Jace is on the move!!

Today i introduced sweet potato's to him i think he likes eating solids but i don't think he likes sweet potato's so i can't wait for 4 days to pass so i can try another flavor on him. Oh and he loves his high chair he sat in it today and watched me make banana bread. thank you Jace!! Jace has started to scoot across the floor in the picture above i had him right in front of the pillow so if he fell backwards he wouldn't bonk his head and the next thing i know he is all the way across the room. He also has started to crawl only backwards ha ha. When he is on his stomach he starts to push him self backwards he doesn't do it all the time just sometimes he mainly goes in a circle. Its so crazy these kids they don't spread things out ever everything happens all at once in one week then it goes boring for another month or so it's so crazy to me! oh bye the way I LOVE CHRISTMAS!! it is so crazy that it is already that time again time fly's. well Justin needs the computer so i guess i will call this good.

New Pic's of Jace

So this slide show starts out with Jace's starting position one night during a 10 to 15 minute period i thought it was so funny i had to document it keep in mind Jace was sleeping the whole the time! I also added some photo's from are daily activities i haven't posted any pic's lately so there are quite a few.

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Just saw twilight i was expecting it to be a little corny and to not like Edward. ended up loving Edward, Bella was just alright but good the only one i didn't like very much was Rosalie everyone else was right on i thought. What i thought was funny was three of the main characters all starred on the the late TV show The OC funny huh..Very good give it a A+ MAN I WANT TO SEE IT AGAIN

Doctors Appointment

Well Jace had his 4 month appointment today technically his 5 months appointment because he is 5 months but oh well. Its pretty cool my doctor has these clinics with about 5 to 6 mothers with babies the same age and you meet together for every appointment and talk about your babies and the doctor talks about the different stages your baby will be going through until the next meeting. I love it they are so informative and i learn so much what to stress about what doesn't need stressing it's so nice. Here is Jaces progress so far

Height 27 1/2 inches 93% percentile crazy huh we have a monster on are hands!
Weight 15 pds 7 oz 42% percentile his weight is just average
head 20% percentile his head is smaller

Catch up!!

So i know I'm horrible about keeping up this blog i usually update this thing at nights but i started working out in the evenings after i put Jace to bed at 8 o'clock every night nice huh! but he is a earlier riser and i refuse to get up before 6 to work out. Anyways about two weekends ago we went to marysvale to hang out with Justin family's and to enjoy the nice weather and boy it was nice the whole family decided to go 4 wheeling up the canyon for a picnic and to hike a short hike to a waterfall we had so much fun!! Justin and i went in a two seater rhino that had real seats and seat belts and yes we took Jace with us i held him the whole time he loved it!! i had to force him to eat he didn't eat for 3 and half hours he usually eats every 2 and half that was how happy he was to be outside and he loved 4 wheeling he kept looking around at everything as fast as he could it was so funny to see is eyes moving so fast. I wish i had a picture to post with us on the 4 wheeler i know Janet has some on her camera i need to get them from her. I know some people were like you took Jace 4 wheeling?? like sceptical but i love 4 wheeling and the only way i could go is if Jace went with me so i did what i did and i don't care! ha ha That weekend was the funniest weekend I've ever had up at marysvale for sure.


So Halloween as just passed and it was so fun we went to another Halloween party at my brother in laws cabin up sundance with all my sisters friends and some of mine we all meshed well so it was fun. Since Jace goes to bed at 8 every night without fail except last night it was 7:30, my mom babysat him at her house cause he was easy he just slept the whole time.
It was so nice to go and chill at the party and just be Justin and i and friends. Here are some cute pic's of Jace in his Halloween costume he was a tiger. Justin went as i biker like the spandex shorts with padding the butt he wore a helmet and a camolpack it as so funny!! for those of you who know my dad he looked just like him when he goes riding!! and for those of you have never seen ugly betty that is who i dressed up as minus the braces and watch. Totally off the subject but


