Big Shocker...

OK so I tried to wait longer to make sure everything is ok, but I can't do it. It was very VERY very surprising, but I just found out for sure I am PREGNANT!!!! It was for sure NOT planned. I freaked out at first because I am not done with Faith being my baby (she will be 21 months when the baby arrives), but it is growing on me and I am getting excited. I am a little worried about this pregnancy because I had NO symptoms at first which was different than with Faith, but I know they are all different. I am beginning to have the sick stomach feelings, I just hope (like with Faith) I don't actually get sick.

OK so here is the story... I took a pregnancy test the Wed. before Thanksgiving (which some of you knew) and there was a very light line. I went to the doctor the same day because I was sick and didn't want to go through Thanksgiving being sick. I told the doc. I might be pregnant so she tested me. She said I wasn't and gave me a shot (which kind of worries me too because I shouldn't have had it if I was pregnant). So I don't know if the doc. was wrong or what. Then about a month later still no period, so I took a different type pregnancy test and the plus showed up. SO Stacy and I decided, without insurance, I would take advantage of the pregnancy clinics free test (more accurate). Well it was positive as well, so they said I would have had to been pregnant when I was at the doc. because it would not have shown up otherwise. So don't know what happened there, but they aren't sure how far I am. They are guessing I will be due July 23ish, but will know better after my first ultra sound which is Jan. 7th. SOOOO I guess I will let you know more then. I am trying to stay positive and not worry. I think the worry is just because I am still shocked. It took us years to get pregnant with Faith, so it was a surprise!!! Anyway, please add this exciting news to your prayer list, THANKS!!

Faith's still sick.

Just a short update on the sickness issue. We have been to the doctor more lately than I think we have since she was born. She still has a double ear infection. It has lasted through 3 ten day antibiotics and has gone on for close to a month. All I can say is poor little girl!!! She is now going through a round of shots and another medicine that is for a resistant bacteria. Some of you will know more about this than me, but basically my doc. dumbed it down to say something in her body isn't letting the meds. work, so we are going after that "thing" (the bacteria he thinks). If any of you had tubes when you were young you prob. went through all this. I didn't so it is all new to me. The meds. she is on is hard core though. It is very rough on the stomach and she hasn't been eating well since she got sick a month ago. Our once chunky little girl has lost over a pound in a month. Doctors do NOT like that much and neither do I. This medicine is probably going to make her loose more weight they say, so we will see. I know this is no where near the worst thing a child has gone through, but it is so hard to watch your little baby scream through shots, scream through doctors visits (we have been everyday this week) and scream through taking MORE meds. She took her meds. so good the first 2 rounds and now she screams as soon as she sees it coming. I breaks my heart. Anyway, the next step is to go to an ENT specialist, so we hope this will work and we will not have to do the tube thing, but we will see. Please keep Faith in your prayers. Thanks!!

Winter sickness...

Always seems to happen to us sometime at the beginning of the cold fronts coming and going. We are ALL sick. Not fun being sick on your birthday!!! I got sick the Tues. before Thanksgiving. I went to the clinic and got a steroid shot and over $100 dollars in meds. Yes, 100!!! And guess what, the day we got back from Austin my symptoms returned, and I have been sick since. Faith got a bad cough Thanksgiving morning, but was acting fine. I decided to take her to the doc. last Tues., since we both missed school. She had a double ear infection... She is a trooper. She has a very high pain tolerance I am told. Last night it hit her hard though. She screamed from 10 pm till 12. She is usually out around 8:30, so we knew something was up. We called the doc. because she was in obvious pain; she was kicking and twisting her little body and wouldn't let us hardly hold her at all. It was real sad. Come to find out when a baby has a double ear infection, they can have phantom pains in other parts of their body. Learn something new all the time. We knew she was acting like her stomach hurt, but the doc. said that was probably what it was. Interesting and good to know for next time. Well, just got the last call. Stacy was feeling left out I guess. He said he has a fever and all the symptoms of whatever I have. Fun stuff!!! All of this is coming while we are in the process of changing insurance. Not good timing. We had to get on temp. insurance, which is like having none unless something major happens, until Stacy was at his new job for 90 days. I guess you could figure that out with the $100 dollar meds. What is worse, we have spent around $700 dollars since my first doc. appointment. Isn't that ridiculous!!!!!!!! I get sick to my stomach just thinking about it. Our new insurance is ridiculously good. I would only spend like $300 to have a baby. Crazy good!!! We spent a couple thousand with Faith. Anyway, all that to say I am so ready for this new insurance and we will likely not have temp. insurance again. It is so not worth it. Well, we are all going to just sit on the couch and sleep all weekend I guess. Hope better news to come!!

