Sick Baby:[

Night before last, Whitney woke up at about 1 am crying. I picked her up out of her bed and she was burning up. I gave her some medicine and she went back to sleep. She was fine yesterday morning when she woke up but as the day progressed she started getting worse. I am not sure whats really wrong with her but i think she might be allergic to ants because she got bit 3 days ago on the foot and her foot swelled up pretty bad. The swelling has went down almost completely. When she got up this morning, she had a fever of 101.7 and she sounded congested. I gave her medicine and I have tried to get her to eat something but she's not really ate much of anything for 2 days. I made her an appointment for early this afternoon to see a doctor. I am really hoping that she is not feeling well because she is teething. I will post again later after the doctors appointment and let yall know how she is.

-Jessica

Life In SC :]

After being here in South Carolina since May 21, i have realized that it is super hot here! I cant take my daughter outside without lathering her up with sunscreen. The heat index today is 117! That is super ridiculous and its going to get worse. It is becoming easier being away from my family,but i still have not made many girlfriends. There are so many young moms around here but i am just afraid they wont enjoy being around Whitney and I. It gets super bored being here all day with no one to talk to, so i normally just clean the house. I am really loving the fact that i get to see my husband everyday now that i live here, but i am not looking forward to him going out on the air craft carrier. That's a real long time without seeing him, so im not really sure how im going to handle it the first time around. But i guess i will cross that bridge when i get to it. But thats about it for today, i'll be back tomorrow!

-Jessica

When it All Began cont. (how we met)

I got a phone call from my friend Jennifer asking me to go eat with them for their daughters birthday. Of course i said yes. Well i asked who all was going and she said her and her husband and the kids, and her friends golfing buddy. Now i dont know if its just me but at that moment when i think golfing buddy i think about an older man. Well when i show up at Jennifer's house, i walk in the door and i see this very good looking young man sitting on the couch. He was on the phone and i heard him say, "Yes mom i got my tooth brush." The only thing running through my head was YES! he's a mamma's boy. Shortly after i arrived Jennifer's husbands cousin (which is my  ex/ best friend) showed up to go with us. We left to go eat, the men in one car and the women in another. When we got to Logan's, Sean and I sat all the way across the table from each other. My ex told me to get whatever i wanted and that he would pay. Jennifer told him no. She knew what he was trying to do. Sean and I did not exchange any words during dinner, just smiles across the table. On our way back to their house we stopped at a store and since i had my daughter in the car i asked if one of the guys could grab me a pack of cigarettes while they were inside. My ex went in the store with the mindset that he was gonna get them for me, but while he was in the bathroom Sean went and got them for me (which pissed my ex off). After everyone was back in the cars we left headed to Jennifer's house. On the way there she asked me for my phone. She text Sean from my phone to give him my number and i didnt even know it. When we got back to their house i sat down on the couch and expected Sean to sit beside me, which didnt happen as planned. My ex came over and sat down beside. For the next couple of hours, every time my ex would get up Sean would sit down and vice versa. Sean and i did not speak very much that night until i walked outside to leave. He came outside with me while my ex was standing on the porch waiting on him to go back in. We talked outside for a minute then i left. We text each other all night that night. I was so happy for the first time in a while. We decided to go see a movie the next night so my mom agreed to watch my daughter long enough for us to go. When we got to the theater we decided to watch Hot Tub Time Machine. I waited and waited for him to kiss me during the movie but he never did. I finally looked at him and said "are you gonna kiss me?" and at that moment we shared our first kiss. It was the most romantic kiss i had ever had. We continued talking for a couple days and decided to start dating. We had such a strong connection with each other, it was perfect. My mother loved him to death. I hadn't met his family yet and i was scared to because his grandfather is a preacher and i was an 18 year old mother. Well my fear quickly surpassed because i fell in love with his family. They welcomed me and my daughter with open arms and treated us like one of their own. I fell in love with Sean very quick and wasn't sure how to handle it. But everything was perfect between us. I graduated high school in May 2010 and started college in August 2010. Then when he left in October for boot camp it was the worst time in my life. I cried a lot while he was gone but i stayed strong and waited on his return. My first semester of college was over the middle of December.  I went to Chicago with his family to watch his graduation from boot camp. When i finally got to have my arms around him again everything was okay. We opened presents on Christmas morning at my moms and then we went to his family's christmas at his grandmothers. The last present they picked up was for me. It was a big box and i had no idea who it was from. I sat down in the chair and started opening it. Sean walked up and stood in front of me as i opened the big box only to find a smaller box, and inside that box was a smaller box, and when i opened that last little box there sat a little black velvet box. When i took it out Sean reached over and took it from me. He said, "This comes with a very serious question" then he got down on one knee and asked me to marry him in front of his entire family. I was completely shocked. I said yes of course. I was shaking to bad for him to put the ring on my finger. After christmas had come and gone it was time for him to leave for South Carolina. I was not happy about that at all. We decided to get married on May 21,2011. My mother, his family, and I were handling all of the wedding plans. After we had booked the place for the wedding and the reception, Sean calls me and tells me that his leave date got changed and that we had to change the date of the wedding. I went into panic mode fast. We had to get our money back that we had already put down on the wedding and reception site and we had to find a different place and date for everything. We then decided to get married on April 30,2011 and to have the wedding at his grandmother's and the reception at the Country Club. Everything was falling into place. I found the perfect wedding dress. I was a very happy bride to be. The day of the wedding was very hectic. We were using the stereo equipment from the church for music during the ceremony. We had our list of music on an i pod and it worked perfectly. The ceremony was beautiful. We headed over to the country club for the reception and when we got there everything was going as planned. Until it was time to start dancing. We could not get the i pod to work with the stereo equipment, so we did not have any of the music played that we wanted played. not even for our first dance. I didnt panic though. everyone just went and grabbed cd's out of their cars and thats what we used. I was so happy because i was finally married to the man of my dreams. Two days after we got married he had to go back to South Carolina to start getting everything set up with housing.I finished my second semester of college and completed the Basic EMS course. But i never took my National Registry. Then finally I made the 380 some odd mile trip from Alabama with my mother, mother-in-law, and his aunt helping out with the move. Sean was at work when we got in that afternoon and we had almost everything unloaded before he got home. After our family left to go back home we finally got to start our lives together, just Sean, Whitney, and I. We are very happy to be together finally and we cherish every moment we get to spend as a family because we know that our chances are gonna be few and far between later on down the road. Now, i did not tell everyone my life story so people can talk about me. I told my story to prove that even if you do get delt a tough hand in life you can always make it through. I got pregnant the end of my junior year and was out of school for almost four months. I graduated 12th in my class with all A's and B's, I was a member of the Beta club and i completed three years of cosmetology. I went through a lot in my past and i finally found the love of my life and i am going to do everything i can to keep him happy. I wanted to let everyone, especially the young ladies that are faced with becoming young mothers, you CAN raise your child AND finish school. I did it and i know anyone else can to. You just have to keep your head in the right place and remember that God is ALWAYS their to help you out. You just have to be willing to listen!

