10 Whoppin' Years!

It's my annivarsary, today! :) Trevor and I have been married for 10 years now. Wow. Ten years. That's a long time. I was just a young 20 year old girl marrying the boy that I was sure I loved and that I KNEW God had created just for me to marry. Okay, so that's not the only thing God created him for, but it's one of my favorites! To think about all that has taken place, all the changes in my life, and in me personally in the last ten years just blows me away. It's almost like I'm a completely different person. Of course everything about me hasn't changed - like my personality or characteristics. If you ask Trevor, he will tell you that I have the same annoying habits or tendancies as I did ten years ago. So, no everything about me hasn't changed. But, I have gone from a young naive 20 year old, to what I think is an older and wiser, still somewhat naive 30 year old. I have lived so much in those years that I can hardly remember how things where before... before a husband and before 3 kids. And although I am more tired than I used to be and a little bit heavier than that in shape 20 year old, I wouldn't trade what I have now for anything. It's sad that in today's world, 10 years of marriage almost seems impossible to reach, when it should be just the beginning. Today marks our FIRST 10 years of marraige and I am looking forward to whatever else comes our way. I'm not saying that it's always easy - marriage is definitely not for wimps - but when I think back to when we first met, and how everything fell into place, and the moment I KNEW (yes knew) God told me he was the one, I know everything will be okay. After all, God created him just for me remember :) I wonder what my life will be like 10 years from now and I'm thinking back to this 30 year old woman. Exciting :)

Happy Anniversary, Babe. I love you so much. You amaze me :) - your brown eyed girl

It's That Time, Already?

I can't believe that it has been over a month since my last post - that the kids started school! It just flew by. Well, Friday marks the end of the first six weeks at school - which just blows me away. Eliana's teacher says that she is really sweet, which we already know! She always gets smiley faces in her take home folder everyday, too. When we took her to school the other day, the special ed teacher there stopped Trevor and told him that we had such a sweet daughter. She said that she is always really nice to her kids everytime she sees any of them -some of which can't talk or even walk, so alot of kids just ignore them. She also has taken up for a girl at school when another girl was being mean to her and she has taken a little boy under her wing, who was always playing alone (he's really small and really shy). Yup, she's a sweetie.
Micah, is a sweetie too. I think he just chooses not to show it - but I know that somewhere in there is a sweet sweet boy! Although he doesn't always get smiley faces in his folder everday - he does get alot of them. He also gets marks ever so often, that he talks alot! No, not Micah :) Welcome to our world! It's not just at school that he talks alot. The boy seriously doesn't stop...EVER. I always thought that no one could talk as much as he does, but as time goes on, Eliana is getting pretty close. And Alyx - oh my. She is not even 2 and a half yet and already talks alot. The other two didn't talk as much when they were that young, so I can't even imagine... Anyway, back to Micah. He has gotten alot of really good grades this year. He brings home tons of papers and with the exception of three papers from last week- they have all been A's and B's. I'm so proud of him. And really, the occassional "talks too much" mark doesn't bother me all that much. I'm just happy and shocked that it's not everyday! He's friendly, what can I say?!

Kleenex Party

Okay, yesterday was the first day of school. OMG, I can't believe Micah is in 4th grade now and I can't believe Eliana is already ready for kingergarten! They are quite different from one another, those two. Both of them talk ALOT, but Eliana is always really excited to do new things, while Micah is usually really nervous about them. Anyway, it was a new school and Micah was nervous but excited to go. I walked him in and said goodbye. It was hard, but he is in 4th now - I think it's a rule that you are only allowed to cry when you drop of the kids for their first year in school. (at least in public!) I leave sad... I take a deep breath because it's time for my baby girl to go. I walk Eliana in to her school and then to her class. For the first week moms are allowed to stay for a bit in the class room. There are a few parents there. I was a little nervous going because I had my camera, but didn't want to feel or look like a total dork pulling it out in the room in front of everyone. Luckily there was a mom with her video camera and another with her regular camera. I sat beside Eli on the red mat like we were supposed to. After a bit of introductions, her teacher began to read a story. Eliana turns to me in the middle of it and says "Mom, I think you're supposed to go now." Well, hmmmph! Okay, so maybe everyone but me and one other mom had already left, but still... I wasn't the only one. Would it hurt her to act a little bit sad about me leaving! I should have expected that kind of comment from Eliana. After all she is the kid that cried when it was time to leave after "Meet the Teacher" Friday night! She wanted to stay at school. I guess I would rather her be like that than be one who is crying because they don't want to stay. Now that would just kill me. The story the teacher was reading was called "Goodbye Kiss" about a little raccoon going to kindergarten for the first day of school and leaving his mom and all that sad stuff that goes along with it. Of course I start crying and just as I reach in my purse to pull out a kleenex, a voice over the intercom says "Moms, feel free to come join the Kleenex Party in the teachers lounge!" The other mom that was still there laughed at me and said "how appropriate!" Here are a couple of pictures of Eliana on her first day.











