Friday, October 31, 2008

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!

Here are some pictures from today. The first one was taken by Austin. I promised a belly pic, hope you like it. Then there is a picture of some artwork Austin did for Nani, and a picture of each kid in there costumes. The picture of the cupcakes are from this morning. When Belle and her buddy Brady were at school, my friend Jen and I got together and let our older three make these cupcakes. They had a blast and the cupcakes turned out yummy too.
ENJOY!!!
Oh, I also added two funny videos of the kids today. Check them out to the right at the dropshots link.




Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Can They Really Be Serious?!

So, they are saying we won't even make it to 40 degrees tomorrow. That is way to cold. Austin's last soccer game is tomorrow night. WE ARE GOING TO FREEZE!!!

Today at school Austin had a Halloween party. It was great. They wore there costumes and there were halloween themed centers for them to enjoy and goody bags, snacks and more. I will post some pics soon.

Belle went to a Pediatric Cardiologist today because we were told last week that she has a heart murmur. First I have to brag about her for a minute. She was an angel. She laid still holding her daddy doll and explaining to it what she was doing during the EKG. Never fussed. Then when the doctor came in she did an ultrasound that lasted at least 20 minutes. Well, Belle still stayed still for that. She just would ask about every 5 minutes if she was being a good girl. The doctor said that Annabelle's heart is fine and that she is a very healthy little girl. She said they call it an innocent murmur and she expects it will go away. This was a German doctor and I loved her. I wish I could go there for all our appointments.

Tonight, we went to John's work. They took all of the planes out of the hangar and put down paper so we could all carve pumpkins together. They had pizza, cake, soda and of course some halloween candy. They even brought the outlines if you wanted for ideas for the pumpkins. What a great time it was. I wish we had thought before to do pumpkin carving as a party. It was really neat to see everyones finished products. I will also post some pictures from this tomorrow.

One more thing, John is feeling much better today. He was able to join us tonight and even had pizza. Still praying the rest of us can avoid this nasty bug.

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

POOR JOHN

I woke up in the middle of the night and my husband wasn't in bed. I got up to see what was wrong and he was out on the couch. He has the stomach flu and BAD. Poor guy is miserable. The kids and I got up this morning and went to the food court for breakfast to try and give him some peace and quiet. We also stopped by the PX to stock up on lysol, hand sanitizer, gatorade and clorox wipes. He is hoping it is just a 24 hour bug. I am going to clean like a madwoman today and hope to save even one of the three of us left from this awful bug. I guess that is what I get for writing that I had been off the "no more vomiting pill" for 5 days on the blog last night. Hopefully we can nurse him back to health and the rest of us be lucky enough to no get it. I know, good luck with that.
The worst part of this is that we had the same thing last year on Halloween. I guess this is just a bad week for us each year. Please say a prayer for our family.

Monday, October 27, 2008

Update, update, update

Well, you probably thought we fell off of the face of the Earth. Nope, just been busy and terrible bloggers. We do have a lot to update everyone on though.

First of all, MY PARENTS CAME TO VISIT!!!!!! It was so wonderful. The kids were so excited to have there Nani and Poppy here to see them. While they were here we did a lot of traveling. My favorite thing we did was go to Stuttgart for there Oktoberfest. Boy was it a blast. I think John and Dad would have liked to have a few days there but we just had one. I will post pictures of them with there enormous 1 Liter beers. The kids even loved it because it was like a giant fair also. Lots of rides. We mainly traveled lots of Germany but we did venture to France one day.



Second is the pregnancy update. We made our appt. to find out the sex of the baby while my parents were here. We all went in to find out the big news(me, John, Austin, Annabelle, Nonnie and Poppy). Well, will all of the excitement you can imagine that one might get stage fright. Oh yes, that is right. This silly baby of mine had the cord between its legs. So, we still aren't sure whether it is a BOY or a GIRL. I still think it is a girl due to the extreme morning sickness but we will see. On that subject, I have been off of my medicine for the vomiting for 5 days now and how been feeling good. I will be 20 weeks tomorrow. HALFWAY THERE!!!! Hopefully this lil muffin will cooperate at our appt. next Monday. It will just be John and I so maybe!

We are all doing well other than that. The kids are enjoying school. Austin's last soccer game is this week. John is getting great flight hours and has also started working on his Master's Degree. I am just happy to not be sick anymore.

Enough for now, I know yours eyes are burning. Hope everyone is doing well.
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!