pictures and video

She's posing! Uh-oh...we have a diva on our hands!

She loves pink :-)

Joshua's saying "cheese" with a mouth full of peanut butter and crackers.
Makes for fun house keeping ;-)

Poor Joshua burned his hand (not shown) on the wood-burning stove before Nick got the kid gate installed. It really wasn't as bad as I had feared. I took him to he ER just to be sure! He was so pooped that we managed to change his clothes and diaper without waking him.

Poor buddy :-(

In order to hear this correctly, you'll need to pause the music player at the very bottom of the browser, so scroll down!

The Mom Song

The Mom Song

Get ready to laugh you butt off!! One of my bloggy friends had this on her page and I just had to share.

check-out this link!!

I plan on posting something nice and long once I've added some pictures and am not so tired, but in the meantime, I wanted to bring your attention to an amazing post by my sweet friend, Crissy. It's a must read!! Click on her name to read it. God has been so good to me by bringing such incredible people into my life. I'm so thankful!!

eye candy

Ms. Grinny Rosey Cheeks

Sleeping Beauty

Jenna and cousin

Joshua's latest scrapes. The one across the nose is from running into lumber and the one next to his eye is from twirling around with a blanket over his head and catching the corner of the futon. Poor kid!

Where's the baby?

paying-off debt

Ahhh!! For me, nothing's sweeter than getting out from under debt. I lose so much sleep at night knowing we owe people money. This morning, I called and payed all of our outstanding hospital and er co-pays (minus one which there is some confusion on). In addition to getting caught-up on medical debt, we were able to bring Nick's student loans current and lower our monthly payment. Yay! Praise the Lord for tax returns and kind phone operators!!

With the money we have leftover, we are working on the future family room and the kitchen. Oh, and we did invest in a Wii. Yeah, seems kinda silly, but even Joshua enjoys getting-in on the action :-) You should see him hoot and holler, jump up and down, and run with excitement. We're hoping to invest in the Wii Fit soon. We played Wii Fit at a friend's house Friday night and I'm still sore! The hula-hoop is super fun :-)

catching-up

Long time no post! Well, there's been a lot of sickness, craziness, happiness, etc. I'll try to fill you in :-)

A couple of weekends ago, we decided to go ahead and experiment with bolus feeding for Jenna. For those of you who have no clue what I'm talking about, bolus feeding is manual feeding through a syringe. We usually have Jenna on a feeding-tube with a continuous feed. We (Nick, me and the doctors) decided we should try to take Jenna off the continuous feeding to see if her glucose levels would handle bolus feeds every 2 hours. Well, much to our dismay, her glucose decreased with each hour :-( So, we put her back on continuous feeds for now. She's still young and just needs more time. She has a lot going on inside that little body and time is something we have. We plan on trying again after she's had her palate surgery. Which brings me to our next subject...

We met with Jenna's Maxillofacial/Oral surgeon today to schedule her palate surgery. Mark your calendars for May 6th and remember to pray for little Jenna. Thankfully, the surgery isn't super evasive and will last about as long as her lip correction (about an hour or so). We're going to have her birthday party on the 2nd so that she can enjoy all of her family and friends :-) It's going to be a big blow-out (or so I'm anticipating).

Nick's working on our extra room (formerly the garage). It will be our main area of family time. The television, games, computer, work-out room will hopefully be done by her palate surgery. My parents will be coming to stay with us and this will be their room :-) It's going to be great! Also, we're going to be doing our kitchen!! Woohoo!! Yes, no more tacky, hunter green linoleum, doorless cabinets, and cramped spacing. I'll post pictures gradually :-)

My SIL had her sweet baby this past Monday (on her due date). All of the kiddos (6) have been born on their due date, minus one. She's so beautiful. Go to her blog and read about the birth story and see the pictures!!

Well, that's it for now. I have a futon full of laundry to do...thanks Nick!!

Tagged

I was tagged by Kimberly @ Empty me of me so I can be filled with YOU to do the following:



THE RULES.



1. go to your documents/pictures

2. go to your 6th file.

3. go to your 6th picture.

4. blog about it.

5. tag 6 people to do the same.

6. smile

This is a picture of my precious Jenna before she had her lip repair. To this day, it remains one of my favorites of her. Even though she's not smiling, her eyes tell her story of struggle and triumph. Such a small baby, but she has gone through more than many adults will in their entire lifetime. I'm so thankful for the support our family has had and continues to have through our incredible support system of church, family, and friends.

I am tagging the following:

My SIL

Karen

Jen

Donna

Tammy