3rd c-section and now a pro

I watched my 3rd c-section today but today was a special one because it was twins! Nichole and I have wanted to watch twins be delivered forever now so when we knew about the one today we jumped on it like white on rice. At 11:30 Dr. Lawrence got called over to the hospital STAT! So she ran over there and Nichole was bummed because she thought she wasn't going to be able to watch it until she got a phone call from Dr. Lawrence saying "if you want to watch this you better get over here now"! So Nichole came and got me and told me to hurry so we ran out of the office to the hospital. The whole time we were getting so nervous because we didn't know what was going on. Once we got out of the elevator we started running down the hall. We couldn't help but laugh at ourselves for running but then we both felt like we were "real" doctors!

When we got over to labor and delivery we suited up and headed into the room where we were greeted by Dr. Lawrence. She didn't have the concern in her voice as she did when she called and she said everything was fine the moms heart rate was just going down. So they got everything ready and then the dad came in and they told him not to touch anything blue so he put his hands next to his side like a little kid and walked in and almost ran into the "blue" table with all the sterile instruments! Everyone was yelling at him not to touch it and at that point Dr. Johnson was in the room and grabbed him by both hands and escorted him to his wife and made him sit down. He was so nervous it was cute! So they preceded with the c-section and delivered the twins, a boy and girl. After wards we told Dr. Lawrence and Dr. Johnson that we ran down the halls to get there and that we felt like doctors. They obviously laughed at us and then we proceeded to tell Dr. Johnson that we were pro's and could definitely do her next c-section! So let us know when your ready Dr. J...........p.s. I love my job!

Our Body Museum

This past weekend was the last weekend for the "Our body museum" in hot springs. It's a display of dead human bodies that they have been preserved and they show you the different muscles, bones, and parts on your body. I have been wanting to go ever since I saw the billboard in California this past summer so I finally convinced Joe into going. So Saturday we drove down to Hot Springs. It was so amazing! I love learning about the human body. There is nothing more interesting to me. I really went into it excited but I was extremely nervous at the same time because I mean seriously it's dead bodies on display but once we got in it was nothing like I expected. There were probably 7 bodies total just out in the open with no glass or ropes that had charts next to them showing you where each thing was on the body. Then they had the each part separate in glass boxes. They even had on display two different lungs, one healthy and one with cancer from smoking. They also had an esophagus that had cancer also. I hate to say it but it was so cool! It took us about 45 minutes to walk through the whole thing. I was pretty bummed because they wouldn't let you take pictures but I totally understand there reasoning. After we walked through that part of the museum we went and explored the rest of the museum which was pretty cool. They had tons of hands on things that were very educational. I was getting frustrated towards the end because I was tired and hungry and Joe had to go to EVERY SINGLE STATION and touch EVERY SINGLE DISPLAY! I seriously felt like I was with a 5 year old. It was cute but not so cute when your tired and starving. We had a blast and we totally recommend it to all of you if it's ever offered in your area.

Welcome to Tuf Nut Apartments/Loft

I have been harassed for WAY too long so here you go Anya and Katie! You guys are driving me crazy! I haven't posted pictures of our new place because I wanted to paint first and so that's exactly what we did this past weekend. We finished up last night so here the pics. Enjoy......

This is our form of a pantry. It obviously works for us

This is the view we see out our living room window, the long trailor looking building is the clinton library. This is the hallway to get to our place.So here they are, they're not really in order but you get the point. We absolutely love our choice of move and we love being making our apartment our own. Feel free to drop by anytime, we love visitors and there are great places around here to hang out. Oh and just FYI, I wouldn't have painted the brick normally but it was already painted white when we moved in and white obviously is not my favorite color.

FIRE! FIRE!

