Emilee Nicole

sooo its about 2 months since ems arival and i never posted anything on here ;o lol soo she arrived on oct 27th2010 at 748pm and was a whole 5lbs and 12oz sooo TIny it was crazy !
Its crazy how she came soo unexpected , this whole pregnacy sadly was very stressful on me the entire time ,myself to blame for that but thank god everythings fine but anyways i had a doc appt on tues oct 26th along with a ultrasound to see how emmy was doing and at the ultrasound the tech said everything looked good and we even got a 4d pic of her.
then we went to my doc appt to let him see the results of the ultrasound and tell me when he thought i would be having her and what not .so we are sitting and waiting FOR EVER and then they come in and do a non stress test on me, and i told chris that they didnt do this to me till i was past due with cory so i got kinda worried ,but then thought well maybe there just checking and shes fine. so after a while they come it looked at the stress test and said shes fine but the ultrasound showed i was low on fluid and will have to be induced soon! so i was like ok itd be awhile tho and i was right they said in about a week .so they left the room and me and chris was talking about how exciting it was to have her in a week ! well not long after that they came in and said it would be best if we didnt wait that long after he took a sec look ,so it would be in a few days we will be induced ! that brought me and chris a lil worry but still was like ok we can do a few days , weLL THENNN lol the doc came in a thrid time and said well i think itll be best if we did it TONIGHT and would around 7pm be good time for us?. lol i was like WHATT lol how am i gonin to get everything done and i havnt had time to even warn my dad who was going to watch cory for those fews days id be in the hospital .it was a crazy few mins thats for sure. then the reality set in that before the weekend id have a sec child so soon and i got soo nervous about labor and anxiety set in . well we left and ran around town like chickens with there heads chopped off lol. go to the house get my bags ,(good thing i packed early) then tell chriss boss, then drop cory all the way in venice and run back to pc to check in .lol .when we finally got there i was so tired from all the crazyness i couldnt sleep, (know that feeling ur so tired but cant sleep YEAH lol that was me ) untill they gave me drugs then i slept my whole labor no joke woke up about an hr before having to push ! so it was a long 24 hrs got cervidil at 8 on the 26 slept till about 12 they gave me more cuz it wasnt working then at 4 started haveing some pain so they gave me sumthing to help and i feel back asleep then around 3pm (i think) they gave me the epidural cuz i couldnt deal with the contractions then went Back to sleep, then at 7 was at 9 diltaed and at 748pm on the 27th she came and practically fell out. i couldnt feel anythin unfortunitly it kinda was weird not able to even feel if i was pushing or not ,and i cant imange she wouldve even hurt that much coming out she was so small but it sucked i wasnt able to get thro those awful contractions . anyways she was early and small but very healthy and breastfed Right away which is wat they hoped she would do . now 2 months later is i would guess around 9lbs alert, trying to hold her head up and getting good at it , already has rolled over (crazy),has found her hands and sucks on them lol she has cooed ,and smiles often,eats like a lil pig (which is wat i call her miss lil piggy :) )her hair is brown but lighting a lil and is getting long (she was born with alot) she hates baths lol , she loves her daddy smiles EVERYTIME she hears his voice or if he tells her that she is his pretty lil girl !! ,she is just absolutly a blessing and is amazing and yes cory loves her tons and she loves how he shows her things and he cant wait till she can play with him , so thats the beginng of emilee hopefully more wonderful storys of her life to come <3

Christmas

so its just a few days till Chrrristmmmas , cant belive how fast this yr has gone by kinda thankful tho that it has although ,it could start slowing down now lol .

This yrs has been hard with all the mistakes ive made and deaths this yr its been crazy, BUT a Blessing ive learned so much and changed ALOT like aLOT ALOT lol , and have a WOnderful baby girl that iam SOOOO thankful for!

Ssso when it comes to this christmas I give all the glory to God that i have a great fam. that i have aMAZING children and thankful for him ,JESUS cuz that is what christmas means to me . I know its not the day he was born on, i dont even think he was born in the winter lol. but this is when i celbrate his birth, well his choice really to come down here and live ON earth , can u imainge that he choose to come live down here with all our crazyness and sin ,to be tempted, mocked and bashed and then cruicified For us that just blows my mind that he would do that for me , with all my mistakes and issues !! But thats the great thing about Jesus he calls us to come to him , he wants to save us in all our sinfullness (lol is that even a word ) what i mean is he didnt come here to save the "perfect" he came here to save us !! the ones who we all see everyday , you and me !!

