfully Stella's BFF is also a size 8 right now, so some of Stell's barely used shoes are going to her for the time being. I just stop and stare at her sometimes, and admire how much she's grown. She's so tall, thin, muscular, curly haired, adorable. I just love her. She's got a full on attitude to match her size as well, We've been having more and more meltdowns, which I figured out are due to her not sleeping well, so were working on cutting out naps, and it's really helped her night sleep pattern, she's getting more night hours, and better quality of sleep at night, where it was getting to be a fight to put her down on days she had a nap and then she wakes often, now she goes down easy and wakes happy in the morning, it's such a great change. </div>
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Stella has been growing up this summer is so many ways, learning things super quick, going on new adventures, working on being away from mommy for a bit at a time, it's an amazing journey and i've loved being a part of all of it, I couldn't imagine not being able to be home with her and to be the one teaching her about life, it's pretty fantastic. We found a great in-home daycare, The Play Garden, and miss Kimberly and her family have been wonderful. I was taking Stella once a week to get her some time away from me, and so I could run some errands and do a bit of work without a kiddo in tow, it's been pretty great. We've started a small amount of homeschooling around the house. Mostly working on letters and numbers, addition and subtraction, using money, spelling words, reading, etc. She's doing well, grasping it as we go, i'm hoping she'll be reading her bob books on her own by her third birthday. She sings, all the time, all sorts of songs, her favorites being 'itsy bitsy spider' 'twinkle twinkle little star' and 'happy birthday', with an assortment of others in the mix. It's so adorable, especially when she's just playing and singing and in her own little zone, I love just listening to her sing quietly. and i've had to stop singing at night time, because she wants to sing along and it keeps her awake, it's adorable but sad at the same time, I loved singing her to sleep and I know she loved it as well, she still does, but sometimes prolonging bedtime just isn't worth it. She's picked up all sorts of words, her vocabulary is amazing and some of the things she says are just shocking. Brent was packing his truck today and out of nowhere Stell goes up to him and says so sweetly "Daddy, Stella wanna go camping toooo" we hadn't said anything about going camping, everything was hunting, she just knew from packing up the truck where he was going. and when she says 'too' it's a very enunciated and drawn out Too, adorable. We've finally had to start watching what we say around her, because she's been repeating it, it's awesome and scary at the same time, she says things we've never heard or said before, out of nowhere, and then it's a mission to figure out where it came from. for a week or so around the wedding she was saying "Ohh MY Gawshh" super drawn out and dramatic, no clue where it came from, until Brent's cousins admitted they say it a lot and they had been watching her quite a bit... solved that one and she doesnt say it much now, but it sure was cute while it lasted! </div>
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Brent and I finally broke down and joined a gym a few weeks ago, partly to work out, mostly to be able to take Stella swimming more often. We've been going once or twice a weekend ever since, and she's SO happy about it! we drive past the gym and she asks to go swimming, It's tough to work out actually, because she doesn't want to go to childcare, she just wants to swim :/ They have private lessons that we'll sign her up for eventually, but for right now Brent wants to teach her himself mostly, she's getting pretty good, we're working on floating and holding her breath and closing her eyes under water, She's great at kicking and moving her arms, and isn't afraid to jump into us in the water, although we have to constantly remind her to walk around the pool, it can be slick. Brent and I are wanting to get a bit more healthy, he's been mountain biking 2-3 mornings a week, and now will add a workout or two into that routine as well, he's pretty stoked. I've never been fond of the gym, so i'm having a bit more difficulty getting motivated, and i'm also already very happy with my current weight and figure, I just want to tone up a bit, not slim down anymore, and build my endurance tolerance, mostly for biking and hiking.... my hubs likes to drag me up and down mountains on hikes haha. I'm really excited for this next health step though, I feel like it's the direction we need to go to get the baby thing happening. </div>
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and speaking of babies.... I finally have an idea of whats going on with my body. My Acupuncturist has had me keeping track of my Basil Body Temperature, which is just basically your resting temp first thing when you wake in the morning. the normal healthy body temp is 98 degrees, we've all heard 98.6 is perfect temp right? Well, my average temp is 96.5, AVERAGE. Which means someday's it's as low as 95... something. So my low core temp, along with short cycles (25-27 days), and a multitude of other things led us to get my Progesterone checked, and sure enough, it's low... I had it checked a day before I ovulated to get a baseline reading, blood drawn and sample sent out, it came back at .7, it's supposed to be around .10 and it's ok to be in the 8-10 range, but .7 is a bit too low. Once I ovulate it should rise up into the 15-20 range, but my Acupuncturist doesn't think that is happening, so we'll test again with another blood draw in just over a week. She has me taking some natural progesterone boosters as well to try to get it producing on it's own in my body, which I'm thankful for, I really don't want to do the medical route of shots and such, which are reserved for IVF treatments usually or recurrent miscarriages, which we qualify under. I guess I should explain why progesterone is important, It's the hormone that prepares the uterus for a fertilized egg to implant, without a significant spike in progesterone, the uterine lining won't soften enough for the egg to attach, and will start to drop and let the body know that egg isn't fertilized and slough off the lining, causing a period. So, if an egg really is fertilized, and the body thinks the progesterone levels are too low, it'll cause a miscarriage, which is what has been happening with us. If progesterone levels are normal, and an egg is fertilized, the levels will continue to increase throughout the weeks, and can be tested to tell how things are going. It's frustrating that my body is slacking in hormone production, but from what i've been reading it totally makes sense, and i'm hopeful we've found the main problem and it can be easily fixed. Hopefully this really is the big problem, and we'll have a healthy, viable pregnancy very soon, fingers crossed! </div>
