Fourth Picture in my Fourth Picture Folder

I was reading my friend Melissa's blog and she had her fourth picture up and asked people to do the same so I was game. This is a picture of my sweet little boy Cortlyn at his 2 year old pictures taken back in November. He absolutely loves choo choo trains and had to have a train in his pictures. This is of course Grandpa's favorite!!! So there is my fourth pic play if you want!!

A Post Dedicated to my Wonderful Hubby Chester!!

I have never really done a blog dedicated solely to my husband. So I figured I would start today. I truly do love my man of mine and am glad that the Lord placed in him my life almost 8 years ago this coming September. We met on a blind date in September 2001 and were engaged October 6th 2002 and married on October 11th, 2003. We had a whirlwind courtship and we have had a whirlwind marriage so far. Our very first year we moved 1200 miles from Minnesota all the way down to Texas. We had to go thru some rough times but we have endured. God has blessed us with two wonderful children. Cortlyn George born on December 22, 2006 and Catherine Laura born on January 6th, 2009. Babe I love you so much I love how you are such a great daddy and are willing to help out in all aspects of childcare. I love that you let me sleep in when I am really tired and how you change even the poopiest diapers!! I love that our boy loves his daddy so much and can't wait for you to get home from work. And I love how that even after a long day at work you come home willing to let me have a break from the kids or to just let me get dinner on the table without a two year old under my feet. I love that you sometime clean up the kitchen without being asked or that sometimes when I ask you to go to HEB to pick up something for dinner you will bring me home flowers just because. You truly are a good man. And I love how you always look out for me. You help me out when I have to go to the doctor and can't afford a babysitter by coming home early from work and you took good care of me after both my c sections and recent staph infection surgery. Babe I don't know what I would do without you. You are my world. And I respect you more than you know and more than I tell you. I know sometimes I am hard to live with but you still love me no matter what. Thank you for being my wonderful husband for the past almost 6 years and my friend for 2 before that. And this is my sign off to you YOU COMPLETE ME!!!! I LOVE YOU CHUCKY!!
P.S. Thanks for making awesome chili! You are the best!!

The First Month

So I never seem to come on to blogger much anymore. I am addicted to facebook and put all my pics and status up on there. But I figured I have neglected my blog for long enough. So I thought I would share some pics of Catherine and Cortlyn. Catherine is a little over 1 month old and she is such a sweet baby. Cortlyn loves on her all the time and he is constantly trying to pick her up and give her a paci. She just takes it all in stride and I am sure as she gets older she will love the attention from her big brother. My sister and her boyfriend were down for a visit last weekend from New Jersey so I will include some photos of that. I wish my family lived closer especially for babysitting. It gets hard to never be able to have a date night because we have no fam nearby and even the cheapest babysitter is expensive. Oh well I guess we shall survive. Okay well that is all for now.
The fam at Swinging Door BBQ baby girl was asleep in the car

Catherine in the onesie Auntie Leanne brought with her
Me and Leanne
Leanne, her boyfriend Bill and Cortlyn. Cortie loved playing with Bill
Mommy and Cortie by the bears at the zoo!
Daddy and Cortie by the elephants!
Auntie Leanne and Cortlyn riding on the train in Herman Park. He loved the train ride!
Big Brother and Little Sister. She isn't quite sure what to do with her older brother!
He loves kissing on her!!
My cute kids!!
Sweet baby and her Valentine outfit
So sweet. All girls need to wear purple!!
He's telling me how much he loves me. This much!!!
Resting on the chaise with Daddy and sister. He is playing peek a boo with me!!

Introducing Catherine Laura

Introducing Catherine Laura Thompson
Born January 6, 2009
8:00 am
7lbs, 15ozs, 19 inches long

Baby girl is doing good. We came home on Thursday the 8th and Cortlyn loves having his baby sister at home. He is always trying to kiss and hug on her so we sometimes have to put her behind the gate on the stairs because he keeps wanting to take her out of her chair. She pretty much sleeps all day right now and is up half the night but its ok we will get on a schedule eventually. I am glad to have my Mom here for a couple more days then I am on my own with two kiddos. Hopefully we will get into a routine pretty quickly. I am so glad to not be pregnant anymore!!!!

