The good.....and a little bad

Happy birthday to me....turned 28 on Friday. That is two years away from 30, that is kinda frightening to me. None the less, it was a good day....mostly. Lets start with the good.


Days have no choice about being good, when they start out with these three little faces. Three brothers all snuggled in my bed, what a sweet sight to get ready to.



First off, we had to take Drake to the doctors office to get his circumcision checked. My pediatrician doesn't come to Ogden Regional so why we were at the hospital Drake was just seen by the on call doctor. So we wanted to get him into his real pediatrician. When we left the hospital they said his billirubin was just fine, however once we got home I thought he looked a little yellow. So I wanted that checked too. I was right. His levels were at 17.2 on Friday, we had to take him in Saturday to have them checked again. If they went up he would have to get the billibed like Lincoln had. Luckily, they were going down on their own. Yay, for that.


Me and my best three little birthday presents.


Once we got home, my sweet little momma....


brought me some lunch and doughnuts. Yum.


Ash and the kids came over, and then this cute little twinner of mine (happy birthday to Jen too)




My sisters brought me these flowers for the baby and my birthday. So very sweet of them.


The kids all played....



while the ladies took turns snuggling up this cute little face.


My ward brought us dinner that night, but we needed some type of treat for my birthday. Had to be something quick, where we could grab it and go. So I chose Menchies...my most favorite frozen yogurt.


All Lincoln ate was a bowl full of strawberries.


When we got home Thiago gave me my present. A kindle. YAY!!!! I heard about this from my cousin and have wanted one ever since. I am sure most of you know what this is. For those that don't. It is a tiny little electronic thing, super skinny and light and you can purchase any book they sell on Amazon for like a third of the regular price. You download it onto your Kindle and read away. It is like a book version of an Ipod. It holds up to 3500 books. It is so super cool, and I love it. Thanks so much honey, you know me well.


Every night after Lincoln is asleep, Carson lays in my bed and watches one episode of Chuggington while I take a shower. Drake is always awake at this time, so the two of them sit there together. It is about the most precious thing ever. Drake loves his older brother.


And onto the bad. While this is adorable picture of Drake. It is not so cute of me. I look like death, and there is a reason for that.

Let me set this up for you. Had Drake on Monday, deal with the aftermath of that all day Tuesday. You know just the normal, not to bad. I had an episiotomy so in order to make going to the bathroom easier they told me to take milk of magnesia. Don't ever take this. I was cramping and in the bathroom ALL day Wednesday. All day. Then you have the joy of breastfeeding, he is a champ eater. However, it takes some getting used to for your body. A certain area is blistered and bleeding. Feels like needles every time he starts to suck. So my body was feeling a little tired after all this.

Now I have had a lovely cough for about 4 weeks now. I had it going into the hospital. When you check in they ask if you are feeling any flu like symptoms, I said no, just a cold. No big deal they said. Ok. Over the past few days, my cough has gotten nastier and nastier. Really deep and lots of mucussy crap. Thursday I am coughing like crazy and I start to get the aches and chills and hot flashes. My milk came in the day before so I blamed it on that. I used to get that way with Lincoln when he went to long without eating. Thought it was the same thing. Friday, my birthday I was even worse. Felt like the flu. Friday night I start to get this crazy pain throughout my whole chest. Felt like my lungs, ribs and all that were on fire. Didn't sleep that whole night. My whole left side ached everytime I breathed in. I still told myself well I must have been coughing so much that now they just ache. Woke up Saturday morning still coughing, only now I am crying as well cause my chest hurts so bad. Tried to spit out some of the mucus, and noticed it was red tinted. Uh, not good. Started freaking. Thiago took me to Instacare.

Diagnosis....pneumonia. Full blown. Had a chest X-ray and there is so much gunk down in my lungs. She asked why it took me so long to come in. I don't know really. With all the baby business, I just didn't really think much about my cough. That was a mistake I guess. So yeah, its been fun. Now I know why I had such a hard time during delivery. Felt like I could never catch my breath, that explains my blood pressure dropping, the light headness. I felt so guilty cause that happening to me, was what caused Drake to struggle. Who knew. I am just happy that it worked out the way it did, we were very blessed that is for sure.

Feeling much better today, thanks to antibiotics. Hopefully it clears itself up soon. Anyways, so like I said this week was filled with a whole lot of good and just a tiny bit of bad.