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So on to some photos, i'm sure you're all dying to see truly how big Stella has gotten, I swear, people ask me if she's 4... so it begins. </div>
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Stopping for breakfast and toys on our return trip home from the wedding, Sunside Washington has a great park and amazing food!<br />
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Jesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01157511425006084437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863981078100776810.post-38106527405660893072013-04-18T22:45:00.000-06:002013-04-18T22:45:24.698-06:00StuckI feel angry. All the time. Not really at anything in particular, mostly just how life is going and over what we've been going through. Everything is actually pretty fantastic in our lives right now, aside from the miscarriage and wanting another baby. We have a beautiful, healthy, happy, amazingly smart 2 year old who I couldn't imagine my life without, who along with my husband and family is the biggest reason I have any hope and happiness right now. My husband is so happy at his new job, he's being challenged, working on exciting projects all over the world, and loves the environment he's in and people he works with. My work has picked up also, which is great for us and for the company I work for. But there is this hole, I try to fill it with all sorts of things, play date's, grocery shopping, DIY projects around our home, time with my husband, time with Stella.... they fill it to a certain point, and then it creeps back open when things get quiet. Lately my anger comes from other parents. Bad parents. The ones who do not deserve children, the ones who shouldn't be allowed to be parents ever. Or the ones who don't really want to be parents, who just happened to get pregnant when they really didn't want to be, and then they half heartedly make their way through life with a child, wanting to live their old lives more than their new ones. This makes my heart ache, for those children affected by their parents ignorance to what a gift they've been given. For the parents who are too stupid and selfish and terrible to understand what they are missing out on with their children. For families who desperately want children, but cannot conceive them on their own or even at all. I feel like this is happening all around me lately, people turning up pregnant unexpectedly, in all sorts of situations all across the board. I hear stories being relayed that so-and-so are having a baby, it's a surprise, they were on birth control/didn't want a baby/weren't ready for a baby/not in a relationship/cant afford a child/ etc... and I want to scream and shake the person, tell them I don't want to hear about another oh so easily conceived baby being born into a less than thrilled parents arms. If were really being honest here, and i'm trying to be with myself, trying to let it all go and work through this anger block in my head and my heart, I've reached the point where I don't care to see any info on other babies being born. No thanks to the pregnancy announcements my friends are posting oh so often, the ones who post too many pictures of their growing bumps get unsubscribed from. I'll mentally make note if a baby is due soon, and give the obligatory "like" on their new baby photo, but then, block, I just cant handle seeing all those posts about baby this, and baby that. I'll even admit I might be being a bit hypocritical, I shared more than I probably should have of new baby photos and updates, and I realize it's not their fault they are all giddy with new baby excitement... but it hurts. And I'm fairly certain I had several people block or unfriend me on facebook who were struggling with their own baby making demons when Stella was born. I actually had one friend message me before she did, I knew her story, we had talked for a long time about our struggles. She is infertile, cannot conceive at all, and her husband refuses to adopt. My heart aches for her, I wish she could have her miracle, and I send thoughts often to her. So for now, I'm stuck in a place of anger and hurt. I try daily to process these unfamiliar feelings, but it doesn't seem to help. I hope with time it will, I am not this person, I am happy about all things, thrilled for everyone's exciting news, cry with them if it wasn't what they were expecting, I am emotional on many levels, but not usually anger. I realize it's hard for others to understand also, my husband doesn't really get it, he gave me the crazy look when I told him I was venting through blogging, I think more out confusion and concern for what i'm writing than anything else. But I'm hoping it's a step towards healing. Everyone processes these emotions differently and every situation is different. This seems to be how my heart and mind are handling such a sad event for us this time. I'm not necessarily ok with it, but I hope it will help in the long run of things. I hope my healing is in process, because I really, really want to feel whole again.Jesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01157511425006084437noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863981078100776810.post-53861139171974142072013-04-08T23:43:00.000-06:002013-04-08T23:43:51.312-06:00feeling out of sorts in every possible way... For the past week and a half I've been traveling around