Stuck In The Middle With You...

Jack Oliver Young

2011-08-24T17:07:00.000-07:00

Well, hello.

Jacks Casket.....

Jacks sweet lil' feet... They were too sweet to touch the earth.

Footprints...

Sweet Angel Baby Jack Oliver Young J.O.Y. <3

It all stared out on a Thursday... A relaxing laid-back day in the pool.

My Aunt Becky was here swimming with us. She had a special app that counted contractions. My feelings were all over the place. Nervous, Excited, Curious, But mainly EXCITED. I didn't know it was going to be the worst day of my life. Around 4 o'clock Mom had made a call to Mary-Helen her mid-wife that she needed to come check. So Mom went in to shower and get some actual clothes on.

The contractions got more and more painful. So she moved up to the big jacuzzi bathtub. Mary-Helen got here, and everything happen soo fast. Mom told Mary Helen that she felt ready to push. So Mary- Helen said " go for it". In two minutes something came out but it wasn't a crying bright red baby... It was a bag and a chord. After that came a baby, but it wasn't crying, screaming, moving or anything normal. He was stillborn. But we were hoping that he would catch his breath. I was up talking to our neighbor Mrs.Wright and my Dad yelled for me so I ran down to the house and Dad said "He's not breathing, Go pray Now!" so Will and I went down and prayed. And prayed. At first I was trying to hold in the tears, But that did not last long. I started sobbing and sobbing and I couldn't stop. "We bathed this baby in prayer how could something like this happen?" I thought to myself. Hoping that he would breathe Dad came down with an update "He's still not breathing.". I was getting ready to go upstairs and check on Mom but then I heard counting. " 1-2-3 1-2-3 over and over. This was so un-real. So I kept praying for a miracle. I finally got the strength to go up but Jack was already in the emergency truck. Mom was in the bathroom sobbing. Dad was gone in the emergency truck with Jack. Grandma and Ethan had left to go comfort Dad. Mom, Becky, Mrs.King , Will, Mary Helen, Molly, Levi Aunt Sherry and I stayed here for awhile, Then left to go see Jack's little shell at the hospital... Mom and Dad went back first because they had some "decisions" to make, They were back there for about an hour and a half. I sat in the waiting room with everyone talking and I would talk a little bit then cry then think then cry and that was how it went most of the time. Finally Mom and Dad came back and waited for awhile and then they brought Jack in. He was The most beautiful little baby I had ever seen. Loads of hair, perfect little but long feet, a cute button nose and tiny mouth. But, he was pale. At first I thought I though I couldn't bare to hold him. But then the sweet nurse at the hospital said " You'll be glad you did" And boy, was I glad I held him. he was perfect in every way. I didn't want to let him go, I wanted him to open his eyes so bad. We didn't see his eyes so that will just be a mystery for us to see in heaven. Well after every one who wanted to held him and all the pictures were taken we walked him back to "his room" it was a very technical cold looking and feeling room. Part of me wanted to stay and cuddle with him and the other part wanted to get out of that nightmare. Well then we went back to the waiting room and sat and shock for awhile. and then went back to say one last goodbye to Jack's little adorable, beautiful, handsome, cute, and perfect little shell. I will never forget that day. Or holding him. or walking away and glancing back at Him in that cold little room. I dont know what I would do if I did not know that he was in heaven. I would be a reck. Psalm 30:5 For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life; Weeping may endure for a night but J.O.Y. cometh in the morning. <--- That is the verse I put on my letter to put in Jacks casket. I love you more than words can say Jack Oliver, and I miss you more than words can say.

-Melanie J.O.Y. <3

Will's Birthday...Im a lil' late!

2010-10-29T06:29:00.000-07:00

Will rockin it at soccer!

Will with my Mom when he was a newborn!

Will when he was little... He was cute!

Me and Will!

My aunt Becky got him these man size footy pj's

( They were a joke!)

Cool cake!

Happy belated Birthday Will!

Well Tonight I have A clue party at Kaleo, my youth group!

And tomorrow We have our 8th annual harvest party! Which is going to be awesome! I will probably post about it sometime soon!

Well got to go!

Melanie

A dash of this and a pinch of that...

2010-10-14T14:00:00.000-07:00

My mom Will Ethan and I went to see HOLES

With The Kings!

Posing ...
After the play, we went to mass ave. for pizza and a nice fall walk down town! Molly at Will's soccer game!

Boy was it hot!
Me and Levi goofing with photo booth!

I know this is the most random post ever, right! but not much has been going on around here!

How are you all doing??? I'm doing just wonderful... tonight I am cooking a nice meal for my family! A sit down meal can you believe it? well i better get going with that My next post is going to be for Will because his birthday is on Saturday! Talk to you later!

Melanie (:

Random things....

2010-08-23T11:24:00.000-07:00

The Adorablest baby ever! And yes I know that is not a word!

It is in my world so...
You gotta love photobooth!

n PH....
random!

Well Umm my aunt has a dog now! SWEETNESS!

Umm My friend started a blog...

And I know this is random I told you it would be random!

So thats really all for now!

