WELCOME!!

TO THE WORLD

HENRY RUSSELL KRIEBEL

May 30th, 2008 6:37 pm 7lbs 10 oz 21 inches long

Proud parents are Beth and Andy~

Very Proud Big Brothers Michael and Oscar

and Big Sister Elizabeth

We are so thrilled for you guys!! We miss you mucho and hope we get to meet Henry and see you guys when we visit in October! Love you guys!

Evil stomach bug!

Now Caden got it. I have had it the worst though.. going on 24 hours now and I have lost SIX POUNDS! YES SIX! Not the way I would like to do it, but hey not complaining in the end either.

I just ate my first piece of toast since noon yesterday. 

Mike still had to work last night, I have no idea how I made it through. 

When he got home, it got worse. It's as if my body waited to crash so he could care for the rest of us. 

That's when we noticed that Caden was sick. My poor baby! 

So Mike is home again today taking care of all of us, I have absolutely no strength to move around and do what moms do. We cancelled swim class this morning and it was a make up :(

I pray this weekend will be better, so need a break!

I will see if I can make it to PT later today, after last night my back needs some work done.

WELCOME!!

TO THE WORLD 

ADDISON ELISABETH

May 25th at 2:46 am ~ 7.7lbs 19 1/4 inches long

Proud parents are Janet and Wes Fulbright

I've known Janet for many many years (she and my sis are the same age), and we were neighbors before we came to Arizona. Her and Wes would indulge our parent trap life and come play at our house at night ;-) We sure do miss them! And so excited for them to have their beautiful baby girl!!

The stomach bug hits us again!

Riordan woke up throwing up and I have had been quite nauseous myself.

So with my back, and everything else. Mike stayed home this morning to help out.

I really need to get a handle on this healing...

Riordan seems to be a little better right now. 

We were supposed to have a playdate today with the St.Geme's, but I postponed it yesterday due to my back. Which by the way by 3:30 yesterday I couldn't walk it hurt so bad!! Argggh!

So looks like if I was well we'd have to cancel last minute due to this bug ...

Just waiting on a physical and mental health break over hereeeeeee!<--------------------------------

Today is our first day of no school, which Caden insisted on going yesterday instead of the movies. It has been a true PJ day. Just love them! Love them even more if we all felt 100%

MORE HAPPY BIRTHDAY'S

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THE BEST FATHER IN LAW COOL PAPA TIM!!!

AND

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ONE OF MY AWESOMEST BROTHER IN LAW'S, JOHN!!!

HOPE YOU GUYS HAVE A SUPER DUPER DAY!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

To my wonderful cousin in law KEVIN!!!

AND

my darling friend MONICA!!!

HOPE IT'S A FUN-FILLED DAY FOR YA'LL!

I can see how people would want to drink or do drugs due to chronic severe pain. I just realized it's been two months with my back pain and here I am in bad shape again today. Thought it was getting better!! 

PT went great this morning, but I picked Riordan up out of the car seat earlier today and it shot a wave of blinding light down my back. 

Just cancelled working out!! It hurts to stand and sit, big time. The only place comfortable for me is flat on my back in my bed.

Darn it all, I'm so flipping frustrated!! I just want to be well so I can take good care of me and have fun with my kiddos!

Right now I want to do shots of vodka and eat a large truckload of dark chocolate anything!!

Visit to the Peoria Malloy's

We had so much fun Saturday with Uncle John, Aunt Amy, and Madeleine! Company was so much fun and the food was amazing! Uncle John is a super griller!

I however reinjured my back Friday night getting cleaned up for small group. Simple bend twist to pick up a bath mat and I'm almost back to Phase I of rehab :( I am so pissed!

I was in bed all day yesterday as much as I could be because I still had to take care of the baby while Mike was at church and at the Tripp's with the older children. So yeah, not much of rehab if you know what it's like to keep up with a crawling 8 month old. My spasms are back in full swing that began as we were getting back into the car Saturday night. I wanted to cry. Well I did. I was almost completely healed. Now I'm really panicked about the car ride to Disney because I severe pain for both drives to and from Peoria.

I'm headed in to PT early today and cancelled working out to give it a couple more days rest and just concentrate on stretch and strength in the back.