Portland, Vancouver, and the Seattle/Auburn area to visit friends and family, all the while finally going through the most horrific miscarriage I've ever personally experienced (of my 3). I had postponed my trip hoping that a few extra days at home and going to Acupuncture a few more times would help get things moving, it had been almost a full month since we found out that the baby we thought was growing inside of me turned out to just be an empty growing sac. Well, postponement probably should have lasted a few days more, because the day I decided to drive from Boise to Portland also turned out to be the day that everything in my body decided to turn loose and exit in massive amounts. I'll spare the horribly bloody details, but will say that nobody ever warned me that it was going to feel like going through labor again, and that there would ever be that much blood exiting in a 12 hour time frame. I never want to go through anything like that again. Brent and I had had a few small arguments about my going in for a D&C (Dilation and Curettage, basically they dilate the cervix and suck out or scrape out the remnants of the pregnancy tissue, fun times), Neither of us liked the idea, but I was starting to think it would be necessary, Brent wasn't so sure. I am thankful it finally happened naturally, but I really really really!! wish I had stayed home one more day and had been in the comfort of my own home, my poor sister and her fiance were awesome, although they both missed the worst parts of the whole thing thankfully, I think my sis would have just called an ambulance :/ I also regret leaving my husband during this whole thing, I really needed him, and know he was extremely worried about what was happening to me, who was or wasn't taking care of our daughter (I was alone for most of the day with her, driving and then at my sisters), and overall just worried about the whole thing. It's taken me almost 2 weeks to get my strength back, and to almost completely stop bleeding, I'm so glad it's almost completely over, I feel like physically I can begin to heal and move on. Emotionally though? I feel like that might take some time. I also feel like I have a lot of things weighing on me, and I'm considering finding someone to talk to about everything, an emotional healer of sorts. I don't feel like i'll be able to happily move forward with trying for another baby anytime soon, and that scares me. I want another baby, but I have this huge fear building inside of me that this is going to happen again, or worse, we'll be further along next time, or that since it's all chromosomal something will end up being wrong with our next child, or that it won't live at birth. I'm constantly thinking of the what if's, and I don't want to be. I am not a dweller on the negative. I am very much the glass half full personality, and being this way has not been fun. I feel anxious often, if not all the time, I feel like I have a short temper (which I am usually super patient), and that i'm sorta going crazy at times when i'm exhausted or overtired. The past two months have just been a shotgun ride of hormones and emotions, and I think I've lost track of how to handle them all. Plus I've been dealing with some extended family stuff, exclusion and feeling like everyone is just pitying me and leaving me out of very important events because of what I've been going through. It's been extremely hurtful and left me feeling super self conscious which I've never felt before, i'm usually very confident in myself and my family, and this situation has just left me feeling alone and confused as to why someone would hurt me this way. My husband has been amazing through this all, I am so thankful for his love and understanding, and his knowing just what to do to usually make me feel better. He's been my rock through a lot of stuff lately, and I could not have made it through this all without him. I'm also incredibly thankful for Stella, She knows just when I need a hug or how to make me laugh, she is my life, and if she is all we are meant to have, both Brent and I could not have asked for a more perfect child, we love her so much it's scary. I also have a pretty great family, my mom and sister and even my dad in a way, have all been pretty amazing at listening if I need to vent. and my friends know when to check in on me at the right time it seems, I am so lucky to have such great friends. I really didn't mean for this to turn into one huge totally random paragraph of emotional vents, or to get all gushy at the end. I was just hoping that maybe if I wrote about all the shit I was feeling, some of it would stay on the page and i'd feel a little better... I'm not sure if it worked yet, but I sure wish it were that easy.Jesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01157511425006084437noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863981078100776810.post-19116485449759077832013-03-07T11:42:00.001-07:002013-03-07T11:42:30.051-07:00Day trip to Hagerman, Idaho<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
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<br />Jesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01157511425006084437noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863981078100776810.post-38635014086441355062013-03-04T17:13:00.000-07:002013-03-04T17:13:36.501-07:00wtf lifeI needed somewhere to vent, to get this all out, to say what i'm feeling and let it all go with a huge sigh and let the weight lift off of my body that is so achy and tired. I'm debating not posting it, but what good would that be? How would that help my healing if I don't share what i'm feeling and what is going on in my life. I hurt. My heart aches, my body is sore and i'm exhausted. I found out on Friday that the baby I thought I had been carrying in my womb is actually just a sac, a blighted ovum she called it, there was nothing there. I was measuring a week behind, which means it's stopped growing, I was supposed to be 10 weeks, not 9w1d. I had a feeling earlier in the week, I woke up one morning and I felt normal. All of my pregnancy symptoms were gone, and that worried me. We were so excited and hopeful to see our baby, Stella's sibling, our second child, and the second she touched the wand to my abdomen I knew, I saw nothing, no flicker, just a black hole outlined with gray. I was so thankful for my little girl in that second, she had wanted to nurse, she felt uncertain of the situation, as did I, and she needed to be skin to skin with her mama, I appreciated that so much. I let her lay across me and nurse while the tech checked things out and took picture after picture of nothing, the nothing that was supposed to be our special something. Then the midwife came in, and the tech started over again, showing her the nothing inside of me, and confirming with a second set of eyes what we all already knew, there was no baby.<br />
