2 Months.

It has been almost 2 months since my last post!

So much has changed and happened in those 2 months.

I'm not even really sure where to start.
We now have 4 kids. 

But first, we moved into our new home on Oct. 3rd technically! We actually moved our beds and clothes in on September 28th and started sleeping here. Then over the next few days we slowly moved the rest of our things over from our Rental house. On Saturday Oct. 3rd we brought our storage trailer and a bunch of men helped unload that into our garage. Most of that stuff is still in the garage! It's a big mess and I feel completely overwhelmed when I try to go and sort through it all! How do we accumulate so much stuff?!!

All the while I was 38 weeks pregnant and pretty much dying of heat! Don't worry, everyone else did the work. I did a lot of pointing and bossing everyone around, it was not fun at all. Really, I hated it! I cried and sweat a lot. But I do love my new home, I especially love the quiet. 

My kids were pretty excited to get to start riding the bus to school again and I was thankful that I no longer have to drive them to and pick them up from school everyday. That first week I hardly ever left the house at all, I only left to get me a Diet Coke at the Pop Stop in Rigby or to go to my many Doctor appointments.

Then on Thursday, Oct. 8th, I had a Doctor appt. I went in with a headache and ready to get this baby out! But the Dr didn't have any reason to induce me and wanted to keep him in as long as he (the baby) would allow, I had another appotment for that following Monday and she wanted me to try and make it until then. My blood pressure was a little high, but the ultrasound looked good so Dr. Asay sent me home in tears and told me to rest- yeah, she said that every week! She also said to call if my headache didn't go away or if I started to feel sick at all. Well, at 4am on Friday I woke up with a terrible headache and throwing up. I could barely walk and it took everything I had to wait until 5am to call Dr. Leavitt. (I really didn't want to wake him up that early!) He told me to get to the hospital right away and we would start the process of having this baby! I was so emotional, I was nervous about the whole delivery, baby, everything. And on top of that I was so car sick the whole drive to EIRMC I thought I might die!! Once we arrived we were admitted into Labor and Delivery. The whole birth is something I'll write about another day- it deserves its own post!

And on Friday at 3:55pm Mr. Ridge Richard Taylor was born.

We stayed in the hospital that weekend and I came home on Sunday night. I hate staying in hospitals, I didnt sleep at all and I was VERY emotional. This whole pregnancy and labor was much more difficult than any of my others. The recovery has been no different. The next few weeks went past so quickly. I have struggled to get back to my old self and I am just now starting to get the swing of life with 4 kids and adjusting to new routines in a new house.

Halloween came and went! In the past we usually do so much for that entire week, but this year we didn't. The kids dressed up for school and then on Halloween night we took them trick-or-treating. Randall took the bigger kids to Goosebumps movie one night and that was about it! After all the madness of everything else it was pretty refreshing! We didn't even carve pumpkins! (I hate carving pumpkins!)

The first week in November I had some serious dental issues. I've actually had issues with this one tooth since 2014 and could never get any relief, initially I had a crown, then root canal, and finally I had the tooth pulled. (Yes, all on one damn tooth!) I still couldn't handle the pain and I was out of commission for a week. It was a nightmare. Basically the Dentist that did all that was working on the wrong tooth. Yes, I had a tooth pulled that shouldn't have been, then that hole got dry socket. It was awful. I finally went to a different Dentist who had me come to his office late Saturday night and went out of his way to fix it all. He discovered that it was a different tooth that was completely abscessed and was causing all the pain. He also found out that the previous Dentist broke my jaw when he pulled the other tooth- yes. Anyway, no wonder I thought I was dying!  I had to go back to his office every few days to get the hole cleaned from the first root canal, and the second root canal drained.  I'd say that pain from all of that was WAY worse than labor! And labor pain is THE WORST! It took another week for me to be able to chew or even open my mouth very far, which was torture!! But I'm finally feeling better and so thankful it is over with, except for the gaping hole in my mouth! But I survived and I am so thankful for my new dentist, I could have kissed him he helped me so much!
 (BTW Dr. James Allen at Rockhouse Dentistry if anyone needs a amazing dentist in Rexburg!) 

I earned those dark circles under my eyes! 

As of now my home is still pretty bare! I choose to sit and snuggle this baby instead of work! We haven't had the internet for 5 weeks and to be honest- that has been quite nice! I've also had to put both my jobs on hold for the rest of the year. I have had to learn to take deep breaths and let things go! It's hard- really hard. But I know that in a few months, years, whatever, I will look back and realize that those things will have worked themselves out. In the mean time my baby cries all day and just wants to be held- so I cry with him a lot and hold him. And drink way to much Diet Coke!

Most days I am happy to just get a shower! I feel like everything has changed.
 Sometimes that feels really good, and sometimes it just hurts.

I miss my friends and neighbors in our old home, I miss sleep, and I miss having the energy and drive I used to have. But I am so happy to be settling into this home and finally have our whole family here safe and sound.

It will all work out! One Day at a Time. (Deep breaths)