Bryan and I helped (Well Bryan did since I have Gabe) Nathan and Julie move this weekend. It reminded me of Memorial Day weekend 3 years ago when we moved into our house except it was a lot harder having 2 little boys under 7 months.
Monday we were all over at their apartment even Jacob came to help too while Janell was working. Bryan, Nathan and Jacob were taking a load over to my parents and Julie ended up taking her clothes over so that left Mom, me, Gabe, Dad and Jaden. Jaden was fast asleep in my moms arms and as there was no furniture to sit on I laid a blanket out and put Gabe down. He was making his funny noises, stretching, yawning etc. when he threw up. It was very thick and there was a lot! It had been a while since I'd fed him so it was weird that he was throwing it up. I think that he has acid reflex. They say that Preemies are prone to it? Anyway, I was looking all over for a burp rag to clean him up and my mom yelled he's choking. This has happened before so I calmly turned him on his side and started patting his back. Mom told me to get the syringe (they told me to use that if he chokes and use it to suck the spit up out of his mouth). It wasn't working and more was coming out. Out of his mouth and nose. His eye's got big and he started changing color and he wasn't breathing. Mom started crying and gave Jaden to my dad. Told me to call 911 and she was patting him on the back.
You know I went to the baby CPR class and sat there thinking I'll never have to use this on him. Never say never. In that CPR class they show you how to do the Heimlich on a baby too. Surprisingly I was calm through the whole thing. When I was talking to the 911 operator Gabe had started to cry and breathe, he told me NOT to do CPR (as I was just about to) because he couldn't cry if he wasn't breathing. The ambulance arrived and it was two ladies who were SO kind. I was glad that it was women and not men, I don't know why? Through all of that Gabe's color turned first to red then purple then blue and after he started breathing again he was a very pasty green. He didn't get his color back for a long time and he was so tired. I didn't cry until later after we had dinner that Nathan and Julie bought for all of us and I was holding him in my arms and looking at him. I'm going to cry now typing this because it was probably the most traumatic thing that has ever happened to me. I can't even begin to tell you how that felt. I thought, I'm going to lose my baby right now. As he was trying to breathe he would let out this noise like he was trying to breathe and cry and it just broke my heart. I felt so helpless. I can live without that ever happening again. Just goes to show that I can't control what happens to my precious boy, God is in control!
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Friday, May 25, 2007
Life
Lets see where to begin? I hope I can remember everything...Bryan has had a ton of homework so I haven't gotten much time to log on.
Last Friday we pretty much stayed around the house for the day then we picked up a few things at the store and headed to our Sunday School class dinner at the B's. It was our first time getting to go to the Friday night dinners and it went pretty well. We got there and pretty much everyone was there. Deanna was BBQing and parents were getting their kids dinner. There are a ton of little girls in our group. Gabe has the pick of the litter although they're all older than him.
We ate dinner and went downstairs to meet. I had to leave and feed Gabe during that and then when I came back down he was getting fussy so Bryan and I left. I didn't get to hear pretty much any of the meeting, but such is my life now. Maybe at the next one he'll be better and he actually wasn't that bad I just didn't want to distract everyone and also push him.
Saturday we had Travis's surprise b-day party. Mom wasn't doing anything that night so she offered to watch Gabe while we went. We went over to my parents a little early so that Bryan could help my dad bring up their entertainment center from the family room to the living room. There is a lot of moving around and chaos with getting ready for Julie and Nathan to move in. We left for the party around 6:50 and went to Papa's Pizza. Travis was pretty surprised, but as they pulled up he saw cars of people he knew so he caught on. There was a pretty good turn out and it was fun to hang out and chat with everyone.
I talked to Randy for a while about work. When I return back to work I will be on his team and working for the Safeway pod. I won't be on the 12th floor anymore, but up on the 20th floor. This is going to be SO weird. I hope that I will like it. It's going to be hard enough going back to work let alone having a whole new position. He said that they have a ton of work and that they don't know what they're going to do for the whole summer...they need me now.
He also told me why I haven't heard back from Christina the HR gal in our office. Right after the last time I talked to her on the phone she had gone to a dr appointment and they found a tumor the size of a basketball in her uterus. They didn't even give her the chance to go for a 2nd opinion they operated 2 days later and now she is having to undergo chemo therapy. WOW!
I have talked to an HR gal in our Bellevue office and they are trying to get this all figured out. I have been out since March on bed rest and then having Gabe and recovering from that. I'm not exactly sure how it works, but I could be getting back paid for my time off. That would help us out so much!
We had had a pretty rough night with Gabe on Friday and Saturday evening too. I was so tired and we decided not to go to church and just stay home. Although Bryan got a phone call saying that the annex wasn't open and that the kids couldn't find any staff so he ended up getting ready quickly and going.
It ended up being ok though...Kimmie (one of the staff) and a few of the girls went to go find someone to open up the annex and they ended up stopping in the little coffee shop thing that our church put in the library. I haven't see it yet because I forgot to look at it when we went to church on Mother's day, but I heard it looks awesome!
I am not remembering a lot of things...my days keeping running into each other and when I don't journal for a while I forget. I don't remember what we did on Monday. I know that I stayed home because I knew that I was going to be taking Gabe with me to the shower and Bryan was going to class.
My shower was AWESOME! My sisters (Julie and Janell)/seesters (Teresa and Moo), plus my mom did a great job. I am so blessed to have them in my life. Mom, Julie and Janell decorated early that afternoon and Teresa and Moo set up the food. The decor was so cute. Gabe and I got there around 5:45 with Julie and Janell. My mom left to get there by 5:30 to open up the church. I had to feed Gabe and people started arriving. Gabe was a little fussy after I fed him and as we started the shower I gave him to my mom so that I could get some food and have her hold him while I opened up the gifts.
After everyone got food and settled down we played a couple games...nothing big because I hate games. My mom put an invitation under one of the chairs and gave that person a gift card and then we went around the room and everyone said how they knew me and Bryan and guessed how much I weighed when I was born. Everyone guessed low. I was 8lbs 8 ounces.
I started opening the gifts and BOY did we get a lot. I feel way more settled now and overwhelmed with the generosity of everyone.
I wanted to go home right then and organize! I love organizing!
I walked around and mingled and people started leaving. I don't think we got home until 10? My dad and Bryan unloaded the car and took everything up to Gabe's room.
Poor Julie had to leave right after the shower. Jaden was hysterical and both my dad and Nathan couldn't calm him down.
Gabe slept SO well Monday night. My mom said that he was awake during pretty much the whole shower. It must have pooped him out because he slept a lot on Tuesday. In between feedings I got on organizing all of the shower stuff. I started on Laundry because he got a lot of clothes and we got ready to go to another 30th surprise b-day party for Bryan's friend Kevin. We met everyone out at the place called Big Al's in Vancouver. This place is AWESOME!
It has:
30 traditional bowling lanes
12 lounge style bowling lanes
4,000 sq. ft. arcade / 100 player positions
1300 person party / event capacity
7,000 sq. ft. Sports Bar & Grill
One Gigantic Jumbo-Tron
(8 ft. tall x 36 ft. wide)
17 super bright projection screens
76 High Definition Plasma Screens
5 Private Party Rooms
7 Billiard Tables
1 Championship Shuffleboard Table
We were there for an hour or so and the guy's played pool while the girls sat up in some booths and talked. Dave and Shaela were there. I haven't seen them in FOREVER! I ended up talking with her pretty much the whole time. We talked about her kids and what we've been up too. It was great to see them. After we left Big Al's we went to Kevin and Ginger's and had cake and we left around 9.
We got another meal this week from the B's. Deanna brought us Chicken bisque. It was SO good. She dropped that off around 6 on Wednesday night and stayed for a few minutes and talked.
We have two more meals next week from Jay and Diane and Nate and Teresa. I am going to miss having meals! We have been so blessed by the class bringing us meals and they have been SO yummy. Some of the meals have lasted a couple days too. We have felt so loved!
It's hard some nights when Bryan is gone at school or youth group and I've had to fend for myself. The other night I put Gabe down to quickly make myself some dinner, and he got mad. I ended up holding him and eating at the counter. I remember Teresa telling me about all the times she had to eat standing up and stuff her face as fast as she could. I've even had to pee holding him sleeping happily. Have you ever tried washing your hands holding a baby. It's a little difficult.
I'm officially staying steady at 150!! I bought a couple capri's last week when I went to ON, size 10 and they fit pretty good. They are a little big, but I still can't fit in my 8's yet and a lot of my shirts still don't fit as well. This is frustrating! Bryan and I went on a walk yesterday and I tried walking with Calie and pushing the stroller to see how that worked out and Calie did well staying beside the stroller and not getting in front of it or pulling. I think I need to walk more and I can probably start doing sit-ups again. Bryan has these ones that he does that are hard, but they really do a good job. My goal is to get below 150 by next Saturday even if it is only 149.
Yesterday was Gabe's EDD! I can't believe it! I can no longer say that he's still supposed to be in my tummy.
He's been really focusing more and we've been putting toys in front of him to see if he can see them. We've also been working on Tummy Time and he's been working on lifting his head etc. He lifts his head a lot when we have him up on our chest too. He's starting to fill out. His little legs and feet don't look so skinny anymore and his cheeks are getting a little chubby.
Last Friday we pretty much stayed around the house for the day then we picked up a few things at the store and headed to our Sunday School class dinner at the B's. It was our first time getting to go to the Friday night dinners and it went pretty well. We got there and pretty much everyone was there. Deanna was BBQing and parents were getting their kids dinner. There are a ton of little girls in our group. Gabe has the pick of the litter although they're all older than him.
We ate dinner and went downstairs to meet. I had to leave and feed Gabe during that and then when I came back down he was getting fussy so Bryan and I left. I didn't get to hear pretty much any of the meeting, but such is my life now. Maybe at the next one he'll be better and he actually wasn't that bad I just didn't want to distract everyone and also push him.
Saturday we had Travis's surprise b-day party. Mom wasn't doing anything that night so she offered to watch Gabe while we went. We went over to my parents a little early so that Bryan could help my dad bring up their entertainment center from the family room to the living room. There is a lot of moving around and chaos with getting ready for Julie and Nathan to move in. We left for the party around 6:50 and went to Papa's Pizza. Travis was pretty surprised, but as they pulled up he saw cars of people he knew so he caught on. There was a pretty good turn out and it was fun to hang out and chat with everyone.
I talked to Randy for a while about work. When I return back to work I will be on his team and working for the Safeway pod. I won't be on the 12th floor anymore, but up on the 20th floor. This is going to be SO weird. I hope that I will like it. It's going to be hard enough going back to work let alone having a whole new position. He said that they have a ton of work and that they don't know what they're going to do for the whole summer...they need me now.
He also told me why I haven't heard back from Christina the HR gal in our office. Right after the last time I talked to her on the phone she had gone to a dr appointment and they found a tumor the size of a basketball in her uterus. They didn't even give her the chance to go for a 2nd opinion they operated 2 days later and now she is having to undergo chemo therapy. WOW!
I have talked to an HR gal in our Bellevue office and they are trying to get this all figured out. I have been out since March on bed rest and then having Gabe and recovering from that. I'm not exactly sure how it works, but I could be getting back paid for my time off. That would help us out so much!
We had had a pretty rough night with Gabe on Friday and Saturday evening too. I was so tired and we decided not to go to church and just stay home. Although Bryan got a phone call saying that the annex wasn't open and that the kids couldn't find any staff so he ended up getting ready quickly and going.
It ended up being ok though...Kimmie (one of the staff) and a few of the girls went to go find someone to open up the annex and they ended up stopping in the little coffee shop thing that our church put in the library. I haven't see it yet because I forgot to look at it when we went to church on Mother's day, but I heard it looks awesome!
I am not remembering a lot of things...my days keeping running into each other and when I don't journal for a while I forget. I don't remember what we did on Monday. I know that I stayed home because I knew that I was going to be taking Gabe with me to the shower and Bryan was going to class.
My shower was AWESOME! My sisters (Julie and Janell)/seesters (Teresa and Moo), plus my mom did a great job. I am so blessed to have them in my life. Mom, Julie and Janell decorated early that afternoon and Teresa and Moo set up the food. The decor was so cute. Gabe and I got there around 5:45 with Julie and Janell. My mom left to get there by 5:30 to open up the church. I had to feed Gabe and people started arriving. Gabe was a little fussy after I fed him and as we started the shower I gave him to my mom so that I could get some food and have her hold him while I opened up the gifts.
After everyone got food and settled down we played a couple games...nothing big because I hate games. My mom put an invitation under one of the chairs and gave that person a gift card and then we went around the room and everyone said how they knew me and Bryan and guessed how much I weighed when I was born. Everyone guessed low. I was 8lbs 8 ounces.
I started opening the gifts and BOY did we get a lot. I feel way more settled now and overwhelmed with the generosity of everyone.
I wanted to go home right then and organize! I love organizing!
I walked around and mingled and people started leaving. I don't think we got home until 10? My dad and Bryan unloaded the car and took everything up to Gabe's room.
Poor Julie had to leave right after the shower. Jaden was hysterical and both my dad and Nathan couldn't calm him down.
Gabe slept SO well Monday night. My mom said that he was awake during pretty much the whole shower. It must have pooped him out because he slept a lot on Tuesday. In between feedings I got on organizing all of the shower stuff. I started on Laundry because he got a lot of clothes and we got ready to go to another 30th surprise b-day party for Bryan's friend Kevin. We met everyone out at the place called Big Al's in Vancouver. This place is AWESOME!
