YEAR 2009 FOR THE MORRIS 5

I can not believe that it is time to write an entry called the year 2009. Where has the time gone ! This year has been full of rocky roads and blessings beyond measure. But while I say that I have a home , a family, and my babies so life is good . January started out great Jack was working , I was one month preg and taking care of Emilee at the time age 2 matthew age 1 . In the beginning of Feb . life continued to be wonderful and doing our day to day routine . Jack was working in Baltimore ( yes he drove everyday ) and I took care of the kids and tried to take care of myself . Then life got a little crazy , The middle of feb Jack lost his job with two little kids and preg wife that was hard but we were greatly blessed he was only unemployed for a week , but i firmly believe that things happen for a reason because on Feb 28 , I became seriously ill. I got pylonephritis ( a severe kidney infection ) I woke up one morning and could not move , I got myself to the ER and discovered what was wrong , I was running fevers of 105 . not able to eat or move . I was in the hospital for 8 days worrying about my unborn baby . Jack was wonderful he took care of everything the house the kids me , and he found a job . This illness took over my body and made life rather difficult until I had Tyler James Michael . but throughout this whole trial Jack continues to take care of me my kids and we received help beyond measure from family and close friends . March was a great month nothing two exciting . April was also uneventful but blessed. May was an interesting month Emilee turned 3 , and Jack turned 39. The end of May Jacks mom Judy passed away suddenly and off to Montana we went. That was an interesting ride me being sick and also driving in a car cross country 20 weeks preg. I don't know who had it worse Jack with me or me dealing with preg a funeral and driving cross country . June brought on my step daughter Brittany turning 18 and graduating highschool , while we do not have a relationship i know her mother is very proud and did allot of hard work in raising her and she has turned out to be a beautiful person . July was a great month I turned 27 and the count down to baby n umber 3 begun four more weeks and we would be a family of five . August came and my big boy Matthew turned 2 and the next day after alot of talking maybe a little bit of whining :) Tyler James Michael Morris came into the world and joined our crazy family. He was the cutest tinest baby i have ever had but he was ours and we love him . August -October was based off of survival . Three children is alot of work at any age i believe but when you have three in four years it is really challenging but you are blessed tenfold . These babies love me regardless of the many many many shortcomings jack and i have . but we are doing our best . September Emilee started preschool and loves it . She is growing up so fast and becoming a person instead of a little girl. I love her and really enjoy the fun things a mother gets to do with a daughter. November was an exciting month with Thanksgiving and realizing what we all have to be thankful for . Ohh I guess i should back up to October 1 when Jack and I celebrated 5 wonderful , stressful , blessed years of marriage . we have been through alot and sometimes honestly i wanted to call it quits i couldn't deal with it anymore but sometimes love is stronger than we think it is and I m so glad I did not listen to my bad thoughts . we have a beautiful family and we have love nothing else is needed . That brings us to December. Christmas was the best this year Emilee finally gets Christmas and watching their child like excitement in just driving to see lights and that they were so grateful for the simplest gifts was so wonderful . Seeing them and feeling the love i feel for them made me really think of the Love our savior has for us . I could not imagine having a baby in a stable with animals watching , but our savior came to earth so that he could set the ultimate example for us to live so that we can return back to him . Oh how I love my savior and how grateful I am for the sacrifices he made for us . May you all have a wonderful and fulfilling 2010
Love Jack , Sarah , Emilee Grace Ann , Matthew David Lee , Tyler James Michael Morris
The Morris 5

FIVE YEARS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Last thursday I celebrated my Fifth Year Wedding Anniversary . I can not believe that it has been five years already , man time flies when you are having fun . This past five years have been a rollercoster of ups and downs and sometimes those hills were HUGE and a little scary . I can remember when I first figured out that Jack was the one i was to marry . it felt kind of wierd and exciting . This is when i discovered that i would be a step mom to kids who weren't much younger than me and as old as my siblings , and marry somoene who when he talked about a movie from his childhood my parents would say oh yeah i remember that and i would say huh .
But man i was in love

I could list 1825 reasons why i love jack but that would take forever and im sure bore you all so i will just list 5 for the five years i have been married to him

1. HIS SOUTHERN ACCENT . It gets me everytime .
2. His willingness to make sure that me and my kids are ok
3. His strong work ethic ( I can't tell you how many times i have said to him to just take a personal day and he has said no sarah i have a job and i need to go do it , or he will get up early to go paint for my dads buisness even though he has just worked a late night )
4. His strong support in having me stay home with the kids . He knows that this is important to me and has never ever made me feel like i need to get a job , as a matter of fact i have asked multiple times to get a part time job and he said no . he would work three jobs before he aasked me to work .
5. providing me with three beautiful children . while life is crazy they are ours and we created them
I hope to spend a long time and have agreat life with this man . He is my best friend and the leader of our home
Happy anniversary Baby .

