Everything thats new with the Durhams'

All right here are some more photos of the baby and our family. We are so grateful for my mother and my sister for coming to help out me with baby Collin. I am so lucky to have a family who loves me enough to come all the way to California to help me for a couple days so that I could have a chance to get back on my feet. I love my mom and wish that we were closer but life has taken my family to southern California and we love it here. I am also very lucky to have sisters who want to help me as well. Meagon you are such a blessing in my life and thank you for your support. Amber would have come as well but her little cute Brooklyn and her sweet boy carter got sick and being a mother she didn't want to bring that into my home with a new baby so thank you for that. Well the baby is crying and we need to say prayers with Ashlyn so I hope you enjoy these pictures

Okay Ashlyn has been having a hard time lately, being 5 and the rules are changing and getting more strict, throw in a new baby to the mix and you have one hard to handle little girl. Well with that being said Chris decided to get her something that she has been wanting something him and her could do together and maybe remind her that she is still daddys little girl and they still get to do fun things together. So he bought her a quad... yes my little baby girl is now old enough and big enough to ride a quad all by herself! Take a look for yourself, she grew up so fast, oh how I love my little girl!

Introducing Collin Stanley Durham!!!!!

okay I am finally updating my blog...... it has been one crazy week of new adjustments! So my story starts out on monday Feburay 18th; I check into Fallbrook Hospital at 6:00AM to be induced. We were so excited we were going to have are baby today...... oh boy were we wrong. After 26 hours.. yes I did say 26 hours of labor I finally gave birth to our son on Tuesday the 19th of Feburary at 7:49 Am he was 8 pounds and 4 ounces and 19 and 3/4 inches long. It was a long ordeal for chris and I both... at least I got to be druged for most of it! poor chris had to sleep in a really uncomfortable recliner.... he could barely move to get out of it when it came time for me to push. But all in all it was all worth it to have our beautiful son here. we are so greatful that he is heathly that I would have done 26 more hours for the same outcome.with no further adue here is Collin Stanley Durham!! So cute even with all the guck still on him!my cute little family I cant believe it we are afficially a family of four!!Ashlyn is a great big sister! she loves to hold him for me she is so patient with him even when he is fussy she just loves to be mommy's big helper.

Proud yet very tierd mommy!!
Proud yet well rested daddy!! just kidding Chris has been really great with helping me in the middle of the night even though he cant feed him he gets up and gives me moral support and asks if he can do anything. He cant keep his eyes off his cute little son, who yeah looks like daddy!

One handsome Corpral!!!!

Isn't that sweet, Ashlyn sure loves her daddy!! Chris was officially promoted to Corpral today the sheriff himself pinned his new badge on him and made him a Corpral. He also got an award from the captian at the Moreno Valley Station, recognizing him for all his hard work and dedication at the Moreno Valley Station.... it was a great day for Chris.





Tonight Chris is working his first shift as a Corpral at the Temecula Station!!! Ashlyn and I were so excited for him that we wanted to take some pictures. On his left sleeve are his corpral stripes and Ashlyn is covering up his new badge but thats okay, you can still tell that he is very important not only to us his family but to his job.!!

Well here he is right before he left to go to work! He is so handsome!! I just wanted to let you all know how proud Ashlyn and I are of our main man...... well enough of that today was valentines day as well and although chris was having a big day he still managed to make me and his daughter feel special. I woke up to a dozen sterling silver roses and choclates and ashlyn got a teddy bear and some candy and balloons. Even though my husband is rough around the edges and sometimes not the most sensitive man in the world, when I need it the most he always manages to make me realize just how much he loves me and our life together. I am so lucky to have married such a great man who is such a great father. I know this is sappy and sappy usually isn't my style but I just wanted to take the time to publicly acknowledge my husband and let everyone including him know just how much I love him. I know that latley my I have been a little crazy, my hormones are out of control to say the least and the sooner this baby comes the sooner my hormones will start to regulate, and his sweet wife will return!!!

