Five Things I Love About Dustin:
1. That Big Sexy Brain
2. Those Legs
3. The way he takes care of his family
4. His talent
5. His sense of humor

Five Things I Love About Our Relationship:
1. We are honest
2. We are forgiving and don’t go to bed without some sort of conflict resolution
3. We do not care what you think
4. We have fun
5. We (try to) put our relationship ahead of our children

Five Favorite Dates Through the Years:
1. Red Sox game
2. Southern Miss football game
3. The Night He Sang That Song in the Hotel and I Drank Way Too Much
4. Our New Years Eve cyber date
5. Out With Amber and Brandon in Mobile

Five Things I Look Forward To:
1. Our vow renewal
2. Moving into a Forever Home
3. Continuing to equally parent our children as a team
4. Reaching our goals… together.
5. Growing our relationship into something we never imagined.

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My recovery wasn’t without complications. Two days after my discharge from the hospital (I was only in for 2 days), I was on my own with a newborn, a 2 year old, and a 5 year old. That would have been difficult for anyone, but I had a c-section to recover from, with a scary, mysterious back and chest pain. While Dustin was at work, it was just me. I didn’t have anyone to cook or help with the kids or sweep my floor. And even if you ignore housework, kids have to be fed and bathed and I couldn’t be on bedrest. Anyway, I became very depressed very quickly. I cried all the time and was absolutely hysterical most of the time. Sometimes, over nothing.

About a week after Quentin was born, I had to go to the doctor, then again, then to the ER, then again to the hospital for a CT scan. Hours of bloodwork and radiology later, my chest and back pain went unexplained and eventually faded. We’re assuming it was something muscular. I thank God it wasn’t the pulmonary embolism originally suspected, but boy did it give me hell for awhile. I couldn’t sleep any other way than sitting up at about a 60 degree angle. It killed me to bend, twist, cough, sneeze, or laugh. Not to mention the pain caused in my healing incision by many of these things as well. But enough of that…

The little guy has totally been worth it.

At a month old, Quentin is probably over 10 lbs (he was 9.5 at his 2-week checkup) now. He is in some 0-3 and some 3-6 month clothes! He takes 4 ounces of formula every 3ish hours. Sometimes it’s more like 3 ounces every 2 hours. We just let him eat when he’s hungry. At nighttime, he sleeps in 2 or 3 blocks of 3 or 4 hours. It varies still, but he’s starting to fall into a good pattern and sleeping better. We’re now completely in cloth diapers and wipes and LOVING it! He’s a sweet little dude and just so cuddly! The big boys are completely in love with him and always want to help take care of him.

I must say, I am in awe of our God and thankful to be blessed with the best husband in the world, the children who completely illuminate my life and heart, and a family who did all they could do help.

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The dresser originally was in my dad’s house for many years, then we took it over, using it in Nick and Harper’s room. It was beat-up and boring. My mom bought a new dresser for Quentin’s room as a gift to us. For the big boys, we were going to paint the old dresser orange. Well, once the new dresser was put together we realized it didn’t look right in Quentin’s room and was a bit too large. So we put the new dresser in their room and painted the old one for Quentin’s room.

Dresser before, in the big boys’ room (after beginning to remove hardware):

Dresser after, in Quentin’s room:

Huge difference and such an inexpensive project! My mom already had the gray paint from something she did at her home. The hardware was sprayed with Krylon oil-rubbed bronze. Our only cost was the spray paint! I was 9 months pregnant when this was completed, so my mom did the sanding and first coat of paint while I deep-cleaned the room. We ran out of time and I ended up doing the 2nd coat, which was fine. I’m so excited.

I can’t wait to show y’all the whole room. It is everything I imagined and more!

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