"What's your Mommy's Name?"

My Mom likes to tell a story about when I was a little girl and a man asked me what my Mom's name was. My response to him was "I don't know, but Danny calls her Darlin." My Mom and Dad have ALWAYS called each other "Darlin." In fact their Christmas presents still have tags that read "To Darlin, From Darlin."

Well...Karma is a funny thing sometimes!

We had to run into SLC to take Carson in on Friday to get his weight checked. His Dr. wanted to see if he had gotten back up to his birth weight yet, since he had lost so much that first week of being home. He was about 2 oz shy of being birth weight, but she was happy with his weight, so that was good! :)

The boy eats ALL the time, so I was actually surprised that he wasn't heavier, but we'll take 8lbs 5oz. :)

Since we were in SLC there were a few things that I wanted to do, so we ran a few errands, and did some shopping.

I dragged everyone into Michael's, because I had a 50% off coupon that I wanted to use. I didn't think I was in there too long, but I apparently was in there long enough for everyone to be a little more than bored.

Keric was standing by me and asked me where Cameron and Reagan were. I told him that they were with Dad and we would be leaving soon. Next thing I know, Keric is NOT with me, and Chris and the kids are asking me where he is.

Great!!! I knew he had just been there, I'm not a TOTAL waste of a Mom, so I didn't think he had gotten very far. Chris told the other kids to stay by me, and he went off looking for him.

About 30 seconds later I hear a lady over the intercom say "If there is a customer named Chris in the store, please come back to the framing department."

I knew that HAD to be MY Chris and that Keric had somehow made his way to the back of the store, and was most likely in a total state of panic! We waited for probably a couple minutes and sure enough, around the corner came Chris and Bubby.

A lady had found him wandering the store, and took him back to the Framing department to report him as lost. I felt like a real piece of crap Mom! That's the first time we have had to go pick Bubby up from somewhere for bing lost! He actually didn't seem all that frazzled, and didn't even look like he had been crying. He looked a little embarrassed, and a little worried that he was about to get into huge trouble.

A couple days later I was talking to him about his lost experience in Michael's and was asking him what had happened. He couldn't tell me much, mostly that a lady found him and took him to another lady to find his Mom. I thought it was sort of odd that they asked for Chris so I got to thinking...does he know MY name? What if I had been in there alone and he didn't know my name? So I said "Did the lady ask you what your Mommy's name was?" He said "Yes" I said "Well do you know your Mommy's name?" Again he said "Yes". So I said "What did you tell her your Mommy's name was?" He looked at me like I was crazy and said "I just say her name is Pantsi!"

Well no WONDER they asked you what your Dad's name was! I told him that Pantsi was just a nickname that Daddy called me, but my NAME was Natalee. He actually seemed somewhat shocked by this revelation.

Hopefully he has learned his lesson, and will not run off and get lost in another store, but if he does, lets hope that he remembers that his Mom's name is really NOT Pantsi!

Welcome to our Family Carson

My time and energy for blogging has seemed to be well...non-existent, but at the present time Carson is sleeping and content, so I better do something a little more productive than look and dream at all the stuff on Pintrest! :)

I truly can't believe that Carson is already a month old! Where has time gone??

Before I forget it, I wanted to write down Carson's birth story.

The week before Carson was born was probably one of the hardest weeks of my pregnancy! I in all honesty felt like my entire body had just been taken over! I couldn't seem to eat enough, drink enough, sleep enough, or cry/yell enough. I was so grumpy and grouchy and totally uncomfortable! My hip was really hurting, my feet were completely swollen and sore and all I wanted to do was sit on the couch, about the only comfortable position I could find, but that really wasn't realistic, although I spent more time on the couch than I honestly should have!

I still took Keric to school, still did Activity Days, and even got the laundry done,, but that was about it for the week. On Friday March 9th I had my weekly Dr.'s appointment. Dr. Holmes had told me the week before that she would strip my membranes at this appointment, so I was a feeling a little nervous when I went to check in with the nurse.

I weighed in and then sat down to have my blood pressure taken. It had been high for several weeks off and on, but lately it had been pretty normal, except for today! I don't remember the exact reading, but I do remember seeing a 110 on the bottom number and I knew enough about blood pressure readings to know that that reading was NOT good!! The nurse and I looked at each other with our eyes kind of wide, and I knew this probably wasn't good!

