Been Awhile

Wow how crazy life has been and continues to be! I ended up really sick during my pregnancy. Same stuff as I had with Cory. High blood pressure, protein in my urine and severe headaches. So little Ethan made his entrance into the world two weeks early via c-section. After spending 5 days in the hospital I finally got to return home with my new little bundle of joy. I was home for no more than a week when I realized that my c-section wound was not healing properly. So after a trip back to the doctors office it was determined that I had a blood clot from surgery that pushed it's way out of my body and through the skin that was trying to heal. 10 weeks later and I am finally healed all of the way and off of all blood pressure medications. I sure wanted to try for that little girl but it looks like I am going to get to enjoy my two little boys instead! It is fun, busy and a little stressful having a baby in the house again. I now have to wake at 4 am to get everyone ready and out the door so I can get to work on time. I really am not a morning person to say the least!

The BIG 50

Anthony's stepfather, Jim, turned the big 50 this year and we had a surprise party for him. After a long night of eating and just plain having fun here are the pictures! Jim was surprised can you tell!

Crazy Times!

Life has been a little interesting lately so here goes....

I had been feeling pretty yucky and thought wow what a great time to get sick. Summer right at our heels and I was feeling really bad! I took a couple home pregnancy tests and they all came back negative. Surprise surprise after a month of misery I found out that I am pregnant! I took beautiful pictures of the positive home pregnancy test but my husband thought that I was crazy and won't let me post them. Next was the doctor's visit. Since it has been 8 years since this whole adventure I was nervous. After waiting for two hours in the office (the doctor had an emergency delivery) they finally saw me and told me that the ultrasound tech was on vacation. So no pictures of my new little addition. I was really disappointed! I did find out that I am due January 21st and my blood pressure is already high which is a BIG concern. With Cory I had major blood pressure problems and ended up on bed rest. I am hoping it was just nerves and it will pass. I am due to go back next week for the much anticipated ultrasound!!!

Mother's Day

Being a mom is the best gift that any women could ever experience. I am blessed to have a wonderful son and husband. Mother's Day weekend was a little different for me this year. My mother in law and I used to attend Mother's Day teas with her friend Gale and her church. It was fun to be pampered for the day, drink tea and eat little tea sandwiches. There was live music and prayer. Unfortunately Gale passed away from stomach cancer so our plans have changed. I had planned to have Anthony's mom over on Sat for dinner and then we were going to go to my sisters house in Littleton for dinner with my mom. Unfortunately my mom had to work on Sat and decided that she did not want to go anywhere on Sun so she could recuperate. I was pretty bummed out that I was not able to see my mom but I should be able to see her this coming weekend. So I went to work making dinner for my mother in law. I decided to make stuffed shells with spinach, cheese and Italian sausage. Those were simple but yet tasty. Then I decided to make individual chocolate lava cakes. I am normally pretty good about following directions...so I got all of the ingredients out and got started. After a huge mess, a few missteps where I got ahead of the directions and a few hair pulling moments I had the finished lava cakes and if I must say so myself they turned out pretty tasty. I was going to take a picture of the finished product but my camera batteries were dead and no one wanted to wait that long before eating them. Sunday I was hoping to wake up to breakfast from my "boys" but I guess I woke up to early so they took me out instead. After lunch we went shopping with some gift cards we had. All in all it was an enjoyable weekend.

Me and the lawnmower

My husband works long hours and lots of weekends so I am pretty much in charge of taking care of the lawn. A couple weeks back it was time for our first mow. I pulled out the lawn mower, added gas and pulled the cord. Nothing happened! Thinking that I was being clever I added oil...well I added a full bottle of oil not evening considering the fact there is a fill line. I pulled the cord and still couldn't get the lawnmower to start. I called Anthony at work and asked him what could possibly be the problem. He asked if the lawnmower had oil. I said yes and explained to him how I had added oil. Needless to say that did not go over all that well since he knew right off the bat that I had overfilled the lawnmower. That weekend my father in law and Anthony attempted to repair the lawnmower. After draining the oil from the lawnmower and removing oil from the filter, engine and everywhere else the determined that it was toast. The only good thing for me was that they are both pretty sure that it was already toast before I "fixed" it. A trip to Home depot later I now have a new lawnmower that is pictured above. It works wonderfully and I have been forbidden from adding any more fluids to this machine!

Cory's New "Toy"

My grandpa loves Cory. He was the first person at the hospital when I thought I was going into labor with him. He waited with me through the night and then came back the next day. A very long story short on that.... Cory decided to flip around and be a breach baby. They were going to send me home and schedule a cesarean 3 weeks later when I was actually due. Since I was ill during my entire pregnancy my blood pressure spiked from the stress and Cory's heart rate went crazy so emergency surgery here we come! My Grandpa was back the next day excited to see Cory. They have had a special bond since that day. My grandpa decided recently that Cory needed a ATV. I am not sure what I was thinking but I was not envisioning a small version of the real thing! The only thing missing was a helmet...so we let Cory go around a little bit but he has been banned from touching it since then until we can find him a helmet. Being the little daredevil that he his he decided to turn rather sharply and the ATV tipped onto his leg. He had one heck of a bruise! I don't know if I am cut out for the whole ATV hobby???

Cory's First Soccer Game

Cory, my sports kid, decided this year that he wanted to try his hand at soccer. He played once when he was 3 years old and had no interest to play again. Now I guess he does! After two really entertaining practices last week (where no on knew what they were doing) it was time for his first game. They scheduled the game at 8:30 in the morning so that was a little interesting. Cory is not a morning person and getting him up was a chore. Then getting him motivated enough to run around that early was another problem. And on top of it all since Anthony recently promoted he had to work Saturday and that did not make Cory happy that his dad missed his first game. Once we got there though he was so excited that being awake that early didn't matter anymore. Then the game started! It was complete chaos on the field and actually pretty funny! The kids were kicking the ball the wrong way and just plain cute! The poor little kids tried so hard but Cory and his team lost 5 to 0. There is always next week! I reminded him that he is just supposed to have fun out there and to my amazment he said he did have fun even though they didn't make any goals.