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I couldn't resist!

Happy Birthday Hubby!

Today Jason joins me in the 30's! Whooo-Hooo!
Jason is a great dad, husband and boss. He works very hard for all of his girls and we are very grateful for him!






Hope you have a great 30th birthday Jason! I love you!

PRAYER NEEDED FOR A FRIEND

This blog was initially intended just for family who live far away to keep up with Regan and Riley. It has slowly become a way to keep up with others and even those I don't know, HA! I am going to take advantage of all you blog stalkers out there. You know who you are! Please read about my sweet friend Carissa and join me in prayer for her and her family:

Before we moved, Carissa lived right across the street from us. We got to know each other better as our daughters got big enough to play together. She is a great mom and has the cutest little girl Kaitlyn who my girls LOVE to play with. She is expecting another little girl in May who she is naming Avery. Over the last few months she has gone through quite a lot with little Avery. In the ultrasound they found a problem that they wanted to check closer. They found that Avery has a hernia in her diaphragm that has allowed her stomach to push up into the chest cavity. That caused concern about the heart's development so the ran more tests last week. The doctors found a heart defect that will require surgery as well as the hernia and is very serious.

PLEASE PRAY FOR CARISSA AND BABY AVERY! They will be going to Children's every month to meet with different Dr's and the surgeons. She knows she will deliver there at Children's and will be there for quite a while. She has told me that finding out people are praying for her is something that really encourages her. Please tell your church groups, family members and friends to pray with us! Feel free to leave messages for her here!


Regan, Kaitlyn, and Riley BFF's!

Friday the 13th

(Before anyone gets worried Riley is just fine now.)
Friday night Riley started throwing up about 9:30PM. No big deal. About 10:30 she was STILL throwing up and starting to act a little listless. By this time I sent Jason upstairs to go to bed with Regan because I knew I would need to watch Riley anyway. I started noticing blood in the trash can and panicked a little! I called the ER and they said to bring her in. So at 11PM, we arrive and I was so rattled I couldn't remember their birthday. She was sitting in my lap throwing up as I filled out all the paperwork and did all the insurance stuff.

We got into a room where a nurse had to wake her up (pitiful!) to take blood and give her IV. Riley did not even look at the nurse for either needle which made them even more concerned. In the end she was very dehydrated and broken blood vessels in her esophagus caused the bleeding. We got home about 3:30AM.

However, today Regan has fever! Crazy!

I am still working A LOT on our house. Last week I painted the Study and am working on ordering the furniture for that room. Target has the cutest printed chairs on their website! Speaking of Target, their Home sale last week was AMAZING!!! I bought 6 shower curtains for my 2 bathrooms that need them. Ha! It was hard not to buy things that I might need sometime. After all I bought I am kind of hoping I find something to return to make myself feel better.

I have a furniture order coming in today for the Living room and Kitchen. It is slowly coming together!

Hope everyone had a great Valentine's Day. We opted to cancel our dinner reservations after our late night adventure in the ER. We picked up sushi and watched Survivor that was DVRed from Thursday.(please go home Sandy) That is actually my favorite kind of "date".

Our New Home!!!

So I really don't have an excuse to be absent for so long! However, I will use the fact that we moved! YEAH! Finally after 2 years of looking, praying and saving! We love it!!!

We still don't have our computer here that has all the pictures from the last few months so at some point I will try and post an update on Regan and Riley. Really, I promise.....

Happy Halloween!

Both girls had a great Halloween! We Trick-or-Treated for 2 days so they got to wear their costumes twice! I think that was even better than the candy for them.

Regan was so sweet. She would just come and stand in front of me silently and say "I'm a butterfly, they don't make any noise."

Riley was HILARIOUS in her cat costume. She meowed and clawed around everywhere. When we were at the mall she got a gummy mouse at the candy store and called her chick-fil-a mouse nuggets.

One year later....

It was last October when I started this blog and I can't believe it's been a year! I really want to do a better job of updating for family and friends to keep up with the girls as they grow. I will make an effort to do better in this next year!

Both girls got new haircuts a couple of weeks ago and they are so proud. Regan cut at least 5 inches and Riley only got "a trim" which she insisted upon.

Since we are in Farmington to get our haircut we cannot pass up a chance to see Parker! He is so cute!

Last weekend the girls and I camped out in the back yard. (I did not force Jason to actually sleep outside since he had to get up and go to work.) They loved it and slept better than they do inside on a bed. However, I woke up at every noise, dog bark, tree rustle, and sort of gave up on a good night's sleep when the mattress deflated.

These pictures are all from this last weekend. We went to Branson on Friday night and spent that day and the next at Silver Dollar City. I tried really hard to get some cute pictures of the girls, but Riley is making extremely strange faces in every single picture. I gave up.



Yesterday was my birthday and we spent the day with my family. Thanks to all for my great birthday gifts!

Today we finally carved our jack-o-lanterns. This is one the girls favorite fall things we do. They love to take out the seeds and create their face. We then made pumkin soup and roasted our pumpkin seeds.


I am officially all caught up on my blog! Whew!

I am still having blog issues. I cannot see my pictures when I post them. They are all just script. I also cannot change my font. Does anyone know what I did?