Monday, March 21, 2011
Monday, March 14, 2011
Time Flies...
It was a big day in our house yesterday...
My sweet baby girl moved up to size 4 diapers!!!!
This doesn't seem possible to me.
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| Please excuse my messy hair... we've been playing hard! :) |
My sweet baby girl moved up to size 4 diapers!!!!
This doesn't seem possible to me.
Thursday, March 10, 2011
56 Days!!!
Where will we be in 56 days???
Oh Maui... I hear you calling to me!
My fitness goal:
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Seperate beds?
I am seriously entertaining the idea of separate beds for G and I!!!!
Since his accident 10 days ago he has been on pain meds at night to help him sleep... Well it may help him but its keeping me from sleeping! Ever since he started them he has been sleeping like a MAD MAN! Tossing and turning, twitching, yanking covers off, kicking me, etc... I miss the days of being a sound sleeper, but since Hadley was born I am the lightest sleeper in the world! I feel bad for G, but I told him this morning that he has to sleep downstairs tonight in the guest room because I was entertaining thoughts of strangling him in his sleep about the 5th time he work me up last night!!!!
He had his surgery this morning so hopefully this will be the last night on the pain meds, or his move downstairs will be a permanent one! haha... But seriously!
Hope everyone is having a great Tuesday!
Jamie
Since his accident 10 days ago he has been on pain meds at night to help him sleep... Well it may help him but its keeping me from sleeping! Ever since he started them he has been sleeping like a MAD MAN! Tossing and turning, twitching, yanking covers off, kicking me, etc... I miss the days of being a sound sleeper, but since Hadley was born I am the lightest sleeper in the world! I feel bad for G, but I told him this morning that he has to sleep downstairs tonight in the guest room because I was entertaining thoughts of strangling him in his sleep about the 5th time he work me up last night!!!!
He had his surgery this morning so hopefully this will be the last night on the pain meds, or his move downstairs will be a permanent one! haha... But seriously!
Hope everyone is having a great Tuesday!
Jamie
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Time to Vent
I really don't like to complain on this blog, mostly because I never want people to think that I/we don't know how blessed we are. We have a beautiful little girl, a wonderful family, the best friends a girl could ask for, a great paying job, and the worlds best husband!!!! With that being said we have our struggles too! This past year has been a challenge financially! Graham is in school (8-5, M-F) and playing hockey for the school so working for him was not and is not an option! So for the last 6 months we have been living on one income (mine)! And the 1st 4 months was Mat leave pay so defiantly not my full pay! G worked unbelievably hard over the summer so we had a good savings going into the school year... Enter disasters!!!! I swear I think we are cursed. We have no debt (other than student loan and mortgage) so that is good, but it seems like every time we get a little ahead something ridiculous happens that sets us back!!! Let me back up to the fall... Addicus breaks her foot, $500 then she gets a life threatening infection- $1500, then Baxter severes a tendon in his leg - $1200! I promise we are great pet owners! Don't get me wrong we would have spent whatever it took to save our dogs, but $3200 in a 6 weeks span is not an easy pill to swallow! Fast forward to January! We are actually doing OK. Nothing on Credit Card and we can live on what I make every month! So we decide maybe its time to take a hot vacation! My wonderful father-n-law got us a trip to Hawaii as a wedding present so what better time to use it than now!!! All we have to worry about is spending money! WOOOOO WHHHOOO!
If you know me very well, you know that I stress about money, even when we have it so I should have known that because I felt so at ease about the trip something had to be coming to stress me out!!!
I wont go into details but after a little wrestling match between Addicus and my mom's little dog Gizmo, we got to spend another $1000 for a vet bill the 3rd week of February!!!! GIVE ME A BREAK!!!!
OK, that had to be it right....
Oh no! Last Friday, during G's hockey game, he took a puck to the mouth, splitting his lip requiring 6 stitches, along with knocking out his bridge and 3 teeth!!! So now we have paid close to $700 dollars to get it 'temporary' fixed we have been quoted $13,000-$15,000 to get his teeth permanently fixed!!!!
HOLY SHIT! ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!!! And of course our dental insurance wont cover the work!!!! I should have started crying right? But instead I started laughing! I am pretty sure the dentist and G thought that I had lost my mind! But at this point its comical how bad our luck is!!!
We don't blow money! We don't live outside our means! We don't buy new cars or toys!
We just have the WORST LUCK IN THE WORLD!!!!
Please wish us luck in our battle with the school to get them to pay for some of this.... We will need it!
Thank God we have a million air miles saved up or I defiantly wouldn't be getting back to OKC this year!
Sorry for the vent session!
Feeling a little down on our luck
Jamie
If you know me very well, you know that I stress about money, even when we have it so I should have known that because I felt so at ease about the trip something had to be coming to stress me out!!!
I wont go into details but after a little wrestling match between Addicus and my mom's little dog Gizmo, we got to spend another $1000 for a vet bill the 3rd week of February!!!! GIVE ME A BREAK!!!!
OK, that had to be it right....
Oh no! Last Friday, during G's hockey game, he took a puck to the mouth, splitting his lip requiring 6 stitches, along with knocking out his bridge and 3 teeth!!! So now we have paid close to $700 dollars to get it 'temporary' fixed we have been quoted $13,000-$15,000 to get his teeth permanently fixed!!!!
