The Story Of Us...

Update Time

2009-11-17T13:23:00.002-05:00

I know I know I know. I am horrible at updating this blog. I need to get better. Really I will try harder. We have been very busy with trying get a schedule in the midst of running to and from Michigan with surgery and doctor's appointments to see how the neck is healing. Finally, I can say I will be home until January but I have a feeling that appointment will be canceled due to snow but that is okay. In the next few days I will be able to take off this horrible neck brace for good. I can't wait. Tabor looks at my neck every morning and says "a few more days". It is close to being revealed and no more brace. My mouth is all healed and opening very nicely I am so happy with that.
Kyan is doing very well. He has learned how to turn the tv on and off. I was in the kitchen after Toy Bus pealing potatoes for Shepherd's Pie tonight and I had the tv on so he could watch The Price Is Right. Well, I didn't hear the tv and Ky was in the dinning room. So I asked him "Ky, did you turn the tv off?" The next thing I see is Ky running back to the living room and then I heard the tv come back on. I thought that was very funny and cute. What a character he is. He is keeping us very busy and for that we are glad. He is smarter than I could ever think for a young age. Here is another story. Last night, Tabor was on the computer and I was cleaning up after dinner and we can just got back from youth and kids' clubhouse and I heard Ky playing his little tiger piano. Now his little tiger piano I had to put up because he was walking around the house with it and I was scared he was going to fall and hurt himself because of how he was carrying it. So I put it in the hall closet a while ago. Well the stopper that keeps the sliding doors from being able to pull out toward you is broke and Ky just figured that out a few days ago. So he moved the little plastic piece so he could get in betweek the door and the shelves and went right in the closet and started playing his little tiger piano. I thought how in the world did he get that out? Since it is in the closet. I come walking out of the kitchen and I see him in the closet. I took him out and I could not help but laugh and told him he needed to start out of the closet. Then we went and told Daddy. I tell ya he is something all right.
Tabor is doing well. He is super busy with church business and he is loving being a solo pastor. We are so happy that God put us here. Well, I need to go and check on my potatoes. I WILL be posting again next week hopefully.

Talk to you all later

I Know It Has Been A LOOOONG Time Since...

2009-09-29T10:31:00.002-04:00

Yes, I know it has been a long time since I updated but a lot has been going on and I have not had time to really sit down and update. But I promise I will get better now. Okay, so on Aug 18th, 2009, we moved to Ontario. We didn't have the internet for a little while so that is why I didn't update. Tabor is the senior pastor here and we are really enjoying it here. We are trying to get a routine down but every time we try it seems we have to travel for one reason or another. Like earlier this month we had to go to Jackson, Michigan for Tabor's ordination service. And now I am going to be having surgery Friday so it will not be until after that that Ky and I get a routine down.
Tabor is doing well and getting use to the role he has stepped into. I am getting use to it as well.
Kyan oh boy! Where to start with him? He took his first steps on July 16th, 2009 and we bought him big boy shoes before we left Michigan because he was doing so much walking. Now he is officially running around like crazy. He loves all the room he has here to walk and run and play. He is a grand total of four teeth. Two on the bottom and two on the top. He is starting to try to climb but he was sorta doing that when we were living in Michigan like trying to climb on his pack and play but now he has figured out that he can climb on the oven door. We have a very strong piece of velco like you would have on your fridge to keep kids out of it. Well, luckily we have that because he is a climbing fool on that and we are trying to get him to stop it. Ky can say baby very plan and clear even though he has not said it in a while but he can. Tabor and him love to wrestle each other and Ky takes down his other bigger stuff animals and it is very cute. He is a hand full but I would not have it another way. He is really to smart for his age but what can you do? He is 11 months old today and I can't believe that his 1st birthday is a month a way. It comes so quickly.
We are still in the process of getting health coverage. Tabor gets his OHIP in Nov and we are still waiting on Kyan's Canadian Citizenship card and once he gets that then we can sign him up for OHIP and then I have to become a premanent resident before I can get mine. So I am going to start that process when I get back from surgery.
I am going to be having my neck released again and my mouth released so I can open it more than 2cms. I will be able to open it like everyone else can which is 4-6cms after this surgery. They said I will be in the hosptial up to 10 days but we will see what happens. Before we moved here I got license back. I took all the steps with the rehab driving and all that and now I am back to driving. It is not as bad as I thought it was going to be, so that is a good thing.
I think thats about all for now. I am going to go make lunch since we were not able to go to the Toy Bus at church today because Ky got up at 6:45am (right after Tabor's alarm went off, he had an orientation for new pastors with the district today from 10am until 3pm), so Ky is napping and here I am. But anyways, I promise to update more now when I get back from surgery!

Talk to you later!

Busy Busy Busy

2009-07-08T18:40:00.002-04:00

Wow! I am sorry for not updating but we have been so busy with the move and then the holiday. Where is what has been going on with us. We moved from Burnips on June 18th. And I just want to thank everyone that came and helped us out. We are very appreciative and happy that you all came to help us. And it made it go quicker except for the couches I know. We unloaded the truck the next day into the storage unit we are renting until we find out what we will be doing.
We celebrated the 4th of July, by going to the Greenfield Village for fireworks and the DSO (Detroit Symphony Orchestra). This is the only time I would be able to hear a symphony and yes I do like classical in case you were wondering. Something I do not tell people.
We are going to be candidating July 17 (our 5 year wedding anniversary) thru the 19, at a church in Palmer Rapids, Ontario, Canada, for a senior pastor position. We are very excited to be doing this. Tabor got his travel document part of his green card so we will be able to go and do this. Like, I said we are very excited for this opportunity. Then August 1st, Tabor will be officating a wedding for our close friends and then we will be going to Chicago for a few days. Also, on September 13th at Kentwood Church in West Michigan, Tabor will be getting ordained. We are so very excited about this as well.
Kyan in now 8 months old and about to walk any day. He is balancing with no hands and doing so big at the sametime. He is so much fun and the faces he makes oh my word they are so funny. He keeps us laughing all the time. And he is growing like a weed. He is almost has tall as Taylen was at 16 months old. Taylen was 2ft 9in at 16 months and Ky is close to that at 8 months. We have not taken a measurement and we need to because he is growing so quickly. He has two teeth and so far he has not gotten anymore but that is fine with me.
Things are looking good for us and a lot of new opportunities have opened up that we are very excited about. Just thought I would update you on everything that has and will be going on for us.

Update Update Update

2009-06-02T11:28:00.002-04:00

There has been a lot going on here. We are in transition now to find a place since our time at Burnips is now done. So we have been looking for a new church for a little under a month now. We are going to be moving to my Mom and Marty's house while we are looking for another place. Our targeted moving date is June 18th. Tabor has put in for his Green Card so that is a good thing.
Kyan has two teeth on the bottom now, crawling, and now pulling himself up on things. I think he will be walking by 8 months easily.
I had my eye surgery. And it is healing up nicely. I got the stitches out on Monday (yesterday) but I was not able to get the stitches out from behind my ear where they took the skin from again but they will be able to come out next Monday. I will take a picture of myself once everything is healed up. I have some pics to add of Kyan as well but I have to go and find him and get him ready for a nap so those will have to wait. I will update again soon to let you all know what is going on with everything.

Talk To You All Later

Just A Small Update!

2009-04-28T09:41:00.002-04:00

Well, tomorrow Kyan will be 6 months old. I can't believe it some days. He acts sometimes so much older but then at nap time and/or night time when he wants to cuddle to go to sleep it is so cute and then I can see the baby still in here. He is rolling all over the place. I love watching him play but he gets made because he wants a toy and he is so close so he will try to go forward and then he actually goes backwards and gets all frustrated again. I think crawling is in the near future. he has been napping upstairs in his bed now and his naps for the most part are still between 2-4 hours. He still takes an hour nap in the morning. It is nice. He has been starting to sleeping through the night again but this has only been two days in a row. But I am not worried because I know he can do it so when he feels like he should he would. I am not worried about it. He is an easy baby to put back to bed in the middle of the night when he does wake up after his bottle.
Otherwise, everything else is going well here for us. We have been busy with the youth. We just got done with 30 Hour Famine this weekend and it turned out well. Well that is really all that is going on here. So I will talk to you all later!

Bye For Now

Just A Update!

2009-04-14T10:47:00.000-04:00

We all are doing well. It has been busy here as we are planning things for the summer with youth. And I have doctor appointments and surgery scheduled. My doctor appointments are just to check in with Dr. Ford (plastic surgeon) since last eye surgery and before the next one. And then I have an eye doctor appointment so she can see how well my eye has healed. And to talk a little before the next surgery. Then Kyan has his 6 month check up on May 1st. So that shall be interesting to see how much he has grown and weighs. He is getting to be a big boy. He is close to crawling. I imagine he will crawl in his 6th month. But he is a lot of fun and man the personality he has. It is awesome. But I still think he is has Tabor and mine stubbornness and then my personality. He is a lot like me and Taylen was a lot like Tabor. I am scared to see what our next babies will be like. Lol. But Kyan is doing very well. He loves his baby food and now he loves his oatmeal and bananas. So I am happy.
I am trying to get this blog set up through facebook so when I update here it will update on facebook as well. But so far it says that this blog does not exist. So I do not know what is going on with it. I know some of you that have me on your blog list it will not update for you. So that is why I am trying to get it through my facebook for those of you who have facebook. I had a request for an updated picture of me and it will come once all my eye surgeries are done. I think that is fair. Anyways, I am going to go. Kyan is taking his morning nap and we have BYF at lunch and then it will be time for his afternoon nap when we come home unless he takes both naps now. Which I hope he does not do because he is will too cranky by 3pm. But anyways, I will talk to you all later!

Surgery & Stitches

2009-03-23T14:40:00.002-04:00

Hey Everyone! Sorry that i have not updated. I had my surgery and therefore could not see that well to write an update. Just a little status update on Facebook and that was it. Surgery went very well. My lower right eye lid is now new and improved with a small skin graff from behind my eight ear. It is looking good. Nice and pink. That is a good thing. I got the stitches out today and I am so happy for that. I can see alittle better than when I had it stitched and my eye lid was being led up by the stitch string and a "bandage" for lack of a better word. She made this eye lid a little higher because the gradff will "shink" up alittle bit and when that happens it will be level with the left eye lid. She did it on purpose so it is okay. It is still a little hard to see out of because of that but it is not a problem.I was not able to lift aything over 5lbs until today. So that meant no carrying Ky around. He was so confused as to why people were taking him from me and holding him andburping him and putting him to bed. All he wantsd was Mommy. Now I am glad to say I have picked him up and cuddled and hugged him a lot this morning before he had to go get his 4 month shots.
He is a sleep right now. Between his peneumonia and my surgery his sleeping has been off so I am hoping that it will go back to normally now. Sleeping through the night again. But he just wanted to cuddle with Mommy so he decided since he could not do it during the day because I was sleeping and recovering that he would wnat to sleep with me. And yes he did some nights because Tabor was to tired to put Ky back to bed. Oh well! As of last night he got up once in the night and so I think he will be going back to his sleeping through the night. But his shots may put him off alittle bit but that is okay.
My next surgery is planned and on the books for May 26th, I am excited. This will be my upper lid of my right eye that is causing me not to see. There will be a fixing of the muscale but no graff so that will be good. She is also going to fix my left bottom lid so it will close all the way. Right now my left eye does not close all the way so she will be fixing that. This surgery for the left bottom lid will be just like the surgery I just had done. So I will not be able to see well out of that eye but I will have my right eye ot see out of. SO she will take the skin from behind my left ear but since it is a smaller she may be only to take hald from there and half from my right ear. She said the tissue from behind my right eye is in excellent condtion. I do not know how well that tissue behind my left eye will be but she will find out then. Because it is both eyes at the same time this surgery is scheduled to take 2 hours instwad of the 1 hour this one took. But anyways, that is all for now. Ky got his chest x-ray today before his shots to see if the pneumonia is all cleared up so I should hear from the results this week. Since it was right in the doctor's office. Anyways, I will talk to you all later!

Bye For Now!

Ky Update!