Love mel <3

New cousin

2010-08-11T09:55:00.000-07:00

Well My aunt Natalie has finally had her adorable little baby, Congratulations Nick and Natalie!

He is just the cutest little thing. Born last night August 10th at 11:29, Weighs 8 lbs. 5.5 oz, And is 20 inches long. And I am soo excited to be able to see him on saturday!

Well thats all for now hope to see you soon!

Melanie

Photo Booth

2010-08-10T14:07:00.000-07:00

Well Umm I'm soooooooooooo sorry for the stinken LONGEST wait ever!!! Its been over a year ca you believe that????
This is a recent picture! We love our photo booth!
...
Ha ha! Our faces!

me.

Well I recently went to a Jonas Brothers concert, With my friends Sarah and Annie King! Demi Lovato was there and rocked!!!! So did the Jonas Bros, I just now started liking them.

Well how has your summer been going? I have been swimming almost everyday twice a day! I can't believe summer is almost to an end! Oh where have you gone my love???

Im almost in 7th grade, woo hoo! I have been going to Kaleo my youth group which I love! Mike and Pam are AWESOME! If you are not already my friend on Facebook well I have one, Just letting you know! Try and find me.

See you soon! And I will, I WILL try and post as often as I can.

Love melanie

Christmas 2008 (:

2009-01-07T08:47:00.000-08:00

This is Molly with my grandpa, I love the pic!

This is Molly on christmas morning
she is a cute little dork! (:

This is Christy, Andy, and I doing origami, she taught me how to do an origami swan. it is really neat!

I just thought Molly looked really cute. But the pigtails did not last very long!

This is Levi on Christmas morning, he was so excited for all of his presents!

Well Hello, I was just trying to get myself back on track blog wise so I just threw these pics on here for you all to look at. I hope you all enjoy!

next time I will try to post faster!

Mel-mel :)

I'm BACK!

2008-11-20T18:04:00.000-08:00

I finally found the time for posting.
this is from a couple of weeks ago. we put Molly
in the leaves. she totally did not dig that at all.

My mom took this picture of me today.

sorry for the longest wait I think I have ever seen for my self, it's been forever. I am so sorry.

Well, what's new?

Molly bites people, she can be such Brat , she throws these fits where she falls on the ground and kicks! (BRAT!)

This Saturday night I am going to Annie and Sarah's house to spend the night. That will be

very fun. We have this whole list planned out. They're very fun. well, I've got to go. See you all soon, hopefully!

Mel-mel(:

Molly Moo is a sickie poooo!!!

2008-09-19T08:54:00.000-07:00

Thank you Ellie ( : (she gave us these boots)

poor sick Baby );

you're Happy right now !!!

get that hair out of your face baby!

today my mom went to the store and I watched Molly. I was just sitting there and Molly
started coughing. I ran to the bathroom as fast as I could, let me just say.......
TOO LATE!!! it got my hair and all over me and the bathroom floor she started bawling!!!
I do not like throw up!!!

Mel-mel(:

sorry for being so long!!!

2008-08-14T08:22:00.000-07:00

lots of people think we look alot alike!!! do you think we look alike?

here was when we were getting ready to go home I do not think that will and natalie

look alike at all!!!

we had a fun get together with the family we swam held kittens lots of stuff like that it was great!!!

Levi was right in the middle of doing a cool move and I took the picture it would have been alot cooler!!!

A Meme from Me-Melanie

2008-07-10T19:06:00.000-07:00

Three things about me...in response to Mom's and Tory's blogs...

Three things that scare me: creatures in the wild, bloody movies, and spankin's.

Three things that I love: my family, Jesus, and having fun.

Three things that I hate: hate is such a strong word. :) the threat of being drafted someday (Mom helped me with these words), long, boring books, when people are snotty and mean when they are over at my house.

Three things that I am doing right now: Blogging, duh, getting ready for camp in 2.5 days, and being nervous.

Three things that I can do: Play soccer, a bridge with my body (gymnastics move), and take good care of Molly.

Three things that I can't do: a cartwheel, ninth grade math, and diffuse a bomb.

Three things that I like to eat: Pizza (Italian food), chocolate, mom's fresh bread.

Three things that I watched on TV as a kid: Well, I'm still a kid but I Love Lucy reruns, Little House on the Prairie reruns, and anything on PBS on weekday mornings.

I am passing this meme onto Hannah at Hannah Indiana and Sophie at Girl in a Zoo. Will would like to do this as well, so when he gets around to it, check it out on his blog!

Hope this gives you a little peek into what makes me "tick". Good night! I'm leaving from this coming Sunday to Wednesday the 16th of July so hopefully I will be back with some cool pix from camp! So goodbye BlogWorld! I'll miss you! :)

My first July post!

2008-07-05T13:09:00.000-07:00

My cousin Tory got me this cool tiara and a makeup bag with awesome makeup. can you tell I was wearing makeup? thanks Tory!!!

I put water in my hand and fixed her hair up like that. cute huh? she's in her new outfit too

we got it all right here starbucks awesome coffee and fireworks on the fourth of July!!!

oh beautiful.

this is me at Mollys first b-day.

Fun pictures, of pretty much everything

2008-06-26T10:39:00.000-07:00

this is a perfect picture of Molly.

