Baby #2

(I bet you are all so glad to see my pee stick, huh!!! Sorry. I just wanted to show the proof.)

So, on February 15th Darrell and I found out we are going to be adding another little bundle of joy to our family. We are so excited. It looks like I will be due around October 21 (one week after mine and Darrell's birthday). Crazy huh!!! I have my first doctor's appointment on March 24. I will post any other news or pictures (if I have them) after that appointment. Hopefully it is only one baby. LOL!!!


Right now Darrell wants a boy, for many reason, who can blame him. I want another girl though. I have been learning to make so many cute little bows and girlie things that I want to be able to use my new skills on another little girl. Plus, it would be nice for Madilyn to have a sister close in age to her so they can have things in common and play together. We both will be happy with either gender though. What we really want is a happy, healthy baby who sleeps as good as Madilyn does and did. One can hope. Maybe we will get luck twice. Cross your fingers for us. More to come.

Dog walks...

Here is Madilyn with Peanut. Madilyn loves to help walk the dogs. We have 3 lab mix dogs whom she loves very much. She love to chase them around the house, climb on them so she can get on the couch, and pull their hair and tails. They are all so good with her and they are pretty good about staying with her and not pulling her down when she has the leash.

FINALLY...NO MORE BOTTLES!!! YAY!!!

This past weekend Darrell and I went down to Dallas for his sister's wedding and I forgot to pack a bottle for Madilyn. She only has a bottle when she gets up in the morning and when she goes to bed. I have kept giving her a bottle because she seems to drink more milk out of a bottle then out of a sippy cup. Anyways, I thought she was going to freak out like she did when we tried to take the bottle away about 6 months ago, but surprisingly she didn't. Although she wasn't thrilled about drinking her milk from a sippy cup she was just so tired the first night and she wanted something to drink so she just drank her milk from her cup. There was a few fussy moments and then she gave in. It was a lot easier than the first time. Yay!!!

So, finally at 20 1/2 months I am packing away the bottles until we have another little one. I am so happy we got through this stage. Doctors have been telling me for a while to get her off a bottle because it is bad for her teeth, while now she is off the bottle. Hurray!!! I have been wanted to get her off a bottle for months and I have just been to weak. She hasn't had a bottle since Friday morning and she hasn't really seemed to mind not having her one. Thank goodness. I will miss how cute she is when she just wakes up or when it is time for bed and a bottle seems to help relax her. She is so cute. Now getting her off the binkie is another story. That will be the hardest. Wish me luck.

These pictures were taken more than a year ago, but she still is so cute. Just bigger.

New title...

Ok, so the title "Jill and Darrell" was making me so bored. I think I am going to try out a few new titles before I actually change it. I might keep the website address the same but just change the name of the blog. Stay tuned. Any suggestions are welcomed. I am not very creative with these kind of things. :-)

No More Chili's...Hopefully ever!!!

Tonight was Darrell's last night at Chili's. He has been working there for about 5 years and off and on for over 10 years. Crazy huh? The Chili's here in the town we are living in wasn't what we expected. We will miss the great food discounts but we need and are starting to eat better so maybe this is a good thing.

We are both excited for his new job as Assistant Manager at the Auto Zone right by our house. It takes less than 5 minutes to walk there (which he is excited about since Chili's was about a 10-15 minute drive). He is also excited about the hours (and so am I). He won't be getting home at 1 and 2 am any more. Thank goodness. The knowledge he will learn about things he will need in the future also excites him.

Darrell also start back to school tomorrow. This is his second semester at this school. He loves being at such a big school. He will only be taking 4 classes instead of 5 like last semester so we are hoping we might be able to see each other more often. He is getting his masters in architecture. His undergrad is not in architecture so this program will be about a 3 1/2 or 4 year program. We will be here for a while. At the end of 2 years he will have a second bachelors degree which we are both excited about. I am so proud of Darrell for working so hard when things haven't been all that easy for him or us. He keeps pushing forward and fights for what he wants and knows is right. I truly admire him and thank him for the great example he is setting now for our kids in the future. I love you babe. XOXO

Christmas Light Show

OK, so a couple days after Christmas I heard about an awesome Christmas light show in the town we are living. Here is the link. They only played 4 or 5 songs but it was really cool. The videos don't do it justice. It was much better in person.

As you are driving down this long dark country back road you can start to see the lights. Then you start seeing signs telling you to turn you radio to 107.1. Then the music starts. You drive into their lot of land and off to the right of their drive way is a field where you can park, turn you lights off and sit and watch the light show. It is so cool. Even though it was a Christian family and some of the songs were not traditional it really made this time of year feel like Christmas. Darrell and I look forward to seeing it again next year.

