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October 4, 2009

Happy Anniversary!

Today is mine and Brandon's 4 year wedding anniversary! We have been through so much that it seems as though we have been married longer than 4 years. He is the man of my dreams and I am so thankful to have such a wonderful husband! We are not going to go out to dinner like we normally would today, instead Brandon is grilling steak and shrimp while I make baked potatoes, bacon wrapped green beans, and home made peach cobbler for desert! Brandon and Kaitlynn left earlier on today to go get Brandon a haircut. When they came home he has roses and a sweet card for me.

Me and the love of my life =)

This coming up week Zoe has her 18 month apt with shots and I have to finish up shopping for our camping trip. I just have a little bit of food I have left to get. I am getting really excited to go camping on the beach. I just hope it does not rain. There is a chance of rain on Saturday. Brandon has been really busy with school doing clinicals everyday, which means he does not come home for lunch and it makes for one long day for me. Zoe and I find things to do though. Zoe is so active she is always having to do something. She refuses to watch T.V. which I guess is a good thing. She absolutly LOVES playing with her baby dolls. Brooklynn is doing great in school. She has finally overcome her crying battle every morning when I would drop her off. She is learning to count and say her ABC's. She is even getting really good with her hand/eye cordination.. example would be coloring and cutting with scissors. Kaitlynn is also doing great in school. I had parent/teacher conference with Kaitlynn's teacher on Friday and her teacher had no worries/complaints about Kaitlynn. She said Kaitlynn is a very focused and very organized student. She said Kaitlynn is always cleaning up and organizing when they have "5 minute breaks" between subject. I am so happy for Kaitlynn and Brooklynn both. I am thankful to have such smart and good kids! Well I hope everyone has a wonderful week ahead. =)

September 22, 2009

Much needed update

Sorry everyone for not blogging. I really have not been in a blogging mode lately. Since the last time I blogged we have been a busy family. We have had a couple different bbq's with friends, Brandon has had an orginizational day at school for the whole family, we have planned a camping trip to the beach in October with lots of friends, and suprisingly it has rained here more days in the past two weeks than it has the past 7 months we have lived here. It is crazy how much it has been raining here. We were in such a drought and now everything is SO green and beautiful. We have decided to head to the beach one last time before it gets to cold here. We will be heading to Mustang Island October 10th - 12th and this time we are going to be camping out on the beach (at a campground) instead of getting a motel. It will be alot of fun espically for the kids. I am really looking foward to making a campfire and roasting marshmellow with the kids. This will be the first time they will have ever gone camping! We already know they all love the beach lets just hope they love camping on the beach. haha The campground in right on the ocean but the water and the campground is seperated by a sand dune (thank goodness because I was a bit scared to go to sleep thinking I would wake up with the water to my tent!!). I will take tons of pictures when we go camping and will share with everyone! Well this past weekend we have lots of friends over to bbq with us then we all watched the Texas Longhorns football game then we got the UFC fight. We had so much fun that night. We have become really good friends with a few of the people Brandon goes to school with and their familes. They are all such good, positive people that are alot of fun to be around. They are all the ones that will be going camping with us as well. On Sunday we had a really nice family day. We all just hung out in the house until the after nap time then we all headed out to play while Brandon washed the truck. The truck needed a washing BIG time since it has been raining SO much lately. But now we have the trunk in the garage because it is raining again! It is going to rain today and tomorrow then should be done for the rest of the week. For this coming weekend we do not have any plans yet. I am really wanting to get a dart board. Our next door neighbor has a dart board and we played with them Friday night and it was SO much fun! I did not know I would like playing darts so much. I do not even know the prices on dart boards to I am a little affraid to even look around. haha

