Halloween

My little bugger turned 9 months today and we had his first Halloween last night and he absolutely LOVED it!
We were a duck for some Halloween parties and he was the cutest little duck you ever laid eyes on. We picked it up at Partyland in Lehi, Utah!
For trick-or-treating we went as mickey and minnie and he thought he was so funny! Anytime he saw his reflection he would laugh hysterically! it was a perfect Halloween and I cannot wait for next year when we're old enough to actually know how to trick or treat!

Date nights

With having Myles our date nights have changed, drastically, and we hardly ever have time to ourselves anymore, so we make the best of it. This week Taylor wanted to go shooting, so we packed up and headed out and it was such a good idea!
Myles had so much fun on the bumpy ride, laughed everything his stomach tossed and turned, when we got there we had fun playing with his toys and was unmoved by the guns, when Tay brought out the louder guns we put ear plugs in his little ears and he just talked to himself. It was so funny and so cute!
It was such a fun family date, I highly recommend!

My boys & I

I've gained a lot of new followers and I thought it might be a good time to reintroduce myself!
My names Courtney Ann, I am in love with the most amazing, loving, and supportive man EVERYTHING! We have the most handsome little fella out there. We're not perfect but this is my family and I wouldn't trade them for the world.
I don't know what I'm going to do with life. I'm going to cosmology school, microblading training, and lash trainings, I love the beauty industry. I also love baking and want to open my own bakery. It might turn into be 2 spaces and be part bakery part hair salon, we will see, and my goal is to do this by the time I'm 27, when Myles goes to kindergarten. But we will see as this is constantly changing.
My nails need to be done at all times and black is my favorite color with a splash of Leopard print. I love chocolate and Dr pepper and if you ever want to be on my good side just get me a cherry sprite with raspberry from swig and you'll have you heart.
I love running, however since having my son I've lost a lot, if not all, of my motivation for things. I was recently diagnosed with bi-polarism and postpartum, which also on top of it all causes me to have major anxiety. I've told a total of my fiance and mother so as you can imagine it's nerve racking to talk about it on here, espically with the rest of my family not knowing, but I'm learning to be more open and honest with myself and I feel like hiding it is is making it worse so here it is, I'm living with this but it will not stop me from achieving everything I want and more.
My son is 8 months yesterday and we are almost crawling, we love standing tho so we are almost there!

This is me, this is a story of my life with my boys!

Love, Court

Birthday weekend

I turned 21 this past week and I just wanted to tell you all thank you for such an amazing birthday! 

I had the flu so I spent my birthday home from work but then I had my amazing family take me out for lunch and to the aquarium!

We've gone every yesterday for the past 3 years so I was more than excited to keep up that tradition!

I also got surprised with flowers from my man which was an amazing surprise! ❤

Thank you all for the birthday wishes, I love you all!! 💋

Lipstick On The Brain

Hey!
It's been awhile since I've updated you all about my life but I just wanted to share with ya'll on here that I'm a Lipsense distributor now, owner of Lipstick On The Brain, and if any of you have heard about it you know just how amazing this lipstick is.
It's waterproof, smudgeproof, and kiss proof!
And these best benefit of all, it lasts all day long! You don't even need to worry about reapplying or anything!
It's amazing.
I love you all, if any questions don't hesitate to ask!!!

💋❤ Court

Pink Blush

I recently did a collab with shoppinkblush.com and I must say I absolutely LOVE this company!!!

Their fabrics are AMAZING!

They have styles for all stages of a women's life, from Teen to Pregnancy to Mom life, one brand for all and I absolutely adore them for it!

I am kinda bias towards their dresses tho, when I was first pregnant I bought a royal blue maxi and I wore it all throughout winter and when I left the hospital after giving birth to him. Then they sent me this BEAUTIFUL dress and I love the fabric, it fits in all the right places, and I must say I'm not comfortable at all with my body after being pregnant but I felt comfortable and I loved this dress!!

Do yourselves a favor and go check them out!

Last week of summer

As July ended and mama going back to work full time I really wanted to spend some time with my family and really getting some last minute things in Myles last week's of summer, so first off we went swimming. Myles LOVED it! At first he was hesitant and looked ate like "mom what are you doing to me" but then he realized he could splash dad and it was a game changer. Haha myles loved getting dad wet and throwing balls at his uncles, then surfing around in circles, I don't think he's had that much fun ever! Such a cute and cheap way to have fun!

Mom life

I have been TERRIBLE at getting on Here and writing every week and I'm so sorry! Being a mom has taken up so.much more of my time than I ever imagined but it's the best thing ever!

I can't even imagine not being a mom to Myles, it has given my life so much more meaning and I wouldn't trade it for the world.

Mom life update:

I am finally getting my eating back in order, less take out and junk food. I have entered given up my soda yet but baby steps, I'll get there.

Myles is sitting up and talking all the time, he's definitely a morning baby, every day without a doubt at 830. I have no idea where he gets that from. But we sleep for about 7 hours straight every night so mama's loving that!

He lovesaid sitting up on my stomach and leaning down to talk super close to my face,  and we have so many conversations I lose track, but I sure do love my little guy!

Picture updates:

7 things I've learned in the first month of being a mom

 I always knew being a mom wasn't going to be easy, but I never expected it would be this hard either. Everyday feels just like the day before, but I've learned a lot in these past weeks to help the struggles.

