Oh me Oh my....

I am a horrible blogger. Life has been craziness the past couple of months!
FIRST...we wanted to announce that baby #3 is on its way!!
I will be 8 weeks tomorrow and I am due early September. I am definitely the least sick with this pregnancy, although the fatigue is 10 times worse chasing around Cade and Chloe. But it's ok! I am thankful and grateful for the privilege to be a mommy again!
I actually had a miscarriage very early on at the beginning of December, which was tough. So, it is all the more sweeter! Praise God for the precious gift of life!

Second, I have not posted ANY pics of Christmas or our holidays. I'm pathetic.
Christmas was wonderful and busy. Cade and Chloe both had a BLAST and loved every minute of it. Cade was really into opening presents this year and "helped" Chloe open all of hers!
Here are a few pics....

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Sew. Love. Create.

The first Thanksgiving...

We hosted our first Thanksgiving this week. We had my mom's family over...all 22 of us!
It was lovely and I was surprisingly un-stressed..Maybe it had to do with the fact that Cody took the kids to his mom's family's Thanksgiving all day and I had the house to myself to get everything ready...haha..
Everyone pitched in and we had a great time and stayed up late and played games, ate a LOT of food, watched football, drank yummy apple cider, and made our game plan for Friday shopping(yes. I am crazy.)

me and my momma

me and cody


me and adrienne

the cutie pies!!

more pics.

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Before they had food all over their faces...
Uncle Aaron chillin in the playroom




my Aunt Kay!


Cade having too much fun!

She did it!!


Well, Chloe made it through her tube surgery today...
She did great! She was pretty oblivious as to what was happening and I think that makes it a lot easier. She had fun playing with the other babies in the waiting area and she was pretty friendly with the doctors..she doesn't get quite as upset as Cade does...haha..
She just fussed for a minute when she woke up and she was pretty hungry, to say the least...but other than that it was a fairly calm morning..(Besides me being a bucket of nerves...)
Even though it is an extremely common surgery, I still get myself all worked up. 
Thank you Jesus for giving me peace and for keeping our little girl safe and giving us a great doctor to help heal her little ears! All the praise to You!!

Here is the one "okay" picture we got of Cade on Halloween. We could NOT get him to be still and we don't have a camera that works well. This is taken from Cody's phone...

And here is one of them in Rockdale a couple of weeks ago. I love this picture. They are precious.

AMEN!

Read this....

http://randyalcorn.blogspot.com/2008/10/not-cool-obamas-pro-abortion-stance.html

Third times a charm...or so we hope!




Cade had tube set #3 put in his ears on Tuesday. I pray this is the last time. The doc told us that some kids have to have them until they are 6 or 7....ahhh!! EXPENSIVE!! I know it is such a minor surgery, but it is always traumatic...for me. Cody is so chill it makes me sick. Or maybe he is just putting on a brave face for me. I don't know.
This was definitely the best experience yet..
The past two times we had to hand him off to the doctors before he was put to sleep and that was not fun at all. Last year, he had his adenoids out too, so he had to get a yucky IV in his arm. Cade really liked that.(NOT!) But this time Cody got to go back with him and we were back in the recovery room before he woke up, so he never knew we were gone! Thank you Lord! I think they saw that he was going to be a hard one to keep still. He was kicking and fighting while the nurse was just trying to get his temperature and heart rate.
My kids cannot stand going to the doctor. I feel like mine are the only ones that you can hear screaming from the hallway...am I alone here??
So then Wednesday I took Chloe to see the ear doctor. I wish we could've scheduled them to have tubes the same day, because we found out she will have to have them too.
She has had some chronic fluid in both ears for 5 months or so and has gotten 3 infections in the past 3 or 4 months...we see the pattern here...
So, she will have tubes put in on Oct.28th.
I am already praying against all the crazy things that start going through my crazy head.
Pray for my sweet babes and their sweet ears!

A little bit of truth.

Watch This!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxhYampIl7A

TAGGED

Em tagged me to blog 6 random things about myself.

Here are the tagging rules:

1. Post the rules on your blog
2. Write 6 random things about yourself
3. Tag 6 people at the end of your post
4. If you are tagged, DO IT and pass it along

1. I am an obsessive-compulsive sweeper. We don't have a lot of carpet in our house so I am forced to look at the dirt ALL day. And trust me, my children track in a lot of dirt...and food...and who knows what else. I know that it would be much easier to just sweep once at the end of the day.....but I CANT!! I probably sweep downstairs in the kitchen/dining/living area 6 or 7 times a day...the dirt drives me NUTS!

2. I am currently reading 4 books. I really like them all and I can't seem to finish any of them completely. AHH...

3. I want to feed my kids super healthy food...but I just can't afford it. It seems pretty insane to me that the healthiest foods are so expensive and the JUNK is so cheap. Don't we all want our kids to eat good and not give them things that could potentially make them ill..OF COURSE. Then why do ho-ho's and ding-dong's cost 50 cents and grapes and apples cost 3.oo a pound?? I am baffled by that. So I do what I can with what I've got..

4. OK, being completely hypocritical of what I said above....

I LOVE coke...and dr. pepper. . . I have tried to give them up many times but to no avail. They are just soo yummy but do disgustingly bad for you. Posting this is making me want to try to give them up again. Thankfully, when I was on bed rest when I was pregnant with Chloe, they MADE me drink water and now I actually like to. SO, Im not completely dehydrated!

5. Hmm. I am a needy person. I need people in my life. I love people and I love to have them around. All the time. I don't do loneliness well. And Praise the Lord for my babies. Because with them, I am never lonely.

6. My great great great great great great grandfather was Zachary Taylor, the 12th president of the United States of America. Seriously.

Here are the people I'm tagging:

1. Laura
2. Jenn
3. Glenna
4. Tiffany Wall
5. Tiffany Reeves
6. Marissa

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