-Jessica

When It All Began

I attended school in Piedmont, Alabama from the time i was in preschool till i finished eighth grade. I was always a very good student. I was never in any kind of trouble and i had all A's. I transferred to Spring Garden High School after my mother met and fell in love with my step father. I was not happy about the move because Spring Garden was a rival school of Piedmont and i did not want to leave my friends. The first day was the roughest of all because i didn't know anyone, but i soon found the girls that i was proud to call my best friends. My freshman and sophmore years flew by but i enjoyed them very much. I played volleyball my freshman year and i was a cheerleader my sophmore year. After cheering the entire football season and most of the basketball season, i realized just how stuck up and self absorbed most of the girls on the squad were and i quit in a very immature, but hillarious way. I had a couple of pretty serious relationships during my high school years. But my life became really interesting the end of my junior year. My best friends, (we will call them Brittany and Brianna) introduced me to a guy that their niece was dating. After this guy ( we will call him Taylor) and their niece broke up, him and i began talking. We started dating really quick after we met. It became a "physical"  relationship and after dating only a couple of months, I found out that i was pregnant. At the time, he was out of town "working" a lot with his brother. I was very very scared because i was only 17. I knew that i had no way to raise that child on my own. I finally got up the nerve to tell my mother, and she would not talk to me for two days. After the shock had kind of wore off she began talking to me again and she told me that we would make it. Taylor told me that he would be there for me. He said that even if we split up he would still help take care of the child. I believed him. Well, about a week after we found out i was pregnant i went to Montgomery, Alabama for a cosmetology competition. After i got back things started going downhill for us. When i was about four months pregnant, i broke up with him because he was not making me happy anymore. He had changed so much in the last four months. I started my senior year of high school with more drama in my life then i ever thought was possible. Well, after we split up, i was told that he had been cheating on me. When i found out that he had cheated on me, he started saying that i cheated on him while i was in Montgomery for that competition. That was not even the bad part. It got way worse. First i found out that the girl he cheated on me with was pregnant. Then, i found out that he was now dating my sister. After him and my sister got together, he started denying my baby. Well needless to say, Taylor did not offer any help to me what so ever. Well my pregnancy started getting pretty rough. I went into preterm labor at least four times and my doctor took me out of school for almost four months. My doctor decided to induce me so i could be home for Christmas. I gave birth to my beautiful little girl Whitney Elizabeth at 9:40 am on December 21, 2009. She was 6 lbs 15 oz and 19.3 inches long. She was so beautiful and so healthy. Taylor never tried to see her or offered to buy her a box of diapers. I took care of my daughter with the financial, mental, and physical help from my mother. My life was amazing at this point. I had a beautiful little girl that i loved more than anything, a mother who is a saint, and i was on track to graduate with the top of my class. I did not know how my life could get any better and i for sure didnt't think anything could go wrong. Then i found out that my sister was pregnant, by Taylor. What kind of man does that? Then it just got worse. Taylor and my sister moved four states away to live with MY father. They turned my father against me and we still do not speak to this day. I was upset a lot after finding out about my sister being pregnant, until some friends introduced me to this amazing man named Sean Sweeney. (i am going to stop right here and make yall wonder about what happens next, but i will finish out this story later on)

hello

i just created this blog and i dont really have time tonight to really start blogging, but i will start first thing tomorrow. I have a feeling yall are really going to enjoy it!

-Jessica