In Memoriam of Ruby

My friend Angela's mom, Ruby, passed away this morning at her home in Georgia.

I pray that it was peaceful.

Please keep Angela's family in your prayers as they mourn the lose of a great woman.

We will all miss her greatly and I am so honored to have known her as I grew up as a young girl.

HOLY HAIL BATMAN!

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WE had a hail storm just as soon as we got home from dropping off friend Caden today!

It totally was thrilling and scary for all of us. Usually hail is a sign of tornados back in the south, so I was a bit confused on what to do, if we needed to take cover in our tub! LOL

But we just rode it out and I took pictures, while Teagan and Riordan cried hysterically. Then they realized it was okay as Caden played with the hail.

It was a great educational lesson too for us all!

It is still stormy here, thunder and heavy rain coming in every 30 mins! Wow what a fun day!

Although I'm not looking forward to driving in it!

We survived!

I'm getting better at this sleep deprivation thing. Once 3 or 4 rolls around I'm a zombie, but somehow get an energy boost soon after, from food most likely and not caffeine. And then I could make it to 7:45/8 before I passed out in bed.

Aislinn the past two nights has slept through, got up at 5. Yesterday she stayed up, today she went back down. YAY! She did wake up again last night at 11, but I didn't go to her and she went back to sleep. DOUBLE YAY! 

Oh and Monday night, Riordan slept with me. He fell out of the bed at midnight! He didn't cry, but let out an unsure of what just happened "Mommmmyyyyyy??"  I moved so fast to scoop him up and we went to his bed where it is safe because of his guardrail. Whew! My heart couldn't stop beating. Our bed is pretty high up, so that was a long fall. Thankfully he likes to sleep upside down sometimes, so he completely avoided the night stand.

Mike got home a little after 9 last night. Caden stayed up with me to welcome him home and we all watched the end of Evan Almighty. If you haven't seen it, it's pretty cute and recommend it. It's great for kids too, no foul language. The animals where a huge hit with Caden and the flood was a great teaching tool with comparing to Noah and his Ark.

Swimming this week has been going well for the most part. Caden still doesn't want to jump in and get upset. So yesterday I told him he wasn't going to his Aunt and Uncle's house or the Tripp's house this weekend. He jumped in. He doesn't want to touch the bottom! When I was a little girl that was my favorite part! SO I have to find a way for him to enjoy it too.

Tonite I have an outing with my girl Kristi after she gets Colbie down. I will be bringing my toothpicks ;-) It will be some good QT for sure.

Tomorrow night we host small group. It was cancelled last week due to our Pastor not feeling well and just getting back from a trip. This week he had his wisdom teeth taken out and thinks he can still conduct the meeting. Uh yeah, I'm pretty certain it will be cancelled, which will be alright with us.  He needs to rest!

Tomorrow is Caden's celebration at school. The whole zoo is going. Should be cute. They are singing three songs and then getting their certificate and then cake and juice. 

Riordan was Riordan at his graduation. He was literally attached to my hip and I had to tell him Miss Misty was going to cry if he didn't get a picture with her ;-) He took the picture, but he wouldn't look. That's my Riordan. Before we left though he got comfortable enough to eat THREE, well lick the tops ;-), cupcakes and about 5 bite size brownies. He almost got sick from the sweetness, again so like Riordan. But managed to overcome it! So proud of him! He and I went to Chick Fil a for our date and he was so funny. Just really coming out of his shell and being a silly little boy! The bottom picture was him before we went to school. Oh and his classic comment of the morning, "Why wasn't my daddy there? Megan and Catie's daddy were there.." Oh break my heart!!

This morning is a nothing morning! No school for Riordan! Yippee! So we will most likely hit Target for teacher gifts and then pick up the Caden's. It is cold and yet morning and won't get too warm. We have thunderstorms predicted as well. 

This afternoon I'm so busy. I have a 3 pm training session and then 5 pm Physical Therapy. Then 8 pm with Kristi.. Oh I hope I make it!! Not much sleep as usual last night, but again, what's new? I will survive!

Prayer requests

So please keep my friend Angela, her family and her mom, Rube, in your prayers. They have decided to do hospice care for Rube. Even though they were getting some positive results with radiation, she just has no appetite and with the weight she's lost they won't do chemo on her. 

