Pray for Ty

Ty being a gooby head in Macie's car seat. He thought it was SOOOOO funny! ;p

Sandra took this picture and I just found it yesterday. Isn't it funny? That wasn't long after Macie was born. I'm not really sure what we were cracking up at, but I thought it was cute.

Ryan's working midnights (which in turn gives me the midnight blues.)

HOWEVER...we've had a few adventures the past couple of days. Ryan went in on midnights starting Friday night, so we'll begin there.

FRIDAY - Very sweetly, to keep us from being alone, friends from church, Matt and Ashley invited me and the kids over for supper Friday night. *Thanks guys!!!* So the kids and I headed that way once we said our goodbyes and got Ryan off to work.

Jason and Carry from church went too. We ate......I got ready to leave and Ashley asked if the kids could just lay down and sleep a while there so we could watch a movie together. Sounded good to me! Carry and Jason left just a while after I put Macie down...Carry's preggers and wasn't feeling so good

This is where our adventures start...

They have an enormous king sized bed, so I situated the pillows and blankets to where Macie was barricaded in the middle, HOWEVER...(I like that word)...shortly after putting her down, I hear her wailing, so I go investigate. I open the door glance at the bed and find the pillows and blankets perfectly in-tact, right where I left them. Macie was not. She was no-where to be found. The pillows and blankets hadn't been disturbed at all and I immediately felt my heart jump.

She cried out again and this time I could tell it was coming from the side of the bed. So I ran to get her. Apparently she some how got OVER the pillows without moving them at all and got all the way to the edge of the massive king sized bed and fell off. I felt AWFUL.

So, I scoop her up, take her out, check everything, make sure she's fine...nurse her a little. At this point the preggers friend...who was still there at the time that this happened...asked "Didn't you just feed her?" To which I responded, "Yes, but she's a girl and she's completely upset...this is comfort food." And for every girl who's reading this, you know exactly what I'm talking about. lol
I decide the bed is a bad idea so we rig up this little kiddie couch of Alyssa's and put her on it. Macie LOVES it and falls right to sleep. Ty crawled up in my lap, passed out and Matt fixed him a pallet on the floor and I laid him down and we started our movie.
Before we even got into it, Ashley sacked out on the couch, so Matt and I watched the rest of it. BUT...by the time they got Alyssa down, and Ty fell asleep it was already pretty late before we got started, so when it ended it was 1am and storming like crazy outside.

Thoughtfully, Matt told us to just stay the night, he'd take the couch and leave Ty out with him and I could sleep in the king sized bed with Ashley and have Macie in there with us. After much diliberation we decided to stay. ("We" as in ME because the kids were passed out) haha

I crawl in their SUPER comfy, vast king sized bed, yell goodnight to Ashley over the seemingly miles of mattress and roll over to go to sleep. Ashley clicks on the bedroom TV because she's used to watching her 40 minute show while falling asleep. I and Macie, however, are not. So we stayed awake and watched *WAITED FOR THE SHOW TO END* the show until it ended. As soon as it did, I jumped off the bed and shut it off. (in all fairness Ashley offered to turn it off, but I felt bad seeing that we were bunking at their house so I declined)

Macie passed right out. I was almost out too when I here Ty's shrill cry from the living room. Again, I bound off the end of the bed and run to the living room where Matt has already scooped him up. I sat and rocked him for a while, but to make a long story short, I ended up sleeping on the couch for part of the night and sending Matt back to their room, but then Alyssa got up at 4am and went to their room and they never sent her back. So I got up and grabbed Ty from off the floor vent, which is nearly in their kitchen, since that is where he had rolled all the way to and trudged into Alyssa's bedroom and crashed onto her double bed.

Needless to say, I slept in everyroom in their house other than the bathroom all in one night. (I say "slept" but there wasn't much sleeping involved that night)

Macie was the last to get up, so when we went in to get her, she had gotten off the kiddie couch and had managed to get under the bed. All you could see was her little smiley face sticking out. Goofy girl.
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Saturday:
I got up over there, ate breakfast...waited a while so Ryan could get some sleep before we got there and then went home.

Once Ryan left for work Saturday night, Deanna, Carry, Andrea, and Ashley all came over. Shane picked Ty up and Macie slept through it all. I cooked the girls supper and we played games until midnight! It was a BLAST!!!! THANKS girls!
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Sunday:
We got up, Ty acted odd...didn't want to eat or drink anything. I got the three of us ready and headed for Sunday School.

