happy baby

I figured now would be a better time than any to introduce ourselves. To the far left of the screen you will see my newborn son, Ty. He is the light of our lives and on that note, the reason I started blogging again. The right picture is our family picture. We enjoy the river therefore taking the family picture at the river was very appropriate. I will upload more later. I hope everyone enjoys. Have a great Tuesday and remember 2 things: Never underestimate the power of God, you never know when someone will be taken away so live life to its fullest and always remember to tell your loved ones you love them. and 2: God will never give you anything He knows you can't handle.

on a sad note....

Today I am mourning the loss of a fellow christian from our church. Mrs. Debbie Respess passed away yesterday at her home. She was a great wife, mother, and young grandmother. I am really good friends with her daughter Jackie and Krista. I wish things didn't happen the way they do but only God knows how everything is going to end up. I just keep thinking that she'll never get to see her grandchildren grow up. Her grandchildren range from 5 months old to 10 yrs old. They were the light of her life and so were her children. Things like this really make me realize that we really don't know whats going to happen day after day. We always just suspect that we are going to live to be old age but you just never know. Makes me also realize what I take for granted in this life... my friends and family always being there... sometimes i'll say "okay well i'll talk to them next week when i get a chance"... they may not ever be that chance. I am so saddened by this death of a great woman. She always could make you smile when you weren't happy.
Please pray for her family and close friends as we will struggle through this. Only with time and encouragement will they heel.
Rest in Peace Mrs. Debbie,
We love you,
Carrie

just another day in paradise....

Well like the song goes, "its just another day in paradise". Well maybe not paradise but its my life that I can't change so i better make it as "paradisy" as possible. Today I recertified for my CPR... I can know legally save lives. Yay! I am thinking about maybe doing EMS cert. so I can help a little more but I'm not ready yet to be always on call and work 40hrs a week. Not Yet... Ty is getting to become so growny. He can lift his chest off the ground while doing his tummy time. He loves music and lights and looking at himself in the mirror. It fascinates him when he realizes its him in the mirror and just coo's and babbles at himself. I can't believe in 2 weeks he'll be three months. Yesterday we went and bought the teeth/gum cleaner (like a toothbrush for babies) and he enjoyed it sooo much. He loved it... He sleeping habits are still a little rough for me at nights, with me getting up with him whenever he cries. We decided, Daddy is with him during the work hours and i'm on night shift and early morning shift. I don't mind at all. I'm really thankful for Dustin being home with him at this time of his life. At least he not with strangers and at least one of us gets too see him smile 24/7. Well thats enough for now. I will post some pictures tonight... gotta love baby pictures.

Well it's Tuesday and what a day it has been. Being back at work really makes me miss Ty a lot during the day. He gets to stay home with Dustin during the day, at least until Dustin gets hired on at the Corrections Facility in Bertie. Dustin gets to be with Ty and watch him do cute things all day long, while I'm at work and only get to see him awake for a couple hours when I get home at night. When I leave in the morning he usually is still sleeping. It's hard being a 40hr a week working mom and coming home to a baby that coo's and smiles at his daddy more than his mommy. It makes me really sad to know that Dustin gets more attention from Ty than I do. I love being able to work and be the one who brings home the money but yet I would really love to be able to stay home with Ty at this stage where he is growing so fast and smiling a lot more and the way he looks up at me and coo's and smiles at me makes me want to stay home that much more with him until he goes to school. I'm so afraid i'm going to miss him rolling over for the first time or crawling and then saying his first words and walking... Its a bond between baby and mommy that no mom wants to miss and I don't want to miss it.... Am I just crazy? afraid of things I can't control? I'm not sure. Well I better get to work, my lunch break is over... So until next time, cherish the moments of the day; for once they are gone, you will never have those moments again.

First Blog

Today marks a new milestone in my life as a "New Mommy". I start a blog of my family, thoughts, and dreams.

My life consist of a wonderful husband, Dustin, a beautiful baby boy, Ty and a crazy cat named Chip. Let's catch you up to now, here goes nothing:
On Feb. 10, 2007 Dustin and I got married.
On Feb. 11, 2007 I moved to Utah and Dustin went back to Camp Pendleton, CA (where he finished up in May 2007 and moved back home to Utah to live with me and start our lives together as husband and wife)
On September 23, 2007 we found out we were pregnant with our baby boy.
Sadly, September 28, 2007 Dustin's best friend, Ty Moosman, was killed in a auto-accident the night we asked him to be the baby's godfather. (he agreed) That night we knew if we had a boy, his name was going to be Ty after one of the greatest people we ever met.
December 17, 2007, Dustin was accepted to Utah Highway Patrol Academy, after 24 weeks of Academy, June 1, 2008, I gave birth to our baby boy, Ty Clinton Reiners. (More about the labor later)
June 16, 2008 we decided to move back to North Carolina to be with my family.
June 30, 2008 - we left Utah (very sad time in all our lives)
Arrived in NC on July 3rd at 7pm - Glad to be back!!!
Later on, I will update more.... right now its back to work for me.