FYI--click on the title "Christmas Light Show" and it will take you to the website with the videos. Hope you enjoy.

Madilyn

Madilyn fell alseep in the car and when we brought her inside she woke up. We put her down, went and put things away, and when we came back into the living room we found her like this. So cute. She was so tired.

Madilyn got her toes painted for the first time about two weeks ago. She always touches my toes when I have them painted so I painted hers and she loved it. She thought she was so cute. She messed them up a couple of times so I ended up painting them 3 or 4 times. Oh and she has Darrell's short, fat feet. Poor girl.

Madilyn's new crocks. I have never liked these but they are so cute on her. She found them at good will and wouldn't put them down. They looked really cute on her and they were only $2. Now, she loves to try and put them on herself and wear them all day.

More Halloween 2010

We went Trick-or-Treating around our friend's neighborhood. These are their two girls. Their little boy, who was a cowboy, is not in the picture. The girls love Madilyn and were helping her out all night. This guy had an awesome house. It was packed with so many differnt Halloween lawn decorations. Everyone loved it. You can see Madilyn and me walking up to the house. Here's the other side of the house. His house really stuck out on that street.
The man at the really decorated house even gave Madilyn a glowing reflector. It was a big help. Mommy forgot the ones she bought at home.

Walking with mommy.

I love this yard decoration. This was at one of the house we got candy from. The mom and daughter were both dressed up as witches and Madilyn was so scared. I had to go up and get her candy from them.

More Halloween 2010

Helping clean the pumpkins out.

This is where the meltdown starts.

Arching the back, oh ya. LOL

This is before the meltdown.

Halloween 2010

She was not happy about getting her picture taken. She was tired and didn't understand the whole dressing up thing, yet. :-) Her blankie and binkie always makes her feel better.

Standing with Grandma Mundy about to go Trick-or-Treating.

Daddy is so funny and can always make Madilyn laugh.

Mommy had to put on her cat costume ears so Madilyn felt like she was being cool like her mommy. lol She wouldn't wear them unless she saw I was wearing mine.

Madilyn "The Little Devil".

Cute blue eyes and a space, just like her mommy had when she was small. Mommy's grew together so hopefully Madilyn's will as well. If not, there is always braces.

SHE'S HERE!!!! YAY!!!!

Madilyn Grace was born at 7:52 am on May 11, 2009. She was 7 lbs. 9 oz. and 20 inches long. She has strawberry blond hair and has long skinny legs and fingers. The delivery was great. I had the best anesthesiologist out there. I had a spinal block for my c-section and I didn't feel a thing. It was great. I was up walking that night. The hospital staff and lactation consultants are so great at Centennial Medical Center. I want to have my next baby there as well.

Madilyn loves to sleep on mommy and daddy's chest but not in her bassinet. She is such a good baby. The only time she gets fussy is when she is hungry or her diaper is getting changed.

Darrell is so in love with her. He loves to take naps with her, hold her while he is watching TV and play with her.

She is a little lazy when she eats so she did not gain any weight when we weighed her at her one month appointment. This worried me a lot. To help her gain weight I have been feeding her more often, eating more protein and high calorie foods, and I switched from fat free milk to vitamin D milk. I am not suppose to bring her back to our pediatrician until she is 2 months old but he is so concerned about her weight that he wants me to come back in a week (just to be weighed). I really hope she gains something when we weight her again. I will try to post an update next weekend when I know more. Cross your fingers.

Picture will be coming soon. Sorry, I am still trying to figure out how to post them. Stay tuned!!!

She's almost here!!

I have a planned C-Section scheduled for Monday, May 11, 2009, at 7:30 am. I went to the doctor today and she said I was only one centimeter dilated. I found it funny that I am so close to my due date, I have been walking around the mall and different store for hours a day for the last couple of days, and I am still not able to dilate. My sister Jessica can dilate just by blinking, but I am doing several things that would put a normal person into labor but nothing comes of it. It's not like I want to have her too early but I just find it funny. Anyways, I will try to get pictures up as soon as I can after she comes so everyone can see our new little one. And no, we have not picked a name yet. We are going to wait to see what she looks like and see if she has red hair. We have a list but we cannot decide on one yet. We will let you know soon.

IT'S A GIRL!!!!!! YAY!!!!!

I have started a registry at Babies R US. I'm not done but I continue to add to it when I have time.