The girls are all doing great. Kaitlynn had her first spelling test this past Friday and she got 100%! I am so pround of her. She got her new spelling words yesterday and she knows them all already. She is doing so good in school. She lost another tooth about a week ago so now she has lost all 4 front teeth, the 2 top and 2 botttom. Brooklynn is doing great as well. She recovered from her oral surgery very quickly and returned to school a week ago Monday. She is also doing very good in school and advancing very quickly. I am proud of her as well. She loves to "write" and draw and she is always making her drawing family oriented. It is always a picture of mommy and daddy or her sissy's. I love it! And my Zoe, she is growing up so fast. She is SO smart and she suprises me everyday at all the things she can do. Seriously, I do not know if it is because she has 2 older sisters to look up to or what but she is by far my most advanced kid at this age. I love my kids so much and I thank god everyday for blessing me with 3 beautiful children!! Brandon and I are doing great. Brandon has been busy in school doing lots of clinicals and one test a week. Starting next week he will have clinicals everyday of the week until the end of October.

September 11, 2009

Brooklynn had surgery!

Well yesterday morning I woke up early to get myself ready for a long day ahead of me. Our little Brooklynn had to have oral surgery. She unfortunatly had 2 cavaties that were really deep and the dentist would not fix them while she was awake. So she had to be put under general anestisia. I did not know this until theday before surgery but while she was put to sleep they had to intubate her and a machine helped her breath. I was so sad when I had found that out. I was also very scared for my baby girl. I was strong for her and made sure she had no worries and she was not scared, but on the inside I was a vervous wreck!!! I cried when the dr and the anesthesiologist came and talked to me. It was all just very over whelming to me. We had to arrive to the United Methodist Children's Hospital two hours before her surgery time. Well with me and my time we were 2 1/2 hours early. lol I am always early to everything! I HATE being late so I am always super early. haha Anyways after we checked in they put Brooke in a hospital gown and put ID bracelets on both her and I. She had lots of time to play while she waited for surgery. Since this was a children's hospital they had a huge play area for her to play in. It had anything you could think of for her to play with. She was loving it, she was not scared at all. Also before we headed to surgery our awesome neighbor had brough Brooke over some color/sticker books which she did those when she took time out from playing and we were just sitting in her hospital bed. When it came time for her surgery I really thought she was going to cry and freak out when it came time for me to leave her in the OR, but they had given her some goofy/relaxing juice to drink and that stuff made her SOOOOOOOOOO funny. She was saying the funniest things and doing the silliest things. She kept making me laugh so hard!! I got to walk her back to the OR, well right before she went in the OR doors. I gave her a kiss and told her I was going to go get some coffee and I would be right by her side when she woke up. I wanted to cry SOOO bad but I was strong for her! I went to the bathroom and the cried a little bit. I wiped my tears away then went and sat in the waiting room for 1 hour 45 minutes. I thought something had gone wrong because it was not suppose to take that long but instead when the dr came and talked to me she said Brooke did great! It took a little longer because they went ahead and did a deep cleaning on her and they also put 8 sealants on her back teeth to prevent any more cavaties in her precious little mouth! We have good brushing habbits here at home and I really hope these cavity bugs stay away!! Anyways, when she started to wake up from anestesia the dr brought me back to her. She was VERY emotional and I could not get her to calm down for anything. It was weird to see her like that because she was not herself. She would look at me but it was a stared look, she really was not "looking" at me. It took her a good hour before she really came to. She was discharged from the hospital after an hour and 30 minutes in recovery. We then had to stop by Walmart and pick up her pain meds. We sat there while her meds were being filled and then it happened.. they warned me anestesia caused this but I thought she was fine sine it had already been 2 hours since she woke up.. but I was wrong. We were sitting there and all of the sudden she started throwing up EVERYWHERE and not only that but where her tube was in her nose from being intubated she started bleeding. Ugh, it was a mess and my poor baby was helpless. Nevertheless they bumped her meds and got us out of there asap! Once we got home she just slept for the next 6 hours, got up to eat dinner, took a bath and then went back to bed for the night. I kept her home from school today to just give her little body time to heal. She is back to herself completly already and I am so thankful she had a complication free surgery and a quick recovery! Here are a few pictures from her first (and hopefull last) trip to the hospital!!

dressed up in her cool gown and nice hospital

bracelet.. waiting to get her vitals taken

getting her blood pressure taken like a champ!

she was so excited to see all the toys!

playing house.. we had to be there 2 hours

before surgery so she had lots of play time

me and my baby girl

keeping busy until surgery

playing with her color/sticker book.. a

gift to her from our neighbor for surgery!

being goofy!

right before surgery.. they gave her

some "relaxing" juice

after surgery.. going home!!