My cousin wanted a picture with me oh make that two of my cousins wanted a picture with me. this is my crazy cousin...get away...run...he's gone CRAZY!!!

Molly's about to jump in the pool.

a few pics of my b-day (even though it was a couple weeks ago).

2008-06-20T10:41:00.000-07:00

opening my presents with my floating panda and dad.

it is true i am a ten year old double digit girl.

this is me with my little cousin Nora, so cute.

well i am sorry for keeping you all waiting for my post we have been going lots of places and other reaons are when I ask if I can blog, we have to go some where or do something. I will try to go faster next time.

mel-mel.

a very Melanie/Molly post

2008-05-15T08:13:00.000-07:00

Hi guys! there is no time to write much right now, so I will come back and edit this later on to say what I really want to say, after such a long blog vacation...so in the meantime, hope you haven't forgotten what my baby sister, Molly, or I look like.

Be back soon!

Pictures from the past month!

2008-04-29T05:03:00.000-07:00

My mom thought it was pretty amazing that I could vacuum with Molly in my hands!!!

this is at our neighbors house, it is for sale. it was neat over there.

there is a natural spring. if it was fixed up it would be so much nicer!

this is at my soccer game that we lost!!! ):

we had some friends over on saturday night. we ate then we played

apples to apples. it was really fun!! before they had to leave

mom made Calla and I get in a picture next to Will, who was dead asleep

Sorry I kept you guys waiting so long. When we start soccer in mid-March, our life becomes hectic for a bit...so I won't get to blog too often...

Hope that you enjoy these pictures...it is just a taste of what has been going on around here for my family and I in the past month. Molly, my baby sister, is getting so big, crawling around, cutting 2 teeth, getting into everything...that keeps me busy too. Molly sometimes only wants me, which makes mom mad.

Ok, well, I need to practice my piano since I have lessons today. I will be sure to tell my brothers that they need to update their blog. Hope you are having a great day!

Love Mel

I'm still kicking & screaming!

2008-03-25T20:58:00.000-07:00

I'm still here...it's just been a crazy couple of weeks so that is one reason why I haven't blogged.

Sorry for the delay.

We had a nice trip out to Springfield, Missouri 2 weeks ago...visiting my dad on one of his jobs. I will try to put some pictures from that trip on here....I just wanted to say HI and let you see that I'm still alive and kicking!

Easter was great also! We had my mom's family over for dinner and an egg hunt for Levi and Piper. Dad came home later on that night from MO.

That's it for now....hope you all are well.

It's been awhile...

2008-03-03T06:47:00.000-08:00

What a nice day to be outside!!!
This is our creek and Will, E and Me built a fort down there.
We call it, Will, E, Mel, and Levi's club.

What a cute, mischievous boy! (:

I know I have not posted for a long time so here are some pictures!

Levi wanted us to put him on our blogs since he does not get to enjoy one yet! (:

and he loves his new shirt!!!

It was so pretty outside yesterday !!!

We went outside to do some work, it was fun!!!

we got to go down to our fort and do some things. it is fun being down in our ravine!!!

Meet my piano teacher!

2008-02-21T18:59:00.000-08:00

This is my piano teacher, Mrs. S.

She is a very good teacher, and very nice too!!!

And I think that her dog is soooooooooooooooo cute!!!

When I am going up to the door her dog is waiting on me, just sitting there.

well I will post again very soon.

Camera Crazy

2008-02-19T20:14:00.001-08:00

My nesting dolls

And a few decorations in my room. W hat a cutie pie awwwwwwww!!! Levi's amazing lego building.(in his under wear. ) :)

today I went to my piano lessons. I love going there, it's really fun!!!

I am going to put a picture on here of my piano teacher soon, she is really nice!!!

I liked when my mom got her new camera. I was excited because we (the kids) would get her old camera to share!!! it's awesome because I have it most of the time. it's COOL!!!

Just a few pictures to keep you guys off my back. :)

2008-02-18T07:07:00.000-08:00

with my friend, Madison, at the boys' last soccer game
cheeseball
I got this picture of Molly clapping (@ E's party)
Maddy
I took this picture of myself. Mom says it
doesn't even look like me...I look like my Aunt Nat

I spent the night at my grandparent's house on Friday night. Grandpa and Uncle Tom took me to the boys' soccer game the next morning...the boys' won their soccer game and Will scored the first goal in their game.

I had a friend over on Saturday, Maddy. We had E's family birthday party on Sunday afternoon.

it was really fun and a good weekend.

Welcome to my blog...

2008-02-15T10:23:00.000-08:00

Hi, I am Melanie and this is my first post, welcome to my Blog.

I wanted to do this mostly because most of the people I know have one and my mom does too.

it just sounded cool to me!!!

it's takien my mom and I a long time to do this this morning. I am so excited to have this blog!

I have three brothers and one baby sister.

Will is 13, Ethan is 12, I am 9, Levi is 5, and Molly is 7 months.

come back and visit often.

this is my first post...

2008-02-15T10:04:00.000-08:00

I've been trying all morning to get my blog going...let's run a test....testing, testing, one, two.