So, since blogger wasn't letting me post photos the other day, it looks like it'll work now... YAY! So, here's some photos from my test boudoir party!
I LOVE LOVE LOVE how they turned out. Of course there was a TON more than what you see here but I'm showing my favs!
So the whole idea is that you get a group of your girlfriends together and I come to YOUR house and we do a shoot with everyone. Kind of like a tupperware party or a passion party! So you invite your friends and everyone pays a fee.. so if it was like 8 people, they'd each pay like $25 and you'd get yours free for being the host! Cute idea, right?
And everyone gets their photos edited on a CD for that price! LOVE it!
So, I wrote a huge post on saturday and yeah, my internet was SUCKING so it didn't save it and when I clicked save, GONE! POOF! ugh.. I was so mad.
So, after installing a new modem/router combo, and calling cox cable who still sucked, but whatever... It looks like it might be working good. I had the new modem forever, but I hate calling cox, cause well, they suck. So, on with it...
I did a photo session with a newborn baby on sunday. They're friends of ours. She is just so darn precious. Didn't help my baby fever one bit!
I'm really excited to be pregnant. I think mainly for my New Husbands side of the family. Of course they weren't around for me being pregnant with Nolyn, or for when Aiden was first placed with me. So, it's exciting. His family REALLY wants a grandbaby. I mean they already have the boys who of course they consider their grandkids, BUT, it's a different feeling and connection to feel the baby moving in my belly, to see one born, and to snuggle with that fresh baby smell, and watch him/her (hopefully HER) grow up from day one. That will be a spoiled baby for sure! :D
The baby above, her dad's pretty gangster, lol, so he requested the bandana diaper cover as a must! lol!
I <3 this one. So much love!
So anyways, I spent my sunday doing their shoot and then the bulk of sunday editing them cause I just love baby shoots so much I couldn't wait!
Of course the parents love them! :D I'm so glad! I was really excited with how some of them turned out!
well, at least we hope that's how it works, right?
I already have two children from my previous marriage, one I foster-adopted and one biological, both boys. Now of course my new husband has taken over the Daddy role, as their "old" daddy (as they call him) thinks 10 hours a month and $150 in child support is being a dad. Nice, huh?
So, we're almost to our 1 month of marriage mark!
Before marriage, we had discussed doing things backwards and adding a new munchkin to our clan first, but we decided to go the "right" route and give our family the big wedding they wanted and then work on kids.
It took me 2.5 years to get pregnant with my bio son. So of course we enter this journey with worries of infertility... And we didn't really want the kids all too far apart. If we could get pregnant any time soon it'd be ideal. My oldest son just started kindergarten, my youngest son will start kinder next year, so it would give me the nice along bonding time with the baby that I missed with my youngest son.
And hopefully it's a girl! lol! But we won't get into that!
So, this was our first month officially "trying." I had an IUD for about 3 years which cause MAJOR heavy 5 day periods *sorry tmi* and horrible cramps and after 3 years I was more than happy to be rid of it! It did it's job well but it was definitely time to part ways.
So thanks to my period tracker app, it's easy to track when my ovulation is and period should be expected.... all that fun stuff. So, last week was our baby dancing time and we did well. every other day which was what my fertility doctor had suggested when I was trying with my ex. Plus I think EVERY day is a little over kill and tends to stress and burn you out and I think thats what causes a lot of the fights and emotional part of infertility. Feels so much more like a chore when you HAVE to do it. If we couldn't do it, I didn't freak and I really just enjoyed it and didn't think of it any different.
So, we shall see what comes of this month. We've got a few months now without using protection and didn't get pregnant but we didn't go anywhere near ovulation so we stayed pretty safe.
I think maybe I'm a little more optimistic getting pregnant this time because I've gotten pregnant and stayed pregnant, so I know it's possible for me and I think the first time it was all the unknowns!
Our family is pretty excited about the thought of a new baby... especially since the boys are FAR from babies anymore, so everyone can't wait to snuggle up with a fresh little bundle of joy!
The wedding turned out amazing! i couldn't have imagined it being any more beautiful!
I can't wait to get the pictures back from our photographer! It's taking FOREVER! It's been almost 3 weeks now and I'm so excited.
Pretty much the only way life could get any better would be if I was 50lbs lighter and pregnant! lol Oh, and maybe if we had some more money but that will come too.
Nolyn, My Almost-4-year-old has turned into a fish!
That's right, he's learning how to swim! Although now he's so confident he scares the poop out of me, I'm so proud of him! Aiden's still a little to chicken to really get into it, but hopefully we'll get some swim lessons this summer and he'll be good!
To some kids 5 is no big deal, but Aiden had a rough start.