She is at home and her sister is taking care of her. If you would like to follow her journey, Angela writes so well, just click here.

Also, please keep in your prayers for a close friend's beginning journey with cancer. He discovered he has cancer of the saliva gland. Thankfully it's not an aggressive form and usually requires sugery and no chemo/radiation. He is having a PET Scan today, so pray that it comes back all clear! He is not finished here with his family ;-)

Got any toothpicks?

I literally got 1 1/2 hours of sleep last night and that's probably more that I really got.

I don't know why I couldn't sleep, it was just so horrible. 

Aislinn for the past week has been getting up twice each night, first between 10:30 and 12:00 and the 3 and 4 am... I am struggling again.

And now it's hot, 109 degrees hot on my car today driving to and from swim lessons.

Just makes me what to hermit.

The children did amazing at swimming today! Caden dove on the step for a ring and got it! More than once! He was so proud of himself. He still doesn't like jumping in the pool, so hopefully when we go for a much over due visit to the Malloy's in Peoria this weekend he will start to be not so afraid.

I bailed out of play group this morning too, knowing I needed to conserve my energy. So it's finally hitting me and I am exhausted.

Saturday night we had a date night and went to a trendy sushi restaurant called Blue Wasabi. Then we headed to Gordon Beirsch and our friends Marcie and Jeff met us and we had such a good time. Lots of laughs and boys being silly. While Mike and I were walking to GB I took a bad step and saw bright lights my back was in so much pain, it was hurting all night last night too. Oh and that morning I met Marcie at Paradise Bakery and showed her how to post to Craigslist.org. She's such a fast learner and did so great! She posted her bows she makes and some furniture later on that has gotten a lot of inquires! Love Craigslist!

Later that morning we took the whole zoo to the mall! We had such a great time! We had no time constraints, just a few things to get, and we all enjoyed it and we only had a stroller for Aislinn. Everyone walked and not once did they complain of being tired!! Now I'm wondering do we need strollers for Disney. I was planning on renting them, double joggers so we don't have to bring one, and if we brought one it would just be an umbrella stroller.

Sunday was a very leisurely day. I got a nap, which may initially be why I couldn't fall asleep. We had church in the morning too.

Oh and Friday night I took the whole zoo to the playground by myself and again, they did amazing! I'm loving getting out now with them and I'm not frightened by the thought anymore!

Tomorrow is Riordan's last day of school, which I will go to the whole time with him. It's just an hour and a small celebration. I have training at 12:30 and then Lauren coming at night to help me out and maybe I can make dinner instead of frozen meals.

I realize I'm all over the place with this posting.

Caden's school celebration is Friday! He is so excited, they will be singing 3 songs! And then have cake and juice in the foyer of the auditorium.

That's about it for now, can't think of anything else. Aislinn is crying.. she's tired and she's got the most swollen red upper gums I have ever seen which is why I think she is waking up so much, about to cut her upper teeth...

I'm off! Pray for sleep for me! And everyone else too! LOL

Catching up!

Well as always, where does the time go?! Even though we had a pretty low key weekend!

We did have a successful garage sale on Saturday. We were up at 5 am, Caden and I put out our signs and we had shoppers before 6:30! Early birds don't bother me, I'm there to sell and they are there to buy ;-)  It was interesting to see what people bought, JUNK and what they didn't buy!

We didn't sell our little kids solid wood table or patio table! In fact, no offers were made on them at all! We didn't sell our queen light weight sofa either, but a few people were interested in it. It's in great condition and I just couldn't go below 30 for it.. 10 and 15 were offered for it.. Yeah, can't do that when it was 700 from Lands End. Some one will buy it off of Craigs List. In fact I sold the kids table in 6 hours off of Craigslist and have two people in 24 hours interested in the patio table.

I have a pair of Crocs flip flops on Ebay that were for sale for 3 bucks at the yard sale and the bid is up to 6.75 in two days! This is fun!! I have a few more things I'm going to post. Too easy! Now that I have the time ;=) Yeah right?!

My back for the past two days has felt really really good! I had my reassessment with my personal trainer and I have gained a half an inch on my right side for flexibility! Shows that my hips are shifting from P.T. to properly align! The two times before on my assessment, it stayed the same numbers and I totally haven't gotten to work out hardly at all expect with Joe for the past 6 weeks, due to the flu, my back, and then mastitis!! SO both Personal Training and physical Therapy are helping out hugely! 

