Big News....

So yes, it has been a while since I have blogged. So much has been going on in our lives....to just be the two of us and our furry girl Sadie we are really busy! Well, it is not going to be just the two of us and our furry girl much longer....WE ARE HAVING A BABY!!!! Now, it is really hard for me to refer to it just being the 2 of us because that is not how it really is in our lives...that is just how many of us live in our house....we will never forget Kate and our little baby girl....there is not a day that goes by that they are not thought about. They will NEVER be just a distant memory but always a part of us.

We are very excited about this little one on the way. I have been wanting to blog about this for months but have not for several different reasons but decided I would finally start blogging about it. We have lots of sono pictures from the beginning of the pregnancy as I have been monitored weekly since we got the positive test back...I actually go to the doctor each week which really helps keep my anxiety to a minimum - what ever that might be...maybe I should just say it helps us get sleep around here at night:)

We had a scare in the beginning but everything seems to be going good so far! We are taking it one day at a time and enjoying every minute of the pregnancy. I even enjoyed the morning sickness this time.....not sure how much Hubby did as he was having to cook every meal because if I cooked we knew that I would not be able to eat it and if he cooked at least I would be able to have something.....I have been very tired this pregnancy but it could be partially because I am a lot older than when I was carrying Kate. Being tired is ok to.....

Now maybe I will start blogging more as I am going to have alot to blog about. We actually have another sonogram this coming week! Can't wait to see "Junior" again. Right now, I call this little one "Junior" as do a few of my friends because we are not going to find out the gender. We are going to let it be a surprise. For those of you that know me very well, I am sure are in shock being the planner person I am.....but we are going to wait.

Company Family Night

Last week Hubby's office had their company meetings. One of the things they do is have a night for the families to get together. We normally have a Texas Hold Em' tournament....ok, as you all know, I do not gamble but we play with chips and then you win prizes at the end of the night depending on when you go out of the game....so this year I won 2 gift cards....I LOVE GIFT CARDS!!! We also played a lot of Rock Band 2 that night...we had a great time and I am looking forward to next year.

Going to a wedding.....

A couple of weeks ago we went to a wedding. One of Hubby's co-workers got married....weddings are so much fun.....the wedding started at 6:00 and was over at 6:30.....the reception was over at 10:45......lots of food, dancing and time to catch up with all of Keith's co-workers that I do not see but a few times a year....this is a picture of us after dinner. Remember it was about 10:30 PM......WAY PAST MY BEDTIME:)......so ignore my hair!

A Busy Weekend

Wow, I can't believe that Thanksgiving is right around the corner and then it will be Christmas. This weekend we both are very busy working in different ministires of our church. Hubby is helping in the 3E Giveaway.....which is a missional outreach here in McKinney. This is an awesome way to reach out to those in need this holiday season. There are lots of things going on there today.....a "giveaway" garage sale....where there is no price tag the items are there for people that need them to take....people will be able to have their hair and nails done....food....and then things for the kids as well. That is what he is doing...they are doing a Kid's Production. They have been working on it for at least a month (probably longer). That is his gift and passion...running the sound and video for different church activities. I read an article talking about the 3E Giveaway and really liked this quote...."The most important thing to remember is it’s NOT about the Stuff; it’s about the hearts of those we get to touch through this exciting ministry. This is an incredible opportunity to provide “Blessings from One Person to another.” Ok, I did not see a name as to who this quote belongs to - so that I could give them credit....it was on the website for one of the churches participating in 3E this weekend. It is great to see so many people reaching out right here in our own mission field in Mckinney!!

Disciple Now is also going on this weekend. For those of you who read my blog that do not attend my church and may be wondering what is Disciple Now it is a youth event held each year. Our church has DNow in November each year. The kids are assigned to different "host homes" and then their are food coordinators for each host home. My Bible Study group has provided food for two host homes the past two years. We have a great time doing this together. We split the menu up and then we do a lot of cooking and baking....last night I made roughly 150 brownies.....

Tomorrow we will put "Kate's Village" out. I am so excited. Each year our friends Gretchen and David come over and the 4 of us work on the village and then on a different weekend we go to their house and the 4 of us work on their village. This is a tradition that we started in 2005. We have such a great time designing our cities each year. Next week we are going to their house to design their city.....I guess when we get our villages out it seems like the "official" start of the holiday season.

Doggie Costume/Birthday Party

Ok, I said I would update by Friday morning and here it is Saturday.....but the update is coming!! Last night Sadie was invited to a doggie birthday party that happend to be a costume party because it was on Halloween! I did not take any pictures of Sadie because our friend Dave was taking the pictures. ...Sadie went to the party as Yoda....when we went to get her a costume there were not many doggie costumes left. That would be my fault because I knew for probably at least a month we would be going to the party....so here is the picture of Yoda and The Biker Chic....

Way Too Long.....

It has been way too long since I have updated my blog...and to my blog followers I appologize. We have had so much going on you can not begin to imagine....so, I have a new goal to update my blog at least once a week....my goal is to update it at least each Thursday night or Friday morning since I am normally off on Fridays....that means I can stay up "late" on Thursday night and do fun things....this weekend has been a "catch up" weekend for me.....hopefully by tomorrow night I will be almost caught up with little things around my house that I have been needing to do....including grocery shopping!