2009-03-10T14:22:00.003-04:00

On Thursday morning at around 5am, he came on with a cold. So when his doctor's office opened up at 9pm that morning, I called. We were at my Mom and Marty's house at this time. Tabor was feeling good so we went for my step-grandmother's funeral. I was going no matter if Tabor could come or not. Anyways, the doctor's office told me just to observe him and if his cough got worse or not eating and all that then to bring him. So he was starting to get better. On Friday, March 6th, at around 5pm, he rolled over from back to belly. He was acting fine still had a small cough but nothing bad. So then Saturday night, we thought he was getting better. Well, he had a hard time to get to bed that night and at 4am he was up for the day. That is so unlike him but we noticed that his cough was worse. So we decided that after Sunday school, we would take him to the ER. He had no fever and was eating fine and all that. So we did. They were not sure what was wrong so they covered all their bases. They gave him a chest x-ray. Have you ever seen a baby get a chest x-ray. It is rather quite interesting. They warned us that he would cry and did. I got to stay with him and hold his hands above his head. It is hard to explain on here but it looks like a torture device. But it gets the job done. And then they did some test where they stick this q-tip like thing up into his sinuses. But that was fine. The chest x-ray showed pneumonia in his right lung. So they gave him an anti-biotic before we left the ER and a prescription. I made a follow-up appointment on Monday, which was for today. Luckily, I made it for today and not yesterday or Friday. My reasoning for today was that he would have had the medicine three times (Once at the ER and twice here at home (once Monday and once today). And we are going out to my Mom and Marty's tomorrow night until Friday morning. We are going a Detroit Red Wings game Thursday night. So anyways, he was wheezing today which was new and so now we have to do breathing treatments every 4-6 hrs. We got the machine and medicine. He had one at the office and the nurse said he will cry through it and there is nothing you can do and he did. But it helped alot. He is not wheezing right now and that treatment was at around 9:30am. I didn't see a clock but it was around that time. So when he starts to cough a lot or wheeze he needs his treatment. It is hard to do it to him because he fights and cries but at the same time it is good for him. He is too little to understand. But when he cries he is taking more in because he is breathing deeper which is a good thing. In a couple weeks, he needs to go back for another chest x-ray. So that has been our interesting life.
Tabor is feeling a lot better and he had to go to the doctor yesterday because he had some ear clogged problems so he is on meds for that and told me today that it is a lot better. I am doing well. I am battling a sore throat only sore when I do not drink or when I sleep with my mouth open because I can't breath out my nose. So I told Tabor we need the humifider on at night which has not been on in a couple days. Ky had a cold mist hunifider and I asked the doctor if it is okay to run it still even though he has pneumonia and I have not been because I do not want him to get worse but she said that would be great for him. We also asked the doctor if we could still go because my step-sister will be watching Ky and she said that as long as he is eating okay and no fever he is fine to go. But anyways, I am going to go. So I will talk to you all later

Oh yea, if you like coconut you need to try hersey kisses with coconut inside. I got them for my birthday from my secret sister and they are amazing.

Bye For Now

Kyan's Firsts

2009-03-07T08:42:00.005-05:00

Kyan's first cereal feeding

Here is Ky on his belly

Around 5pm yesterday, I was waiting for my chicken to defrost for dinner and in waiting I was laying on the couch watching a re-run on Gilmore Girls. Tabor was on the computer doing something and Kyan was on the floor playing. I looked down to check on him and he was happily on his side playing. The next thing I knew he was on his belly. I said Tabor look at Ky. Tabor was like why and then he saw that he had rolled over. So I put him back on his back and then went to check on the chicken/ Tabor said did you put him on his belly and I said no. So I moved him by the kitchen like I do when I cook so he can see what it is going on. This time I got to see him roll over because all those other times we both missed it. Then when dinner was in the oven, Ky was trying to roll over again and Tabor got to see. He didn't stop rolling over until he went to sleep. He already in this short time has learned to push himself with his feet. He had a ball that he wanted but could not reach and he got to it. He gets mad because he can't get back to his back yet. But loves rolling over. Also, Kyan had carrots for the first time yesterday for lunch and loved them better than his cereal. He is so cute. You ask him he is likes them and he gives you a BIG smile.
Kyan is getting over his cold that he came on with Thursday morning. It was just a small cough and the occasional sneeze. I am getting better from the cold I got the same time as Ky and Tabor is doing better from his virus thing that he got early in the week. I have surgery coming up on the 17th and I am excited.

Hope you all have a great week!

2009-02-22T21:26:00.003-05:00

Well, I am sitting here waiting for Tabor to come home and I just decided it is time for another update. I have the Oscars on for background noise and Ky is in bed. I have found out that Ky is a baby that needs scheduling. At first, I didn't think he was. He is not really a scheduled baby when it comes to eating but he is most definitely a scheduled baby when it comes to naps and bedtime. This week for him as been crazy. Monday, he got two shots (2 month shots), a little late while I did some research about the immunizations. And so that put his sleeping schedule all off. He is teething, not getting them but I think they are growing under his gums. He is into chewing on his hand, fingers (anyone's fingers, he does not care who including his own). This has been going on for a couple weeks now, he even had the teething rash on his cheeks. We had to change his formula brand three weeks ago so that did not help the sleep issue. Now remember, he started and still does sleep through the night. He started that at 3 months. Then on Friday, he got his third shot. We had to wait because it is part of the National shortage and our office only is allowed 10 of this shot a month. So his schedule was off a little bit Friday, bedtime that night was 1am. Today, I let him sleep through SS and serivce and he was cranky the whole afternoon. Slept from 2pm to 3pm and then slept through the youth lesson and went to bed for the night at 9:21pm. I told him this afternoon he is only allowed to sleep through SS and small group on Sundays now because he was totally off schedule. So that is how I found out he is a scheduled baby when it comes to sleep.
He will 4 months this week and will be starting on infant cereal. I am excited. I get excited when they get to try food. YAY! for him.
I was thinking that I must be the only person on this Earth that gets excited for surgery no matter how major or minor. I am getting very excited for surgery on March 17th. I think that is really about all that is going on here. Tabor and I are doing well. We are enjoying hanging out with the teens and having youth group and all that good stuff. There is not really much going on with us besides being parents (loving it again) and chilling at home with each other. So that is all I have to report for this week. I have an appointment with my plastic surgeron on Tuesday so I will probably tell you all what the deal is after I have eye surgery and all that. So I will talk to you all later!

Bye

Surgery Scheduled

2009-02-06T09:58:00.002-05:00

On March 17th, not use what time but hopefully sometime in the morning. I am going to be having out patient surgery on my right eye. What she is going to do is take my lower eye lid and put it up back against the eye. Look in the mirror and look at your bottom eye lid. You will see how it is snugged up to your eye, well mine is coming again from the eye. Also, this eye will have a small skin graff from the skin from behind my ear. It will be my right eye so no worries that it will show. I will have my hair covering it and that is the ear that is fully intact still. She is not sure if I will need an eye patch and if I do it will only be for a couple days. She said she might use something else to make sure the graff stays in place. That would be the only reason I would need a patch. Tabor will have to help me apply onitment to the stictches afterward. This procedure will take about 45 minutes. She has it scheduled for an hour. And I will have a 30 minute recovery then I will be home. My mom and maybe my step dad will be here watching Kyan and helping me for the first few days. That way Tabor does not have to miss any work. Then I will get the stitches out and a couple weeks later go back for them to lid my upper eye lid on the same eye. She is still not sure if she is going to do surgery on my left seeing as how it does not close all the way. Which explains why my eyes are always running. So that is what is going on so far. I am very much looking forward to these surgeries. So just pray that everything goes will. I will be seducated during this procedure. Thats all for now. If you have any questions feel free to ask. =)

Superbowl and other stuff

2009-02-03T12:48:00.003-05:00

I watched the Superbowl okay I talked through the Superbowl but watched the commercials. Since my team didn't make it I didn't really care about the game. I just didn't want the Cardinals to win because they had beat Dallas. So I am glad that the Steelers won. Also, I didn't think the commercials were that great this year. They were disappointing but I did laugh at two of the commercials. The two I laughed at were the flowers that were in the box and the one were the kola gets hit. Those were funny.
Kyan is now sleeping through the night (okay I might have already mentioned that) and therefore he is taking one nap a day. Which I do not mind because it is like a 4 hour nap in the afternoon. Though today it will probably be a later nap seeing has how he got up at 730am then went back to bed until 1030am. He normally takes his afternoon nap between 12-5. Sometimes though it is 1-5. But he will wake up on 5pm exactly. It is quite funny. Which leads me to my next thought. I normally let him nap in his swing mostly his swing but sometimes his bouncey seat because I have been told that letting babies nap in their crib will make them confused for bedtime. So my question is should I let Kyan sleep in his bed for his nap? Now I would let Taylen but he was over a year when I did let him take naps in his bed. So what are your thoughts on this?
Kyan is smiling oh so much more and it is so cute. He is very interactive with us and its so cute to watch him play now because he is grabbing his toys and talking to them. He likes to look at himself in the mirror and will talk to himself. Also, he loves baths. I hope he keeps this up because Taylen started out liking them but then hated them and then would only let you do what you needed to and when you were done he was out of there. So we shall see how this one likes baths but so far so good. Okay well, I am going to go now. I will talk to you all soon!

3 Months Old

2009-01-29T14:39:00.002-05:00

Kyan is now three months old. The time is going by so fast. He has been sleeping through the night for the last week. I am so excited about this. The first time he did it, he slept like 11 hrs and that was weird but I so enjoy a good nights rest. We had Kyan dedicated and it was a very nice service. I am so glad we did that.
Not much is going on here with us. We are busy with youth and I am trying to get the house in organized better. I thought I had more to say but I guess not. All my wonderful ideas I had to share are now gone. Oh well. I will remember them some time soon and then I will be back to share them

Bye for now

Recipes

2009-01-16T11:22:00.002-05:00

I am such a sucker for recipes and cookbooks. Today I got a email like I normally do from Rachael Ray and she had her superbowl recipes in her newsletter. So I went through them and printed like almost all of them. Man, I love cooking and I am always looking for new recipes. But I didn't think I would print out the majority of them but they all sounded tasty. I guess that is what happens when you are hungry and decide to look at recipes. Lol. I like to get anything from side dishes to drinks (ie. milkshakes, smoothies, juices, etc). Tabor and I do a lot of cooking together and we even have started a Dinner and Movie with the teens. We had our first group come over and make homemade pizza. We make our own dough and then go from there. We do not make our own sauce because we have not found a good recipe for that. But the teens seemed to like it a lot. Our second group will be coming over next Friday. We had a good response to that and had to break it up into two groups.
We had to take Kyan into the doctor this morning because he has been having really made stomach issues. He cries bloody murder because his little tummy hurts so badly. We give him Gripe Water (it is something we used with Taylen and my mother in law used it with Tabor, its from Canada and the doctor acutally had heard of it before) and that helps but the whole espoide last for like 45 minutes. But once he takes the Gripe Water, which by the way he hates the taste, and he settles down, he is good for the rest of the night. It always happens from 5pm and on. It has happened 4 out of the last 6 days. So we decided it was time to take him and she didn't want to change his formula. It is not colic because he is past the stage of when it could be colic. So we will continue with the Gripe Water and if it gets worse she said to bring him back in. They weighed him and he is up to 14lbs 5oz. He was 13lb 3oz on jan. 5th. He is an eating machine, I tell ya. And by his 4 month check up I think he will be 20lbs. But other than that he is doing well. He is on the floor talking right now and trying to figure out how to suck his thumb. Yes, I think he is going to be a thumb sucker. Oh well! He is moving all round his crib. It is funny to check on him after you put him down for the night because he has moved from how you had him. I mean he does a 180 in his crib and moves further down as well. I have an active little boy and I love it. Soon and I mean soon he will be rolling over and he wants to crawl already. Why he is in such a hurry I do not know. Oh well! We are just having a blast with our smiley happy boy. Being a parent is awesome! Well I have company coming over soon so I am going to go now. I will talk to you all later!

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Kyan Is Getting To Be A Big Boy!

2009-01-05T13:51:00.002-05:00

Kyan had his two month check up today. He is weighing in at 13lbs 3oz and is 24 1/4 inches long. He is doing well. We are going to be researching his shots for his two months because I am not 100% sure about them. So we talked to the doctor and she gave us some information and her thoughts and where we can looked it up online. If we do decide to then we just need to call and make a nurse visit so it is not that hard. He does not go back until March for his 4 month check up. So that was what we did today. I started to put some cereal in his formula only his night bottles only. And so far that seems to be working very well. Kyan is very talkative and very alert. Taylen was very alert but not as talkative at this age. It is fun to see the similarities and the differences between the two. But that is about all that is going on with the little man.
Tabor is busy with the youth and enjoying every minute of it. And I am still helping out with youth and all that. I am loving staying at home with Kyan though it is hard in the winter because of the snow and on the good days when there is no snow on the roads or anywhere it is hard because I can't legally drive so I have to stay home and I do go down and visit with some people so that is good but I do find it hard now with Kyan that I just can't get up and go because of the not being able to drive but that will change this summer hopefully. I really get the bug to drive we when are down at my Mom's house but not so much around here. Anyways, I am going to go and finish up the laundry and play a game while Kyan sleeps and then tomorrow it will be taking down the Christmas decorations. I hate taking the tree down not because it is a lot of work but because I love it so much. Then the room is bare without it and its sad. Okay I am going now

Talk to you all later!

Kyan Pictures!

2008-12-31T15:31:00.003-05:00

7 Weeks Old

7 Weeks Old
6 Weeks Old

My Favorite pic of Kyan on his Daddy's chest!

