Abby Jane Comstock

We had family pictures taken two weeks ago and here is one of Abby that I love. Doreen from Creative Reflections Photography took the picture, she did a great job!

One lucky girl!

Well as you all know I had Abby about 5 weeks ago, her due date was on St. Patricks day, so she was 4 weeks early. I was definitely not ready for her arrival and I'm still in shock about how it all went down even 5 weeks later. Things are now settling down and she is a wonderful baby, I couldn't ask for anything more. Wesley is now starting to realize that Abby isn't going anywhere and that he has to share his mommy with someone else from here on out. He struggled at first but with each day it gets easier. As for me, I am doing great I am tired all the time but that is normal. I'm learning how to juggle the cleaning, cooking, laundry, napping, family time and me time. It gets tough when one o'clock rolls around and I haven't had anything to eat or brushed my teeth yet, but all moms have been there at one point or another! I have just been so lucky with the help that I have received and the blessing of a wonderful family and friends. Not to mention the best husband ever who helps all through the night, cleans, cooks, and massages my feet. Yep he is the best, and I love him so much! I am one lucky girl!

Doctors orders!

Well I had a check up today and the doctor said that I have gained an extra 2 pounds then what I am suppose to. She told me to cut back on the sweets, she said instead of eating a whole cookie eat half of a cookie. Half of a cookie? That is seer torture, who eats half of a cookie? So instead of eating half a cookie, I have decided to just get off my lazy butt and exercise, that way I can have a whole cookie!! :)

Sweet Tooth

Well my friends I am in trouble, it seems to me that my little girl is going to cause me to gain quite a bit of weight this pregnancy. For the past month or two I cannot get enough sweets to satisfy me. With Wesley I wanted anything with tomato sauce on it, now I am constantly wanting chocolate, cookies, candy, ice cream, you name it I want it. I tried to buy granola bars with chocolate chips in hopes that the small amount of chocolate would hold me over, well it didn't. Last week I was trying to take a nap and I just couldn't sleep due to the overwhelming craving I had for some chocolate chip cookies. I got up and started baking. I decided to double the batch, because hello I wanted a lot of cookies. Well it turns out that six and a half dozen cookies is a lot more then I thought it was going to be. So after several days the cookies were gone and guess what, the craving was back. I had to make another batch of cookies to make me happy. Poor Steven and Wesley are stuck with constant goodies in the house because of me, and they are loving it! Well I have about 3 and a half months left of this pregnancy and I hope that I will find something else to start craving, like veggies :)! Wish me luck!

Family Halloween Party!

Every year Stevens family has a Halloween party and since he has 11 brothers and sisters they make for pretty good parties. This year we were Jack and Sally from the nightmare before Christmas, and Wesley was hulk. The dress I wore was made by my brothers girl friend last year, so there for it was not made for me and my bulging belly. As the night went on and I continued to eat the dress got tighter and tighter. I was very uncomfortable, but I guess Halloween costumes are not made to be comfortable anyways. Wesley still has three more opportunities to wear his costume and he loves being hulk. He was growling at everyone at the party, he is so tough you know! Well I hope everyone has a Happy Halloween!

Hot dogs!!

So today Steven and I were talking and we were looking at our finances. We were trying to decide on what things we can do to cut back on our monthly spending. We looked at all the bills we had to pay and somethings that were just luxuries. When we talked about our grocery shopping we decided that chips, soda and all the junk food we buy is not necessary, so they are being cut from the grocery list. Then after mentioning a couple of other items we don't need, Steven said " well I guess instead of getting the expensive hot dogs we can just get the cheaper ones". Wow has it really come to this, we can't even splurge a little and get the good hot dogs! I thought that was so sad but yet really funny! So to all you hot dog lovers out there enjoy a Ball Park in Stevens honor!!! :)

very cute!!!

This lady makes really cute baby shoes I just want them all, check out her etsy site!
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5509833

Bye Bye diapers!!!!

Well we did it, and let me just tell you, I'm exhausted. We did a three day potty training program that my friend Shannon told me about, and guess what it really worked! Well I haven't taken Wesley in public yet but he has done great at home. Today was day three and he started to pee in his underwear's twice this morning and caught himself, but the rest of the day went great. He went in the toilet 15 times today, that is what happens when you give him cup after cup of liquid! Well I don't know where our first outing is going to be but I know that it will have a toilet and that I will have a change of clothes for him in my purse, just in case. So bye bye diapers hello undies!

Working through it!!

So things have been a bit strange for me lately. My parents are going through a divorce right now and it is really hard for me to think about, I try to put it in the back of my head and not think about it because it hurts to much. Most of the time not thinking about it helps but it really hits me when we have family gatherings and one of my parents is not there. It makes me upset. I have heard that it is easier for an adult to go through their parents divorce then it is for a child, but after going through it myself I think that they are equally hard. I'm starting to realize that things will never be the same again. Like what do I do about holidays? My parents dating? Moving on with things in general? Last year for Christmas I made my parents a decoration for their house, it was a painted wooden board with their last name on it and the word established with the year they were married. It breaks my heart every time I go to their house and see it. I wish I would have never made that board! I have told both parents that I am not a part of their divorce and I have asked them to leave me out of all the details. I hate that I have to go through this! I know this happens a lot in life with many families but when you think of the concept of an eternal family I think it definitely makes things more difficult. Well I really just had to write down my thoughts, but if anyone has any thoughts on this topic or helpful tips feel free to leave a comment!