So as I was comfortable laying on the couch stalking people on their blogs while Joe was taking a test online I all of the sudden see our fire alarm in the apartment flashing. I thought I was seeing things until Joe said "Celeste what'd you do?" I had to get up from my comfortable couch with my cell phone and laptop in hand, just in case the sprinklers above went off, I looked out in the hallway to see if anyone was leaving and I kept hearing peoples doors shut but I never saw anyone and then the sirens in the hallway started going off and it just kept getting louder and louder so I shut the door. I then grabbed my keys, incase we did have to leave, and waited for Joe to finish his test. He was being timed and was only on question 22 of 55 and he was trying to finish before we went downstairs. So I just kept opening and shutting the door trying to figure out what we should do until finally the last time I opened the door I smelt it! I decided to put my laptop down and I made Joe leave his test and we headed downstairs. We joined everyone outside and watched the fireman arrive and go inside to find what was going on. Of course, laughter was my only emotion at this time and I was laughing the whole time and taking pictures with my phone. You should have seen these firemen, they were all decked out with axes in hand and everything. Well after about 15 fireman going in to investigate they came out with much disappointment on there faces and kindly told us it was burnt toast. All Joe and I could think of were the people in their apartment trying to fan out the smoke while everyone else was downstairs. All I know is I'm glad it wasn't us and especially glad that the sprinklers didn't go off because we've been worried about those boogers ever since we moved in.

On the better side of things we are all settled in our apartment and we absolutely LOVE IT! I'm not gonna lie it was hard for me for the first couple days because we went from 1400 sq to about 925. I lost my linen closet and my walk-in closet but now that I have readjusted I totally love it! The location is great and is very close to the interstate so my drive to conway everyday is a breeze. We also live a block away from all the restuarants in downtown so we walk to eat on the weekends.

Good News

We found out today that we were approved for our apartment and we can begin moving in tomorrow! Since it's been raining for 3 straight days now we won't actually move until Friday so if anyone gets bored and wants to help Joe will be moving all of our stuff up stairs and down a long hallway Friday around 3, haha totally kidding. Anyway, I'm ready to get this show on the road and become a "true" city girl! We are so excited!

We're moving/We moved

I put as my title "we're moving" but the funny thing is that we don't know exactly where we're going still. We had to have all of our stuff out as of yesterday so everything is packed away in our penske truck just sitting until we find a place to stay. We are at my parents house right now but only for a few days. We started looking at the Little Rock area last week because we figured with Joe being in school and with his flying we should probably live closer to his job so that he'll spend more time doing his schooling instead of driving everyday, which means I get to commute. I look at it as, it'll give me something to do instead of being bored while Joe's doing school work.

We did find a loft apartment in downtown Little Rock that we're looking at. We have to turn in our application on Tuesday so they can do our background check, scary! Hopefully everything will go through. This is our first experience at an apartment so we don't know what to expect. Joe went and checked it out on Friday and it's an old factory where they used to make farmer clothes and they turned it into apartments. Most of the apartment is original brick wall, which I love, and the best part of it all is I CAN PAINT, what little sheet rock exists. I'm really excited. It's about 2 blocks away from the river market and there are tons of little restaurants and shops that we will be able to walk to. I told Joe I'll feel like a real city girl! Wish us luck!

I'll post pictures if /when we end up getting it.

Aubrey's wedding

On August 1st 2008 Aubrey and Kyle were married in Salt lake City. They had a really pretty wedding and reception. I wish I would have taken pictures of there reception but I was too exhausted by that point that I didn't care to do anything but sit. We did get to see a lot of old friends from Arkansas, Wyoming, and Utah. Hey, I guess that's what weddings are for right? After there wedding they went on there honeymoon to mexico. I think they had a good time until the last night they both got food poisoning and ended up in the hospital and had to fly home to Utah sick as a dog. Happy Honeymoon! Joe and I left in the penske truck the day after the wedding to drive all of their belongings to Arkansas. That was a very eventful trip. Nothing beats going 30 in a 70 speed zone trying to go up mountains. They ended up picking up the truck when they came to Arkansas for there last wedding reception and headed to Kentucky where they now live where Kyle is going to law school and Aubrey is playing house and finding a job. Good luck to them!

Really?