He didnt say hey you ,come to me when u fix ur problems and are perfect !! he said come to me AS U ARE !!! then he will help u from there .

so yea i do presents ,a christmas tree,and tell a story of the real santa wayy long ago... but i mostly tell my fam and children about a man who choose to be born to live on this earth and then die because We sinned and all deserve death and one day will have to face that but he gave us a choice by coming here and dieing for us so that we could choose him and TRY living like he did ,so we could live with him in heaven and will never be alone or forgotten and always have a purpose <3

Oregon

sooo we went and came home safly from Oregon this past week thankfully, It was absolutly amazing. The scenery and sooo much to do was awesome .

First day ... We got there about midnight ,wed the first of(sept), so we deff went straight to sleep.
The plane ride, I was sooo very nervous about turned out to be fine . Cory did soooo well stayed awake the first one and loved looking out the window, he did however cry cause of the ear popping but it didnt last long, and he slept the sec flight .
day2.. thurs,2.
Tena (Chris's mom ) had to work this day so we decided (cause we didnt have a car) to walk down towards where they're stores were and stuff to check it out. It turned out great not having a car , we got alot of excersise walking all the way down where she lived.(on a mountain practically lol)
We got to see alot of scenery tho and got to spend alot of family time which was nice ,walking back up the mountain (haha) that was some work ,for me anyways ,but it felt good to get out and do sumthing. Our legs were killing us after .
Later that night tena came home and we went straight to Mt. hood which is a famous mountain over there for yr. round snowboarding in what not , it was BEAUTIFUL and we got to see snnnooow !! I was deff excited and had to make a snowball lol.
We watched the sunset from the mountain ,which was Amazing!! Nothing like a sunset here.
day.3 fri third of sept
FORKS, WASHINGTON /La push HERE WE COME !!!!!!!!!!
So we left farly early that morning ,seeing we had to be there at 1pm in forks for the twilight tour .
Iam not a crazy fanatic fan but, hey I had a chance to go see where the story came from and the scenery so we went. It was awesome !!! La push , which is the indain reserve was my fav. soooo beautiful and we got to go out on the beach and i got to put my feet in the pacific. YES it was FREZZING but awesome my toes got that tingling feeling as soon as it hit the water. I deff give the surfers that go out alot of credit haha.
Other then the beach we seen where stephanie meyer (author of twilight saga) picked out the houses of where each chacter lived and what not . The movie was not filmed there. But I thought it was better seeing I liked the book better anyways.
After the wonderful tour (the tour guide was the best so funny and into making all the pictures so funny) we went and got sumthing to eat in forks, the place was pacific pizza it was pretty good. We got a pizza of course lol , it had A butt load of toppings it was crazy .
Heading home seemed like it took forever 4 1/2 hrs away,but deff worth it .
day4 sat 4th
This day we decided we had enough of such a long car drive and stayed sorta close to home . We went driving along what they call a gorge i guess ,it was so pretty they have such clear water there, it was also the line in between washington and oregon.
so we decided after seeing online that there were some waterfalls to go and see them , but couldnt find them at first and ended up driving quite a long way down the gorge but the scenery was beautiful and it ended up being a great drive.
Finally after turning around we found the waterfalls ,ANd wow they were amazing so beautiful and clear .I of course had to touch the water just like the beach and it was frezzing too but again awesome i which we had natural things like this in fl, but i guess then it wouldnt be fl LOL .
After seeing 3 beautiful water falls and taking a lil hike wto see one of them , we went and got sumthing to eat. Then went to there store there in clackmus called fred meyers omgn i wish we had one here it was like a super duper wallmart if they had one but Better lol . It had great quialty name brand stuff and anything u need they seemed to carry for a great price.
After a great day we were out like a light when we got home .
day 5 sept5th
This day started all weird for me homesickness started to settle in and all the walking also ,the pregnancy didnt help iam sure either.
But with all that goin on i still had a great time we decided to take a drive to see crater lake 5 hr drive yea the drive wasnt as pleasant this go around cory got car sick and i started to about the time we got there . The lake on the other hand was beautiful and there was also chipmunks so cory got to see (wat he called) alvin theoadore and simon lol. it was fun !!
day6 last day 6th.
today we deff just stayed in town and went downtown , to the mall and just drove around a seen was it was about, alot of ppl and buildings was about it LOl
We seen alot of homeless one guy had a sign saying he was "too ugly to prositute" lol.
After drivng around we went back to the house and took cory to the park in tenas apartment place. It was beutiful if I lived there this would be a place id go to aLOt the view amazing, the park Clean, the grass like carpet and, the weather better then anything here in fl. We stayed here for quite a while letting cory get tired for out plane ride home that night.
After playing at the park we went to eat at a nice place i forgot the name but it real popular there and it was great i had fish and it was GREAT !!!
Then we went to there khols and it was nice the sales there are amazing i got my first and last pair of prego pants lol seeing ill be done here soon .
After this we came back to tenas and had to make a run to walmart haha Of course only us, for a flash drive to hold all our 800 pics ,YEa Crazy !!
And then it was time to say goodbyes and off to our plane for the long ride home .
Well I was feeling great when we left alil sad leaving the wonderful weather and great things to do but eager to get home and get back to work (cleaning, cooking ).
But after I got on the fisrt plane anxiety hit me and it Hit HARD...
First I was just nervous about the long ride home and just being on the airplane and of course that we had an issue with our seats ,we almost had to be all separated but thank god , God made things ok and a nice guy changed seats with me and we got to sit altogether. I needed chris beside me seeing I had the anxiety bad I cryed on and off and was nervous the whole 4 hrs ..yea awful Ive never felt like that . Maybe the pregnancy idk. Well after the nerves started to go away ,I thought when we were getting close to houston tx (our mid way stop) I started to get sick to my stomach and gladly we made in into tx and I just barly made it into the planes bathroom and well yea wont give u all the good details but it was gross LOL.
well we finally got off the horrible plane and I got to rest for about an hr and watch the txas sunrise , got sumthing to drink and little to eat and thankfuly i kept it down,not long after got on our 1 1/2 hr flight back to fl EXcited and ready to be home.
tx to fl flight went well still didnt feel great but it was 10x better then the last ,got off the plane happily and found our friend everrt and got to head home YAYYY .
Although the last plane ride was awful I miss Oregon it was a great place and i deff would love to go again one day (when kids are grown and NOT PREGNANT !!)and see it all again.And the weather omgn (omygoodness) I miss like CRAzy ,I loved not being stuck in the house all day like iam here ,so heres to hoping it cools off here in fl and we have another cold winter LOL. The trip was wonderful was very thankful for the opptunity to go . :)
<3 nicole Loyd