I've decided to let things happen naturally with my body. I wish there was a switch I could flip to tell it to just flush things out and miscarry already, why delay the inevitable? Maybe it knows that my husband is out of town this week, and I am terrified of going through this alone. Maybe it is waiting until the hormones leave my body completely. Maybe it still thinks it's carrying a baby and supposed to be holding onto it. I want to know why my body is failing me. Why have I had 2 miscarriages in the last 4 months. Why can't I stay pregnant and have a baby? Why did this get so far along and why haven't I miscarried yet, the other 2 I've had were so much earlier and spontaneous. With Stella I did acupuncture through the first trimester, I'm afraid I'll have to go that route again this time, I can't seem to do this on my own for some reason. I can't help feeling defeated. I am healthy, I am young, why do I have a hard time creating a baby? I know I am blessed already, because I have a healthy child, and I know some couples struggle with fertility for years and years and through treatment after treatment, and I don't want to offend or hurt anyone with this post. I just need to process, and get all of my emotions off my chest, and the biggest block in my head right now is what the heck is wrong with my body. I'm so nervous about the what ifs, what if this keeps happening? what if we don't have another baby? what if were meant to have only one child?<br />
I am somewhat comforted and yet concerned by the information Mr. Google gave me about what a blighted ovum is. It is caused by a chromosomal abnormality, which is usually due to missing chromosomes or an incomplete helix. I loved this topic in college and I remember it sort of well, so it was easy for me to understand. Something wasn't right with our chromosomes connecting. That's also what concerns me, why won't our chromosomes mix well? Why can't they form a perfect little human? We are both healthy, and I feel like families who are doing all the right things, eating right, active, good people, those are the ones who struggle, I know so many married couples, happy, hard working, good people, who struggle to conceive, and it's so frustrating. I know eventually I will think positively again, but for now, i'm going to focus on my existing child, not the one i'm hopeful for in the future. I'm going to spoil her this week, not only because it's almost her birthday but because she is very much loved, and she is helping me heal so much more than she knows. She just this minute climbed up next to me and wrapped her little arms around my neck for a tight squeeze, and it made us both smile so big. My heart melts for her, and I am so thankful she is with us.<br />
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Meet Pam and Kyle :) </div>
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Pam is my beautiful and awesome little sister. She moved to Vancouver, WA a few months back, and as soon as she left, we all said (we being my mom and I) that she would meet a guy and fall in love. Welp... It's happened! Kyle and Pam met earlier this summer and well, you know how the saying goes right? It was kinda sorta love at first sight. Both of them knew without a doubt they wanted to be together, and thankfully, neither of them were shy about acting on their love or talking about it. They are in the perfect time of their lives, and fortunately those lives have meshed very well so far. </div>
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Kyle proposed to my little sister on September 18th, and I am so thrilled to say they will be married next August!! I'm so happy for them both, and already truly enjoy Kyle being apart of our family, he is hilarious! I cannot wait to get to know him more, and am so very thankful that my sister found someone who treats her right and that she has fun with, they are actually pretty perfect together. </div>
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My mom and I have both always agreed that Pam would meet someone, fall in love, and get married pretty quick, and, well, we were right! The heart wants what the heart wants, and why waste time with a long engagement if you're both in the right place in your lives? Why not commit to spending the rest of your life with someone who makes you laugh and makes you outrageously happy? You do have the rest of your lives to learn about that person. Heck, Brent and I are celebrating 10 years together this christmas and we're still finding things out about each other! As long as you know the important things thats all that matters. </div>
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Now all you two have to do is take a long multi state road trip! </div>
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I miss my blog. There, I've said it, and I mean it. I miss blogging. I feel like all my time in the evenings now goes to dishes, laundry, crochet, pinterest, and the occasional glass of wine... not all on the same night, but man I feel exhausted at the end of the day, and prefer to do mindless things rather than sit down to type up a post about what's been happening around our home. But I also feel like I miss out on reading friends blogs also, keeping caught up on new babies arrivals, what kids are going to be for halloween, family trips, and just what fun everyone is having in general. So, I think i'm back... I'm not going to set a schedule for myself or push myself to do X amount of posts per week, but I'm definitely going to try to post more regularly from now on. </div>
