Crafting gone Wrong

A few evenings ago I had a very sobering experience to say the least. One of those experiences that you don't forget but wished you could. And it definetly makes me rethink craft stores.
Friday night my sister-in-law and my mom and I were doing a craft night when we realized we were missing a few things and decided to make a run down to Hobby Lobby. Leah and I went while my mom watched the children. Leah and I got all of the things we were missing and proceeded to check out. As we were checking out to masked men one of which had a gun ran into the store and told the cashiers to empty out the registers. Everyone including Leah and I started backing away from the registers. Leah and I ran to the back of the store. Leah called 911 and we sat and waited for something to happen. Anything to happen.
Luckily the thiefs stole what was from the register and ran out. We don't know if they were caught but no one was harmed and everyone seems to be ok. We ended up staying about an hour after the incident to talk with the police.
My thoughts during this whole ordeal was first where was Leah.. I've never seen anyone walk backwards so fast in my entire life. I found her quickly though. The second thought was I just became a mommy! This can't be happening. I was so glad we didn't decide to take our children with us. While we were waiting for something to happen I did have a calm feeling come over me. I don't know if it was because I hear about this stuff all the time from Nolan or maybe it was the fact that I don't get fight or flight I just get logical in rough situations. (thank you dad and Nolan) I don't know but Heavenly father was helping me stay calm. I hope those men got caught and hopefully I will never have to experience something like that again.

Baby Riley Dean Palmer Has Arrived!

Baby Riley Dean Palmer was born November 2nd at 3:34weighing in at 9.0 pounds and 22 inches long. So sorry if this is a long detailed post but this is for everyone that has been asking about how everything went :)

So on Monday Nolan and I went in for my Pre-op visit to the Doctors office so he can explain how the c-section would be done and all of the things I needed to know and do before surgery. When we got to the office we found out my blood pressure was really high and I was pre-clampsic ( sorry for the spelling) and the Dr was afraid if we waited any longer I could have a seizure so he told us to meet him at the hospital in a few hours to have Riley that day. That in itself scared the tar out of me but I have faith that my Dr knew what he was doing and even though I had lots to do that day including lunch with my sister-in-laws ;) Riley came first LOL.

Anyways we arrived at the hospital and went straight into pre-op. The nurses explained everything that would be happening during the next few hours. Still a little scared but Nolan was very calm and helped me stay calm. I will say the c-section was not bad at all. The worst part was the nurse putting the IV in my arm before surgery. Not even the Spinal Block was bad. While I was being stitched up I was laying there thinking ok are we done yet? I'd like to see my baby boy now. LOL

Riley came with no complications a perfectly healthy baby boy. Nolan and I feel so blessed to have this lil' miracle in our lives. Most of you know but we prayed to have this little guy for a while and heavenly father answered our prayers. We are so happy to have a little child of our own and to start our family (finally) together. Thank you everyone that has had us in your prayers the last few years. We love you all.

This is me pre-op a little scared but putting on a happy face :) This is Nolan in his fancy scrubs the hospital gave him
This is our lil' boy right after he came into this world.
Our first family picture. Mind my hair. I may have not been in labor for hours but I did have to lay down for about 2 hours straight. I hated being in my hospital bed except to sleep. I don't like to sit still for very long and I got cabin fever easily since we were in the hospital for 3 days. So whenever I would be out of my bed Nolan liked to sit in it with his son.
This is our big boy all snuggled in his crib at the hospital.


We had many visitors the few days we were in the hospital. This is a picture of the best grandmas and aunts ever.

Having baby today!

Well I figure I need to post this before I'm sitting in the hospital. I went in today to do my pre op visit to find out that my blood pressure has sky rocketed and I gained 5 pounds of water weight in the last week. My Dr. is afraid I might have a seizure so he is having baby Riley come today at 3:30. I'm scared over whelmed and nervous all at the same time with alot of excitedness! Next time I post I will be a mommy. Wish me luck everyone! :)

Its true babies are in control starting in the womb!

Nolan and I went to our 38 week appointment today to discover a bit of a change with our baby Riley. The Dr. said I was dilated at a 2! That's not all, he then asked if we wanted to encourage delivery... Nolan then replied with a goofy comment like usual " do you mean like "go you" or something? LOL I love my goofy husband.