1. Sleep. 

When your baby is sleeping, sleep. I hear this on a daily basis and I use to shrug it off, but I learned that you have no set schedule. So when your body says it's tired, and you put your baby to sleep, sleep. A few hours at a time can make a huge difference in your day.

2. Drink
I drink Dr pepper as if my life depended on it, and I didn't give much thought to it until I started breastfeeding. The less water i had, the less milk I had. So.I had to drop my Dr pepper addiction and drink water, because my baby's  food supply is more important.

3. Eat
When you're constantly on your babies clock your needs get put on the back burner. And if you're like me, you forget to eat. I have reminders on my phone just so I can remember to eat, because mom's need their strength too.

4. You time
Yes, you love your baby and he is your everything, but you need time too. You need to shower, do your hair, dress up, do something for you. Should yourself a little once a week so you don't go crazy. You made a baby, you deserve it.

5. Shower
Nobody likes to feel like shit all the time. Those sweats and mom bun will only make you feel good for a day or two, you need to freshen up and shower, do your hair nice, put on something fancy, make yourself feel good!

6. Get out of the house
Go for a walk. Go get a coffee down at your starbucks, grab the mail, do something, one thing, everyday to get yourself out of the house. You will goften insane if you stay locked up in your home.

7. Exercise

Of course it's important to wait until your doctor gives you the go ahead to start exercising again, but take an hour every day, put the baby in his stroller, and go walk around the neighborhood. Or go to a park and walk around the park. Get outside, move those legs, you don't want to go crazy locked up.in your house.

Being a mom is hard, but I'm learning everyday how to be a good one.

Up & Out

We've been stuck at home this past week & as much as I love cuddling with my baby boy, staying at home all day everyday is driving this mama insane. I've never been one to just sit around, I like being busy. I like having something to do. So I've been trying to get ideas on little things to do, like target trips, Dr pepper runs, going to see grandparents, but we're slowly running out of new things to do. 

So we're up for any suggestions, of things to get out of this slum that we're in. Anything will help! 

Mama finally got back into a pair of jeans! It was a very happy day!

Labor story

Saturday: Throughout the week I had been having contractions, but they either lasted a few hours and we're close, or were far apart and lasted all day, but I didn't do anything about it because me being me, I wanted myles to come on his due date. Saturday, Jan 29th, rolled around and I was fine all day at work. I got home, relaxed, hung out with my fiance, it was a great day. Around 8 I started getting a really bad contraction,  but it was a persistent pain, it lasted almost an hour long, I called the doctor, took a bath to calm it down and decided not to go into the hospital, against my mom's advice. I then went to bed and called it a night.

 

Sunday: Sunday morning I woke up at 2 in the morning, covered in my sweat, all along my back, and I thought I was dying. But I ignored it, went to the bathroom, like I did every few hours, and went back to bed. I woke up an hour later, and I thought I peed my pants. I went, realized I didnt, thought I was sweating again, and went back to bed. This happened every hour, on the hour,  until about 10 am when I got up to grab a dress out of the dryer, and I, at the time thought, that I peed my pants. But I didn't think I did because it felt different, but I was mad at myself because I was so disappointed in myself that I would do that. Ashamed I changed, and jumped back into bed after leaving my doctor a voicemail about what was going on. I slept in until 2 and thought it happened again. This time, I woke Taylor up and told him we needed to go into the hospital because my water mightof broke and I was scared. 

It took us about an hour to get up and dressed and out the door with everything that we needed. 

We finally got there, told the nurses what I thought was going on, and they got us into a room. They got us all settled in, I got dressed and they came and checked to see if my water had actually broke, and it had. I think at this point Taylor was more excited than I was, I was terrified, I was 2 weeks early and I didn't feel ready. I was dialated to a 3 and my doctor had been notified and he said I had 24 hours from when it broke to have this baby, and since it broke at 2 we had 12 hours to have him.

Labor: Being in actual labor really wasn't that bad. The contractions felt like really bad cramps, and with all the emotions running around inside of me I hardly noticed them. They had to up the drug to make the contractions closer together, I was stuck at a 5 for a few hours, and around 10 pm I decided to get an epidural. Best decision of the whole thing. I couldn't feel a thing.

Monday morning: I had been trying to get Myles to turn around at this point by laying sideways on a peanut pillow when I felt a sharp pain in my right side. It was horrible. I complained about it to the nurse and so she decided to check me. I was fully dialated and ready to have this baby. She called the doctor and we began trial pushes. At this point I was so confussed with everything going on around me, people were coming in the room, the nurse was trying to talk to me, Taylor was excited and trying to help me, I was so out of it, that when I finally saw the doctor came in I just focused on him. At 1:21 AM I had my beautiful baby boy! Words can't explain the emotions I felt that morning. He is beyond perfect and I am so blessed to be his mama!!

The next days were a blur, I got discharged Wednesday afternoon but we had to do a hotel stay at the hospital while Myles had to stay another night under a billi light, but we all finally went home Thursday afternoon and it has been an eventful week since. 

I might be beyond tired and figuring out all this mama stuff, trying to not mess up and be a good mom, but I know it's all worth it, my family is everything to me and I'm so excited!!

First nap at home!

Few hours after Myles was born

Mom & Dad patiently waiting for baby Myles to come

Moments after birth

Aunt chloe meeting Myles for the first time!

Mama & Myles

Grandma & Aunts meeting Myles for the first time

Myles with his grandpa

Waitin for Myles  (:

Myles with great grandma & grandpa

With uncle Lee

My cute little family ♡