Mix of Many

This is a mix of Halloween pics and my trip to Tennessee to my friend, Bethany's wedding. First the wedding... It was a very fast trip. We left Friday morning and spent the first night in a hotel. Then we got to Tenn and had the rehearsal dinner that night. The wedding was on Sun. Monday we went to Alabama to visit family for lunch in one town and stayed with some friends that night in another town. Then we left Tues. morning and spent that night in a hotel and back home by Wed. afternoon. Very Very fast trip. We were at a different place every night and drove around 2,000 miles in 6 days. Faith was a trooper. She only cried when she was tired, but fell asleep soon after. She did throw up for the first time on the way down, so I was so worried she would puke on one of my friends that would come grab her and walk off. It was sooo fun and I wouldn't have missed Bethany's wedding for the world.


This was Faith's dress for the wedding. It was outside and a cool, but perfect fall wedding day. Is she not the cutest thing ever!!

Me, Bethany and Anna at the reception. The wedding was at this beautiful plantation in Nashville. She was a beautiful bride.

At our hotel, Faith loved playing in the drawer. There is not much for a 1 year old who has been in a car for 7 hours to do in a cramped hotel room, so this was the excitement.

Bethany and her new husband Derek at the rehearsal dinner. Love you both!!

How cute!! These are my boys... Beau, Todd and Ryan Garrett. They are like brothers to me.

Me and Faith before the wedding started. She is so cute!!



Now jump to Halloween... This is my little pumpkin playing before we left to go to the Fall Festival.

Funny Story...

My two nieces, Chloe (6) and Lily (3), found a new toy one day. They took a full bottle of Lysol and sprayed it all over their bodies and sprayed it in the air and tried to catch it on their tongue. (Not the funny part!!) They used half the bottle of Lysol playing this game. Luckily they didn't get sick from it. My brother and sis-n-law sat them down to talk about how bad it was for them to do this. They told them it is very dangerous and it is like doing drugs; you never mess with cleaners because it can kill you. They talked for a long time (trying to scare them a little I think, so they wouldn't do it again, or anything worse like drink it). Well... later that same week Chloe's kindergarten class happened to be talking about drugs. They were going around and talking about how bad drugs are and such... you probably remember the drug free weeks in school. When it was Chloe's turn she stood up and got this very serious look on her face. She said, "Well guys... I have only done drugs ONE time. I thought I was going to die. It IS bad stuff." I am sure the teacher was shocked and didn't know whether to laugh or freak out. A phone call to my sis-n-law came soon after I am sure, but everyone in the family just die laughing at this story. If you know Chloe, she is very serious and I am sure was trying to tell the kids "from experience" don't do drugs!!

ACU Homecoming

I win!!! I am the first to post about homecoming... probably because I didn't have to travel, but I look forward to everyone's posts.

Ok, so I am always surprised that when you get good, old friends together, it's like you see and talk to them everyday. I love my girl friends and roommates from ACU and I wish we did get together more often, but when we are together it is like we go straight back to those college days. We laughed... a lot, joke around, catch up. I just love it!!! And love them!!! I think in less than 24 hours we already had inside jokes and other conversations I will not mention... I will let someone else explain "blog stalking", who peed there pants where from laughing, and what crazy things we did (stealing club signs and "sneaking" out), BUT ANYWAY, I just can't explain how much fun it is to get together with friends.

It is crazy to think it has been 5 years since we graduated and left ACU. It is so strange to see everyone with kids or pregnant. Instead of talking about the cute boy in our Science 101 class, we are talking about how the delivery went, diaper rashes, who is crawling, walking, being potty trained, and when we are going to have the next kid and start all over again. I love how life has changed... and stayed the same. There is still stress, late nights, frustrations, disappointments, and of course excitement, happiness, success, and lots of love. There is just different things that bring about these feelings and situations. We are all in a different stage of life now, not necessarily better (although a husband and kids have to be the best thing in life), just different. Anyway, I am beginning to babble, so it was SO GREAT to see everyone and bring back fun memories from college. I love you all and look forward to the next time we get together and take the walk down memory lane.

NOW for the PICS... (this is only a few, more on myspace if you have it)


GATA breakfast and the girls from my pledge class.

Kylie and Me... I miss her!!!

OK, this picture is so funny. Look at the action in the photo. Not one is looking at the camera. I laughed forever when I actually looked at their faces and what they are doing. SO CUTE!!

The ROOMIES, I love so dearly!!! They are the best!!!

Nathan (Kylie's son) and Faith hanging out at the parade.

Faith's First Birthday

Here are some fun pictures of Faith's birthday party. Some are from the Abilene Performing Arts Center and some are from our house. It was a really fun and tiring day. She seemed to enjoy all the attention. I guess they all do. She didn't like the cake at first because we haven't given her any sweets until the cake. BUT of course she grew to like it rather quickly. She got a lot of gifts... a lot of little people which she loves... and tons of other stuff. Anyway, just wanted to share the pics. If you have a myspace, then there are a lot more pictures on there.