* June
Girls Camp was AWESOME--what an adventure! See earlier post for more info
Chaia turns 15--YIKES- not sure how that can be I'm still in my 20's ;)
Mitch is the BEST DAD ever!
Aneka turns 7 -- have we really been in Indy 8 years
* July
Santa Claus Indiana-Holiday World was GREAT
as well as Chicago's Pizza and the train ride!
Fireworks in our own backyard for the 4th of July-YEAH FREEDOM!
Mitch announces no more Birthday's for him
Kaylie turns double digits--the big 10!!
Cooking at Youth Conference for 12 hours was hard but worth it!
Chaia goes back to Band and Band Camp
Aneka learns to ride a bike---AWESOME!
* August
Summers over :( kids head back to school
Friday, September 19, 2008
I give up...
Okay yes, I got behind- I think I'm too far gone at this point to try to recreate everything!?!!? But I wanted to get Kaylie's post in there since I had everyone elses. So here's hoping I get on the ball and get things done in a more timely matter!
Happy Birthday Kaylie--July 22nd
Kaylie took her time getting here just like her older sister, Chaia. Although Kaylie wasn't as late as Chaia--late was still late in my book especially since Kansas was having an extremely HOT July!!! Kaylie was due the 16th-on that day I was still working and even sitting in a staff meeting at work. The gal next to me was so nervous she whispered "Just let me know if we need to get out of here and I'll take you to the hospital!" Thanks Ann Marie-sorry I didn't get you out of the meeting that day ;)
Anyway, the weekend was here and we decided to take Chaia to a movie to spend possibly our last weekend together just the 3 of us. We had everything ready, clothes, crib, diapers, baby names-Mara Delyn or Brendan Mitchell (we didn't find out what we were having)just waiting on a baby! We took Chaia to the movie Quest for Camelot. Well the movie started and the little girls name was Kaylie and I immediately fell in love with it-I don't even remember watching the movie. I just remember sitting there thinking about that name and my baby.
We came home to find no power in our house or most of the city for that fact. The city couldn't keep up the demand due to the extreme heat. We called family to find a cool place to hang out-we hung out at my sisters -she still didn't have AC but her house was cooler until we could find a hotel that had AC. I told Mitch I wasn't sleeping in a hot house 9+ months pregnant. At 11:30 we found a cool hotel and settled in.
Monday morning my sister drug me to the mall to walk to induce labor no such luck. Tuesday Doctor's appointment, still dialated to 2 -so scheduled induction for the next week. Went home bummed, but extremely tired, made dinner-fried chicken mashed potatoes corn on the cob ate and started feeling bad (flu-like) then about 5:30 started having contractions-they continued for couple of hours steady but not too close. About 10 pm they were pretty good, called my sister to watch Chaia and we headed to Wesley Birthing Center. Checked in and I was at 3. The night progressed and I had an epidural about 3 am. My nurse was great and one of my customers at work! It wasn't weird like I thought it would be. Anyway, 5 am came and it was time to start pushing. Pushed 3 times and at 5:13 am my baby was here!! Chaia was also on the phone she had just called to check on me and the nurse said she's a little busy she'll call you in a minuter. I'm trying to see what it is-the Doctor is like well....I'm....not....sure---(taking his time to agitate me) I finally look at Mitch & the Nurse -I'm like what is it a boy or a girl. It's a GIRL!!! 7 lbs. 13. oz & 19 1/2 inches long with big blue eyes and her name is KAYLIE DELYN. So if she had been early or even on time her name would have been different.
I took one look and instantly knew she was smaller than her sister--thank goodness! She was crying & fussing and hasn't stopped. That first night she didn't sleep a wink and neither did Mitch & I....it was rough from the start! She was a great eater!! We are thankful that she's here...it took years hoping, wishing, praying and dreaming. Kaylie has always been a little more of a handful than the other girls. My mother always said it was because Chaia spoiled us by being so good! Mitch says she's the boy we never had-even though she LOVES princesses and everything GIRLIE! There is never a dull moment when Kaylie is around.
Thank Heaven for Little Girls!