2 Months!!!

2008-12-31T15:23:00.002-05:00

Okay, so I am not good at blogging anymore. I am going to get better and I promise you will get sick of me telling little Kyan stories and you will go back to wishing I hardly blogged. But you all had to put up with funny Taylen stories when is started blogging. Oh well! That is the fun of being a Mom right? RIGHT! =) We had a good Christmas. Kyan stayed awake for a whole two or three presents. He was being so nosy then sleep hit him hard and he slept through the rest of what he got but he was right with us the whole time. We had my mom and step-dad here for Christmas so that was a lot of fun as well.
Kyan is now two months old and he has been for a while trying to crawl but he is just not strong enough yet and needs to learn to roll over first before crawling but he does not realize that and he thinks he is older than 2 months. But of course, I think he is older than that as well and I think I think that is because we knew he was a boy and we knew his name for so long that I keep forgetting he is two months old. When you find out the sex of the baby it is so much easier on you so you can pick out names and all that but you also get to bind more with the baby because then you have name and even though you do not tell the name, you can start calling him that as long as you don't slip in front of people which is easy to do and tempting at times but I never did which I am happy about. =) But I think that helped me bond with Kyan more. I am going to include a pic or two or three of the precious little one so you all can see how big he is getting.
I am doing well. I am still on medicine and I think I may try to go off the meds when I run out but I have refills for a year so if I do need them I can still get them without going back to the doctor. But anyways, I will update you next week sometime! Talk to you all later!

Have a Great New Year!

Update!

2008-11-25T13:54:00.003-05:00

Well, I know I have been slacking with the updates but a lot has been going on here. We had Thanksgiving with our youth group on Sunday and I was in charge of organizing that so that was fun. We had a great turn and had a lot of good food to eat. I have been put on depression medicine the last time I went to the Ob because I started to get depressed. This is the first time I have had the "baby blues" I didn't have it with Taylen but then again I have been through a lot in the last 2 yrs. So I am on medicine and it seems to be helping but every now and then I have a down day even though I am on the med. Kyan is a eating machine. He is 3 weeks old and up to three ounces of milk. I know! Also, he eats every 2 hrs during the day and 3-4 hrs at night (Yay! For 3-4 hrs sleep at night). He is doing better at sleeping in his own crib so that makes Mom and Dad happy. I keep forgetting how young he is because it feels like he has been with us longer. I think it is because we knew that he was a boy and even though we didn't share the name I knew and I think that is why it feels like he has been here longer. But we could not be happier than we have a baby in the house again. We are so thankful for Kyan and the chance to have more kids. God has been awesome in all that He has blessed us with.
The other day I said to Tabor at the end of January I will have been home from mary Free Bed for what 2 yrs? And he was like I was thinking that the other day and I said to him in the two years I have had one surgery and a baby. WOW! Around Dec. 14th will mark the two year mark of me being awake. Even once in a while around this time it actually sinks how that I have not been home for as long as I think since the accident. Sometimes it feels longer and other times it feels shorter. I need to go someone is a little fussy on the floor cuz he has the hiccups.

Talk to you all later!

A Week Old

2008-11-05T16:16:00.002-05:00

Kyan is a week old today. He is doing very well with eating and is starting for the last oh about 3 nights be good about eating and then going back to bed. He gets up between 3-4 hrs in the night. I am happy for that.He has been trying to stay up more during the day so thats good. I am doing well. I still am trying to take it easy but that is hard for me but I am doing well with it. Need to go now.

The Story of Kyan

2008-10-30T19:03:00.002-04:00

I was in a youth leader meeting on Tuesday night when my water started to break at 8:10pm. I didn't say anything to Tabor because last Wednesday I had a false alarm where I thought my water started to break but it was not. As the meeting, went on I noticed more and more water. By the end of the meeting I knew that it was time to go so Tabor was locking up the building and I said Tabor, my water broke. So off we went to the hospital. I was admitted at 9:08pm Tuesday. I went to the OB Triage and got checked and then I went to the birthing room. At 4am, my contractions started to get really intense and they kept checking me. About a half hour before, I need to push I was dilated to 5 cms (when I got there I was only 4 cms) and then I felt like I needed to push so I let my nurse know and Kyan was born at 6:49am Wednesday morning. I had no drugs of any kind with this birth. So that was how he was born. We came home today and I am doing well and so is Kyan. He is eating like it is going out of style so I am really happy with that. I am bottle feeding.

So like I said that is his story!

Introducing...

2008-10-30T13:54:00.000-04:00

Kyan Leeander McComiskey!
Born Oct 29th @ 6:49pm.
7lbs 15 oz
20 1/2 inches

Picture and a longer update to come!

Nov 3rd

2008-10-27T11:48:00.002-04:00

If the baby does not come on his own by Nov 3rd then I am scheduled to go into the hospital on Nov 3rd at 5:30am to be induced! So that means this little baby boy will be here soon. The doctor let Tabor and I talk it over and both said yes to the induction and he was having the nurse call as I came out of the room and I told him yes and said plans are made. He explained to me what they will do and if he does not come after this induction I will have a C-section but I have a feeling the C-section won't be necessary. I was induced with Taylen so I am not nervous about it however it is a little different then before but its all good. It is a big weight off my shoulders to know that if nothing happens this week then next Monday I will be having him. We are so excited and can't wait. I need to eat lunch.

Bye For Now

Reading

2008-10-23T11:48:00.000-04:00

I started reading a booked Love, Greg & Lauren a while back. I stopped reading it because I needed a break but early this week I decide to pick it back up and finish where I left off. It is not a book that you would forget what it was about. This book is a collection of emails that a husband wrote while his wife was in a medically induced coma because she was burned. Now, she was burned on Sept. 11th. She was walking into the World Trade Center building and I am do not remember which Tower she was in when a fireball came out of the elevator and pushed her through the doors back out onto the street, where she was able to get help from a person on the street. She was still conscious, when she got to the hospital her husband found her and she told him that she was going to fight and then they had to put her under.
This story has been very interesting to me because her husband explains the procedures she is having and what certain things mean. So as I am reading about her grafts and what kind a person can get, I am also looking at my own arms wondering if that is what I had. And of course I would ask Tabor to see if he remembered and stuff like that and explain to him why I wanted to know. So I am almost done with the book and it is very interesting to read this. Of course she was burned worse then me but still I think it is interesting because of all that I went through. It is weird how much you relate to a book like that because you have a same experience and some of the same surgeries and all that kind of thing.
I would recommend this book to anyone that would be interest in reading what her journey was like. her husband also tells you of things that he is doing while she is in her coma and all that kind of thing so it is not just about her but about her husband and her son as well. The majority of course is about her.

Just thought I would share!

3-4cms

2008-10-20T14:05:00.000-04:00

That is right. I am dilated to 3-4 cms. And I have the doctor's blessing to have the baby. So yay! We are excited but nervous about making the 20 minute trip to the hospital so hopefully we will make it on time when everything starts. I do have an appointment for next Monday morning to go back to see the doctor. But hey, maybe I won't need it but then again maybe I will. So we shall see how that goes. I am going to go now and take a nap. Just thought I would update you all on what the doctor said! Talk to u all later!

I wanted a change

2008-10-17T14:12:00.000-04:00

No idea of this is considered nesting or not. I know I changed my background and some of the other things on my blog. I was tired of looking at the same old thing and I wanted a change. But my nesting has come into play in the house now that my sinus infection is basically gone. Our apartment needs a good cleaning and from being sick I got behind in housework so here I am blogging out it instead of doing it. Okay so I am suppose to be napping because we had to make a hospital trip for me last night at midnight because I had bad pains in my tummy and a lot of pressure where I think this baby's head is and so I went to the hospital to be sure I was okay. We both are fine and was sent home. I am still dilated to 2 cms. And the baby is strong. I go back to the doctor on Monday and then start going once a week.
Getting back to the whole cleaning thing. I did do some of it this morning and needed a break because all the bending over was hurting my head still have some pressure up there from the sinus infection but nothing bad. So I made lunch for Tabor and made us cinnamon rolls by Pillsbury (I should sue for false advertising because the Dough Boy didn't come and help me make them. LOL). And I had two yummy "healthy" (he he) cinnamon rolls for lunch and Tabor had one for dessert. But hey what can ya do? But anyways, I am going to go now. I will update you on what the doctor says Monday. Talk to you all later!

Update!

2008-10-12T09:11:00.000-04:00

Tabor and I were on our way back from my mom's house last night and we got talking about when this baby is going to come. See Wednesday night, I was getting a bath and I noticed in the mirror that I was not carrying him as high anymore and I was like okay so he dropped a little bit. So I told Tabor I thought he might have dropped a little bit. And he was like okay. I have been having a little bit of contractions nothing big, they actually feel like the Braxton Hicks contractions I had with Taylen. So I have not been thinking about it alot because like I said they come and go so quickly and they are not that painful or anything like that. So I told Tabor yesterday about them and he was like okay. So on the way home we got talking about this baby's arrival and we think it will be anytime. Like we are not doctors but still he thinks almost anytime and I saying any where from the 23rd to the end of the month. I go back to the doctor a week from tomorrow and if he says I am dialated more than so be it and if not then so be it. Just thought I would let you know what was going on with me.
This pregnancy has flowen by quicker than the first and I think it is because I know to expect! I need to eat before SS so I am going to go!

Talk to you later!

Well well well

2008-10-06T13:58:00.003-04:00

I went for the ultrasound and the baby was so far down that she would not get her normal point to measure him from head to butt. But at least he is in the right position. so her measurements were off. The doctor said so because of that he is probably a good size in length and in weight he is a good size for being at 35 weeks. I am dilated to 2 cm. He said this is normal for your second one. You dilate quicker the more you have children but he told me to wait half a week before going into labor. So we shall see what happens. I go back on the 20th at 10:30am and then after that it will be every week. So that is all I have to report about the baby.
I am just anxiously waiting now to see what happens. But I am still hoping that he waits until a week or two until his due date before he decides to come. So yea. I am going to go and get ready to go. I will talk to you all later!

A Series I Have Been Reading...

2008-10-01T10:58:00.002-04:00

I do not know how many of you have heard about the Twilight series by Stephanie Meyer. They are coming out with a movie based on the first book on Nov. 21st. We will probably go see it because of our teens who are reading these books and wanted Tabor to read them so I decided to read as well. I am on the fourth book since I have nothing to do but clean a house and be pregnant and I figure I need to get all the reading in now before this little one is born. =)
Anyways, the books are at this teenage girl who is about 17 yrs old and she falls in love with a vampire. She moves to Forks, Washington to live with her father. And she starts a new school. It is written from her prospective, so it is interesting. It has romance and conflict and it is interesting.
The guys and girls in our group love them even though it is through a girl's prospective and that is what made me intrigued because normally guys would not like books that have romance in them and stuff like that so I was intrigued.
I am not going to give to much away because then if Tabor were to read this which I do not think he does then he would know what happens and he is still on the first book. But anyways, they are written for teens and they are quite interesting. I didn't think they would be good, I just figured it was another series about vampires and how good could it be? But I find myself liking them more and more. Okay the last book, I have gone through I like it, hate it, now I am back to liking it. LOL. But anyways, just thought I would share that with you. And what I have been reading lately because of our lovely teens.

Update on Tabor's Dad

2008-09-29T18:31:00.001-04:00

They think that they got all the cancer. They removed the tumor, part of the pancrease and bowl and they also removed the gull bladder. He will be in an ICU like unit for 2-3 days and will have to stay in the hospital for 2-3 weeks for recovery time. The only concern while he is recovering is the issue of infection. Tabor's mom will be calling tomorrow with more information like how his dad is doing and if they got the results back from the tumor. Once they look at the tumor they will be able to decide whether or not he will need chemo, radiation, both or none of it. There is a possibility that he may not need either one. But because he is diabetic recovery time will be slower than most because his body heals slower.

Thank you for your prayers and any new information I will pass on.

Asking For Prayer....

2008-09-27T21:28:00.002-04:00

We found out on Friday that Tabor's dad Morton has pancreatic cancer. He will be undergoing a 7 hr surgery on Monday. We do not know what time. They will be removing the tumor that is in his pancrease and removing his gull bladder as well. We would also like prayer for his mother Diane who is with his dad in Halfax, Nova Scotia, Canada. We just pray that the surgery goes well and that God guides the doctors as they operate on him. Also, he will be having to have chemo as well. Morton is also a diabetic. Just prayer that everything goes well and gives us all a calm. We know that He will be there but it is still hard for Tabor and I being this far away. Just please be praying with us. When we get updates I will let you know all know.

Thank you in advance!

Baby News

2008-09-22T11:32:00.002-04:00

So this child has decided to move which is a good thing but he is the wrong position now. I have to get on my hands and knees for ten minutes everyday and rock back and forth in a up and down movement 1 -3 times a day to try to get him to move.I have another ultrasound on Oct 6th as well as my regular appointment. So hopefully, he will have moved by then. If he has not, then the doctor said I will either have to have them try to turn him or have a C-section. So we shall see. But the heart beat was very good 132 bpm and I am still gaining weight so that is good thing. So that is all the news I have so far. I will talk to you all later!