Half way there Ty starts coughing. He coughed until he eventually made himself throw-up. THUS, I had to pull the car over, get out, clean that mess up and start out for church again. At that point I thought about turning around and just going home in case he was sick, but he's done that before and been fine. So I figured it was just the devil trying to prevent me from going to church.

We arrived at church at 9:20am! WOOHOO! All by myself, with two kids, all dressed and ready to go and there EARLY! YAY for me.

We made it through Sunday School just fine, but when the regular service started Ty drank part of his sippy cup and started throwing up all over the floor. I handed Macie off and jumped into the floor with Ty and tried to catch it in a blanket. Fun fun... The church became stoney silent, everyone knew something was going on, but didn't know what or how bad it was, which is why I think he was silent for a bit.

Once I got him...the floor...and all our stuff picked up...I carried the kids out and headed back for home where we stayed for the rest of the day and evening.

SO...pray for Ty. He's got a 24 (I hope) hour bug and has finally managed to keep three crackers and some ice chips down.


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Other big news. We're getting a dog. He's ours, he's just at mom and dad's until we can arrange to pick him up and bring him home. So...fellow bloggers and faithful readers, meet Zeek.

Zeek is the german shephard, Marlee, mom's dog is standing behind him.

TEETH!!!

The kiddies have a NEW babysitter that comes to THEIR house to play with them and they LOVE it! (AND SO DO I!!!)

It is soooooooooo incredibly nice to be able to get up in the mornings, get ready, and just go to work without having to drag the babies out of their beds and cart them all over the place. Thus...these pictures are credit of their 'new babysitter' Ms. Brenda. =)

I love when I get to see pictures of stuff they do when I'm not around.


Well...we discovered that one of the members of our little family got TWO whole new teeth without us even knowing it!

During church (Yes...I WAS paying attention) I happened to lay Macie on my lap where she could face me and play with her feet...blah blah blah...I thought I saw a little white on her top gums so I decided to investigate.

Sure enough, she has what I like to call 'her little vampire teeth.' If you pull her top lip up, you can see her two newest teeth shining away. However, since they're on the outside of the front teeth, she looks like a little vampire...just like Ty did.

Mommy (me) is VERY thankful that she still doesn't have her front teeth...or a bunch of other teeth for that matter.

More later but that's all for now. :)

De Ja Vu`

Wow...this picture looks just like me and Dusty (my brother) when we were little.

This is our little monkey baby and Ryan's new favorite picture of her. She's SO funny, and just smiles all the time.

What a big girl...thinking she can sit up all by herself now.

Something was obviously pretty histerical.

Brother and sister...buddies...playmates...life-long friends.


Thanks for all your faithful comments guys! No...I haven't fallen off the end of the earth and died, but I sure did feel like it.

Last week I took the kids up to mom and dads on my spring break. Little did I know that a lot of people there were very sick with some weird flu-like virus. Dad and mom AND Ty ended up getting it while we were there. I could feel my body trying to get it while there, so I packed the kids up and headed home. I've been trying to fight it off ever since, but it hit me full force Saturday night and I've been down with it every since. I haven't been able to get back to work yet, and I have no days to take off.

PRAY PRAY PRAY that Macie doesn't get it. Ty bounced back pretty quick. Thankfully he's all better. I've been wearing a hospital mask around to keep the germs to myself and try to protect the kids.

I'm going to try to make it around to all my favorite bloggies very soon! Sorry it's been a while. I've been too sick to do anything.

All photo credit's on this post go to Sandra.

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Wordless Wednesday

Macie's ballerina slippered feet.

Wordless Wednesday...

Ty and Macie before church a couple weeks ago.

Ty after eating supper one night.

Macie in her princess dress.

Our pretty baby girl.

Mommy and Macie.

Elizabeth Bennet

Take the Quiz here!

Karen had this fun quiz posted on her blog, so I took it because I too am easily diverted. :) Thanks Karen. If I were a Jane Austen character I would have wanted to be her. So I was pretty happy with my results. Pride & Prejudice is my FAVORITE movie. *just ask Ryan...or anyone else that knows me for that matter*

I added some things onto the end of the last post, but thought I better add them on here just in case you missed them.

***Thanks to Karen for the idea of the title to the last post! (rolled away) I just laughed and laughed at your comment Karen.****Coming soon...BIG THANKS to Jodi for making an ADORABLE wreath for our bedroom! She's such a sweetie!!! I LOVE IT!***

AND...thanks to one of the area's pastors' wife you gave Macie my favorite funky little outfit. I forgot to mention that in that post. Thanks Brenda! :)