Anyway, the weekend was here and we decided to take Chaia to a movie to spend possibly our last weekend together just the 3 of us. We had everything ready, clothes, crib, diapers, baby names-Mara Delyn or Brendan Mitchell (we didn't find out what we were having)just waiting on a baby! We took Chaia to the movie Quest for Camelot. Well the movie started and the little girls name was Kaylie and I immediately fell in love with it-I don't even remember watching the movie. I just remember sitting there thinking about that name and my baby.
We came home to find no power in our house or most of the city for that fact. The city couldn't keep up the demand due to the extreme heat. We called family to find a cool place to hang out-we hung out at my sisters -she still didn't have AC but her house was cooler until we could find a hotel that had AC. I told Mitch I wasn't sleeping in a hot house 9+ months pregnant. At 11:30 we found a cool hotel and settled in.
Monday morning my sister drug me to the mall to walk to induce labor no such luck. Tuesday Doctor's appointment, still dialated to 2 -so scheduled induction for the next week. Went home bummed, but extremely tired, made dinner-fried chicken mashed potatoes corn on the cob ate and started feeling bad (flu-like) then about 5:30 started having contractions-they continued for couple of hours steady but not too close. About 10 pm they were pretty good, called my sister to watch Chaia and we headed to Wesley Birthing Center. Checked in and I was at 3. The night progressed and I had an epidural about 3 am. My nurse was great and one of my customers at work! It wasn't weird like I thought it would be. Anyway, 5 am came and it was time to start pushing. Pushed 3 times and at 5:13 am my baby was here!! Chaia was also on the phone she had just called to check on me and the nurse said she's a little busy she'll call you in a minuter. I'm trying to see what it is-the Doctor is like well....I'm....not....sure---(taking his time to agitate me) I finally look at Mitch & the Nurse -I'm like what is it a boy or a girl. It's a GIRL!!! 7 lbs. 13. oz & 19 1/2 inches long with big blue eyes and her name is KAYLIE DELYN. So if she had been early or even on time her name would have been different.
I took one look and instantly knew she was smaller than her sister--thank goodness! She was crying & fussing and hasn't stopped. That first night she didn't sleep a wink and neither did Mitch & I....it was rough from the start! She was a great eater!! We are thankful that she's here...it took years hoping, wishing, praying and dreaming. Kaylie has always been a little more of a handful than the other girls. My mother always said it was because Chaia spoiled us by being so good! Mitch says she's the boy we never had-even though she LOVES princesses and everything GIRLIE! There is never a dull moment when Kaylie is around.
Thank Heaven for Little Girls!
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Notice something different....
My wonderful friend Elaine, showed me how to "Pimp my Blog". I'm just getting into the creative Digital world I'm finding that I really like it. I won't be giving up my usual creative endeavors (traditional scrapbooking, card making, stamping, crafts, sewing, etc) anytime soon just adding more to my "love to do" list.
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Happy Birthday Mitch-July 11th
Mitch recently bought an electric guitar and is teaching himself to play. He has come a long way! He has wanted to learn to play since I met him (17 years ago).
We didn't know what to get him for his birthday so we bought another Guitar Hero game and guitar so he and Chaia could play together. Chaia is quite the Guitar Hero. They have a great time playing and talking about the different games.
Stay tuned I'll post some pictures.
Happy Birthday Mitch!
We didn't know what to get him for his birthday so we bought another Guitar Hero game and guitar so he and Chaia could play together. Chaia is quite the Guitar Hero. They have a great time playing and talking about the different games.
Stay tuned I'll post some pictures.
Happy Birthday Mitch!
Fourth of July!
We went to Holiday World Splashin' Safari in Santa Claus Indiana. The day before we drove to French Lick and took a train ride. It was pretty cool. Then we had the best Pizza ever at Chicago's Pizza in French Lick--thanks to Jill for suggessting that we try it. Pizza just isn't pizza now... but anyway we drove to Jasper to stay the night and swim and have some R&R. Then on the 4th we got up and went to Holiday World. It was fun. Aneka rode her 1st roller coaster. I was a nervious mess waiting until it was over. Kaylie and I stayed grounded. Aneka's eyes were HUGE I thought she was going to cry or throw up...anyway, she said she liked it but she didn't want to go again. Then we went to the water side and played and played and played. The girls had a great time. Kaylie even rode some rides that I thought for sure she wouldn't. We watched Mitch, Chaia and Aneka go through a tube on a 4 person raft and then it shoots you out into a HUGE funnel and you swish around it and then go down the drain. We watched them on this observation deck and Kaylie said she wanted to do it. So the 4 of them take off and Kaylie LOVED it. They did it a few more times as well as some other rides. We had a great day!