this time change is killing me Jace goes to bed at 8 right at gets up a 7. well Sunday he went to bed at 7 cause to him that's 8 and got up at 6 man i was so tired!! and Justin was sick so he couldn't watch him so that i could take a nap!! arggghh.. ha ha anyways it's so crazy you think that it will take forever for your kids to start doing things but then they surprise you last week Jace all the sudden decided he only likes sitting up so began sitting up and after 3 days he could sit up on his own minus fallin over to the side when he would grab for things on his side i just sit behind him with him in between my legs and let him sit for as long as he wants too. Its so crazy me the week before he wasn't sitting up and now he is so weird!! butt good. He's looking like he's going to start crawling soon too i give him by the end of month beginning of December. not looking forward to that if my predictions are true!! so here is a cute pic of him going to church he looked to cute!!
right after this picture he spit up all over me so i had to change so annoying!! He's starting to teeth two he's almost got his first tooth in oh i mean second tooth his first broke through the second night after he was born! And I'm tired once again cause i was watching Jace last night when i should have been sleeping but he was so funny he is a toss and turner now i guess every time i would wake up he would be in a totally different position like couple upside down from the way i layed him down at and he even flipped on his stomach as slept like that for awhile so weird we have one crazy cute mover on are hands

This is when he first started sitting up.. anyway he woke up from hi usual 30 minute naps arghhh..

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New Hair do!

It is not what i expected or wanted but it looks good and i'm on my way back to being blond! it feels so good to get your hair done at least for me it does

Good news at least it's good news for me! i only have 13 pounds left to lose down from the 62pds i gained with jace.. and a whole lot of toning to do but i think that is good! if you have any good work out plans for how you lost your baby weight let me know!!

Wonderful things

Friday Sept 5th
Well I've bee sick with flu bug the cold flu bug that is. I got sick Tuesday night i was so sick Justin took off work on wed to watch Jace my mom watched Jace on Thursdays Fri i really needed someone but their was none so jace played on the floor all day while i layed on the couch and watched him. bUT the cool thing is on Friday Jace was playing on his back under the jungle gym and i looked away for a moment and when i looked at him again he had rolled over onto his stomach i was like what the... then right in front of my eyes he kicked rolled himself back onto his back i was so shocked he just turned three months that day. Well the Thursday i was sick was Jace's 2 month check up and my mom took jace well we have determined that Jace is a skinny little bugger ha ha.

head 20% a little small right now
height 80% really tall for his age
weight 12 pd 4 oz 40% a little light for his age but its ok

You know whats funny when Jace was being weighed and he was all naked the first thing the doc said was woo that kids all muscle!! Jace may be skinny but he is all muscle that's for sure.
So the doc recommended that Jace all babies for that matter should not watch TV or computer screen i guess it stimulates their brain differently than their toys and being outside and stuff. I was sad to here that cause he loves watching TV but oh well will do what the doc says. He also told me to start to putting Jace on his tummy 10 times a day for 5 minutes well i just started doing that on Sunday that's when i started to feel better and today i put him on his stomach the 4 time and just rolled over like it was nothing and starting playing with his toys so i put him back on his stomach and he just did it again it was so funny to see the look on his face when he rolled over it was a surprised look but it only lasted for a sec. i thought it was so funny!!!

Blessing

We blessed Jace today and it was wonderful!! He was fussy right before church started but then as soon as church started he settled down and during the blessing he was awesome he didn't make a sound so we were able to hear justin bless him. That was a blessing in itself. :) It was so great to hear all the wonderful things justin blessed him with and to think of all things he could do when he gets older. All and all it was a wonderful day. We missed all you who couldn't make it!! anyway time to go to bed i'm so tired!!

