One day!

Hi Ya'll.
One day I will up day my blog with Jackson and my three day, 16 hour wonderful labor story! Jackson is doing wonderful, colic and that is why there is no updates. I'm still learning how to be a mom and not have anxiety over EVERYTHING! Hopefully the swing thats coming will help me out! Until then here is our sweet little boy!





He loves his Dad

School, School, School!

I know this is my third post today but I just wanted to give everyone a little update on my cute little Doctor student! Ross took his first round of test last week and did pretty good on them! It seems like the guys study all the time and us girls never really see them but its worth it in the end! I'm so proud of Ross and all he has been doing . He really is so smart! He loves going to school and actually learning stuff that has to deal with Optometry! He comes home and shines lights in my eyes claiming I need glasses but I'm pretty sure I can still see just fine :) He says my eyes are focusing through and thats why I can see.. I tell him i'm fine and he gets mad and says when I'm forty and can't see don't come to him because he's not giving me anything haha I love my little Doctor!

Ross's School!

Some of Ross's stuff! He loves it

Armadillo Hunting!!

Okay everyone! Moving to Mississippi has brought so many new things into my life! One being that there are armadillos all around.. well, I see them all the time with their feet up in the air dead on the side of the road so I knew they were here. I know its only been a little over a month that I have lived here but I've wanted to see a living one SOOO bad, call me weird but I did! We were at some friends house (that live in our same complex of apartments) last Friday playing Mario brothers when they told us that they saw a armadillo just outside! I was so excited and told them if they see another one I wanted to come over! Well, Saturday my wish came true haha We were just getting home from the Relief Society broadcast when I got a text telling me there were more! I ran inside grabbed the camera and Ross and off we went! But when I got there they were gone..... So we hunted for them and found one in the parking lot! Ok, they are a little scary and make funny noises but I just wanted a picture of one so I started walking up to it! Who knew that armadillos are freakin fast runners. I tried to run after it taking pictures as I ran but it was just to fast.. BUT I SAW ONE. actually three Ross and I walked along the jungle going home and saw two more but again they heard us and ran! I have now looked up what those dang armadillos like to eat and I'm going to set it out and wait for them to come to me! One day I will get a picture of a living ARMADILLO, until then you only get these lovely pictures :)

This is a" running after the armadillo picture." Yes there is No armadillo in the picture but its just behind the bush running for dear life! One day I'll get one

Our hunt! There was like eight of us out there looking for them haha I'm sure other people saw and were like what the heck is going on. Stupid Utah Optometry kids!

More hunting

TAFFY

Top chiefs make taffy! For last weeks cooking we made taffy. Lauren had made it before when she was little so we knew a little more of what we should be doing then the bagels! We probably could have cooked it a little longer because when we pored it out and tried to pull it, it was so so sticky but we got it to work!

The sticky mess

Yes, BreeAnn made Jackson out of taffy..

Pulling the taffy!

Fishing..

We went fishing without our husbands!! I've been fishing plenty of times but never without a boy there to help me tie the line, bate the hook, cast the poll and take off the fish! So pretty much I would just real in when I caught something. But this time Lauren, BreeAnn and I went fishing at Laurens "lake" big pond at her apartment complex all by ourselves. We started off slow but by the end we were catching them like crazy! The hard part was trying to shake the fish off cause no one wanted to touch them. We figured if they didn't float back up then they were just fine! BreeAnn caught one in the belly and when we shook it off it floated back up but we figured it wasn't the shaking but the hook in the belly that did it haha In all we caught eight fish!

BreeAnn and Lauren waiting for the fish to come

Lauren caught the first fish and BreeAnn is taking it off with her baby wipe lol

One of BreeAnn's fish

Hook in the Belly... Poor fishy

My only fish! Yep I'm fat!

Lauren was amazing and caught five!

Bagels!

