MOVING!!

Lots has been going on lately. Steven got transferred, so we are heading to North Carolina. I am a little iffy about it, just because EVERY time I tell someone that is where we are going, they tell me one of 2 things. A - "I'm sorry!" or B - "Well I hope YOU like it there." Both of which are telling me Fort Bragg SUCKS! We shall see. I am an optimist so I am trying to think of the good things. For instance, new place, new life. New people, new job, and i can finally go to school. Like I said though, we shall see how it goes.

We got a house out there. Today they called us and said that our application was approved. I figured it would be. It is a nice house. 3 bedrooms, and 2.5 bathrooms. It has a formal dining room, an eat-in kitchen, and a fireplace. To top that, it is 1/3 of the price of our mortgage we are paying now. I will see if I can post a picture to the side.

Today the packers came to the house, so we are about half way packed. They will be back here on Monday morning, bright and early to finish up. The movers are also coming Monday morning to pack everything up. Tuesday morning we are OUT OF HERE!!!!! We are going to make a quick stop in LA, before heading to our new home for AT LEAST the next 3 years and 1 month. Hopefully it isn't as muggy and filled with mosquitos as people say. Don't get me wrong I know that it will be, I just am hoping that people are over-exaggerating JUST a little bit. Casue people are making it seem like you have to take a shower is bug spray and then keep one of those stupid candles on the top of your head just to keep them at bay. That is just another one of the "we will see" situations.

Last but not least, the house we are moving in to, is exactly one mile from the preschool I will be sending Blake too. I am still a little unsure about how he will do, but he needs to learn sometime I guess. I will be putting Abby Lou into daycare and then getting a job. We will see how that goes :)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ABBY!!!!

My little princess is 1 today *sniff*
She has gotten so big, and is such a stinker. She has been walking since she was 10 months, talking since she was about 8 months, and has been a spoiled brat since she was born! She is a very independent little girl, and VERY headstrong. She doesn't back down from anyone, myself included. She will fight Blake to the death over a toy, and then turn around and give you the sweetest smile so you don't yell at her. I just couldn't imagine having another little girl who I can love as much as I love her!

I thought I would share Abby's birth story, just cause :)

Tuesday morning I woke up at 4:20 on the dot with some tightening in the belly. Thought to myself Abby leave me alone and let me finish my sleep. Just as I fell back asleep another ctx. They were coming 4 minutes apart, but it didn't scare me or anything cause 2 weeks ago I had been having them every 2 minutes and then just as I was gonna go in, they stopped. Well They didn't stop. DH woke up an hour later to me downstairs timing them drinking some water. At 5:15am Blake woke up, and then DH did. I put Blake in my bed with cartoons on, DH left to work with me pushing him out the door saying I was fine and I would call him if anything. At about 6:30 I went to the bathroom and there was blood on the tp, and ctx were still every 4 minutes. I called DH at work and said come get me we are going in! He laughs at me and says alright and came and got me. When he got home he asked me again if I was SURE I wanted to go in, I said yea, and we got Blake dressed and went in. I was 3 cm and 90% and was having ctx off the charts the doc said, but I was handling them well. They sent me home at 9 saying to go walking and come back at noon if they haven't stopped. Well I got home and did all kinds of things, like took towels upstairs, walked my driveway 25 times, and so forth. I went back in and she checked me and she said I was a stretchy 3. Then said well I'll strip your membranes and see if that does anything. While she was stripping, she broke my water..Apparently I yelled out Holy Shit when the water went down. Well the ctx started to get pretty intense but not to to bad. I was so set on NO drugs! Anywho, I got to my room and I was already at a 4. By 2 I was at a 5. By this time they said I needed some help progressing and gave me some pitocin. WOW...does that shit hurt!!! All of a sudden I was in so much pain, and just wanted to cry. Ctx were coming every 90 seconds, and I was bout ready to yell out HUCKLEBERRY!! That was our code word for when I really wanted the drugs. I went from 5-7 in an hour, and then by 7pm, I was at an 8. I stayed at an 8 and didn't go any further. At about 6 though I had some bleeding which is when they think Abby broke through my placenta. At about 830 her heart rate started decelerating with contractions. It was going from the 150's to about 86 bpm. So they would make me change position, and that would work for awhile, Then about 9 EVERY ctx no matter how I laid, was dropping her heart rate. So they decided to do a c-section. The c-section ended up taking over an hour to get the baby out cause of the complications. The doctor said that if we had gone through with the vbac, her coming out and the ctx would have continued to put so much strain on me that I most likely would have started to hemorrhage, and could have died. So...OBVIOUSLY...the right thing to do was to get the c-section. Apparently my placenta ruptured, and Abby had her elbow and shoulder out and kind of well just "swimming" around. But she was healthy and happy, and just as beautiful as any other baby I have ever seen!