It has:
30 traditional bowling lanes
12 lounge style bowling lanes
4,000 sq. ft. arcade / 100 player positions
1300 person party / event capacity
7,000 sq. ft. Sports Bar & Grill
One Gigantic Jumbo-Tron
(8 ft. tall x 36 ft. wide)
17 super bright projection screens
76 High Definition Plasma Screens
5 Private Party Rooms
7 Billiard Tables
1 Championship Shuffleboard Table
We were there for an hour or so and the guy's played pool while the girls sat up in some booths and talked. Dave and Shaela were there. I haven't seen them in FOREVER! I ended up talking with her pretty much the whole time. We talked about her kids and what we've been up too. It was great to see them. After we left Big Al's we went to Kevin and Ginger's and had cake and we left around 9.
We got another meal this week from the B's. Deanna brought us Chicken bisque. It was SO good. She dropped that off around 6 on Wednesday night and stayed for a few minutes and talked.
We have two more meals next week from Jay and Diane and Nate and Teresa. I am going to miss having meals! We have been so blessed by the class bringing us meals and they have been SO yummy. Some of the meals have lasted a couple days too. We have felt so loved!
It's hard some nights when Bryan is gone at school or youth group and I've had to fend for myself. The other night I put Gabe down to quickly make myself some dinner, and he got mad. I ended up holding him and eating at the counter. I remember Teresa telling me about all the times she had to eat standing up and stuff her face as fast as she could. I've even had to pee holding him sleeping happily. Have you ever tried washing your hands holding a baby. It's a little difficult.
I'm officially staying steady at 150!! I bought a couple capri's last week when I went to ON, size 10 and they fit pretty good. They are a little big, but I still can't fit in my 8's yet and a lot of my shirts still don't fit as well. This is frustrating! Bryan and I went on a walk yesterday and I tried walking with Calie and pushing the stroller to see how that worked out and Calie did well staying beside the stroller and not getting in front of it or pulling. I think I need to walk more and I can probably start doing sit-ups again. Bryan has these ones that he does that are hard, but they really do a good job. My goal is to get below 150 by next Saturday even if it is only 149.
Yesterday was Gabe's EDD! I can't believe it! I can no longer say that he's still supposed to be in my tummy.
He's been really focusing more and we've been putting toys in front of him to see if he can see them. We've also been working on Tummy Time and he's been working on lifting his head etc. He lifts his head a lot when we have him up on our chest too. He's starting to fill out. His little legs and feet don't look so skinny anymore and his cheeks are getting a little chubby.
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
I feel like crap
It's been the 6 weeks that they say to take it easy and I did for the most part...probably did some things that I shouldn't. My body is still out of whack though. I feel like crap all the time. My incision still hurts a little every once and a while, I feel like I'm going to throw up all the time, and I think there is something wrong with my vision.
After I had Gabe and I was pretty much dying the next day the anesthesiologist came to see how I was doing...she said that my right eye was droopy and I told her that I couldn't see very well either and she said that the spinal must have went up into my eyes. She said that she would check on me again, but I don't remember her doing that. I wonder if I should call my eye doctor or what? I can't wait till I feel good and my body is back to 100% if that is possible.
Saturday we all (well not all of us, Janell and Nathan were working) decided to go to Tebo's for lunch. We go there practically every Mother's Day and mom didn't want to go ON Mother's Day this year because they are crazy busy and we have Jaden and Gabe now. It ended up actually being just as busy...guess everyone else had the same idea as we did.
We sent dad and Bryan to Costco to pick up a few things. We were almost out of TP. Mom and I took Julie and Jaden home and took Gabe back to her house to meet dad and Bryan there. Bryan and dad hung out with Gabe and mom and I ran to Target quickly. I didn't end up getting anything...in fact I didn't even remember WHY I wanted to go there. I need SLEEP!
Bryan and I went home and I ended up sleeping HORRIBLE that night. Not because of Gabe, but because my shoulder hurt so bad. It was affecting my neck and arm too. I couldn't sleep at all...finally at 4am I took some IB Profen and took a bath to try and relax the muscle. That worked for a while, but the pain inevitably came back.
Bryan and I took Gabe to church for the first time and it was fun for our first time to be on Mother's Day. He did really well and it definitely was good to be back. After church we went over to my sister Julie's and sister Janell made us lunch and we hung out there for the afternoon. I felt sick all day, but it was fun hanging out with my family. This is really wearing me down. This is our last little get together at their apartment because they are moving into my parents in the next week or two.
I am loving this weather! Bryan and I got out yesterday and went for a walk. I was going to take Calie and Gabe myself tonight since Bryan is at YG, but he took the stroller with him in the car. oops! I love the sunshine and I am in serious need of some color too. I am pasty!
Pictures from the weekend.
This week is really busy for us. Good thing everything isn't packed into one or two days because I don't want to push Gabe and do too much.
Bryan has YG tonight.
Tomorrow
Me - Coffee with some girl's in our Sunday School class
Bryan - interview 2pm
Bryan - class 6pm
Friday
Gabe - weight appt 10am
Sunday School class dinner
Saturday
Travis's Surprise b-day party
Sunday
Church
Monday
Bryan - appt 12:30pm
Me - my shower 6:30pm
Bryan - Class 6pm
Tuesday
Kevin's surprise B-day party
After I had Gabe and I was pretty much dying the next day the anesthesiologist came to see how I was doing...she said that my right eye was droopy and I told her that I couldn't see very well either and she said that the spinal must have went up into my eyes. She said that she would check on me again, but I don't remember her doing that. I wonder if I should call my eye doctor or what? I can't wait till I feel good and my body is back to 100% if that is possible.
Saturday we all (well not all of us, Janell and Nathan were working) decided to go to Tebo's for lunch. We go there practically every Mother's Day and mom didn't want to go ON Mother's Day this year because they are crazy busy and we have Jaden and Gabe now. It ended up actually being just as busy...guess everyone else had the same idea as we did.
We sent dad and Bryan to Costco to pick up a few things. We were almost out of TP. Mom and I took Julie and Jaden home and took Gabe back to her house to meet dad and Bryan there. Bryan and dad hung out with Gabe and mom and I ran to Target quickly. I didn't end up getting anything...in fact I didn't even remember WHY I wanted to go there. I need SLEEP!
Bryan and I went home and I ended up sleeping HORRIBLE that night. Not because of Gabe, but because my shoulder hurt so bad. It was affecting my neck and arm too. I couldn't sleep at all...finally at 4am I took some IB Profen and took a bath to try and relax the muscle. That worked for a while, but the pain inevitably came back.
Bryan and I took Gabe to church for the first time and it was fun for our first time to be on Mother's Day. He did really well and it definitely was good to be back. After church we went over to my sister Julie's and sister Janell made us lunch and we hung out there for the afternoon. I felt sick all day, but it was fun hanging out with my family. This is really wearing me down. This is our last little get together at their apartment because they are moving into my parents in the next week or two.
I am loving this weather! Bryan and I got out yesterday and went for a walk. I was going to take Calie and Gabe myself tonight since Bryan is at YG, but he took the stroller with him in the car. oops! I love the sunshine and I am in serious need of some color too. I am pasty!
Pictures from the weekend.
This week is really busy for us. Good thing everything isn't packed into one or two days because I don't want to push Gabe and do too much.
Bryan has YG tonight.
Tomorrow
Me - Coffee with some girl's in our Sunday School class
Bryan - interview 2pm
Bryan - class 6pm
Friday
Gabe - weight appt 10am
Sunday School class dinner
Saturday
Travis's Surprise b-day party
Sunday
Church
Monday
Bryan - appt 12:30pm
Me - my shower 6:30pm
Bryan - Class 6pm
Tuesday
Kevin's surprise B-day party
Saturday, May 12, 2007
Uneventful
Life is pretty uneventful in our household, but fun too, getting to know Gabe and stuff. He's been having more awake time lately and sometimes it's in the middle of the night. He doesn't like to be in the moses basket when he's awake too. He wants to be held. He is SO stinkin cute too looking all around with big eye's. Bryan and I are enjoying every moment of this!
It's nice having Bryan home to help out and just have around, but it's getting down to crunch time, Unemployment keeps denying him and he didn't get the job at Nike that he interviewed for last week. He is very bummed because he was SO sure that he nailed the interview and was going to get the job. I felt so bad for him when he got the news. They said that there is another Graphic Design job opening up so hopefully he'll get an interview for that. What does God have in store for us next?
We don't really understand why he keeps getting denied Unemployment. It has something to do with school and his Youth Pastor job. He has a hearing or something I don't know I don't really understand it and it's freaking annoying. It didn't seem this hard when I was applying for Unemployment and Bryan deserves it. SIGH
Wednesday Bryan left to go meet Randy before Youth Group and they got dinner together. I was waiting for dinner from one of the couples from our Sunday School class, but never got a call and they were a no show. Gabe was pretty fussy that night. I couldn't put him down so I never got dinner that night. I tried to make myself a sandwich, but it didn't happen. It was just one of those nights. They finally called me about 8:45, but I knew they weren't coming by then. I kind of wish that they would have called me earlier to let me know they weren't coming, but oh well. We rescheduled for next Wednesday.
Yesterday I had my 6 week check up. NO MORE ST. V's! I'm kind of sad. Weird I know, but they have been my life pretty much since March. They took me off one medication and put me on a higher dose of one of the other ones I'm taking so I'm on 2 medications still. They are really pushing for me to go on Birth Control. She said that she doesn't want me to get pregnant for at least a year for sure because of what my body went through plus having a c-section. I told her that I wasn't planning on going on BC that I hadn't been on any for 3 years prior to getting pregnant and that I was doing the TCOYF method. That didn't satisfy her. She said accidents happen and we really really encourage you to go on a BC. So I don't know what I'm going to do yet? I have to follow up with my regular OB about that. They want me also to see a Family Practice dr that they recommend that has dealt with high risk patients that have hyper tension, so she is going to call me with some names that are close to where we live. I know the dr I have been seeing hasn't dealt that much with high risk patients.
Bryan and I dropped Gabe off at my mom's before going to my appointment and she told us to go on a lunch date afterwards. It wasn't quite lunch time yet so we just headed back to my moms and actually went up to her guest room and took a date nap instead. haha
Last night Moo came over and brought us pizza. She and Keira stayed for a while and chatted.
Today we have some errands to do.
Bryan - Get Calie's food
Bryan and Dad - Costco run (mom and I might go instead?)
Jenny - Target
Jenny - Craft Warehouse
It's nice having Bryan home to help out and just have around, but it's getting down to crunch time, Unemployment keeps denying him and he didn't get the job at Nike that he interviewed for last week. He is very bummed because he was SO sure that he nailed the interview and was going to get the job. I felt so bad for him when he got the news. They said that there is another Graphic Design job opening up so hopefully he'll get an interview for that. What does God have in store for us next?
We don't really understand why he keeps getting denied Unemployment. It has something to do with school and his Youth Pastor job. He has a hearing or something I don't know I don't really understand it and it's freaking annoying. It didn't seem this hard when I was applying for Unemployment and Bryan deserves it. SIGH
Wednesday Bryan left to go meet Randy before Youth Group and they got dinner together. I was waiting for dinner from one of the couples from our Sunday School class, but never got a call and they were a no show. Gabe was pretty fussy that night. I couldn't put him down so I never got dinner that night. I tried to make myself a sandwich, but it didn't happen. It was just one of those nights. They finally called me about 8:45, but I knew they weren't coming by then. I kind of wish that they would have called me earlier to let me know they weren't coming, but oh well. We rescheduled for next Wednesday.
Yesterday I had my 6 week check up. NO MORE ST. V's! I'm kind of sad. Weird I know, but they have been my life pretty much since March. They took me off one medication and put me on a higher dose of one of the other ones I'm taking so I'm on 2 medications still. They are really pushing for me to go on Birth Control. She said that she doesn't want me to get pregnant for at least a year for sure because of what my body went through plus having a c-section. I told her that I wasn't planning on going on BC that I hadn't been on any for 3 years prior to getting pregnant and that I was doing the TCOYF method. That didn't satisfy her. She said accidents happen and we really really encourage you to go on a BC. So I don't know what I'm going to do yet? I have to follow up with my regular OB about that. They want me also to see a Family Practice dr that they recommend that has dealt with high risk patients that have hyper tension, so she is going to call me with some names that are close to where we live. I know the dr I have been seeing hasn't dealt that much with high risk patients.
Bryan and I dropped Gabe off at my mom's before going to my appointment and she told us to go on a lunch date afterwards. It wasn't quite lunch time yet so we just headed back to my moms and actually went up to her guest room and took a date nap instead. haha
Last night Moo came over and brought us pizza. She and Keira stayed for a while and chatted.
Today we have some errands to do.
Bryan - Get Calie's food
Bryan and Dad - Costco run (mom and I might go instead?)
Jenny - Target
Jenny - Craft Warehouse
Gabe's Arrival ~ 7 weeks early
I went to NW Perinatal for my weekly check up on my blood pressure and Gabe. They first took me back to have the ultrasound done. Gabe did well. He got a 6 out of 8 on his tests. He still wasn’t breathing consistently for 30 seconds so that is why he didn’t get an 8 out of 8. He does pass with a 6 though so they sent me back out to the waiting room to wait for the next test. I didn’t have to wait long before they called me back and hooked me up to the monitors to see if I was contracting and to monitor Gabe’s heart rate. He had just been moving around before we got to the office, but he had quieted down and his heart rate wasn’t as steady so they zapped him a couple times to get him awake and moving. The zapping thing doesn’t hurt the baby it just annoys them and tickles them a little. He still wouldn’t really move around and get his heart rate up a little like they wanted, so I had to go back in for another ultrasound and go through those tests again. They also got the approximate weight because they didn’t get that in the first ultrasound. They were a little concerned about Gabe. They took me to a different room to weight for the doctor (at this point I had been to like 5 rooms). The nurse took my blood pressure and it was HIGH (I don’t remember what the exact numbers were because I have had my blood pressure read about a million times since then). The doctor came in and took it again and told us that with their concern with Gabe’s tests and how high my blood pressure was that they were admitting me.
