Just a little food for thought...

When I was pregnant with Jaren, most of you got to follow my pregnancy through my pregnancy blog. I realized this evening, that I havent blogged much about this pregnancy at all. It was alot easier to sit down and write out my thoughts, feelings, cravings etc. without a toddler running around and shutting the screen on the laptop. But started reading my pregnancy blog from Jaren and I really would like to have something like that for this baby too. Just something to look back on and compare how my pregnancies were so different and to be able to remember all the little things that happen. So I just wanted to let you know that I'm going to keep this as my soap box, but I'm going to add more posts of my pregnancy.

I'm hoping I start feeling a little more comfortable with my body soon, so I can do belly pictures like I did with Jaren. Its neat to look back and see how much I grew each week. Right now I feel like a blimp because I never lost all my preggo weight from Jaren, so weekly belly pictures arent very appealing to me at the moment. I'm 15 1/2 weeks. So maybe this week I'll get my first belly picture in. Stay tuned....

Pure Craziness...

If you're all looking for a little humor in your life, then you're going to love what has gone on the last few days of our lives.

I'll begin with Saturday. We went to Morgantown, and I honestly can not remember for what. I HAVE HORRIBLE PREGGO BRAIN!!! But on our way home, this car stops suddenly in front of us, to turn off to the left into their driveway. As we started to accelerate, I look to the right and I notice this older looking man lying flat on his back in his yard sprawled out with his mouth hanging wide open and his eyes closed. 'Jesse...there is a guy lying back there in his yard!' I began to yell. So he turned around to go back. We pulled off onto the side of the road and Jesse yelled OH CRAP as he saw the man. I immediately called 911 and Jesse jumped out of the truck to go check on the man. My call had been answered by Preston County 911 and we needed Mon County, so they transferred me. As Mon County answered, I saw Jesse calmly walking across the road to the truck. I rolled down the window to ask him if everything was okay. He said yes, so I told the 911 lady I no longer needed her that everything was okay. Jesse got in the truck, and I asked him what happened. The man was alive when he got there, and Jesse shook him to get his attention and 'wake' him up. As the man woke up and began to talk, Jesse could smell the liquor rolling off his breath. He was so drunk he passed out in his yard. Jesse made sure it was alcohol and that nothing was medically wrong with him by asking him if he knew where he was and stuff like that. But honestly WHAT ARE THE ODDS???

Sunday morning began well. We got up, got ready, and headed to Church. Church was great. We went into the nursery to pick Jaren up and he had all the little boys standing around him in a circle, and he proceeded to tell them something that sounded like orders of some sort! We found it amusing, but once real words start coming out, we're definitely going to have to make sure he knows not to be so 'bossy'! HAHA! Anyway, we decided to go grab some lunch and then head back home to Grafton. On our way home, the same exact road that we saw the drunk guy on, we got a big ol' flat tire in the rental truck. Lovely!! I called Enterprise and they said either we could wait the 2 1/2 hours for AAA to dispatch someone out, or we could change it ourselves. It was a terrible, muddy mess, but my husband laid down on the cold, muddy, soppy wet ground and changed the tire. It took forever because we had to take Jaren's car seat out to get to the jack, then a cop stopped to check on us, and it was cold and rainy and it was just a very long time. But he got it done alot faster than it would have taken to wait on roadside assistance to get there and do it. Anyway, we get home and I start feeling not-so-hot! I start feeling super queasy and all around blah. Jesse wanted to go to his friends house to play some Madden so I told him to go because I just wanted to go to bed. About 15 minutes after he left I started throwing up like it was my job. It was awful. I thought Id feel much better if I could just lay down and fall asleep. That definitely wasn't an option. I laid down for about another 45 minutes, then I started violently throwing up. I called Jesse and begged him to come and bring me ice. He immediately did. It was nice having him here to take care of me and help me. I finally fell asleep around 3ish and slept til about 9. The rest of my Monday was spent dozing on and off on the couch and ingesting nothing but water.

I definitely feel much better today. We got our car back FINALLY, and took the truck back to Enterprise. We reported low pressure lights to them the day they gave us the truck but they told us not to worry about it, but now they are saying if they dont find that the tire going flat was due to low pressure then its our fault and we have to pay for it. I'm a little upset about that because Jesse babied that truck like it was his own, so Im hoping they do find that it was because of the low pressure.

Thats all the craziness for the last few days. I hope everyone is doing well! We love you all!

RETIRED....

Friday January 30, 2009 my husband is officially a retired Marine. Most of you know the story but for those of you who do not, here is the short and sweet version. After Jesse got home from Iraq, he started having some medical issues. They are all under control with medication THANK YOU GOD, but the medication is an absolute MUST ever single day or he could have seizures as well as having the symptoms he gets with his awful headaches(these symptoms are described by doctors as stroke like symptoms because he cant write, talk, drive etc.) With the meds being a must, the Marine Corps could not guarantee this medication being available to him everyday in Iraq, therefore this marked him as 'non-deployable'. He also is unable to PT without getting the severe headaches that come with this, so basically he was limited to sitting behind a desk. The Marine Corps decided to retire him. He was medically retired and we get to keep all of our benefits from the MC, which is a huge blessing. Anyway, that's the short version of the story if you want the long version feel free to ask me, it would just take up way to much space here.

Now that Jesse is retired, he is able to start applying for jobs that require his discharge paperwork! It's bittersweet that this chapter in our lives has ended, but it only means for many new opportunities and doors to open.

Speaking of doors opening, we've started looking at houses! We realize it may be a little while before we can buy, but we definitely want to get into a place of our own and have everything ready before Baby D #2 arrives. I think we've decided on a B name for Baby #2, so from now on I'll call she/he Baby B.


There isn't much more going on here with the Davis family. We're still in a rental vehicle, we've not even heard anything about our car except the visual estimate the collision repair center gave us. Its okay though, Jesse is really loving driving the truck we have!!

IT WAS 55 DEGREES TODAY, WHICH MEANS NO SNOW ON THE HILL!!!!!! Of course when I finally got comfortable riding up and down the hill in the vehicle instead of walking all the snow melts, but I'll take it!

Hope everyone is doing well. I still need to get into the box and find my camera cord. I have so many pictures of Jaren I need to share! Especially of his new do!!

Love you all!