Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
All in a days work...
So this is my kitchen. I have heard it said that the kitchen is "the heartbeat of a home". Well if that is the case our home is in need of a cardiovascular intervention. It serves it purpose, but it is small. We have been talking for 5 years about doing a kitchen addition. Sometimes we have been so close that in my head I have already been cooking meals in it! But for one reason or another we have always changed our minds about the timing or it just has been postponed for one reason or another.
Well, we started talking about it again recently, like really recently, like last Friday recently, and wondered if now is the time to move ahead...
I hesitate even mentioning it, because I would hate to have to explain to people again why we have changed our minds yet again.
But for some reason....
this time I just have this feeling...
that it is really going to happen...
What do you think??? Think it's okay for me to get excited about our new kitchen addition???
Well, we started talking about it again recently, like really recently, like last Friday recently, and wondered if now is the time to move ahead...
I hesitate even mentioning it, because I would hate to have to explain to people again why we have changed our minds yet again.
But for some reason....
this time I just have this feeling...
that it is really going to happen...
What do you think??? Think it's okay for me to get excited about our new kitchen addition???
My Girlies...
What would life be like with out girlfriends?? I sure couldn't imagine!!
And though I am as big as a house...I will still post this cause I love my girls!
And though I am as big as a house...I will still post this cause I love my girls!
Kelli's 5th Birthday Party!!
Can't believe she is 5!!! Well..she isn't yet...Thursday May 7th at 641am she will be! But we sure had a good time celebrating on Saturday with our families!
She asked if she could have her fingernails painted for her party...
We have a rule in our home...no gum until you turn 5! Both Andrew and Kelli have been given a huge supply of gum on their 5th birthdays from their Aunts and Grandmas!!
Kelli's cousin Olivia has this doll and she LOVED it the last time we were at their house. So she sure was thrilled to get it from Uncle Derrick and Aunt Lauren!
She asked if she could have her fingernails painted for her party...
We have a rule in our home...no gum until you turn 5! Both Andrew and Kelli have been given a huge supply of gum on their 5th birthdays from their Aunts and Grandmas!!
Kelli's cousin Olivia has this doll and she LOVED it the last time we were at their house. So she sure was thrilled to get it from Uncle Derrick and Aunt Lauren!
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Baseball!
Andrew had his first baseball game this week! It is SO much fun to watch these little guys play! Some have some obvious talent, and others, well...they are stinkin' cute! This year they got a whole uniform (Andrew's socks go half way up his thigh and his t shirt goes almost down to his knees!) Brian is the assistant coach this year and does a great job! Andrew loves having him there!
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Hodge Podge
Well, this is gonna be a busy week for me so I thought I would post tonight! I realized that with all the sickness, surgery, construction I never posted Easter pictures so we will start there!
Andrew had his first "at home" school project early this month! Brian took on helping with this one and it turned out just great! They have been learning about animals all year long and to wrap things up they had to do a diorama on an animal that was assigned to them by their teacher. They were able to give their top three choices. Andrew's 1st choice was a garter snake (remember previous post when he found a garter snake in our back yard). He was SO excited to get his 1st choice!
Miss Kelli has been an extra blessing lately as she has managed to stay healthy! She is always willing to help me out and is so good at entertaining herself and Emily! She also has loved some warmer weather and jumps at the opportunity to go outside to practice riding her bike. Her goal for this summer is to learn to ride with out her training wheels! It is unbelievable that she will be 5 in less than two weeks! We are celebrating her birthday on Saturday with family and she is very excited that she will finally be able to have gum! (*We have a rule in our house that you can't have any gum until you are 5.) We did a mini photo shoot so we could make a birthday invite and this is my favorite!
Emily's ears are doing better! Seems the oral antibiotics are doing the trick! We saw the ENT on Thursday and they looked lots better! She has a few more days of the meds and we are hoping that it doesn't come back! Poor thing has developed a fever and lovely green runny nose, but is still mostly herself...I am sure she is as ready as we are to have her healthy again! She LOVES her daddy...a daddy's girl through and through. When I tell her daddy is home, she goes running to the kitchen, climbs up on the chair, looks out the window and makes sure he knows she is watching! She just happened to be trying on her swim suit when I snapped these...
Brian is doing great! He has one more week off of work and then can go back next Monday! He is managing very well and is only taking motrin for discomfort on occasion! It has been great having him home and he has been an exemplary patient! He even set up his own version of "picture in picture" tv so he could watch the nascar race and the Bulls playoff game!