HOLY SHIT! ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!!! And of course our dental insurance wont cover the work!!!! I should have started crying right? But instead I started laughing! I am pretty sure the dentist and G thought that I had lost my mind! But at this point its comical how bad our luck is!!!
We don't blow money! We don't live outside our means! We don't buy new cars or toys!
We just have the WORST LUCK IN THE WORLD!!!!
Please wish us luck in our battle with the school to get them to pay for some of this.... We will need it!
Thank God we have a million air miles saved up or I defiantly wouldn't be getting back to OKC this year!
Sorry for the vent session!
Feeling a little down on our luck
Jamie
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Hadley - 14 Months!
I cant believe my sweet girl is 14 months old (Yesterday)!
She is getting so big and has such a beautiful personality! I love to hear and see her laugh, which she does non-stop. That girl rarely has bad day... We ARE SO BLESSED! She eats good, sleeps great, and loves to be cuddled! Her new favorite thing is 'being chased'! Its funnier for some reason with Graham does it, but he will get on his hands and knees and chase her around the couch!!! She laughs so hard she usually falls over a few times! My Mom and I just sit and watch, killing ourselves laughing at the two of them!
Last week my sweet girl got 'THe Croup"! It was awful! I still have no idea where she could have gotten it from but my heart broke to see her so sick! I thank God every day for having a healthy baby! This was the 1st major (taken to the emergency room) sickness she has had! I was so panicked waiting in the ER every time the nurse, intake nurse, or whoever the third person was that asked me her symptoms that I just started crying!!!! I am sure they thought I was crazy but something about being in the Children's Hospital, holding your sick baby over-whelmed me with emotions! We were in and out within an hour and Hadley was given a steroid to beat the Croup. Within 24 hours she was feeling a lot better! She still has a little cough but they said that will go away within a week- 10 days!
Other than that our life has been pretty normal (for us anyway).
Grahams sisters and their families are coming into town on Friday so we will have a full house this weekend!!! We are excited to see them, especially the kiddos! Hadley loves playing with her cousins!
Hope everyone is having a wonderful week!
Love this smile!
Living in Canada you have to have a good snowsuit!!!
Watching Daddy play Hockey!
She is getting so big and has such a beautiful personality! I love to hear and see her laugh, which she does non-stop. That girl rarely has bad day... We ARE SO BLESSED! She eats good, sleeps great, and loves to be cuddled! Her new favorite thing is 'being chased'! Its funnier for some reason with Graham does it, but he will get on his hands and knees and chase her around the couch!!! She laughs so hard she usually falls over a few times! My Mom and I just sit and watch, killing ourselves laughing at the two of them!
Last week my sweet girl got 'THe Croup"! It was awful! I still have no idea where she could have gotten it from but my heart broke to see her so sick! I thank God every day for having a healthy baby! This was the 1st major (taken to the emergency room) sickness she has had! I was so panicked waiting in the ER every time the nurse, intake nurse, or whoever the third person was that asked me her symptoms that I just started crying!!!! I am sure they thought I was crazy but something about being in the Children's Hospital, holding your sick baby over-whelmed me with emotions! We were in and out within an hour and Hadley was given a steroid to beat the Croup. Within 24 hours she was feeling a lot better! She still has a little cough but they said that will go away within a week- 10 days!
Other than that our life has been pretty normal (for us anyway).
Grahams sisters and their families are coming into town on Friday so we will have a full house this weekend!!! We are excited to see them, especially the kiddos! Hadley loves playing with her cousins!
Hope everyone is having a wonderful week!
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Change of Plans
Ok, Ok. So things change right?
1st of all, I am no longer "attempting" to run the OKC 1/2 Marathon! The timing just isn't going to work out for us to be in OKC that weekend! I was really looking forward to it, but oh well! Maybe next year ;)
2nd- we are no longer going to Costa Rica (for a lot of reasons), but we are now going to MAUI May 6-14th!!!! Flights are booked, and accommodations booked....that's right folks, we are going on Vacation!!!
We are so excited and its LONG over due. Graham and I always said that we would take at least one vacation every year but so far we haven't stuck to it :( Mostly because every time I get any time off I want to go home! I am sad that I wont be home in May but will be home sometime this summer! It depends on G's work schedule but for now it looks like June 30-July 12th!!!! Of course that could change, but defiantly no later than July!!!
Well I hope everyone is staying warm! Is anyone else wanting to see summer!!!!
1st of all, I am no longer "attempting" to run the OKC 1/2 Marathon! The timing just isn't going to work out for us to be in OKC that weekend! I was really looking forward to it, but oh well! Maybe next year ;)
2nd- we are no longer going to Costa Rica (for a lot of reasons), but we are now going to MAUI May 6-14th!!!! Flights are booked, and accommodations booked....that's right folks, we are going on Vacation!!!
We are so excited and its LONG over due. Graham and I always said that we would take at least one vacation every year but so far we haven't stuck to it :( Mostly because every time I get any time off I want to go home! I am sad that I wont be home in May but will be home sometime this summer! It depends on G's work schedule but for now it looks like June 30-July 12th!!!! Of course that could change, but defiantly no later than July!!!
Well I hope everyone is staying warm! Is anyone else wanting to see summer!!!!
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