Where's the thump thump?

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Where is the thump thump? The ultrasound technician very kindly pointed out a flutter on the screen and showed me your little baby heart. And it was awesome! And then she one upped the customer satisfaction and punched up the volume so I could hear your thump thump. Your heart may have just started a few weeks ago but you are already putting it to some serious use, at 170 beats per minute you are using it twice as fast as a grownup. As I walked out of the doctors office I wondered why on earth you would need to be pumping so fast, but I suppose God knows why, just like He knows how many heartbeats you will have in a lifetime and the exact moment of your last and final heartbeat. The greatest thing your heart will give you is life, life to love your family , and I pray one day to love your Savior and your Creator. You are pretty awesome baby, but God put you there and that is amazing!

First Visit to the Doctor

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So yesterday I had my first visit to the doctor for the baby. It was quite an enlightening visit. And I made many, many mistakes throughout the day. Apparently you are required to deposit a urine sample at the beginning of every visit , this posed a bit of a problem for me. I walk into the bathroom , I see the cups check, I see the marker check, check, but where are they hiding the lids for the cups? So I casually duck out of the bathroom with my empty cup and ask very nicely were the lids are? The response given was there are no lids! As I walked back to the bathroom I thought "No Lids! NO LIDS!, What am I suppose to do with my sample, just leave it for all to spill!!". This was disturbing to me because shortly after I had a sample but no clue what to do with it, until I noticed a little metal door in the wall. AHA!! It was like an Alice in Wonderland tiny magical door. With a magical voice of a nurse behind it inquiring of where my sample was. Ok, so at this point I figured it out and waited for the nurse to close her side of the door and then quickly slipped in my cup. This is not the worst of my mistakes, yeah go ahead laugh it up, I sure did. Then when in the exam room the nurse asks her customary 100 questions and one of them was "Is there any history of mental illness in your family or the Father's side of the family?" to which I started giggling, then the nurse started giggiling and said "I mean diagnosed!", and of course I said no, since the family members in question have probably never seen a shrink. And now for my last mistake of the day. I had to fill a prescription at Walmart after leaving the doctors office. I had to update my insurance with the pharmacy and I thought I gave them my husbands social, because in the military the Active Military spouses social is the insurance member number, well it turns out that my prescription was delayed for about 40 minutes because I gave them my husbands phone number instead! Forgive me all of humanity, for I have lost my mind completely.

Random Photo Dump

Here are a bunch of random photos from my phone.

My neice Bethany laughing in up

Bethany in a fresh out of the dryer blanket, smiling like a ham.

My sister Rose was not named Rose for nothing, she grows beautiful flowers.

Remington, he probably thinks I have food.

Very hansome soldier, aka Bright Eyes

My brother Mike was sent to the store to get diaper he got camo ones.

One word: Awesome!!

Support the Troops Baby!

 

              Bright Eyes..... smiley and oooh so happy.
                                             

   Bethany sleeping next to one of my sister Rose's roses.

Be as strong as you can be

The above picture was taken by a sweet woman named Pam Nelson a very kind woman. Pam's son also graduated Army Basic Training on the same day that my husband did. She happened to snap the picture above when I was returning my husband to Fort Sill on graduation day. It was so hard to give him back at the end of two days together. I remember just after kissing him goodbye as pictured above, he just looked at me and gradually took two steps back while saying "Ok then, ok bye" stepping back again "Ok I Love you bye"  all the while trying to hold back his emotions. I told him I loved him and I was proud of him , I promised myself not to cry in front of him because that would only make it harder for him. The exact moment we both turned around and started walking in opposite directions, I lost it. I completely fell apart for total of about two minutes. I cried until I reached my car and then I sat in my car still crying, until a tap on the window drew me out of it. Pam Nelson proud army mom and Kaylyn her sweet daughter were two caring souls that helped put me back together. I got out of the car and Pam said she snapped a picture of us saying goodbye and promised to post it on facebook for me. Then Pam and Kaylyn hugged me and assured me that it was ok to fall apart because they have too at some point during the two days with their soldier. I cannot thank these two ladies enough for being there when I needed someone to understand, someone to care, someone to love me when I couldn't hold out any longer. Thank you ladies you are true blessings to me. Because in the end even though we are all trying to be as strong as we can be, we still may need a little or a lot of help.

Wow That Was Quick!

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When my lovely friend Tiffany Hansen said "Wow that was quick!" she was right. A couple posts ago I commented on our desire to start a family and asked for your prayers. We want to thank your for your prayers and give God all the glory because we got just what we wanted. We are going to be parents in the new year! I will spare you the ever so classy pics of the tests (only my husband gets sent digital pics of those) and tell you that for absolutely sure, symptom wise and test wise there will be a new Byerly in 2012. I have always had major big ideas and plans on how to tell my husband about our first child, but being that he is miles and miles away most of those plans won't work. So I did what any modern young mom to be would do and I texted him pictures of proof. To which he called back saying "That's Awesome".... "I am Happy"..... "Awesome". During our one hour phone conversation he would interject "Awesome" every couple minutes. The Byerly's are known for construction and do it yourself projects. This is perhaps the biggest DIY project that Bright Eyes and I have ever started. With alot of prayer it think it may just come out pretty good. And Baby, even though you are so very tiny, you have no idea how your Dad and I already love you so very much, more than we can ever express.