We didn't talk to Dr. Holmes for very long, just long enough for her to tell us that we needed to head up to the hospital to get some stress testing done, and to probably plan on either being admitted, or being on bed rest for the rest of my pregnancy.

Of course we hadn't brought anything with us, plus we had Keric with us, and were supposed to be picking up Cam and Reag for the weekend. To say we were ill prepared would be a total understatement!

Somehow it all seemed to work out. I was admitted to the Hospital around 5:00 p.m. and Dr. Holmes agreed to wait on the Pitocin while Chris drove back home, dropped Keric at Grandma Anne's and got all my stuff.

Labor this time was a lot different than it was with Keric. It hurt a lot more, I'm not sure I even actually felt any contractions with Keric. Lots of pressure, but never any real "pain". My water broke and wow did it ever break! I think I was ALL water!! They said I had about 3 times as much water as normal! Nice!

I was in labor for about 8 hours, MUCH shorter than Keric's 24 hours! However the almost 2 hours of pushing didn't work this time. I pushed and pushed until I truly thought I was going to pass out, but I never got anywhere, so we ended up doing a C-section after all.

I was a little nervous, but more relieved that it was all about to be over, and there would be no more pushing and counting to 10 involved!

It took about 30 mins or so from start to finish. The pressure they always talk about feeling, yeah...it's more like a flippin car sitting on your chest, not exactly what I would call a "little pressure", but other than that, it wasn't horrible.

At 4:28 a.m. out little big man was born, and boy was he MAD about it! Keric never made a sound when he was born, but not Carson! He wailed and screamed and cried with the best of em! Nothing wrong with that little boys lungs!!

He weighed in at 8lbs 7oz and was 20.5 inches long. Other than being quite a bit bigger than Keric, he looks exactly like him! My two little clones!

For the most part he is a good baby! Loves to be held, loves his swing - sometimes, and loves to sleep...except he sleeps during the day and is awake most of the night!

We love him and are so happy to have him join our family! I'm excited to watch him grow up and to become his own little person. As much as he looks like Keric, I wonder if he will act like him as well? I guess time will tell.

I love you Squeakers! Even if you don't let your mommy sleep!

The Mickey Bathroom

The Mickey Bathroom has been done for a couple of weeks now, but there have been some finishing touches that I wanted to get done before I posted pictures.

I can't tell you how in LOVE I am with this little bathroom! It turned out so much cuter than I even had envisioned! I could never have done it without Chris' help! Thank You honey for putting up with my crazy ideas, and for helping me to execute them all!

This may be the closest any of us get to Disneyland for quite a while, but that's OK...Keric LOVES it, and hopefully Carson will too! :)

Here is our "New Bathroom!"

Mickey Shower Curtain


New Window Curtain and Night Light



New Toilet Seat, Black Rugs, and Black and White garbage Can


I cut out a Mickey Silhouette out of Vinyl and Chris shellacked it onto a new toilet seat. LOL

Mickey Towels



Hand Towel, Soap Dispenser, and toothbrush holder



Mickey Rug in front of the sink



Mickey Light Switch Plate



Tubby Time Collage complete with my fur babies too! :)

Mom! Come see the Mouse!

I was upstairs doing some laundry and Keric came running upstairs looking for me. This was the conversation that we had:

Keric: Mommy! Come see...Daddy has a mouse outside!
Me: "WHAT!?! No! I do not want to see a mouse! Where in the world did Daddy get a mouse?"
Keric: "He find it..."

Now I am really freaking out! That's all I need is a stupid mouse in the house!

Me: "where in the world did he find it?? Did he kill it!?"
Keric: "No, he not died it, it's a nice mouse. He find it downstairs".

Keric kept insisting that I go outside and see this mouse. The whole time I am thinking, I hope I can keep it together and not freak out too badly. I HATE mice, more than anything! I kept thinking why in the world would Chris want me to go outside and see some stupid mouse. By the time I get downstairs I am feeling more mad than anything and I am far from amused.

Keric runs ahead and starts pointing outside, "Look, see..it's a nice mouse!"




I very slowly approach the window, and there sitting on the deck is my old COMPUTER mouse in pieces. Chris had taken my old pink mouse apart and took it outside to spray paint it grey. Poor Chris wasn't even downstairs OR outside, he was on a work call upstairs! I truly about had a flippen heart attack, and poor Chris about got a swift kick in the butt for something he didn't even do....