Happy 2nd Birthday Ashton!!!!!!!!!!

I can't believe he is 2 already!! Time has flown by since he came into our life!! What a joy the last 2 years have been for us! He has been a beautiful miracle in our lives!! We had his birthday party yesterday at his favorite restraunt Ryan's!
Opening the loot!

His Cake




He was scared when we lit the candle!

Pictures from Snow on Thursday!

On Thursday I woke up before Ashton and got on the computer. I left the door open so I could hear him. My cats aren't allowed in the bedroom but this is what I found!






Ashton took his shoes off in the snow!!!




Ashton playing in the snow!

As our Job comes to a close.

I have been on short term disability since Oct. and I really haven't talked to much about the fact that Carl and I were losing our jobs 1/21/08. I did make a post back in Sept I think about it. I am really sad about it. I didn't think I would feel bad about not being able to do my job for GM anymore but I seem to be. I hate the fact that we do contract work and can lose it.

GM awarded the account to another carrier due to an underbid. We could have gone with the new company but Schneider offered a bonus to stay with them for the drivers. The bonus is $5000 which of coarse I am not eligible for! We really need this bonus because this year I didn't sign up for afflac and I am only getting 1/4 of my pay. The bonus is paid out 2weeks after the account ends and money every month until it is $5000 So we decided that staying would be a good idea for us right now.

Anyway, it has been difficult for Carl to find something else at Schneider to do and be home. He could have easily transferred to Ford in Winchester Va for the same pay and been home every night as well. However, there are things about working there that Carl didn't like. Him and another guy decided they were going to work as instructors in Carlisle PA. This is 90 miles away. 4 day work week. Carl and I did this from '00 to '02 when they decided to downsize the facility. Only a little later to reopen it again!! Anyway, the cost of driving there and the fact that the pay was less was bad. In the last week, however a new account opened for him, it runs out of Scanton Pa. and is for Sears. It doesn't get him home every night but it pays more and he can just bring home the truck. It does get him home every weekend. So now I am going to feel like a truckers wife again. This is why I learned to drive in the first place!! I didn't want to be away. I do hope that when I am ready to return to work that I can find something! Well, I will worry about that in May!!

Couple of video's

This was me trying to practice with Ashton on saying the baby's name. Sometimes he was cooperative and sometimes he wasn't! LOL

Pictures!

Daddy and Ashton with his motorized mower!

Ashton and his bike with training wheels!

I love this photo. He took his pants off! LOL I guess the unwrapping was a hard job!



Most kids hate clothes. Ashton kept putting them over his head! LOL

Aunt DeeDoo with Ashton on his mower!

On Sat. Ashton got ahold of a perment marker! He drew on himself!

Christmas morning

Ashton loves Thomas! This was Christmas Eve. We exchanged gifts with the Godparents then.






Hope everyone is well!. I ended up getting the bug! I had to go to the er last night and get 2 bags of fluid! I was miserable. Today, I am better but and weak!

For those that don't know!

Hope this works!

I hope everyone had a great holiday!!! Thankfully, Ashton who got sick on Sunday was A-OK on Monday. However today, Carl is home from work sick with the 24 hour bug! Hope I don't catch it!!!!!!!!!

Just some photos!!!

Here is my 20 week belly shot. The baby is half-baked and we are just a few days from telling everyone what it might be!


Excuse the stretch marks they are from Ashton!


We were helping my mother put up her tree and Ashton was playing in the box!




Here is Ashton sleeping the other night

MY U/S!!!

The baby looks great!!!!!! I am not as far along as was predicted at 12 weeks! LOL I have to repeat week 17! So I moved from May 3 to May 9. Doesn't matter. Its not like they are going to let me go to 40 weeks anyway with the Gestational Diabeties! I am still planning on an April baby!

The baby showed no signs of Downs! The fold on the back of the neck is now at normal size. There is a nasal bone which alot of Down's babies don't have. There was no webbed or club foot. The arms and legs were of right size to the spine. All this made me feel so good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes we did find out the sex of the baby. I can't post it because we aren't telling the family until Christmas Day! So MUMS the word!

The baby's profile

The baby's foot!

Another profile

The side of the baby's face!

Photos from yesterday and today!

I went to the bathroom yesterday and when I came out, Ashton was completely under the tree. He climbed out on the other side of it before I could get the camera!


Well, the same thing happened to Carl today. He got the photo!!!


We had a busy morning! He got up at 6am. He didn't fall asleep last night until 10:30! The table he is resting his head on was mine when I was growing up. I bought it at the church yard sell! LOL It is still usefull!


This is what happened later!LOL He climbed up on the sofa and went to sleep WITH THE PIG ON! The pig is noisy and well annoying!

Christmas Tree!

We decided to put our tree up yesterday. We sent Ashton to grammies house. We worried about how grumpy he was going to be. He only slept 7 hours the night before! We were also worried about all the breakables which I didn't set out or put on the tree this year. We thought the surprise would be better and it so was worth seeing him surprised!! This first photo is of the snowglobe we got him last year. He loved it last year and it seems he still does!

Hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving!

I had a good time with family and friends yesterday! However, because of the gestational diabetes, I didn't get to eat all that I wanted! I remember last year being so happy because I was going through the holidays not pregnant! LOL Anything for baby though, maybe I will have a feast in May! LOL

16 week Belly photo!

Well, here my big belly is! 16 weeks 1 day!

Don't mind the stretch marks. Those are from Ashton!

The next 2 are for comparison. This is me pregnant with Ashton at 16 weeks. There is a big difference!!

It is getting cold!!!!!!!!!!!

Last weekend Carl cleaned out my car and Ashton wanted to go out with him! It was so cold so I bundled him up as you can see!

Are we really ready!?

Yesterday, we think Ashton had an upset stomach, he was in such a bad mood! He was surely showing his temper etc.... It was really trying for both Carl and I! We both had gotten up early yesterday and it was to say the least tiring!!!!!!! Carl said to me "Are we ready to do this over again?" I immediately said "NO we are to old for this!" I had to take the little bugger out in the car to get him to go to sleep last night!

It was just a bad day and now today I can't sleep in either! Well, my sister takes him for the day so maybe I can get a nap in! He did have diarrhea. It broke his bottom out so bad!!!!!!

NT Scan Positive!

Well got the call from the Dr. today. The results weren't as good as I had hoped for but not as bad as I was expecting! The results are that the scan for trisiomy (sp?) is a definite negative while the results for the down syndrome are are positive. All this test does is give you your risk factor for the syndrome. If you go just by my age (36) I have a 1-193 chance of having a down syndrome baby. The test reveals 1-225 chance of the syndrome. The Dr would like to do an amnio but Carl and I have decided not to get it. There is a risk factor of 2% for a miscarry. How guilty would we feel if we lost this baby because of the amnio just to find out if the baby has it or not and the baby turned out to be completely normal. Also I would have to stop the lovenox for one night and well that scares me too. We will wait to see what the U/S reveals at 18 weeks if there are any markers of downs and then if there are we may opt then but for now, we are OK with our chances. God blessed us with this child for some reason.

Halloween Pictures!

This is a little blurry but he kept moving everytime I tried to take his picture!!!


This is my sister Dina trying to hold him still for a photo!


He was getting candy from my sister! Can't you see he loves candy already!


In this photo even though you can't see his face, you can at least see his costume. He was a scarecrow. I had people tell me he looked like Robin Hood!




Carl took Ashton to a Pumpkin Patch place last weekend. He had lots of fun! That is where the rest of the photos were taken at.