Rememberance

2008-09-17T13:16:00.003-04:00

Yesterday was the 2 year anniversary of the accident. Tabor and I went out to the cemetery on his lunch break after we had ate and it was close to the time the accident took place. Which when he told me that I said that is creepy. There are somethings like that just scare/creep me out because I do not remember leaving the house to go see Tabor and everyone the second time. So it was weird. We have gotten a headstone but it is not there yet it should be there around the end of the month. But anyways, it is always hard on the anniversary of the accident and Taylen's birthday for us. When Taylen's birthday falls on Mother's Day, I pretty much have a lot of issue and it is super hard for me. But then again it is super hard no matter what day of the week his birthday falls.
When we were at the grave site I said to Tabor that I hate the thought that this baby is not going to be able to meet his brother or grow up with him. I think that is the first time I have said that out loud because it hurts so much. And I never really wanted to think about it but knowing the next time we go to the grave site the baby will be here is quite hard for me. I am just thankfully that we are able to have more children and that the memories we have of Taylen and all the pictures we have still here to help us explain to this new baby about his brother and future siblings of Taylen.
I know that God has gotten us to this point that we can have more children and He has gotten us through so much in the last 2 years, I can't begin to say how thankful I am to Him and how wonderful He is to us.
When I look back over that last two years and see how far I have come physically and emotionally it is just amazing and to think that we are going to be blessed with another baby boy is so awesome to me.

I am going to go now. Talk to you all later!

New Purchase!

2008-09-09T10:07:00.004-04:00

It is a 2008 Ford Edge. And it is ours! =) We wanted to get a new vehicle before this new baby was born. I am not a big fan of cars now and I wanted to feel safer and I wanted to feel safe with the baby. So last week we picked up our new car. We are loving it! I totally feel a lot safer in this car.
I had a doctor's appointment yesterday morning and things are looking good. I am measuring fine, gaining weight well, and my blood pressure is good. He wants to have another ultrasound in about four weeks just to make sure the baby is growing well. Tabor asked me if I cared and I said No, I would rather be ultrasounded to death then have something happen all of a sudden. And inplus, I do not mind seeing my baby. =) But I like the fact that he is being cautious and all that. When I was pregnant with Taylen we only had two ultrasounds but I think because of the accident he might be playing it safe which is fine with me.
Well, I guess that is all that is going on with us. I go back to the doctor in 2 weeks and then I will have my ultrasound after that appointment. I will talk to you all later!

Bye!

Nova Scotia and Other News

2008-08-25T09:00:00.000-04:00

Our trip to NS was fun and relaxing but too short. We only had a week but we were glad to see everyone that we saw. We spent the first couple days just relaxing and after the plane ride I needed those couple days to relax. Tabor was in a wedding so that was our Friday night and Saturday. But the wedding was very nice and a very easy way for us to connect with people we had not seen in 2 years. I got to speak on Sunday morning at Tabor's home church and then on Tuesday we started our trip home. We got our flight canceled in Toronto so they put us up in a hotel since it was Air Canada's fault. So we didn't get home until Wednesday at 4pm which then Tabor went down to hang out with the teens and we had youth since that is our youth night. We should have been home Tuesday night at around 9pm. Then on Friday we took some of our teens to a camp in Coleman Mi, for the weekend. So yea we have been busy and are glad to finally be able to spend some nights in our own bed now. =)
Today, I have a doctor's appointment and my second ultrasound to make sure the baby is growing well. I think he is but I love the fact that I get to see him again. We are excited and then I get to see the doctor after that.
Now, I have been looking into BPA free bottles. I am not going to nurse this one and I have heard about all the BPA things going on in the world. There are some bottles I have seen that are BPA safe but I do not want to use them because 1. I hate the drop ins and 2. I want to use the Playtex advance bottles because I like the vent and the curve in them because it helps with gas and all that. So my question to you moms is this, what other bottles are good out there??? If you have not thought or looked into the BPA safe bottles then thats okay but I am looking for people who know which BPA safe bottles are good.
Well, I need to go get ready!

Bye for now

Its a long one

2008-08-10T09:35:00.002-04:00

For reason, I have not been good at keeping up this blog like I use to be. I think alot has to do with the fact that on days I remember are the days I am very sick and then with the fact that Tabor and I have been so busy with youth things, I just have not had the time. So here I am taking the time for all my readers. =) But I really do like blogging just sometimes I feel like I have nothing to say.
Here is a baby update for you all. Our little boy is a mover! Tabor keeps asking me if this one moves more than Taylen did at this age. I tell I am not sure because when it is your first pregnancy you really do not know if it is the baby unless he is kicking the stuffing out of you and you can see him kick and punch. But this one I felt move early because I knew what to expect. So this baby boy is a mover. A couple weeks ago, Tabor got to see and feel him kick. After my last doctor's appointment that night Tabor felt that he should pray out loud for me and the baby and put his hand on my belly and all during the prayer the baby kicked. He was so excited I think he told everyone. HEHE! The baby has a new thing, he gets mad when I am laying on my side and will kick until I move and then if my leg is up to far he kicks until it is moved. Which is okay if I am laying on the couch watching tv, but when you are trying to get comfortable to go to sleep at night it is not okay and in the middle of the night when you are sleeping and he wakes you up because he is mad oh my! I never had that before and it is very different.
I am still getting sick. I have my good days but then I have my very bad days. But that all comes with the pregnancy and it is totally normal for me. I am glad that my pregnancies are normal since everything else in my life has been turned upside down the last almost 2 yrs. But like I have said before you just start over with a new normal but my pregnancies are definitely my old normal and I welcome that but I do not like all the sickness.
We are leaving for Nova Scotia on Tuesday and we will back the following Tuesday. We are definitely looking forward to this vacation. The last Monday of the month I have a doctor's appointment and another ultrasound schedule just to make sure this baby is growing right and all that and I am excited to see him once again. I think it is so awesome that you can go in for an ultrasound and see the little person that is inside you growing. How awesome is that? Well, I need to go to Sunday school now so I will talk to you all later! I will update about our trip sometime after we get home. Until then!

Bye Bye

Ultrasound Day!

2008-06-25T11:24:00.002-04:00

Today was the day for the ultrasound as I posted yesterday. I can't believe how much water I drank and I didn't even realize it. I drank about 40oz and I did totally fine with it but I was so happy to go after. LOL. So we got some pictures of the baby and a dvd of the ultrasound. Man, don't you wish I would tell ya if the baby is a boy or girl? So anyways, we have a few pictures and it was the gender shot. I am not posting it on facebook until around 5pm. So please do not post any comments on there until I reveal.
The reason I am waiting on facebook until 5pm is because youth starts at 630 and we have a couple girls who want to make cupcakes for the youth. They are going to frost them with BLUE icing. I just have to call them and let them know what kind to pick up.
So there you have it. We are having a BOY!!!! We are very excited!!!

1 More Sleep!!!

2008-06-24T10:28:00.002-04:00

I have one more sleep until I need to get up at 8am and have all the sickness over by 8:15am so I can start drinking water so we can see our little one. How exciting! I am just as excited as when I got ultrasounds with Taylen but the only two differences with this one is that 1. Tabor will be there. He can to miss both of the ones I had with Taylen because of work but he did see pictures and 2. because we are hopeful finding out what the sex is. I am pretty certain its a boy. Both pregnancies have been the same expect for this one the baby moves in the morning normally around 8-10am and Taylen was a night owl moving between 6-9pm. SO we shall see. But either way boy or girl we will be happy. I have ideas for a girls room but if it is a boy the room is staying the same because it is adorable and it is a sports theme but I am going to make curtains and rugs and maybe a new bummer pad for the crib more in the sports theme then I did before. So tomorrow we shall find out at 10am is when I am scheduled to have it. I will post tomorrow afternoon what the sex is. I think I am a little bigger at 20 weeks with this one then I was with Taylen but I that is because I am able to get more this time around since having been put on pills earlier. But I do not show that much and I was all baby with Taylen only gaining 20 pounds but he was very active and healthy. So this is one is an adventure and it is a lot of fun. Yea for babies. Okay now, that I am done with this I need to go and eat something because I am hungry.

Talk to you all tomorrow~

Ultrasound Date

2008-05-30T19:32:00.002-04:00

June 25th. We will be getting an ultrasound and we then get to find out the sex of our little one. I felt the baby move on Wednesday night and I was so excited. The heart rate today of the baby was 143. So once again that was exciting. And I had to have blood work done as well. So that was fun. Okay maybe not so much but I am so use to it.
I will post an update pic of when I am starting to show more. But I thought you all would be interested in knowing when the ultrasound would be. I am super excited. We are going to be able to get a DVD of it. So that will be awesome. But I will keep you all update on what is going on. I need to go and get ready for our second grad party.

Julie

Warm Wather

2008-05-29T10:34:00.002-04:00

Okay, so I got up and was checking my email and all of that and I decided like I do everyday to go see what kind of disappointing day weather wise we are going to have. So I heard the rumor on the news this whole week that is was going to start getting warmer. But whatever I do not believe them a lot of the times and I think they like to say YES!! it is warming up and then nothing happens. Just like in winter they are sad when there is no big snow storm. The weather said it was going to be in the 70s all week long. I am excited maybe Michigan finally decide to let summer come and stay for our whole 2 months. Okay so maybe 3 months but it still feels like we get more winter. Currently at 10:35am the temperature outside is 68. YEA!!! Now we just need our air conditioning fixed and I will be all set to spend the summer inside. I love summer and heat but with burns, the sun and heat are not your friends. I have limited places I can sweat from as well. But anyways, I still love summer.
I will update you all on what the OB says tomorrow. And hopefully I will have an ultrasound date.

Julie

Eating

2008-05-07T14:37:00.002-04:00

I think my new favorite pastime is eating. Okay, so those of you who know me very well know that eating is my all time favorite past time and so therefore that should not be new to some of you but lately I have been hitting the ice cream hard and the licorice, but I have found that I do not really care for the wild berry pull and peels because there is not much flavor to them so I am going to stick with the strawberry. HEHE!!!! Oh yea, apparently Tabor does not like licorice but has been eating mine and I do not know how that works because when I said I thought you didn't like it, he said I just do not like black, which is totally different story from when we were dating.
Also, I found a new computer game that I love to play called Catan, there is a board game called Settlers of Catan and this is what the computer game is based from. I like it. I have not played the actually board game with all its expansions.
After 16 weeks, we will be having an ultrasound and that is when we will find out if you are having a boy or girl. I am thinking that we will not be having twins but I think Tabor is pulling for it. Oh yea. My next appointment is the end of May (May 30th) and I am going to have a blood test done to see if this baby has any disorders, it is a standard test but I didn't get it done with Taylen because I would have had to pay for it and it would have cost alot so I think I am going to get it done this time for a piece of mind. But anyways, that is all that is going on here. I will keep you all up to date on things.

Julie

Update

2008-04-04T12:00:00.002-04:00

This is the first day I felt well enough to sit at the computer for any amount of time and type an update. This baby let me have two weeks of not being sick before it hit me. The sickness hit me at about week 6. After getting what I feel is the run around from my obgyn and taking matters into my own hands, I got put on medicine so I will not get sick anymore because I was not holding anything down and I was miserable and the obgyn kept canceling my appointments. It happened four times. I am now with a new obgyn and see him toward the end of the month. I went to my family doctor to be put on some sort of pills so I can eat. I got sick once yesterday and twice this morning but I am feeling okay now. I was able to actually eat yesterday and not just ice cream and pudding either. so I guess that is all for now. I will talk to you all later

Guess what???

2008-03-05T23:14:00.001-05:00

Tabor and I are going to be having a baby on Nov. 10th. I am four weeks along!

That you all would like to know~

Tattoos

2008-01-23T10:44:00.000-05:00

Tabor and I were watching LA Ink the other night. And there was a man who came on who had been burned in a fire. He was having dinner with his friend's grandparents in a trailer and it caught on fire and he went back to the bedroom his friend was in and got him out but the only way out was back through the fire. So he was getting a tattoo to symbolize what he had been through. He was in a coma for 3 weeks and was awake when he got to the hospital. So Corey is the one who did the tattoo and it came out awesome. Now on Miami Ink, they tell you it is hard to get a tattoo over skin that has a scar and what not and will encourage you to change where you want it. But Corey didn't say it would bother the graff sites or anything and the guy got a cool tattoo.
I just wanted to share this because I thought that you would not be able to do that on graff skinned but you can. And after 7 yrs you all should have seen how blended it was but you could still see a little of the meat tenderizer look I call it.

Just want to share this with you all

Tom Brady's Boot

2008-01-22T18:19:00.000-05:00

Tabor is watching PIT and Sportscenter and all I have heard is talk on both shows about Tom Brady's stupid boot. Personally, I do not care if he hurt his ankle and is now not wearing his boot. If he hurts it more and can't play in the Superbowl then its his fault. I think this is just all media driven and I wish they would stop talking about it. I am sick of hearing it.

I feel better now

Also, I was watching the 5pm news and breaking news shocked me. It was about the death of Heath Ledger. I called Tabor to tell him and he was stunned as well. Since Heath Ledger is playing the Joker in the newest Batman film and looked amazing as the Joker.

Thats all I got to say for now

Snowed In

2008-01-22T09:30:00.000-05:00

I am taking a poll....