Just when you think you know how something is going to go…how it’ll be laid out…that you’ll be organized and have everything ready…God swoops in and says you’re not in control of this…I am! I was just saying to my mom, “I need to pack my bag!” I haven’t had a shower yet so I don’t have a lot of the essentials that I need. I am such a control freak it’s so hard to not to have control of every situation and have it go the way that you want it to go.
So, we were admitted on April 3rd, I put on a gown and they hooked me up to the monitors and a blood pressure cuff that went off every 15 min. They had me fill out menus and told me that I’d definitely be there for the long haul. My sister’s birthday was the next day and she old me that I wasn’t aloud to have my baby on her birthday. I screwed up her family b-day party…we were supposed to have it that night on the 3rd. They all came to see me and were up really late. They didn’t even have the party until 10:30 or something. I don’t think that she was mad at me though.
So, I ended up everyday just laying there getting poked and prodded. I was getting bored with nothing to do but watch TV and read. On the evening of the 5th my nurse told me that I was probably going to be in there for another 2 weeks because they really wanted to try and get me to 35 weeks. They had already given me steroids shots to help with Gabe’s lungs so they could take him at any time. I think that hearing that I would be just sitting in there for another 2 weeks and then hearing my puppy on the phone when I was talking to my sister, who took very good care of my puppy while we were gone. I just started crying. My hormones were all wacky and I think I was feeling pretty vulnerable. I did want what was best for me health wise, but mostly what was best for Gabe.
I went to sleep that night thinking I was now going to have to live at the hospital, but got woken up at one by the doctor. He turned on the lights and told me that after all the evaluating of my blood pressures and how Gabe was doing they wanted to get him out by noon. The doctor wanted to check if I was dilated at all and I was 1 cm so they put in something to soften my cervix (forgive me, I don’t remember what it was called. He came in at 1 in the morning…I was half asleep when he was telling me all this). After they put that in they all said OK get some good rest for tomorrow. UM yeah right…sleep now after you just told me that I will be having my baby in 11 hours. RIGHT
I did manage to fall asleep…I had to listen to my ipod though. The next morning the doctor came in and took that thing out and said that I was still only 1-2 cm dilated so he said that we could induce labor, but that would probably take another 12 hours and with your blood pressure and for the health of the baby we are going to suggest that we do a c-section. I was pretty out of it so I just nodded and said OK. The minute I said OK things got moving and they got moving FAST. They don’t mess around there that is for sure. As they were prepping me in the room, Bryan was getting scrubs on and my mom had to run around the room gathering all of our things to move to another room. I ended up losing my favorite pair of shoes that Bryan got me for my birthday…oh well gives me an excuse to go shopping! They are pretty strict at St. Vincent’s. Bryan had to wait outside the OR till they were done prepping me. They had a really hard time getting the spinal in me because I have mild scoliosis so it took a while and all I remember is shaking until they finally got me numb and laying down on the table. Bryan came in and held my hand and he stood up to watch. He couldn’t take any pictures or videotape the birth either, which I was a little bummed about. They didn’t want any interruptions while they worked. Surprisingly, Bryan did ok with watching it and he said it was so amazing to see the birth. Gabe came out crying and it was SO amazing to hear his little cry and briefly see him before they took him to the NICU.
He was born April 6th, at 1:59pm. He was 4lbs and 17 1/4 long. He was breathing on his own and didn’t have any complications.
Bryan left with him and I went to recovery. I was in recovery FOREVER. They of course couldn’t get my blood pressure down. I felt like CRAP. I was so tired and they had me on Magnesium Sulfate so that I wouldn’t have any seizures and that makes you feel like you’re going to die. I didn’t really know what was going on around me. When they wheeled my bed in to see Gabe…I got to hold him, but I don’t remember much about it or about the next 24-36 hours. Magnesium Sulfate is the devil! I think they took me off of it sometime on Saturday, but I didn’t feel myself until the next afternoon. The first time I went to see Gabe after off Magnesium and feeling a little better…I was still falling asleep and still didn’t feel 100% better, but it was worth it to see him. He is just so precious.
I got to go home Thursday the 12th after having about 12 hours of good blood pressures. I think my body is having a hard time adjusting to being pregnant and now not being pregnant. It was so good to go home, but SO hard to leave my little guy there at the NICU. We live about 45 minutes away from him so that is the hardest part, but worth every minute...
Just when you think you know how something is going to go…how it’ll be laid out…that you’ll be organized and have everything ready…God swoops in and says you’re not in control of this…I am! I was just saying to my mom, “I need to pack my bag!” I haven’t had a shower yet so I don’t have a lot of the essentials that I need. I am such a control freak it’s so hard to not to have control of every situation and have it go the way that you want it to go.
So, we were admitted on April 3rd, I put on a gown and they hooked me up to the monitors and a blood pressure cuff that went off every 15 min. They had me fill out menus and told me that I’d definitely be there for the long haul. My sister’s birthday was the next day and she old me that I wasn’t aloud to have my baby on her birthday. I screwed up her family b-day party…we were supposed to have it that night on the 3rd. They all came to see me and were up really late. They didn’t even have the party until 10:30 or something. I don’t think that she was mad at me though.
So, I ended up everyday just laying there getting poked and prodded. I was getting bored with nothing to do but watch TV and read. On the evening of the 5th my nurse told me that I was probably going to be in there for another 2 weeks because they really wanted to try and get me to 35 weeks. They had already given me steroids shots to help with Gabe’s lungs so they could take him at any time. I think that hearing that I would be just sitting in there for another 2 weeks and then hearing my puppy on the phone when I was talking to my sister, who took very good care of my puppy while we were gone. I just started crying. My hormones were all wacky and I think I was feeling pretty vulnerable. I did want what was best for me health wise, but mostly what was best for Gabe.
I went to sleep that night thinking I was now going to have to live at the hospital, but got woken up at one by the doctor. He turned on the lights and told me that after all the evaluating of my blood pressures and how Gabe was doing they wanted to get him out by noon. The doctor wanted to check if I was dilated at all and I was 1 cm so they put in something to soften my cervix (forgive me, I don’t remember what it was called. He came in at 1 in the morning…I was half asleep when he was telling me all this). After they put that in they all said OK get some good rest for tomorrow. UM yeah right…sleep now after you just told me that I will be having my baby in 11 hours. RIGHT
I did manage to fall asleep…I had to listen to my ipod though. The next morning the doctor came in and took that thing out and said that I was still only 1-2 cm dilated so he said that we could induce labor, but that would probably take another 12 hours and with your blood pressure and for the health of the baby we are going to suggest that we do a c-section. I was pretty out of it so I just nodded and said OK. The minute I said OK things got moving and they got moving FAST. They don’t mess around there that is for sure. As they were prepping me in the room, Bryan was getting scrubs on and my mom had to run around the room gathering all of our things to move to another room. I ended up losing my favorite pair of shoes that Bryan got me for my birthday…oh well gives me an excuse to go shopping! They are pretty strict at St. Vincent’s. Bryan had to wait outside the OR till they were done prepping me. They had a really hard time getting the spinal in me because I have mild scoliosis so it took a while and all I remember is shaking until they finally got me numb and laying down on the table. Bryan came in and held my hand and he stood up to watch. He couldn’t take any pictures or videotape the birth either, which I was a little bummed about. They didn’t want any interruptions while they worked. Surprisingly, Bryan did ok with watching it and he said it was so amazing to see the birth. Gabe came out crying and it was SO amazing to hear his little cry and briefly see him before they took him to the NICU.
He was born April 6th, at 1:59pm. He was 4lbs and 17 1/4 long. He was breathing on his own and didn’t have any complications.
Bryan left with him and I went to recovery. I was in recovery FOREVER. They of course couldn’t get my blood pressure down. I felt like CRAP. I was so tired and they had me on Magnesium Sulfate so that I wouldn’t have any seizures and that makes you feel like you’re going to die. I didn’t really know what was going on around me. When they wheeled my bed in to see Gabe…I got to hold him, but I don’t remember much about it or about the next 24-36 hours. Magnesium Sulfate is the devil! I think they took me off of it sometime on Saturday, but I didn’t feel myself until the next afternoon. The first time I went to see Gabe after off Magnesium and feeling a little better…I was still falling asleep and still didn’t feel 100% better, but it was worth it to see him. He is just so precious.
I got to go home Thursday the 12th after having about 12 hours of good blood pressures. I think my body is having a hard time adjusting to being pregnant and now not being pregnant. It was so good to go home, but SO hard to leave my little guy there at the NICU. We live about 45 minutes away from him so that is the hardest part, but worth every minute...
Sunday, April 01, 2007
Storm
"If there ever were a test of our faith - if there ever were a test of the motives of our worship - it is when a storm rolls into our lives. Sometimes God calms our storms. Sometimes He chooses to ride them with us." quote by Casting Crowns
Praise you in this Storm
I was sure by now
God You would have reached down
And wiped our tears away
And stepped in and saved the day
Once again, I say Amen, and it is still raining
As the thunder rolls
I barely hear you whisper through the rain
I'm with you
As your mercy falls
I raise my hands and praise the God who gives
And takes away
I'll Praise you in this storm
And I will lift my hands
You are who you are
No matter where I am
And every tear I've cried
You hold in your hand
You never left my side
And though my heart is torn
I will Praise You in this storm
I remember when
I stumbled in the wind
You heard my cry
You raised me up again
My strength is almost gone
How can I carry on
If I can't find you
I lift my eyes into the hills
Where does my help come from
My help comes from the Lord
The maker of heaven and earth
So life has definitely gone caddywompus on us in the last month or so. Bryan and I have been listening to Casting Crowns a lot and we feel like the song above totally says where we're at right now. A ways back we found out that Bryan wouldn't have a job at Nike starting May 31st. They ended up moving the date up to April 2nd, so Monday will be his last day at Nike after working there for 6.5 years. I am seriously bummed about this. I don't know why, but I thought that he would be there till he retired. Shows that God may have a different plan than mine huh?! Nothings to stay that he won't get another job at Nike. He was just talking to our neighbor today about a friend of his that was let go and then called back a month later asking him to come back. So who knows? Bryan could get back into Nike OR he may not?? This has all been sort of surreal and I feel like I need to grieve this part of our lives some how, but it just hasn't come. Normally I would be FREAKING OUT and worrying, but I have this peace and it can only come from God.
In the midst of Bryan losing his job I have entered my third trimester and things have sort of shifted for me. The first and second have been sort of a breeze and my BP has been under control and my pregnancy has been pretty smooth considering what my sister went through with hers. The meds that I've been on aren't cutting it anymore and my BP has been high. I've been living at the hospital lately and seeing my dr and a specialist twice a week. Thankfully the little guy is doing great and he's exactly where he should be right now. When I spent a little over 24 hours in the hospital to get my BP under control about a week ago the had me change one prescription to 3 times a day instead of 2 and they put me on strict bed rest. SO now not only does Bryan not have a job as of Monday, after my PTO goes through I will no longer be getting pay checks from my work until after I come back from maternity leave. I have talked to HR and proposed to them that I stay on the bed rest until the little guy is born and then I will take 3 months off. So I will be off work for about 5 months which is almost half a year. eeks!
A friend in her blog said that "God answers prayers. I love when I'm reminded of this in a very tangible way." This is SO true!!! When I went to our Women's Retreat in Feb the speaker gave us paper to write one thing down on it that we would like to nail to the cross. I wrote Worry/Fear/Anxiety...since nailing it to the cross I have totally felt like God has answered my prayer to take that away. I still struggle some days, but like I said before I just have this peace that God is in control and that he's going to provide. He gives and he takes away. He is who He is no matter where I am.
Just the other day my mom gave Bryan and I an envelope with our names on it. They spelled Bryan's name wrong and it was typed on the envelope not written. We opened it and there was a card in it with the verse
"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."
The verse was typed in the card as well. It had an official check in it for $250. I was so overwhelmed that it moved me to tears. Things like this have never happened to me before. It is just another reminder that God is going to provide.
Bryan also went to get his haircut this past Thursday and Marcello our stylist gave him two gift certificates. One for Bryan for a free haircut and one for me for a free haircut AND COLOR. She said that it was baby shower gifts for us.
I can't even express what these mean to me. It's just so overwhelming and amazing to see God work!
So you can call me Mrs. Couch Potato because for the past week and a half and for the next 2 months I am on bed rest until our little guy comes out to meet us! :o)
Praise you in this Storm
I was sure by now
God You would have reached down
And wiped our tears away
And stepped in and saved the day
Once again, I say Amen, and it is still raining
As the thunder rolls
I barely hear you whisper through the rain
I'm with you
As your mercy falls
I raise my hands and praise the God who gives
And takes away
I'll Praise you in this storm
And I will lift my hands
You are who you are
No matter where I am
And every tear I've cried
You hold in your hand
You never left my side
And though my heart is torn
I will Praise You in this storm
I remember when
I stumbled in the wind
You heard my cry
You raised me up again
My strength is almost gone
How can I carry on
If I can't find you
I lift my eyes into the hills
Where does my help come from
My help comes from the Lord
The maker of heaven and earth
So life has definitely gone caddywompus on us in the last month or so. Bryan and I have been listening to Casting Crowns a lot and we feel like the song above totally says where we're at right now. A ways back we found out that Bryan wouldn't have a job at Nike starting May 31st. They ended up moving the date up to April 2nd, so Monday will be his last day at Nike after working there for 6.5 years. I am seriously bummed about this. I don't know why, but I thought that he would be there till he retired. Shows that God may have a different plan than mine huh?! Nothings to stay that he won't get another job at Nike. He was just talking to our neighbor today about a friend of his that was let go and then called back a month later asking him to come back. So who knows? Bryan could get back into Nike OR he may not?? This has all been sort of surreal and I feel like I need to grieve this part of our lives some how, but it just hasn't come. Normally I would be FREAKING OUT and worrying, but I have this peace and it can only come from God.
