Happy update!!!

HEY HEY!!!!
 
   So here is a quick update(i hope). So in the last 3 months since i have been on here not to much has happened. I finally got my CNA certification and i work full time now at a nursing home here in Torrington. I LOVE IT. Cole turned 4 (OMG) Rhylyn is now 7 months and my husband and i have been dating now for 2 years.

     So update for PRINCESS RHYLYN (lol) She now says DADA all the time and MAMA only here and there. She started eating baby food. Only cares for the cereal, bananas, and squash.she sits up very well but refuses to be on her belly to crawl. Stubborn just like her father. Her favorite toy is her bouncy exersaucer. she can stay in that for a hour and laugh the whole time. She LOVES her brother like there is no tomorrow. She sees him and lights up like a fire cracker. Her favorite time of the night is when I sing Journey to her at night before she goes to bed.She LOVES to be a brat when changing her. Heaven forbid we take her onsie off without her trying to eat it first. She isnt fussy unless she is either really hungry or tired. Overall she is one of the happiest almost 8 month olds(12-5-13)you will meet.

So now the update on PRINCE COLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!    So Cole started Pre-K this past September!!! So proud of him. He turned 4 Oct.21, we had his birthday at the bowling alley and he had a blast.His favorite person in the whole world (according to him) is his sister. He walks in the door no matter what his attitude is and runs to her and gives her the biggest kiss and tells her how much he loves her.He has gone backwards a bit with his learning. His numbers and abcs arent where they should b so he has to get extra help which is fine but a little stressful on him i think.His favorite toys now are made by IMAGINEX. Anything by that brand and he is set. we have 3 big toys from there with all the smaller figures for it and he is still asking for all of the other ones. Which is fine bc they have castles, disney, batman, towns and more. He loves playing with them. We just bought him a Firetruck Loft bed for christmas/just because we needed space (lol) doing great so far with it. Play area underneath so cleaner room :-) He is an amazing little man. He tells me that i am the best mommy ever. My first born will always be the first light of my life. His favorite thing to do at night is to cuddle with his mommy and daddy john but mainly mommy!!! hes getting to big but he is the BEST!!!

Ok so that is the kids update. Not much with the parent front here. Lets see in September one of my home clients passed away and that was hard because i was with her for 5 months and my kids loved her. Brought my daughter when i worked day shift bc Bev loved having her come with. The Best therapy for her for sure.

We had Halloween and family pictures and just a bunch of everyday stuff.i worked on halloween so my husband made my night and my residents night by bringing the kids by to see me and everyone.Also in October one of my bestfriends from high school who has been there for everything with me (both pregnancies, wedding, baby showers)got married. OMG i couldnt b happier. I was there with her when she was getting her makeup done and hair and i wouldnt havent any other way. She is one of my Dearest friends who is my family forever. There is probably more to tell but who knows at this time. I hope everyone else is happy in there life and when they wake up every morning they remember they have someone who loves them because if you dont think you do, know that i care and so does my family. GOD BLESS 

Princess earrings

Halloween Punk princess and Iron man!!

Sandra and Chad

Cole's 4TH Pumpkin birthday

Memory to a friend and meaning to Rhylyns name

So everyone asks how I came up with my daughters name. So I am going to tell you. Rhylyn was just a "deaf" moment of mine and my husbands. The show we were watching said RILEY we heard Rhylyn. My sister in law Katie is the one who came up with the spelling though. OMG do we love the unqiueness of it. Now her middle name Laurel, that name has ALOT of meaning to me. The picture above is of one of my grade school friends, Laurel Anne Copley, she passed away August 25,1996 because of a heart issue that she had that was undetected at the time.Laurel was Born on April 8,1983. She was 13 when she left us. Since that day i always wanted to give my daughter her name either as her first or her middle name.

