Another Day as a Mother!

This was one that I forgot to post. Sorry....

Yesterday I took Arlee to the doctors after she had a tempature of 102.5! YIKES.  Turns out that she has redness in her ear and it looks like she was getting an ear infection.  They are also doing a urine test to see if she has a bladder infection.  On Sunday, (the day before and Mother's Day) she would hold herself when she was going to the bathroom.  I thought this was a little weird that she was doing this already at 13 months old.  I didn't notice that she was warm that day, but after telling my mom that she had a temperature. She told me that she seemed to be a little warm, but she thought it was just because she was cold.  I talked to Hans when he got home from school and he thought that I should take her in to get checked for a UTI. 
So I took her in and they found the redness in the ear and are doing a culture on her urine to see if she does have the UTI.  I will not be able to find out until tomorrow if she has it of not.  However, the medicine that they gave her for her ear will cure both. The reason that we are waiting for results on the UTI is to see if they are going to have to do x-rays to see if everything is working how it should. If it isn't then they will have to do some other things to fix it so she doesn't keep getting UTIs. 
Like I mentioned before we don't know about the UTI until tomorrow. I will be posting updates when I find out.

Chels

Kali's Bridal Shower

My sisters and I threw a bridal shower for our little sister, Kali on September 30th. We had Chicken Salsa, salad, brownies, lemonade, dinner rolls and rice. We played the Price Is Right and a word unscramble.  Lyndsay and I made her a cake out of towels and I have to say that it looked great!  Everyone that came seemed to have fun, which that is all that we hoped for. Kali got a lot of great presents and is looking forward to getting married THIS Saturday!!! I can't believe it is already here.

Check out the cake pictures as well as other shower pictures below.

This was made from 2 bath towels, 3 hand towels, 3 wash cloths, five artificial roses, white ribbon, pearled straight pins and one cake topper. Isn't it beautiful?

Braxton giving me some giggles and smiles before the party

Kali opening up her gifts

Some family that came

Kali's new family- Shawn's sisters and mother: (L-R): Kate, Marianne, Mel,Weston (who belongs to Marianne) and Iris

More family

Jayden, Kasiah and Arlee eating pears before the party (After this picture was taken the three kids decided to smash "blueberries", which would be grapes on their heads and clothes.

We had to hurry and get them all in the bath and changed before people got there... what a mess! Atleast they had a bonding fun time. : )

Little Bits

Arlee loves slides and recently she has been posing for pictures like she is in this one.

Weeeeeee!

Mama slide!!!! Is what she was telling me here.

Arlee and Hans wrestling one night Hans was home

Arlee in her tutu that I am in love with. So cute!

Arlee and my niece, Kasiah playing dress up. Right here they are twirling so sorry it is blurry!

Arlee taking a moment for dress up to tell me that she is poopy.  (Thinking of potty training her since she tells me right as she is going or right after that she is poopy; which she also says when she is just wet too)

Arlee happily sitting in her carseat with her "baboon" as she calls it. We try and go see Hans when he is working until ten if she didn't get to see him any other time that day. Since he has started his rotations for school he has been leaving to get to IMC by 6:30 AM and works there until 3:00 PM and then has to be to work right after that until 10 PM. Needless to say it is a must for her to know that she has a dad and for him to know that we love and miss him. 

I love to try new recipes. Hans' sister-in-law, Amy and her mom gave me this resturant cookbook that has recipes from the Olive Garden, Ruby Tuesdays, Hard Rock Cafe and some others.  This picture is of Pizza Hut's Stuff Crust Pizza. It is Delicious with a capital D and is not nearly as greasy as the ones that you get at Pizza Hut. My side is the one with the pineapple on it. Yummmmm!

My Jeep Compass, which we bought with 12,000 miles on it hit 30,000.  My sister gave it the name... Dinky Blue. For good reason too, in order to put a double jogging stroller in the back I have to fold down part of the back seat. Hans and I hae talked about getting a bigger one once he is out of school. I don't want to have to depleet our savings again in order to have a bigger car. I guess I will just jog around my house. : )

Sorry that it is sideways, but I forgot to change it before I added it. Anyway, this is a invitation to my little sister's bridal shower that my sisters and I are throwing for her.  I got it off http://www.invitationland.com/. you can use their templates and print them on your own paper for free.  After we printed them then we added the yellow and the decals on the flowers. It was really easy. 

