Snow Day!!

There is absolutely nothing I love more than a LaZy Saturday at home with the family!! Right before lunch it started Snowing!! It's such a pretty snow!!! It almsot reminds me of when we were stuck in the Hospital right after Meya was born, that was a Saturday as well! This morning we had a relaxing morning, Jayson's Mom and Sister (Jayson's Aunt) who is visiting from PA came over to see the kids and see Meya for the 1st time! Of course I didn't remember to take any pictures I'm terrible I know and then Jayson and My Mady-girl ran out to do some errands for me at Target and Best Buy! I'm so THRILLED to say that our taxes are done and submitted online and it's before the last day of January! Not to bad if you ask me!! Now we are so excited to begin a new year of organization with our bill and desk are! We have this neat little cubby in the one corner of our bedroom that Jayson and his dad are going to build a desk in and some wonderful and much needed shelving as well! I will take pictures of Before and after ! Don't worry! So hopefully in the next few weeks we can get that accomplished! The funny thing is I always HATED baskets when I was a kid.....My mom still to this day is the MOST Organized person I know and uses a TON of baskets! I hated that when I was kid but now I see how AWESOME they are and how much sense it makes to use them! I am just loving them now! So I think This year there will be a lot more baskets in our future! Ha!! I have all these Ideas so Jayson told me to write them all down and that will help us accomplish them! This year my new Years Resolution is to be more organized and on top of things like my mom! Everyone used to tell me how much alike I am to my Mother and as a teenager I never did foresee how much I would love hearing that as an Adult! I may look like My daddy more but I am beginning to become more and more like my Mom and I could be happier!! I am blessed beyond Measure to have a Christian Family and am so blessed beyond belief! Here's a sweet little picture of my little ones to leave you with! Enjoy



Blessings,
Stacey

A whole Day When Daddy works late..

So you all will have to forgive me for posting the next few pictures! They are surely an embarrassment, to say the least! Yesterday was such a LONG i mean LONG day! Jayson went to work as usual at about 6:30, but had his work Christmas party last night at Carmine's Italian Restuarant in Atlantic City at the Tropicana so that left me with the little ones all day ! With No adult interaction except a phone call that was bad news, but will get into that a later post! Anyways so I wanted to document how insane the house can get with 3 little ones 5 and Under!! I really still can't believe I'm going to show these pictures! Please leave a comment and tell me your homes get like this as well!?!?!?
Here's my kitchen UGHHH that was at Dinner time I made pancakes! I was not messing around!!!
Bryces room..........
They spent most of the day in Madyson's room as you can see oh my Word!!

Can you believe I actually took pictures of this?!?!
No I didn't even make beds either!!
Yikes here comes our living room

This was probably the most insane day I have had since little Miss Meya was born!! The kids were just crazy! It was such a beautiful 50 degree weather and i so desperate to get them outside but the ground is still so wet from all that rain we had on Sunday! But Bryce, Meya and I did take a walk and will post that later! But really Yesterday was a day I don't think I will forget! I mean don't get me wrong I love my little ones, but a day without any Adult interaction will just be the end of me!! Ha!!
Blessings,
Stacey

Warning Picture Overload!

My sweet little (growing) family! My sweet hubby and 2 big siblings!!

Love this one of Madyson and Meya! Nothing like sisterly love
My 2 men and my littlest girl!!!!! Bryce is so inlove!
This picture just melts my heart!!! Sweet sweet day!
On our way home from the hopsital!!!
This is the park in our town and all the snow we had the day after Meya was born!
Getting ready to go home!!


1 day old!
Bored waiting for the contractions to begin!
right as the Pitocin started!!!

These pictures are for my dear friend DAwn!! I promised her I would post some picutres! ha! It only takes me almost a month to get around to doing it!! figures! I hope to post more later!! We can't believe she is almost a month old already! Man how time flies!! It's amazing to me that she has only been her a month and we can't remember what life was like without her little sweet self! Lord we thankful for the gift of Meya and the precious gift of all our children!! We don't take it for granted one second! You are so amazing!!!

Our little girl is born!

It's been way to long since my last blog, but things have been a little crazy here! Our little girl Meya Hope Aspenberg was born on Friday, Dec. 18th at 7:35 pm and weighed 7lbs 9.4 ounces! She was perfect and beautiful! I was induced at 8 am that morning and pushed for 25 minutes and then she was born! She was my longest delivery . Our 1st daughter Madyson was born after only 2 pushes and Our Son Bryson I pushed 4 times...so this was a bit longer... Although I feel I shouldn't even complain because my sister in laws and a few of my friends have pushed for hours and such!!!