In the midst of Bryan losing his job I have entered my third trimester and things have sort of shifted for me. The first and second have been sort of a breeze and my BP has been under control and my pregnancy has been pretty smooth considering what my sister went through with hers. The meds that I've been on aren't cutting it anymore and my BP has been high. I've been living at the hospital lately and seeing my dr and a specialist twice a week. Thankfully the little guy is doing great and he's exactly where he should be right now. When I spent a little over 24 hours in the hospital to get my BP under control about a week ago the had me change one prescription to 3 times a day instead of 2 and they put me on strict bed rest. SO now not only does Bryan not have a job as of Monday, after my PTO goes through I will no longer be getting pay checks from my work until after I come back from maternity leave. I have talked to HR and proposed to them that I stay on the bed rest until the little guy is born and then I will take 3 months off. So I will be off work for about 5 months which is almost half a year. eeks!
A friend in her blog said that "God answers prayers. I love when I'm reminded of this in a very tangible way." This is SO true!!! When I went to our Women's Retreat in Feb the speaker gave us paper to write one thing down on it that we would like to nail to the cross. I wrote Worry/Fear/Anxiety...since nailing it to the cross I have totally felt like God has answered my prayer to take that away. I still struggle some days, but like I said before I just have this peace that God is in control and that he's going to provide. He gives and he takes away. He is who He is no matter where I am.
Just the other day my mom gave Bryan and I an envelope with our names on it. They spelled Bryan's name wrong and it was typed on the envelope not written. We opened it and there was a card in it with the verse
"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."
The verse was typed in the card as well. It had an official check in it for $250. I was so overwhelmed that it moved me to tears. Things like this have never happened to me before. It is just another reminder that God is going to provide.
Bryan also went to get his haircut this past Thursday and Marcello our stylist gave him two gift certificates. One for Bryan for a free haircut and one for me for a free haircut AND COLOR. She said that it was baby shower gifts for us.
I can't even express what these mean to me. It's just so overwhelming and amazing to see God work!
So you can call me Mrs. Couch Potato because for the past week and a half and for the next 2 months I am on bed rest until our little guy comes out to meet us! :o)
Sunday, February 04, 2007
What a week
This past week has been busy so far! Sunday was a pretty good day! It was my mom’s birthday…HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!
I woke up with a horrible pain in my left side. I could barely roll out of bed and I went to go to the bathroom and doubled over the pain was so bad. I just figured that the little guy was over on that side maybe pushing or something? But the pain wouldn’t go away and I couldn’t see him doing it that long. Bryan and I left a tad early to stop at Safeway. I got a coffee and a muffin and I wanted to pick up some flowers for my mom. We found a VERY pretty purple bouquet. I knew that she would love it because it would match her living room and dinning room. They also smelled really good! I made it through the store and back into the car. The pain seemed to subside when I was sitting down. We got to church around 9 and my parents were already there. I was glad I wanted to give mom the flowers because I knew that she was leaving after first service. Well, I got out of the car and could barely walk to the church. The only way that I felt ok was doubled over or sitting in a chair. Bryan went to his JR High room to get it heated up. It was cold that morning and his little room/garage thing doesn’t warm up very well, plus the windows are all broken so the heat just gets sucked out. The church has used that room since before I was in Jr High. It was originally a garage that they made it into a room and it needs some MAJOR fixing up! One of the Jr Highers sent in for a room makeover to one of those shows on HGTV. They never heard anything back on that though. Bryan has put in a couple requests to the accountant at the church for some things to get fixed. They are all miserable out there in that room.
Anyway, I somehow made my way to the office and it was full of people. Church was busy that morning. I was getting a little worried about the pain though and Bryan asked if we should go in, but I wasn’t sure? I gave my mom the flowers and she liked them a lot. She was helping out someone type something up on her computer and other people were filing in asking her to do other stuff. I told her about my pain and she said that she would take me in. I of course was hesitant just because I hate going into the ER and finding out that NOTHING is wrong and then you have a wonderful bill for it. Everyone that came into the office said that I should be better safe then sorry and go in and make sure that everything was ok. The little guy was moving a lot that morning. We decided that I would go in. Bryan came into the church to find out if we were going and I said yeah mom is going to take me since you have JR High. He probably could have gotten out of doing Jr High that morning to take me, but mom was available to take me so it was all good. We told Bryan to make sure that he grabbed my dad before leaving church otherwise he would have been stranded there and we left. I went into the ER and told them my issue and I guess that PG women over 18 weeks get sent up to the maternity ward just in case. So they wheeled me up there and mom was still trying to park. I told the people to tell her where they took me and then again at the front desk up in the maternity ward. They put me in a small room and I went into the bathroom to pee in a cup for them. When I came out mom was in the room and sitting in the chair. The nurse was very nice. Asked me a bunch of questions and listened to the baby’s heartbeat and then hooked me up to make sure that I wasn’t having contractions. Which, THANK GOD I wasn’t. They took my blood pressure and it was high. I ended up staying there longer because of that. I had to wait quietly in 15 minute increments and then they would take my BP again. So the pain ended up being the round ligaments stretching. She told me that they are really small when you’re not pregnant and then as your uterus gets bigger they stretch and get longer and sometimes pain comes with that. I must just be one of those women who get the pain really bad? They called my doctor and he wasn’t that concerned about my BP so they sent me home. It was a little after 11 and I probably could have gone back to church but I kind of just wanted to take it easy so I went back to my mom’s house with her. Julie and Janell were there with Jaden. Julie had to get ready so I got to hold Jaden. I love to kiss his little head. I could just eat him up.
Teresa called me around 12 I think and said that Nate would call me to tell me when to head over to their house. We hung up and she ended up calling me back and saying that there might be a change of plans that K got up early that morning and was acting like she was ready for a nap sooner. So T got her down and I headed over to watch K so that T and Nate could go over to Dianne’s for lunch and going through her dads stuff. When I got there they left and K was down for her nap. I laid down in their VERY comfy leather recliner and fell asleep myself. K woke up around 2:10 I think getting almost 2 hours of sleep. She was crying and she kept saying that her monkey was on the floor. I waited a couple of minutes just to make sure that she was in fact awake and went upstairs to get her. I picked her up got her blanket, but left her monkey on the floor so we had to go back and get him. We went downstairs and I held her for a little bit and told her that mommy and daddy had to go somewhere but that they would be back. I asked her if she wanted lunch and she said yes. In fact it was a very intense yes. I gave her the cheese and yogurt and she kept dipping her cheese into the yogurt. I noticed her doing that as I was heating up her noodles. SO cute! She ate all of her cheese and started to feed herself the yogurt, but Aunt Jenny helped her out a little bit. She ate very well…all of her cheese, yogurt and noodles and she had 3-4 big bites of applesauce too. At one point I was helping her eat her yogurt and applesauce and I had said something about the spoon and she told me that I could borrow her poon but that I couldn’t take her poon home. After lunch we got cleaned up and we put in a movie. She wanted the duck movie. So I put that one in for her. I think it was a variety of Looney Tunes episodes and she ended up telling me that she didn’t want to watch them anymore because they were scary. She had her hands over her ears. So we ended up putting in the Elmo movie…I can’t remember what it was called though? During the movie she got out all of her books and proceeded to read them all to me. She was doing SO well. I asked her if I could see one of the books that she was reading and she was basically reading the story to me. I was shocked. At one point she asked me if I liked Elephants and I told her they weren’t my favorite but that the baby elephant in the book was pretty cute. She then told me that she would get me one on Tuesday.
OH I forgot at lunch when we were sitting at the table and she was eating she was trying to tell me something and I couldn’t understand her and finally she just looked at me like I was stupid and said “HONEEEEEY” then said what it was she said again. I didn’t catch what she said again because I was laughing so hard. She was VERY frustrated that I didn’t understand her the first time. We had such a good time! I love hanging out with her! Teresa called me I think around 5 and said that they were pretty much finished going through the stuff and that Nate or her would come get Kam to go back over there because they were just hanging out and going to have dessert.
I had driven my parents van over to Nate and Teresa’s because I had to leave before Bryan and my dad got home. They came over later to switch vehicles and my dad took Bryan home. I ended up going back over to my parent’s house to spend time with my mom. As it turned out her, Julie and Janell went shopping and so I went up to my bed and took another nap until she got home. Well they didn’t end up getting home till around 7:30 and I was wanting to get home to get things ready for the work week so I didn’t really end up getting to spend a ton of time with her. Guess it was good that she went to the dr’s with me because we got to talk there. When I got home Bryan had just finished the baby’s closet and was cleaning everything up.
Here is a picture of the closet. I don’t have a before picture, which I wish I did because it looks 10 times better. Bryan did a good job.
Monday was an OK day! Work was busy of course but I think that I am finally catching up. I don’t know if that is a good thing or a bad thing. I don’t want the days to go slow and for me to just sit there twirling my thumbs waiting for something to do is torture. Bryan picked me up and we stopped at Safeway to get prescriptions before going home. What’s new though…I feel like I live at Safeway and that I am ALWAYS picking up prescriptions. We pick up two and then tomorrow we have two more to renew! I feel like an old person that needs one of those M-F pill reminder things.
When we got home we had left over pizza for dinner and I had some work that I needed to get finished to make up the last couple hours of time off I took on the snow day. Bryan was really tired so he ended up going to bed around 9:15 and I joined him around 10.
I feel like my body is falling apart. My right eye feels bruised, like someone punched me in the eye. I don’t know what I did? And the last few days when I eat/chew my jaw is clicking VERY badly on the left side. It feels like it’s ripping the inside of my ear apart and that I should have blood gushing out of my ear. I don’t know what the heck is up with that or if I should talk to my dentist or my doctor about it. It FREAKING hurts though!!!!! I have to chew very slowly and it’s annoying.
Tuesday was Bryan’s Birthday! HAPPY BIRTHDAY BUG! When we were getting ready for work Calie and I went into the closet. Bryan asked “what are you doing?” and I told him that we were having a meeting and he said “OOOOOOH KAAAAAAY!” and started brushing his teeth. I took my card to him and gave it to Calie, opened the door and told her to take the card to daddy. She wiggled her way over to him and gave him the card. It was SO stinkin cute and Bryan LOVED it!
I got off at 4 and rode the train to 172nd where my mom picked me up.
(Another bonus if there is one to riding public transportation. Our company went from us having to buy our ticket, submit our receipt and wait to get reimbursed TO the company paying for monthly tickets and passing them out to us (no more reimbursement plan) TO Annual passes. I am SO excited! I don’t have to worry if I have a ticket when I’m riding etc. I can just get on and I have my badge.) We went to pick up Julie and Jaden at the apartment and we went to Francis Xavier’s for dinner. We call it FX! Nathan was at my parents house washing his car so him and my dad met us there. Julie took Jaden to his appointment on Monday and they said that she could take him to a low key restaurant. She asked if they could go with it being my mom’s b-day dinner. SO Jaden went on his first little outing and did really well I might add. I’m still having issues with my jaw so I was the last one to be done with dinner (you think I was a slow eater before). After dinner Nathan and my dad took me home. I fed and let Calie out, changed my clothes, got the cake Bryan picked up for my mom at Beaverton Bakery out of the fridge and Calie and I went over to my parents. Calie had been in her crate WAY too long…UGH...I hate that! We had a little party for my mom and then when Bryan got out of class he came over and we had a little party for him. I think next year we’re going to split it up? I am totally wiped out from staying up WAY too late last night. I mean Bryan didn’t even get to my parents house until 10. I am already ready for this week to be over so that I can rest this weekend, take naps etc.
MY LITTLE SISTER GOT ASKED OUT ON A DATE!
My mom and I went to Target a while back and we were getting film developed where Janell was working that day and we were talking to her and all of the sudden this guy Jacob that works with her yelled “HI JANELL!” He asked her something else too but I can’t remember, but I told my mom that he liked her. You could tell on his face. Well it took him awhile but he asked her to coffee last week, but I guess never did anything about it so Janell was sort of bummed, but then he went through her line to buy something on a day that he wasn’t working and asked her to a movie and for her phone number. He wanted to take her out last night but she told him that we were having a b-day party for my mom and Bryan so she couldn’t. He called her last night when he got off work and left her a message. We all gave her flack! She was so embarrassed. Hehe I can’t wait to see how this goes.
Some updates on Bryan’s job.
Bryan asked Eric (his boss) on Monday about applying for other positions and he said to go ahead. It is better to have the option versus not. There are some other production artists jobs open at Nike…even though Bryan would love to stay where he is and work under Eric. They work really well together. He said they have some good news from the Trek side of things. They will definitely pay our salaries through June 1st which gives them some breathing room on trying to figure out if Nike cycling will be supported or not. AND yesterday they actually extended that to December 31st 2007 so that is good!
We got some even BETTER news about Bryan’s job!!!!!
He got this email on Wednesday…
Finally, the moment we've all been waiting for…
FANTASTIC NEWS!!! I just got off the phone with Charlie and he, Mark, and Trevor support our desire to go after the cycling business with a more concerted, focused effort than Nike has done in the past. They've agreed to move forward with the business model option we recommended to them, which involves owning our own design, development, and marketing resources to execute the business. This means that we have the opportunity for the first time to build a dedicated team to make Nike Cycling a success. I think this is the best way to truly leverage the talent we have and the opportunity that lays before us.
