Teen Mom. Ok or Not Ok?

First off, I will openly admit I am completely obsessed with the MTV shows, 16 & Pregnant, Teen Mom and Teen Mom 2. And I religiously stalk my favorite blogger, The Ashley,  for the latest and greatest on these shows and a few others. If you have never seen her blog, reality tv fan or not, you HAVE to check it out. She is absolutely hilarious in her writing style and will have you rolling!

I get that when the these shows all started MTV was trying to make a statement about teen pregnancy as it is a growing issue. But, lately it seems like all the positive they have tried to show is being outdone by all the negative. Jennelle (Teen Mom 2) was arrested AGAIN today for harrassing phone calls. She's been arrested numerous times in the past for various other things.

Amber (Teen Mom) is currently sitting in jail (and has been since before Christmas) until her court hearing on Jan 13th and has lost custody of her daughter as well as her home. Luckily baby daddy Gary is able to have full custody and take care of the baby.

Maci (Teen Mom) was actually one of the mom's I admired. She had her own place to live, went to school and seemed to take very good care of herself and her son. She was recently thrown out of a Disney hotel for being public drunk and disorderly. Yes, being part of Teen Mom she is under the age of 21. And she was at Disney for crying out loud!

My question to you is this, is it ok for MTV to keep airing these shows? Yes, I get that MTV is racking up the ratings with people (like my hubs) who watch only to make fun of these train wrecks, but seriously? Where do you draw the line? The show is no longer about the difficulty of being a teen parent but of now seeing how much trouble one of these mom's can get in to. They have even aired court appearances as well as arrests. Personally, I think if you continue to get in trouble with the law, then you should get kicked off the show. Or take it off all together! Yes, I would be sad about this but they have an aresnal of other reality tv shows that would be much better suited for air time. Why not bring back the wonderful Engaged and Underage??

Christmas and New Years

Yes, I am super behind on blogging! The reason.... I was forced to come back to work. Forced as in, the mailman insists on bringing these pretty envelopes from people asking for money every month. If he would just stop doing that, then life would be much better!

Christmas was uneventful for us as baby William was only 9 weeks old at the time and more into staring at the lights on the tree than caring about presents. Good thing for us because we supplied him with diapers, wipes and just a few toys. I caught a break because I wrapped the empty boxes, didn't even bother to unwrap them and just threw them in the trash. As you'll see in the pics, it did make for a beautiful tree!

Hubby and I spoiled each other this year and I couldn't be more excited! I am FINALLY the owner of a Kindle and Keurig coffee machine. I have been begging for those for well over a year and now have them and am completely obsessed with them!!! I have already read many books and my local library has the options to check out books so I take full advantage!

I fully stocked hubs with everything he needs to go ice fishing. Due to our insane winter (it was 56 degrees in Utah last week) he hasn't been able to go yet but they are working on a trip soon. I can't wait for him to get to use it and he's excited to try a new kind of fishing.

New Years Eve was incredibly boring. I stayed up long enough to watch the ball drop on the East coast, kissed the hubby and passed out! Baby slept through it so that was all I wanted.

I'll sign off with some pictures from the holidays and hopefully will catch back up on regular blogging!!

My beautiful Kindle

The cover was given to me by a coworker for our Secret Santa gift

Christmas isn't complete without a John Deere tractor!

My lovely tree

Christmas morning

The best Christmas present I've ever gotten

Keurig with my awesome organizer filled with Starbucks Kcups

Me and dudes on NYE

Watching the ball drop

First picture of 2012!

The Heart of Christmas

This afternoon during my little one's nap time I got some mommy time with the DVR. I watched a movie called The Heart of Christmas. It's about the true story of a little boy named Dax Locke and his family. Dax is diagnosed with AML M7 at the young age of 13 months. The movie is about the journey his family goes through and even has narration from his mom's actual Caring Bridge journal. Unfortunately sweet little Dax lost his battle with cancer at 2 1/2 years old. As I was watching this incredible movie I couldn't help but go get my sleeping baby and just hold him tight in my arms.

Julie Locke's motto is "Cherish Every Moment". This has really made me think in the last 24 hours. Christmas is supposed to be about family and the birth of Jesus Christ. Instead, people have made it about presents and parties and decorations and so many other things that aren't important. I'm not trying to say I'm perfect by any means, but after watching the story of this family and reading some of her blog posts last night, it made me rethink this holiday season.

I want to make an effort to spend more time with my husband. Since baby's birth, of course I have been wrapped up in all things William. Who can help that?? But I do catch myself getting shorter and shorter with my husband. I can put William in his swing or bouncey seat and try to spend more quality time with my husband. Our anniversary is this weekend and I've already lined up a babysitter so we can go out to dinner and maybe go see some Christmas lights. Just something to focus more on each other.

I want to take more time to tell the people that are important to me how much I appreciate them. I have many wonderful friends and family and I don't want to let another day go by without telling them what their friendship means to me.