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We are still nursing as she wishes, and I still love it wholeheartedly. There are times I wish I could go out of town with Brent for a night, but we'll get there. If this is what our girl needs to feel comfortable and happy, then so be it! Having a high needs child has been a learning experience, she is so incredibly smart, and so complex. and what I mean by high needs is that she needs our attention, our love, our involvement in her every minute of existence. She needs to know were paying attention, were around, and that she isn't alone at any time. She doesn't play well alone in her room, she pulls her toys into the kitchen if i'm cleaning, just to be near me, if were in a situation she's uncomfortable with, she immediately sticks her hand down my shirt to check on her "mimi's" and she feels better. If she's tired or doesn't feel well or is hurt, she wants her mimi's also, but just for a minute until she's better. I don't mind this, I actually love that her need to touch skin is her comfort, and that I can still give her comfort by nursing if she needs it. I am so proud of my body and my breasts and the fact that they have grown this child and are her biggest comfort, I can only hope that our next child will get the same amount of time and comfort from them as well. </div>
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We had 18 month photos taken with NHP a few weeks ago and I am in love, as always, with how she captured this little girl. I cannot wait for our family pics sometime later this fall/winter, Brent was out of town this day and couldn't make this mini session. Every session we have with her is so much fun and she is so relaxed and still seems to get the best pictures. I'm lucky to have such an awesome friend and photographer so close by. </div>
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We seem to have travelled a ton this summer, and i'll try to fit a few more photos in of our trips, which included Seattle, Reno/Tahoe, Twin Falls, Portland and several camping trips to the mountains. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Learned how to dribble the ball at Grandma and Grandpa's</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Met her newest cousin Olivia in September</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">She's going to be a fantastic big sister some day</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Helped Grandpa wash the Viper<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdBwduXqXP3F03KwJZkkmBHpkKBCvm5aXd6z3YFdzLxlisrHoWLo96go4FdWIGS3BA4rxWbZRTmqo-i5SGma8ggkJ79xmoV_QiWzDu7zrfDzWF6ymrwGFdo1kpCETSyBCkSZWSQu-g_-Lh/s1600/IMG_1105.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdBwduXqXP3F03KwJZkkmBHpkKBCvm5aXd6z3YFdzLxlisrHoWLo96go4FdWIGS3BA4rxWbZRTmqo-i5SGma8ggkJ79xmoV_QiWzDu7zrfDzWF6ymrwGFdo1kpCETSyBCkSZWSQu-g_-Lh/s640/IMG_1105.JPG" width="478" /></a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWWYxqNhYxoDutFrGiq8b2-Z7CXm0vo-NawjWG5CM2dN6pzMVsyGpWFmzEXkFvG95HVT5WHr04YvANwbojkYtSHexEHfAFdLYP6TiT8z7OdVBYubkUFSkkicZO9JnKI46RHWsiId4EdDx5/s1600/IMG_1012.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWWYxqNhYxoDutFrGiq8b2-Z7CXm0vo-NawjWG5CM2dN6pzMVsyGpWFmzEXkFvG95HVT5WHr04YvANwbojkYtSHexEHfAFdLYP6TiT8z7OdVBYubkUFSkkicZO9JnKI46RHWsiId4EdDx5/s640/IMG_1012.JPG" width="478" /></a><br /><br />Such a great traveller in the car on the 9 hour trip to Tahoe<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJw9InXw-IGRF3rLaX6yzgOFpM7rIsEV2dbmjP7ZWxFAEwYwhZ0wSsCWhegSfoSTk-6PbsvCOe7lsVXSF5zj2gUrNUWPplCTHF8jGyK9MGOaMvkkxgk2IKk2TTkhnoNgLbl2gIvptIcupm/s1600/IMG_1015.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJw9InXw-IGRF3rLaX6yzgOFpM7rIsEV2dbmjP7ZWxFAEwYwhZ0wSsCWhegSfoSTk-6PbsvCOe7lsVXSF5zj2gUrNUWPplCTHF8jGyK9MGOaMvkkxgk2IKk2TTkhnoNgLbl2gIvptIcupm/s640/IMG_1015.JPG" width="640" /></a><br /><br />Big breakfast for a busy girl in Tahoe<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNqdJWase8PIP9CD6dMDp9dj33-X8dZpByyPaZ3OY0VP6YXXpzzaGWLKUX1yj-FrQaSTvlh0B-OFK9wmauBdh5zRiXFouboyDL10DmXA9cTjPolTqn2zuplNRDDxzhKjVtywMNX2ha1EfT/s1600/IMG_1037.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNqdJWase8PIP9CD6dMDp9dj33-X8dZpByyPaZ3OY0VP6YXXpzzaGWLKUX1yj-FrQaSTvlh0B-OFK9wmauBdh5zRiXFouboyDL10DmXA9cTjPolTqn2zuplNRDDxzhKjVtywMNX2ha1EfT/s640/IMG_1037.JPG" width="640" /></a><br /><br />Stopped to play in the Owyhee River on the way home from Tahoe.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqMcUM9Corly5pOTTSWe-mIGmLuipr2Rq_Q1J8YhgB57yR_QWAgNzWjHVp4eJuK1iJWPbngmlo5i43xDx90pIeNYSGPWYbfiFnf6tR039VuWEj4JG0fJ5BEGESc9PoEUyB4l2qait-bTHe/s1600/IMG_1035.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqMcUM9Corly5pOTTSWe-mIGmLuipr2Rq_Q1J8YhgB57yR_QWAgNzWjHVp4eJuK1iJWPbngmlo5i43xDx90pIeNYSGPWYbfiFnf6tR039VuWEj4JG0fJ5BEGESc9PoEUyB4l2qait-bTHe/s640/IMG_1035.JPG" width="478" /></a><br /><br />Perfect. </td></tr>
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Jesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01157511425006084437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863981078100776810.post-14905785761338582642012-07-11T23:08:00.001-06:002012-07-11T23:08:45.965-06:00summer adventures<div style="text-align: justify;">
So I realized something today. It has been over a month since my last post... and today was the first day I really thought about it. I had been needed to take a break and not feel like I *had* to write a post, which I was feeling often over the last few months before taking a break. It's been so nice to step away and be able to come back when I wanted to. So on with our current summer happenings!</div>
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It's HOT!!! We've had record heat over the last week here in Boise, and it's kinda insane... i'm over it. We hit 112 on Monday, today was right at 100, and it's supposed to carry on like this for another week! Thank goodness we get to take a break this weekend and go to Seattle for my company picnic and some time with family. Our home does not have A/C and I have never wished for it before this week, we have a stand up unit that is constantly running in our bedroom and I've set up fans to push it down the hall to the living room, but it only lasts so long before the heat from outside permeates the windows and doors. It's so tough being cooped up, Stell hates being inside all day, so we try to play outside early for a few hours before closing up the house and hibernating in doors, the back deck is just too hot to play on, and even if I keep the pool in the shade it's too warm to hang out there much more than half an hour or so. Parks are out of the question in this heat also, so were stuck making frequent trips to the grocery store and walking around the mall if we want out. Thankfully we have a few friends who've invited us over this week to play in their a/c. </div>