For fun I am constantly looking at homes. No we aren't looking for one, but I'm always amazed with how ugly people decorate and I like finding the most awkward but unique houses. Today I came across this one and nearly died laughing. I mean seriously, would you really put your house up for sale looking like this? Let me know what you think..........
http://arkansashouseview.com/viewhome.asp?MLS=10181768

Dang Birds

So if you ever read my survey I mentioned in there that I had a new fear of birds. I wouldn't say I'm as scared as Kathleen but I just don't like them. Well there has been this possessed bird hanging around our house. Joe said a couple of weeks ago he was just staring out the window and this bird just kept watching him. So Joe being the little kid that he is just kept walking back in forth in front of the window to see what this bird was going to do. The bird eventually flew up to the window and pecked on the window 2 times and then flew off. And then every time we pull into the driveway it's always on the roof watching us. Well on Thursday I took the day off and I knew that the lawn needed to mowed but I really didn't want to do but around 11:30 I got the urge to just go do it so it would be done and Joe wouldn't have to do it when he got home. So I mowed the front and then I went on to the back. Well there is one tree in our backyard and to mow around it you have to duck and mow underneath. Around the 4th time of me going underneath that dang bird freakin pecked on my head twice in the same spot. I was startled when it happened and I just put my hand on the top of my head and looked back thinking "what the heck was that?" There was no tree limb hanging down or anything so I know it was that dang bird! When I got inside I called and texted everyone I knew, including Kathleen, to tell them about my bird pecking experience. Now at least once a day I tell Melanie and Joe "A bird freaking pecked on my head"! We all still laugh about it but I wasn't laughing when it happened.

4th of July

I failed and didn't take any pictures of the 4th but we had so much fun. Melanie and I both took off work the Thursday before to enjoy a 4 day weekend and to get things ready for our exciting 4th or boating and fishin! When Joe got home from work Thursday night we ate dinner, packed up the truck, picked up Adam, and headed to Melanie's parents house to spend the night. The next morning we woke up, ate a dang good breakfast, packed up and headed out to lake Quachita to do us some boatin and fishin! I haven't been fishin since I was probably 11 and I love it so much so I was extremely excited. Well on the way to the lake I realized that I had left my fishin license at the house so we went to wal-mart to try and get another one but I didn't have my drivers license either so I just decided to fish anyway because I did have one just not with me. When we got the lake and got the boat off the trailor Joe couldn't figure out how to turn the boat on. (Were not that dumb, it wasn't our boat so we had to figure everything out on our own). Joe was right in the way of everyone trying to load or unload and again couldn't get the boat started so he had to pull out the ore and paddle to shore. Melanie and I were laughing our heads off. We wish we would have had our cameras but Adam had just left with the truck which had our cameras.

Once we got out on the lake it was so pretty. It was busy but the nice thing about that lake is it has a bunch of coves that you can go into and be on your own. When we first started it was so blasted hot outside. Seriously, outrageously hot and unbearable so we decided to take a dip. I was the only smart one to bring a floaty so I obviously lasted longer in the lake. Since it was a fishin boat though it was pretty funny watching everyone trying to get back into the boat. Melanie won the prize for most uncoordinated. After our dip we decided to pull out the fishin poles. While we were working on getting them ready we noticed that it was starting to get cloudy and looked like it was going to storm but we didn't care we were determined to fish. We started fishin and it started raining, so we moved and tried again and again it started raining. Except, for this time there was lightning and thunder right above us so again we moved for our 3rd time. We finally got to a spot where it looked like the storm had past and we were able to fish for a good while. Joe came the closet to catching a fish. He was reeling it in and the last moment the fish unhooked itself. We all said none of us were leaving until atleast one of us caught one but the storm came back and with a vengeance so we had to head back with no fish. We loaded back up and headed home. Even though we didn't catch anything we still had alot of fun.

When we got home I gave the boys haircuts and then we all got ready and my awesome parents had gone to the store for us and came over with all the food and we had our own little bbq. My dad picked out some mean burgers and they were amazing. Joe, Melanie, and Dad got there brauts and I got my guacamole that I love so much now. My mom made a way good fruit salad (I was making it but I was scaring Mom and Melanie with the way I was cutting the fruit). After we ate we grabbed some big blankets and headed over to the country club and sat on the golf course and watched the firework show. I have never like firework shows but for some reason this year I really enjoyed them. My favorite were the goldish sparkly ones. I'm not a fan of the colored ones. When the firework show was over just layed on the golf course until the sprinklers came on. We had perfect weather that night and I was the only fortunate one not to get eatin alive by chigers.