So I made bagels last week haha yeah I know what everyone is thinking.. I don't cook! I sure don't but it was really fun and they actually turned out good! Lauren (another wife who's been left at home while her husband goes to school with Ross) came over and we started cooking! First problem.. How much yeast do we need? Did I buy enough? When they say "envelope" is that one package or the all three? It says two packets but we couldn't add or read the labels correctly. I know yeast shouldn't be hard BUT it is! We finally figured it out and then problem number two! When it says warm water how warm do they mean haha yeast is alive? yes we had a rough start but after the yeast was all done we flew through it! Well, until we had to boil the dough.. Who knew bagels were boiled! Let just say we had a couple that didn't turn out so well.. I think to much water got in them or something! Anyway it was really fun and we plan on cooking much more! I'm pretty sure we'll end up on top chief one day! :)

Lauren boiling the bagels!

Putting the cinnamon sugar on them

Finished product! I'm pretty proud of us

So happy we are now chiefs hahahahaha

Welcome Home ya'll!

So people keep telling me they want to see home! I don't if I call it home just yet. I still feel like I'm on a vacation that I happened to bring all my stuff with me. I really like our apartment though and the area feels safe too :) The ward here is great! Most everyone is going to SCO and so no one has family close by so they are always having activities and really try to make you feel welcome. I'm excited to go to all the play groups and activities once little Jax's is here. I can see how people say the ward becomes your family. I'm thankful to be a member for many reasons but one reason I didn't realize tell now was I will have friends wherever I go because of the church. Ross is loving school but is gone all the time which leaves me home alone a lot. Its hard at times because I get bored and start missing thing from home but once Jaxon comes my days will be full! Anyway here is "HOME"

The entrance to our apartments. (Yes we are in a gated community but lately one gate is always open so I don't know how that is keeping me any safer! Maybe tomorrow I'll go try and push it shut or something!)

The outside of our Building

The Frontroom

The Kitchen area

Jaxon's Room! Its nice to finally have a room to set up all his stuff!

And our room! ( I left out the 2 bathroom cause we all know what those look like :)

Now lets go outside! First we must pray for safety. We've even learned how to pray in our sleep haha

We have like four of these ponds around our apartments. They have turtles, fish and frogs!

The jungle outside our back window. I'm just waiting for T-Rex to come running out

The Pool

Random but we have our own car wash too

Volleyball!

I'm excited for the fitness center and Free tanning bed! I know random that they have a free tanning bed but this is my thinking! There aren't many people that need to go tanning.. I mean they're not lacking in the White area haha Was that bad to say?? Well I did so there you go!

And our putting green! One day when Ross and I have saved a little money we are going to become golfers!

Well there you have it! Welcome to Mississippi Ya'll! You can come visit anytime you want!

Two Years!

Has it really been TWO years! Ross and I celebrated our anniversary on the 29th of August. It seems these two years have gone bye so fast but when I look back on them we have done so much. I can't believe we are already in Optometry school and having our first baby! I wish I could tell you of all the fun we had celebrating but with me going into pre-term labor and not seeing a doctor by that time we felt it was best to just go out to eat! We went to the Olive Garden (I know we live somewhere with all types of great food and we chose the Olive Garden!) but it was nice to go to dinner and talk about anything and everything! I don't know how I got so lucky to be married to such a wonderful, amazing guy! I love him so much and can't wait to be married to him for forever!

Ross took me to bridalveil falls and played his guitar and sang "Question" by old 97 to ask me to marry him. I put the song on our play list if you want to hear it!

Way out here!!

For any of you that have heard the random country song on my playlist and wonder why? I did it for a reason! It is playing every time I get in the car! If you haven't heard it go listen to it, you'll get a good laugh! Its called "Way Out Here" by Josh Thompson

WELCOME TO MISSISSIPPI!!

Boondocks = Preterm Labor

WARNING LONG POST!

Lets just say the last days in Utah weren't the best for me. The plan was for Ross, Matt, my parents, Ross's dad and whit to leave on Saturday and drive everything to Mississippi and I would fly in on Monday. The doctor said it was more safe for me to fly to MS then to drive being prego and all. So Saturday we all woke up bright and early and everyone left on their 25 hour drive. Check! Everything is going well! Actually everything went well that day! I went back to sleep and then headed to my parents house where I was going to stay the next couple nights. Tyler was so nice and decided to take me on a date and we went to Chili's for dinner and then to Boondocks to play some mini golf. It was super fun and I even beat Ty in golf. I knew he was trying to hide that he was mad that I was beating him so, me being the nice sister, took the chance to rub it in one last time before I left! He took it well. So that was my night.. Nothing big