Mother's Day was so nice! Mike made my Eggs Benedict! It is my absolute splurge favorite breakfast meal. He stayed up to 1:30 am perfecting it! I had no clue and it was such a wonderful surprise! The zoo made me cards and his card was super sweet! We went to church, meet the family who bought the kids table in the parking lot after service, and then came home. I decided I wanted to go to the mall for the first time in months. So I go by myself. I arrive, get out the car, go to put my keys in my purse and notice my wallet is not there. I realize it's in the truck back at home. I just want to cry. I had timed it perfectly to be out for 2 hours, while the zoo all slept. So I come home, an hour gone already and no point on going back out to have less than an hour to enjoy my time. So I have a small pity party, I was so mad at myself, for about 30 mins. Mike even said we could all go to the mall, he hates to go, and really it's hard to go anywhere with all four kiddos. I decide I would rather have Cold Stone Ice Cream. Of course the zoo does too! So fun, we all go at 3:30 to get some yummy ice cream. And then we decided to have Iron Chef's for dinner. So Mike picked it up for us. It was really a nice day and Mike picked up the entire house for the housekeepers for Monday. Thank you so much, it was my second best Mother's Day ever! The first being when he took me to the Ritz for brunch when Caden was a few months old. My mom watched him. And really when I think about, this was the best one, because I had just the perfect relaxing day and break from my everyday life.

I desperately need a few nights away. I have only spent the night away, not including giving birth which means I still had a child with me LOL, ONCE since I have had children. Okay twice but the first one wasn't planned, a night out where I couldn't drive home, so it wasn't relaxing because I wasn't comfortable and worried about getting home the next day. Any who, so once planned to Scottsdale. So Marcie and I are trying to figure out a place to go in November to get away for a FULL weekend. We have a few Hilton Points that probably could get us one night for free and then split the next night.  I am so excited to plan it!! Now where to go.. we can drive to save some money or fly if we get seriously good rates on Southwest or something. I just want to go where I can get a spa service, do some shopping, drink good wine and eat good food. 

Mike is out of town tomorrow for the night in Albeqrappy. Then next Monday-Wednesday he's in Denver, which means I miss my girls, Monica and Heather's, birthday part in Tempe! I'm so bummed and my sitter can't do Wednesday nights anymore :( So I will have to take them out to Blue Wasabi when they have time.

Friday night we have small group here and Saturday night is a date night for us. Not sure what we are doing yet, hopefully the Tripp's are joining us! Marcie and I are going to Paradise Bakery that morning to load up her pretty's on Craigslist and Ebay.  Sunday is just church and then just relax the rest of the day.

Riordan's last day of school is next Tuesday and it's for an hour. I will be staying with him the whole time and then we will go get the Caden's. That will pretty much be our date. Should be fun so I'm excited to see him in school I haven't ever been able to volunteer in his class due to pick up for the Caden's. Beginning the last Wednesday of the month we start summer movies at Harkins. Caden will actually miss the very last day of school, but it's a movie he has so wanted to see all year, The Pirates Who Wouldn't Do Anything. His celebration for school is the Friday before so we won't be missing anything.

Okay so my assessment goes like this! So cool! I did lose my cardio a bit since I haven't been able to do it on my own time due to flu, back, and mastitis. And they stopped weighing, say they are a weight loss clinic, but an overall body health studio. I will be seeing their nutritionist sometime this week or next ;-)

So even though they didn't weigh me, I've dropped 6 pounds, total of 11 in 12 or so weeks.

                   Starting                              6 weeks                                 12 weeks

Body Fat    28.17                               26.93                                   23.73

Abs             43 in                               41in                                    40in

Waist          43                                    41                                         38!

Hips            45                                  44.5                                      43.5

Waist/Hip 

ratio            . 96                                  .92                                        .87    (anything .9 and under is                                                                                                                 healthy!)

Thigh          21.25                                22                                       20.5 (building muscle first)

Arm             12                                    12                                        12

Neck           14.5                                   14                                      14.5 (like a swimmer LOL)

So even though I've been on pause for over a month, I couldn't be happier with my results! I of course wish it were more, but I'm building up a good metabolism for those frequent food splurges ;-)

Sacroiliac Joint Dysfunction

Say that three times fast!

