All I could do was drop my jaw to the floor

in amazement at how fast this happened

These pictures are after most of the damage was taken care of and I could finally grab the camera. His clothes and hands were covered in my lipstick, leaving lipstick handprints EVERYWHERE. That was fun.
It took him all of 60 seconds to create that mess. I was getting him some milk to give him before his nap and I was listening to him whine by his crib and then it suddenly got quiet. 60 seconds later I walk up stairs and there he was creating a masterpiece on his face.

Ooh Jace, I love you.

To Bentley

Four years ago today, I was almost 37 weeks pregnant and heading to the hospital with your dad. My O.B. was going to try to flip your little body around because you were breach. Your head was up in my ribs and your little feet would kick in the opposite direction causing a really strange pain in my lower region! The plan was to get to the hospital around 10:00 am, have her push and dig into my large pregnant belly until you decided to to a 180* and pray you would stay that way until delivery. And if that didn't happen, we would go home and schedule a date for a C-Section when I was a couple more weeks along. After I got onto a hospital bed, our Dr. came walking in and said, "This will hurt a little." HURT does not even describe the pain I felt as she was pushing so hard on your little head that it was popping out from under her hands. Dad and I both looked at her with a very concerned expression and said, "Are you sure this will not hurt our baby??" She said she was positive and does it all the time. Well ok then...
She then decided to hook me up to a moniter because my urine sample came back with a high level of protein and I was retaining A LOT of fluid. (which by the way is not something you want to hear when your pregnant. "Hey Megan, you are REALLY puffy, especially your face." Why thank you.)
They told me I had P.I.H (preeclamsia/toxemia) After they hooked me up to the monitor, my Dr. said, "Can't you feel that?" Me: "Oh ya, the Braxton Hicks contractions?" Dr.: "Those are NOT Braxton Hicks, You are in LABOR." She then checked to see if I was dialated. I then heard "Well his little foot is hanging out, prep for a C-Section." The tears started welling. I was so nervous, only 2 summers ago, I was graduating High School, and now I was sitting on a hospital bed about to have my stomach sliced open and my woman parts man handled while they took my baby from my womb.
I started feeling so much panic and so unprepared for what was about to happen that they had to start a morphine drip so they wouldn't have to send me to the phsyc ward. After that kicked in, I didn't care what they were doing to me.

I can't even believe I am posting this hideous picture, but it is proof at how puffy and swollen I was.

After a couple hours (or a couple minutes, I don't know, I was in and out of consiousness) They took me back to the O.R. and prepped me for my epidural. Dad was standing in front of me looking past me at the large needle that was about to enter my spine. In an instant, his face went white as a ghost and a nurse was putting a chair under him for him to sit on. I yelled to him, "DALLIN, you better not pass out!! I need you right now!!" His color came back and he said, "I know, I'm right here." And then we laughed.

I was waiting to get numb and the Dr. poked my belly with her scalpel to see if I could feel it. I said, "OW" This went on a couple times. For some reason, It took a lot to get me numb. Maybe because I was high as a kite. From the time she started to cut to the time I saw my baby, it was about 5 minutes. FIVE minutes. I was a mommy. You had a perfect little round head with tons of black hair, a loud cry and WHITE gums. When I saw you cry, your gums were showing and it looked like 2 white teeth. I layed there as they sewed me up and thought, "Was my baby born with teeth?" Is Guiness World Record going to come and take pictures?" That could have been the morphine talking, but Dallin came back and said that he noticed it too! We learned they were called milky gums and they go away after about six weeks. It took a LONG time for you to eat, I think the morphine got to you too, you were OUT. We had to put little tubes in your mouth to supplement you because you wouldn't nurse. You were already so small, we didn't want you any smaller. 6 lbs 10 oz - 19 inches long.

That first night, I was so exhausted and worried I would fall asleep while holding you that I had the nursery take you around midnight and told them to bring you back first thing in the morning. It is a miracle we made that choice because Daddy and I slept like a rock that night, I didn't even hear the nurses coming in to check me. The next morning, I woke up and dad was gone. He came back in a little while later and told me the nursery came and got him really early in the morning and told him that you stopped breathing. You were blue. They had to take you to the N.I.C.U and put you on oxygen and a lot of other monitors. I said many thanks that we decided to let you go to the nursery instead of staying in our room.

You spent the next few days in the N.I.C.U which was no fun. We couldn't wait to take you home. We did, and the rest is history and you are now FOUR years old. The fastest and greatest four years of my life. Daddy and I did not plan for you to come so soon into our lives, but you came on Heavenly Father's plan and it has been shown to me several times why you came into our lives when you did. You are our greatest blessing.

Now I am off to take you to the park for a picnic.

Posing for your T-Ball pictures last night

We love you Bentley Boy

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

Love,

Mom & Dad

Long time...no blog....