What do you do when you are snowed in???

Snow

2008-01-14T10:04:00.000-05:00

I was happy that we had 60 degree days last week in a row and it rained and all the snow was gone. Now, I wake up to Tabor saying it is a blizzard outside. My nice no snow days are now being replaced with snow. How much??? Who knows. The forecasters probably didn't see this one coming AGAIN and will call it lake effect. I never understood what lake effort was until we moved here. What it is suppose to be is when weather is coming off the lake or something like that but what I really think lake effect is is when the forecaster didn't see that this was coming. Then its lake effect. In the summer, if we get rain and it was not forecasted I say it must be lake effect. Hehe.
I am still wanting to put my sermon that I preached in August on here but still have not found a good way of doing that. So I am just looking for suggestions still. But I am going to go and eat breakfast.

Bye

Yes, I am blogging

2008-01-06T13:58:00.000-05:00

I think I am going to try to blog once a week this year. I realized last night while Dawn & Aza were visiting me that I have lost contact with a lot of people and I wondered why. Well, some of it has to do with the accident and getting back into the swing of things but I miss my friends that I had in college. As I was visiting with them and we were talking about how long it had been since I saw Aza, i started to think why haven't I talked to others that I was close with at BBC. I mean I do not email them or anything and I just would blame it on the accident and trying to get back to real life. So I am going to try to blog once a week and if I do it more than that fine.
I also think that because of this accident well I do not think I know I have reevaluated somethings in life and I want to be able to still have the same friends I did have when I was BBC. So I am going to get in contact with them most likely over email but that is okay.
I sometimes think people shy away from me now because they do not know what to except. Well, I am the same person I was before the accident the only thing that has changed is the outer appearance. I may however be a little more bolder but oh well that is what happens. So do not worry I am still the same person (ask anyone that has talked to me lately).
Also, I have a question does anyone know how to add audio things to the blog??? I would like to post my testimony from August on here because I have copy but do not know how. So if I could get some help with that it would be great!

Until Next Time~

Reflection

2007-12-14T11:21:00.000-05:00

So this is the day that Tabor and I are saying I was fully awake. This time last year, Tabor walked into my room at the Burn Unit and heard me talking and saw me sitting on the edge of the bed. A year ago...WOW! I can't believe it has been that long. The time has been so fast but yet so slow. I am just so happy that I get to spend Christmas at home with Tabor this year. It has been awesome getting Christmas presents and all of that stuff this year. I am just glad to be here this year and be able to spend it with my family. Tabor and I found out yesterday that the fungus I had had a 100% mortality rate. I just looked at Tabor and the nurses and said so in other words, I am not suppose to be here right now. It is just awesome how God works.
When I get a copy of the sermon I preached in August I will post it on here for those of you who want to hear it.
I am going to go now. Talk to you all later~

Sugery Update (From Carepage)

2007-10-21T21:37:00.000-04:00

I posted on Saturday and thought I pressed the post button but didn't so we will blame the pain medicine. :)
Home home on the range. I came home Friday by noon. At 630am the doctor came in to change my dressing and to see how well the Graff took. But I mean 630am actually he was in my room at 625am and I opened my eyes and was like oh its you. But they took it off and looked at it and was very pleased with how it looked. It took very well. So he put a new dressing on it and told me that I would need it to be changed every other day so I went today to the burn unit and got it changed and I go to his office on Tuesday to get it changed again. I was told today that around 12 days they talk about not having it dressed anymore and so what that means from then on I do not know. I am not sure if that is when I would get my neck brace or not. Currently, no neck brace.
Let me tell you all about my stay in the hospital. It was very nice to just lay around but I was ready to come home. I could have came home Tuesday but I thought it would be better to stay until Friday which it was because I got the stupid rash which was determined to be caused by an antibiotic that I was on. I have cream to put on it but it is going away. I was told it would take at least 10 days because the drug needs to get out of my system but with the cream it took most of the redness again but it still itches but not as bad.
My level never went above a 3 on the 0-10 pain scale. I was in recovery and it was like between a 2-3. I am not in any pain now but I am still taking medicine for when I feel that discomfort start.
I will tell you though that Friday after surgery I felt a big difference in my shoulders. They actually will relax and when I lay down they are not as tight as they were before. I was always tight and never could get away from that. My face has more of face look to it then before. U can see when I smile or pout. Its great. Also, I can see more out of my right eye and my left eye now closes more than before. So I can't see Tabor walking around the bed in the night anymore and I can pray with my eyes close because they shut and it is not bugging me. My neck feels awesome. I can move it as much as I want and I have been. It is amazing. I can move it so much more than before and I love it.
So I am so glad that I am home and that this is behind me now. As of right now the only restriction I have is no lifting or strainful things because of my tummy healing from the skin being removed and the mini tummy tuck.
I am going to go now

Catch Ya All Later~

RAW & Other things

2007-10-11T12:11:00.000-04:00

RAW was amazing. We all had a really good time with that. I will post pictures on my other site that is linked to this page. It will be the our family pics blog.
Just a quick reminder that I will be having surgery tomorrow and my carepage will be updated while I am in the hospital to keep everyone informed. Then when I get back home and feeling better I will update it myself. I just updated it today so if you have not read it yet go for it. But I am going go now and put this pics up.

Catch Ya All Later!

Survivor China

2007-09-18T15:24:00.000-04:00

I have started a fantasy team for Survivor China. If anyone is interested in joining this please let me know and I will send you an e-mail to invite you. It should be fun and interesting. I did one of these back when I was in BBC and it was fun and kept the interest up on Survivor as well.

Catch Ya All Later~

Tomorrow = 1 yr

2007-09-15T21:57:00.000-04:00

I will not have time to post tomorrow seeing how it will be Sunday and there is a lot going on tomorrow. So I am going to take the time now to reflect on the past year. Sine tomorrow is the one year anniversary of the accident and events that totally changed our lives I would like to take the time to talk about how I feel and things of this nature.
Yes, it will be hard to go through this day but we know that God will give us the strength. Luckily there are things we have planned like a special prayer for us in the service, going to the cementary, then luch with the pastor and his wife then an ordination service that I am looking forward to because I will get to see some old BBC friends. And also, I am teaching jr high ss which I don't mind.
This last year has been a hard one and granted I slept for 3 mnths of it does not make it any easier, I am just grateful that I have came out of it pretty well. It is hard to believe that Taylen has been gone for a year. I could not help but catch myself this week thinking about things we did that lead up to the accident. But I am glad that God was with us through it all. It was still tough but His presence was with us.
I just want to thank you all for all the prayers, cards, calls, etc that was gone in this last year.

I am going to go now and go to bed cuz I am tired.

catch ya all later~

Concerts!!!

2007-09-13T16:38:00.000-04:00

I will start with the concert on Monday. We took some of the teens to see Skillet and Toby Mac. There was a band from West Michigan that opened for them but they were okay. I only started for Skillet because it was raining and I didn't really care for Toby Mac. Tabor and the teens stayed for all of it and by the time they got home they were soaked. But they all had a good time.
Then last night was Toby Keith. Talk about an awesome concert, he really knows how to put on a great concert. It was money will spent. It didn't rain on us and it was so mucj fun. He played my favorite song and it was awesome. What a great we all had!

Catch Ya All Later~

Face Lift

2007-09-04T20:16:00.000-04:00

I did a little searching and found the background I like. I put some new tickers up. I also added a guestbook for those of you who do not want to leave a message on the site itself you can now sign my guestbook. Thought that would be a nice addition since I was doing a upgrade on this old site!!! :)

Happy BBC Blogging Day!!!!!

Talk Talk Talk...

2007-09-02T17:56:00.000-04:00

Well, lets see what has been going on in our lives? Well, I shraed my testimony a week ago today at my mom's church, which is my home church, so that was nice. As far as I know it was well recieved which I kinda thought it would be good.
I got to try Coldstone Creamery for the first time and I loved it! But nothing really has been going on. I can't say that I am not happy about that because we have a had just a busy year that its good to say nothing is really going on. And that we are just doing our day to day normal things. We are getting ready to have a kick off for the teens this Wednesday adn nect Monday taking the teens toa Toby mac & SKillet concert. I have been saying Toby Keith & Skillet concert because Wednesday (not this Wednesday but next) I am going to see Toby Keith. Talk about excited I am!! Then the next big thing to countdown will be RAW for Tabor's birthday! Excited about that as well. Then after Raw that every week is neck surgery and I am excited about that and have a countdown for it on my facebook. Also, the week before neck surgery is a girls all nighter that should be fun. But I am going to go now. I will talk to you all later!

Catch Ya All Later~

Just Thought I Would Write

2007-08-17T20:16:00.002-04:00

Tabor is entraining some of our teens from the youth group tonight, so I am just entraining myself. I was working on my quilt but I needed a break so here I am. Tomorrow Tabor and 4 teens are going to destantion unknown and only one of the teens that is here tonight is going tonmorrow. So I will be working on my quilt tomorrow as well. But I have to make sure and try to get tickets for RAW but we already have floor tickets 12 rows back behind the announcers table so I am going to try to get better but if not then oh well, we all ahve really good seats. There is 5 total that are going and I am excited since Wrestlemania was AWESOME!!!
Well, this afternoon I has on the phone with my mom and I was putting my sermon that I preached here at BWC on my thumb drive but I am going to use an outline when I preach at NBC and I was cleaning up the thumb driv and found some interesting pictures of me when I was in the hosptial back in Nov. They were taken right after I had eye surgery and so it was intersting to see myself. Let me tell you right now, I looked good then but now I look a lot better. I told Tabor later that I saw them because I found them by accident. He had hide them so I would not find them until I was ready to see them but since I found them now I was okay with it. He was just worried about how I felt and I was okay with it. I don't know it was just so interesting. Like when I read the carepages, I was so interested in it because it seemed like some one else's life but since these pics were actually of me it was more real. I didn't have fixed emotions or anything and I talked to Mom about it as I looked at them but it was just interesting. Well, I should go and do something. I have some pics to take of some of the things I have use in the past on my way to recovery and I am going to show them at NBc when I speak. Well, I am off now.

Catch Ya All Later~

Surgery Is Scheduled

2007-08-13T17:19:00.000-04:00

I will be having surgery on October 12th hopefully at 7:30am. I will be in the hospital for at least 5-7 days. I will allow some visitors to come and see me but I think the majority can wait until I am home so I won't be bored. HEHE! My surgery will be 4 1/2 hrs long.
I am going to be speaking at my mom's church (my home church) on August 26th at 10:30am. I am looking forward to this since I have already done it here in Burnips. I just to type up an outline and go from there. I think that is about all for now. Since dinner will be ready in a couple minutes. I had to warm up a chicken that we bought today. I will talk to you all later!

Catch Ya All Later!

Fun & Exciting In Our World

2007-07-30T16:10:00.000-04:00

So, I know that we played that game at BBC but I just don't remember when or what class. I guess I am going to make it up as I go along. Just thought I would update u all over here now. I just did my carepage.
So lets see, Tabor is completely bald now. I will post a pic of him now on the site. So you can check that out. The pic is with some of our peeps from the church. I am starting therapy some where else now and I am looking forward to that. Oh yea, I guess we are going to see RAW in October for Tabor's birthday so we are all excited. That is why I put up the new ticker. Still don't know why it went like it did but whatever. So far there is five of us going so that will be fun. I know how much fun Wrestlemania was. We will hopefully get ringside seats and be on the camera side so we can be on tv with our signs and what not and don't you kid yourself we will be taping it. We have the Wrestlemania dvd because we were there. So that is the fun and exciting things going on here. Oh yea, we are taking the teens out to the lake on Wednesday for some boating and tubing all afternoon. So that will be fun. I may take my camera and get some pics so I can put them up here. And it is suppose to be in the 90s that day! YEA! Well, that is all for now

Until next time!

Question For All You Who Are BBCers..

2007-07-18T22:32:00.001-04:00

Hey Guys-
Does anyone remember how to play Pastor Bingo? We were taught it at BBC and actually played it. I was just wondering if anyone remembers how to play and if so can refresh my memory? I remember playing it but I don't remember how...

Thanks!