Happy Birthday Aneka---June 27th
Okay so I'm a little behind. What can I say...
Aneka was born on a Wednesday afternoon, June 27, 2001 @ 4:48 pm. The day before she arrived I had a doctor's appointment and he asked that I arrive the next morning at the hospital to be induced the pockets of fluid around her were not as full or as many as he would have liked and thought it would be best to get her out. I was shocked! A baby that comes BEFORE the due date was I to be this lucky. My due date was July 7th. I never dreamed she would come in JUNE. We got home to prepare things for her arrival. Went to bed and woke at 2 am with contractions coming about 10 minutes apart for the next hour. They continued about 5 -I woke Mitch to see if we should go or just wait for our 7 am appointment. Things really didn't progress so we went to the hospital at 7. Checked in and got ready. Well once we got there and set up-things slowed down so they started the PIT to help me along. Finally about 3 I had my epidural!!! I like to call it Happy Hour!!! I was at a 4 at this point. So I thought we have a while to go. Then an hour they checked me I was at 10 and ready to go. Even though it was my 3rd baby I freaked out a little bit--what right now! Well, Dr. Miles barely got gloves on and seated. I gave one push and she was here. As he was cleaning her eyes/nose out-I could feel her shoulders and body just slide right out. She was a perfect little girl. She didn't cry - she just had these BIG blue eyes. She was so tiny and petite. My smallest baby-7 lbs! Big difference from Chaia 8-13.5. When we left the hospital she was down to 6 lbs 12 oz. I loved it!! Finally a tiny baby!! Mitch left and brought the girls back to meet her--Chaia 8, Kaylie 2 -almost 3. Kaylie wouldn't go near her or me. She just hung on to Mitch. Chaia was all over her--being the oldest she knew how this went. Aneka's little cry was so quiet and gentle. She is our Hoosier baby. Born 10 months after we arrived in Indiana. She is gentle, loving, happy she can change my mood with just a hug or kiss. She loves to leave little love notes around the house. We are so happy to have her in our family. We love you Aneka I can't believe it's been 7 years!!
Aneka was born on a Wednesday afternoon, June 27, 2001 @ 4:48 pm. The day before she arrived I had a doctor's appointment and he asked that I arrive the next morning at the hospital to be induced the pockets of fluid around her were not as full or as many as he would have liked and thought it would be best to get her out. I was shocked! A baby that comes BEFORE the due date was I to be this lucky. My due date was July 7th. I never dreamed she would come in JUNE. We got home to prepare things for her arrival. Went to bed and woke at 2 am with contractions coming about 10 minutes apart for the next hour. They continued about 5 -I woke Mitch to see if we should go or just wait for our 7 am appointment. Things really didn't progress so we went to the hospital at 7. Checked in and got ready. Well once we got there and set up-things slowed down so they started the PIT to help me along. Finally about 3 I had my epidural!!! I like to call it Happy Hour!!! I was at a 4 at this point. So I thought we have a while to go. Then an hour they checked me I was at 10 and ready to go. Even though it was my 3rd baby I freaked out a little bit--what right now! Well, Dr. Miles barely got gloves on and seated. I gave one push and she was here. As he was cleaning her eyes/nose out-I could feel her shoulders and body just slide right out. She was a perfect little girl. She didn't cry - she just had these BIG blue eyes. She was so tiny and petite. My smallest baby-7 lbs! Big difference from Chaia 8-13.5. When we left the hospital she was down to 6 lbs 12 oz. I loved it!! Finally a tiny baby!! Mitch left and brought the girls back to meet her--Chaia 8, Kaylie 2 -almost 3. Kaylie wouldn't go near her or me. She just hung on to Mitch. Chaia was all over her--being the oldest she knew how this went. Aneka's little cry was so quiet and gentle. She is our Hoosier baby. Born 10 months after we arrived in Indiana. She is gentle, loving, happy she can change my mood with just a hug or kiss. She loves to leave little love notes around the house. We are so happy to have her in our family. We love you Aneka I can't believe it's been 7 years!!
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