=) I am doing good too...I had a few days of increased contractions earlier this week, but have been great the last couple of days with just a rare cramp here or there. So I go back to the doc on May 5th and then go to the every week appointments! It is crazy that this baby could be here if 4 weeks! But I am pullin for 6 or 7! =) I have been having so much fun with my photography and it has been keeping me busy! I am super excited for 2 newborn sessions this week, one isn't even 2 weeks old and the other will just be 4 weeks old! I was able to photograph a beautiful highschool senior this week...here is one of my favorites...also remember that you can check out my latest photoshoots at my photography blog...the link is in the upper righthand corner of this blog!
Andrew had his first "at home" school project early this month! Brian took on helping with this one and it turned out just great! They have been learning about animals all year long and to wrap things up they had to do a diorama on an animal that was assigned to them by their teacher. They were able to give their top three choices. Andrew's 1st choice was a garter snake (remember previous post when he found a garter snake in our back yard). He was SO excited to get his 1st choice!
Miss Kelli has been an extra blessing lately as she has managed to stay healthy! She is always willing to help me out and is so good at entertaining herself and Emily! She also has loved some warmer weather and jumps at the opportunity to go outside to practice riding her bike. Her goal for this summer is to learn to ride with out her training wheels! It is unbelievable that she will be 5 in less than two weeks! We are celebrating her birthday on Saturday with family and she is very excited that she will finally be able to have gum! (*We have a rule in our house that you can't have any gum until you are 5.) We did a mini photo shoot so we could make a birthday invite and this is my favorite!
Emily's ears are doing better! Seems the oral antibiotics are doing the trick! We saw the ENT on Thursday and they looked lots better! She has a few more days of the meds and we are hoping that it doesn't come back! Poor thing has developed a fever and lovely green runny nose, but is still mostly herself...I am sure she is as ready as we are to have her healthy again! She LOVES her daddy...a daddy's girl through and through. When I tell her daddy is home, she goes running to the kitchen, climbs up on the chair, looks out the window and makes sure he knows she is watching! She just happened to be trying on her swim suit when I snapped these...
Brian is doing great! He has one more week off of work and then can go back next Monday! He is managing very well and is only taking motrin for discomfort on occasion! It has been great having him home and he has been an exemplary patient! He even set up his own version of "picture in picture" tv so he could watch the nascar race and the Bulls playoff game!
=) I am doing good too...I had a few days of increased contractions earlier this week, but have been great the last couple of days with just a rare cramp here or there. So I go back to the doc on May 5th and then go to the every week appointments! It is crazy that this baby could be here if 4 weeks! But I am pullin for 6 or 7! =) I have been having so much fun with my photography and it has been keeping me busy! I am super excited for 2 newborn sessions this week, one isn't even 2 weeks old and the other will just be 4 weeks old! I was able to photograph a beautiful highschool senior this week...here is one of my favorites...also remember that you can check out my latest photoshoots at my photography blog...the link is in the upper righthand corner of this blog!
Monday, April 20, 2009
Update
Brian...
Doing amazingly well! Yesterday I told him I was going to take the kids to church to get out of his hair for a while and he said he wanted to go with! So we took off his bandages, he showered and off we went! He has been more sore today but he is trying to take less of the "big" drugs and in turn is moving a little slower, but we did go for a walk and ran some errands and made a trip to the library so he could check out some movies and a book. All in all it has been a very smooth recovery to this point! We will check in with the doctor sometime this week!
Emily...
Still has one purple ear, but not as noticeable as it was a few days ago! Brian got her checked in to the nursery on Sunday while I was parking the car, so I can only imagine the nursery workers coming up with a story about me letting Emily play with purple markers! =) The drainage is less, but still there. The ENT called today with the results of her most recent cultures and she still has strep A growing in her ears! AAGGHH!! So now tonight we will start on a round of oral antibiotics and then go back to the ENT on Thursday or Friday. Overall Emily is doing very well. She is not quite herself, but overall is really not bothered by all of this. My biggest concern is that her hearing is being affected. She has gotten VERY loud, not sure if this is temperment or adapting to the gunk in the ear!? Pray that these antibiotics work, if they don't the next step is a CT scan to check the anatomy of the ear and then a "throurough cleaning under anesthesia" by the ENT. This drainage started on March 14th, so we are all ready to get this figured out!! Thanks for your prayers!
Kori....