I adopted Aiden. I was his foster Mother (his 3rd foster mother) and got him at 3 months old. Aiden had a rough start. Aiden was taken away from his biological mother at birth. He and his mother both tested positive for Crystal Meth when he was born. He was actually born on the floor of a garage that was turned into a meth lab. His mother didn't know she was pregnant and thought she had to poop, after going to the bathroom and nothing coming out with bad cramping she came out and told the other people present to call an ambulance, by the time the ambulance had arrived she had already given birth on the floor, so they took her and Aiden to the hospital.
When a child tests positive for drugs they are taken away from their mother immediately. He was put into foster care, and went to two other families in our agency before we got him. By the time he was 6 months old, his mother still hadn't completed the courts requirements to get him back (go to rehab) and her parental rights were terminated. She tried to appeal and the state went to trial with her, which we attended. His bio father even came out of the works for a while and requested paternity and claimed he and his extended family wanted Aiden, but when it came down to it, he never showed up for the trial. Too little too Late, his mom decided to attend rehab a month after her deadline. Finally right before Aiden's first birthday her appeal was denied at trial and we were officially granted permission to adopt him.
His adoption was final right before his 4th birthday.
When we got Aiden, we were told her had all kinds of "problems." They said he was blind, they said he had digestion problems, his head was even flat in back from previous families just having him lay around and never holding him.
Miraculously we took him for all his appointments the week we got him and he did not have ONE SINGLE PROBLEM (besides the head shape, but that has fixed itself over time just from not being on it so much after we got him). His vision has become perfect!
Of course since then throughout the almost 5 years he's been in my care, other things have come up related to the drug use during pregnancy... He has dental issues, he has very weak teeth. Him and my bio son have always had the exact same dental care, I brush their teeth, but no matter what, he just has one problem after another. And now we're facing some behavior issues, mainly being he's constantly hyper and never stops moving, but that's typical of half the boys his age I know. lol
No matter what, he's my son and I love him with all my heart. I still can't believe he's been through so much in his short life, but I'm so glad I was able to give him a better life and hopefully he'll never remember the bad stuff early on.
I do have a GIGANTIC stack of state records on his mother, on what happened, police reports, court transcripts. All that he will be able to see when he's old enough to understand and WANTS to know what happened.
I'll leave you with some video's from his 5th birthday party on June 6th. He has the best reactions to his presents on the first video!
I'm still baffled how I don't work, and my kids aren't in school, and yet I STILL get a case of the Mondays, EVERY monday.
Ugh... My plan was to go to the gym every day during the week, but today's Jareds day off from work so of course I'd rather stay home with him. Of course my kidlets wanted to go so they could go play with the kids but oh well... tomorrow! :D
Today I woke up and my hair was a mess (thanks to yesterdays pool day), my back hurt, and I couldn't stop yawning.
I think I'm gonna call it another pool day and relax.
After all the emotional drama from being depressed about wedding money and stuff... ugh.. just not in the mood.
I did sell a few things on ebay over the weekend so I need to get those shipped today so that paypal can release the money for them sooner than later.
I didn't take pictures yesterday (I'm SUCH a failure sometimes), but I did take flip videos so I'll try and get those up today. Nolyn is so cute when he's swimming!
Moving on...
Today WILL be a good day! :D Hope everyone else has a good one like me!
Maybe I'll try and bust out my camera and get some new shots of the boys. Every few months I try to do a photo shoot and get some new pictures of them to hang on the wall, but now that I'm jobless I'd like to build my skills a little more and start using my camera on a daily basis.
I'm so glad we have a pool. Even though that too needs to be updated cause pink tile isn't really "in" these days. And during the summer our electric bill goes through the roof. But, our Air Conditioner is broken and our Landlord (a.k.a. my dad, has yet to fix it) so I guess if we just don't use the Air conditioner and hang out in the pool it'll be less expensive anyway.
I'm a little nervous cause SDG&E is installing "smart meters" in everyones houses in San Diego now and on the news a lot of peoples bills have gone up. Luckily most of the people have issues with their gas portion of the bill being higher and we are rural so we have propane so hopefully we won't have an issue. It might help us cause some months we use like nothing and our bill will be insane because they estimate it instead of reading our meter. With the "smart" meter they won't have to come out to read them anymore. I won't how many meter reader people will lose jobs with no more meter reading???
So anyway, yay for sunny san diego days! All week it was cloudy so it'll be nice to jump in the pool again! And I semi-taught Nolyn how to swim so he's so excited to get in the water again. Aiden on the other hand got too excited with his life jacket off when Nolyn was swimming and his head went under and now he's so scared to even try. time like that when I wish they would LISTEN to my rules... like "ONLY ONE PERSON OFF THE STAIRS WITHOUT A LIFEJACKET!" cause it's hard to rescue two boys at once!
