My Corbin

When Chris and I first got married we knew right away that we wanted kids. So after the honeymoon we began trying. A few months went by and Chris and I decided that we weren't going to try anymore after January because we didn't want to have a baby at Christmas time. Well on Chris's birthday I woke up, took a pregnancy test, and went back to bed. Chris woke me up minutes later and said "good morning mommy" NO WAY! I was pregnant and we found out on Chris's birthday. The next 9 months were not the best. Chris got laid off one week after we found out I was pregnant. I had a few problems along the way. I had a scare that thank god turned out to be nothing to serious. I was sick from the day I found out. I hated food, well everything but hot wings and choco tacos and french fries. From May until I had Corbin I couldn't wear my wedding rings because of swelling. The last few months of pregnancy were awful! Everyday my feet would swell so bad I couldn't feel them. Closer to the end of pregnancy the swelling was all day. I developed carpal tunnel while I was pregnant. Pregnancy was not fun at all. When I went to doctor on this day last year my blood pressure was very high so I was taken right then to the hospital. I only had a few minutes to read up on Preclampsia, which is what I had. I was admitted into the hospital and put on pictocin. The next morning Chris had an interview with the prison so he left me with my parents at the hospital. I just knew soon as he left I would have the baby...no luck. I had horrible contractions with no meds. They were on top of each other, but yet the doctor wouldn't do anything for me. When my blood pressure went up to 199/100 they decided then it was time for a C-section. At 6:44 pm Corbin Wilson Tweedell was born. I do not remember seeing him. The next thing I knew Chris was telling me to breathe. Then he was gone too. I remember being wheeled back into my room and them finally bringing the baby. I was so exhausted that I asked them to take him to nursery. The next few days were awful. They couldn't control my blood pressure. I didn't get to hold Corbin much and we had a lot of company. I know that no labor is perfect but I think I went through hell to have this baby. I would do it again for him, but not for another one. When we finally got to go home on October 4 I was so excited! We've had a crazy year. Chris got a new job, Corbin has grown into a little man, and I've grown so much. Watching him grow and learn new stuff everyday keeps me amazed! I wouldn't trade my life for anything. So Happy Birthday Corbin...your daddy and I love you very much!

Our Work in Progress

Yippie! Show Us Your Life is Back. This is something really fun to do with your blog. This girl started this last year and she is back and it's better. This time it's show us where you live. Every Friday for a while she will post a new room and you take pictures of your room post it and blog about it. It's a fun way to be nosy in someone else's home and to get lots of new ideas! This week it's Show us your Living Room. So here goes.

Our Living Room is currently not the way I want it. Our TV went out about 3 months ago. Since we still had the old style tv (huge back and bulky) I decided to give it away to someone that was willing to have it fixed. In the mean time we are saving up for a flat panel that we can simply hang on the wall.

This is the view as you walk through our front door. Please excuse the fan in the window...we haven't had air in quiet a while (although we are supposed to have it by tonight!) Our Living Room and Kitchen is open so you do see barstools at the counter. I'm trying not to get the kitchen in the pictures because I know we will blog about that later :)

Ok so this is the view from our couch. Since Corbin has started crawling I don't spend much time in the here because of the glass table. And it's not because I don't want to clean finger prints all day, it's just easier to stay in the toy room. For Christmas I am getting a new coffee table and a new sofa table! So hopefully this will help the look of the living room.

This is my view from my rocking chair looking down our hall. Hopefully once I get my sofa table I will pull the couch away from the wall and place the table against the wall to kind of make a hall way behind the couch. And I would love three big pictures of us on the wall that you see.

This is our view from the kitchen. Love love love my mirror on the wall. Not sure it really goes with the room but I won't take it down. My daddy bought it for me before Chris even closed on this house!
And last but not least this is our fireplace. It's electric. I knew it would be smarter with a baby not to have a real fireplace (plus it's less mess!) We are as decorated for Halloween as we get. Each of these silly things make noise and spin around or move to some extent. Corbin loves them (he's not afraid of anything!)

So that's my little living room. It's nothing fancy but it's us. It's our home and I love every inch of it (even the dirty ones!)

Next week is Master Bedrooms!

When it rains...it pours

What a crazy few weeks it's been! Corbin has started crawling...no wait he's speed crawling. And pulling up. Which has led to at least three bumps on his head, a red nose, and a busted lip, yeah no mother of the year award for me. And sad part is I've been in the room at arms length every time one of these has happened. Oh well. He's a boy he's supposed to be bruised and banged up right? On top of chasing after him all the time our air went out about three weeks ago. This wouldn't be quiet so bad if it weren't still in the 90's here. So Corbin and I have been staying with my mom most of the time. Then on top of all that...I've managed to chip a tooth and break a toe. Our luck is gone. I think we should just crawl back in the bed and wait for next year and hope it's better :) Wait I left out one thing...our microwave shorted out on me. We had to replace it, but on the plus side I got a new shiny red one :) So that's whats been going on here. All that plus trying to plan Corbin's 1st birthday party. Ok I can't talk about it, I'll cry. I think I'm going to get up from the computer now and try to clean...it's been so hard to clean this house when I'm usually at my mom's trying to stay cool :) Hope everyone is having better luck that us right now.

-If God leads to you to he will bring you through it-