1 then 2 and finally 3

okay. well its been an exciting week to say the least. we are now a family of 3! its exciting and surreal and strange and i am still waiting for the real parents to come and pick up there sweet little  baby. but that wont happen. because i am the parent and i get to keep him forever. super weird! but i love it. he is so darn precious i can hardly stand it.

so here is the long story and then i will see if i can add some photos because thats the best part anyway. its the real reason anyone will read this im sure. so i wake up friday morning about 3 am with this sharm contraction pain. more of what i have felt before, but by far the most intense. i try not to get escited its more noticeable but nothing nearly as intense as my dr said i should be feeling before going into the hospital. so i keep an eye on it and try timing it. but its like every 15 to 20 min. and only like 15 -30 sec long. so not worth mentioning really. just making my life uncomfortable. so that goes on for what feels like forever. it goes on all day friday. friday night comes and they are still there. about every 10 min. lasting about 30 sec. awesome another sleepless night. at this point i dont know what to think. they are not strong enough to go to the dr. my water hasnt broken, and they are not close enough to go in to the hospital. just uncomfortable and making my nervous haha.

so i dont sleep at all that night and just try to cat nap till the next one comes. continues all saturday morning. by about 9 they are consistantly lasting about 45 sec. closer to the goal of lasting a min! but not there yet. they are still roughly 10 min apart. some are 4 min apart. some are 8, some are 12. gah! still not enough to go in. so by 11 they are getting really uncomfortable. i cant talk through them anymore and they definitely hurt. but still only 8 min apart and lasting 45 sec. still not in my guidelines of when i should go in. by 12:30 poor justin has had enough and says we should go to the hospital. whats the worse that can happen... they send me home and tell me to wait some more. im so tired i am sure if they said go home i would just cry. so we went in and they checked to see if i was far enough to keep me. low and behold i was 4 and 1/2 cm dialated. hallelujah i was staying! exciting and made me anxious... this baby was coming now! its what i wanted and have been waiting weeks for right? i have been complaining forever why be so nervous? um because its real and i actually need to do something now instead of just think about it.

so i get all checked in. the dr comes and breaks my water around 3:45 ish. they ask if i want an epidural now, or wait and see. its been 36 hours. im hurting. im tired. i wanted to wait and see how long i could go and hopefully do it all natural. but at this point so not going to happen. give me the drugs now! so i say yep do it now. they tell me the anesthesiologist will be in in about 5 min. an hour and a half later i feel llike these contractions are ripping me apart from the inside and i want to pass out. but he finally came! the anesthesiologist was in surgery and thats why he was late. understandable. surgery is important. but i was sure glad to see him. so we get that going around 5 pm and it kicks in and i am a happy camper after that. much more pleasant to be around im sure. i was able to sleep for a little bit. i was having some fun trying to move my legs and couldnt do a darn thing with them. but i guess thats the point.

they checked me again at 5:30 ish and i was a 6! yay for progression. now that i cant feel it i didnt even care. but glad that i was still moving forward. they decided to give me the smallest dose of pitocin to help me keep going because the epidural normally slows things down. mom and dani got there around 6 and we talked with them for a while. so glad my mom could make it. They checked me again at 730 and i was at a 9 and 1/2! my goodness this was going fast. so much for slowing down... so they tell me what to do. i have justin on one leg, and my mom on the other and we start pushing around 7:45. at about 8 they tell me to stop. im just so good that he is coming fast and they need to call the dr to come in. not something any woman in labor wants to here is to stop pushing. thats not what my body is telling me to do! dr gets there about 8:15 and we get going. my little boy is here at 8:27! Ryker Sterling Deitrick weighing 7 lbs 9 oz. 20.5 inches long. beautiful little boy. they put him on my chest and then had to rush him to the respiratory therapist to make sure he didnt inhale any meconium. but he was here. i was instantly balling. i even saw a tear or 2 from justin. it was great. i was glad it was over. i was so happy to meet him.

he has been such a doll ever since. he is so little and perfect i couldnt be happier. more to come on the first week later. but thats how he made it here! 41 hours of labor and feeling like i ran 2 marathons. but im so happy we are a family of 3 now. happy mothers day to me!

Take 2

okay, so the first one didnt go so bad. maybe i can do this...

So i am trying to figure out what to write about next. still no baby unfortunately. I am very sick and tired of being pregnant. i am ready for him to be here. but there is really not a lot i can do about that. justin and i went on a walk last night and i had quite a few contractions during and after. i got a little excited. not so much that i was in pain but that something was happening. but it wasnt how it should be for real labor so i tried not to get my hopes up. then again this morning i had more! still not trying to get my hopes up, but secretly wishing it was time to have this baby. alas... i need more patience. so i will go on another walk this morning and see what happens. haha.