Challenges , reality , milestones and family

I know I know it has been five weeks since i have updated this blog . But i have an excuse or shall i say three excuses their names are emilee matthew and tyler .
This post is going to be about the day to day of The morris house hold

Challanges

Some of the challenges of being a mom of three three and under are time , there is never enough of time for everyone . Cleaning and keeping up on the daily chores ( i really don't want to go there ) making sure everyone is getting the attention and care that they need , this one is the hardest I never really get to enjoy tyler im so busy that sometimes im finding myself saying hurry up and eat this bottle so that i can go get stuff for your siblings , or your just going to have to cry a little bit longer because darn it i need a shower . Poor jack by the time the kids are in bed and it is time to be a grown up and have some one on one time i am pooped , exhausted and just trying to get ready for the next day .
But oh am I so richly richly blessed .

Reality

Reality is I did this to myself . No body made me have three babies , so i just need to suck it up and do it . Everyone says yeah well you have your mom right there , yes that is true and yes sometimes i find myself using her more as a crutch then i should however reality is they are my babies and my responsibility and no matter if your mom lives a few miles down the road or across the country it is still hard .
Reality is my husband works second shift which leaves me to the most STRESSFUL time of day bed time , tyler does not do well at night and i am tyring to get the older two on a schedule for bed time so it is hard . Reality is I can't lay down with the kids anymore tiull tthey fall asleep
I am finding that I stay in more while that gets depressing and lonely reality is it is a hard thing to do to get three babies all buckled up in their seats and all in the mood to go somewhere and it is really hard to go shopping by myself because really how can i push two carts .
But Reality is IAM TRULY RICHLY BLESSED

Milestones

Emilee is in PRESCHOOL . This is a true blessing for both of us , It gives me a break . yes it is a break to only have two babies at home . She loves it and does really well , she needs this to get away and be her own person , I have foudn that I have treated Emi and Matthew as twins , this they are not they are two individuals at two different stages in life . So trying to let Emilee grow up while not rushing matthew to is hard

Tyler is doing really well , his head is super strong he likes to roll onto his side , he is laughing and cooing .


Matthew is Talking up a storm and really learning to express his feelings with words versus tears . I really try to stress this because whining is no friend of mine


Jack has doen a a super job at coming to terms with the fact htat we live in a zoo and that life is busy . He is such a huge help , willing to take the older kids so i can take tyler or take tyler so that i can enjoy the older ones . He is also a hard worker poor guy has been super super sick and has continued to help me and go to work ( he finally listend and came home early )

I would not be able to do this without him . He is truly my best friend

Family

I love my fmaily I would be lonely and BORED with out them

My mom puts up with my lonliness and will allow me to come to her house to just have a change of atmosphere and hang out and eat dinner

My dad is always a good guy hard worker and a great pap pap
He really loves his grandchildren

Our aunt Nina ( Jenea ) we love her and miss her and want her home . She is sooo happy and if i could be half of what she is oh man i would be good . She loves life and everyone . She takes great care of my kids and helps me realize that the stuff they do is normal . She will mae a great mom someotime

Uncle Kenny , He is at school and doing well in soccer . Oh i love kenny . He is a great great guy and does what he wants to do . He is helpful and great with my older kids they are lucky to have him as an uncle

Sam He loves music and life and the gospel , He knows for himself that he is doing what he wants to do .

Jack like i said earlier is a great guy and hard worker , he knows that family is his priority and makes sure that we have what we need even if it means getting rid of something that he wants He deals with my stress well and reminds me that im a good mom . He got a new job and will be hoem at night oh im so happy we have been married five years tommarow TOMMAROW wow and i havn't had him home at night ever

Me well im a mom while at times i feel like im losing my own identity and sometimes thinking my kids would be better off with me working ( I can be pretty nasty sometimes ) I love staying home and when it ocmes down to it that is what i need to be doing right now in this season of my life
I really need to look into finding joy in the journey


I love my kids and my husband and while this post has been a little personal i needed to see this in type . To realize that im truley blessed and that my life isn't so hard
well im off to go put my babies to bed

TYLER JAMES MICHAEL MORRIS

Well hello Blog world ! It has been almost three weeks but im just now feeling up to writing the details of tylers entrance into the world . On August 5th we celebrated matthews bday by going to chocolate world and spoiling that little boy rotten but hey my baby was turning two , this day was bitter sweet because i just sat back and said yeah my baby is two he is getting so big but at the same time i was sad because he wouldn't be my little baby anymore . I was going to have my little baby tommarow .