Breaking Dawn

Well I've been waiting and waiting for this book to come out!! I finished reading it and i thought it was really good the first and second book are still my favorites. Breaking dawn did go in a whole different direction then i thought it would and it was boring in some parts wasn't as exciting or romantic as the first books but it was still entertaining and captivating. I'm sad that this series is over and yet happy that it is over cause i hated waited years for the next book. HA HA Now i can't wait for the Twilight movie coming out in November!! :)

Random stuff

Well i haven't written anything in awhile so i thought i would write whats been going on. Well Jace is now 11 pounds 6 oz's he is a growing boy! His weight and height is in the average range and his head is in the 25% range. So he's trucking along like he should despite having acid reflux and a milk allergy. Well now that we have Jace on the milk allergy formula he is a new baby and i have my life back!! I think I've finally got the hang of this mother thing.. ha ha it only took 8 weeks but I've started to do normal day activities. I used to wonder how do all these mothers in the world get anything done? Jace is 2 months old already so crazy it goes by so fast! He is such a funny boy he loves getting his diaper changed every time i set him on his changing table he starts smiling and he gets even happier when i start undressing him he loves being naked. Whenever he is screaming bloody murder the first thing i do is set him on his changing table it's so funny he stops crying immediately and starts looking around. He is a very awake alert baby always looking around and moving I'm afraid i have a very active child! I'm worried my mom says he is like me and that scares me cause i was a very very active little kid my mom was always losing me so will see how it goes... Justin has finally finished school this summer he took 18 credits this summer that is a lot for summer and got all A's maybe a B in all class's for some reason school agrees with him I'm so proud of him!! School never agreed with me...
Oh and random thought i'm going CRAZY i forgot to pre order BREAKING DAWN and have had to wait all week for it to be mailed to my house!! costco, target, walmart, desert book were all sold out... i'm going CRAZY i've waited so long for this book i can't wait to read it!!

Update on baby Jace

Well jace started having weird bowel movements with blood in the stool come to find out he has a milk allergy. So my options were a milk free diet or formula. For everyone who doesn't know this cause i sure didn't realize milk is in EVERYTHING so if i decided to keep on breastfeeding i would only be able to eat fruit vegetables and meat with no sauce or seasoning and for someone who doesn't particularly like meat this diet seemed unreal. So i am now formula feeding him a really expensive allergy free formula hopefully after next weeks meeting with the doctor we can switch to a less expensive kind of formula. But I'm glad we took him in i was really worried when i saw blood in is stool. We took him in for a after hours appointment last night I'm glad we did after feeding him formula all night long he hasn't spit up as much his poop is starting to look normal again and i think he is feeling better so far. I know this might sound bad but now that Jace is formula feeding i can have chocolate!!! man i have been craving chocolate since he was born!! I'm just glad we are finally getting Jace to feel better because like all you mothers out their no there is nothing more frustrating than a baby not feeling good and you not knowing how to help them. anyway that's it for now got to go feed the little monkey!! ha ha