This means we have a lot to accomplish and we need to begin laying out strategies for how we will execute. I will set up a meeting for next week to get things kick started. I appreciate your patience during this decision making process and look forward to building the most talented Nike Cycling team in history!
Feel free to give me a call if you have questions.
Thanks
Bryan came home and gave me some sad news on Thursday. Nike reversed their decision. SO that means Bryan has a job until June 1st.
I have felt depressed all night...on the verge of tears...just dealing with some family issues that I have no control over and when I got home I started laundry (Thursday's are laundry night) and was looking for something to eat for dinner. When I looked into the fridge it was so nasty I ended up pulling everything out and cleaning the fridge and freezer out. It was very much in need of a good deep clean. Good therepy for me when I'm feeling down is to clean and organize. The problem is still there when I'm done but it helps me feel a little better and stuff gets cleaned. ;o)
I didn't end up starting dinner until 8. I talked to Moo on the phone for a little bit while I was making dinner and running in between loads of laundry. Bryan got home from class...we both sat down to eat (I made chicken stir-fry with white rice). We prayed, I started eating, Bryan gave me the news and I broke down. Couldn't help it...
Bryan spent Thursday working on his resume. He has to start looking for a new job.:o(
I woke up with a horrible pain in my left side. I could barely roll out of bed and I went to go to the bathroom and doubled over the pain was so bad. I just figured that the little guy was over on that side maybe pushing or something? But the pain wouldn’t go away and I couldn’t see him doing it that long. Bryan and I left a tad early to stop at Safeway. I got a coffee and a muffin and I wanted to pick up some flowers for my mom. We found a VERY pretty purple bouquet. I knew that she would love it because it would match her living room and dinning room. They also smelled really good! I made it through the store and back into the car. The pain seemed to subside when I was sitting down. We got to church around 9 and my parents were already there. I was glad I wanted to give mom the flowers because I knew that she was leaving after first service. Well, I got out of the car and could barely walk to the church. The only way that I felt ok was doubled over or sitting in a chair. Bryan went to his JR High room to get it heated up. It was cold that morning and his little room/garage thing doesn’t warm up very well, plus the windows are all broken so the heat just gets sucked out. The church has used that room since before I was in Jr High. It was originally a garage that they made it into a room and it needs some MAJOR fixing up! One of the Jr Highers sent in for a room makeover to one of those shows on HGTV. They never heard anything back on that though. Bryan has put in a couple requests to the accountant at the church for some things to get fixed. They are all miserable out there in that room.
Anyway, I somehow made my way to the office and it was full of people. Church was busy that morning. I was getting a little worried about the pain though and Bryan asked if we should go in, but I wasn’t sure? I gave my mom the flowers and she liked them a lot. She was helping out someone type something up on her computer and other people were filing in asking her to do other stuff. I told her about my pain and she said that she would take me in. I of course was hesitant just because I hate going into the ER and finding out that NOTHING is wrong and then you have a wonderful bill for it. Everyone that came into the office said that I should be better safe then sorry and go in and make sure that everything was ok. The little guy was moving a lot that morning. We decided that I would go in. Bryan came into the church to find out if we were going and I said yeah mom is going to take me since you have JR High. He probably could have gotten out of doing Jr High that morning to take me, but mom was available to take me so it was all good. We told Bryan to make sure that he grabbed my dad before leaving church otherwise he would have been stranded there and we left. I went into the ER and told them my issue and I guess that PG women over 18 weeks get sent up to the maternity ward just in case. So they wheeled me up there and mom was still trying to park. I told the people to tell her where they took me and then again at the front desk up in the maternity ward. They put me in a small room and I went into the bathroom to pee in a cup for them. When I came out mom was in the room and sitting in the chair. The nurse was very nice. Asked me a bunch of questions and listened to the baby’s heartbeat and then hooked me up to make sure that I wasn’t having contractions. Which, THANK GOD I wasn’t. They took my blood pressure and it was high. I ended up staying there longer because of that. I had to wait quietly in 15 minute increments and then they would take my BP again. So the pain ended up being the round ligaments stretching. She told me that they are really small when you’re not pregnant and then as your uterus gets bigger they stretch and get longer and sometimes pain comes with that. I must just be one of those women who get the pain really bad? They called my doctor and he wasn’t that concerned about my BP so they sent me home. It was a little after 11 and I probably could have gone back to church but I kind of just wanted to take it easy so I went back to my mom’s house with her. Julie and Janell were there with Jaden. Julie had to get ready so I got to hold Jaden. I love to kiss his little head. I could just eat him up.
Teresa called me around 12 I think and said that Nate would call me to tell me when to head over to their house. We hung up and she ended up calling me back and saying that there might be a change of plans that K got up early that morning and was acting like she was ready for a nap sooner. So T got her down and I headed over to watch K so that T and Nate could go over to Dianne’s for lunch and going through her dads stuff. When I got there they left and K was down for her nap. I laid down in their VERY comfy leather recliner and fell asleep myself. K woke up around 2:10 I think getting almost 2 hours of sleep. She was crying and she kept saying that her monkey was on the floor. I waited a couple of minutes just to make sure that she was in fact awake and went upstairs to get her. I picked her up got her blanket, but left her monkey on the floor so we had to go back and get him. We went downstairs and I held her for a little bit and told her that mommy and daddy had to go somewhere but that they would be back. I asked her if she wanted lunch and she said yes. In fact it was a very intense yes. I gave her the cheese and yogurt and she kept dipping her cheese into the yogurt. I noticed her doing that as I was heating up her noodles. SO cute! She ate all of her cheese and started to feed herself the yogurt, but Aunt Jenny helped her out a little bit. She ate very well…all of her cheese, yogurt and noodles and she had 3-4 big bites of applesauce too. At one point I was helping her eat her yogurt and applesauce and I had said something about the spoon and she told me that I could borrow her poon but that I couldn’t take her poon home. After lunch we got cleaned up and we put in a movie. She wanted the duck movie. So I put that one in for her. I think it was a variety of Looney Tunes episodes and she ended up telling me that she didn’t want to watch them anymore because they were scary. She had her hands over her ears. So we ended up putting in the Elmo movie…I can’t remember what it was called though? During the movie she got out all of her books and proceeded to read them all to me. She was doing SO well. I asked her if I could see one of the books that she was reading and she was basically reading the story to me. I was shocked. At one point she asked me if I liked Elephants and I told her they weren’t my favorite but that the baby elephant in the book was pretty cute. She then told me that she would get me one on Tuesday.
OH I forgot at lunch when we were sitting at the table and she was eating she was trying to tell me something and I couldn’t understand her and finally she just looked at me like I was stupid and said “HONEEEEEY” then said what it was she said again. I didn’t catch what she said again because I was laughing so hard. She was VERY frustrated that I didn’t understand her the first time. We had such a good time! I love hanging out with her! Teresa called me I think around 5 and said that they were pretty much finished going through the stuff and that Nate or her would come get Kam to go back over there because they were just hanging out and going to have dessert.
I had driven my parents van over to Nate and Teresa’s because I had to leave before Bryan and my dad got home. They came over later to switch vehicles and my dad took Bryan home. I ended up going back over to my parent’s house to spend time with my mom. As it turned out her, Julie and Janell went shopping and so I went up to my bed and took another nap until she got home. Well they didn’t end up getting home till around 7:30 and I was wanting to get home to get things ready for the work week so I didn’t really end up getting to spend a ton of time with her. Guess it was good that she went to the dr’s with me because we got to talk there. When I got home Bryan had just finished the baby’s closet and was cleaning everything up.
Here is a picture of the closet. I don’t have a before picture, which I wish I did because it looks 10 times better. Bryan did a good job.
Monday was an OK day! Work was busy of course but I think that I am finally catching up. I don’t know if that is a good thing or a bad thing. I don’t want the days to go slow and for me to just sit there twirling my thumbs waiting for something to do is torture. Bryan picked me up and we stopped at Safeway to get prescriptions before going home. What’s new though…I feel like I live at Safeway and that I am ALWAYS picking up prescriptions. We pick up two and then tomorrow we have two more to renew! I feel like an old person that needs one of those M-F pill reminder things.
When we got home we had left over pizza for dinner and I had some work that I needed to get finished to make up the last couple hours of time off I took on the snow day. Bryan was really tired so he ended up going to bed around 9:15 and I joined him around 10.
I feel like my body is falling apart. My right eye feels bruised, like someone punched me in the eye. I don’t know what I did? And the last few days when I eat/chew my jaw is clicking VERY badly on the left side. It feels like it’s ripping the inside of my ear apart and that I should have blood gushing out of my ear. I don’t know what the heck is up with that or if I should talk to my dentist or my doctor about it. It FREAKING hurts though!!!!! I have to chew very slowly and it’s annoying.
Tuesday was Bryan’s Birthday! HAPPY BIRTHDAY BUG! When we were getting ready for work Calie and I went into the closet. Bryan asked “what are you doing?” and I told him that we were having a meeting and he said “OOOOOOH KAAAAAAY!” and started brushing his teeth. I took my card to him and gave it to Calie, opened the door and told her to take the card to daddy. She wiggled her way over to him and gave him the card. It was SO stinkin cute and Bryan LOVED it!
I got off at 4 and rode the train to 172nd where my mom picked me up.
(Another bonus if there is one to riding public transportation. Our company went from us having to buy our ticket, submit our receipt and wait to get reimbursed TO the company paying for monthly tickets and passing them out to us (no more reimbursement plan) TO Annual passes. I am SO excited! I don’t have to worry if I have a ticket when I’m riding etc. I can just get on and I have my badge.) We went to pick up Julie and Jaden at the apartment and we went to Francis Xavier’s for dinner. We call it FX! Nathan was at my parents house washing his car so him and my dad met us there. Julie took Jaden to his appointment on Monday and they said that she could take him to a low key restaurant. She asked if they could go with it being my mom’s b-day dinner. SO Jaden went on his first little outing and did really well I might add. I’m still having issues with my jaw so I was the last one to be done with dinner (you think I was a slow eater before). After dinner Nathan and my dad took me home. I fed and let Calie out, changed my clothes, got the cake Bryan picked up for my mom at Beaverton Bakery out of the fridge and Calie and I went over to my parents. Calie had been in her crate WAY too long…UGH...I hate that! We had a little party for my mom and then when Bryan got out of class he came over and we had a little party for him. I think next year we’re going to split it up? I am totally wiped out from staying up WAY too late last night. I mean Bryan didn’t even get to my parents house until 10. I am already ready for this week to be over so that I can rest this weekend, take naps etc.
MY LITTLE SISTER GOT ASKED OUT ON A DATE!
My mom and I went to Target a while back and we were getting film developed where Janell was working that day and we were talking to her and all of the sudden this guy Jacob that works with her yelled “HI JANELL!” He asked her something else too but I can’t remember, but I told my mom that he liked her. You could tell on his face. Well it took him awhile but he asked her to coffee last week, but I guess never did anything about it so Janell was sort of bummed, but then he went through her line to buy something on a day that he wasn’t working and asked her to a movie and for her phone number. He wanted to take her out last night but she told him that we were having a b-day party for my mom and Bryan so she couldn’t. He called her last night when he got off work and left her a message. We all gave her flack! She was so embarrassed. Hehe I can’t wait to see how this goes.
Some updates on Bryan’s job.
Bryan asked Eric (his boss) on Monday about applying for other positions and he said to go ahead. It is better to have the option versus not. There are some other production artists jobs open at Nike…even though Bryan would love to stay where he is and work under Eric. They work really well together. He said they have some good news from the Trek side of things. They will definitely pay our salaries through June 1st which gives them some breathing room on trying to figure out if Nike cycling will be supported or not. AND yesterday they actually extended that to December 31st 2007 so that is good!
We got some even BETTER news about Bryan’s job!!!!!
He got this email on Wednesday…
Finally, the moment we've all been waiting for…
FANTASTIC NEWS!!! I just got off the phone with Charlie and he, Mark, and Trevor support our desire to go after the cycling business with a more concerted, focused effort than Nike has done in the past. They've agreed to move forward with the business model option we recommended to them, which involves owning our own design, development, and marketing resources to execute the business. This means that we have the opportunity for the first time to build a dedicated team to make Nike Cycling a success. I think this is the best way to truly leverage the talent we have and the opportunity that lays before us.
This means we have a lot to accomplish and we need to begin laying out strategies for how we will execute. I will set up a meeting for next week to get things kick started. I appreciate your patience during this decision making process and look forward to building the most talented Nike Cycling team in history!
Feel free to give me a call if you have questions.
Thanks
Bryan came home and gave me some sad news on Thursday. Nike reversed their decision. SO that means Bryan has a job until June 1st.
I have felt depressed all night...on the verge of tears...just dealing with some family issues that I have no control over and when I got home I started laundry (Thursday's are laundry night) and was looking for something to eat for dinner. When I looked into the fridge it was so nasty I ended up pulling everything out and cleaning the fridge and freezer out. It was very much in need of a good deep clean. Good therepy for me when I'm feeling down is to clean and organize. The problem is still there when I'm done but it helps me feel a little better and stuff gets cleaned. ;o)
I didn't end up starting dinner until 8. I talked to Moo on the phone for a little bit while I was making dinner and running in between loads of laundry. Bryan got home from class...we both sat down to eat (I made chicken stir-fry with white rice). We prayed, I started eating, Bryan gave me the news and I broke down. Couldn't help it...
Bryan spent Thursday working on his resume. He has to start looking for a new job.:o(
Saturday, January 20, 2007
IT'S A BOY!!!!!