August 6 finally 5 in the morning came ( i didn't sleep at all the night before because of contractions and nervs and becuse i was starving).as jack and i drove up to the med center i got a little sad, due to aweful preg and health issues tyler was going to be my final baby. But a little part of me kept saying I will never ever be preg again . Again another bitter sweet moment . We got up to the Labor and Delivery unit and they informed us that there were NO ROOMS and they didn't know when i was going to be able to deliver ( see i was an elective c section so i was at the bottom of the list ) The only way to move up on the list quicker was to go into labor or have my water break . So Jack and I decided we would sit and wait it out . Well we waited and waited and at noon my doctor came in and said he promised that i would not leave the hospital preg however he didn't know when i would get back to a room . Remember im 38 weeks preg and have not eaten since 9 pm the night before i was starving and i was thirsty . which made me a very unhappy uncomfortable preg lady . ( Poor Jack ) He did well though im sure he was saying this is the last time sarah will ever be this hormonal again .

To make a long story short at 5 30 they came back to the waiting room and called my name . I was going back to a room , they still weren't sure when iwould deliver because they had four women at 10 centimeters but at least i was in a bed and was admitted .

At 6 30 they came back and got me ready to go and go Jack all suited up incase i was able to have the spinal then he could be there .

It took 45 long painful minutes to get that spinal in and i kept saying just put me to sleep put me to sleep , due to my accident in 2000 my back was not cooperating so it took forever but let me tell you once that spinal was in it wa sin and it felt great . Jack came in and sat at my head but all i wanted to do was go to sleep . All we had to do now was wait . They had to use the vaccum on Tyler because he had his head stuck between my pelvic and hip bone . ( I didn't find this out til after wards but that would explain all the pressure that i was feeling . They then asked me one more time if i wanted to have my tubes tied i said yes and they did that . stapled me up put me in recovery .

The OR nurse said you have a huge fan club out in the hall waiting for you . and sure enough there were family and friends , I was soooo tired and soooo hungry and sooooo out of it i really just wanted to see my baby and go to sleep .

Oh back up sorry , when tyler came out i was really excited to hear how much he weighed . On the ultra sound he was measuring at about 7.5 lbs . so I said how much does he weigh and they said 6lbs 8 oz i said what are you sure you don't have that backwards . and here they brought me this tiny tiny tiny baby . But oh i was in love .

He was healthy and sweet and mine . Finally he was here and life was good . The whole process is amazing how it works . You have this person in side of you for 9 months and then he or she is out and yours and your responsibility . But the love and bond is instant .

While in the hospital i noticed that i felt clueless . Going from toddler to new born was wierd . I can not imagine how people go from older children to new born . I remember tyler starting to get fussy and i was thinking why od'tyou just go get a snack or get a drink . Oh wait you are completely helpless and i need to provide you those things .

We came home Sunday morning . My recovery was wonderful the best i have had . My insicion has opend up again like last time but not as bad .
Now it is just figuring out how to juggle three kids and getting back into a routine . Really the getting abck into a routine is the hardest thing . we are a crazy unorganized house right now but that is ok right ?

The time is Near

Hello Everyone. This is Jack. Just a little Update on our status.

Sarah went in to see the Doctors to get a Amnio. The immediate results were negative. Sarah got a message on the machine last night that said "Hello Sarah, We see your scheduled for a C-section on Thursday, do you still want to keep Matthew's appointment on Friday or re-schedule."
Was Heavenly Father trying to tell us something? Anyway, Sarah got worked up and called L&D and talked to the resident that was working with her. She said she could not believe they didn't schedule her since she was only off by 1/2 a point. She told Sarah not to eat anything after midnight because she was going to try and pull some strings and get her scheduled for today. Can anyone say "Ping Pong"? So Sarah calls me at work and tells me to get her a double cheeseburger on my way home. They tell my Wife who eats a bowl of Cereal every night at 3:30 not to eat anything after midnight. Well the Resident nurse who was in the Amnio called at 8:00 and Told Sarah "We told you yesterday, You are not having this baby until Saturday at the earliest, You are scheduled for an Ultrasound on Friday. That is it." Needless to say this upset Sarah who slept in discomfort all night. She has been contracting ever since the Amnio. Well I woke up and she was on the phone with her Doctor's office. They told her they would call her back. AT about 10:00 they called and all I her Sarah say was "That would be So Wonderful, Thank You." and she was crying. I asked what they said and she said they scheduled her for a C-section at 6:00 a.m. tomorrow 8-6-09. Tell me Heavenly Father does not have a plan for us. It was not just a coincidence that the Pediatrician called and said you are scheduled for a section on Thursday. That still small voice was speaking saying "Prepare Sarah, Tyler is coming on this day and you need to be ready." Thank You Heavenly Father. Thank You for making my wife happy again. Thank you for seeing us through this difficult pregnancy. Thank you for giving me this wonderful family and this tremendous wife. Thank you for my children who just went through a rough nine months. Thank you for our friends and Sarah's Family who have continued to help us through this time. Thank you to everyone who has contributed to ensuring that my wife was taken care of during this pregnancy. Thank you to all.

