Sick & Tired

No not me... Claire. So Monday night at 5pm or 6pm Kev was in our bed, I was on the computer, and Claire was playing next to me on the floor. All the sudden Claire looks up at me and says, "Mommy, my tummy hurts." The next thing we heard was Claire blowing out her diaper. She had diarrhea. So I took her in the living room and cleaned her up. Then she was completely fine. She was singing and dancing, being herself. Not 10 minutes later, however, she came up to me again and said, "Mommy, my tummy hurts." She had another blow out. Poor baby. So yet again, I changed her, and she felt fine.

About 2 hours later Kev and I were laying in bed while Claire was on the floor playing. All the sudden she looked pale so I told her to climb on the bed and lay with Daddy. Once she got up there Kev needed a drink. (thank goodness, or I would have cleaned up 2 messes!) Once he was in the kitchen Claire sat up really fast, eyes wide, and said again that her tummy hurt. 2 seconds later she vomited all over our bed, herself, and me. This was Claire's first big girl throw up. Little baby throw up in NOTHING compared to big girl's. So we cleaned up all the mess (yes even Kevin helped. I was very proud of him!) while Claire was in our bath. She, again, was fine after she got out of the bath. She was playing and dancing. I wanted her to be still so Kev set Claire up on the air mattress in the living room, and I put in Sleeping Beauty. About thirty minutes later Kev and I were in our clean bed about to go to sleep when Kev heard Claire coughing and then throw up again! This time when I got her out of the bath she was so tired she couldn't even stand up so that I could dry her off.

I got up every hour that night to check up on her. She did vomit again at about 4am, but she hasn't since. Tuesday I gave her pedialyte and saltine crackers all day. She's doing really good now, happy as a clam!

Claire's Halloween Outfit

I asked Claire what she wanted to be for Halloween a few weeks ago, and she told me Snow White. Which is funny to begin with because she has never even seen the movie Snow White! Anyway, so while I was in San Antonio at the mall I went to the Disney Store. Guess what?? They were sold out of Snow White. Apparently Snow White is very popular. The CSR said that all the Disney Stores in the area were sold out of the Snow White costume.

So I went ahead and got her Sleeping Beauty. I figured she would like that just as much since she watches Sleeping Beauty all the time. So I showed her the costume on Sunday, and she started to trip out because she wanted to wear it. Daddy and I let her try it on, and she didn't want to take it off! It took a lot of bribing. I think I made a good choice.

Time Out For Women

It was great! I picked Grammer up at her house and got to Danita's at about 8:30am. I believe we were on the road by 9am. We stopped at the Katy Mills Mall for a potty break and some food. We got back on the road and got to the Hyatt Place, our hotel, at about 4:30pm or sometime close to that. We all decided to go to the Friday night Conference except for Grammer. I'm glad I went because Sister Chieko Okazaki's talk was great. Michael McLean was brilliant!! I enjoyed him so much!

Saturday we got up and loaded the car and set out the 2 blocks to the convention center (on foot, which I enjoyed). We took an early lunch break and while we were walking toward the riverwalk and the mall, we met one of the presenters, Jason Wright. He is a really nice man. We enjoyed chatting with him for a few minutes and took a picture with him. He noticed that we were skipping out earlier and told us to make sure we were back by 2:30 to listen to him. We made sure we were back in time! I also talked with Hilary Weeks and Sister Okazaki.

I got home at about 11pm on Saturday night. Kev waited up for me. He surprised me with some beautiful new earrings, a necklace, and a watch. I guess he missed me! It's nice to know.

The Oldbury Reunion

The Reunion went great. Claire had a lot of fun playing with her cousins Kenna and Daegan. Here are some pictures.

10 Minute Trainer Update

I started the workout regiment yesterday. You are suppose to start out just doing one video a day and work up to three. However, I have good endurance because I run and get on the elliptical so I went ahead and started doing three. So yesterday I did the Cardio, Lower Body, and Abs videos. The Cardio wasn't too bad. I was huffing and puffing by the end, but I could finish it. The Lower Body was a little hard because I have hardly no muscle mass anywhere. The Abs was HORRIBLE!! :) It killed me. I could barely do it at all. I don't know if it's because having a baby separates the abdominal muscles or if I'm just weak! Don't be afraid to tell me I'm just weak! ;) It was hard. Today I am doing the Total Body Workout, Cardio, and Lower Body. Wish me luck!! My legs feel like jelly!!!

Fun Tag

Rules: just go to your picture file, open the 6th folder, and the 6th picture! Tell a story and then post it and tag 5 friends.




This is a tag that has been going around that I saw. Nobody tagged me so I thought I would just do it anyway. ;)

This is when Claire and Kenna were littler. We used to go over to Grammer's a lot more than we do now so that the kids could play together. There's nothing really else to say about the picture... Claire doesn't look happy though. I wonder what was wrong with her???

Awesome News

I am so happy and relieved to tell everyone that my sister-in-law is finally in remission. She has been fighting this cancer for about 2 years. There have been some frustrating and scary times during this ordeal for Ashlei, but she was and is so strong and got through them. I'm so proud of her, and am excited that she can finally get some normalcy back in her life.