That's my diagnosis from the physical therapist. 

It is a direct result from having one leg shorter than the other and then aggravated by having four children back to back.

We are pretty certain I have always had one leg shorter than the other. When I was 17 a friend of mine in Chiropractic school evaluated me and 'discovered' it then. Tried to adjust it back and literally wouldn't budge. Same for another chiro when I was 22. I was apparently in braces in the crib when I was a baby for pigeon toe issues and this could have been the result from that? With Caden and his pigeon toe issues, they told us they don't correct it any more for they found research that proved it caused more harm than any good. Anywho....

Here is a lot more info on it for your snoring pleasure! Lot's of good info there.

Right now the program is to get my muscle spasms under control. They are constant all day long sometimes so painful and then sometimes just an huge aggravation. So three days a week I will be doing physical therapy that includes heat and electrode therapy, laser therapy, strengthening and stretching, and then cool down therapy. I pray that it will get relief soon.

My only limitations he has put on me is bending over with both feet on the ground, twisting at the waist, putting weight on just one side of my body (yeah try that holding a baby), and lifting... Just easily done for a mom of four LOL! 

I'm to take a break for life every 30 mins and rest HA!

Really he is a great therapist and very encouraging and knows that to do what I can at home.

He also said that I can continue to work out with some specifics, but especially NO running! I haven't run in over 3 weeks and sometimes it just makes me want to cry! 

I'm going to be 35 in two months and my body feels worn out already! I just want so desperately to continue on my schedule of getting in to great form! UGH all the interruptions are getting to me.

So I focused my pent up energy on my closet today. ALL the maternity clothing are hung and priced for our garage sale along with a few other gently worn items! My closet, okay OUR closet, hasn't ever looked this amazing! I also cleaned out my dresser and shoes. It was nice to purge!! I do have a few items coming in this week. Much needed update on my frumpy clothing I've been wearing for five years. 

So now I'm pooped, my back is sore, but a good sore. I have physical therapy in the morning and personal training at night tomorrow. In between, just pick up the Caden's at school, and take the olders to swimming. OH and a fun MOMS night out at my friend Michelle's house. A belated Cinco de Mayo Celebration with everyone's trades to take a gander at. Should be fun!

A very light week for us. Just concentrating on not doing much but the children's activities and our garage sale. Praying to make all our spending money for Disney!

Still sick

Still had a fever when I woke up this morning. Plus extremely dizzy.

Kristi and her dad picked the boys up from school for me. So nice! Thank you!

Told Mike to do his day and he has. He's at dinner tonite and missed a good one here.

We had movie night, Alvin and the Chipmunks with popcorn and chocolate milk.

It was fun and they really were into the movie, more than they were in the theater!

We were heading to bed and Riordan got in trouble for not minding and he cried going to bed.

Well he has a cough right now too, so he started coughing and crying and began gagging. Yep in the bed, and I got him and right to the bathroom where he painted the whole place. Ughhhh!

Got him all cleaned up in my bathtub, changed his bedding, cleaned up the bathroom and started a load. This took my 45 mins.

 As I finished up cleaning the bathroom, everyone is in bed, Teagan starts crying for daddy. She's crying pretty hard. I hear a gag. Crap. I burst into her room and all is clear, she lays down and pretends she wasn't crying. Then she loses it! Whip her up and move her to the bathroom, where she paints the entire room, again. 

Seriously?! 

Yep and as I'm running with her to the bathroom my back seized up! I can't get a flipping break! Clean her up, give her a bath, change her bedding and clean up the bathroom and I give up. 

I asked Caden that if he thought he was going to cry and throw up in his bed, to please run for the bathroom. 

Do you know what he said at one point? "Mommy I really wanted to help you clean up, but it's hard for me..." So sincere, man he's amazing! This is while I'm bathing Teagan. Then he said he would take her bedding off! I just want to bear hug him at this point. I told him that he didn't have to do a thing, that was what mommies and daddies were for ;-) 

After all was said and done I let Teagan and Caden stay up for a bit, Riordan was already asleep. 

