so.....

Monday I had a doc. appt. and he checked me and I was at a 5 and the baby was floating...which means if my water broke and the cord got in front of the baby, not good. So he told me to arrange things and go over to the hospital and get my water broke! I was seriously hoping he'd say that! Cuz I wasn't supposed to be induced till tomorow! anywho...he broke my water around 1:30, we walked around to get things goin better, started pushin at 6 and he was here at 6:20! It was amazing compared to the other two! Here's a few pix from the hospital....Oh ya the stats...he weighed 7lbs 14 oz and was 19 3/4 in long! good thing i had him 2 weeks early!

Preggo update

Just so you're not in the dark, which you may want to be...I had a doctor's appt on monday and he refuses to check me for fear of putting me into labor(I was a 3 5.5wks ago) Maybe that's why I want him to check geez! He is going to for sure induce me on the 28th...2.5 wks! I have been extremely sore and so far the baby has measured 2 wks big every time. I'm really crossing my fingers that maybe just maybe this will go sooner. I know I already get a week sooner, don't be greedy, but all you that have ever been preggo knows what's goin on!

The theft of Chocolate....

So, yesterday morning I went out to water the grass in the backyard and feed the dog. Well she usually comes right out of wherever she's at but sometimes she doesn't so I didn't think anything of it for the first little bit. But when I called her and she didn't come then I went looking in all the places she likes to hide...under the slide, in the tomato plants...nowhere. So I go around the whole perimeter of our yard like a hundred times to see if she got out somewhere, there was no holes and our gate was still shut tight. So I called Clint, my mom, and Jodi(she got us the puppy in the first place) to get some advice on what to do, which there wasn't really anything I could do. Someone had stole Chocolate.

Now we had some suspicions of the neighbor kids doing it because about a month ago they would climb up on the back fence about 30 minutes after me and Clint had turned out the lights and quietly whistle to the puppy. Then for about 4 nights straight they would throw fire crackers in our back yard. But when I wanted to do something about it Clint assured me they were just bored neighbor kids trying to get a rise out of us and if we did something about it then they knew it worked so they would try something else...ignorance is bliss right?

Back to Chocolate...so I went out to move the water and saw one of them in thier backyard and figured I could just ask them if they happened to see a little brown puppy but when I put the chair up the teenage kid was in his underwear letting his dog out to do it's business and I figured that if they had the puppy it would be out also, not that i sat there and looked real good cuz I didn't want the kid to see me looking in thier backyard with him in his underwear....

So I just left it be and I was going to print out flyers to put on the mailboxes around the neiborhood. 30 minutes later there was a knock at the door and low and behold it was one of the neibor kids...hmmm. He had "accidently" thown his football in our backyard and wanted me to get it so I went back and got it. Then me being the dork that I am(the neibors are black)said that we had lost our BLACK puppy(she's brown)then corrected myself and said well she's almost black she's dark brown....I'm such a dork, I was thinking that this kid was a really dark kid, I mean he was almost black( i'm not racist promise he was really nice) then he told me that they would keep an eye out for the puppy and left.

Then about 3 hours later...2ish there was another knock at our door and the kids had our puppy...hmmm convenient...and said that they had found her down the street...and she didn't have either of her collars, which there was no way she could have got them off because one of them was getting tight and I couldn't loosen the dang thing and was going to have Clint help me when he got a chance. then I told them that I'm surprised they found her because we thought someone had stole her... Then they sat there at my door for like 30 minutes while I talked and they didn't say a whole lot...they were wanting some kind of reward. Then they asked me if she was a lab(their dog is a male lab, convenient) and I told them no she was a german shorthair pointer...then I told them my suspicions of someone stealing her because there was no way she could have got out and that I was going to get her microchipped so that if someone did steal her again then we could find her. Anyways I finally just said that if there was anything i could do for them to let me know so that they would leave my house.

The reason this made me so mad is cuz this puppy is actually a pretty good puppy and not as abnoxious as the normal puppy...anyways...kids are bored and crazy, watch your dogs and for bored kids in the neighborhood.

pretty good...

This is written by a young man serving his third tour of duty in Iraq.