Anyways, while the Dr. was what he liked to call "encouraging delivery" he noticed that he couldn't feel Rileys head anymore. So he said we needed to do an emergency ultrasound to confirm Riley had moved. We did an ultrasound and sure enough Riley is now breech. Not only is he breech but he wont have enough room to move even if he wanted to. The kid is coming in at 8.7 pounds give or take with two weeks to go. So with that said I was told that I will need to get a C-section next Wednesday November 4th. November 4th is my ultrasound due date but my Dr. is still going by my orignal due date of November 9th. If Riley decides he wants to come earlier then we will be doing an emergency C-section.

My thoughts on the C-section. Somehow I had a feeling this could happen. In my mind I always said I'm not really opposed to anything. I would prefer an epideral but if Riley came too fast I would deal. I prefered having him normal but if a C-section had to happen I would be ok with it. I think Heavenly Father was preparing me to be open minded about this. I know it seems only minor but coming from someone who has only had her wisdom teeth out and thats it a c-section seems a little scary. If anyone has "happy" words of advice for me please send them my way. And please oh please don't tell me your horror stories. I hear enough of them at the hospital LOL.

Baby Bump Update!

Here is me at 35 weeks. I am now at 37 weeks but not much belly bump has changed. So far I am still feeling great! I still work full time 12 hours shifts at the hospital and am on my feet all day. A Few days ago we had a code at the hospital and I starting running towards the patients room. As I was running a cute little old man said to his wife "man she moves fast for being pregnant" LOL it was probably a site to see. The patients are always amazed of how well I move still even though I'm pretty much nine months pregnant. I may waddle but I still feel great!

One new adventure I was just recently introduced to is acid reflux. Its not the party it sounds like but with a little anti-acid it easily goes away. I for the most part still sleep well through the night but I hear once Riley is born that will all change. I haven't had swelling of my extremities yet too bad except for a little after a 12 hour shift. All and all I'm still feeling great. It would be nice though to meet lil' Riley soon :)

I had a depressing moment about a week back when I went to my 36 week appointment though. We went in for our regular appointment and Dr. Holmes like he always does told us that Riley is still HUGE. He's measuring 3 weeks bigger than he supposed to and no I do not have gestational diabetes... We just have big babies in our family. Dr Holmes then told us that it looks like he will be in there a few weeks after my due date because he's not ready to come out. I'm not dilated or anything... So not only is my kid possibly huge but he is stubborn. I don't know why I'm suprised. He is my child after all. I had to call my mom to cheer me up. After letting it soak in a little bit I've decided its not that bad of a thing. I am not uncomfortable or anything so I guess he comes when he's ready and thats good enough for me :) Dr. holmes did say though that if I do show progress he might induce me. I don't really want to be induced but if he thinks its a good idea I will trust the expert. All in all we are anxiously awaiting for the new arrival into our family.

A Shower of Love for Baby Riley!

So this post is a little delayed but in my defense I didn't have the pics to post with it. :) A few weeks ago my wonderful Sister-in-laws Leah and Brianne with my mom and mother-in-law threw a baby shower for baby Riley and me. It was so wonderful because I was able to see all of my friends and family especially some that I haven't seen in a very long time. We feel so blessed to have such a strong support system surrounding us.


For those of you that didn't know, Nolan and I have decided to name our lil' one Riley Dean Palmer. So my sister-in-law using her crafty skills created this banner for the shower. Nolan actually liked it so much that we hung it up in Riley's room. Go Leah!!

This is the front table of the shower so well decorated and crafty like.

Leah was the head party planner for this and did such a wonderful job. I'm so thankful to have such a wonderful sister-in-law in my family. I can honestly say she one of the sisters I never had growing up but I'm lucky enough to have for the rest of forever :) And Leah you need to grow a few inches so I don't look like a giant all the time. LOL

I just want to thank everyone that came to support our family and our soon to be new member of our family. Again I am so thankful to have such a wonderful support system.

It's Halloween time!

So it's Halloween time! I love everything to do with the holidays but especially the decorations!! (And it helps that the weather won't be piping hot either.) My next thing I want to craft are these fabric pumpkins and some spooky blocks! They are so cute so with the help of my sister-in-law Leah I will be finding away to recreate these cute lil Halloween crafts. Craft night here I come!!

PS Its September 29th and I already have my Halloween decorations up! I told you I love Holidays :) Don't call the decoration police on me