Hi There

2007-07-15T16:27:00.000-04:00

Well, family and youth camp just got over so Tabor and I have been back and forth from there but I stayed out there from Friday until today so I am pretty tired but not as tired as most of teens and leaders that were out there all week long. Not to much other wise is going on here. Just though I would quick update everyone since I just got done doing my carepage. I am trying to get better at doing this one but I am so out of practice with it since it has been so long. I dont even know how many ppl still do this. But I know i love reading everyone's on here. Oh yea, at camp the teens had a worship band from BBC and they were very good. I think they were named Altantic. But like I said I don't remember. I heard them once and talk with one of their members but they were awesome and the teens loved them. But I am going to go now. I will talk to u all later

ME

Remembering

2007-06-23T21:59:00.000-04:00

I talked a little about this in the last post about glad I was that I knew God and therefore had a better outlook at my time at Mary Free Bed. The reason I bring this up again is to share with you all about the people that I met there. I say a lot of people that were just not happy to be there. Of course the age was from little kids to senior citizens but the people I saw everyday were mostly adults. And let me tell you, there some people who you could tell didn't want to be there and didn't care if they got better. Some of them were just so hateful toward the therapist and didn't want to do what they said. That is why I was glad I knew God. Of course I was not judging the people but you could tell who didn't know Christ. I think most of them didn't. There were two other burn victims there beside me and I got to talk to them and get to them a little bit. But when I was there for two weeks for outpatient therapy which was a transition to outpatient across the street, I saw a man that looked like I did. He was happy and nice to everyone. Come to find out he was a pastor from the district that Tabor and I are in. But I never talked to him because he was on his way with a therapist. But I knew his story and who he was and his story but it was cool to see someone else just happy to be there. I don't know how he felt while he was there but I could tell he had Christ just from his expression and I told Tabor later that I had seen him and I knew it was because of how he acted. Because he was like me just happy to be alive.
I guess I am just trying to say that no matter what happens in life if you know Christ as your personal Savior then things will be okay. No matter how they turned out. Everyone's situation is what they can handle because God will only give us what we can handle because He knows us very well. But just remember that no matter God is always there with you and going through it with you. That is something I have thought and had in my thoughts this whole time~

Until Next Time

Stories

2007-06-18T19:04:00.000-04:00

I forgot to add this story because I forgot about it until I was talking with someone and they reminded me of it. When I was in the burn unit they had me try and write my name. Well, I remember writing the following sign that they PUT ON MY DOOR: Please keep me modest. Well, come to find out all I wrote was three lines that was suppose to be my name. Yea, I like my version better!

I don't really have any stories from Mary Free Bed because I was not so high on medicine that made me loopy. I am just naturally loopy then give me meds that make me more loopy and we have the applesauce smoothie girl again. But I will return now back to telling things about my stay that MFB.

I am glad, well, I guess glad is not the word for it so I don't really know what to say there but I am just looking at my experience there and thinking how knowing God made things a little easier there. I could have had a terrible outlook about why I was there and the whole ordeal that came with why I was there but never was I mad at God for what had happened and sure there were many times I told God I wanted Taylen back, I think for my own personal selfishness but I am a mother remember and what mother would not want that. But never was I mad or did I think that God took Taylen away from us. If I would have gone down that road I don't think I would have recovered. I remember being in the burn unit telling God that I wanted Taylen back but I knew it was not possible and I was just glad that Taylen was safe now and didn't suffer. I really do believe that if I had been bitter and mad at the situation that I would not have made it out of the burn unit. And because I didn't have those feelings I knew that God was there with (well, I knew that no matter) but I knew that He was still working on me to get me back to health again and He was working on mending my broken and hurting heart and so I don't think He let me get all mad and stuff because if I did I would have turned against him in a heartbeat. But that just goes to show that no matter He is always there for us and helping us through everything....

More to come tomororw

Funny Stories

2007-06-15T15:39:00.000-04:00

Okay, I think its now that I tell some funny stories that have happened to me while I was in the hosptial. These stories will be both when I was in the burn unit and at Mary Free Bed. The majority of these stories will be from Mary Free Bed and they might not be as funny because I was not drugged up like I was at the burn unit. But there are some good stories from burn unit that people love to hear over and over again just to laugh at them again and they laigh just as hard. (You know who you guys are).

Burn Unit Funny Stories:
1. Okay now remember I have not drank anything and the only way I ate was through a feeding tube for 3 mnths now I am awake and Tabor, Mom and Marty are there and I say I need help. They say with what? I say I can't put this cup of water down. I have the "cup" upside down so if there was anything in it, then it would have been all over me by now. Come to find out I didn't have a cup in my hand. I had NOTHING!!! Don't ask because I don't remember doing this so I have to take their word on it but I dont know.

2. After, I was able to drink I had some water that I had asked for. I have two nurses in my room at this point doing who knows what probably telling me stories about people and things. I took a drink of water and said you gave me crappy water. Tait (one of the nurses) was like what? And he was laughing really hard. I was like you gave me crappy water. He was like I am sorry for laughing but it caught me off guard. Let me go and get you some new water and I was like make sure it does not taste crappy either.

3. Disclaimer: some of this story I don't really think happened and I will tell you what parts but the rest I think is true. (No matter what Tabor says). I think this is one of mom's fvorite stories because to this day I get very passionate about it. I had to go have a swallow test done so they came in and got me to take me for this. (I don't think this put happened) They put some xs on my face so they could tell that I was there girl. Then they took me down to the testing area. I got there and they do this by x-ray and I had to drink beareum (spelled wrong) and eat a cookie. I did that but the thing is Tabor was there behind the glass here everyone had to stand becuase of the x-ray. Now behind the glass means that there was glass were the lab tech was to take the xray. The drink was gross but the cookie was good. (I am not sure if this part happened or not) They told me I did it in record time. (This next part is true) I got a pop for passing. On my way back to my room I told everyone I could see that I knew that I had passed it. I was so happy because that meant I could drink and eat blenderized food. But I was just happy I could drink because it had been so long. But the funny thing is that Tabor says he was not there yet when I had that done but I know he was. Also I don't think this happened but they told me they would race Tabor to my room he would take the stairs and we took the elevator.

4. I looked at Tabor and told him I had an applesauce smoothie one day. I don't know how that came up but I told him I had it and I guess I made it up. A lot of ppl laughed at that one.

Mary Free Bed Stories later!

TTYL

Answer To Question

2007-06-14T16:19:00.000-04:00

What I mean by bands are the scar bands where they have sowed me up at. There are some by my shoulders and neck. I wish I could show you all maybe I will take a pic and put it on here so you can understand a little better. I will see what I can do about that.

TTYL

questions answered

2007-06-12T17:08:00.000-04:00

There are 26 stairs to the apartment and then 13 tp get my the bedrooms. At this point I have fullr ang in my arms and I have to work on somethings on my left arm. I have to do ore weights and things like that. I can't fully turn my neck from side to side because of the tightness due to the bands that need to be released in the neck. But other wise everything else is fine. I have to get my ankles strong again as well. Since i didn't use them for so long they lost their strength but I am not a hazard to falling, luckly that is not a concern. But I can't stand on one foot and I don't know if I really could before the accident anyway.

TTYL

Wonderful Therapies

2007-06-10T21:25:00.000-04:00

Okay, so what are these therapies and how did they help? Well, these therapies were to help me be able to live indepentent again. There were some that (PT = phyiscal therapy) to help me to walk again and to climb 26 stairs just to get to the apartment and another 13 to my room and YES! I did count them all when we first moved in. The neck massage and leg exercises are all under PT as well. I would explain those but the neck massage is explains itself but what they also would do is turn my neck to the right and left. The leg excerises is just something I would have to show you in person. OT (OT= ocupational therapy) was to make sure I got my range back and also the strength in my hands and arms. Speech is to help you make decisions and how to organize and mulit-task. I needed this at the beginning of my stay at Free Bed.
These did help me get my range back and I am still struggling with the strengthing thing but will come in time. And I am able to walk and climb those stairs. I had enough practice with stairs that made me wish I was actually home. I did practice that once I was walking well everyday. I think thats it for now.

TTYL

Mary Free Bed Days

2007-06-08T11:23:00.001-04:00

Well, once I got to Mary Free Bed, they had to do a lot of evaluation on how I was. Like theytook measurements of my legs and how far they could bend and my arms how far I could range them. This is just so they knew what they needed to work on and through out my stay there they would measure these things again ot make sure I was gaining and not losing. These measurements were a pain but I liked to hear the results exspecially if I was doing well.
My schedule on the weekdays looked like this: Breakfast: 745-8am, Speech: 9-9:30am (in room), Neck Massage:9:30-10:00am, Leg excersies: 10-10:30am, OT (range):10:30-11:00am, Speech (mouth stretches) 11:00-11:30am, Lunch 12:00-1pm, PT (working on walking)1:30-2pm, (later, I would work in thier apartment as well practicing getting up off the couch and floor and then I would practice getting in and out of the car they have there) Speech: 2-2:30pm, OT (range) 2:30-3:30pm (later, during this time after range I would either work on some of the exercise equpiment or work in the kitchen), done-3:30pm. Dinner would be around 5 I believe. So that was my schedule and the weekend was much the same but sometimes I would have a TON of therapies becuase I would handle it. So one weekend I had at least 9 therapies in that day and everyone else had less but I think that only happened once. But the weekend I was told as suppose to be a light load. Not for me. I would see my doctor through out the week to make sure everything was okay and when I was sick I saw him a little more. And a couple of other doctors.

Tomorrow I will explain all the therapies and what they did and how they helped..

Later!

Part 4

2007-06-04T09:00:00.000-04:00

My face and neck do pull a little bcause they are tight. it is li/ke pull a rubber band as tight as it will go and there you have some of my bands. I guess my face is not as much tight on its own but it sometimes gets stiff because it is dry. Once I get my neck and shoulders release then it will eb better for my face. Hurt? Not really. I never have been in any pain that I know of. I just get drove crazy by the itches and thats about all. But I do have medicine for that. I guess for comfort I would have to say my legs are the most comfortable part of me since they have had time to heal. They were not burned but they were used as what they call donor sites.
I am kinda of glad that they did not do my face yet that way I can really appriciate what they have done once the final surery for my face is done. What they are going to do is first the neck adn shoulder releases. Then they will do my face in another surgery. THey are goign to take my tummy skin which they have saved for my face because it is like the skin that is on your face. It is like the same thing which I thought was neat. They will also fix my eye if not in this facial surgery then in another surgery and what they are going to do for that is bascially another release in my eyelid and then get it to close then put a little skin draft there. And they are going to fix my nose which he said would be hard to do. I do not know if they are going to ix my left ear or not but if they don't that is fine and if they do that is fine as well. My last "major" if you will surgery will be my hair implants and they are just taking hair flocils (?) from one side and implanting them to the other side. Then after that it will be touch ups here and there. Oh yea, I will be in a neck brace for a little while after the neck and shoulder release. My stay in the burn unit will be a week to ten days and then I will be home so that is better than the 3 months. I won't have to have a trac or anything liek that just a breathing tube during surgery.

Tomorrow I will continue...Feel to comment here or on the carepage cuz I still check that one as well. If you have any questions just ask I will answer.

Part 3: Looking At The Burns & Pat Of Free Bed...

2007-06-03T09:00:00.000-04:00

Before I actually tell the story of when I saw my face for the first time, I will say I remember someone in my room at the burn unit teling me I will look different for the rest of my life. I think I figured out who told me this but I am still not sure because I was in the coma.
I actually saw my bruns for the first in the burn until one afternoon with Tabor and my OT right there. When I saw my face it was some time in that week I was at burn unit before I went to Free Bed that I saw them and it was not my idea but they wanted me to see my face before I left. She handed me a mirror and said we want you to see what you look like now, so I looked at myself for a couple minutes. I said I don't look bad at all. They both agreed with me. I didn't think it was a big to me at the time to see what my face looked like because of what I had heard which I mentioned above and that was the only thing I saw at this point. I knew some what where I had been burned but I could never full understand how my back was burned and today it is still hard for me to understand that it is like just the sides of my back and I think I am still getting that wrong.
When I got to Free Bed that is when my burns became a big deal. I was in a wheelchair and when they would wheel in the bathroom to brush my teeth, they would leave me infront of the mirror and for a while I could not see my face because of the eye goo (medicine or ointment) that I have to have in my eyes because my left eye does not close all the way so it keeps it moist. So that was not a big deal but one day I either didnt have it in yet or something and I saw my face. I was mortified. I could not believe what I looked like. I thought I looked like a monster. At this point, I was reall hard on myself because of the way I looked. I understood I looked different then before but to actually understand how different, hit me hard. Tabor, Mom and Marty hated it when I called myself a monster and tried to tell me I was not but my mind was made up. I had asked Tabor one day what he thought I looked like and he said great. They all could still see the old Julie in me and I could not. I am not all about looks but at this time it was hard to see a different face when I was use to the old face I had for 25 yrs. I told one of my friends that had called me that when she say either a picture of me or me in person that I looked different and the only way I could explain it since she never saw a burn patient before was like a monster. It took me a couple months to get over this and still some days it is harder to remember I look different exspecially in public but I am getting better.

More to come tomorrow

Part 2

2007-06-02T15:22:00.000-04:00

It was werid to wake up about 3 months later not really know where I was at. I think Tabor told me he had to tell me about Taylen twice and I only remember him telling me once when I asked how the babe was. I think I knew but didn't really want to believe it until he told me then I had to accept it. After I found about the Detroit Tigers going to the world series, I asked Tabor how the Lions did just to make sure I was really not halluenting (spelled wrong) but they didn't let me down they did not so well. I do't really remember alot about being in the burn unit because when I woke up I was only there a week before I moved to Mary Free Bed. Some of things I remember about neing in the burn unit is I found out where the camera was and when I could not find by call button I would wave to the camera so I could get someone to come to me. I remember one time that the ot and a other person had me sitting on the edge of the bed and I was talking with them and I heard Tabor come in the room and before I saw him I was like Hi Honey. He walked in and saw me sitting up on the edge of the bed and we both cried.
I don't really remember Christmas but I can tell you it took us two days to have it. And I had Santa hat that one of my nurses gave me. Then shortly before New Years I moved to Mary Free Bed. But I was the only one who was excited about going there. Tabor, Mom and Marty were all happy and so was the burn unit staff but I felt like everyone was abondending me because I didn't really understand that this move was a good one until they explained it to me better. I was actually suppose to go to other facility before Mary Free Bed (I refere to it has step two) but they thought it would be better for me to go straight to Free Bed. And so they moved me there!