Justin and i are making a really cute curtain to put up to hide our laundry room thats at the back of our kitchen. its going to be perfect im excited. i just need to find someone with a sewing machine so i can finish it. no way will i do that by hand. but it gives me a new project while i wait for this baby.

also we spent a lot of yesterday thinking about pinewood derby. because justin is in the elders quorum presidency he was able to help plan an activity for all of the couples in the ward to have a pinewood derby contest. justin always loved it in scouts. i was never cool enough to make one in young womens. haha. but thats okay. we did one last year. got 4th place. not too bad. but we did get best design.

anyways, so this year we are making it penguin themed. one time i was browsing pinterest and found a tattoo of a baby penguin. its the cutest thing i have ever seen. and if i didnt believe what i do, i would get this tattoo. but it will stay in my fantasy for a while, and we will instead put it on our pinewood derby car. justin designed and did most of the work on the last car. granted he will still do most of the work on this one, but i have more input on the design. its going to rock.

one day i will learn how to put pictures up and i can show you everything i am talking about. that is my new goal to learn about.

well. thats all for now, please pray for this baby to come soon. its all i can think about if you havent noticed. and it would be best for everyone for me to stop bringing it up. sorry about that!

Here we go....

Well, Im starting a blog. Everyone has told me that once I get married I have to start a blog. That it will help to keep the family updated on all of our doings. Well, needless to say that didnt happen. Here it has been a year and 9 months and I am just starting one. Not going to lie, really the reason I havent started one is because first of all I dont think life here in the Deitrick household is exciting enough to talk about. But also we are having a baby! So this can help me give out some details in a semi public but not awkward way. maybe... I think...

I do love to read blogs. The ones I do read from family and friends are so funny! dang it why cant I be that funny. maybe I will learn to be. Its my goal. So if Im not funny dont hate. give me some time.  :)  k thanks.

So I guess I can start by introducing us a little bit. Justin and I are the Deitrick family! if your reading this and dont know who we are I have no idea why you are reading this.... I promise it wont really apply to you and you dont care what I have to say. We are the last of the line. I mean Justins parents are still alive and well, but he only has 3 older sisters. All of which are married and wont pass on the name. So glad I can help with that. Also, we are about to have a baby boy! we are super stoked. It is the first grandchild on my side, and the first boy on Justins. We saved the name for posterity. My job is complete. Not that we are done, more of the pressure to have a son is off. Which is super nice. Both of our parents are super excited as well. Not just because its a boy, but because its a new little baby. We have 2 nieces, but the youngest one is turning 6 this year. So it has been a while since there has been a baby around. And my youngest sister is 16 so my mom has been itching for one for a while. This is what Im here for! Here to help.

Anyways, so I graduated this last december with my associates in medical assisting. hooray for me! Lots of challenges along the way. But I am done and couldnt be happier. My dear husband cant say the same... yet.  He is studying mechanical engineering. Justin still has about a year left of school. He could be done sooner but the way classes are offered it will take him another 3 semesters. yuck... but on the brightside he only has to take like 3 classes per semester. so the load will be less, the stressload more because of the kind of classes he is taking. I have looked at his homework and some of his word problems. Holy cow he is a smarty pants. He knows much more than I and I just sit back eating cookies while he drowns himself in numbers and figures. But he enjoys it. Even if the actual school part is hard. Someday soon he will be free too!

The purpose of the title of this blog has a lot to do with Justin and less to do with me. But im part of the family so I can claim it too. Justin likes things very clean and a particular way. He is not OCD or anything and our house is definitely not perfect. But we keep it comfortable for our standards. He likes to keep our things (cars and the motorcycle specifically) clean and well taken care of. When he does a project in our apartment he likes it done right and have the measurements be exact as they can be. I guess thats the engineer in him. But my dad was an engineer so really Im used to it. and its a good thing! im not complaining at all. We have deemed this quality the Deitrick detail because we like to take care of things. I like things to be clean and in there place. I hate hate hate having dishes in the sink and a dirty kitchen. I feel the need to clean up all the time. But I currently have nothing better to do so I dont mind at all. I hear babies come with a lot of messes so I am gearing myself up for the "fun." But we keep our cars clean and trash free. We keep then washed and have regular maintenance done. Justin does it himself so that expense is not too high. Love that. We keep things in there place. We may be cluttered on occassion, but we keep it clean.

I feel like I rambled a lot about how we are neat freaks. oops. sorry. I just remember the majority of my home life not always being that way. I definitely have had dirty rooms. I have had dirty cars! in my defense, I shared a car, so we can share the blame. sorry Dani. love you. I know my mom always had organizing projects going on in the living room. Organizing is good! taking 2 weeks to do it and it being laid out in piles in the living room drove me a little crazy. But what could I have done. I could have helped... I could have made it easier and not just complained. I think Im giving myself more of a guilt trip here than making my point. shoot. I told you I was bad at this.

And to make a long story longer, to make my point. I have changed since coming to college. And more so getting married. But in the end this really has to do with the detail of our lives and what we have going on. Apart from waiting for baby its just the usual. Justin is working and going to school. We sold the Ninja 500 motorcycle, but only to upgrade to a Suzuki 650. also red. The ninja was more of a bright red. The 650 is more of a blood red. We have deemed it Bloody Pete. Mostly because that is the first words and ideas that came to mind. I think we were joking talking about it. But it has stuck now so no changing it.

Well I feel accomplished. I wrote a lot more than I thought I would. I hope you have found this profound and exciting. Probably not. I wont promise anything. I never was good about journal writing. But since Im not doing anything I think I can find the time to write down the important things.