They are all in bed, still have another (3 total) load to go and I am worn out. My back is killing me. Thankfully I schedule my first physical therapy session on Monday evening. Looks like another day of bed rest for me tomorrow. I haven't left the house since Wednesday morning! Talk about cabin fever! 

FYI

fever is back, began with chills right on the dot of 8:05

Mike is back home and taking care of us... difference today is i can stay on top of the tylenol for fever and pain and taking my antibiotics.. seeing double, but the seizing pain on my back from chills is gone... now i'm in the hot sweaty stage.. ugh!

Believe or not

I got mastitis again. Thank GOD I was in the doctor's office for my back when it hit. 

I have never crashed so hard and fast and it wasn't even red yet! 

I knew that I had some plugged ducts and went to train at 6 am. We did legs for the first time in 2 weeks because of my back, so I got really nauseous near the end. We just assumed it was a good hard workout. Registers later that this was a tell-tale sign of what was to come, and to top it off I was unusually exhausted, another sign.

Appointment was at 8:45 and I dropped R, T, and A over at Marvelous Marcie's house. As I was waiting in the reception area, I became unusually cold. I look at the thermostat and it says it's 74. Well that's normally very comfortable for me. My hair starts standing up from chill bumps.

By the time I was triaged, I was shivering. 

So long story short, he assessed my back and really thinks it's still just muscle spasms and nothing wrong with my spine. He did order an x-ray and physical therapy for 16 weeks, 3x a week! (from what I hear you don't have to do all this and it's good to have on hand for when you need to go back, even though we are a PPO) By the end of the assessment, I could hardly sit or stand I was so cold and he goes, do you want an antibiotic and I was like uh yeah ;-) He was only holding off because I wasn't red yet, but at this point I knew I was crashing.

I couldn't get warm. Got in the car and full blown heat. Still couldn't get warm. Dropped off my prescription then headed to Marcies. A few tears in front of Marcie, she loads up the kiddos and was going to come over after she dropped off Allie, and then headed back home. 

I don't remember driving home. And all the seizing from the chills was murder on my back.

I put Aislinn in her bed and told Riordan and Teagan to fend for themselves in the pantry. I went to bed. They screamed and yelled at each other the whole time. 

In the meantime, I called Mike, which earlier I insisted he do his day with his boss in town and a conference, and said I can't do this, please come home. He was in Tucson. Kristi said she would pick up the boys for me and I said the door would be unlocked so send Caden in.

Caden came to me and the look on his face was fear. I must have looked like death. I told him I promise I'll be okay. However, I wanted to go to the hospital. I was in soooo muchhh pain, it's still unbelievable to me now. My head felt like it was going to split open it was pounding so hard, I knew I had a high fever, just didn't know how high, I was in the sweating stage, so quickly this is so weird!, and my back was killing me. Hardly could feel the pain in my breast!

I probably called Mike every 5 minutes but it felt like an hour each time. He got my meds and a thermometer and was home by 12:45. My children fended for themselves for almost 3 hours!

Mike said the house looked like the "Lord of the Flies" lived here. HA! 

Took my temp and it was 103.  Took my antibiotic and tylenol. Went back to a sweaty sleep.

I could feel it coming down about 3 o'clock and I was getting hungry. Mike made me a grilled cheese. It was so yummy. Went back to bed, I think LOL By 7 pm  my fever had completely broken! I wasn't seeing double, didn't have a roaring fire sound in my ears, my headache was small and I was hungry again!

And I finally was red and it was like a huge sun burn! Still there of course will be for a few days. It feels like a punching bag though. 

Today I'm going to try and take it easy. Just do drop off and pick up. Tomorrow will be a busy day 

Major breakthrough

Caden practicing submerging his head in the tub was the magic moment for sure!

He did so amazing swimming with going under and absolutely NO FEAR left with getting his face and head wet! The only thing we have left is jumping in to us without being able to touch our hands first. He's quite the negotiator. I can just see him making compromise's with Joel. 

I was sooooo proud of him and most importantly he was proud of himself! I'm encouraged that we will have at least one swimmer now! Oh and he got 10 bucks for doing it ;-) Big fear to over come after two years deserves a big reward!