Just an update on what has been going on to keep us so busy I could not blog....on August 12th, my sweet little Sadie and I were both walking out of the bedroom door and I obviously was not walking fast enough and she hit the back of my knee......knocked my knee cap out of place.....this is not the first time my knee cap has been out of place....this has happended to me at least since Jr. High School but this is the first time that it did not eventually go back in within a few minutes....before I had Kate I would tell people that the pain could not be any worse than labor pains....well, after having Kate I said the same thing.....this is the first time it has gone out of place in approximatley 9 years and the first time Hubby experienced it going out.....we had to call 911...they came to my house and I thought they would put in back in place and be done....wrong.....they told me that when additional help arrived they would put me on a strecher and take me to the ER for the doctor to put it back in place...I was begging them to please just put in back in place....it only takes a second if you know how to do it....well, as they were asking me several different questions (before they could administer any pain medicine to me) I told them that I could be pregnant.....one of the guys called the doctor on call and he said to put my knee back in place with him on the phone and then bring me in.....if there was a possiblity of me being pregnant they did not want to administer pain meds.....the knee has been an ongoing story.....eventually there will be surgery.....that is something I am not looking forward to but hoepfully it will fix my knee and I will not have to worry about it so much.....I could not even drive for either 2 or 3 weeks because of the brace I was wearing....now I wear a brace (most of the time:)) that I can drive in......

We found out in August that I was pregnant....we were both very excited, scared and nervous....after being through what we have been through there are lots of emotions.......my doctors were very pro active with my pregnancy as I am sure they will always be.....but because of my past they want to do everything to ease our minds....and hopefully so we will sleep a little around here:).......I went the week after finding out (we found out on a Friday or we most likely would have gone the same week) to have blood test.....the test all came back great! Then my doctor said we would do the first sonogram at 7 weeks....we went in and they thought the heart beat was a little slow......at that point I was at the doctor every other day for more sonograms and blood test....we found out on September 15th that we might be losing the baby and then we found out on September 17th that the baby was not going to make it......as most of you know, Kate's birthday is September 15th and the day she passed away was Septemeber 16th....so this was a very hard time for us anyway......then on September 23rd we lost the baby....(September 23rd is also the day that Kate's funeral was on).....kind of strange how everything happend around the same time.....we now have 2 precious little ones waiting on us in heaven.....how sweet it is to know that my children are already playing in Heaven everyday...we know where they will spend eternity and when our journey on this earth is done, and we reach our final destination, we to will spend eternity with our children and our Savior. I was off work for several weeks and then went back around October 1st and as all of you know that is 2 weeks before the last tax deadline....my busiest time of year....tax season has ended and now I am just trying to catch up.....so including in my "catch up" is the blog.....so, that is my life for the last few months in a nutshell......

A WHIRLWIND WEEK

Hubby was traveling a couple of weeks ago for work. He had a few days in NYC that he was not going to be working so he called to see if I would like to fly up. Well, I am sure he knew what the answer to that was going to be because I love going to NYC! There was only one delema and he knew when he called me that if there was a reason I did not come that would be the reason. I am sure you are wondering by now why would I not go if I love going to NY so much.....well the answer to that would be SADIE. I do not like leaving Sadie. I guess I think no one loves that dog as much as Sadie and I do. She is only a little over 2 so she still has her "hyper" moments. Well, the week before, I was at a Women's Ministry Leadership Conference for several days and Hubby was leaving town my last night of the conference. We had the Sadie delema then as well, so my friend/neighbor, Beth told me she would come over and feed Sadie and then come over several times during the day/evening and play with her and let her go outside, etc...Well that worked out great because Sadie really likes her and she likes Sadie. I knew that I would not have to worry about Sadie at all.....now back to going to NY....I called Beth and she said she would take care of Sadie and for me to go to NY. I called Hubby back on Thursday and left him a message that I had Sadie taken care of and to go ahead and purchase my ticket.

I flew to Newark on Saturday......my flight is a whole other post.....anyway, I finally made it. When Hubby picked me up from the airport he told me he had gotten a call on his way to the airport that his grandmother had passed away. We went and purchased tickets to fly home as we were coming home on the plane that Hubby's company owns on Tuesday but now we needed to get home Sunday night. Hubby had decided we would at least spend Sunday in NYC before flying home.

We got up Sunday morning and started walking around Manhattan. This time we stayed near Time Square so we just walked out of our hotel and we were right in the middle of everything. We walked to Central Park and took a carriage ride through part of the park. After that, we walked down 5th Avenue and then continued walking to a store that Hubby likes that has all kinds of video, camera, computer, etc.....stuff. After that we were off to Macy's. While we were in Macy's a storm came through and Hubby received a phone call that our flight had been cancelled! Well, we had to go back to our hotel to see if they had any room availability for Sunday night since he had already cancelled our Sunday reservations when we thought we were flying home. Luckily, they had received other cancellations and had open rooms. We found out there were tickets still available for a few shows so we quickly cleaned up and went to a show.....and since we were so close to Time Square/Broadway the walk was not far so we had time to get there. After that we went to Roxy's and had a late dinner and CHEESECAKE! That place has the best cheesecake!

Our flight was on time on Monday. We arrived back at my car at the airport at 3:00pm. We then had to drive to pick up Hubby's truck (during rush hour traffic) and then finally made it to our house around 5:15. We rearranged our luggage, got other things we needed for the trip back home including picking up Sadie and were on our way out of town around 6:15pm. We arrived at Hubby's parents between 11:15 - 11:30ish.....that evening. Unfortunately, we missed the visitation because it was Monday evening. They did have a visitation Tuesday morning before the funeral so we were able to be at that and the funeral. We stayed at Hubby's parent's until Thursday and then came back to our house Thursday night.

So that was our week last week. It just seems like we are so busy lately with not much free time. It took us a few days to recuperate from all the traveling but now, a week later I think I have just about caught up on my sleep and we are getting back in our regular routine.

Hubby took a few pictures. I will have to get those from him and then I will post them. Hopefully, I can get him to download them this weekend.