Thought you might find his take on the Michael Jackson news interesting.

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Okay, I need to rant.

I was just watching the news, and I caught part of a report on Michael
Jackson. As we all know, Jackson died the other day. He was an
entertainer who performed for decades. He made millions, he spent
millions, and he did a lot of things that make him a villian to many
people. I understand that his death would affect a lot of people, and I
respect those people who mourn his death, but that isn't the point of my
rant.

Why is it that when ONE man dies, the whole of America loses their minds
with grief. When a man dies whose only contribution to the country was
to ENTERTAIN people, the Amercian people find the need to flock to a
memorial in Hollywood, and even Congress sees the need to hold a "moment
of silence" for his passing?

Am I missing something here? ONE man dies, and all of a sudden he's a
freaking martyr because he entertained us for a few decades? What about
all those SOLDIERS who have died to give us freedom? All those Soldiers
who, knowing that they would be asked to fight in a war, still raised
their hands and swore to defend the Constitution and the United States
of America. Where is their moment of silence? Where are the people
flocking to their graves or memorials and mourning over them because
they made the ultimate sacrifice? Why is it when a Soldier dies, there
are more people saying "good riddence," and "thank God for IEDs?" When
did this country become so calloused to the sacrifice of GOOD MEN and
WOMEN, that they can arbitrarily blow off their deaths, and instead,
throw themselves into mourning for a "Pop Icon?"

I think that if they are going to hold a moment of silence IN CONGRESS
for Michael Jackson, they need to hold a moment of silence for every
service member killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. They need to PUBLICLY
recognize every life that has been lost so that the American people can
live their callous little lives in the luxury and freedom that WE, those
that are living and those that have gone on, have provided for them.
But, wait, that would take too much time, because there have been so
many willing to make that sacrifice. After all, we will never make
millions of dollars. We will never star in movies, or write hit songs
that the world will listen too. We only shed our blood, sweat and tears
so that people can enjoy what they have.

Sorry if I have offended, but I needed to say it. Remember these five
words the next time you think of someone who is serving in the military;

"So that others may live..."

Isaac

Baby stuff....

So, I have been really sore, which for me isn't the norm because I didn't get sore at all with my other two until like the last 2 weeks. plus, i dilated early with both of them, not too early, Cole i was a 3 the last 3 weeks and chloe i was a 4 when i had two weeks left...so, we were supposed to go pick melissa up on saturday from the airport and me and clint were going to take advantage of the situation and have one last getaway. but since i have been so sore and all i had a quick doctors appt. for him to check me just to be sure. well, i'm already at a 3 which at this point is too early. I'm supposed to go get 4 steroid shots just in case and take it easy. I'm going to start going once a week to make sure i don't dilate more. technically i'm 32 weeks but since I was measuring big they moved my date up a week but they have moved it back now just to keep up on the babies developement. Since he is measuring big and all i think that he'll come early. due dates can be up to 4 weeks off and since i have been measuring 3 weeks big it's prob. off just a little. sorry about all the babling, i'm not too good at explaining things but you should get the jist of things.

Cole and Chocolate

No we're not talking about melt in your mouth kind of chocolate we're talkin about a dog. The other day Jodi came over with her big old bag and told Cole that he had left something at her house...well he goes over and looked and was all "a puppy?" He was a little confused but loved her. He left after about 20 min. to go with brock to the mountains and was asking when they were coming back so he could play with her. He didn't name her until sunday when his cousins came over and he decided on chocolate...She's a german short hair pointer mixed with something else. She got blue eyes and is so cute. Chloe doesn't really like her but she is for Cole....

more mountains...

On thursday we took the kids up to play and then my mom said that if Cole wanted Brock wasn't coming up until Saturday and cole could go with him and stay the night. So I sent the camera and Cole had a blast! He caught the only fish and was quite proud of himself. We went up on Sunday morning to go to the church up at columbine and when we came back there was a bear! so crazy. Cole kept sayin, "um i don't want to get out here." He kept askin if Clint was going to shoot it with his gun. He sure kept a look out for that bear, it was hilarious.