We have had quite a world wind of 3 weeks! I can't believe it's been 3 weeks since our little girl came into this world! Jayson (my husband) and I were just talking a few minutes ago about how we can't even remember our lives before her! The kids have been wonderful in the adjustment to have a little one in the house! Madyson has been a little Mommy, and Bryce has been so cute, He always tells me when she is crying including when she is in my arms and crying LOL! She really doesn't cry all that often and he always thinks she's hungry too it's adorable!! The transition over all in the house has been really good! The start of this week Is what I was dreading the most! Jayson went back to work full time and Madyson went back to school, so that started a whole new cycle but to my surprise God is soo good and got us through this week really smoothly!! I'm so thankful for that ! I was so nervous how I was going to get Madyson on the bus with the other 2 little ones and it's been just about Frigid this week also so I was so nervous! I even made it to Mops on Monday at church as well! I didn't think that I was going to be able to get there but again God is soo good and helped me through it and I was there!! I soo didn't want to miss it, Donna Chambers was speaking our pastor's wife and she is such an amazing speaker and she loves the Lord so much I was so glad I made it! Unfortunately I didn't get to hear all of her talk but I was so thankful I was able to hear some of it!! Of course Meya was hungry 1/2 way through but it's good!

We had a WONDERFUL Christmas!!! It was so special! I'll have to blog at a later day about Christmas and post some pictures because Meya is just about to ready to nurse again so I 'm going to run now but I am looking forward to getting back in the swing of things and blogging more often!!! Happy New Year too
Blessings,
Stacey

11 days and Counting!!!!!!

11 Days Until my Induction....not that I'm counting down of course?! Ha! We are so.......excited and really looking forward to this little Girl coming! Our families are beyond thrilled as well! This will be the 3rd Grandchild for my parents and the 8th for Jayson's parents!! Jayson is the oldest out of 4 and he has 3 sisters, 2 of his sisters each have 2 children and his youngest sister Grace has a little boy who will be 2 on the 15th~ I must say our children are so blessed and have such love surrounding them on both sides!!

We finally have her nursery in full swing and is just almost all set up! The only problem I'm having is find things for her walls, I think above her changing table/dresser I want to put a bible verse and above her bed My mother in law is going to Paint her name! Ahh It looks so good! We got it painted last Thursday night. It's purple, But a darker purple than the room used to be I can't wait to put up pictures and show you all the progress! On Saturday morning we decided to put the crib up it was a rainy cold day here in South jersey and figured it would be something fun to do. We are using Madyson's white crib, now we haven't used it since she was in a toddler bed and I "thought" I kept every piece to this crib! OPPPS!!! I seem to have misplaced these particular pieces you need to screw the screws in to place?! How did that happen, I need to go to Home Depot or Lowe's to see if we could find them our local little hardware store in town didn't have them so her crib is 3 quarters of the way together, we couldn't' finish putting on the front part so now it just looks like a day bed! Luckily it's not that big of a deal or pressing because she will be in our room for at least the 1st month! But there is still this "need" in me to set up her room and have it ready for her! I know we will get it done just as my husband says..

I have my 38 week dr's appointment tomorrow and I'm looking forward to it! My sis in law Grace said she had this strong feeling that I will go in to Labor toady but so far nothing! We shall see it's only 9:54 am so I guess there is plenty left of time left in the day so who knows?! We had an ultrasound last week and at 37 weeks she was measuring a little bigger than 7lbs so she is growing good and healthy!

On a more sad note I have 2 sick little ones today ! Both the kids have icky noses and coughs so unfortunately or fortunately depending on how you look at things we are having a Jammie day here at home!! I obviously kept Madyson home from school today but so far it just seems as though they both have viral colds! Tis the season right? I must say it breaks my heart to see them so sad , but they are still playing well and now are both relaxing on the cough for a Little bit! My thoart was a little scratchy this morning so I've been drinking some tea with honey and lemon, then decided it was a good idea to strip the beds and washed all he sheets and blankets hoping it will kill some yucky germs ... Usually I do the sheets on Wed. but figured I would do that today instead! I have a ton of laundry to do yet again and a bout 2 loads maybe 3 to put away! I messed up this last week and didn't' do what I normally do what I normally do and that's put away the wash one load at a time! It really makes a difference! Oh well! It is what it is! Well I'm off to that now! Enjoy your day and hope things are well for all of you!
Blessings,
Stacey~

A little "Sprinkle"