It's the new Celeste

This is kind of following my previous blog. I have been told my whole life how picky of an eater I am. I haven't ever really cared until Melanie moved in with us. She seriously likes the nastiest things. Well I realized that a lot of the things I was saying I didn't like I had not actually tried most of them so here lately I have been trying really hard to try EVERYTHING and I mean EVERYTHING. We started out with guacomole. I had tried it before but didn't like it, but when I was in California I thought I would give it another try and now I pretty much can't stop craving it and I try to eat it at least once a week. It's pretty much the best thing I have ever had. Then I tried Mahi Mahi at a restaurant here called mickey's. It was really good. The next thing was egg plant which I ended up Loving! Then I tried Talapia (fish). It was pretty much amazing. I don't know if it was because of the fish or because Melanie smothered it in butter and Parmesan. Either way I really liked it. Then we went to a hibachi grill and I got the guts to try a California roll. My whole family is OBSESSED with sushi and Melanie too so I thought eh what the heck I'll just try it. It took me about 2 minutes to contemplate on what I was doing and then I just stuck the whole thing in my mouth because that's what I was told to do. It was pretty much the nastiest thing I have ever had. Uh, the taste is beyond describable. I can honestly say that I hate California rolls. That same night I got a piece of shrimp with my meal so I thought instead of giving this to Joe I'm just gonna try it because the only shrimp I've tried is cocktail shrimp and I didn't like that. But this one was marinated and cooked and it was REALLY good. I can say that I don't like biting into it. It kind of makes me sick thinking about it but the taste is really good. Anyway, that's all I've tried and that was in almost a period of one week so I thought I did pretty good. I'll keep you updated on more things that I try.

AMAZING

Last week we all made it a goal to not eat out and actually cook more then just quesedillas and lean cuisine's. Well ever since Melanie moved in she has been trying to get me to try new and weird things. She calls me picky and I call her food snob. She is so funny when it comes to food. She knows all of these fancy dishes with fancy names and she is so particular about how food is prepared. Me and Joe we just live off of quesadillas, quesadillas, and more quesadillas. Anyway, one of her main things she's been trying to get me to try is egg plant Parmesan. I pretty much have refused mainly because of the word "egg plant". It just does not look or sound appealing. Well when we went grocery shopping the other day we were trying to think of all the dishes we knew that we could make. She just looked at me and said "I can't think of any that you would like". So I said "what do you want to make" and she said "egg plant parmesan". With a big sigh I told her I would "TRY" it. Then I started asking about 15 questions about how egg plant tasted and what it was like. She finally told me it tasted like squash and zucchini. When she said those two things she had me sold. That's all I needed to hear. So we got our groceries and came home and she made us dinner. First she cut the "egg plant" and then she smothered it in egg and then she put it in a bowl with baked bread crumbs and then placed them on a cookie sheet. She baked them and when they were done she put store bought tomato and basil spaghetti sauce and sprinkled mozzarella cheese on top and put it back in the oven just until the cheese melted. Then when that was done we ate it over angel hair pasta and spaghetti sauce. It was pretty much the most AMAZING thing I have ever had. And it looked easy and took seriously 15 to 20 minutes.