Riordan and Teagan did their class together too! So I'm thinking there's no reason they can't all go in on Wednesday together which means 30 min break for mommy! We been doing them in 10 mins increments by themselves. Also, my friend Kelly had been keeping Aislinn for me so I can handle the lessons with them. Well yesterday was the first time I took her, without Mike being there, and it went great. My friend Kristi and another mom would watch her when I would go get someone in or out of the pool! Such great help!

We are doing Harkins Summer Movies this year. We have never been able to get tickets for many reasons, but this year Riordan's school offered them before they went on sale to the public and we are going on Wednesday's with the Messner family! And my wonderful friend Kelly is going to keep Aislinn! So excited! It's her nap time so it should work out perfect, she's slept at Kelly's house before. Kelly just rocks ;-)

I've been getting ready for a huge garage sale this weekend. I have three other friends helping me. I can't remember if I posted this already, sorry if I have! LOL I've been up for 2 hours already!

Which reminds me that Aislinn has been sleeping through the night off and on for the past week! Not holding my breath, but it would be nice to move her into Teagan's room especially for Grannie's visit in July! If not she will come in our room, so Grannie has space and isn't woken up all night long ;-)

Riordan and I have a date today and he has requested to go to Paradise Bakery for waffles. Well twist my arm!

Pics of Kristi and Colbie's day!

The Spread!

We had Monica's delectable fruit salad with chocolate shavings and vanilla drizzled custard, Marcie's French Toast Casserole, Karyn's Caprese Salad, Kathleen's amazing Chicken Salad, and so much more!

Tracy Jaffie and Princess Colbie

Princess Aislinn

Kristi's look of surprise!

Kristi and her new bag!

More pics here!

Not even 7 months yet

And my baby girl can eat whole cheerios now, thanks to her two teeth.

She can move from sit to crawling and has twice now moved from crawl to sitting.

She still army crawls, and is fffffaaaasssssstttttttt! She does practice a lot on her knees and takes a few 'steps'.

She loves to stand when you try to sit her on the floor, she giggles when you try to bend her knees because she wants to stand! The stinker!

She also love hamburger and chicken! She is a learning the love of whole food quickly!

She still gets up between 2-4 times a night. Some how I'm really used to it. What I'm not used to is Caden and Riordan getting up all night. 

Riordan woke up with the croup last night about midnight. He was sounding pretty rough, but I know tonight will be worse. Then Caden got up begging for milk, which we only had enough for the morning. So I ended up going to his bed. Well he was wide awake and wanted to discuss life topics... oh my brain. I finally asked if we could talk about it in the morning and he said yes! I can't for the life of me remember his questions nor can he!! HA HA!

And soon as I made it to my bed after he fell asleep, Aislinn woke up! But of course! That was 3 am. So fed her and then finally back to our bed, moosh (move) Riordan over and fell asleep til 6 am. Mike let me take a nap today and boy was it just perfect! I woke up and he hit the road to get my car cleaned and grocery shop and I cleaned the house.

Yesterday I had Kristi's arrival baby shower here, so the house was in pretty good condition to get ready for our housekeeper's tomorrow!

Her party was just perfect! Everyone brought an amazing dish to share! I want all the recipes!

We ate and talked and ate and talked! Our favorite thing to do! And then she opened her gifts!

She got the most girly outfits, so fitting for her beautiful girl!!

And to end the gift giving, she thought she was getting a gift card to Coach to purchase a much desired Multi-Function/Diaper bag! Well everyone was so generous in their donations and I hit her hubby up for the rest which was nothing!, that we were able to give it to her yesterday!

But we surprised her good! She opened our card last, I'm sure expecting the gift card and I go, "Oh my gosh, I can't believe I forgot to put the gift card in there!" So she's still reading the card as I go to the closet to get the G.C. and pull out the big ole signature Coach Box, which she is still reading the card and doesn't see it! Marcie is snapping pics the whole time so when she looked up it was literally the best reaction ever! She gasped and truly was so surprised!! And so much fun for all of us to give her a special special gift!

I can't wait to share the pics.. I will upload I hope tonite!

Pray that Riordan doesn't have too rough of a night with the croup!

OH and BIG NEWS!

Caden has been practicing holding his breath under water and can do it completely submerged for over 10 secs!! He was blowing us away with his break through tonite! I hope that it shows for him in the pool tomorrow! So amazing!