money can't buy happiness, but Cash can...

It's been a few months, so I'm sorry if I rant a little and my thoughts are unorganized, but a lot's happened in the last few months! Let's start with July, shall we? All I can really recall that far back was around the second week of July. It all started with a simple 34 week pregnancy check-up. There we discovered I had high blood pressure, I mean ridiculously high, like in the 200s! So I went to the hospital for a stress test which showed everything was just fine with our sweet baby boy, but i was getting sick really sick. They put me on bed rest & made an appointment for me to return Monday for another stress test; however, I barely made it to early Sunday morning before I was sick and had even higher blood pressure. From there I spent a whole 9 days in the hospital holding off to at least my 35th week before being sent to Palmetto Richland where they broke my water & kick started labor! Due to me being so sick, my platelet count was extremely low....that meant no epidural. We won't get into all the dirty details, but at 2:08 pm on July 23 (after Ty got a little sick in the delivery room), we welcomed our beautiful 5lb 9 oz 17.5 inch long baby boy into the world, 
Landon "Cash" Starling . 

Being 5 weeks early, he was immediately rushed to their fantastic NICU where he stayed for 9 days before finally coming home with us at the very beginning of August. Needless to say it was a rough, exhausting, stressful month but I couldn't be more thankful for all the nurses that took such good care of our baby boy & kept us as positive as possible through the whole experience. Since then both Tyler and i have started school, and let me just say Midlands Tech is no joke. Don't ever say anything bad about those attending a tech school, because it's seriously ridiculous how
much work I have to do there. My sweet

boyfriend; however, is attending Central, while also working. I don't know how he finds the time to get everything done ans still be such a fantastic boyfriend and father. I don't think he understands how much I appreciate him and everything he does, but let me tell you now, I couldn't do any of this without him. He's my best friend, the love of my life, and the best father in the world. I've never been able to depend on anyone the way I do him and I can't imagine life without him in it. He's the strongest person I know, and if Cash turns out to be half the man his daddy is, I'll be the luckiest girl in the world. Tyler and I may not have the perfect relationship, but we've come a very long way. Tomorrow we'll have been together20 months,and I couldn't be more thankful for everything he does for me. We started as freshman in high school, and look where we've wound up. We now have a beautiful baby boy as well as the cutest puppy ever, Riley.Speaking of Riley, we got her from the flea market in September, I believe. We paid $150 dollars for her, took her back to get her shots a few weeks later and she got really really sick. Her blood wouldn't clot, and then she got the brilliant idea of eating rat poison. We didn't think our sweet little puppy would make it, they gave her 2 blood transfusions, flushed her system and sent her home on an antibiotic and vitamin K, and i'll be derned if that little dog didn't completely turn around. It was seriously a miracle, and we thank God for keeping her in our lives. (:  

Now don't get me wrong, I love my life, and am so satisfied with the way things are going, but it's by no means easy. It's not always fun and excitement. It gets hard. Cash fights sleep and wakes up at random hours of the night fussing, Riley chews on the wallpaper, and Tyler and I fight like any other couple. However, it's the first that make everything worth it. Cash's first real laugh, his first Halloween, and soon to be his first Thanksgiving and Christmas. Speaking of his first Halloween we took him to the pumpkin patch for a Hayride, which of course he didn't care about at all. He snuggled up and slept the whole time, but it was a good experience. His first Halloween was spent at GiGi's with Ty's side of the family, eating dinner and enjoying family time. He was supposed to be a monkey, but it was too big so he wound up being a skeleton, he was the cutest dern skeleton in the world though! 

Watching him grow has been a blessing,even when times are tough, he continues to grow and make me happy. I don't know what life will bring us in the future, but I'm excited to find out. All I can ask is that Cash continues to grow into a happy, healthy boy...well that, and that Riley doesn't eat anymore rat poison causing another $500 vet bill! Keep reading, there's no telling what kind of adventures you'll miss out on if you don't (:
I hope this makes you feel like part of our family, and maybe it will inspire, touch, or at least entertain someone, because that's my goal. We may have had a baby at a young age, but I love being a mommy, and Tyler loves being a daddy. Tyler always says he's glad it worked out this way, because when Cash is older, Ty will still be able to keep up with him. Don't worry though, we're not in any hurry to have another one anytime soon. We're in the process of getting on our feet, finishing school, and enjoying sweet baby Cash for as long possible. I'm not sure if anyone will read this, or if anyone cares at all about our life or what goes on in it, but if you do, I'd love some feedback. Now that I've caught everyone up on our lives, I feel like I'm gonna need inspiration later on what to write.