Whats been going on since Jace arrived

Well since Jace has arrived we have been really busy. It was one thing right after another. First Jace ended up having Juandice i don't know how to spell that. So he had to be under the lights in a suite case it was a hard week i wouldn't have lasted if my mom hadn't stayed the week with me. He cried all night long the first night home i thought it was because he wanted to be held and loved and not under the lights which i think was part of the reason he cried but we found out the next day that he had a tooth on the bottom front of his mouth that broke through the gums that night. Everyday that first week i had to take Jace to the hospital to be poked and get blood drawn for his jaundice and on top of that we had to take him to a pediatrician dentist and ended up having to get his tooth pulled on Thursday the 19th so that was another fun night of him crying all night long because his mouth was hurting him. The dentist made it sound like it wasn't a big deal and that it wouldn't hurt him boy did i under estimate him. It surely did hurt him and i learned the hard way that i should have waited a couple more days to get that tooth pulled but it is all over with now so what can you do. And on top of all this Jace is a spitter i have been drenched by him so many times i stopped putting clothes on him ha ha.. so he has been a naked boy the last couple of weeks for most of the time. But the things have been getting better one Thing good is once the weekend came and Jace and i finally had a normal day of being just at home he sleeps all night long except for waking up for feedings every two hours which saved my life because he wasn't sleeping during the day or night that first week i thought i was going to die. People kept telling me it gets better man i was like really ya right it gets better. but it did and it is getting better we just had a few obstacles to get through first. This morning we ended up taking Jace to a chiropractor who specializes in babies and pregnant women. I heard through the lactation specialist that i had come and help me with feeding Jace which was another problem i was having was that he would only eat on one side for 6 minutes and be completely out sleeping and couldn't be woken up. So it was hard cause he would only sleep for 1 hour and 20 minutes and be hungry again and if he spit up which he often did he got hungry even sooner which is why i was getting no sleep. Lactation specialist helped me out with that and now Jace is eating better and sleeping better. She recommended that i get him looked at by this chiropractor and said that one reason babies spit up and don't eat as well one side than another is that their spine is off and it makes it so they cant turn their head as well on side than another. She was also telling me that most people just assume that their babies have reflux which is one thing i was thinking Jace had and sometimes they do have reflux but another thing is they just need some adjusting so we are going to see if that is what Jace needed was adjustment. we go back for a check up on Wed. Anyway that is what has been happening so far. oh we also found out the he has a hernia under his belly button which is why it sticks out so far. The doctor says that is normal and that it should go away before he turns two. So my pregnancy was easy and perfect the labor was easy and uncomplicated so i guess i couldn't have everything be perfect ha ha.. Jace is a healthy normal baby boy so i guess that is all i can ask for he just had a rough couple of weeks. So far today i can see a difference in Jace from his adjustment he had this morning. I'm so thankful for my mom and all the people she knows who could help me out with my problems and making it easier for me to be a good mom to Jace and to know how to better help him Cause it was rough their for a while but i'm seeing a light at the end of the tunnel. oh and Jace is gaining weight like a good boy he is now 9 pounds 5 ounces yeah!!

HE IS HERE!! Jace Harley Marshall

He was born on Friday the 13th 8 pounds 10 ounces 19 inches and soo cute!!

The Day has finally come!!

Well it's finally here! It's time for our little boy to come. I am schedule for a inducement for Friday the 13Th so crazy our little man is going to be here tomorrow night hopefully. The Labor and delivery called and at 7 am tomorrow morning is when it all starts. I finally had my first contraction two nights ago i only had one it was in my back so at first i didn't know it was a contraction i thought it was a backache but then it turned into a deadly backache i thought i was going to die my first thought was holy cow those women who do labor with no drugs are brave that was painful!! That one and only contraction made it a no brainer that i was going to get a epidural. I mean i was planning on having one anyway... :) anyway i am excited to finally get our little boy here we still haven't picked out a name but he will have one by the time we leave the hospital. Any who just wanted to keep you informed since i probably won't have time to update this thing anytime soon!

Playing the waiting game...

Well I only have 2 days until my due date. So crazy you find out your prego and you think 9 months is so far away and that the day for you to give birth will never come. Well its here and I'm totally freaked out! and my first thought was what was i thinking theirs no turning back now their is only two ways for this baby to come out and both are not that fun to think about. HA HA :) but that's expected for a first time mom who has never given birth. I just look around at all these women with children and say they got through it i guess i will too. I'm kinda feeling like i wish i would just go into labor so i can get this experience over with but at the same time I'm glad i haven't i need a couple more days... anyway people keep on asking us if we have come up with a name and the for real answer is no we haven't we are not keeping it a secret for real we really haven't come up with a name. We are just going to bring a list of 5 or so of are favorite names and name him when we see him and see what name fits. We only have to come up with a first name because we already decided that his middle name is going to be Harley just like Justin who was named after his grandpa. Justin is getting more and more excited as i get more and more worried I'm excited too but the being worried is over shadowing the excitement feeling. :) oh well I'm as ready as a can be so now I'm just waiting... If i go over i am scheduled to be induced on Friday the 13th funny huh at least i know that Friday the 13 th will be my last day pregnant. I'm ready to not be prego anymore cause I'm freakin huge and can't wait to sleep on my stomach again ha ha well that's it for now I'm at work obviously working really hard. :)