                I believe in my heart that giving my daughter laurels name was ment to be. My daughter was born on April 5,2013. Almost 30 years to the day of Laurels April 8 birthday. When we found out we were expecting it was on August 23, almost 16 years to the day that we lost an angel. I got my girl i wanted so i could honor her. I wish i could get ahold of her parents so they would know that Laurels name will forever live on. Until i can get back to Oregon to place an annoucement and a letter to her parents on her grave site in hopes of them getting it, she will forever be in my home and in my heart.

                    Thank you Laurel for giving me 3 years of friendship and a LIFETIME of happiness just for knowing you. You were one in a million to make such an impact in my life and the life of others. Keep flying high above us and keep us safe.Gone to soon.

                             Laurel Anne Copley    April 8,1983    to   August 25, 1996

Early arrival

               So where to start. Since i was last on here we have had a lot going on. We had an amazing Easter with my in laws as always. My nephew came to stay for a weekend because my sister was in the hospital. We had fun having him here and cant wait for that to happen again. Oh yeah and we had our baby girl 3 weeks early!!!!!!! funny thing was is i took a picture of my belly on Easter and 5 days later the night before my little princess popped my water.

              As you can see my stomach dropped and got huge in just a few days and right before she came.

               Now here is the funny story of my early arrival. It was 1130 am and i was napping (like always) and i was getting up to go to meet with my manager to get hours to work until i popped. I noticed my pants were wet. So i called my mother in law to tell her what i thought was happening. While I was on the phone I was packing mine and johns over night bag for the hospital. I told her I was gonna still meet my boss and then call my Dr's. I called my mom and she told me i wasn't stupid and that i knew that my water broke and to just call my Dr's. So i did. I then called my mother in law back and asked her to cancel her hair appointment with my sister in law because i wanted her to bring me to the hospital because if it was a false alarm (which i figured it wasn't) i didn't want to freak my husband out. So as I was waiting for the Dr's to call back i finished packing my overnight bag and putting the car seat in the car. Once we got the call to go to the hospital my mother in law went the wrong way. LOL. When we were driving past my husbands job my mother in law was trying to convince me that she was gonna call john at work to tell him i was in labor. I laughed and said NO. She then told me i wont let her do anything. HAHAHA Love her!!! As we were walking into the hospital John called me. I sent him to voice mail. OOPS. I got the confirmation i was gonna have my little girl and I then called my husband. That conversation went like this:

                           JOHN: Thank you for calling peoples this is John how can i help you?

                           ME: Is this John Berg?

                           JOHN: Yes this is!

                           ME: Hi i need you to do me a favor. I need you to leave and go home, the keys to the car are in the house i need you to grab them, grab the car which has all of our stuff in it and come to the hospital because we are having a baby today, my water broke.

                          JOHN: Wwwwhhhhhaaaaaattttttt? 

                          ME: (repeated what i said before)

                          JOHN: Really, really, ok

I told him i loved him and we hung up.Now the whole time my nurse was asking me if i felt my heart racing, my reply was "does it look like i feel like my heart is racing? lol" everyone in the room started to laugh. Because my contractions were not getting picked up on the monitor, they didn't think i was having any (but i was) my nurse never left my side. By the time we got into my room John was showing up, still in shock but happy. Needless to say because of where little miss was, we had lots of issues keeping the heart beat and the contractions on the monitor. The contractions were 2-3 mins apart and coming on good. Now i had my sister in law bring Cole up to the room so i could let him know what was going on. Since Cole was on his way up and the contractions were starting to get stronger i choose to get the epidural before he got there. The first one didn't stay on track and i felt every bit of movement in my back of the line. I wont lie it hurt so bad that i was screaming. The Dr. gave me a quick shot of c-section epidural (one that numbs from the boobs down) and we did a new track and that one worked. But because of the pain i felt i had a panic attack and my blood pressure dropped and with that so did my daughter heart beat. We got them back up and i finally got to see my son. I told him his sissy was coming soon and he got excited. around 530 i noticed the epidural was wearing off so i let it ( i had an epidural drip at this time) I was also at 5 centimeters. we sent Cole to his fathers house and by 7pm i was at 10 centimeters and i was being told to push. I then pushed the epidural drip and said " ok lets do this I'm ready" i started pushing at 7:10 pm and by 7:40 pm my beautiful little girl was here.

