Life...

Easter Weekend:

Chocolate pudding:

"The Look":

Bowling - please pay no attention to the direction of the ball!


Family!

Please excuse me...

While I post an extreme number of pictures of my daughter. They were to cute to pick from.

2 posts in one week...wow...who knew that was possible!

so...

Yeah, sorry for not blogging. Not sure if anyone but me reads this, but sometimes I'm the only one who I need to tell things to anyways! Haven't blogged in forever due to ...technical diffiulties. First the touch pad and keyboard went out on my HP (which has all of the pictures and stuff on it). So, then I fnally gave in and started to move everything over to Josh's mac, but with the holidays and all, that never got done either. Then last week someone broke into our house. Yep, it sucked. They got everyTHING. TV, both laptops, camcorder, Wii, guitar hero, Jackson's ds, and an ipod. So, now I don't so much have a computer to blog on that much. I'll be taking the school on home some though so that will help. We have been doing our best to focus on the fact that is was only 'things' that got taken. Everyone was fine, no one was home. We still have food to eat and beds to sleep in. Its amazing too that we have actually spent more time as a family since it happened. No TV (and it had a built in dvd player), or internet to dsitract us as much, and if everyone wants to watch tv we have to do it together (we had an old one in the basement). Josh did have some major issues at first with not being able to continue his ongoing review of all things LOST before the new season starts next week, but we are working on some strategies for that!

Since I'm a work I don't have any new pictures to close this with, but a friend did today give me the disc of pictures taken by work friends of the day Elliette was born. Enjoy the re-wind!

Sorry for that Walsh, couldn't resist!

2009 in review...

Objective : to provide a pictoral view of our year, as well as my favorite facebook status' (statui?) from each month. Enjoy (spoiler alert...some months I couldn't decide on just 1)!

January: "is loving the snow and thinks she may have an octopus growing inside her!"

February: "...this is my family...its little and broken, but it's still good"



March: "has found the only good thing about bedrest...sleeping in!"



April: "just heard her 7 year old say "he who controls the wii remote, controls the world" AND "Elliette Grace is here!!!"


May: "is doing better. enjoyed snuggling with both kiddos this morning. :)"


June: "watching a little girl sleep in her brothers great big bean bag chair"



July: "isn't going to teach Elliette to talk...Jackson talks enough for both of them!" AND "Jackson just asked me if the ice cream truck took check or debit card...so funny!"

August: "is wondering if it is to early in the year for Christmas movies??"

September: "it never ceases to amaze me how much I can ADORE my kids"


October: "My laptop is committing suicide...dang hp"



November: "Wonders if her job would have any objection to her tattooing the word LOVE across her arm..." AND "the best way to end a day of conferences...a koosh ball fight!"

December: "My 8 year old just asked for a Facebook page for Christmas...seriously?"

Much to be thankful for...

Wow..this 'black, Friday' didn't go as planned. Let me get the whole story out to you. Wednesday Elliette fell and hit her head on the edge of a table. Nothing major, just a bruise, life went on. Thursday afternoon we headed to my in-laws house, and when we first got there I thought I saw E shiver a few times. I didn't pay much attention to it, but as the night went on I noticed a few more times that she kept putting her head down and shaking. Just for a few minutes, nothing drastic. I got worried about it, but then it just stopped for the rest of the night and I let it go. Friday morning we headed out to do some shopping and I started noticing it again. Elliette would drop her head against her right shoulder and then shake a few times; sometimes she would even just drop her head to her shoulder and then bring it right back up again. I called the doctor and made an appointment. The doctor sent us to Children's hospital almost immediately to start running tests. Her actions were somewhat suggestive of a seizure, although she did not have many of the other things which usually go with it. They also discovered that she has a nasty double ear infection. The drew blood and put in an IV. We also had to take her down for a CT Scan. It was so horrible seeing my baby held down so many times when she was so scared and there was nothing anyone could do. Her CT and initial blood work came back negative which means it isn't anything super scary like a bleed or mass or something. They gave us some uber antibiotics hoping that it may be possibly caused by such a large infection; if clearing up the ears doesn't work, then we have to go see a seizure specialist. All in all it was a pretty rough day, but I am so grateful that the final diagnosis wasn't something horrible. We will get through whatever this is, and Elliette will continue to be the amazing baby that she has always been!

I'm not sure...

But I think her nose may still be the same size!