Busy Life

Well a lot has been happening the last two weeks I had my baby shower on April 26Th which was so much fun!! Brittany graduated on Friday April 25Th so my grandma and other family members were in town for her graduation and were also able to make it to my baby shower. We planned it that way. I am so thankful for all the great and cute stuff everyone gave me at my shower it makes having a this baby even more fun. Specially since I'm not freaking out as much anymore because I'm a little more prepared for this little guy to come now. A little freaked out and nervous that i only have 4 weeks left but excited as well. I just hope he's healthy and that everything goes well.
Then this same weekend April 27Th my brother Andrew had is mission farewell man it was such a crazy fun busy weekend graduating, baby shower, and mission farewell. I have no idea how my mom pulled it all off she must have been going crazy. Good thing she had my sister to help she's good at these kinds of things cause me being huge and all I wouldn't have been much help. So we had another family get together along with friends of Andrew for a brunch at my moms house which was fun cause I was able to hang out with extended family I don't see very often. So it was a chaotic fun family weekend. :)
The very same week May 2 my Older brother Bryce Graduated and we had another family dinner to celebrate his graduating and all and then watched the Jazz play off game that was that night we couldn't miss that... It was so cool to see Bryce and Brittany graduate they worked so hard always studying instead of playing. Its fun now because they both have more spare time now and are less stressed so I have been able to hang with them more. Then the last event my brother Andrew left for his mission on May 7Th. I went to the missionary MTC to send him off that was a really cool experience since i wasn't able to go with my two older brothers when they left because we lived in Spokane. Andrew was so ready to go on his mission he is one of those people who was born waiting and preparing for when they could go on their mission. He is going to a really cool area too Munich Germany which also includes Austria how cool is that. we saw a video and pictures of the area's he could be serving man they were so beautiful!! It's so weird that he's gone now he spent the last 3 months practically living at my house eating my food and playing video games with my hubby Justin. Now i wont see him for two years and are little guy will be 2 years old exactly when he returns. Anyway that was are jam packed two weeks of chaos throw in a friends baby blessing and Justin's and mine birthing classes We were little busy bodies. I'm so glad i can just relax now its fun going to things but it's also nice to just chill at home on the couch.

Finally last Saturday April 18th Justin and I got around to cleaning out the babies room. It's so frustrating now that I'm pregnant because I'm really independent if i want something done i just go ahead and just do it myself. But now that I'm preggers i have to depend on other people and their schedules to get things done because we pregnant people can't lift heavy objects. I was so happy on Saturday when i didn't even have to beg or bribe or throw a nesting faze pregnant crying fit to get Justin to help spring clean the house and clean and organize the babies room. He just helped me and was even in a good mood about it. I was so surprised because i have been wanting to get the babies room ready for awhile now. I'm one of those people who like to be ready ahead time and plan ahead it just helps me relax. We got so much done too it felt so good were not all the way finished yet but we are almost there. I am so pleased with are crib we ordered it online off of reviews from Walmart the site to store option they give saves a bundle on shipping. We also bought the crib bedding online it took me forever to find a crib set i loved i decided i didn't want a themed room and nothing to babish. Just my preference.
I received the baby crib set first before the crib and was worried the brown colors in the blanket wouldn't match the crib but i was so glad when i put it in the crib and how good it looked at least i think it looks good. ha ha :) W e also ordered a dresser from Walmart but it was different brand than the crib but still the espresso color i was worried the two espresso colors wouldn't' match but they match perfectly!! Man that was a a relief . It's so exciting getting all the babies stuff together specially since i only have 7 weeks left so crazy I'm so excited to get are little boy here.

