Happy Halloween

Some pictures from when Jordan and Val were visting us

Adelynn Janae Fauver

tummy time

(yeah not the biggest fan)

she is so funny, she sleeps like this almost every time :)

I made that bow, not my best one ever, but she does not seem to mind much

OK so i don't just let my dog climb around her but I wanted anna to see this new person hanging around so she wouldn't be so curious.

I've been thinking

Tonight like the last few nights I've sat up with my little baby girl thinking about my life and rocking her to sleep. In my mind I was going through everything from my experiences as a little kid, up til now in my life and I was thinking about how some of my choices for good or for bad really landed me where I am today. . . I guess I bring this subject up because I find it hard (sometimes) to think about the past even though I may not have any real regrets its hard to think back because you get the bad with the good. But I also realize at the same time that the past makes you who you are, and all those lessons learned made me who I am and for that I am grateful, its just not always easy to think about. I literally thank the lord every night that even though I made allot of dumb mistakes and I was foolish that my bad decisions and good decisions = out to me having the life I have today. This song by Carrie Underwood spells out everything I've been trying to say tonight. I love this song, its called "lessons Learned" you can find it on my play list at the bottom of this page if you are interested in listening. I highly recommend it.

recovering

Labor was 37 hours with Adelynn although, I have to say it did not start to feel really bad until my water broke much later in the game. Thank goodness for epidurals they are the best!!! No offence to anyone out there who had a "natural child birth" with no pain killers whatsoever, I don't understand you. The pain killers were awesome and made the experience so much more comfortable and I was better able to focus on the labor than on the labor pains. :) I just have to say that so far in my life nothing has or will top having a child. It is so beautiful. I wouldn't say the afterbirth is lol but, having the child and seeing them after all the pain and the long months of waiting, well its just overwhelming how happy you are. Nothing tops it.
Recovering hasn't been much fun, there is allot more to it than I originally thought especially because I had not taken into account I would be recovering with all the late nights and early, early mornings but its all worth it when you see your happy baby looking back up at you.
I still have a while to go as far as recovering, I'm very tired most of the time and I don't feel like doing much except holding and feeding the baby and of course sleeping. But its getting better all the time and I'm so happy I hardly notice that I'm tired some days. Its amazing how that happens. Babies are the best.

Our new life

Adelynn Janae Fauver

Born: October 6th 2009

at 8:23 pm

5 pounds 11 ounces

More random pictures. Sorry they aren't the best pictures I've ever taken. I'm such a long way off from being professional I know that... anyway I just wanted them to be special for you.
I hope you like some of them. :)

Austin and sarahs wedding

I love you guys so much! I am so glad I was able to be with you on your special day!

Time is running out

So I just want to thank my sister in laws for their comments on my last post it really made me very happy! I love you both so much!

SOOO I found out today that I will be induced either Sunday (whenever) or first thing Monday! The Doctor is trying to get me worked into the hospital he says they have been very busy over there and so anyways he has me on "stand by" so I'm packing my bags and trying not to freak out til then! :) Man I could really use some help some female help to help me decorate the baby's room because it's really not done at all! And I'm worried. Of course. lol

Thank goodness though for my mom she organized all the clothes and hung up many things for me but I worry about the furniture and curtains etc cause they are sort of just lying on her floor not hung or put together. Oh well. I'm doing the best I can with what I got here. :)

I am oh so excited for little Adelynn to be here and she will be so little I can't believe how little she will be it blows my mind! I always thought I would have some 10 pound baby but she will be a teeny weenie little five something baby! & I've been reassured that even though that is very small it wont really affect her health. Wheew.

Anyway, Joel and I just barely got our Internet and cable set up in our home so I can blog again. Hence me on here the last couple of days! he he It has not been fun being away especially because I've been down resting allot but I have to say in that time period I've gotten allot of good out of it. Sure my life has been super quiet but I've gotten allot of reading and scripture study done. I've wrote in my diary which I've always up til now, been so bad about!

I don't know in some ways it has not been fun, but in other ways it has been great.

& I'm sure I will be missing the naps, the reading and time to myself to think when the baby is screaming for me lol. yay!

I've been away from the computer from allot of things in my life lately.
I've been on bed rest and I've been to the doctors multiple times a week for the past couple of months. thats really been my life thus far. I'm just trying to stay healthy. Its really getting down to the wire now... the doctor will let me know (hopefully) tommorrow when he will induce me.
Ahh man I just can't wait to meet our girl and I can't wait to have this stress of bed rest and worry about her health and mine to be over. I know I will find new ways to be worried, (I'm very good at that lol) but at least it won't be majorly for her health and well being. I really hope though that I don't have a long recovery because of the preeclampsia but I fear I will, just simply because they will probably put me on meds for my kidneys and liver, but hey I really can't know anything for sure.