On January 5th Bryan and I had an ultrasound appointment at 3:15. My mom wanted to be there too because we were finding out what we were having! Julie ended up taking Jaden in for an appointment an hour before my appointment so her and my mom waited for us to get there. My mom came into the room with me and Bryan. She kept taking pictures of me. hehe
He did the ultrasound and the baby had grown SO much. the whole thing was just amazing to me. He measured the head and the abdominal and then he moved it around to see what the sex was and sure enough it was a boy! I could tell without the doctor even saying anything. He is all boy! It's been fun so far going through this. I feel so much better than my sister did I think? They have my bp under control where as they never got hers under control. I'm only 6 weeks away from when she delivered Jaden at 28wks. I was afraid at first that I would have the same issues as my sister but it's been going a lot smoother.
Our little guy is a mover! He's feisty! haha Bryan has felt him a few times and it's been so cool!
He did the ultrasound and the baby had grown SO much. the whole thing was just amazing to me. He measured the head and the abdominal and then he moved it around to see what the sex was and sure enough it was a boy! I could tell without the doctor even saying anything. He is all boy! It's been fun so far going through this. I feel so much better than my sister did I think? They have my bp under control where as they never got hers under control. I'm only 6 weeks away from when she delivered Jaden at 28wks. I was afraid at first that I would have the same issues as my sister but it's been going a lot smoother.
Our little guy is a mover! He's feisty! haha Bryan has felt him a few times and it's been so cool!
Been awhile
Wow it's been a while since I've blogged! Lot's of things have gone on. Julie my sister had Jaden Eric on Oct 27th. He was 2 pounds 8 ounces and 14 inches long. He was SO tiny. She ended up getting Toxemia and so they had to get him out. Here are some pictures of him in the NICU.
He did really well in the NICU! Julie went everyday 3 times a day to be with him. She would get to change him, take his temp, hold him and feed him. Thanksgiving was really different this year for our family! I'm not usually one for change but something definitely had changed. We had a good time though. Nathan had to work on Thanksgiving and Julie went up to see Jaden in the morning and then again in the evening. Her and Nathan brought him a little gift.
We ended up getting the best Christmas gift ever this year. Jaden got to come home before Christmas!
He did really well in the NICU! Julie went everyday 3 times a day to be with him. She would get to change him, take his temp, hold him and feed him. Thanksgiving was really different this year for our family! I'm not usually one for change but something definitely had changed. We had a good time though. Nathan had to work on Thanksgiving and Julie went up to see Jaden in the morning and then again in the evening. Her and Nathan brought him a little gift.
We ended up getting the best Christmas gift ever this year. Jaden got to come home before Christmas!
Thursday, October 12, 2006
Baby 8w
Bryan and I arrived at 9:15 and checked in. They told us that my doctor was running a little behind because he had a deliverythat morning. We waited probably a half hour before being called back. Michelle my nurse weighed me. I actually weighed less than I thought I would. We then walked to the room and she said we are going to do an ultrasound today. That was very exciting to me because I really wanted to know that everything was ok. She took my blood pressure which was pretty normal. 112/86. Michelle talked our ears off. She was so excited for us! she was always asking me when we were going to start a family so she was happy. :o) It was hard to take everything she was saying in. She finally said ok I'm leaving because I'm probably overwhelming you. hehe I had to undress from the waist down and we waited for the doctor. When he came in he said congratulations and had me lie back on the table. He first tried to get a picture through my my stomach but it's too early so he used the probe. The picture was pretty clear except the baby looked more like a blob as you can see. But it's a beautiful blob! As soon as he moved the probe around he was able to get the heart beating. It was the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. Bryan was standing next to me rubbing my arm. He was smiling from ear to ear. The little heart was beating so fast. He measured the baby and we also could hear the baby's heartbeat too. It measured out to be 1.57 cm and the BPM was 171 a good strong heartbeat. It was so fast! It all feels SO real now and I feel so much better getting to see that our little one is doing ok. We went down to the lab and they drew a bunch of blood and I did a urine test. This is probably one of the most exciting adventures God is taking us on. I am so excited!
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Anniversary weekend getaway
Our weekend went really well. We worked all day on Friday instead of getting off early. I regretted that but oh well. We went home and packed up the truck, got dinner, got gas and hit the road. We got on the road a lot later then I wanted too so we didn’t get to the beach until 9:30. As soon as we got to the blinking light to go into town, Calie sat up and started sniffing like crazy and she got excited. I think she knew we were at the beach. We checked in and unloaded the truck. We took Calie out to go to the bathroom and we went to bed around midnight.
I have to tell you we are pretty lazy when we go away for our anniversary. Our first anniversary we pretty much stayed in the hotel the whole time. We had a kitchen at that one so we could make our meals and we watched movies, took naps and watched a marathon of Road Rules. We did go to the beach and we ate at the pub there but we love just being together and getting all the R&R we can get.
Saturday morning we got up and took showers and got ready. It was a beautiful day on Saturday. The sun was out and it was a little windy. Perfect if you ask me. We walked to the beach and as we started on the path, Calie was pretty much leaping to get there. She just loves the beach. There weren’t that many people on the beach but we saw some people riding horses and a lot of people were driving up and down the beach. It was almost like they were on a hwy. Calie stayed clear of the cars, which was good but we let her run around and catch the ball. She went into the water of course. We brought towels so we were more than prepared for that.[tu] After we played around there for a while we went back to the room and took naps, watched TV and read a little bit. At around 4 we drove into town, parked and walked around. We didn’t really go into any shops for one because we had Calie and two we weren’t going to buy anything anyway. We got some waters (because I forgot to bring water) and walked along the boardwalk. We were going to go walk on the beach again but there were just way too many cars on it. My mom mentioned later that this is usually the time of year that they do that a lot. We window shopped some more, got some dinner to go and went back to the room. Overall the room was pretty small but it had a little table that we were able to eat at. We got yummy hamburgers and fries. After we ate we walked to the beach by the hotel and watched the sun set. We threw the ball for Calie to ware her out and talked as the sun set. There were clouds out but the sky was a pretty pink and it’s just so amazing. I have always LOVED going to the beach. I think it’s my MOST favorite place! The ocean that goes on forever, the sky, the sand…BEAUTIFUL!
We went back to the room and hung out. Watched a movie and I fell asleep around 10. Bryan said that he stayed up till around Midnight. He had a pretty bad cold so he wasn’t feeling all that well but we had a lot of fun.
Sunday morning we woke up to a light drizzle that turned into pouring down rain. The room was just so small so we decided to pack up and go home. We got McDonald’s breakfast on the way out. It rained the whole way home but it wasn’t too bad of a drive. When we got home we unpacked, put everything away, gave Calie a bath, started laundry and hung out. Nathan’s (my BIL) birthday was Saturday and Julie was throwing him a party that evening at 5:30. I made this chili dip and we headed over. It was my family and his. It was a pretty good party. We ate, played Bungo (Bryan was the LOOOSER and Seth was the WEINER), Nate opened his gifts and we had pie for dessert. It was a nice end to the weekend!
I have to tell you we are pretty lazy when we go away for our anniversary. Our first anniversary we pretty much stayed in the hotel the whole time. We had a kitchen at that one so we could make our meals and we watched movies, took naps and watched a marathon of Road Rules. We did go to the beach and we ate at the pub there but we love just being together and getting all the R&R we can get.
Saturday morning we got up and took showers and got ready. It was a beautiful day on Saturday. The sun was out and it was a little windy. Perfect if you ask me. We walked to the beach and as we started on the path, Calie was pretty much leaping to get there. She just loves the beach. There weren’t that many people on the beach but we saw some people riding horses and a lot of people were driving up and down the beach. It was almost like they were on a hwy. Calie stayed clear of the cars, which was good but we let her run around and catch the ball. She went into the water of course. We brought towels so we were more than prepared for that.[tu] After we played around there for a while we went back to the room and took naps, watched TV and read a little bit. At around 4 we drove into town, parked and walked around. We didn’t really go into any shops for one because we had Calie and two we weren’t going to buy anything anyway. We got some waters (because I forgot to bring water) and walked along the boardwalk. We were going to go walk on the beach again but there were just way too many cars on it. My mom mentioned later that this is usually the time of year that they do that a lot. We window shopped some more, got some dinner to go and went back to the room. Overall the room was pretty small but it had a little table that we were able to eat at. We got yummy hamburgers and fries. After we ate we walked to the beach by the hotel and watched the sun set. We threw the ball for Calie to ware her out and talked as the sun set. There were clouds out but the sky was a pretty pink and it’s just so amazing. I have always LOVED going to the beach. I think it’s my MOST favorite place! The ocean that goes on forever, the sky, the sand…BEAUTIFUL!
We went back to the room and hung out. Watched a movie and I fell asleep around 10. Bryan said that he stayed up till around Midnight. He had a pretty bad cold so he wasn’t feeling all that well but we had a lot of fun.
Sunday morning we woke up to a light drizzle that turned into pouring down rain. The room was just so small so we decided to pack up and go home. We got McDonald’s breakfast on the way out. It rained the whole way home but it wasn’t too bad of a drive. When we got home we unpacked, put everything away, gave Calie a bath, started laundry and hung out. Nathan’s (my BIL) birthday was Saturday and Julie was throwing him a party that evening at 5:30. I made this chili dip and we headed over. It was my family and his. It was a pretty good party. We ate, played Bungo (Bryan was the LOOOSER and Seth was the WEINER), Nate opened his gifts and we had pie for dessert. It was a nice end to the weekend!
Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Every Good and Perfect Gift Comes From God
We had such an amazing week of blessings from above! First we find out we're pregnant on Saturday then Bryan has a second interview for the Production Artist/Assistant to the Design Director position on Tuesday. 2 day's later on Thursday he was offered the job! WAHOOO
He starts October 2nd!
Way to go Bug you deserve this!
He starts October 2nd!
Way to go Bug you deserve this!
A bit excited!
About 3 years ago I went off Birth Control pills because I had a friend going through a really hard time getting pregnant and had talked about how bad the pill is for your body. Bryan and I weren't going to try for a baby right then and there but I started reading Taking charge of your fertility and temping to prevent. We wanted to wait to try until Bryan was out of school, but recently my clock has been ticking so loud I almost can't see straight. Bryan also started talking about staying in school after he graduates and gain more knowledge in Web Design so we decided to start trying and see what God has in store for us. We have been trying for 3 months and our little family of 3 is about to become 4, if all goes as we hope.
We're Pregnant! I'm about 5 weeks and 2 days and already feeling how it is affecting my body. No morning sickness as of yet, but if it means I have a healthy baby growing inside of me, bring it on. hehe
We are both so excited to go on this next journey that God has laid out for us!
Thursday, September 14, 2006
Wells Fargo update
We waited to talk to someone at Wells Fargo for about 30 mins and then when we got done explaining everything and he looked up Bryan's SS number (found NOTHING), looked up the account number (found NOTHING) and last looked up Bryan * R*****. He did end up finding a Bryan * R***** but this person lives in Minnasota. WTH?! So they did just pick a random guy (MY Bryan) and dump this on him. This has NOTHING to do with us! The dude called the loss and recovery # and they said that they don't have any record of this and it's in the IRS's hands now so we have to call this other number. This is such BULL I mean come on with what we looked up it's obvious that this isn't our thing. At one point the guy said while waiting on hold "you're a myth" and I said UM well he should be since HE'S NEVER HAD AN ACCOUNT HERE! SIGH so Bryan called the number first thing the next morning.
He called the # that next morning and the lady looked up Bryan’s info and told him that it DID have to do with some bad financial decisions that he made 12 years ago. This just didn’t seem right and so Bryan researched more. He called the IRS and the Wells Fargo in San Francisco and they couldn’t find anything on him. They said it couldn’t be an auto loan (which the lady said it was)…it was a student loan which made sense because of all those dang phone calls we were getting for 2 years. We got an extension and a statement from Wells Fargo saying that this has nothing to do with us and we’ll get all the documents together and get it sent off to the IRS. What a mess!
He called the # that next morning and the lady looked up Bryan’s info and told him that it DID have to do with some bad financial decisions that he made 12 years ago. This just didn’t seem right and so Bryan researched more. He called the IRS and the Wells Fargo in San Francisco and they couldn’t find anything on him. They said it couldn’t be an auto loan (which the lady said it was)…it was a student loan which made sense because of all those dang phone calls we were getting for 2 years. We got an extension and a statement from Wells Fargo saying that this has nothing to do with us and we’ll get all the documents together and get it sent off to the IRS. What a mess!
Wednesday, September 06, 2006
HATE HATE HATE Wells Fargo
So as I said before, Bryan pulled an all-nighter Monday night…he crawled into bed around 5:30 when he was supposed to be getting ready for work. He has got to be exhausted.
Monday night I remembered as I was getting ready for bed that I had a dentist appt.at 8 yesterday morning. So I got up, got ready and headed over to Clackamas for my appt. I got my teeth cleaned and good news is I don’t have any gravities and bad news is I am going to have to spend some money on getting implants and this thing that prevents me from clenching my teeth and grinding at night. I can’t remember what it’s called? My wee little teeth are getting smaller and smaller with every clench and grind. The implants are for 2 holes on the bottom that I have because my old Dentist pulled my baby teeth out when I didn’t have any permanent teeth under them. I wore a retainer with fake teeth on it for a while but lost that and my top jaw is shifting and conforming to those holes so I need to do something about it NOW. It’ll be nice to have a mouth full of teeth even if 2 of them are fake and no one can really tell that I have missing teeth anyway.
Bryan and I both go back next Tuesday to pick up the night thing and the Doc made an impression of my jaw to see if there is enough room for the implants. I stopped and got a coffee on my way into work and I stayed late to make up the time I missed. I met my family at Olive Garden for dinner and we had a good time chatting and laughing.