Love Jack Lee

It has been awhile

Hello Blog world! No we have not died nor have we had a baby, Ihave just been well not motivated in the blog area. Hmmm , what has happend since April ! In May Jack and I took a not planned trip to Montana ( yes we drove ) His mother passed away and so out we went . It was a good experience and a tired one , I have severe anxiety riding in cars and i know i drove Jack crazy , plus i was 20 some weeks preg so that made it even worse . But it was a good long date for the both of us . We made a small vacation out of it , We went ot Mt Rushmore , the Corn palace and just made some stops along the way . After wards i ended up in the hospital , apparently it isn't recommended for a high risk preg women to drive cross country !

However i do have some good news after that visit to the hospital they have cleared up my kidney problems and have been pylonephritis free since .

Now im just ready to have this baby, Im scheduled for a c section on Aug 20 however on Aug 4 Im going in for an Amnio to see if Tylers lungs are develped so i can deliver early so they don't take chances of me getting sick again .

I am currently 4 centimeters dialted and contracting almost every day so we will see if i make it that far !

Emilee is going to the Beach with Grandma this weekend so i will have a chance to get ready for baby . now i will have my luck and go into labor while my mom is out of town .

Well that is what we have been up to I will keep you posted as far as baby news goes

A whole bunch of Stuff

Sometimes I feel like my life is full of just stuff. My families life has been very interesting lately while dealing with some health issues, new job ( well not really new but we are still adjusting ) a new baby coming and the Terrible twos / almost threes . At least there is an end there .

Last week exactly a week ago today I went to my doctor for my kidney infection and the resident did his exam and said well we will have to put the PICC line back in ( my portable IV ) and start you on some more antibiotics but you can go home . Well since he was a resident he needed to go to his attending who came in did the whole exam again and discovered that from the time that his resident examined me and he came in I had spiked a fever of 102 and was not doing well at all so up to Land D i went again . Keep in mind that this is the 4Th time i have been up on the 3rd floor of Hershey med in a month a half . So i spent the next 4 days in the hospital while my sweet sweet husband , friend Cheri , and my wonderful dad took over the reigns of my kids and made sure that I didn't have to worry about that part of the craziness . Again baby Tyler is doing wonderful and probably has no care in world other than that he is running out of room to roll and flip and move .

Another thing I am struggling well not really struggling with is that fact that yes there will be three kids in our family soon very very soon . Am I capable of handling these wonderful spirits , Why is it that Heavenly father chose me to have another one of his children in our home . Some days i feel like I'm going to lose it and other days i feel like my kids are going to lose it with me . I really feel this is just the frustration of mommy being in the hospital all the time and being juggled around from house to house and just having a sick mommy.

My house is a disaster and i Just don't have the energy to clean , it needs to be done but i just look at it and say oh i will do that tomorrow . I dream of having this nice clean organized house , Some times i wish someone would just come in and get rid of it all and let me start over . Well that is where we have been but I am alive , i m breathing i have a family who loves me and supports me and a wonderful church who is willing to jump in where ever possible and needed I just need to stop being so prideful and ask for the help when needed .

IT IS A BOY !!!!!!!!! AND OTHER STUFF

Well on Saturday I landed in the hospital again for another 6 days for the same darn thing I landed in the hospital for three weeks ago . One good thing that happend there is we discovered that we are having a TYLER. So i have a question do you like TYLER or TYLOR . I like the latter . I was kind of sad that it was a boy .

Tyler is saying Peace be with all of you..

I hope you like the video that Tyler made for all of you. I have talked with him and he was so excited to make this video for you. With that I give you Tyler James Michael Morris.........

Here is Baby Tyler saying Hi to the whole world.