I do know one thing for sure though and that's how much I love my Savior and how much closer I've grown to him in the past little while... I know its kind of random but I just sort of wanted to bear my testimony even if its not much. more than anything else in my life the savior has helped me to feel peace when nothing else could have. I do know that he his aware of me and my little family & our needs and he has sent people into our lives to help bless us when we needed it the most. He has done it time and time again. I have felt of his love and his love for my child and I just want to say that in my life I've never been so scared and so stressed out but I've never felt so much peace when I pray and try to have the spirit with me. I know he wants us to come unto him and when we do he blesses us and comforts us. He is just eagerly awaiting us to call on him. The lord lives and loves us and even when things don't go the way that we plan and hope for. He is always there to go though it all with us and help us to grow and understand why we are going though whatever it is that we are going though. He is my best friend he is everything in my life, I am so grateful for him every second.
I know that I couldn't have made it thus far in my life without him.

fun times

SO...

I am now a three day a week-er at my doctors office.

Lol I must come in at least two - three times a week for blood pressure checks ( & most likely getting my blood drawn too afterward.)

Not to mention the once a week actual "doctors appointment" where I get to be examined.

But he checks up on me every time anyway, I almost never go without seeing the doctor.

I must say though that I'm glad I chose the doctor I did, he's very kind and concerned and I feel like he knows who I am and is glad I'm there so he can help me.

I have allot of confidence in what he says which I can't say about most doctors I've been to throughout my life.

Anyways,

So there's the update for you...

I am actually waiting as we speak, for a phone call telling me whether or not I need to go (once again) to the hospital lab and get some more tests done.

I have a feeling I'll be doing the same tests over and over again until the very end. I really do have all the fun. lol

busy

Or not busy.


I learned from my last doctors appointment that I could very well have a chance at getting preclampsia. I had protein in the urine and high blood pressure and Excessive swelling of the feet and hands. So the last few days I've really tried to lay low.
I've also had a couple of trips to the hospital for further monitoring and steroid shots.
My doctor says that I just need to hang out and really stay off my feet. & so far the results have been beautiful. I will update you more as it progresses, I am praying and trying hard to keep from getting sick.

Birthday and home make-over

A few of the "Before"

The Shower doors are icky, we can't take them out unfortunately because we would have to buy a new bath tub and walls as a result but we are going to cover them up with a lovely shower curtains. We are ordering a shower rod just gotta wait until it gets here!The icky Vanity from the 7o's I can't wait until that gets pulled out!
cute little sink

The bathroom walls and window's before paint and new blinds.

Gross back doors! Seriously I gaged so many times while cleaning it and painting it over.

The end.

A few" In Progress" pictures!

Kitchen window after some crisp white paint, looks a million times better!

The hall way we are painting

Guest bedroom

Well.... there you go.

Painting the trim work

The landing being painted!

The newly painted closet doors to our room!

Anna enjoying her new yard!

lol she was rolling around in the grass for like twenty minutes on her back

and then decided to just lay there afterwards.

Such a goofball.

The back doors after.

You woulden't believe the difference!

One of the bedrooms

Our home so far...

These are a couple of pictures of our on going painting and construction of our new home.

In these pictures we had just barely painted the living room & entry way walls.

All this was a day ago.

Today the trim work is nearly complete and the all the baseboards, doorways and windows been painted white downstairs.

Dinning room.

That window is no longer that ugly brown it has a pretty white trim.

Caution:

These are BEFORE

pictures of our home they

may hurt your eyes!!

Click on the picture to get a good look

Ewww...

(& gross not my furniture!)

Old cabinets that need some decorating!!

Old Sixties style flooring.

Just looks dirty all the time.

Yup.

Getting it ripped up on Thursday.

& yes it reeked of kitty litter.

Look at this door...

the lady who was in the home before us said she made it look "vintage"

looks more like to me she had her kids wipe bleach and left over lunch on the poor old door. Gross.

Kitty litter in the living room??

What the heck!?

That the most sicknast thing I've ever seen!

That's our home so far in BEFORE and AFTER :)

I'll keep you posted pretty much daily about changes

cause there's a whole lot more to come!