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Preston is 3!!!!

Preton had a great birthday. First he woke up and saw his new bike he got and he pretty much was a happy camper for the rest of the day. We went to Chuck E Cheese and after that we had a pizza party at our house and had cousins and friends over. We played pin the tail on the donkey!! I love you Preston, I'm so glad your my sweet little guy!

2009

I am very blessed this year. I just wanted to breeze through this year real quick. We got pregnant in January and Preston turned 2, February was James 32nd birthday,March not much happened. In April Ashlynn turned 5 and we went camping. in May I turned 29 and Ashlynn graduated from pre-school. Then we had a wonderful trip to Cali when we visited Terry and Mary and the kids got to meet Mickey. (Thanks again guys it sure was fun!!!) June, July and August we just did all the regular summer stuff like the pools parks carnivals parades fireworks and some camping and of coarse fishing. I didn't feel like doing much because I was getting huge prego but we still had a good summer. September 18th Addison was born. She is the sweetest baby and so very girlie. We are blessed to have her sweetness in our home. September 22nd we had our 8th anniversary. We didnt do much for that this year since Addi was born 4 days before. We stayed in the hospital for 3 days so we considered that our little hotel get away :) October was a hard month for us with James losing his job and a bit of devastation kicked in but through it all we had lots of support and help. We had a fun weekend with James Dad side of the family. We had a fun Halloween and the day after that we blessed Addison. November we kicked off with me having to get my gallbladder out, it was hard having two surgeries back to back but I'm good now that the horrible pain is gone. Then we went to Twin Falls for Thanksgiving. We had a great Dinner lots of yummy food and we visited with a lot of James family that live there. It's always good to see everyone. Dec 2nd James got a Job Yippy! He so far is really liking it. We had a great Christmas and we are grateful for everyone that helped us out this year. It was a good year but we are shooting for a better 2010! Happy New Year!

Look who came to the party!!

We had a great time at the Ivie family Christmas party last night. Good food, good laughs and good times. The kids got a present from Santa and the adults played white Elephant game and of course came some great laughs. I'm so glad I came from such a great family. Love ya all

11 weeks old already

Addison is growing so fast. I took her to her 2 month well check appt. on friday and she was in the 70th percentile in her weight and 60 th in her lenth and 40th in her head size. She weighed in at a whoppin 12# 6 oz. She is very smiley and she talks an goo's a lot. Sweet thing, we just love her to like crazy.

Me and all my glory

Here goes the story of the gallbladder attack. I think I have had GB problems since after I had Preston I would get really bad pains every once in a while. They were always few and far between so I never went to the doctor. Then I had a couple of the GB pains when I was pregnant with Addison, I actually had a real bad attack a week before she was born I called the hospital and they said just drink a lot of water and rest. That episode lasted 4 hours of constant pain but it went away. Then last Sunday night at 3 a.m. the GB pain was back it lasted all through the night. All I could do was feed the baby and try to find comfort in bed. Through Monday it subsided some but it never went away totally then it just got worse and worse through the whole night. I took some percocet that maybe help a little but by 6 a.m. I was calling my mom to come stay with the kids so James can take me to the E.R. We took Addi with us cause I'm her source of food and then we get there and kids 14 and younger could not go back in the E.R. So I am all alone now 30 hours of pain later. First they drew blood. It came back the my white blood cell count was real high and I was running a fever and I was taken to get an ultra sound and I seen her write stone on the screen. I'm waiting for the results and communicating with James via texting. Then the doctor comes in and told me I need to have my GB taken out I was in bad condition and he doesn't let people leave in my condition. Then the tears start flowing I'm all alone, keep in mind we have no health insurance I don't know what to do. I was in so much pain that they were giving me some stuff that was supposibly stronger than morphine and it still wasn't helping. Anyways they finally let Addi and James come back because no one was in the E.R. with the flu at the time. We were scared about every thing the surgery and how to pay for it. We do have the option for Cobra and possibly medicaid so I don't think we have to pay for every thing hopefully. The outcome of the surgery was a really bad infected full of puss GB and it had a stone. I had to stay two nights in the hospital cause I had to have IV antibiotics to clear up the infection.
Anyways poor Addison was banned from me for 2 nights and for a baby that has never has a bottle I'm sure she was devastated but she seem to do alright. When I got home all I did was hold her for two days straight making up for lost time. She had James up till 4 in the morning the first night but the second night she slept well. James had Brian( My cuz) over for help the second night and they watched Mr. Mom together. James did great with the kids.
Thanks to everybody that helped me with the kids and who visited me in the hospital and brought in dinners. We are very blessed to have great family and great friends in our lives. It was not hard or stressful for us to come up with help it was right at our doorstep and we are truly grateful for that.

Blessing Day!

Addison's big day was a lot of fun. She slept through everything even the luncheon after. James did a great job with the blessing it was beautiful. We had many great family and friends come to support Addi and we sure appreciate it! Thanks you to everyone that helped make this a special day!