Where has Sarah Been

Hello Blog world! Today is the first day after a month of madness that I have been able to sit and post something . First off Matthew got tubes in his ears at the end of Feb. Yeah , He is a different child . I love it , He sleeps through the night , doesn't whine as much and is more playful and is TALKING . I have waited so long to hear him talk real words and it is amazing what two little plastic tubes will do to ones speech and personality . We have welcomed the terrible twos again . With Emi they are more of the independant attitude with the Smart mouth talking where as with matthew it is the No Stop Mine attitude , but i have the best kids in the world and this to shall pass .

Not to long after we got the tubes , Jack lost his job with Shaw industries but has bounced back and got a job working third shift at a warehouse so Life is good . The Lord knows what he is doing . Not even a couple of days after he lost his job , I landed in the hospital for 8 days . I went to a ward activity and came home feeling sick went to bed around 8 pm and woke up at midnight with the worst pain imaginable i couldn't get comfortable , i couldn't sit , stand , lay walk anything . So the next day i went to the er and was admitted wit the possibility of losing my appendix and or gall bladder . I was transfered from osteopathic hospital because they don't handle OB patients and landed in hershey where they discovered that i had a severe and serious kidney infection . After a week in the hospital and Jack playing mr mom . ( he did an amazing job ) I am home feeling ok sore tired sick but ok . I would have thousands of kids naturally before i ever want to feel that pain again . Ladies imagine the pain . The hospital said you need to go to the bathroom more often and take it easy . HA HA HA I said don't you relize i have two toddlers at home rest isn't an option and i go to the bathroom when i can . Good news and my little miricale inside of me was amazing heart beat of 170 and making me feel little movements like the baby was saying hey mom you might be dying ( not really but i felt like it ) but im dong wonderful . Quite honestly that is all that mattered to me . My family was amazing between my parents and jack my babies were taking care of better than i do and i could rest in the hospital knowing all was well at home .

Well that is all for now . We find out what we are having on the 27 so i will let you all know when i know Im calling girl

IM BACK !!!!!!!!!!!

Ok it has been forever since i have last blogged , however morning sickness ( i don't know why they tease us it isn't just morning sickness it is all day sickness ) has taken over all my functioning for the last couple weeks , my house is a disaster , my kids look like raggamuffins , and i just don't care ok well maybe i care but i can't care . I swear this little baby is a girl , just from past experiences . with Emilees preg i was miserable for all 39 weeks , i hated being preg , i was nasty miserable . With matthews preg , it was wonderful , i felt cute , i felt awesome not sick except some mornings . thsi preg is miserable now it may be becuase i have two little ones to chase around but it is still miserable and to think im only 12 - 13 weeks ugghhhh . So how has the morris family been . Well Jack is at work and then home and then at work , Im either in bed or on the sofa or cooking the kids something to eat . Emilee is growing up so fast and has really shown her personality lately and thanks to my mom and sister she is 90 % potty trained . Matthew started nursery two sundays ago and absoultley HATES IT . it is prob ably because he is such a scheduled little guy and his nap time is 11 which is nursery time . or it could be that he is just not a trusting social little guy and would much rather be with me or grandma . Well that is all for now time to go lay down again im miserable .

Anyone have any suggestions for a cold for a prego women .

UPDATE ON BABY MORRIS NUMBER 3

I know it has been a while but between taking care of Matthew and Emilee and being exhausted , it has been a long month . We went to the doctors on friday and they did an ultrasound , it was really an overwhelming humbling experience . It is always a scary moment for me that first ultrasound , is there just one ( please lord let there only be one ) and is there a heart beat ( That has always and will always be my biggest fear ) Well there was only one baby and one sac and there was a heart beat . However they have changed my due date from Aug 10th to Aug 24th ugh...... All summer super pregnant , with emis 3rd bday in may and matthews 2nd bday in aug ( aug 5th ) I get frustrated when the doctors go by what the ultrasound machine measures me vs the calander . calander wise im almost 10weeks preg but with the machine im measuring at 7 .5 weeks so frustrating . Why do doctors rely on machines i mean what did they do in the olden days , pregnancy is such a natural process and i think sometimes doctors get to excited . Don't get me wrong i am grateful for them adn all they do . They have saved my life in many occasions and have saved my sons life . ( he had rsv and some other issues ) I guess i just know my body and my past babies and delievers ( I always have small babies and they always come early ) SOrry about my rant and rave but it is just frustrating .

Thanks for listening . Hope everyone has a merry christams and hope 2009 is good for everyone