A little hospital visit

**Feel free not to read this post. I'm writing it down so I have a record of it. I found that it was nice to go back and read my post about preterm labor with Jackson and see everything that went on.** A few days before Valentines day my lower back started to hurt but I didn't think much about it. I've had more pains and aches this pregnancy and I just figured that it had been a really long week with Ross going to school, studying for boards and the having his boards review class all weekend that made me sore. On Tuesday evening my back started to get worse so I put heat on it and took some medicine but they didn't do anything to help me. I had a really rough night and I work up that next morning and it was still there. I started to think back when I went into preterm labor with Jackson and it was feeling the same way.. I honestly tried to fight it saying it wasn't as bad, and I went into preterm because I went mini golfing with Tyler :) I told Ross that morning before he left to school that I thought it could be the same that I would wait and see how it felt that day and when he got back if I still felt the same I would go get it checked. Ross left and a few hours later I started having some front cramping so I called my doctor to see what they thought and they told me to go straight to hospital. I knew they were going to say that but you always hope for the best. I called Ross told him he needed come home so I could go to the hospital. Jackson was down for his nap and has had a cough so I told Ross to stay home with him that I was ok to go alone! He wasn't happy but I thought it would be quick. When I got to the hospital they set me up in this ghetto room thats like an ER room where there are like five other girls in there and just curtains separating us. Maybe I'm just stuck up growing up it Utah where I got my own room but I just thought it was weird. The nurse was getting all of my information and if there was a crazy in there they would have everything to ruin my life, name, bday, ss and address. I was thinking do you want my bank account number too so these people can take all my money while stealing my identity! Then she ask all my medical history do you have ads, herpes, chlamydia etc haha I just laughed and was glad I wasn't a whore and could happily say no to all of them. Anyway they hooked me up to the NST and I saw right off the great news.. Contraction!! I was having them every two to three minutes just like I did with Jackson. I was so bugged! I don't know why my body doesn't like the baby anymore and goes into pretrem around this time in my pregnancy. So they monitored me for hours and they weren't stopping so they gave me a shot to stop them. It made me super gittery but it worked and the contractions stopped! The doctor came in asked if I had family around to take care of me I said no, he then asked if I had any help and I said yes I had Ross and some friends that were there. He just sat there for awhile and then said I'm not going to put you on bed rest but you can't do anything haha I think if I would have had family around I would be on bed rest but I'm just taking it easy now! Ross has gone Nazi on me and I feel like I'm on house arrest! He hasn't let me do anything and gets mad every time I get up.. I had been thinking how sweet he was caring about me until I was doing something and he told be to sit down that I can't have this baby for another month because he has to take his boards and he can't have me go crazy with a new baby and a two year old when he needs to study!! I asked if thats the only reason he is doing all of this and he didn't hesitate and said YES haha So he really doesn't care about my well being but passing his test!! I can't say that I blame him though! It's been a week since I went to the hospital and I've been really sore questioning if I was having contraction or not.I figured it wasn't because when I would take some medicine and ross would rub my back and it would feel a little better. I'm guessing that my nerve and muscles are just sore or swollen from the contraction. Today I feel much better though and can walk without much pain!

Valentines Day!..

This whole month I have been planning a fun day and a nice dinner at home for our family for Valentines Day.. Kids make holidays so much fun and I was really excited for Jackson to do the activities and help make dinner. I wanted to make the dinner a surprise for Ross so I had planned to go to the store the day before.. Sounds like a good plan right!? It was until my lower back started to really hurt the day before Valentines and I spent most the day in the hospital with contractions every two to three minutes. (Story to come later) So all my plans were ruined and I couldn't even go to the store to pick everything up. So Valentines day went much like this.. Ross let me sleep in and when I woke up he fixed me pink heart shaped pancakes and then took Jackson to the zoo while I sat around the house not being able to do anything. We then cooked what we had in the house for dinner and I made the desert I had planned and that was about it! Sadly I didn't even get ready that day.. Ross was really sweet to take Jackson to the zoo and was happy with the dinner I made so I didn't feel like the day was a total bust of a holiday! Here are a few pictures I took with my phone that day. Ross and Jackson went to the store and Jackson picked out this rose for me! He was so cute and happy to give it to me.