I have my regular OB appt tomorrow. All is pretty much status quo. I have been contracting some, but not so much that it has been a concern. And this is my 4th pregnancy so I am sure some of it is my uterus saying..."seriously?? we are doing this again???"! So I anticipate no restrictions and just keep doing what we're doing! 32 weeks!! It is a little nuts how quick this pregnancy has gone!! I will try to post another belly shot soon!
Doing amazingly well! Yesterday I told him I was going to take the kids to church to get out of his hair for a while and he said he wanted to go with! So we took off his bandages, he showered and off we went! He has been more sore today but he is trying to take less of the "big" drugs and in turn is moving a little slower, but we did go for a walk and ran some errands and made a trip to the library so he could check out some movies and a book. All in all it has been a very smooth recovery to this point! We will check in with the doctor sometime this week!
Emily...
Still has one purple ear, but not as noticeable as it was a few days ago! Brian got her checked in to the nursery on Sunday while I was parking the car, so I can only imagine the nursery workers coming up with a story about me letting Emily play with purple markers! =) The drainage is less, but still there. The ENT called today with the results of her most recent cultures and she still has strep A growing in her ears! AAGGHH!! So now tonight we will start on a round of oral antibiotics and then go back to the ENT on Thursday or Friday. Overall Emily is doing very well. She is not quite herself, but overall is really not bothered by all of this. My biggest concern is that her hearing is being affected. She has gotten VERY loud, not sure if this is temperment or adapting to the gunk in the ear!? Pray that these antibiotics work, if they don't the next step is a CT scan to check the anatomy of the ear and then a "throurough cleaning under anesthesia" by the ENT. This drainage started on March 14th, so we are all ready to get this figured out!! Thanks for your prayers!
Kori....
I have my regular OB appt tomorrow. All is pretty much status quo. I have been contracting some, but not so much that it has been a concern. And this is my 4th pregnancy so I am sure some of it is my uterus saying..."seriously?? we are doing this again???"! So I anticipate no restrictions and just keep doing what we're doing! 32 weeks!! It is a little nuts how quick this pregnancy has gone!! I will try to post another belly shot soon!
Friday, April 17, 2009
Home
We are home from the hospital after a smooth day! We got there a little before 7am and Brian was wheeled back to surgery at 950 and he went to recovery at 1110 and we left the hospital around 330. Everything went just as "advertised", so the doctor said! Brian should be comfortable for the next 12 hours or so with the meds he received at the hospital and then he has some good stuff to take after that if he is uncomfortable. He cant lift more that 20 pounds for the next week or so and then he will go back in for evaluation and go from there! Thanks so much for your prayers!
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Update...
Well I have not posted for a little while...wanted to make sure Brian's post was front and center for a while! If you haven' read it yet, scroll down and read it! I think I will encourage that he "guest" post more often! Bri is having surgery tomorrow (friday). We have to be at the hospital at 7am and they say we should be home sometime around 3pm. We would appreciate your prayers for the surgery, and for the recovery. I will be sure and keep this updated to let you know how he is doing!
I also wanted to give you an update on Emily. I don't think I have blogged much about it, but I know I have talked and emailed with many of you about her lovely ear drainage that has been going on for what seems like forever! Literally it has been draining for over a month. We tried several different treatments under the care of her pediatrician and when those didn't work he sent us to an ENT (Ear Nose and Throat doctor). He explained that what had started as a bacterial infection turned into a fungal infection and so we were just treating it wrong and he started a new treatment of puffing Boric Acid powder in to her ear last week. The acid causes her no pain (she doesn't like it being blown in) and he felt that it would clear up with a treatment or two. Well today we were supposed to see marked improvement and it instead was much worse. So he cultured each ear for bacteria and fungus, vacuumed out all of the gunk and put drops of Genetian Violet, an antifungal concoction, into her ear and now we wait for the cultures to come back. Today was alittle more tramatic for Emily (and for mom having to restrain her) but we are hoping that this does the trick! If not the next steps are sounding less and less "fun" for Emily so we would also appreciate your prayers for this treatment to work! The great thing about this Genetian Violet is that it is purple and will dye whatever it comes in contact with. So she has purple ears and it will also dye all of the drainage, so that will be purple (which is better than the nasty green it has been) but it will permenantly stain anything it comes in contact with!! So pray for my inlaws also who will be watching Emily tomorrow and Saturday as they try to keep coton balls in her ears and keep her from lying on furniture or carpet! =) Love you Keith and Nancy!! We will have to wait until next week to get the results of the cultures and then will reevaluate what comes next! Here are a few pics of our sweet purple eared girlie!!
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