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In June Brent got sent on a long work trip to Wyoming, and Stell and I got to go with him! We had such a great time, although it was a lot of long driving, but baby girl did so well in the truck! We went to Pinedale, Wy, which is an adorable little town about an hour past the turn off to Jackson Hole. We didn't have any extra time to make our way up to Jackson, but definitely want to go back soon! It was beautiful! Stell and I spent an afternoon playing at a neat park in Pinedale while waiting for Brent to get done on his job site, then we loaded back up and drove to Montpelier, Idaho... whoop whoop! haha there really isn't anything exciting around Montpelier, unfortunately, and the babe and I were stranded there for a full day while Brent visited two jobs... Thankfully the town has a big park and Oregon trail museum, with a cool actor portrayed tour that took up almost an hour! They also have an elementary school within walking distance of the big park, so we went back and forth a few times to enjoy the different toys. Stell napped on my back in the wrap a few times thankfully, so she wasn't super cranky for most of the day. But it also meant that she didn't end up sleeping on the drive home until we were only about an hour out of Boise... it's 5+ hours from Monpelier to Boise... so we had 4 hours of a very moody/cranky/over being in the car baby. We had a really great trip though, and will do that drive again one day! But we'll be sure to pack three times the amount of books and toys :) Enjoy some pics from our trip below, </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The squirrels in this park in Idaho Falls were SUPER friendly, no fear of coming right up to us and asking for food! good thing I had 12 grain bread to share... </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We stayed at the Hampton inn, Pinedale, and it was fantastic!! The whole area is beautiful, and this hotel was only a few years old, had a great pool to play in, was on the edge of town, and had beautiful views... this one is from our room! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">She was SO excited to go swimming!! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Playing at the park in Pinedale, we just wandered the grass and trees and played, she loves roaming and checking out new things. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">and they had a small ampatheatre that was great for climbing up and down repeatedly. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I had a lot of time to take pictures from the truck, and the views were incredible the whole way. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">She was a fantastic traveler! Especially if we hit nap times </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Eating dinner one night at Lott's diner, Stell ate like a champ at this place thankfully</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I need to keep an eye out on ebay for these cool metal horseswings, she wouldnt get off them!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">So fun!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">sign to Jackson! one day I will get to go there... </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Afton, Wyoming, one of the coolest town entrances I've ever seen... it's all elk antlers! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">beautiful rolling hills on the way to Montpelier, Idaho</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Standing at the tallest point above Montpelier, Idaho, Bear Lake is in the distant background</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">So happy to be helping daddy, we had to go up and check out one of his job site's the night before we had to be there, It was a long drive up but had amazing views once we got there. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"here are some rock samples dad!"</td></tr>
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Have you heard of One Soul Revolution? Well, you should have. They are a fantastic start up clothing company that is spreading positive messages of love and equality through their clothing and work throughout the community. Another cool fact is that one of the owners is a friend of mine, and is a wonderful person with a huge heart. Currently they are looking for donors to help get the next leg of their business off the ground. They need to raise funds to be able to buy larger quantities of shirts, inks, and eco friendly equipment, and to help with the overall costs of running a company. So, are you interested? Want to help!? I know you do, so here is the link to make a donation to One Soul Revolutions cause, help them become something more, help spread the message of a great company. <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/onesoulrevolution/one-soul-revolution-clothing">http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/onesoulrevolution/one-soul-revolution-clothing</a> </div>
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<br /></div>Jesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01157511425006084437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863981078100776810.post-39640951970361108252012-05-18T12:56:00.003-06:002012-05-18T12:56:41.898-06:00What we've been up to<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