California Slide Show

California Fun

So I'm a little late on this post but better late then never. Last month Joe and I had the opportunity to take our first week of paid vacation since we've been married without having to worry about anyone calling us from work. It was AMAZING! We flew out to California to see my whole family. Yes, it happened again in less then a year. The whole Martindale family was able to get together. It doesn't ever happen so we definitely try to take advantage of it. Joe and I arrived on a Tuesday night while everyone else arrived the next night. That Wednesday before everyone arrived Ryan was kind enough to let us take his car out to drive around Cali. Thank goodness Joe knows LA because he got to drive me around all of LA. I got to see a part of where he served his mission. He couldn't take me into to his main areas because he served in Compton and those bad areas. But just a piece of advice if you've never been it's not at all what you would think. I think it was cool seeing where things are filmed and all of that but for the most part LA is pretty dirty and old. That night when everyone arrived we talked about our plans to go to disneyland the next day. I know i'm a total debby downer when it comes to theme parks but i'm not a huge fan nor was I excited to go but everyone was doing it (haha). So Thursday morning we all got ready and surprisingly we were out the door by 10:45, I think. As we arrived we stepped out of the car and felt a cool breeze that made us all wish we hadn't worn shorts and short sleeve shirts but we all agreed that we would rather be cold then hot and then off we went to Disney land. As soon as we got in of course we were all hungry so we had lunch and then headed off to the rides. Us kids with no kids split from the others and went and rode some rides. We started out with Indiana Jones which I was like having an anxiety attack before we went because I didn't know what kind of ride it was. I really was so scared. It obviously turned out to be a way fun ride. When we got it we noticed people were wet coming in and we thought to ourselves, oh please don't be raining. Well sure enough it was raining and there was stop to it. It rained for the next 3 hours that we were there. I don't know mean just sprinkle. It was pretty much a down poor. I tried to have a good attitude but after 3 hours of FREEZING and raining I was no longer in a good mood. Some how we all ended up at space mountain and the boys all left to ride the ride (including my dad) and I was stuck there with the crying kids. No offense to them, I think I would have been crying to because they were seriously soaked and freezing but I had had my fun by then and was not happy to be there when I really didn't want to go in the first place. The boys had fun riding the ride and it made my dad pretty sick for the rest of the day. But we ended it with that ride. When we finally got back to the car Ryan turned to Joe and said "you know it only rained because Celeste really didn't want to come". I think he was right. I guess i'll have to try it out again when it's not raining. Well the rain pretty much lasted for most of the time that we were there. It was kind of a bumber but Joe and I still had fun just being with the family. The Saturday that we were there was my birthday. As most of you know I am like a little kid on my birthday. It is pretty much the most important day to me. I don't know why I get so excited but I do. I was more excited this year because it had been 16 years since I had been with my whole family for my birthday. My mom made me fruit pizza and we ate tacos for dinner. It was amazing! Everyone ended up leaving on Monday and Joe and I stilled had till Wednesday to party it up so that Monday we decided to go and ride bikes along side the beach. They have this side walk that goes on forever. It was really neat. We tried to rent bikes from one bike store but they were about to close so they told us of a different one. So we went there and they said all they had were the tandem bikes (two seater's). I told Joe we had to do that! I mean how often do you get to ride on a tandem bike. Well off we went. I got to see all kinds of things. It was alot of fun. On our way back we went through Venice beach and there they have all these stands of people selling things. For forever I have wanted a henna tattoo and what better time to get one then in Venice Beach. So we found one where there weren't creepy guys working it and I picked out my design and he got it done in like seriously 1 min. I loved it! I was so glad that we got to do that. The next day we shopped a bit and then hung out because by that point of the week we were exhausted from staying up late and waking up early. The last day that we were there we wanted to go to breakfast somewhere on the beach. Ryan was so nice and looked up a place for us in Malibu where we went and you literally sat on the sand by the beach and ate your breakfast. It was the best way to end our trip. We had so much fun and Ryan and Jane were troopers letting all 15 of us stay at there house and letting us drive there cars. We will never forget that trip.

I Feel Loved

Thanks for tagging me Britney!

Here's how to play: List 3 joys, 3 of your fears, 3 of your goals, 3 current obsessions/collections and 3 random, surprising facts about yourself. At the end of your post, tag more people.

3 Joys:
1. Spending my Saturdays getting the lawn mowed and getting all of our projects done. I feel a great relief when I do. I also love spending my Saturdays with Joe because that's really the only time I get to see him.
2. Lately I've been really interested in EVERYTHING! I want to ask about how everything works, why it works, and how it works. I think it just comes with going into my job and not having a single clue of what I was getting into. I did learn not to ask Katie and Colby my questions because the only answer they gave me was "google it"
3.I really like having Melanie live with us. It's nice having a 3rd opinion until she gives me the one I don't want which is usually most of the time.