Family Picture

This my family outside the Houston temple the day Darrell and I got sealed together. Included in the picture are: Mom and Dad(2), brothers and sisters and their spouses(13), and all the grand kids(12). Total=27, not including the two on the way.

First Untrasound!!

This is my first ultrasound. I am 8 weeks here.

We're pregnant!!!!!!!

We found out (through a home pregnacy test) on September 28 that we are going to be having a baby. We were both shocked because we did not expect this at all. I am not 16 and a 1/2 weeks and we are so excited. I am due on May 20 so I am almost half way there. We will find out on December 19th what we will be having, so stay tuned.

The Puppies

This is Kol. He has the longest stare I have ever seen from a dog. You say anything like "go", "park", "bunny", "squirrel", "bye bye", "potty", "out", "outside", and he does this. He stares you down till you show him what you said. He says "What, what did you say? Where, where is it?" It is so funny. Kol's favorite things are running, chasing bunnies and squirrels, playing tug-of-war, catching and chasing balls, swimming, and cuddling with mommy.

This is peanut (on the left) and chewy (on the right), right after we got them. They both could fit in the kennel at that time and now only peanut can fit in there comfortably. As you can tell they love chewing on bones. They practically swallow them whole (big ones at that). Peanut's favorite things are bones, following mommy around to every room she goes to, swimming, chasing and tackling chewy and kol (well they all love that, as well as they all love going to the park to run and play), running as fast as she can while the boys try to get her (she is the fastest of them all), and eating anything we are eating or anything that has a wrapper on it and might have food in it. She is a bottomless pit. Chewy's favorite things are balls, socks (he steals our socks out of the hamper or from anywhere he can and brings them to us like "hey look what I found, I love socks"), swimming, finding and retrieving things for mommy and daddy that the other two dogs can't or don't care about, cuddling, running, and eating anything and everything. They are all crazy and lots of fun.

A little about the M family....

First of all, I wanted to let everyone know a little about Darrell and I. We have been married for a year and 3 months and everything has been great.

Darrell and I have been working as much and as often as possible lately. Darrell is currently working at Dick's Sporting Goods in the mall near our apartment and has a second job at Chili's right outside the mall. He works long and hard for this family and we (me and our 3 dogs) really appreciate all he does. He is currently applying for a job with the Police Department and is looking for any type of architecture jobs in the meantime. Right now I am working at Banana Republic inside the mall waiting to start my new job. I just got a job at a middle school near by teaching 7th grade Math. I am so excited and cannot wait for it all to start.

We have 3 dogs and they are all doing well. Beside the fact that Peanut had a Urinary Tract Infection this week. She is doing a lot better. They are all getting so big and they are all so smart. Kol our 4 year old (he will be 5 in September) is the leader of the pack and is such a good dog. He is also a very pretty dog. He is a mix between a black lab and a whippet (it is a small greyhound). He is very lean and muscular and weighs about 65 pounds right now. He is also very fast and love to chase bunnies and squirrels. On February 8, 2007, Darrell and I went to the SPCA to go look at the dogs and play with them. We found a litter of 10 puppies that were the cutest puppies we had ever seen. I wanted a little girl (I have never had my own dog and I wanted her so bad) and he wanted this little boy from that litter. So we got them both. We went from one dog to three. They are chocolate lab/German Shepard mixes. They are so cute. They look more like chocolate labs more than anything. The boy's name is Chewy and the little girl's name is Peanut. Well, I guess they are really not that little because at a year and half Chewy weighs over 70 pounds and Peanut weighs 57 pounds. They are our babies. Pictures to come.

I graduated in December 2007 with a BA in Psychology. I just finished my teacher certification and passed my 4-8 Generalist exam. I have to take a couple more during my first year of teaching but by the end of my first school year I will be a certified teacher. What's nice about the school district I will be working for is that they offer to pay for your masters (if you want to get it) and all they require is that you work with the school district for two years. Plus they have day care for their teachers that is about half the price for regular daycare and it comes right out of your check each month. If we have kids and I need to work this will come in handy.

Darrell got his Bachelors about 4 years ago in Art History with a minor in Biology and Spanish. He just got two architecture certificates for the college near by. He wants to go to grad school for architecture sometime in the future. He is a great artist, designer, and decorator. He really has an act for this.

Other than working, taking care of our babies (our 3 dogs), and trying to find time to spend together life has been kind of crazy for us. It helps us stay on our toes.

changes.....

I might change our title and the website to get into our blog once we can think of a more creative name for our blog. If any one has any suggestions, we are all ears.

I am so confused......

I have no idea what I am doing so until I do I probably will not be posting anything for a while. Sorry, but stay tuned.