Ice storm

This ice storm happened a couple weeks ago but we got a terabyte for Christmas and I still dont know how to upload picture onto my computer now that it has changed.. Ross showed me again tonight but I still don't think I could do it by myself! ANYWAY here's a little post of the ice storm we had. One of the days it happened I wasn't planning on it and needed to go to the store to pick some stuff up for dinner. When Ross and I went out to go to the store our car was fully iced over with a nice sheet of ice.. After finally getting the doors open and Jackson in the car ready to go we shut the back door and it just flew right back open. It the short time that we had opened the door to hurry and get Jackson in our door had frozen open. We had to sit there holding the door shut while the heater was on full blast trying to get the door to unfreeze and lock shut!! It was such a pain! Other then that and a scary drive to the store I thought the storms made outside look so pretty.

New Years Eve

New Years Eve we went over to Ross's cousins house and hung out and played games. Ross's best friend and his family came over and spent the evening with us too. Jackson loved playing with his little boy the entire night. They both made it to midnight running around. Jackson and Lincoln Riding on the four wheeler Playing basketball Jackson would randomly go over and watch the new bond movie with everyone!

Snow!

Last year when we went to Utah for Christmas it didn't snow at all while we were there. We were pretty disappointed that Jackson didn't get to play in it.. This year we got plenty of snow and Ross took full advantage of it. Jackson was sick the whole time we were there so we only let him go out for a little while but he loved it. Every year growing up my dad would make a slide in the backyard for all of us to go down. Ross was determined to make one for Jackson this year.. and that he did! Jackson wasn't so sure of it at first but towards the end loved it and cried when we made him go inside. Jackson however hated to wear his snow pants! He would cry the whole time we tried to put them on. He is a crazy kid. Helping the boys make the slide Watching the snowplow Helping Oma shovel the sidewalk Jackson first snowman! It was kind of a lame one because the snow was so flake it wouldn't pack at all to make balls but he didn't know and loved it Cleaning of Oma's car. Jackson started to do it with the shovel and we had to hurry and switch him to something else! Loving the snow Ross's family came to my parents for dinner one night and Ross and to show them the slide he made and have a little night ride. That red stuff was water with food coloring in it. Ross wan't to make ice on the slide so it would go faster and I wanted a good picture of it so I put food coloring in the water so I could see it. But then I forgot to take a picture of the full slide... Jackson braving the cold with Oma Whitnie going down the slide Jackson and dad going down.

Christmas

Jackson was so funny Christmas morning. He woke up and we took him to see what Santa had brought him and he didn't care to go in the room and see! After a few minutes of chilling he finally went in and looked. He was pretty happy with his airplane but wasn't fully into it.. So we decided that we should go downstairs and open presents. Every kid likes that right?? Nope Jackson again, didn't care to go downstairs and just sat on the floor and whined. Then finally he looked at us and said eat?! haha we asked him if he was hungry and he shook his head yes and asked for oak mill.. So we all went back upstairs and ate breakfast before we opened any presents!! After Jackson got food in him he was all about the presents and Christmas joy. I guess he just really wanted to eat. That morning/afternoon all of my siblings came over to my parents house for lunch and to hang out. We let Jackson take a nap and then headed out to Ross's parents for more fun and presents. I'm so glad that we were able to come back to Utah and spend the holiday with our families!

Christmas Eve

This year we had Christmas Eve with my family! I was so excited to get together with everyone and have some yummy German food! Jackson loved running around with all of the other little kids, we didn't see him much that night! I loved seeing all of my cousins kids so excited about santa coming. They were checking on the computer where he was like every half hour haha It's so spending Christmas Eve with my Dad's side of the family and doing all the traditions they've made. After the party was over we went back to my parents house and did more traditions of getting pajama's, lighting the pyramid and reading How the Grinch Stole Christmas! I loved the Pajama's Jackson got this year. I couldn't stop laughing every time I saw him. He just looked so cute in his tight pj's. Jackson running around shooting everyone with a gun he found Ross and Jackson picking their candle that will go out first on the tree! Jackson Checking to see where Santa was. Opening our pajama's Helping Opa and Oma open theirs Reading with the pyramid Jackson favorite thing was to help blow out the candle's. He would always ask to light them so he could blow them out lol