On another note I got Collins' room all done and set up, everything is ready for him to come home..... he just needs to come out now!!! I am happy to say though that if he doesn't make it out on his own this weekend that Monday Feburary 18th at 6a.m. I will check into the Fallbrook Hospital and my Dr. will induce me!!!!! yeah at least I have an end in sight! Well hopefully the next time I post it will be pictures of our new little baby Collin.

Make a scrapbook - it's easy!

Well our little family of three is about to become a family of four and we couldn't be happier. Here are some pictures of this past year. I love my little family and wouldn't change any of the time I got to spend with my daughter and my husband, it took us a while to get pregnant and looking back on the past and how much fun we had its clear that the timing of this new baby is happening exactly when it is suppost to... its hard to understand your trials when you are going through them but in retospective I know that heavenly father knows what he is doing and that things happen in his time not in ours. We had some great times this past year and I cant wait for our little Collin to join in the Durham Family Fun!!!! Congratulations Chris..... My awesome husband just got his promotion I am proud to announce that he is a CORPRALL!!!! good job honey. My husband works so hard for his little family and we are so proud of him and I know that the promotions are just going to keep on coming.

Waitng and Waiting!!!

This photo was taken a while ago, I was just barley showing the fact that there would be a new additon to our family. we took Ashlyn to the San Diego Wild Adventure Park. We love doing family outings and Ashlyn loves to look at all the animals. Well this is what are family looks like as of now but in a matter of weeks there will be a new little person in our photos as well!
Okay after all the drama in my 8th month, with my contractions and my liver and kidneys not functioning right, little Mr. Collin has decided.... now that is okay for him to come and Mommy wants him to come Collin is going to make us wait. Not even out of the whom and our litttle boy is assurting his will. Ashlyn likes to attend my doctors appointments with me, she finds great joy in hearing Collins heartbeat and she just thinks that is so cool; but we are getting to the point where my doctor has to check me; and my five year old is not shy and she will ask questions or say things that well aren't exactly appropriate. Chris and I have taught our daughter the proper terminolagy for her body parts. At my doctors appointment this last time Dr. Bianchi had to check me and Ashlyn was standing up by my head and when she realized what was going on she flat out asked my doctor..... are you getting the baby out of my moms vagina? I thought my doctor was going to turn into a red rasberry and run out of the room. Ashlyn proceed to ask him when are you going to give my mom some medicine so it doesn't hurt her, she doesn't like to hurt, she gets kind of mean. My dr. was great he answered her questions in the most honest and quick way. I guess I won't be bringing her to my next appointment?

Beauty Queen!!

Well its been so crazy around here lately, we are trying to get ready for our new baby Collin. With all the craziness I think that Ashlyn was getting a little overwhelmed with it just being about the new baby. We moved Ashlyn's room down the hall one room and she didn't think that it was fair that the baby was going to be closer to mom and dad then she was....... well I told her that she was a big girl and that she doesn't need mom and dad as much as the baby will need us; and to show her what comes along with being bigger I took her to the Libby LU make over shop for little girls. I told her that this is what big sisters get to do because they are older and bigger, she liked that and was all into being the big sister. She is such a girl she loved getting her make up, hair, and nails done. When she was done she was like mom I can't believe how beautiful I look take some pictures and send them to my grandma... well I did her one better I posted them so her Aunts and grandparents and our friends could see just what a Beauty Queen she is. I was going to post pictures of her new room but they just don't do it justice and its hard to see the colors.

Happy New Year!!!!!!!!!!!

Chris had to work but that is nothing new since he has worked every year for the past 4 years in a row...... all the deputies that are on special teams are mandated to work that holiday. Ashlyn and I went over to the Martins with the rest of my friends because most of our husbands are on special teams and have to work as well so us girls rung in the new year in style with fire works singing games ect... Ashlyn was there but she was outside and upstairs and all around playing with one of Mary Kays' daughter watching movies and lighting fireworks with some of the men that were there.