3 Fears
1.I have an extreme fear of being tickled especially my feet. I feel like my body is being paralyzed and my hands and feet start sweating. Infact, my hands and feet are sweating right now just thinking about it.
2. I am PETRIFIED of sleeping in my house by myself. I have a pretty sick imagination and I think of everything bad that could happen to be me before and during my sleep.
3. I have a new fear of birds. When I was in California most of the restaurants are outside and they seriously just fly right past you or they eat around your feet.

3 Goals
1. To lose 8 pounds by Aubrey's wedding. Joe and I have a bet and if I do it then I get this ring I really want.
2. I want to be able to explain things better and have people actually understand me
3. To stand up for myself better and not bottle things up. I want to be more like Nichole. I really do look up to people that can handle situations without getting emotional and saying the wrong things.

3 current obsessions
1. Pink Berry. too bad I don't live by one
2. wearing hats
3. the color yellow

3 Random and surprising facts about myself
1. I hate doing laundry!
2. I love my truck!
3. Just because I have strong personality I am a shy person if I don't know you and if I'm in a uncomfortable situation. If I'm comfortable with you and if I know you I will be blunt, but for the most part I am shy person.

Only in Arkansas

We went and ate at Moe's yesterday and as we were leaving this is what we saw. This is for real too! If you can't read the sign it says "please do not disturb this bird she is nesting and needs no help"

Joe's 2nd degree burn

Ok so in my last post I mentioned that Joe had second degree burn on the top of his head but I didn't realize how bad it really was until he put his head down and all I saw was yellow spots all over. The poor guy! We read up on how to cure a 2nd degree burn but it pretty much said deal with it and don't touch it! So we went to church and about every 10 min Joe would turn to me and ask "is it running down"? And sure enough there was yellow nasty stuff running down his forehead. Just to let you know we didn't stay much longer. I brought him home and he is now laying on the couch with a cold rag on his head and I put lots of aloe vera on the rest of his face. I feel bad for him but were both frustrated that this happened two days before we leave for California. Oh well, we'll make it work.

P.S. dumb

I have heard all about the movie "P.S. I love you" so I have been so excited to watch it. Last night Melanie ordered it through red box and we watched it. I don't know if it was because I wasn't in a sappy mood or what but I thought the movie could not have been more dumb. The whole time I was watching it was thinking "I am so blogging about how dumb this movie is". I just didn't like the flow and it was just awkward. Don't worry though I wasn't the only one that didn't like it. None of the boys or Katie and Melanie liked it. Although Melanie was crying at one point but I couldn't help but laugh out loud at the corniness. I'm pretty critical of movies (I got that from my sister) so that may have been my problem but I don't recommend this movie to anyone.

Fort Smith Airshow

Yesterday we went to the air show with Katie and Colby. There boss is a col. there at the fort smith base and he gave them VIP passes to watch the show. They were kind enough to ask Joe and I to go. It was lots of fun and the weather was perfect. We sat out there watching the airplanes for 6 hours. Thank goodness Katie brought her sunscreen but we were stupid enough to just put it on our feet and then once we noticed we were burning after 5 hours of sitting outside it was too late and so here are our results (the pictures don't do justice as to how burn we really are)I burned on my one arm, and neck. Joe burned on the top of his head (which is now blistering due to 2nd degree burn), and face which he seriously looked like a tomato last night. I couldn't even look at him without laughing hysterically. Katie burned her arms, chest, and knees. And Colby burned his bottom legs and he got a little red on his face. It was all worth it though, watching Joe and Colby act like little boys talking about the airplanes and getting excited was priceless. Now we can't wait till the blue angels in Oct.

Look at the guy behind me. We couldn't tell if it was a boy or a girl. what's your guess?

Cinco De Mayo

For YEARS I have wanted to have a Cinco De Mayo party so this year Melanie and I actually made it happen. We invited pretty much everyone we know over and had them all bring one thing and made a party out of it. Joe grilled some carne asada and we had some mean carne asada burrito things (can you tell i'm no mexican). We of course broke out the croquet and horse shoes as our entertainment and we just hung out had a good time. It was probably one of the funnest parties I've ever had. Better yet it was the only party i've ever had. Joe bought 7 pounds of carne asada so we are still eating it. So if your craving any meat come on over!