I thought i'd share some of what we've been enjoying around here as of late, it's been so beautiful out, so warm, and we just cant seem to get enough time outside. Our garden is in full bloom, we've even been able to enjoy a few fresh strawberries, Stella really enjoys picking and eating those, it's amazing how happy a fresh berry can make this girl. Have I mentioned what all were growing this year? We'll here's a list, Lettuce... which grows like a weed here, we have already almost harvested all the heads and they are now growing back!, potatoes, snap peas, tomatoes, onions, carrots, broccoli, sugar baby watermelons, green squash, yellow squash, okra, chives, sage, basil, rosemary, parsley, cilantro, and thyme! Our garden is huge and packed this year and I love it! In years past I've been wary of over planting things, but this year I actually sat down with my vegetable gardeners bible book, read through every veggie we wanted to plant, and figured out what to plant when and where, and my goodness our garden is thriving! We also turned in a bunch of compost and Starbucks coffee grinds (magic black richness!) to get our soil into better shape, because it's very clayey and rocky. So anywho, our garden is pretty awesome, Stell loves it, and so do we. </div>
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We've been enjoying a lot of yogurt pops here also, Stell digs em, she'll sit and eat an entire pop usually! Especially on a warmer day, she loves them, she also loves painting the deck with the last bit if she's done, so our deck has been getting washed a lot haha. she's actually a pretty good pop eater, I know every kid is messy, but Stell seems to get most of it in her mouth instead of all over her, she gets a very minimal amount on her face, as you can see below, clean up is usually just a spray of the hose, which she loves.</div>
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Here are the strawberries!! Stell cant stay out of them, we've lost quite a few flowers and green buds to her over excitement about the berries, she'll learn. </div>
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More pops! and see our garden in the background!?! the big stuff is broccoli, no heads yet but they will show up soon we hope. and below is the lettuce, herb, and strawberry beds, the planter next to me is filled with cilantro and parsley, yum! my face isnt the best haha, but Stell's is priceless! she was hamming it up for dad with the camera! </div>
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<br />Jesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01157511425006084437noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863981078100776810.post-72177337500834915662012-05-14T10:44:00.003-06:002012-05-14T10:44:57.217-06:00Giveaway ApologiesI have to apologize to all who entered my Velata giveaway over the past two weeks. I was notified by another consultant that my giveaway was out of compliance with the new Scentsy Family rules for offering giveaways. We are not allowed to offer any public giveaways of any kind anymore, Which I thought meant Facebook. I personally think of my blog as a private forum, but since it is through blogger and can easily be found, it is a public forum. I am sorry for the turn of events, and that I can no longer offer this item in a giveaway. I do hope you'll forgive my misunderstanding of our rules, They were recently changed several times and I must not have fully understood their new meaning.<br />
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JessicaJesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01157511425006084437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863981078100776810.post-74637361238590118322012-04-30T14:50:00.000-06:002012-04-30T14:50:33.599-06:00Home SickWell what a better time to write a post than while snuggling a sick kiddo? Stella picked up a wicked case of hand, foot and mouth virus last weekend while out and about, we've narrowed it down to 2 possible locations, an indoor play place here in Boise that we were at for the Great Cloth Diaper Change, or the fountain downtown at the market that Stella spent two hours with some friends playing in... I guess it's going around Boise like wildfire, it just sucks because we wouldn't normally have gone to a place like that except for the event, and even worse is Brent really wanted to take Stella hiking that day instead, so we couldn't have avoided this entire thing had I not pushed him to go :( I feel so bad! Stell is miserable, rash all over her butt and legs, white pussy bumps on her throat, bumps on her hands and one arm, she had a nasty fever of 102 for almost 2 days... its been fun. The other awesome part? Its SUPER contagious.... So we don't get to go anywhere for at least 10 days, then it can stay in her body and expose others through poop for 2 months after! So every batch of diapers is getting double washed in hot water, then a bleach cycle afterwards to disinfect the washer.... this is going to be awesome trying to keep it from coming back. We've been disinfecting everything... all her toys, clothes, bedding, all our clothes and bedding, the furniture..... everything, and we will continue to do so throughout the week. So for now, we play inside, watching movies throughout the day, trying to get her to eat (which isn't as easy as it should be with a sore throat) and drink, and allowing her to be naked as much as she can be. I'm hoping the sun comes back out so we can play outside this week, but it's chilly today, so we stay inside. If any of you have dealt with this before, i'd love any feedback you have! or home remedies to make this clear up faster?!? I've been a googling fool, but there really isn't anymore to it than letting it run it's course for 7-10 days and keeping her comfortable and happy... great. Since we probably wont have any fun things happening this week, here is a little of what we did last week, before she was sick with a super-contagious-not-so-fun disease.....<br />
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<br />Jesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01157511425006084437noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863981078100776810.post-77184148554690503662012-04-26T10:24:00.000-06:002012-04-26T10:24:54.833-06:001 year photos with NHP<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