Well, Sunday morning I work up with this really bad back pain. I didn't think much of it. I laid around, decided to take a bath to see if that would help it out. I figured that it was the mini golf the night before and I probably did something to it or just all the bending made it sore. I got out of the bath and started to get ready, it only hurt on my right side and would hurt more if I put all my weight on my right foot. Me still thinking the same thing just push past the pain and finish getting ready. Not a big deal my back hurt. I decided to call my mom to see what my dad would do when his back hurt. Just wanting a simple answer lay down put heat on it. NOPE thats not what I got! She kinda freaked. Our conversation went something like this

MOM: Becca, that could be back labor and you need to go to Labor and Delivery..

Me: "laughing" Mom that is not it! My muscles just hurt from mini golf. what does dad do?

Mom: No, Becca you need to get checked out.

Me: No I don't its nothing!

Mom: Rebecca....

Me: Ok, how about I text one of the Nurses at my work and see what they have to say.

Mom: Ok, let me know what she says.

Me: k, bye.

So I text Rach from work.

Me: Rach, should I be worried if my back hurts? I went mini golfing last night and I'm sure its that but my mom is freaking out.

Rach: Well, yes and no. It could be preterm labor, a UTI or it could just be you did to much yesterday.

Me: ok, so I'm fine I just did to much!

Rach: I would just go in to L&D just to be safe Becca. You are leaving tomorrow and just make sure everything is ok.

Me: HELL "in my head" Ok thanks girl. (not really grateful for giving me the wrong answer haha)

So I called my mom back and told her what Rach said..

Mom: Rebecca go in now! Get Tyler to take you

Me: Fine.. bye

I knew nothing was wrong and it was just going to be a waste of time! All of my siblings were coming over in a couple hours to have dinner and I didn't want to put everything on hold. But Tyler and I went into LDS hospital. I told Ty to just park in the two hour parking cause we wouldn't be there close to that. I felt so stupid going up to L&D telling them my back hurt can you check me out. What a little wimp! They were all very nice and put me into a room. The nurse came in and took a urine sample (with a catheter, yeah.. never had that done before and it wasn't fun and made me more mad that I was there) and hooked me up to the NST. I've seen NST before because of where I worked so I looked to see what was going on.. All of a sudden I see the line go up saying I'm having a contraction.. "NO, that was nothing, baby moved or something made that happen!" Four min later another one comes.. "Freak" The nurse comes in and was like there is nothing wrong with your urine but you are have contractions every four min apart and they are lasting for forty-five seconds. I was like I don't feel anything! You don't feel them said the nurse? Nope, I feel fine! Can I go home?! haha nope, the Dr. wont let you leave until they are at least ten min apart.. WELL, Needless to say I was there TEN hours with two bags of fluids, two shots and some pill every fifteen min trying to get my contractions to stop. They finally got my contractions to every ten min apart and I asked if I could leave and by this time the Dr. had decided that we wasn't going to let me leave until they were all the way gone.. I was so mad. But it only took another hour for them to let me go home. But telling me that the Dr. didn't want me to fly out tomorrow, that I needed to go see my Dr. I couldn't believe what was happening. I called Ross "who was text me every five min because he was so nervous and hated that I was there and he was across the country and couldn't be there with me" and told him the news. I think he and my mom just wan't to die! But everything turned out ok!

I went to my Dr. and he checked me and said that I needed to come back the next day and if nothing had changed that I could fly out Wednesday. Everything was fine and the airline even moved my flight later with out charging me because it was a medical emergency.

I have many people to thank! Tyler for staying the whole ten+ hours with me at the hospital. Heather for coming to the hospital with food, calling the airlines for me and taking me out to Cindys house late a night.

Heidi, also for coming to the hospital and letting me stay at her house and then taking me to the airport Wednesday at 5:30am.

Cindy, for letting me come to her house, taking such good care of me and for driving me to provo two days in a row to see the doctor.

Ross and my mom for being my support thousands of miles away and setting up my house. (more on the house next post)

And for all of my friends who were texting me and came to see me the couple extra days I was home.

I told you it was going to be long but I wanted to write it down so I didn't forget it!