   

                                   Proud Daddy                                       Me,John, Rhylyn and Judi
                   Happy Family                                             4 Generations
                                       

                            Even though Rhylyn was 3 weeks early she was very healthy. She didn't cry when she came out and didn't cry while being cleaned off. She is a very happy little girl and she is perfect in every single way. Cole loves her more then anything and he understands that she is no longer in mommy's belly. The last 2 weeks have been fun and busy yet laid back. We still haven't full adjusted to getting up every few hours for her or having a full house. Cole asked me at the end of week 1 when she was going home. I laughed and told him that she was home. His next question was even better. He asked me if her mommy missed her. I explained to him that i was her mommy to. he has only asked one more time since then. Now his mornings and days consist of making sure to kiss her and tell her he loves her.

Now that our Little princess is 2 weeks old, John has to go back to work and i get to stay home and be a mommy. The only issue Rhylyn has/had is she was tongue tied and we are not having luck with the breast feeding. I have been trying and i have done so much, but no luck. But i am not giving up until i have tried everything. I just feel like she is not taking as well as i would like her to. she gets frustrated and only stays on a few seconds then screams. I will continue to try but i don't think she will take to it. Its sad but its ok. I'm learned to accepted it if that is what happens.

 It has taken me many years and bad relationships to get to the point of where i am now. Many struggles and many broken hearts and loves that i never thought i would get over. In those years i have made mistakes and have learned from them. My life hasn't been easy and i know my husbands life has had hard times also. But in the end we have been brought to one another and have started a family. Now that we have our son and daughter we couldn't be happier. Our life will have its ups and downs but in the end John and I will always have each other and our kids will always have us. I have no regrets in my life and i know my husband doesn't either. This is our perfect family, and now it is complete with the birth of our baby girl.

So i would like to FORMALLY introduce to every one  RHYLYN LAUREL BERG.

 

My family

GOD BLESS EVERYONE

How 2 families became 1

Hi everyone!!! I'm gonna start off with saying thank you to my cousin Vicki for starting this up for me and my family!!! Love you. Now I want to share my story and journey with you all on how my son and I became part of an amazing family and are now adding a new addition to our family.

                                  So October 21,2009 I had my son Cole Patrick. He is my world and i would do anything for him (no questions asked). His father and i weren't meant to be together so a year later we started our journey as a 2 person family. It was a hard choice but it was needed and for the best. So for the year of 2011 Cole and i were a 2 person family and loving it very much. I always knew something was missing but i wasn't going out looking for a man to complete my life. As far as i was concerned i had the perfect man in my life.Around August of 2011 my cell phone kept acting up so i had to go into Verizon to get it looked at. That is when i met John Berg :-) Unbeknownst to me, he fixed my phone just enough to last a few days and for me to return 5 times that month. Clever if i do so say myself. On September 18 i went to one of his classes and schooled him on my phone. Lol, but in that time he completely deleted all of my phone numbers. Then 6 hours later and a new friend later (Emily) i went home. Now that night i posted on facebook about how i hated my phone and couldn't go to Verizon because they were closed. I got a text maybe 10 mins later from a number i did not know (or i did but without contacts i didn't know if i knew them). When i asked who it was Johns reply was " The ass that deleted all your contacts" i told him he wasn't an ass. But I had no idea that that was going to b the beginning of the rest of mine and Cole's life. I asked john out on our first "day date"on September 20th because i really wanted to go mini golfing and let me tell you how bad of a mini golfer he is even though he tries to pretend that he let me win. After i think a 8 hour day together it was time to part ways. But we were constantly talking and seeing each other. 
                                   September into October was a rough time for me with my job and some family issues. The whole time John was there for me. barely knew me but never left my side when i needed someone to talk to or lean on. I knew he was a keeper but i was scared. I wasn't used to someone being so kind and sweet and pretty much the male version of myself. We started dating on Cole's 2nd birthday and he at that time he met my family. They instantly loved him. How could they not he was the sweetest guy ever.