I didn't get any of Micah at his school in the morning because apparently it isn't cool to take pictures of him in front of big kids - and since it was his first day at a new school where he didn't know anyone, I figured I wouldn't embarrass him. I did get a couple of good ones of them after school though.

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Health Updates, A Happy New Date, & A Fun New Site

Thanks to those of you who prayed for Alyx. She is finally up and running again! Don't know what that was, but sure glad it is over. Also, I am feeling better than yesterday. I don't know why I am always getting headaches. I think I get them from my mom. NOT LIKE THAT! I mean that my mom has headaches adn migraines very often and so do I. When I was younger I used to never get headaches, but if I did it would be one that would last for a few days. They were so few and far between though, it was okay. Well, when I hit about 21 or 22 I started getting them ALL the time. Like, seriously, I have one at LEAST 4 times a week... sometimes more. Sometimes they are so bad, but sometimes they are migraines that make me cry! Anyway, my mom said that about the age she started getting hers too! Of all of the things I can get from my sweet momma, I get things like migraines, hair you have to fight with every morning, a crazy little pinkie toe, ect.... you get my drift. Well that's all for now. Mostly a check up. Oh ya, we are going to see Trevor tomorrow! We are so excited and can't wait. It has been 2 LONG weeks and me and the kids miss him terribly :( Last night Alyx looked at me really sad and said "Daddy left me..." That just breaks my heart. Poor thing doesn't understand what is going on but thank goodness we will finally be getting to move up there with him on the 7th of August. Just 2 more weeks :) Before I go I need to remind you to go check out this new site called Polka Dot Potato. You can use my link on the side here or you can use the link to go to Happy Scrappin' to find out more. You need to check it out - it will be fun :)

My Poor Baby!

Okay, I haven't posted in a couple of days. I wanted to... just couldn't. My sweet Alyx has not been feeling well. She woke up crying "I poo poo momma" in a sad little voice. Sure enough she had diarrhea which continued all day and still is. The bad thing is that it has been bloody! Talk about scary. My mom, who is a nurse and a has worked for a pediatrician for years, took a look and said it was for sure blood. She said that sometimes too much acid in it can cause that or something that she's eaten. She said to just keep a good eye on her and make sure it doesn't get worse. She started running a low grade fever last night and that is pretty much staying the same today. I just hate it when the little ones are sick and momma can't make them better. The good thing is that I know One who can - if you could, say a little prayer for her to get well. I'm going to go get her some more Tylenol now...

Woohoo- I'm good for day 2!

See, told you I was gonna get better. This is a first for me... 2 days straight! Now for the hard part- what to say. Oh I know something. It started this past Tuesday. I had company coming over for dinner which had been planned for days. Anyway, I am cooking and my mom is already there in the kitchen with me visiting. The phone rings and I answer it. It was my sons baseball coach. Baseball has been over for several weeks now. Well he says says "I know this is kinda short notice but..." Here I am thinking he's gonna say that his son, who is Micah's age, is gonna have a birthday party this weekend or something. You know - telling me Tuesday that there is a party Friday. That would be short notice yes, but this is what followed... "Ummm there is gonna be a pool party for the baseball kids - TONIGHT... at 6:00." Wow, I have heard of short notices, but tonight! To top it off it was alread about 5:40 when he called and the party was gonna be at 6:00! We had plans so didn't go. One of the ladies in charge did see me later and told me that they were going to do it again Thursday (last night). Eliana was in baseball this year too - she was so cute in her tiny uniform- so I load up the kids and take them. I'm not excited about sitting at a pool watching the 2 kids and struggling with the little one to keep her out, so we go a little after it starts. We walk in and there is a pool full of teenagers! I wasn't sure what to think - so I walk over to an adult and ask if we were supposed to be there? Maybe the lady got it wrong or something. I was worried that we walked in on someones personal swimming party and they didn't know why we were there! He said yes, it's for the baseball kids. Ya, it was for baseball kids alright - the really old kids. The one on Tuesday had been for the young ones! He told us we could stay though so I let kids swim. Luckily before long a couple of other little ones Eliana's age came and a few Micah's age. Turns out they didn't even get a call about the first one. Go figure!??! Here's a picture I took of Alyx there. Surprisingly she didn't throw a fit to get in! She just chilled with me while I tried to get some pictures. Just ignore her dirty face!

Here is a quick photo of Micah and Eliana in their uniforms before their first game!

Okay well I've blogged and if you read all that - you're good! Adios.