Don't you just HATE plateaus!!

Everyone knows that I have been trying to lose weight for some time now. So far I have lost 61 lbs bringing my weight from 215 lbs to 154 lbs. Well, because of all this evacuating, eating like crap, and not exercising, I have gained back 4 lbs in about 2.5 months. UGH!! So I have to try something new. I have started trying to jog a mile a day. I want to beat my best time. In high school my fastest mile was 9:48. Slow, I know, but I have and will never be a fast person. I can live with that. I've been running them in about 12 minutes, but Monday I did it in 10 minutes flat! I was so proud, only 12 secs slower than my fastest. I'm getting there. I also ordered Tony Horton's 10 Minute Trainer. It's a Beachbody Program. You do a 10 minute video everyday except for on off days. It comes with a calendar to tell you what video to do on what day so that there is muscle confusion, and you won't hit that dreaded plateau! You're suppose to lose 1 jean size in the first 10 days. I'm excited to get it in and get to work! It should be here by next Friday, so I'm going to start it on that Monday, October 20. I'll keep you posted and let you know how it's going.

Family Home Evening

I asked my mom a while back when I should start having Family Home Evening with Claire. She said, "Uh, when you brought her home from the hospital!" :) Well, I didn't know that. I mean, what would she get out of it then? Anyway, we had Family Home Evening for the first time as a family this evening. It was really good. It was just kinda thrown together. We just had an opening prayer, we sang songs and talked about families, we played hot potato (super fun! Claire loved it), and we had closing prayer. It was awesome! I'm definitely going to keep this up!!

Home Sweet Home

The street where Kev was at all day

White House look alike in Irving, TX

Texas Stadium

The picture speaks for itself

It's so good to be with my baby again!!!

We are back home! These past couple months have been so busy. We evacuated for two hurricane, then we had to clean up after Ike, and now we went on this business trip. It's so great to be back home with my beautiful little angel, Claire. I missed her so much! I never thought I could miss someone so much. It was like I left a piece of myself.

So the trip home was more fun then the trip up by far. We were not in any hurry to leave. Kev finished his classes Thursday afternoon, but we decided to stay until Friday since our room was paid for until then. We woke up about 8am and went down and ate breakfast. After we ate we loaded up the car and headed out. Nick, my father-in-law, often goes on business trips and stops in Corsicana at the Russell Stover Candies Factory/Store. He usually comes home with tons of chocolate, and Kev and I thought he must spend at least $100 each trip, but when we called him to see if he wanted anything he said he only spends about $30. We were shocked until we went to check out with a whole cart of chocolate, and our total was only $27! Crazy!! I wished it were a little bit closer to me. They have candy for all holidays, and it's cheap!

After spending about 30 minutes there we got back on the road and headed to the Outlet Mall in Conroe. It was a pretty day, not too hot. It was nice to walk around with my honey holding hands. Kev bought a new church shirt, and I bought some new Nike's, an outfit from Van Heusen, and some other stuff. We were there for about 2 hours. When then cut across to Cleveland and went to my parents house to pick up my little girl and eat dinner. My mom made us Taco Salad. Yummy! Thanks Mom!!!

We got home at about 7pm last night. I spent that night putting clothes away and getting the house as organized as I could. I feel better now that everything is back to normal, and hopefully we don't have to go anywhere for awhile!

I got my first tag...

Here are the rules:
1. Link the Person who Tagged you.
2. Mention rules on your blog.
3. Tell about 6 quirks of yours.
4. Tag 6 fellow bloggers to do the same.
5. Leave a comment to let them know.

My sister-in-law tagged me. Her link is http://akhaynes.blogspot.com

1. I have OCD (Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder) bad! Right now my house is so unorganized because of the damage to our house from Ike. All of Claire's stuff (and she has A LOT of stuff) is in the Guest room/Nursery along with all the stuff that was in that room to begin with. She's sleeping on the futon poor thing. she doesn't seem to mind it though.

2. I can't stand when people don't put a new role of TP on the holder. Come on! Is it really that hard to put the role on the holder?!?! I can't stand when people sit put the TP on the holder...

3. I don't like to shop. I know, I'm a girl and therefore I should like to shop, but I don't! I guess it's because I grew up poor and never had the money to just go shopping.

4. Sometimes, when I'm really tired or if I've been thinking or stressing about something in particular, I talk in my sleep. So Kevin tells me... but I'm innocent until proven guilty. Where's the evidence!! ;)

5. I'm deaf... Is that a quirk??? Well, it is now. I am pretty much 100% deaf in my left ear. I have had tubes put in my ears a couple of time, and I've had 2 surgeries on it. If you look close enough you can see that, in an attempt to get more sound waves in my ear, the doctors made my left ear canal about double the size of my right one. No one has ever noticed it though so it doesn't bother me.

6. I don't like to drive. Neither does Kevin. He's such a gentleman though, so he doesn't make me drive. He always drives when we got places together. He's so sweet!! He's the BEST EVER!!! I love you, Kev.

I tag: Mom, Abby, Becky, Melanie, Brianne, and Ginger!