It's almost been two months since I've signed into my blogging account to do a post. I thought I'd better get going before I get too far behind! Not that anyone is even reading my blog anymore...But I did find a website that prints your blog into an awesome hardcover book. So that has motivated me to not skip over too much. I'll start with a few pics from Easter and work my way up. Our Easter Eggs

Bentley and some of his cousins waiting to do the Easter Egg hunt at the Rec Barn.

Jace and Bentley bringing me some of their finds to crack open and eat.

Helping Jace collect his eggs.

Bentley with a few of his proud finds.

Easter brunch

The Easter Bunny brought him a 'big boy bike' just what he wanted.

and a few other things...

Jace is just happy he got a chocolate egg, who cares about the rest.

Happy Spring!

p.s. I already have flowers by my front door and soil pep in my flower beds. Oohh..those smells combined make me happy.

Do you love spring as much as I do?!?

Who's 16 months old today?!

THIS GUY!

There goes darn time again... flyin' by quicker than I'd like. My cousin said something on her blog awhile ago that Dallin and I could not agree with more. She said she wants to always have a baby in the house..you know..like a pet.. :) If I could just always have a baby that would never get big and sassy, I would LOVE it. They grow WAY too fast.

He is loving the outdoors this year now that he can walk and EXPLORE!

Bentley loves having him be big enough to play with him more.

No more baby..now he's a toddlin', dirt diggin' little boy.

I need your opinion

I am wanting to make some simple curtains for our toy room in the basement. I want the fabric to be pretty gender neutral, and I want greys, yellows and blues in it. I found these 2 that are pretty close to what I am wanting. Which one do you like better?

elephants or giraffes?

What is it?

I was playing with the boys this morning and grabbed Jace, lifted up his shirt to blow a raspberry on his tummy and saw THIS!

I thought it was some infected, scabby rash of some sort and started to worry. In about 2.5 seconds I thought how "That wasn't there last night, He is starting to come down with a cough, could it be some wierd side effect of something? WHAT IS IT?"

Then I saw some some yellowish stuff on the inside of his shirt.

Then I smelt it.

It was chewed up, sticky, slimey fruit snacks that he spit into his hands and smeared all over his belly.

Sounds like my Jace. :)

Buckeye fans!

For those of you who don't know, Dallin went to Columbus Ohio on his LDS mission. He became a Huge Ohio State Buckeye fan-HUGE. So when I saw these sweatshirts, I couldn't pass them up, I knew daddy would be proud.

Jace has gotten big, huh?

Jazz Game

The Fab Five performed at the Jazz vs. Mavs half time show, and luckily they had 2 extra tickets for us! It was a GREAT game and a GREAT half time show. I always love to watch them clog. It's so full of energy and you can't help but smile, plus I love em' :)
Dallin and Mike helping to set up their floor.

They did their crowd favorite 'Fire Burning' by Sean Kingston

They did awesome!

And so did they! It was a really fun game to watch.

p.s. 'Valentines Day' was soo good! Go see it!

Disneyworld

Bentley and I were able to go on a date to Disneyworld at the end of January with some family. It's kind of a long story about how it all fell into place, but I am so grateful it did, we had SOO MUCH FUN! It was some much needed mommy and Bentley time.



We had a really long day of flying..but we kept ourselves entertained.

We flew in on a Thursday night to Orlando..

And hit up Magic Kingdom first thing Friday morning!

Waiting in line for Dumbo...

One of Bentley's favorite rides... 'the horses'

Buzz Light Year!

I was a heathen. You can't go to Disney without getting a turkey leg!

We loved the teacups!

Another favorite was of course the race cars... He told me "I am taking you somewhere mommy."

Toon Town was the cutest. Here we are checkin out what Minnie has in her fridge.

And what Mickey has in his garage..

The next day we headed over to Animal Kingdom.

The Tree of Life. The whole tree is sculptures of animals. Pretty awesome!

We saw some large, nasty bats.

Some beautiful tigers..

Took a minute to play the African drums..

Took an African Safari..

And of course had a loli pop as big as our head.

This doesn't even cover half the fun we had or the animals we saw..but who wants to take pictures when your cramming a weeks worth of fun in TWO days?!

Then we headed back to Magic Kingdom to watch the light parade..

This boy is obsessed with swords

What a magical weekend. I LOOOOVE Disneyworld and I am so glad I could share it with Bentley!!

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Although we did have an absolute amazing time..we did have a few mishaps..

*Bentley had a few fits..
Which one time caused me to put him in time out in the Happiest Place on Earth over a damn light sword.

*I lost my credit card at the light parade.

*I discovered I lost it as we were packing up to leave and was so ticked I forgot to grab my camera battery charger.

*Orange Juice leaked in Bentley's backpack where I was keeping my phone- which then decided to quit working for the day.

*We had to take the emergency exit out of two rides because Bentley was screaming like a crazy mad man to get out of those 'scarry rides' (A Bugs Life and Stitch's Great Escape)

But other than that- MAGICAL.