Sorry again about the blurryness.  First I was going to have Arlee be a cow and Hans and I were going to be a milk maid and a farmer and then I thought that might be too hard to find the costumes for us. After coming to that conclusion I thought Hans and I could dress up in black and have "Got Milk?" on our shirts and to top it off we could have milktashes.  Thinking that I am so clever I asked Hans what he thought and a typical guy response. Not much I tell ya, GOSH!!! So I we are going to do this....

Against my wishes for a U of U outfit, because Hans will burn it so he says. Arlee will be wearing BYU blue. Despite it being BYU I have to say it looks pretty darn cute on her.  Hans is going to be in BYU and I will be in U of U. Originally I was going to suck it up and wear BYU, but I went and looked at them, but I couldn't bring myself to do it. I told my mom it felt like a sin.  She just gave me a weird look. Honestly I can root for either team, but when it comes to wearing either, it just isn't going to happen. Haha!

While I was taking this picture Arlee was telling me where the eye was on this horse. Just a little tid bit for ya, this is a horse that I played with when I was a little kid. Best time ever.  Too bad it wasn't a real horse.

Arlee and her cute little self enjoying a part of my childhood.

First time for our little bitty family... Gardening

This year Hans and I decided to plant a garden since the house that we are sitting has about 1800 square feet to plant in. We planted: three rows of corn (produced a lot); six plants each of red, green and yellow peppers (18 plants which produce so much that I don't want to pick them anymore); six tomato plants (bad idea since I am the only one that likes them, even though Arlee will eat them some of the time. They also produced a lot); one zucchini (hasn't produced anything yet), one watermelon (still growing and I am not sure when to pick it... need to ask my gardening neighbors), one banana squash (died), one pumpkin (has trhree on as we speak) and one cuccumber (died...DANG quail)! We also had some room that Ulla (Hans' mom) could plant three banana squash, only one of which is still alive.  However, only one of her's is alive, but it has between five to eight squash on it.  In addition to what we have planted we have two extra tomato plants, one squash, which has one huge one that started growing when it was up in the bush next to it and just exploted into this pumkin looking squash rather than a long and skinny squash; and one pumpkin plant (which has about three on it).

Here are some pictures of a few of the gardens offspring : )

Arlee eating some corn on the cob

Our watermelon that is next to my thumb then and now it is the size of my two fists put together.

Only a few of the peppers that we picked

One of many squash... This is not the jumbo one... I might add.

Arlee's Version of Mrs. Potato Head

Arlee's version of what Mrs.' Potato Head is supposed to look like. Hans and I gave her this from our trip to California. She has learned a lot of these body parts from putting them in the little hole as I tell her what they are. Such a smartie!

By the way... She had the feet and her hat somewhere else while we were doing this at the time.  : )

Another one for me!

So it looks like it is another bad news post.... I need to have ear surgery again. With the surgeries they take a graft and place it on my ear drum to seal up the hole. Since the hole is on the very outside of my drum they can't just patch it up with a paper patch, they have to put me out.  With being put out I cannot be pregnant when I have the surgery. : ( I also have to wait until nine months after I had my last surgery for a reason that I cannot remember right now.  This would make the nine months around December 30th.  Yeah a few more months away! So right now I am not sure if I am going to wait to get pregnant until after then or get pregnant and have the surgery a few months after having a baby. I am not sure which is worse. My doctor said that it is not a surgery that is time sensitive, but I am prone to more ear infections and I cannot get any water in my ear until it is sealed to prevent the infections.
Can you believe all of this?  It is just crazy... not really sure what I am going to do, but I am hoping whatever I decide it is the right thing.

Chels

Update

This might not be for everyone to read. I didn't make it too graphic, but you never know....

So it turns out that I didn't have to have the D&C. I passed it on my own. So the day that I found out that I had decreased levels I started some light bleeding around 5 PM and then woke up at 1AM with sever cramping... It was labor pains I tell ya. After about forty minutes to an hour and sitting in the massage chair downstairs they stopped and I was able to fall asleep. I woke up about an hour after that and had to go into the bathroom and wait for all the heavy bleeding and all the stuff that comes with it to stop. Two hours later I was able to go and sleep back in bed again with some what lighter bleeding. 

Looking back at the whole experience I am glad that I could go through with it rather than having surgery (D&C), but I don't ever want to have to go through with it again. It did help me to remember what labor with Arlee felt like and to appreciate the drugs that they give you to make it comfortable.  I am all better now and can't wait to have another baby in the family when the time is right.

Thanks to all the family and friends that helped me by telling me of their experiences and to stay positive about the whole thing even though most of the time I just wanted to cry; and I did!  Even a BIGGER thanks to Hans for TRYING to understand me while going through this experience. 

Chelsey