August 28, 2009

A little update

Well today is Friday and that means we have made it through the first week of school! Kaitlynn is doing great. She just absolutly loves school and looks foward to it everyday. I just hope she continues to like it FOREVER! =) I am a bit suprised though she has had no homework at all this first week of school. She has had paper work sent home everyday that she has done throughout the day and I am very proud of her because her hand writing is VERY good for a 1st grader, I think so anyways! It was pretty sloppy, well big letters and letters/words spaced out, at the end of her Kindergarten year. Now her letters are the size they should be with the correct spacing between letters and words and it just looks very nice! =) This is the first year she will actually be graded on things, not just S (for satisfactory) or U (for un-satisfactory). We are hoping for all A's, maybe a B or two! And little miss Brooklynn, she is doing great in preschool. The first 3 days were hard for her when it came time for me to drop her off and she would cry a bit but now she is doing awesome. She does not cry at all. She came home from school yesterday tell me about how she colored a picture and then got to cut it out all by HERSELF. She was so proud of herself as well as I was proud of her. It is amazing how time goes by so fast when you have kids. I am so thankful to have such wonderful children! Zoe is a bit lonley at home with both Brooklynn and Kaitlynn at home. Zoe is growing like a weed and is getting smarter by the day. I am amazed by the things she knows and the things she does. She really looks up to both of her older sisters! I will take some pictures of the girls this weekend and post them for ya'll. Hope everyone has a good weekend!

August 24, 2009

First day of school!

Well this morning was the first day of school for Kaitlynn and Brooklynn. They both woke up excited and happy to start school! Today was the first day of 1st grade for Kaitlynn and was the first day of preschool for Brooklynn. Kaitlynn did not want me to take her to school, she wanted to be independent and ride the bus! She LOVES riding the bus with her friends! Me, Brandon and Zoe all took Brooklynn to school. Her school is really only a couple blocks away so me and Zoe will be walking everyday to pick her up! Brooklynn was so excited to go in and meet new friends and start school, but as soon as it came time for me and daddy to leave her there.. oh man she got SO sad. She started crying and Brandon took over and tryed to calm her down. I got tears in my eyes and wanted to start crying with her so there was no way I could have calmed her down. It broke my heart to leave her crying. I am hoping by the end of the week she will be better. This is her first time really being away from me all day! =( Here are a few pictures of the girls before they started school today!

Kaitlynn and Brooklynn in

there "matching" outfits!

first day of 1st grade!

Kaitlynn getting on the bus

Me & Brooke outside her school

daddy trying to calm Brooke down..

this look on her face breaks my heart =(

Also a quick update on Kaitlynn and cheerleading.. I took her out of it this past week. They are way to competitve and way to demanding of a 6 year old. I wanted her to be in it for the fun and the expierience, but the cheerleading here is a whole nother story. She was asking me to take her out for a few days before I decided. I want her to have fun with sports and if she is asking to get out, then I know she is not having fun!

August 18, 2009

Kaitlynn is a cheerleader!

Kaitlynn is now officially a cheerleader! =) I registered her yesterday and she has practice all this week and then by the end of the week they will be breaking them down into squads. She is in a competitive cheerleading group so they compete with other cheerleaders from all around San Antonio. I think this will be a neat expierence for Kaitlynn! I am excited to see what the season brings. Here are a few pictures of her on her way to cheer practice!

Well school starts in 6 days!! Kaitlynn and Brooklynn both have "meet your teacher" day on Friday. I bought Kaitlynn and Brooklynn semi-matching outfits for their first day of school. They are SO cute! I will take pictures of them and post them after school has started.