Here I go again hopefully I will be a little better blogging from here on out! I'm 35 weeks pregnant now and I can't believe we are getting so close!! I only have 4 weeks until my induction and who know if she will decided to grace us with her presense before that!! You never know! I'm sorta thinking probally not b/c of my last 2 but who knows! Every precious little one is different!! I think we have setteled on a name! But you need to stay tuned for that one! We will share for sure when she is born! Just in case we change it!! Ha! Poor Bryce his name changed like a 100 times or so it seemed!! Can you believe too that her nursey is not even ready ! I feel like a complete slacker! The other kids rooms were done by now and completely set up! Thankfully though I have all of her cloths in her draw ready to go and really we just have to paint and put some finishing touches up! Jayson and his dad did the final touches on the spackiling (s/p?) the other night so Early next week I belive one night they will just paint it!! It's going to be purple! The room is currently purple (Madyson's old room) but we wanted it fresh and clean for our new little one!!

Last Sunday 2 of my nearest and dearest friends Lauren and Chrissy threw me a "sprinkle" just something little but it was So....fun! I am so thankful for the wonderful Godly friends! The whole thing was going to be a surprise, but they weren't sure how to get to Lauren's so I ended up knowing it was happening, but my sweet husband sent them an invitation list of everyone and it worked out just perfectly! My mom and sister and aunts and cousins all came down from Central Jersey and my mother in law and sis in laws also! It was so neat! For the favors Lauren did pink chocalte covered pop corn and made the cutest labels that said "Ready to Pop"! We enjoyed delicious food amazing converstation and I even got to bring the Cherry Limeade Punch I have been dying to try from over at KellysKornerblog.com! Everything was so fun and everyone was beyond generous with all our gifts! Of couse I didn't do a very good job of taking pictures I really wish I did but here are few of the ones I did get !!

Here is a picture with me in the middle and some of my amazing girlfriends!! I am truly blessed!!

Seriously these women are amazing and I thank the Lord everyday for each one of them!!

Have any of you all started Christmas shopping? I bought sadly ONLY 1 present so far! I need to get my self together! I did however go as far as make a list of things I want to get and for everyone I need to buy for! Also I'm in the process of trying to get things together for Madyson's Fancy Nancy (her Favorite books ever ) Birthday party which I am hoping to have it the weekend of 12th?! We shall see it's her first "friend" party! Her birthday isn't until the end of the month of Dec. but I always feel so bad because she gets thrown a last minute event because of all the craziness!! But I am so excited and Really Looking forward to her special day!!

It's just been one of those weeks!

We have had quite the busy last week! A week ago Tuesdayy My Mady woke up with what I believed was a start to a cold, fever on and off with some help of Motrin it went away, then that night Mady woke up coughing something fierce in the middle of the night! To me it sounded like Croup..So I put her in the bathroom with me and the Hot water run until I though she could breathe well again and we spent the rest of the night on the couch with an impormt to sleep over! Poor thing it just breaks my hear to see them so sick! Then I thought we were on the Mend and Friday I woke up with what I knew was Broncitis! I could feel it I was using my rescue in haller more than I would've like to and a call into the dr (since its hard for me to go with 2 little ones) I was able to get on some anti-boitics and now I feel better! Bryce seems to just have a cold with some conjestion and what not but is acting fine and playing! Sat. night Mady woke up again saying her ear hurt so more motrin, and then Sunday we stayed home from church just to play it safe and she didnt have any other complaints till that afternoon and i looked and her ear was leaking so to speak I know TMI! SO I called the doctors and they though possibly her ear drum ruptured and gave her some Anti-boitics and ear drops! So needless to say it's been a long week! This pregnant Momma is so sleepy! But of course my little ones come first!! So today we are off to the doctor's for them to check out her ear!! I am sure hoping she starts to feel better!! It breaks my heart to see them sick~~ My poor husband now seems stuff and I'm praying he gets better b/c this weekend coming up he's planning on going on a Guys Retreat Hiking/backpacking trip! So hoping he starts to feel better!!I hope our household is on the mend!! All these sickies!

I'm choosing to PRAISE Jesus though through this and not get discrouaged! It gets way to easy to sink in and wallow in all of the sleepless nights, and sickness and everything and not to focus for me on the positive and I'm choosing that I'm going to seek him and his Cross and not lose hope! Instead of church yesterday (since we are all under the weather) we Watch Andy Stanley on Gospel Music Channel! He was FABULOUS! Both My hubby and I are big fans and he was taking about not losing Hope and having our HOpe be sound in CHrist! He read alot from Roman's 8 and today I'm ~hoping~ to sit down and read more of What Paul has to say on hope and such!
Praying you find your Hope In Jesus today!!
Blessings,
Stacey