Saturday, July 28, 2012

Jae's 3rd Birthday and a Huge Surprise!

     On July 7th we had Jaelyn's 3rd Birthday Party. We were throwing her a Dora the Explorer Party and had it all planned out. Well the afternoon of her party we got some huge winds coming through our yard and then a heavy down pour of rain for about an hour. ( we had not seen rain in almost 2 months.) After the rain stopped our electric went out. This is not a great thing to happen when you have 20 people coming over and still haven't cooked the mexican casseroles to serve. About 2 hours before the party was to start we packed up the casserole items and headed about 15mins away to Lonnie's parents. We got there and I prepped and cooked the casseroles and fixed my hair, and then we headed back home just in time to greet our first party guests. We still had no electric and found out that the line that went from the main line to the pole in our yard had been snapped by the crazy wind storm. So We had the party by candle light  and sun light, and opened up the windows. It was not that hot outside since it had rained, but it was getting to be muggy. Jaelyn had a blast playing with her friends. To my surprise everyone enjoyed the Mexican Chicken Casserole, Cheese Dip, and Cupcakes.
Jaelyn was so excited about going out and hitting the pinata, that she wanted to go outside after every present she opened. We had to make her stay inside and open them all. She got some great gifts: clothes, a big pool, toys, and pool toys. The electric came on after the party had been going for about 2 or 3 hours, so then my dad, lonnie, and the kids all had a water ballon fight. Everyone enjoyed  the party and had a great time visiting.
     The next morning was Jaelyn's actual Birthday. When she got up we gave her the gifts we had for her. There were a few little things and then she opened her Doll House. She had been wanting this doll house since Christmas. Every time we went to eat at the Cracker Barrel she would play with it. We also had bought her a little guitar, so she could play it when daddy played his. She loves it when her daddy plays his guitars.We took her to eat at the Cracker barrel and had the staff sing Happy Birthday to her. She got a little scared when they sang to her, but boy did she love her chocolate brownie and ice cream. I can't believe my baby is already 3 years old.
     The week before and  of Jaelyn's Birthday  we had been doing some major cleaning out at our house. So, I had decided to get rid of all of our baby stuff. It took about 7 years to get pregnant with Jaelyn and I truly thought since it had already 3 years after her that we would probably not be having any more children. Every thing got sold except some clothes. I mean I sold the stroller/carrier set, little stroller, walker, jumper, 2 bigger car seats, pack n play, swing, and high chair. Almost all of it was truly for a girl only all pink and brown. I was so relieved to be cleaning out my garage and extra bed room. So about 2 - 3 weeks later I was feeling bad and the pain kept getting worse. I thought I was getting a kidney infection so i made a doctors appointment. Back in May I got sick all of the sudden with some of the same pain and with in 2 days was admitted to the hospital for 2 days with a serious Kidney infection. So I went to the doctor expecting to hear you have a UTI and take these antibiotics. The Doctor Came in and said yes it looked as though I had a little bit of infection and I had felt the symptoms early. So she prescribed me some antibiotics and asked a few questions and then said do you want us to run a pregnancy test? I said sure but it took 7 years the first time and I highly doubt it will be positive this time. So, I sat in the room for about 10 minutes waiting on her to come back, and finally she popped her head in the door and said "It's Positive". I was in shock. At first I really thought she was joking with me and then it sank in I realized whey would she lie or joke about this to me. She asked if I wanted to see the test and have it. I said yes, because I wanted to show it to Lonnie so he wouldn't think I was joking. I opened the door to the truck and handed him the positive test. His eyes got so big. He looked at the test and then at me, and then back at the test. The first things out of his mouth were I guess I need to start working more and I told you that you had been acting strange. He had asked me a couple of times if I was pregnant, because he said I was very emotional lately. We were in shock for a few days, and Some people said maybe it's a sign we're gonna have a boy this time. since we sold all of our girl stuff. We are pretty excited and just hoping to have a healthy pregnancy this time. Girl or Boy we are still excited!!










Sunny Wishes,

Friday, July 6, 2012

The little things in Life

So far this summer we've made a few little Road trips. Just day trips to see different things. Jaelyn loves to ride in the car and especially loves singing to the radio in the car. So our day trips started off a couple of weeks ago by going to Bentonville. We walked around the Square, looked through the walmart museum, and then we toured Crystal Bridges Art Museum. Jaelyn did pretty good all day and She really enjoyed The pretend station in the Kids area of the Museum. Our next trip me, Lonnie, and Jaelyn went to the Oklahoma Aquarium. Since our child is obsessed with sea life and this place was only 3.5 hours away we thought we would take her there. She was mesmerized by all the fish. She loved getting to see "Nemo" and "Dorie" and "Nemo's Dad". When we walked through the Shark tunnel she was fine( My daughter loves sharks) until we stood her up by the glass so I could get her picture with the sharks in the background. She began to cry and said she was so scared, until she go back down on the floor and then laughed and pointed some more. We did have a little melt down because she did not want to go into the bathroom at the Aquarium before we were leaving and she wanted to go through a second time and see all the sea life again. All and all we drove 3.5 hours there, spent 3 hours looking, and drove 3.5 hours back home. The last little road trip me Jaelyn took was through NW Arkansas. We went with my Mom and Step dad again. We went to Eureka Springs to check out the Glass Cathedral, but  there was a wedding going on so We didn't get to look at it. Then we drove across the last Standing Suspension Bridge in Arkansas to get to the tiny town of Beaver. From there we  came across this little family chocolate factory called "Greers Candies" and stopped and tried some Chocolate. Let me just say if you ever drive through Gateway, Arkansas stop there and try some of their Candies. They even have Sugar free and it is very tasty too. All done by hand and by the same family for many years. Jaelyn then got to go through The NW Arkansas tunnel for the first time. I believe she was amazed that we had drove through a Mountain. Our final stop that day was dinner at the Cracker Barrel!
This week we have enjoyed fun a little closer to home. On the 4th we went to a cook out at some friends of ours and visited and enjoyed a huge water balloon fight. Since the burn/firework ban was in effect we enjoyed water balloons. I honestly don't think anyone there missed the fireworks at all. Jaelyn has been wanting to go fishing again, so yesterday we went to Horsehead Lake and fished for about 1 hour. Jaelyn and I didn't even get one bite, but Lonnie got a few bites and caught a pretty good size Bass. I have truly enjoyed being able to spend so much time with my family this summer.

                                        Jae in awe of "Nemo".




                                                 feeding time at the Shark tank!

                                    This is were she started to get scared.

                                                  Jaelyn and Lonnie.

                                                       Jaelyn and Me.

                                           Suspension bridge we went over

                                         Yummy chocolate covered strawberry!

                               Jae eating her yummy Sugar free Choc. covered pretzel

                                     Throwing her first water balloon!
                                           Going into the Tunnel


                                     Beautiful view of Horsehead Lake

                         Lonnie and his Bass he caught

                                         Jaelyn playing on the dock

                                                                  My silly girl!!