Julie got the “going home” outfit for the baby girl. She brought it in to show me…its way cute!
My dad, sisters and Nathan get season tickets to the Winter Hawks every year and always go to the New Years Eve game. Julie asked me if I would watch the baby while they go to the game. Hehe I think it’s cute that she’s already planning for that.
Bryan and I have to go to Wells Fargo today to talk to them about an issue. About a year and a half ago they kept calling us telling us that Bryan needed to start paying on this loan except it wasn’t MY Bryan’s loan. We have NEVER had an account with them before and I can tell you WE NEVER WILL! I seriously HATE Wells Fargo! This isn’t the only time that we’ve had issues with them. I had fraud done against my SS number. This stupid girl opened an account at Wells Fargo with it under her own name thankfully it wasn’t mine because it was easier to get it all worked out. Wells Fargo NEEDS to be more careful as to who they let open accounts UGH! Anyway, they called and called and called and we kept telling them you have the wrong person. I seriously think they just looked up all Bryan R***** and just randomly picked one and said OH it must be HIS account. Apparently they couldn’t find the “Right” guy so they looked Bryan/Brian R***** up in the phone book. They finally stopped calling so I thought the issue was over but NOPE…that IRS thing we got back was from them. They sent the IRS an interest tax form in which says we owe $500 in taxes because of this. I am SO angry! We’re going to mark the "Do not agree with some of the changes" and we have to write a statement why and send it back. Hopefully we'll get a statement from Wells Fargo too to send. This is SO frustrating!
Monday night I remembered as I was getting ready for bed that I had a dentist appt.at 8 yesterday morning. So I got up, got ready and headed over to Clackamas for my appt. I got my teeth cleaned and good news is I don’t have any gravities and bad news is I am going to have to spend some money on getting implants and this thing that prevents me from clenching my teeth and grinding at night. I can’t remember what it’s called? My wee little teeth are getting smaller and smaller with every clench and grind. The implants are for 2 holes on the bottom that I have because my old Dentist pulled my baby teeth out when I didn’t have any permanent teeth under them. I wore a retainer with fake teeth on it for a while but lost that and my top jaw is shifting and conforming to those holes so I need to do something about it NOW. It’ll be nice to have a mouth full of teeth even if 2 of them are fake and no one can really tell that I have missing teeth anyway.
Bryan and I both go back next Tuesday to pick up the night thing and the Doc made an impression of my jaw to see if there is enough room for the implants. I stopped and got a coffee on my way into work and I stayed late to make up the time I missed. I met my family at Olive Garden for dinner and we had a good time chatting and laughing.
Julie got the “going home” outfit for the baby girl. She brought it in to show me…its way cute!
My dad, sisters and Nathan get season tickets to the Winter Hawks every year and always go to the New Years Eve game. Julie asked me if I would watch the baby while they go to the game. Hehe I think it’s cute that she’s already planning for that.
Bryan and I have to go to Wells Fargo today to talk to them about an issue. About a year and a half ago they kept calling us telling us that Bryan needed to start paying on this loan except it wasn’t MY Bryan’s loan. We have NEVER had an account with them before and I can tell you WE NEVER WILL! I seriously HATE Wells Fargo! This isn’t the only time that we’ve had issues with them. I had fraud done against my SS number. This stupid girl opened an account at Wells Fargo with it under her own name thankfully it wasn’t mine because it was easier to get it all worked out. Wells Fargo NEEDS to be more careful as to who they let open accounts UGH! Anyway, they called and called and called and we kept telling them you have the wrong person. I seriously think they just looked up all Bryan R***** and just randomly picked one and said OH it must be HIS account. Apparently they couldn’t find the “Right” guy so they looked Bryan/Brian R***** up in the phone book. They finally stopped calling so I thought the issue was over but NOPE…that IRS thing we got back was from them. They sent the IRS an interest tax form in which says we owe $500 in taxes because of this. I am SO angry! We’re going to mark the "Do not agree with some of the changes" and we have to write a statement why and send it back. Hopefully we'll get a statement from Wells Fargo too to send. This is SO frustrating!
Tuesday, September 05, 2006
White River
This last Thursday after work I stopped by the store on my way home and got food for our annual Labor Day camping trip. I unloaded everything when I got home, let Calie out and fed her. Then I started to get everything ready for the weekend. Cooked some food and put it in the freezer, made dessert for our Spaghetti dinner, packed our clothes etc. I wanted everything to be ready so all we needed to do was come home from work Friday pack the truck and leave. Bryan got home from class around 9:15ish and was up till around 1:30 working on his final due today and I was up till around 11-11:30.
I went into work with Bryan so I that I could get off early. I got here around 6ish and started moving desks immediately. The team that I had been sitting with is getting a new team member today and she needed the desk that I was sitting in. So now I am sitting with my boss and the other admin for the Target Team. I got everything moved and hooked back up within a couple hours and worked hard to get everything done before I left at 3. I missed our annual putting event that we have in our office because I left early on Friday but that’s ok. When we got home we packed up the Truck, grabbed something to eat and headed for White River. I think that we got there close to 7. Bryan set up the tent and I watched Calie. She was a tad annoying the first night but over all she did pretty good. One thing that I need to start working on with her and I don’t know quite where to start is she thinks that ALL toys are her toys. There were a ton of kids there and toys everywhere and she wanted to play with them. Travis and Moo had left Keira’s Care Bear ball behind at Family Camp and I had managed to keep it away from Calie until the very day we left for White River and I was going to give it back to them. She popped it and the first thing she did when we got there was go after and pop Kambrie’s ball. UGH So I am going to buy them new balls. Travis got the Care Bear ball at BiMart and we don’t have a card to get in there so hopefully I can find her a ball that she’ll enjoy. After Bryan got our tent set up I let him watch Calie while I organized everything in the tent. Kambrie and Dylan wanted to come in the tent with me so they bounced on our aero bed while I set up our other stuff. We were the only tent campers there AGAIN. We have a pretty big/nice tent so it works but it would be nice to have a trailer to store things in and cook in and be able to take showers in etc. We’ll have to look into it and see if we can find one that we can afford since we do a lot of camping in the summer. Bryan and Calie went to bed pretty early, the guy’s played poker and we girls sat around the fire. We had fun chatting and relaxing. At one point I had Kambrie and Alexis on my lap and T came and got Kambrie to try and get her to sleep and Alexis went in to get cleaned up and ready for bed. Linda brought her back out all cozy in a blanket and she fell asleep on my lap. I think that I headed to bed around 11 or 12 and snuggled up against Bryan trying to get warm. It got pretty cold at night. In fact we were both pretty stiff the next morning because we pretty much stayed in the same position trying to keep warm. The next morning we got up and hung out. People were making Breakfast and it smelt SO good but Bryan and I weren’t really that hungry. I went for a little walk with Moo, Keira and Alexis. We took the dogs and they walked a head of us and got along well. It was funny they would get about 100 feet ahead of us and then stop, turn around and wait for us to catch up. When we got back we hung out...some people took naps, played games, read and just relaxed. Some of the guy’s went shooting and made a trip to the store and I tried to take a nap but it was too hot in the tent for me. For dinner Bryan and I had Tacos and Chips and salsa. I had prepared the meat ahead of time and froze it so all I had to do was heat it up and I made containers of cheese, lettuce and salsa plus we had Sour Cream. I had brought hard shells and soft shells but the soft ones did not taste good at all. I got the taco idea from my mom. She made these at Family Camp and I just loved that idea. We stayed up pretty late that night. It was a lot of fun!
Sunday morning we slept in a little I think like 9:30? We made Egg, sausage and cheese McMuffins for breakfast and later on when the Duffy’s were done with their breakfast we went on about a 3-4 hour hike. It was SO nice! We went on a search for a pioneer women’s grave but never found it. The guys went ahead and we waited for them…the road just kept going and going. Keira wanted to walk and play so it was hard for us to keep up with the guys so we just waited for them. When we got back Moo put Keira down for a nap and we sat around and chatted with Brandy before dinner. Calie and Bryan took a nap. Calie was WIPED out from the walk. Hehe We had Linda’s AMAZING spaghetti for dinner. I brought dessert (Brownies and cookies), Moo brought the bread, T brought wine and Brandy brought a yummy salad. After dinner we all cleaned up. The kids had spaghetti all over them. It was so cute. After everyone got cleaned up, we all watched Alexis and 2 boys that were there around her age hit a piñata. T brought it for Lex because she really wanted one for her b-day…I think? Nate took Kambrie down to the river to throw rocks because I guess she fell in love with the piñata and would just be heart broken if she had seen them break it. T had also brought glow in the dark sticks from the Dollar Store and all the kids just LOVED them. It was so funny watching them run around. Travis had put one on Mercy so I put one on Calie. Travis would throw the ball and you could see them run after it. It was pretty funny. Everyone went to bed pretty early that night. I had gotten into a card game with Nate, Jake and Travis and that took a while to get through so I went to bed around 11ish.
Monday morning we got up around 7:30 and got ready to go home. Bryan wanted to get home early to finish up his final project. We got everything packed up, said our goodbyes and left around 9. We got home around 10:15. Bryan must have sped the whole way because I think it takes longer than an hour and a half to and from where we camp?! Bryan unpacked the truck and I gave Calie a bath. I took about a 45min-hour HOT shower. It felt SO good. It was so dusty there and I felt dirty and disgusting. I cleaned up and got the laundry going and Bryan took his shower and started on his project. Calie and I went over to my parents to have a Labor Day dinner and my dad “helped” me wash the truck. I say “helped” me because he did pretty much the whole thing. Hehe I vacuumed it out and cleaned all the dust off the dash etc. He also helped me set up out tent so that I could hose it off and get all the dust off. It was pretty warm yesterday so it dried quickly. Calie and I were wiped out…she lay down on a blanket (which she never does…my fam always says we never see her laying down) and I tried to take a nap too. We had a yummy dinner and we played a card game. I went home around 8 did a few things around the house and went to bed. Bryan was still working on his project. In fact he never came to bed. He pulled an all-nighter. Hopefully he gets a good grade on it. It’s really good if I do say so myself. Check it out:
http://stu.aii.edu/~bpr381/filter_arts/filter_arts/br_design.html
I went into work with Bryan so I that I could get off early. I got here around 6ish and started moving desks immediately. The team that I had been sitting with is getting a new team member today and she needed the desk that I was sitting in. So now I am sitting with my boss and the other admin for the Target Team. I got everything moved and hooked back up within a couple hours and worked hard to get everything done before I left at 3. I missed our annual putting event that we have in our office because I left early on Friday but that’s ok. When we got home we packed up the Truck, grabbed something to eat and headed for White River. I think that we got there close to 7. Bryan set up the tent and I watched Calie. She was a tad annoying the first night but over all she did pretty good. One thing that I need to start working on with her and I don’t know quite where to start is she thinks that ALL toys are her toys. There were a ton of kids there and toys everywhere and she wanted to play with them. Travis and Moo had left Keira’s Care Bear ball behind at Family Camp and I had managed to keep it away from Calie until the very day we left for White River and I was going to give it back to them. She popped it and the first thing she did when we got there was go after and pop Kambrie’s ball. UGH So I am going to buy them new balls. Travis got the Care Bear ball at BiMart and we don’t have a card to get in there so hopefully I can find her a ball that she’ll enjoy. After Bryan got our tent set up I let him watch Calie while I organized everything in the tent. Kambrie and Dylan wanted to come in the tent with me so they bounced on our aero bed while I set up our other stuff. We were the only tent campers there AGAIN. We have a pretty big/nice tent so it works but it would be nice to have a trailer to store things in and cook in and be able to take showers in etc. We’ll have to look into it and see if we can find one that we can afford since we do a lot of camping in the summer. Bryan and Calie went to bed pretty early, the guy’s played poker and we girls sat around the fire. We had fun chatting and relaxing. At one point I had Kambrie and Alexis on my lap and T came and got Kambrie to try and get her to sleep and Alexis went in to get cleaned up and ready for bed. Linda brought her back out all cozy in a blanket and she fell asleep on my lap. I think that I headed to bed around 11 or 12 and snuggled up against Bryan trying to get warm. It got pretty cold at night. In fact we were both pretty stiff the next morning because we pretty much stayed in the same position trying to keep warm. The next morning we got up and hung out. People were making Breakfast and it smelt SO good but Bryan and I weren’t really that hungry. I went for a little walk with Moo, Keira and Alexis. We took the dogs and they walked a head of us and got along well. It was funny they would get about 100 feet ahead of us and then stop, turn around and wait for us to catch up. When we got back we hung out...some people took naps, played games, read and just relaxed. Some of the guy’s went shooting and made a trip to the store and I tried to take a nap but it was too hot in the tent for me. For dinner Bryan and I had Tacos and Chips and salsa. I had prepared the meat ahead of time and froze it so all I had to do was heat it up and I made containers of cheese, lettuce and salsa plus we had Sour Cream. I had brought hard shells and soft shells but the soft ones did not taste good at all. I got the taco idea from my mom. She made these at Family Camp and I just loved that idea. We stayed up pretty late that night. It was a lot of fun!