Fun Weekend

Well last weekend we went to the Clark County Fair in Logandale Nevada, it is a tradition for us every year. It was so fun we went to the rodeo Friday and Saturday night. Saturday was definitely the best night to go because there was a huge wind storm on Friday night and if anyone has ever been to Logandale, it is a desert so it was a dusty wind storm. You can tell by my wind blown hair
In this picture i don't know why i spent time actually doing my hair oh well. ha ha.. We had lots of fun eating the outrageous priced fair food but who can pass up the dessert crepe's and funnel cakes i know i can't ha ha. I think i gained 5 pounds over that weekend good thing I'm prego so you couldn't tell because i was already huge. :) It was really fun seeing my in-law's since i don't get to see them very often, them being 6 hours away and all. It was a little chaotic but so much fun with all the family their for the fair we had 4 babies under a year old, 2 to half year olds, two 4 year olds, and a eight year old, we ended up baby sitting on Saturday along with Justin's sister's man they really tuckered us out. It was getting me prepared for my own baby coming in June. Justin was tired he ended up taking a nap along with one of his niece's they slept for a good hour. It was so cute Justin is going to be a really good dad. We enjoyed our weekend of fun with family specially since i took two days off of work to go :).

If u love Pride and Prejudice you'll Love this movie!!

First of all I LOVE this movie!! My moms friend bought this for my mom for her birthday so my sister and I watched it with her on Saturday during priesthood. First of all my mom was like it's a 4 hour movie and my first thought was 4 hours..... oh man i hope i make it through the movie ha ha. Holy cow I never thought i would say this because nothing compares to Pride and Prejudice the movie starring Colin Firth. but this movie was as good or better than Pride and Prejudice I know I know I couldn't believe it either because I love Pride and Prejudice but I loved this movie just as much as or more than Pride and Prejudice. I am now looking for the book on amazon and can't wait to read it! For those of you who are a Mr. Darcy fan like me the Mr. Darcy in North and South is just as good or better I could not believe it. I can't wait to watch this movie again hopefully I can find an extra 4 hours to spare again to watch it.

Not allowed to watch animal planet anymore! :)

Well once we have our baby and get a life i will have more interesting things to write about but for now i love my bubby!! ha ha Well i love watching animal planet. Yeah i know I'm a nerd! but today Jax decided to watch it with me. He was so into the TV all the dogs and animal noise's it was so cute! But then he tried to find where the noise were coming from he got so confused he kept looking behind the screen to see where the dogs went! and then he started looking in the bathroom which is right behind the TV it was so funny he was so confused! I felt kinda a sorry for him but it was so funny! Jax started to get so confused he started putting his nose up to the TV and he almost jumped onto the TV that's when it started to become not so funny... ha ha we love are TV so to get him to stop watching the TV i had to turn the TV off and let him forget about the dogs he saw. So now I'm not allowed to watch the animal planet when Jax is in the room.

good things do happen..

well I'm 26 weeks prego now crazy huh! and feeling like a huge heffer ha ha but oh well comes with the territory. so the house we are renting the basement in right now has been for sale now for 11 months and finally just sold. Justin and i were counting on the people who bought the house would want us to stay but i started to loose faith and started panicking but are prayers were answered. A couple of days a young couple with one child and one on the way bought the house and they previously asked if we wanted stay. so we are are thrilled they are a really cool family and we don't have to MOVE!! and they are going to let us keep are dog not inside though but i can live with that. i hope Jax can too! ha ha i think its going to be hard for him we have spoiled him so bad. so that was good news moving and being pregnant was not going to be fun but now i don't have to worry about it. So everything has been working out and running smoothly for now which is a huge blessing.

Yesterday was our first ultrasound for are first baby! so exciting we have been patiently waiting for this appointment.(well maybe not me) ha ha we were rescheduled for two days later which ended up being yesterday. Justin had Convinced Himself we were having a girl. He secretly wanted a boy. So funny well at the ultrasound we found out that we are expecting a very healthy boy!!:) so EXCITING Justin was thrilled cause he really wanted a boy. So now we are excited and can start planning are little boys room and preparing for his arrival. i was measuring big so they moved my due date from June 14th 4 days before my b-day to June 7 2008 which is my dads b-day. So fun