Late Night Ramblings!

Okay so I haven't posted in a while. Just been busy. Only 24 more days to go before baby Catherine is here. I am so ready to be done with this pregnancy!!! Women who say pregnancy is wonderful are crazy!!! I hate being pregnant!!!!! I will be glad when I can eat again without worrying about my blood sugar and not feeling like I have had a nasty hangover for 9 months!! Baby girl is taking up so much room in my belly it's hard to eat anything because I feel like I could explode. It is nice to be pregnant during the holidays because it makes it go super fast because you are running around trying to get everything done. I have my sons birthday on the 22nd, then the festivities of Christmas Eve and Christmas day then New Years and then my sons birthday party and then January 6th baby girl will make her entrance into the world. I can't wait to hold her in my arms and see who she looks like.

Girls Weekend in NJ!!

This past weekend I went to NJ to visit my sisters and my best friend from high school Kelly. It was the first time leaving Cortie and I had a great time. I left on Friday morning and had a few tears in the security line after saying goodbye to my son but after that I was fine. I made it NJ and went to my sisters apt and we had dinner and then my other sister came over and we watched Sex and the City and just chilled out. Saturday we went to a Teahouse for a nice lunch and had a great time. Then after my sisters and I went and got manis and pedis. It was raining cats and dogs so we ended up staying in again and watching another movie. Sunday was a gorgeous day and my friend Kelly and I and her sister Alicia headed into NYC for the day. It was so nice we walked a little thru Central Park had a disastrous lunch(long story) walked thru a street fair and we took the subway(my first time) down to the WTC. Of course my feet hurt like crazy and being seven months preggers made me tired much more frequently but we had an awesome day. Then later that night I went down to my old town where I graduated high school and met my sister and her boyfriend Bill at his place and just chilled and watched tv. It was nice to meet Bill who I hadn't met yet. Monday I was on my way home after a quick lunch with Kelly and I got home Monday night good thing cause NJ and PA got an early snowstorm on Tuesday so I made it out just in time!! It was an awesome weekend!!

Leanne, Alicia, and Kelly at the Teahive Kelly and Me My sister Laurie and I Leanne thinking hard!! 3 Sisters together Kelly and I in front of Jekyl and Hyde seriously do not eat there it is bad!!!

Kelly and her sister Alicia in Times Square

A Baby Catherine on the way and Cortie tries out his toddler bed

Well Thursday I had my second ultrasound finally!!! And if the name in the title didn't give it away yes we are having a GIRL!!!!! I was so suprised I seriously thought it was a boy and I kept asking her are you sure there isn't boy parts down there and she insisited that no it was a girl or a very poor boy LOL!!! So now I can get all the pink outfits. I was in Target yesterday and couldn't help picking up all the cute pink and purple outfits. I mean I love dressing my boy but for some reason there are a whole lot more choices with girl outfits then with boys. And of course she will have foofy dresses and bows for her mother is a girlie girl for sure. I did however tell Chester he could get her the appropriate camo with the white ruffle on the butt!! And of course during this week my son decided that he wanted to climb out of his crib. We knew it was coming cause he was climbing out of his pack and play when I would take a shower and he likes to get into everything!!! So we thought we would try taking off the railing on his crib and see how he did. We went to Target and found Thomas bedding on clearance SCORE and he was so excited. But of course that lasted for a short time and then he didn't like not having his railing so we ended up putting it back on. So far no climbing out and I am glad cause I still like having him in his crib and hope that he will stay in it till after baby Catherine is born and then we can transisition him completely into his Thomas the Tank Engine bed that we will put in his big boy room. We plan on leaving his room now the nursery and put Catherine in there when she is about three months which is what we did with Cortie. So that was our exciting week. We of course took some pics of Cortie trying out his toddler bed.