More to come tomorrow...

Let The Series Begin...

2007-06-01T10:12:00.000-04:00

On September 16th, 2006, I was invovled in a serious car accident. It left e with burns that cover 45% of my upper body and in that same accident, we lost our 16 month old son Taylen. I was in a drug induced coma for about 3 months and when I was in that coma I had tests and surgey upon surgey. I ended up getting a fungus that is soppose to happen toward the end of the healing process that is if you are going to get it. But me, I got it within the beginning part of it all. No one but my family were allowed in the room to see me. Since I got that I was not able to get my facial surgey done so instead I will be having that done in the near furture. The reason they could not do my facial surgery is because you onlly have one shot at it and the fungus could really miss that up. If this fungus could not have been under control I could have died because of it. But I didn't (thank you captin obivous).
There was a time that I gave everyone that was working with me a scare becuase they could not hear my heart beating so I was code blue, which to me is a very scarey thought. But they got me back. (There are many other stories about how they all could tell when I didnt like something they were doing to me or when I was trying to get out of bed).
Now we will move to December 15th (I think). I woke up FINALLY! I found out then about the Detroit Tigers going to teh world series and I could not believe it. ...

More to come tomorrow

Julie

Summary of Series...

2007-05-30T11:27:00.000-04:00

It has been a rough nine months in our lives. But God has done some amazing things in our lives. I am going to start this series off by recaping what has happened in case some of you do not know but I am not going to go into to much detail because most of you already know the ins and outs of what happened. This is going to be to tell you all what has happened in my life sicne the accident and how God has shown Himself to me. I hope that you will enjoy this and I hope that you all will be able to see what a wonderful God we serve. Feel free to comment whereever you feel like it or whatever!

Catch Ya On The Flip Side-
Julie

Internet FINALLY!!!

2007-05-29T22:26:00.000-04:00

Hey All-
I just got the internet in the apartment today and I am happy now I can update to my heart has nothing else to say. I was thinking the other day after I got a comment from Elizabeth about Tertis. I remember sitting in a couple classes and one of us would take notes and the other played. Then I remember a time in one of our conseling classes that is all we would do. WOW! Did I spend my whole senior playing Tertis? I think so but it was a lot of fun. I love it. But I don't have it on my laptop anymore but thats okay cuz I hardly use it since we got a new computer right before the accident. I think I might do a series on here of what I have learned and have gone through since the accident and everything. I need ot share and I know you all will emjoy my insight, it will make you laugh, cry, or both. But you all know me and know that when I talk about it I may make from me but never the part Taylen played in it. I do however have funny stories from him, which is great. Let me know if you all would like to hear this series and if so I will start as soon as possible!

Catch Ya On The Flip Side-
Julie

Bored

2007-05-20T15:21:00.000-04:00

Well, I am just sitting here on a Sunday afternoon bored. So I decided to com eover to the office and hopefully return before Tabor gets up from taking a nap and then he will realize I am not there and wonder where I am because like a good wife that I am I didn't leave a note but I took my cell phone incase, he needed to get a hold of me to find out where I am at. HEHE! I know somethings don't huh? Like they say, can't teach a old dog new tricks. HEHE!
Not to much is going on here. I have a dcotor's appointment this week and I might be getting my nails done but other than that I think that is all. We are just getting geared up for open houses to start the first weekend in June. And that is always fun and exciting. But I think I have finally caught up on most of ur all's blogs, however, I must admit I didn't go back and read everything since September but jmust the new stuff that was on there! Well, I need to go back now and see the score of the Red Wings game! GO WINGS!

Julie

Just Wanted To Let You All Know...

2007-05-16T18:25:00.000-04:00

As most of you know I have a new site for keeping in touch with me but I just wanted you guys to know that when surgery and eerything is done I will be back here to update. I am going to try to keep this updated like I do my carepage incase you can't get to my carepage or don't know how to. I had to re-do somethings on this site and now they are done so I hope to continue to keep in touch with you all. I do have a myspace but can't remember the login to get in and it is making me mad. But anyways, just wanted to let you all know I am doing fine and getting better each day!

Julie

Update...

2006-08-21T13:08:00.000-04:00

Yes, you are seeing correctly. I am still alive and blogging. Since we do not have the internet in our apartment I have not felt like blogging but I am going to get better at this again. Well, like the title implies this is an update on us.
We are all doing fince except that Taylen has tonsillitis (yes, I spelled it right this time). This is the second time he has had it and we have no health insurance for him yet. That is a different story that I will get to soon. So anyways, he was running a high fever Tuesday afternoon after his nap and once again I thought it had to do with teething, his fever was 102 and only went down to 99.9. But you could tell by his eyes on Wednesday that he didn't feel well and that was it. This boy will not slow down for nothing so it makes it hard to tell when he is sick until he gets a fever then his eyes do not look well. I took him to the ER on Wednesday night before youth got back in time to get his medicine and to let Tabor know what was going on with him. So we stayed at youth for a little while so everyone could say hi to him and then we left and came down around 9pm again and one of the adult sponsors said he was looking alittle better by then but that was because his medicine was in him. Now it is the fifth and last day of the medicine and he is doing great. This medicine stays in his system for another 5 days and then he will go for a check up. But the good thing is now that we all have a doctor.
But anyways, we are now in the process of getting Taylen a passport so then we can get him a social sercurity card and then get him health insurance. We sent the passport information away today and will get in about 2 weeks.
Tabor is doing well. He hurt his leg about two weeks ago, playing baseball. He scraped it up pretty nicely and then a week later it had a little infection because we didn't know that he along with soaking was suppose to scrub it off that night when he came home. But I don't know if he would have taken the pain of scrubbing it out after he did it. But that is now coming along nicely. We had called a lady in the church who knows first aid that helped him last Tuesday so that is a good thing. But that is healing now and I guess he might play tonight but he said no slidding and I am in agreement. He slide on it once and then again. The first time he opened it up really bad and then re-injured sliding on it again. I was not there that time but was told the whole story that night. They did when 19-20. It was a HUGE come back. So I guess at least they won. He sat out of last week's game.
Anyways, that is all the excitiment going on here. I should go now. TTYL

WOW!

2006-07-28T13:24:00.000-04:00

Let me tell you what has been going on. Well, I posted a little while ago about how we didn't have a couch and stuff to sit on now we do. God provided some one in the church with an extra couch, love seat and oversized chair, They asked Tabor Wednesday nigth what else we needed and that night called and said we have an extra one and we will bring it tomorrow around 6pm and that is just what they did. We were shocked and didn't know what to say and of course we did thank them but how awesome is that? We have only had to buy a couple things for the house because God has provided someone to give us some things.
Then we have a pounding last Sunday night for us and the other new couple and more blessings were poured out on us then. It is truly amazing. The people of this church are amazing in so many ways. They have a heart for ministry and minstering to teens and children. It is going to be amazing to see what God is going to do through these people and us. We are excited!

I need to get home before Taylen wakes up

Talk to you later.

Moved In

2006-07-17T12:23:00.000-04:00

We are moved in and unpacking but there are still somethings we have to get. Like couchs, chairs, etc. But nonetheless we are very excited to be here. Besides the heat nothing is really going on besides getting to know the area and all of that fun stuff.
Tabor had no problem getting his R-1 Visa. Thanks to James Eiss for all the help and giving us the outline we needed without that we would have never known what to do. So now it is just a waiting to apply for his green card. I do not know how often I will be posting since we are trying to get things in order so sorry in advance. But I am going to go now and finish up on here then head home!

Talk to you all later~

Happy 4th of July!!!

2006-07-04T12:49:00.000-04:00

Happy 4th of July Everyone!
I just letting you all know that we will be leaving tomorrow afternoon on the Cat and then we will be moving into our apartment on July 10th. So please prayer that things go well on our travels and at the border since we have to get Tabor's visa there. I will probably update when we get to my parents' house!

Talk to you all later~

A Lot Going On...

2006-06-26T18:17:00.000-04:00

We are back in Nova Scotia packing up, which I might add is basically done in a week. Now we are just waiting on papers that some people are suppose to send us for his R1 visa. Everything is going well here. It was announced Sunday that we accepted the job and so the church here is going to have a send off for us next Sunday night. We are leaving here on July 5th so I am not going to post before we leave most likely but as soon as everything is settle then I will be back to the blog world. If anyone wants our address and such, e-mail me and then I will e-mail it to you when I get it. But I have to go because my no napping son needs to go to bed.

Talk to you all later~

And The Verdict Is...

2006-06-12T20:38:00.000-04:00

This was the weekend we went to candidate at a church in Michigan. I was not telling the details to much incase things did not go well. We had a great time at Burnips Wesleyan, which of course is located in Burnips Michigan right outside Grand Rapids and Holland (for those of you who are know anything about Michigan). We got there on Saturday afternoon and we got back to my mom and step-dad's house this afternoon after observing their VBS program, which was Festia (I think I spelled it wrong). So anyways, after meeting and having dinner (supper) with some of the youth volunteers and children's workers, going to both morning and evening service plus sunday school, after talking and being around the congregation in both services, after having lunch (dinner) with the teens and their parents, and then finally after meeting with the LBA, we were extended the call to be the youth pastor and children's dirctor. We accepted right on the spot. We will be hopefully moving in July after getting things squared away for Tabor to be here on his R1 visa and packing up in Nova Scotia. God is awesome and to see how He has worked in our lives in the last three years while we were looking for a place and know to see where we will be living and working is awesome. It was for sure God's timing anf we are so thankful for that.
I will keep you all up to date on what is going on with us and this process. But for right now, we are visiting here until next Monday!

Talk to you all later~

What Do You Do When...

2006-06-10T06:07:00.000-04:00

What do you do when your son sleeps through the night? Taylen hardly sleeps through the night and he did for me last night. I have not had this much sleep since before I was pregnant. I know that it might not last long (him sleeping throught he night) but I am going to bask in the glory of it while I can. Man, I forgot how much sleep you can get. I woke up a couple times because I thought I heard him but at least I didn't get out of bed to check on him like I would have before. I don't know maybe because he is a year now and I know if he needs me I will hear him.
But anyways, I am going to go now and get ready for the day and check on him. I am hungry!

Talk To You All Later~

We're Here!

2006-06-09T06:48:00.000-04:00

We got in Michigan last night after sitting in our plane for an hour in Toronto. It was delayed and then we just had to sit there. Taylen was good for a little while in that plane then he cried himself to sleep. Poor baby was exhausted by the time we got here. But he is good all in all. I think he likes to travel. He is still sleeping and only woke up once last night and that was not until 4am. He is getting another tooth on the top so this will be his 5th. He is getting to be a big boy and he is quite the charcter. He LOVES to show off. But anyways, I am going to go and get something to eat and drink. Oh no, he's up I think!

Talk To You All Later~

About Our Vacation...

2006-06-02T14:36:00.000-04:00

I just wanted to let you know about our vacation. We are going out to visit my mom and stepdad. But also, we are going to candidate as well. My mom keeps asking if I am excited but now I can say I am truly excited because we got the tickets in our hands this afternoon. We will be at the church for two days, Saturday and Sunday. The job is for youth pastor. So we are excited about that. Then we get to spend a week with my mom and step-dad so that will be fun. I will try to update while we are done but I know if I don't you all will understand. I will keep you update on what goes on.
Please pray for us and the church as we get ready to go out then. We leave June 8th and return back to Nova Scotia on June 19th (the day after Father's Day). We will be at the church June 10th-11th, so if you remember please pray for us and the church like I already said. Also, I have not had Taylen on a plane since that last time we went out to Michigan back in November and then Taylen was only 5th months old and not walking. Now he is a year and likes to walk and crawl so please pray that he will be to sit through the flight or actually sleep through it would be better. We have a lay over in Toronto both times. I can't remember how long on the way there we will be in Toronto but on the way home it will be 4 hrs. But at least he will be able to walk and stuff like that both times.
Also, I got my hair cut SUPER short. I will have to get a picture but now with the packing to go I don't know if I will get time for a picture of it or not but don't worry I will have pics from the trip and you all will see it then.

Talk to you later!

