SnowBE's

Christmas is just around the corner and like ALWAYS it was SnowBE Christmas week. It ALWAYS is the first weekend of December and as always it was a BLAST! Thank you Melanie for hosting.

BK showing us the ornament that MelBel's mom made us!

The 2009 SnowBE Christmas Group!

Our lovely faces!

SnowBE Necklace that I got for Melanie and Naji - wanted to do it for everyone but they were a little $$$ so maybe everyone will get one for their birthday's?!

Me and Amy hiding from the rain.

We had a blast - it was COLD ... we adopted twin 5 year old girls for our "project" each got a new 16" bike, each got a pair of jeans, with a shirt and a fleece jacket. They both then got a smaller toy that was on their list. It was a blast. Hope you are all doing well!

Halloween

We were Shreck-n' it!

My Dronkie and Fiona

She just eats him up with hugs, and kisses!

My Dronkie ... isn't he so cute!

Our 3 princesses ...

Left - Right and by age ... hahah Olivia Kate, Tatum and Emily Scott!

The Antols and The Kemps had a blast!

All 4 of our babies riding the motor boats! It was a blast!

Flash Back to My Little Pumpkin

Do Ya'll Remember THIS?!

Travels ...

So I was going to have a blog make over done to this plain jane blog, but I can't get it done. I can't find the hours in the day to do what needs to be done, never mind the things I just want done. hahah So you are stuck with this ... blog for now!

Traveling ...

Lets see, we have been camping at Yogi Bear, had family in town for Labor Day weekend, the race in Richmond, Cancun, and a Panthers game since my last post. I can tell you that while all of it was a blast I am TIRED OUT ... too much! Too much for me! This weekend (well tomorrow) we are leaving for the Charlotte races ... yes I just came home from Charlotte Monday ... Next weekend is my mini reunion party that I have been working on for MONTHS! Halloween is open, then Naji and Jarretts wedding, 1 weekend break and then family in town ... weekend break and then headed to Raleigh for my SnowBE's Christmas! Can we say I am ready to be HOME!

Yogi Bear: Our set up ... 4 camper quads and behind us were 4 other campers with us!

This was the "fun" for most of the weekend!

Play-dough time ... the kids LOVED it!

Bowden ... being the happy baby he now is!

Labor day fun:

Most of the gang
Babies at the baseball game!

Bowden playin in the sand!

Tatum building a sand castle with her daddy!

I have so much more to post - but for now this is it ... we went to the Charlotte Races this past weekend and this weekend I have a reunion! I will be back with more pics soon!

Could we be 5?~

So I know that I said be on the look out for a change, but geeze the change has still not happened ... and I was holding out for another post until it did ... but I am giving up on my blog make over. 2 reasons ... 1st I am broke! Broke as a JOKE! Just cut my pay in 1.2 at work to "save" my company. Down from 36 employees to 5. 2nd gave up on the makeover when I figured out that I have to find all of the art work ... OMG that is hard! I can't do it right now!!!



Okay I am rambling ... let me move onto the could we be 5 ...



Over the last 3 days I have been wondering if it is normal that after 5 months of crying (when i found out I was preggo with Bowden) then 3 months of praying for him to hurry up and get a little older so we could get past ALL of HIS crying ... begging people for help because I could NOT handle him, his constant crying and I could not handle the fact that I had 2 babies under 2 ... So after all of that How can I sit here and miss it. Miss my babies, so small and wrinkled ... miss the new born stage with missing it HOW ON EARTH could I have actually said to Andy "we could have another!" He looked at me like I was growing a horn out of my eyes. Bowden walked into day care today. Holding my finger of course, but he walked from the car to his room, then asked me to pick him up, (pull on pant leg and grunts) of course with his big blue eyes and his dimples I could NOT resist! I love that boy ... how could I have so seriously HATED the infant stages with him. He was such a rough baby, really he was ... at 8 months old he was still waking 3-4 times at night. It was tough. It put a lot of strain on me and Andy, our relationship, Tatum, our parents (he was to stay out of day care with them until 1o months, we sent him at 7 months) But my GOSH he is such a good boy now! He is SO SO loving, hugging, kissing and smiling! I want to eat him up! For several split seconds I have thought about WHAT IF ... What if we had another ... I am hoping here that Kimmy will snap me out of this and tell me that it is normal, it is a phase and I am just weird!

Look for a CHANGE

Hey everyone ... all 3 of you that read. I am sorry I have been absent. I knew that 2 would be hard, but then when you throw in ALL the other stuff that we do I am way behind. Bowden had a great 1st birthday. We didn't do anything big ... kept it small and had 3 different small celebrations. Tatum thinks that everyday is "Bubbie Burfday" now. It is too cute!

Andy has asked me to make a camping blog ... so rather than doing another one I have decided that this blog is now going to have a BIG CHANGE! I will if needed blog about other things, but I will be mostly posting our camping things.

The first one will be this weekend ... we are going to Tabor City, NC. Yogi Bear Camp Ground. I can't wait!

I think I will become a Dr.

This is serious ...

Pay attention!!!

Last Wednesday we left Myrtle Beach to go to Ohio.

We go to Ohio every year to see my family.

(Well my mom and dad's family)

Thursday we arrive ... have to call my Aunt's Dr and BEG them to see Tatum.

She was diagnosed with the Croup.

IT IS VIRAL ... which in turn means NO MEDS for you ... good luck with cranky baby!

Friday Bowden started to get very very cranky.

I chalked it up as a tooth (that has been trying to come out for MONTHS) and the "Croup!"

He ran a fever ALL day ... but as you know NIGHT time is 100% WORSE!!!

So at 4 am we woke with a 103 fever ... his legs were swollen and he was SCREAMING!

We finally left for the ER around 6:30 am.

They sent us home ... "it is viral, it will play it's course."

That day was rough ... a lot of crying and in and out of sleep ...

That day was not SO FUN!

Saturday night was HORRIBLE ... he cried all night HOURS and HOURS of screaming!

FINALLY at 4:15 am Andy and I decided that it was NOT viral and it was time to go back to ER.

(now remember we were in a RV with 4 adults and our 2 kids, also a MEAN ASS dog)

On the way to the Dr I called our local Dr. Crying ... yes of course I was crying!

She told us to go back to ER and demand that we not leave UNTIL they tell us SOMETHING!

X-ray, Blood work, and a catheter ... still NOTHING!
Things from there started to get a little better, but not great ...

He had a low grade fever and we decided to come home a day early ...

We packed up and headed home on Monday!

We got home Tuesday ... swam in the pool and river ... relaxed and just hung out!

I kept them from home on Wednesday ... thought that they needed a "break!"

Thursday I took them to day care ...

We didn't even make it to 11 and they called!

He was miserable ... has a rash and high fever, wont stop crying!

We go get him and take him to our Dr.

Guess ... just Guess what they said ...

VIRAL ... NOTHING is wrong with him!

Are you shitting me?~

They did give him a steroid to try and kick his body into getting better ...

I am loosing MY MIND!

I am going to go to school to become a Dr.

I think it would be cheaper than ALL the visits to the Dr.