Sunday morning we slept in a little I think like 9:30? We made Egg, sausage and cheese McMuffins for breakfast and later on when the Duffy’s were done with their breakfast we went on about a 3-4 hour hike. It was SO nice! We went on a search for a pioneer women’s grave but never found it. The guys went ahead and we waited for them…the road just kept going and going. Keira wanted to walk and play so it was hard for us to keep up with the guys so we just waited for them. When we got back Moo put Keira down for a nap and we sat around and chatted with Brandy before dinner. Calie and Bryan took a nap. Calie was WIPED out from the walk. Hehe We had Linda’s AMAZING spaghetti for dinner. I brought dessert (Brownies and cookies), Moo brought the bread, T brought wine and Brandy brought a yummy salad. After dinner we all cleaned up. The kids had spaghetti all over them. It was so cute. After everyone got cleaned up, we all watched Alexis and 2 boys that were there around her age hit a piñata. T brought it for Lex because she really wanted one for her b-day…I think? Nate took Kambrie down to the river to throw rocks because I guess she fell in love with the piñata and would just be heart broken if she had seen them break it. T had also brought glow in the dark sticks from the Dollar Store and all the kids just LOVED them. It was so funny watching them run around. Travis had put one on Mercy so I put one on Calie. Travis would throw the ball and you could see them run after it. It was pretty funny. Everyone went to bed pretty early that night. I had gotten into a card game with Nate, Jake and Travis and that took a while to get through so I went to bed around 11ish.
Monday morning we got up around 7:30 and got ready to go home. Bryan wanted to get home early to finish up his final project. We got everything packed up, said our goodbyes and left around 9. We got home around 10:15. Bryan must have sped the whole way because I think it takes longer than an hour and a half to and from where we camp?! Bryan unpacked the truck and I gave Calie a bath. I took about a 45min-hour HOT shower. It felt SO good. It was so dusty there and I felt dirty and disgusting. I cleaned up and got the laundry going and Bryan took his shower and started on his project. Calie and I went over to my parents to have a Labor Day dinner and my dad “helped” me wash the truck. I say “helped” me because he did pretty much the whole thing. Hehe I vacuumed it out and cleaned all the dust off the dash etc. He also helped me set up out tent so that I could hose it off and get all the dust off. It was pretty warm yesterday so it dried quickly. Calie and I were wiped out…she lay down on a blanket (which she never does…my fam always says we never see her laying down) and I tried to take a nap too. We had a yummy dinner and we played a card game. I went home around 8 did a few things around the house and went to bed. Bryan was still working on his project. In fact he never came to bed. He pulled an all-nighter. Hopefully he gets a good grade on it. It’s really good if I do say so myself. Check it out:
http://stu.aii.edu/~bpr381/filter_arts/filter_arts/br_design.html
Alderbrook Park
I'm a little behind...
Sunday, August 27, 2006
We got up and got ready. We went to first service only and then headed to Alderbrook Park where my Company picnic was taking place. We got there around 12:30 and set out our blanket. It wasn't what I expected AT ALL. I thought it was going to look much nicer then it did. Kind of hard to explain but IMO it wasn't all it was cracked up to be. When we walked in I got a raffle ticket and a drink stamp. I never ended up having anything to drink but I got it just in case and they served lunch. The food was pretty good. The Teriyaki chicken was the best. We sat with Jim and his wife and Michelle and her family. Brian (the big man) started the raffle and of course I didn't win anything. I never do. I like how they just gave a raffle ticket to the employee though. One year at my dad's company picnic one of his co-workers brought his whole family and there were a lot and they won almost everything they raffled off. I didn't think that was really fair but oh well. After that we all moved to the big field for games. Bryan played the egg toss with Randy and we hung out with Bobbie and the girls. At one point Bobbie had gone to get a glass of water and left the girls with me. Delaney and Kiley were playing the water balloon toss and I had Maci in my lap. She was so sweet. Kiley got out and came over and told us and then said that she wanted to play again. She ran out to where they were playing and then came back in tears. She was so upset that she dropped the balloon and got out of the game. It was so sad. Bryan and I tried to tell her that she did a good job but it didn’t work. :o( She sat on my lap until Bobbie came back and her and Randy talked with her. By then it was around 4 and we needed to head out. Bryan had more homework to get done. Overall I’m glad that we went to the picnic.
Sunday, August 27, 2006
We got up and got ready. We went to first service only and then headed to Alderbrook Park where my Company picnic was taking place. We got there around 12:30 and set out our blanket. It wasn't what I expected AT ALL. I thought it was going to look much nicer then it did. Kind of hard to explain but IMO it wasn't all it was cracked up to be. When we walked in I got a raffle ticket and a drink stamp. I never ended up having anything to drink but I got it just in case and they served lunch. The food was pretty good. The Teriyaki chicken was the best. We sat with Jim and his wife and Michelle and her family. Brian (the big man) started the raffle and of course I didn't win anything. I never do. I like how they just gave a raffle ticket to the employee though. One year at my dad's company picnic one of his co-workers brought his whole family and there were a lot and they won almost everything they raffled off. I didn't think that was really fair but oh well. After that we all moved to the big field for games. Bryan played the egg toss with Randy and we hung out with Bobbie and the girls. At one point Bobbie had gone to get a glass of water and left the girls with me. Delaney and Kiley were playing the water balloon toss and I had Maci in my lap. She was so sweet. Kiley got out and came over and told us and then said that she wanted to play again. She ran out to where they were playing and then came back in tears. She was so upset that she dropped the balloon and got out of the game. It was so sad. Bryan and I tried to tell her that she did a good job but it didn’t work. :o( She sat on my lap until Bobbie came back and her and Randy talked with her. By then it was around 4 and we needed to head out. Bryan had more homework to get done. Overall I’m glad that we went to the picnic.
Friday, August 25, 2006
Date Night
I worked until 5 tonight and Bryan came to pick me up.
I had called him a few hours earlier and asked him what he wanted to do for date night and he said that he didn't know. I had already been thinking about it. This is the last week of the Street of Dreams and I really wanted to go but we didn't end up going this year. Instead I asked him if he wanted to go have dinner at Chili's and walk around the mall and he said yeah that sounds like a good idea. On our drive over there he was pretty quiet and while we were eating dinner I asked him if he was feeling better and he said, "a little now that I'm with you." ahh We got bottomless chips and salsa for a starter and I got Lettuce wraps for dinner and he got these boneless chicken things that normally you get as a starter but for a couple dollars more he got them with fries and corn on the cob. We both shared bites with each other which we normally never do, but he liked my Lettuce wraps and his chiken and corn were excellant! After dinner we went to Barnes and Noble and Bryan looked for drawing books while I looked for books that looked interesting and wrote them down so that I could request them at the Library. hehe Bryan got a book called Dynamic Figure Drawing. Then we found him a shirt at Anchor Blue...it will go well with the Hurley shirt that I got him. After that we went to Meier & Frank aka Macy's and looked around there. I looked in a couple departments that I always liked but it seems like their prices have gone up. Everything I liked was $60-$100. We went downstairs and looked for some Echo jeans for Bryan. He really likes the way they fit him. They're kind of expensive but when you find the right jeans you go for them right?! I love jeans! We both had to go to the bathroom really bad so we went over to the kids area where they're located and as I waited for Bryan I looked at baby stuff. I found the cutest outfit that I wanted to get for Julie but it was a lot of $$ so I opted to wait and see if it goes on sale. We went up stairs to look at the shoes (I want all of them! ;o)) and we looked at some watches and Nate and Teresa came up behind us. We chatted with them for a while. T was there looking for a necklace. Kambrie was aborable of course with her blue and pink balloons. She looked wiped though and ready for nite-nite. Funny thing was that earlier I thought to myself I wonder if we'll see Nate and T at the mall and sure enough. HAHA After we left them we went to The Body Shop. I wanted to see if they had any new Home fragrance oils and we saw Bobbie there. She was picking up some shampoo/body wash there for Randy. She was shopping with Deb's who was at Nordstrom's. Everyone was at the Mall tonight. I got 4 oils, Pumpkin Nectarine (which I've had before), Coconut, Baked Cookies and Golden Apple. The Golden Apple one I was surprised with. It smells SO good. I don't normally like apple scents (some of you know why)! We looked around in some other shops but didn't find anything. I am so bummed that I didn't really find anything for me. I have come to the conclusion that I don't find clothes when I'm with Bryan...I have to be shopping on my own or with my mom, sisters or Friends. Weird. We left the mall close to closing time and were driving up Sunnyside where we saw a pretty bad accident. It was the strangest accident I've ever seen. We came up to the stop light at 122nd and we were behind a Ford Explorer who stopped at the light but then proceeded to go through the red light even though it hadn't changed to green yet and got side swiped by a big working van that was going through a green light pretty fast I might say. They both were able to pull over to the side and I really think we should have stayed...the van next to us pulled over and stayed. Is it against the law to leave when you witness an accident like that? Are you supposed to stay? Anyway, we didn't stay and I just don't understand what was going through the gal's head driving that Explorer? What made her go through? It was the strangest thing. I hope no one was hurt but I wonder if she had been drinking or I don't know?!
I had called him a few hours earlier and asked him what he wanted to do for date night and he said that he didn't know. I had already been thinking about it. This is the last week of the Street of Dreams and I really wanted to go but we didn't end up going this year. Instead I asked him if he wanted to go have dinner at Chili's and walk around the mall and he said yeah that sounds like a good idea. On our drive over there he was pretty quiet and while we were eating dinner I asked him if he was feeling better and he said, "a little now that I'm with you." ahh We got bottomless chips and salsa for a starter and I got Lettuce wraps for dinner and he got these boneless chicken things that normally you get as a starter but for a couple dollars more he got them with fries and corn on the cob. We both shared bites with each other which we normally never do, but he liked my Lettuce wraps and his chiken and corn were excellant! After dinner we went to Barnes and Noble and Bryan looked for drawing books while I looked for books that looked interesting and wrote them down so that I could request them at the Library. hehe Bryan got a book called Dynamic Figure Drawing. Then we found him a shirt at Anchor Blue...it will go well with the Hurley shirt that I got him. After that we went to Meier & Frank aka Macy's and looked around there. I looked in a couple departments that I always liked but it seems like their prices have gone up. Everything I liked was $60-$100. We went downstairs and looked for some Echo jeans for Bryan. He really likes the way they fit him. They're kind of expensive but when you find the right jeans you go for them right?! I love jeans! We both had to go to the bathroom really bad so we went over to the kids area where they're located and as I waited for Bryan I looked at baby stuff. I found the cutest outfit that I wanted to get for Julie but it was a lot of $$ so I opted to wait and see if it goes on sale. We went up stairs to look at the shoes (I want all of them! ;o)) and we looked at some watches and Nate and Teresa came up behind us. We chatted with them for a while. T was there looking for a necklace. Kambrie was aborable of course with her blue and pink balloons. She looked wiped though and ready for nite-nite. Funny thing was that earlier I thought to myself I wonder if we'll see Nate and T at the mall and sure enough. HAHA After we left them we went to The Body Shop. I wanted to see if they had any new Home fragrance oils and we saw Bobbie there. She was picking up some shampoo/body wash there for Randy. She was shopping with Deb's who was at Nordstrom's. Everyone was at the Mall tonight. I got 4 oils, Pumpkin Nectarine (which I've had before), Coconut, Baked Cookies and Golden Apple. The Golden Apple one I was surprised with. It smells SO good. I don't normally like apple scents (some of you know why)! We looked around in some other shops but didn't find anything. I am so bummed that I didn't really find anything for me. I have come to the conclusion that I don't find clothes when I'm with Bryan...I have to be shopping on my own or with my mom, sisters or Friends. Weird. We left the mall close to closing time and were driving up Sunnyside where we saw a pretty bad accident. It was the strangest accident I've ever seen. We came up to the stop light at 122nd and we were behind a Ford Explorer who stopped at the light but then proceeded to go through the red light even though it hadn't changed to green yet and got side swiped by a big working van that was going through a green light pretty fast I might say. They both were able to pull over to the side and I really think we should have stayed...the van next to us pulled over and stayed. Is it against the law to leave when you witness an accident like that? Are you supposed to stay? Anyway, we didn't stay and I just don't understand what was going through the gal's head driving that Explorer? What made her go through? It was the strangest thing. I hope no one was hurt but I wonder if she had been drinking or I don't know?!
Randomness
We FINALLY got the Title to our car! It took us forever to get it from the Credit Union it was at and that we were paying payments to before paying it off. We had to call them 2 times and both of us don’t get off of work in time to go get it before they close.
Our house payment is up the wazoo but HEY we own our car now! ;o)
When I got the mail the other day we got something from the IRS! It says we owe them $500 from our 2004 taxes. EEKS! We’re going to take this to the accountant who did our taxes and see what she can do and what happened!? I guess this happened to my parents and the accountant took care of it and they haven’t heard anything since or had to pay anything. I hope that is the case for us too!
Our house payment is up the wazoo but HEY we own our car now! ;o)
When I got the mail the other day we got something from the IRS! It says we owe them $500 from our 2004 taxes. EEKS! We’re going to take this to the accountant who did our taxes and see what she can do and what happened!? I guess this happened to my parents and the accountant took care of it and they haven’t heard anything since or had to pay anything. I hope that is the case for us too!
Tears
Bryan went through a breakdown a few months ago. He’s been on Lexapro (sp?) and he’s been seeing a counselor every week. Things have seemed to be getting much better and I’ve been trying hard to make sure that I’m not being the nagging wife that I CAN be. :o( BUT I was sleeping yesterday morning and he had gotten ready for work but then crawled back in bed and snuggled against me and cried. He did it again this morning also. He doesn’t know what’s wrong…I don’t know what’s wrong? I asked him if I’m doing anything because I don’t want to hear later that it was my fault. This is so hard to deal with /understand because it hits so fast and all of the sudden he doesn’t want to do ANYTHING! I feel helpless because I don’t know what to do or how to help? Work is covered because he’s talked to HR and the Doc signed papers so that he could get through this without the fear of getting fired but I still fear that.
I don’t know what to do?!?! :o(
I don’t know what to do?!?! :o(
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