Abigail Louise Betancourt was born at 10:37 pm on July 15th and was 7 pounds 8 ounces, and was 19.75 inches long.

4th of July!

4th was fun! We went to my dad's house. The kids had a great time! We played volleyball, me and Sarah won, unless you ask Steven and Ryan! We BBQ'd some chicken and some sausages. Had some bomb diggity potato salad (note to self: get recipe for potato salad from Bev) and I had soda for the first time in over a week. I missed it lol, although I have yet to go get some for us, not sure if I will. Now I am at home, and have water. Pfft who wants that! Abby of course refused to nap the entire day, even when daddy put her in the car and drove around for 15 minutes trying to drive her to sleep. Blake was as crazy as usual, running around, doing sparklers, and just having a good time like always at grandpas house. We did a bunch of fireworks at the end of the night, apparently my dad isn't "the man" because he didn't pay the 400 dollars for the 6 foot by 3 foot package of fireworks that was conveniently titled "you the man" package. Oh and the "FINDING NEMO" firework, which was, according to the salesman, supposed to shoot up in the air things that looked like fish. Blake claimed he saw finding nemo, I on the other hand, saw a crappy ass firework which my dad paid to much money for. Eh, it was all fun though. Since Washington is stupid, it didn't get dark until after 9, so we didn't end up getting home till around 11 or so, maybe later, and kids were passed out, and I was DONE! I was so tired, although I still had enough energy to check my facebook lol. Priorities!! I forgot my camera so I only got a couple of cell phone pics!

Just realized my cell phone is in my room where a sleeping princess named Abby is. Pictures to come tomorrow!

Trip to Los Angeles

It was fun, although now I am home and SICK! 9 times out of 10 I, or the kids, end up sick when we come home. Kids still have runny noses, but I am coughing up a lung and have a faucet for a nose...NICE! Other then that the trip was a little too long, but fun nonetheless. We celebrated the kids birthdays down south, granted it was 2 months late for Blakes, and 1 month early for Abby Lou. But we were home so we celebrated it. It was fun, and very worth the time and headaches it was worth. Kids got a bunch of clothes, and most of the family came. It was nice to see the cousins, and all the kids together. I also took Blake to Disneyland for half a day, which he loved. He always asks to see mickey Mouses house again, so we made a point of going there again. Took the kids to Wild Rivers with Stevens sister and kids, that was fun, although I got a mild sunburn. OUCH! Lastly after a lot of hanging with the families, we celebrated my 25th birthday! YEA!! But I am driving with an expired license now until the DMV stops taking their sweet time and sends me my new card. Anyway, we went to Muchos where my brother is the bartender, and we had a great time celebrating. Pics are on my myspace. We also went to the beach, and it was Abby's first time touching the Pacific Ocean. She loves the water, any kind of water. I would not be surprised if she joined some water sports when she got older. Picture above is of us when we where there.

Now we are home, sick, and are getting ready to move out to North Carolina! 30 days and counting...

Last week in photos

This is gonna be something new I am gonna do. Hopefully Mondays I will be able to find the time and the drive to take the last week of pictures off the camera, (and the hard part) upload them to photobucket and then post them on here.

Some recent ones of my 2 angels (monsters) this passed week. We went to a BBQ on Sunday and had some good times playing with the kids and eating some really good food. Rest of the week was spent hanging out at the house with the kids and the husband.

wow.....total blonde moment

So i put in an order at walgreens.com for 100 pics and about 90 minutes later I got an email saying come pick up your pictures they are ready. Sweet...so I went to the post office and then off to Walgreens. I pull into the parking lot, go in and head to the photo department. I tell the lady my name and she says sorry our printer is broken, and your pictures arent here. I get annoyed and say then why did I get an email? Do you know how hard it is to get 2 unhappy kids into the car to come all the way down here after I get your email, to have you tell me sorry our printer is broken. Why did you email me then. (there was a lot of back and forth..not just me being a bitch) She said it was the company (fujifilm) who emailed me and I can call them or whatever. I ask her can she just transfer them to the Walgreens on the other side of town. She looked at me like I was asking her how to make creme brulee or something else equally hard. She says no sorry I can't do that. I continue to get frustrated, give her my name and number, and tell her, whatever, call me when my pictures come. And I stomp out like a 3rd grader. Steven calls and he tells me to calm down and blah blah, and I hang up with him and start to put Abby in the car, while doing this, I look across the street and I think to myself..........Why are there 2 Walgreens on this street? I look up at the sign and realize I was at a Rite Aide Duhhhhh!!. I went across the street walked right in gave her my name, and she goes here ya go enjoy your pics.....oops!!