Pics Are Up

2006-05-29T10:48:00.000-04:00

I have added some new pictures so if you want to go and see them, feel free. I don't think blogroller worked yet because I didn't have all my setting set. So hopefully next time it will. I know it will

Talk to you all later~

About Our Sites

2006-05-28T17:22:00.000-04:00

I am no longer going to post when I update my sites on here. I am using something called blog rolling and though some of you know how to it works because of Matthew's blog site, I am still going to explain it for those of you who do not know how it works. When you see a * by the link to that site that means that it has been updated. I think I have it up there for a least a day or two. This way it will be eaiser just to update rather than having to post a post saying its updated and getting people's hopes up that I actually updated instead of just saying I have posted something some where else. Okay, well, I need to go and put some pics on here (I mean my laptop) from Taylen's birthday, better late than ever. Talk to you all later!

I Fixed It

2006-05-25T14:10:00.000-04:00

Some how it got turned off. Don't ask me how I don't know but look I turned it all back on now so now my posts will have TITLES again. I have missed titles. Okay bye bye

2006-05-25T13:56:00.000-04:00

American Idol!!!

I am not longer a fan of American Idol. I thought it was fixed a while ago but now I see that it is totally fixed. When Chris Daughtery got kicked off the show, I knew then. You can't tell me that Taylor Hix is an American Idol. Katherine McPhee (spelled wrong) is more of an American Idol then Taylor. I mean Chris Daughtery should have won but at least he is the lead singer for Fuel now! I can't believe it! I mean I knew Taylor was going to win but still he is no idol and I will be surprised if his cd sells! So I am no longer watching that show!
But I do think I may start watching Vanish. It looked really good. So that is a possiblity but we shall see what happens.
Everyone here is doing well! I am still trying to figure out what is going on with my title for my posts. SO I am off to figure it out while Taylen is sleeping!

Talk to you all later!

2006-05-21T17:10:00.000-04:00

Okay, here is another post to let you know that I put up some pics. So if you would like to see them then you all know where to go (Family Pics).

Talk to you all later!

2006-05-21T07:57:00.000-04:00

How come I can't put titles on this anymore. It never loads. Does anyone have any idea what I can do about it? Because I sure do not know. It is really bothering me that I can't do titles. There are somethings I need to do fix on this site so I am going to go and do that now. Talk to you all later!

2006-05-19T08:15:00.000-04:00

My poor baby is more like his daddy than I could ever believe. He now has allergies. My poor little one. I think he might be allegic to dog hair as well. But I am not sure.

Everything is going well here. Nothing new really is going on. I will be posting pictures of Taylen up soon. Just when I get some time, hopefully in the next two days!

Talk to you all later!

2006-05-05T12:49:00.000-04:00

I have some cute pictures of Taylen that I need to put on here. I just need to get them off the camera and edit their size then put them on here. It sound like a lot of work but I enjoy doing it.
Taylen has been sick again since Monday. Sunday night, he came on with a high fever and I changed his doctor's appointment from Tuesday to Monday so that I could get him before he got worse. Well, the poor kid had a middle ear infection and so he was put on some medicine. The doctor thinks that two weeks ago when I had him in outpatients because of his eye and they found his ear infection then but the nurse didn't weigh him right and would not listen to me when I told her he could not stand alone. She told me to hold him up standing but not to hold to hard so it would not register me. Well, they told me he weighted 20 pounds and I didn't believe it because he has been 20 pounds forever now and if you could only see him eat. But anyways, the doctor gave him some medicine. Well, Taylen's doctor thinks that the dosage was too low for his weight and that is why it didn't go away. The outpatient doctor told me to bring Taylen to his family doctor in two weeks to get his ear checked out and that is when it started acting up again. So now the poor kid's fever is down finally. After taking him back to the doctor two days later because the doctor told me if his fever was not down in 2-3 days to bring him back and that is what I did. But they didn't change his medicine and told me that I could take him off the motron (spelled wrong) if I wanted to because he does not put faith in that only in the medicine he gave Taylen. But by the time we got home that day his temperature was worse because I had not given him anymore motron like the doctor said. But needless to say, Taylen is back to his old self again and the fever is gone now! So that is a good thing!
Otherwise nothing else has been going on here besides that. So I am going to go and check on him and then find something else to do. I think it is time again to go through the old address book in my e-mail. I do that every now and then.

~Remember Readers, Keep Looking Up!~

2006-04-30T18:18:00.000-04:00

Here is a list of things that you might not have known about us.

1.Tabor and I are both only children
2 Tabor and I were engaged for three years before we got married
3. In July, Tabor and I will have been married for 2 years
4. For our honeymoon, we went up to the UP in Michigan
5. Taylen was born two months before our one year anniversary
6. Taylen took 6-7 steps at Tabor's grandmother's house Friday (April 28th)
7. Tabor made up Taylen's name (He saw a name similar to Taylen and he liked it. It was not until the night he was born that we decide on how to spell. We were not sure if we were going to put a y in it or not and I said after he was born lets put the y in it.)
8. Taylen's middle name is after Tabor's grandfather
9. Taylen's favorite videos are the praise baby collection (I like them as well)
10. Taylen's favorite tv station is the weather channel or any channel that has weather on it
11. Taylen loves to wrestle with his dad since he was about 4 mnths old
12. Taylen is allergic to chocolate (He loved it)
13. Taylen's first birthday is in 11 days (when this was posted)
14. Even though Taylen is not in a jolly jumper any more, he still LOVES to jump
15. Taylen loves to chew on his crib when he is teething
16. Taylen loves baths
17. Taylen loves any kind of fruit (he has a thing where he can eat fruit)
18 I love watching Saved By The Bell re-runs on TBS in the morning until Regis & Kelly come on. (I even watch the crappy junior high ones) & I love still love watching Dawson's Creek (yes I did admit to still watching those)
19. I miss having contact with people that I went toBBC with
20. I miss hang out with two of my friends from Michigan
21. I love watching the Gilmore Girls and Tabor can't stand it
22. Tabor is a HUGE Blue Jays Fan
23. Tabor can't stand the Yankees and he is not like the Boston Red Sox but mostly, he can't stand the Yankees
24. My favorite baseball team is the Chicago White Sox
25. I came in second in our March Madness Tourny and it was my first time doing it (should have done them at BBC)
26. I love doing fantasy teams on yahoo (mainly, I do baseball and hockey)
27 My favorite sport is Hockey
28. My favorite hockey team is the Detroit Red Wings
29. I HATE football
30. I play two instruments
31. I was in marching band in high school
32. I played softball (I was mainly a catcher)
33. I love to knit (learned my last year at BBC from Stephanie Ward)
34. Miss watching certain shows with my friends from BBC (Alias, American Idol)
35. My favorite fast food restraunt is Taco Bell (Tabor hates it)
36. Tabor's favorite fast food restraunt in the States is White Castle (I hate it)
** A funny side note, our two fave fast food places are right across the street from each other in Michigan. So when I want to get Taco Bell, he can have his gross White Castle.**
37. My favorite board game is Monoploy (Any kind but the two I love are Disney and regular)
38. My favorite card games are skip bow, dutch blitz, and phase ten
39. My favorite friend quote is "We don't stop for crap" -Katie T.
40. I am a HUGE chocolate fan. Tabor is not, he is not really into sweets at all. He eats them once in a while. I just resently ate his cholocate from Christmas (if that explains it better).
41. The only thing that has a diamond in it that I wear is my wedding band. My engagement ring is not a diamond. It is three stones, they are my birthstone (March), in the middle is we went first starting dating (February's stone) and the third one is Tabor's birthstone. Actually, the setting is a mother's pride ring. I am not a big fan of diamonds and I wanted something that meant something to me. I am didn't want to go traditional. And for a long time no one believed me that the ring I had was my engagment ring. They all thought it was promise ring and I was going to get my ring soon. But nope its my ring. My wedding band is shaped in a v underneath it.
42. My maid of honor put together all my flowers for the wedding and reception, they were silk.

Hope you enjoyed it.

2006-04-25T08:14:00.000-04:00

I have posted new pics on our family pictures. So if you want to see them you can go there

2006-04-24T14:51:00.000-04:00

I don't understand why I can't put a title to my blogs anymore. The page will be loaded and the title part will not load. I find that odd but I can't do anything about it. And I don't know how to fix where it says <$BlogDateHeaderDate$> on my blog. Hopefully once I post this it will be gone but I doubt it will. Ever since it messed up and erased everything I have been having some kind of problem with it.
Last evening, we had a fun time. We had to leave the house because some people had set a fire to the woods in Charlesville. It stopped before it could reach us at the county line but they were still takign precautions on it. If the wind had been blowing in the opposite direction all of Charlesville (including us) would have been wiped right out. Tabor's friend had come up here because he had to leave his house first and then we had to leave a couple hours later. So we went up to where Tabor's friend's mother was to tell her so she would know and if she tried to call she would not be worried and then we went to church. After church, we went to his friend's house and was able to get onto his road but they said to get to the county line, we would have to wait another half an hour before he thought the road would be open again. The man worked for the fire department. There had been three choppers trying to put out the fire as well. And two of them were at the ball field by Tabor's friend's house. And they had the baskets on the bottom to drop water. This fire was not the only fire yesterday there were two other places up toward Yarmouth that had been on set as well. So who knows who did or why and if all the fires were set by the same ppl. And the truth be told we will never know but we will hear a TON of stories. So that was our "fun" last night.
Taylen is getting another tooth on the bottom and he is chewing everything like crazy but he has his doctor's appointment for his one year check up next week and he gets two out of three needles and then in a month we go back for the third one. Fun! So hopefully, we will be able to put him on Soy milk next week and start the weening process of fomurla and then the bottle after that. Well, go to to and check on the bum because he is napping.

~Remember Readers, Keep Looking Up~

2006-04-24T12:34:00.001-04:00

I don't know why I can't post titles to this anymore. The page loads but no title.
So last evening, we all had to leave our houses because some people decided they wanted to start some fires in back in the woods and they were scared it might comes this way but it didn't luckly enough because the wind was the opposite way so it would not come our way but a lot of ppl had to leave. We just went to church then about half an hour after church was over we were allowed to come back home. Some houses might have smoke damage but that was all the harm that was done. SO that was our fun and exciting Sunday.
Taylen is learning to get his clothes off with out help. He can take his arm out but that is about all. He is getting another tooth and so he is chewing on everything. But he loves his chocolate, just like his mom. Well, I have to go and feed him and then put him down for a nap.

~Remember Readers, Keep Looking Up~

2006-04-24T12:34:00.000-04:00

2006-04-19T14:52:00.000-04:00

Hey Everyone!
Not to much is going on here! Taylen went down for a nap and I am sitting here thinking about what I should do. And that is work on my mom's surprise (maybe I need to work on it and maybe I don't, who knows).
So Alias is on tonight and this starts the beginning of the end for that. American Idol, Amazing Race, and Deal or No Deal all on tonight at about the same time as well. But I think I might watch Amazing Race on Sunday night on OLN but then there is Alias that will re-play Sunday night andthat is a two hour thing as well. Oh what to do what to do!
Taylen is almost better, last day of medicine is tomorrow. And I made an appointment for him in two weeks because of his ear infection and the doc said too. At that time we will be seeing if he is going to be put on cows milk or soy milk. I know that my mother in law's friend, who has cancer was told not to eat or drink anything dairy because there is cancer causing stuff that they put into it. So I am going to talk to Taylen's doc about it. He is on soy formula right now and I don't know what I should but they say put them on milk at a year so that is what the doc gets paid for (to talk to me about these things). Also, I was reading a book and it says that you should switch your baby to a cup at a year because they can get bottle teeth. The teeth form to the shape of the bottom. I have never heard of that. But Taylen uses a sippy cup for water and he has no problem with it. SO my questions to you all is this, what should I do? Let him have his bottle until he is ready to give it up or switch him over to a cup only? Of course, if I decide to go the cup route it will be a slow weening process. He is not really attached to the bottle like some babies and kids are. SO that is my question for today!

Until next time readers, Keep Looking Up~

2006-04-12T07:50:00.000-04:00

I know it has been a while since I posted but lately we have been very busy. We have been applying to jobs and talking on the phone with some churches. Nothing to write home about but we were suppose to go out to a church in Indian but at this time it has been put on hold because it would cost to much to fly the three of us there, so plans for that is on hold and we are just praying about it and we have gave them another option but I am not sure it will go through. But we have another church that will be getting back to us after Easter.
On another note, Taylen had another cold. He came on with it on Wednesday but it seems to be going away but needless to say, I got it and I am feeling terrible. We thought we were going to have to take Taylen in to outpatients but he starting eating more and we didn't have to go in last night, which is a good thing. He is now 11 months old and he is crawling and crawling and crawling around, he has been standing up by things and trying to walk by them as well. When he is in his pack and play, he balances himself and stands there and then claps. It is very cute!
I have been getting the pics that I want to post on here ready so in the near near near future I will be posting those but I will let you know when that happens.

Thats all for now!

Talk to you all later!

2006-03-29T06:39:00.000-05:00

This is a phrase some people can say every day.The thing you see with + The 12th letter of the alphabet + A white pigeon - The 4th letter of the alphabet + A female sheep + A word meaning $1,000 + A thing used to clean floors - The 16th letter of the alphabet.

What is this phrase?

Hint: A dove is a white pigeon.

What do you think it is???

Also, I should be getting my lap top this week then I will post pics of Taylen!