I won!!!!

I won this necklace, I love all of her stuff, so cute!
http://hiphandmaids.blogspot.com/2009/09/hip-giveaway-peace-and-love.html

Finally!

So it has been a long time since I have written a post. I have either been to busy or to lazy! There has been a lot going on in our life's lately, here is a couple of things that we have been up to:

-Steven built a retaining wall in our backyard and getting ready to pour concrete,
hopefully he can get started on the addition soon so we can have more room.

-Wesley just had his second birthday party on Saturday and it was a blast.

-I have been spending time with my sister who came to visit from Texas for a week, and I have been dealing with some pretty upsetting family drama.

Other then that we have been enjoying the pool and spending time as a family.
I'm happy to know that I don't have any major events going on in the next couple of months, so this means I can relax for a while!

BY THE WAY: I want to sign up for one of the dance classes in the riverside community education booklet, I don't know which one yet, but if you are interested on signing up with me, let me know!!!

check it out!

http://tolboeslovecali.blogspot.com/2009/05/one-busy-week.html
Her post is better the mine thanks Michelle.

Vacation to Utah!

Thank you!

Thank you to all of you that gave me advice, I am happy to say that Wesley hasn't thrown any pretzels at me recently. Things are getting better, I just needed to be more persistent with him and now he knows I'm in charge, well most of the time anyway!

I need help!!!!

Attention all you perfect mothers out there I need your help. I had to see this face above for about 30 minutes straight today and it wasn't fun. Wesley is almost two and with that comes a lot of tantrums, so I have heard. I'm looking for some advice on how to deal with them, today was his worst yet. So earlier today Wesley saw that I was drinking orange juice and he wanted some, I gave him a sip of mine right before I put him down for a nap. Well two hours later he woke up from that nap and wanted more orange juice, I refused to give some because if I do then he wont drink anything else. Well as you can see he didn't like that, so for the next 30 min he spent his time screaming, head butting me, hitting me, pouring the pretzels out of there container and then he proceeded to throw them at me. The picture was taken in mid pretzel throw. So obviously I put him in time out but that didn't work very well, all he did was scream and sign that he was sorry over and over again! So I'm looking for suggestions. Please I'm desperate. I have to stop him now before he gets worse!!!!

I DARE YOU

to say this isn't the cutest Easter outfit that you ever did see!!!!!:)

You want it! You got it!

Well here are the a couple pictures from youth conference obviously it has taking me weeks to recover or else they would have been up right away! Youth conference was an experience to say the least, we had great kids, we loved them. The things we did not love were: the cold, the hills, the blisters, the port-a-potties, the lack of sleep, the walking, the dirt, the clothing, the smell, the inability to walk the next couple of days, the rain and sleeping in the tents, but other than that we loved it all!!! I am thankful for the pioneers and all they did for our church, I am more thankful however that I am not a pioneer myself!

My Baby!

This is the bucket that I have to fit my stuff in for youth conference, ALL OF MY STUFF! Well I'm not going to be able to bring much with Wesley in it, so he is going to stay with my parents. I'm going to miss him so much this is his first overnight stay with anyone. Steven and I are wondering how we are going to be able to make it without seeing our baby for 3 days! But I sure we will be ok without him and he is in good hands!

The black widow!

For weeks now I have been trying to get Wesley used to smashing ants for me and its great. Whenever he sees them he hits them with his fist or stomps on them with his feet! I love it because he is entertained and I don't have to worry but those annoying bugs! Well last week I was seating on the couch and I look over in the kitchen and Wesley is sitting on the floor playing with something. I'm sitting there squinting because I wasn't wearing me glasses, I thought it was a rock from outside. After a couple of seconds I notice that the "rock" is moving. I decided to get up to check it out. Well as I get closer I realize that it was a black widow. My son was playing with a black widow, he was grabbing at it and moving it around. I yelled and Steven came to the rescue and smashed it. Oh my gosh it was so creepy, my poor son, what type of mother am I? Well anyways the true question is where did this thing come from and are there more? So now I am trying to teach Wesley that ants are ok to smash but stay away from ouchy spiders!

And no that is not a picture of the actual spider!

We'll be marching ever marching!!!!

Yep that's right folks Steven and I will be hitting the pioneer trail in about a week and a half. We are going to youth conference and we are going on the pioneer trek. It should be very interesting, I'm a little nervous but I think I will be able to make it. It is suppose to be 15 miles total over a course of 3 days!! YIKES!! My goal is to stay positive for the youths sake. We are suppose to dress in pioneer attire so that means I'll be strapping on my old pioneer bonnet and polygamist outfit while sporting my converse. I will be taking pictures for your laughing pleasure! Well wish us good luck and lets just hope I came back blisterless!