heartbreaking weekend

wow this weekend just past has been awful, all we knew was that this fri aug 20th was goin to be the anniversary of our friend Dave Mathews which is hard enough to have to relive , but little did we know we were gonna go thro alot more !

A Very good friend of mine bonita ,her mom has been battling cancer for the last few months and i went and visited her in hospice sat, it was heartbreaking to see a very hardworking and amazing mother to her 4 children, in so much pain she had to be sedated the whole time .. when i left i told her goodbye and that i loved her that was her last night she went to be with jesus that next morning and i got the text. my heart goes out to her family and thankful that she is in no more pain. its very hard to understand and belive and i couldnt even imagine losing my mom at a young age .. we love u judy and u are greatly missed <3

well we thought and hoped that , that wouldve been the last bad news for a while when not long after thingking that sun morning got a fone call from my grandma wanting to talk to dad( he was here going to help me around the house) that my uncle danny passed away on sat nite or sun morning .. dont want to go into details but this was a very unexpected death and absolutly heartbreaking. i remember as a kid goin out on the boat with him and out family fishing or going to his house and watching movies he had a HUGE collection of , or him coming to our house and just visiting and of course when grandpa was here the thurs nite speggtti dinners and grandma and grandpas house, i dont understand the reason and its very hard to except his passing but he is GREATLY missed and loved !! if only we could have told him that..
and last but not least chris family is not talking to us , and as much of a relief that is in some ways its more sad i think than anything , they dont want chris to be with me anymore and contiued to say there opinions and were very disrespectful. so no i cant let my children or myself be around that but we were hoping they couldve just respected us and so we could have some kinda relationship doesnt mean u have to agree with things but we cant allow the kind of talk or stress around us or the kids so they choose instead to not talk .. i guess if thats the only way it would stop tho its best ,idk .. but hopfully one day things will change and ppl wont tear others down but instead lift each other up or if theres nothin nice to be said not to say anything at all .

well heres to hoping there is noone more bad news this yr .. God is going to do great things i kno it its just not knowing when and how long will the bad last before there is good .. ill look at the good things in my life and know HE is in control !
i will say iam very blessed that iam not depressed, see iam the type that deff has that promblem when bad things happen or theres the least bit of stress and thank god he has lifted that from me even through all this bad i can look at the good and trying to help others through what there going tho is helping me get though it also if that makes sense lol ... well next time ill prolly be talking about our trip to oregon unless i think of sumthin else lol yep goin to oregon next week , deff think we could use it now from going thro all of this <3nicole <3

a goal for today...