There are many other things I'm going to make an effort at. But right now, I'm going to snuggle with my sweet baby and cherish every moment God has blessed me with. I hope you all do the same.

4 Weeks and a Meltdown

I have become the world's worst blogger since baby William entered our household. Its not really for lack of time but more lack of anything super interesting to blog about.

Today marks baby's 4 weeks of life. Thursday he will officially be a month old. I cannot believe it has gone by so fast!!!! I think I snuggle him enough and try to embrace every smile and smell, but its still flying right past me. I am however super excited to have his first Thanksgiving next week and to get to enjoy that as our little family.

We had our first mommy meltdown moment last night in the middle of the night. After about two nights of no sleep, this mama was on the edge. Throw in a baby who screaming bloody murder trying to poop, and you have two crying people in the bed at 2am and a poor husband who has absolutely no idea what to do with either one of us.

Luckily, baby popped and finally fell asleep and life was calm again. But it confirmed in me that something was wrong with my child. I called his pediatrician first thing this morning only for his idiot  nurse to tell me that my son just has colic and that I need to wait it out for the next month. Are. You. Kidding. Me. I really hate when dr's treat you like you have new mommy syndrome (aka you have no idea what is wrong with your child). I know the difference between being fussy and freaking the crap out. We immediately switched pediatricians. Luckily, I also had my 4 wk checkup with my midwife and she checked over baby and confirmed my suspicions. His current formula was too hard on his poor tummy so we switched him to a sensitive Enfamil. We're three feedings in with the new stuff and dad and I can already tell a difference in our precious baby. Lets just hope he keeps up his sweetness and allows mommy to sleep tonight!

I know alot of my bloggy friends gave birth to sweet babies as well right around the time William was born and I hope everyone is doing well and healthy. And just because I doubt I'll have anything blog worthy before then, Happy Thanksgiving!

Baby enjoying his new bouncy seat

Meet William James

Our little man has a mind of his own!! He decided Monday morning he did not want to wait any more and broke my water. We went to our doctor to be sure and didn't leave the hospital until yesterday morning!!

William James entered the world October 17,2011 at 5:24pm weighing 7lbs 3oz and 19 inches. He was perfectly healthy even though coming 10 days before his schedueld c-section date and 17 days before his due date. We are very thankful that everything went smoothly and I could not have asked for better doctors.

We are home and I am still recovering but doing good. Hubby even went to work today since it was just a half day and I have to say it was super nice to get to get to have quality alone time with my baby for the first time. But it also made me realize how much I am depending on my husband right now. I cannot brag on him enough. He has been absolutely incredible. He is still figuring out what to do with a newborn and its adorable to see him hold his son. The love that comes through his face will just make you cry. And for a man who has never had to physically care for another person, he has totally stepped up. The man has to bathe me. He cooks for me. He gets everything I need and helps me with baby.

Breastfeeding has been its own challenge that has earned its own blog at a later date and time. Right now baby is sleeping so I'm going to scarf down some dinner and leave you with some photos!

Our last moment as a family of 2

My first time holding baby William

First family photo

Can't you see how in love he is with his son

UGA fan from birth

Home sweet home

I did it!!!

Today marks 34 weeks of pregnancy. This is a HUGE accomplishment for me because my first son came at 32 weeks. The fact that I am now two more weeks pregnant than I have ever been in my life just amazes me.

And thats about the nicest thing I can say about being 34 weeks pregnant. I'm still working full time and hanging in there. 99% of the time I am absolutely miserable. Our sweet peanut has spent the majority of his womb time sitting low on my pelvis. That has only gotten worse. I would KILL for a kick to the ribs just to get him off my tail bone. My already too big wedding bands are starting not to fit alot and I'm pretty sure I'm grateful I can't see my feet. I don't even want to know what they look like.

Don't get me wrong, I am truly grateful to be carrying this little man. Being a mother is the greatest thing I will ever do with my life. But I could absolutely do without the pregnancy part. And of course as I type that, I get a nice big karate kick to the bladder! Time to say goodnight!

I hope everyone on the interwebz has a wonderful weekend!

A Little Fall Fun

This weekend I took a much needed vacation day off from work and FINALLY got things done! Almost a year after being married I finally share my husband's last name. We also squeezed in our 32 week dr's appointment and Baby S is looking fantastic!! Poor little guy is running out of room in mommy's tummy and I officially have the waddle. I can't help it. Don't judge me. Especially when you see me eating cupcakes.

We took our maternity pictures Saturday evening and I cannot wait to get them! Of course I will share as soon as I see any of them.

My BFF also came over and painted my ever growing belly like a pumpkin. I have been wanting to do this since we found out Baby will be a Halloween baby. (Scheduled c-section is Oct 27th) Yes, its only the middle of Sept, but on the off chance Baby S wants to follow in Big Brother's footsteps and come early, I wanted to get this done. I will leave you with the pics we took and I think they are just freaking adorable!

The Giant Pumpkin Belly

My husband was not thrilled about this whole thing

All set and ready for baby!