                                 
Not gonna lie come November I got scared bc i felt like i was moving to fast with him and has to take a break. I know it was hard on him and i didn't want to hurt him but I as a mother first wanted to make sure that i was making the best choiced for my son and myself. Now if you ask John he will tell you that he has know since the first day he met me that i was "the one." I look at him and laugh because it took me a little longer because it wasn't just my life it was my sons also.I also knew in my heart that he was the one i couldn't live without. They way him and Cole got along and how much you could see they already loved each other, it was hard to deny that this was my happy ending. Not only did my family adore this man as much as i did, but johns family accepted Cole and i with open arms and love within a matter of months. Cole and i felt the same way. I was talking to Johns mom almost everyday and enjoyed our conversations. Cole fell in love with Johns family just as quick.

                                       February 2012 John and I planned on moving in together come March 1st. But more to everyones surprise and in away mine and Johns, we had a BIGGER announcement. On Feb 29 2012 ( leap year ), we were getting married. i thought Johns mom was going to kill me and boy was i shaking like no tomorrow when we told her. Now she is the heart of his family so she was the first one we told. She didn't object, which made us happy and neither did anyone in his family, BUT she tried hard to get me to change the wedding date (because we only did give 1 week notice lol) but because john and i had a unique relationship the date fit us so of course i didn't change it. She did do the normal mom thing of asking if we were sure and my response was this " i wouldn't be getting married if i wasn't sure" plus she wanted to make sure i wasn't going to take her son from her. My reply is hell ill send him to you lol. In one week my wedding was put together and it was perfect. I never wanted a huge wedding so it was small with about 30 people mainly family and even though my mom couldn't be there, she was VIA skype with my cousins.That day was the beginning of my perfect life.

 

 

FEB 29,2012

 

                          We had a fun and amazing Easter as a new family

 

                                                  

                                         In June John, Cole and I went to my home state of Oregon for our honeymoon/family vacation. It was the GREATEST thing ever. Now it had been many years since i was there but it felt like i never left at all and to top it off my family loved it there as much as i still do. My new husband was actually asking my dad to call us in dead so we didn't have to come back. that was the funniest thing ever. But i wasn't 100% against it either lol. I had a blast showing my family where i was from.

 

                                                  Beautiful in every way possible!!!!

 

                                        Now here we are in august and we found out that we were expanding our family by 1. We were excited and couldn't wait. We found out in December right before Christmas that we were having a little girl that we have named Rhylyn Laurel Berg. And honestly i don't know who is more excited john, me or Cole (I'm going with Cole).And that brings you up to now!!!!

 

                                     We have a little over 4 weeks to go before our little girl is home. Cole asks me everyday is his sister is home yet. He helped paint her room, set up her furniture and prepare all the fun stuff. Every night that he is home he has to "cuddle with his sister" and sing to her.  He is already in love with her that it makes me feel more blessed then ever.

 

 

                                   So i think i have caught you up to now lol. My family is perfect. My son loves Daddy John more then me when he is home. Which is the best feeling in the world. My relationship with my in-laws is perfect and the way i always dreamed it would be when i got married and my husbands relationship with my family is the exact same. We were meant to be together and a family. We all fit like the perfect puzzle. And a BIG family is what Cole and i got. there is so much love that i couldn't ask for anything more or less. John and I never fight (well we do now because my hormones are bad at times lol) we talk about everything. We don't lie to each other or keep secrets from each other unless it has to do with surprises.And now my family is complete. I didn't look for love i actually gave up but when fate has a hand in your life you know. I truly believe this was fate. I married my best friend and i couldn't be any happier. And in a matter of weeks we will be making our family bigger.Our life is negativity and drama free. Our house is a home and it is filled with love. They say a happy wife makes a happy life, well there wrong a happy family makes a happy life. I hope everyone finds the love and happiness that i have found or shall i say has found me and Cole. God bless you all!!!!