Soo while reading my bible study last nite (Excellent wife ) I came across the vs. 1 peter 3:3-5 and how it talked ,(in the study ) about being gentle and meek so others want to be around you and to make a tone of joy in the household !! Sooo my goal today is to memorize this vs and to work on being more gentle to other feelings and to want to be around ppl instead of keeping to myself as I normally do.
I remember when I was younger I was never the type to say ANything and I mean anything that would come arcoss mean or to delibritly hurt ppl( prolly becus I was so shy) but as I got older and I now look back I slowly started to do so and
I understand I should say my thoughts in some cases, and I am glad I learned to speak up but I've realized I've been hurtful alot of the time to ppl around me and speacially those who matter and that Iam close to in my life so on that note lol I want to remember this verse about being beautiful on the inside and and loving and helping others to do so for gods glory!
I also think this is great verse to share with others .. as so many women are trying to look beautiful on the outside and trying to compete with others or making them selfs depressed because they cant add up to what this world thinks they should be. Be beautiful on the inside thats wat ppl are goin to remember when your gone <3

sooo annoyed/agravated

omgoodness iam sooooooo ready for nov. to get here already .. iam DONe with this pregancy . absolutely done.
so agravated at everything I literaly dont want ppl around me, and Ive been getting sooooo emotional Its awful . i think iam turning into a hermit lol i like being home alot and not have alot of ppl here (alot to me could be one haha) unless i plan on it or if its good friends or family. prolly just this darn pregnancy tho its driving me nuts !!

One good thing tho is tomorrow we are going for a ultrasound so thats exciting ,but iam sooo ready for this to be over and on top of that I dont even know when my due date is lol and as stupid as this sounds thats one thing thats really been buggin me. So it wasss the 16th well then it changed to the 14th not a big change so it didnt matter much but last time they wrote down it was the 4th .?. soooo thats a 2 week difference !! Its nice no doubt, the sooner the better but uhh iam very confused lol . i did have a irregular monthly so i have no clue now and i deff feel farther along then originaly thought. well maybe tomorrow theyll be able to tell me sumthing ...i hope anyways!

To try and look at the good things tho, ive got the house cleaned ...at least i dont have to worry about that, so I can relax and have some quiet time in my bible study and hopefully feel normal soon . Cory is being really good today also so thats a blessing lol .. and I havnt had any pain today , because latly this baby is kickin my butt with just how big it seems to be already... well i guess iam gonna make me some FOOd lol and finish up my study ...

hoping these next few months FLy by <3 nicole

An Awesome Vacation !!!!!!!!

SO this last week we went on vacation well actually we were suppose to go on vacation lol. We had more of a stay-cation. We oringinally were goin to sc to see my best friend tori and so we could meet her daughter, it was her first bday this week also, buttt things got all crazy and messed up. I had to get a toothed pulled and wasnt able to change the day, which ended up being right in the middle of our vaca and of course we had truck problems lol it never ends. so sadly we ended up staying but it didnt turn out so bad we spent aLOt of much needed family time and me and chris time.
To begin our week I still got to go my bible study, so that was a blessing. I hate to miss that, ive learned so much and love everything about it. Then we went out to eat one night at crackle barrel, which was super nice we hadnt done it in awhile and the food was amazing as always. And on wed we went to busch gardens and cory got to meet elmo and got a high five from him too. He was sooo happy!! We just walked around a looked at all the animals and stuff we didnt see last time it was nice . Later that night we got to go to church at our old youth pastors joe's new youth group it was awesome , weve always loved his sermons and hope to get to go more often. well after youth group we went back to there house and hung out and ordered pizza and talked and caught up . We also got to me they're new baby Isiah he is amazing and sooo adoreable.
well thursday we dropped cory off at his papas beacause earrrly fri. morning we were goin to Labelle so I could get this wisdom tooth pulled. So he got to hang with his papa and his cuzins were over there too so he had a nice time playing with them . Thurs night was just me and Chris is was amazing getting to spend time together just us. We went swimming and watched a movie and stayed up late like old times . And fri we got to Labelle and finally found the place way out in the boone docks lol but after a tough time trying to get all my paper work and permission from my doc to get it pulled ,we finally went in. annnnnd thats when I got nervous and Chris started messing with me making it worse lol ..well needless to say it only took a few mins and it was done and didnt hurt at all and just been sore ever since . SOO much better and easier then I thought thank God .
Well fri after we got home we rested and then went and got my meds and to find me some food cuz I was sTARVING. We rented some movies and I decided (cuz i was wore out) cory could stay one more night with his papa so i could rest. We had another great day just me and Chris. It was so nice having this week to just spend time with him , I feel like I fell more in love with him and just got to remember how it was when we first got together and married !!
So sat. we got up really late uhh we hate that lol well chris does.. anyways went and got cory and came home and just rested . I cleaned some and we made steaks mashed potatoes and corn uhhh IT WAS GOOOD . Dont ask how I ate it after I got a tooth pulled lol prolly wasnt suppose to but I couldnt help my self lol :)
So here we are on sun and its the end of another great day and WONDERFUL week. I cant belive its already over but I suppose Chris has to go back to work as do I on cleaning the house and hopefully getting some teaching time in with Cory. Today we helped some friends move into there new house and we hung out with them too Cory and Madi (they're daughther) seemed to have fun and Cory got to play with another child which was nice.
Well we had an amazing week and I cant wait till we can do it again .. I love making memeories and spending time with this awesome family God has truly blessed me with <3