Here they are finally, a month later than I would have liked to post these, but this little girl pictured here has been keeping me super busy! Even now as I type I have her draped across my lap nursing happily and kicking her feet to the blog music, this girl is ALWAYS going haha. I have more photos that i'll share soon, but these are some of my favorites, she was super happy for most of this shoot thankfully, we have more smiles from these pictures than all of her other shoots combined! Nikki did an awesome job, as usual, and we cannot wait to have our family pics taken with her this summer! I'll sit down today and write an actual post, a lot has been going on around here and I feel an update is needed, for me personally, I just need to write. I hope you are all still watching out for posts, I do apologize for not being around very much, I haven't even been able to keep up with my favorite blogs, let alone my own, it's rather sad to me, but that's the life of a busy mama huh. Part of the time issue is that Stella still isn't sleeping well on her own, were working on it, and hopefully she'll start sleeping through the night soon, instead of waking up 3-4 times to nurse... it's wearing on me after almost 14 months without 1 full night of sleep. I keep telling Brent i'm going to leave her with him for 2 nights and check into a hotel to catch up, one day I might actually do it too! </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I LOVE this photo! It truly captures Stella, slight smile, big blue eyes studying all you do, and you can just see the wheels turning in her head, she has this contemplative and sly look on all the time, I love it. </td></tr>
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<br />Jesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01157511425006084437noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863981078100776810.post-90488006895748140372012-04-10T15:00:00.001-06:002012-04-10T15:00:24.670-06:00Quick check inOnce again I'm failing at posting. I get daily reminders from my mom that i need to update, so here's a quick update. Were currently in Seattle for our week long Easter visit. Abby, Stella and I drove over last week and head back Friday, with a stop over in Portland to visit my sister. Brent flew over for the weekend but was back to work bright and early Monday. We miss him a ton but it's nice having time with family. Stell had a wonderful Easter filled with food, family and friends, egg hunts, bubbles, and lots of walking!!! Girlfriend is a pro now, she goes all over, rarely crawls as of yesterday, prefers to hold a finger on longer jaunts, and is getting better and turning and going in a specific direction. It's scary and awesome all at once, I'm always afraid she's going to fall and skin a knee or chin, or take a header into the table, but she smiles when she falls and seems to be aware of the tables and hard surfaces at forehead height. I cannot believe we have a full on walker now, my baby is growing up!! <br />
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Stell also traveled like a champ this trip! Abby was as awful as usual, iLife don't think she'll be coming on trips I my car anymore, she does so much better in her kennel in the truck, no issues with her there, but in my car she paces and wants out and tries to break through the gate, I just feel terrible for how anxious she gets, and nothing seems to have worked yet to calm her. we've tried several herbal remedies and treats and I'm really thinking that a tranquilizer is needed. Poor pup. At least I know stell is getting used to he long trip, thank goodness! <br />
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I have pictures from stellas 1 year photoshops with nhp, they are amazing as always. I'll get them posted soon, hopefully tonight. And I'll try to post more often also, I hate when the crickets start singing on here ;) Jesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01157511425006084437noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4863981078100776810.post-30008039889388084132012-03-14T12:54:00.002-06:002012-03-14T12:54:56.150-06:00Stell eats cake!!I put together a little slide show of Stella's first experience with birthday cake, it was pretty awesome. I knew she was going to actually eat in, not just play in it, so we only gave her a cupcake, and? I was right! she ate pretty much the whole thing. Sugar high doesn't even begin to describe the giggles that came afterwards, and the no nap all afternoon... and then her crashing in the swing for 2 hours. She was wiped! It was so fun to watch her eat the cupcake, I really wish we would have taken a video of it, I don't know why we didn't! we'll have to make sure we video her eating one again soon, it's too funny to pass up! The slideshow is a little long, sorry about that, I'm still learning how to work photoshop... but there are some pretty funny pictures of her big smiles and squinty eyes throughout it. Oh, and pardon all the beer bottles :)<br />
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I just found out about this meetup and I'm so excited to possibly be able to go! How fun would it be to meet other bloggers in my area? We'll, sorta my area, i'm a few hours away, but I think I can make the trip! Thankfully my sister just moved to the Portland area and I now have a place to stay and someone who loves hanging with Stella!! I think i'll pencil this in and make the trek West this summer, it wont be the first trip I have planned there in the coming months, but I sure am excited for it!! Do you live in the PNW?? want to go? Go visit <a href="http://thepapermama.com/2012/03/wordlessish-wednesday-pacific-northwest-blogger-meet-up.html">Chelsey @ the paper mama</a> for more info on this fun night out! </div>
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We had an awesome birthday party this past weekend for Stella, with family and friends joining us it couldnt have been a better day! Except it was! We had SUNSHINE!!! it was about 65 and sunny, a little breezy, and the sun didnt last all day, but it lasted long enough to enjoy an outdoor bbq and fun in the back yard! Here are a few photos of the day, My mom was so great and handled the camera the whole day, snapping the best pictures of Stella and letting me be mom for the day, i'm actually in a lot of the pictures this time!! Thanks mom!!</div>
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