Just trying to send a blog from my blackberry....let's see if it works!

Daddy is home!

Stevens homecoming went well. They changed the time so much on me. He ended up coming home very early Wednesday morning at 330AM. I got about 90 minutes of sleep that night. It was as if Abby knew what was going on cause at 2AM, about 5 minutes before my alarm was set to go off, She was wide awake. So I got up, had the kids stay in their PJ's, contemplated if I should stay in my sweats, but opted for jeans and my flannel top with these pearl buttons.

We got to the place he told us to meet him, and about 10 minutes after we got there I saw the buses drive by us, so I pushed my brake light twice to signal to him I was sitting there waiting, and I had Blake come to the front seat in my lap. I saw him walking down the street, so I opened up the window and told Blake who is that Blake? And it was the most heartwarming reaction. He started shaking a little, and started screaming with such joy in his voice "Daddy, hi daddy, its Blake, hi daddy, daddy come here daddy come here, daddy I am right here, please come here daddy!" (I am almost crying just thinking about his reaction, it was just so sweet and perfect) So Steven yelled out Im coming Blake, daddys home! and I had to drive around a fence to get him, and we drove next to him while he walked by us, cause he had to go put his gun away, so I had Blakes and my window rolled down and Blake was practically hanging out the window just trying to touch him as if he didnt think Steven was really there. Steven eventually was finsihed, and got into the car gave me my kiss, and hugged Blake, and then looked at Abby who was STILL wide awake...it was now about 4AM.

We got home close to 430, and we put Blake to bed, who was very unwilling, and then tried to put Abby to sleep. She fell asleep, BUT, 1 hour later when we weren't even asleep yet, Abby was up AGAIN, ugh...So DH decided he would get up with her, and let me sleep. So I slept till about 10 or so, and when I got up Blake had been up for about 3 hours, and Abby was still awake. At that point, when Abby has been up for almost 8 hours straight I took her upstairs and she slept till like 4. We just chilled at home. I was starting to feel nauseated at night, and then yesterday morning I woke up so sick. I am better though now


I actually don't have any pictures I had the video camera to use. I thought it would be very lighted but it wasn't, so my video wasn't coming out. I had my regular camera too, but as soon as we saw Steven, my last thought was to dig in the back seat for it I am a wee bit disappointed that I have no pics, but eh, I have pics from many other deployments

Great start to my Mothers Day

That would be today :) Just a normal day to me, since we will celebrate it another day when daddy is home. I am glad I am not "celebrating" mothers day today. It has not been a very good day. I went to bed last night about 1030, got woken up at 11 since Abby was hungry. Blake came into bed with me about...hmm maybe 2-ish. At 330 Abby woke up to eat again, well at this point I was very tired, but within a heartbeat I was wide awake. Don't know why, just was. At about 415 I was drifting off, but low and behold at about 430 Blake started having some hiccup type movements. He ended up throwing up his entire dinner....all over my bed and pillows. Took him to the bathroom, and at this point Abby was awake again from the noise. After putting Blake in his bed, Abby back to bed, and cleaning everything up, I laid back down at 5 to go back to sleep. No surprise when Abby decides to wake up early at 7. I don't even wanna count the hours of sleep I missed, but it was enough to make me dead on my feet. Blake has gotten a bit better but has been to the bathroom 3 other times and it is only noon. Calgon take me away!!

Abby made top 10 in photo contest

In a contest I entered Abby in back in March, started with 4400 kids. WOW right..lots of kids. Well 4 rounds and 4390 kids kicked off...Abby Lou is in the top 10 kids. She is my little beauty, and compared to the other, (even though I am VERY biased) is the cutest kid there. Too bad it is votes that count, and not beauty or it would be IN THE BAG!!! Voting is Monday at noon PST till Noon on Friday...They are kicking off 6 more kids to get the top 4. What an ego boost for me to know my baby is one of the top 10 kids :) Great support from family and friends!! Now on to the next round....

http://babyidol.movin925.com/photos/view/4593/ <---vote there ;)