Happy Birthday Shadow

Yesterday was Shadow's eighth birthday. David went and picked Shadow up this morning in Barstow. We celebrated the whole day long. We let Shadow choose what we did all day long. She choose to go bowling, have pizza for dinner and then have cake and ice cream and open presents.

The girls had a great time bowling. Christy won the first game and Shadow won the second game!

Say CHEESE! Notice Christy's ornery face :( We had Little Ceasers Pizza and bread sticks.

Shadow wanted chocolate cake with chocolate frosting.

Shadow got roller blades and Zoobles!

Happy Birthday Shadow!!!

Sewing activity for Achievement days.

Our sewing activities are OVER! They actually went better than I thought. Last night was the second part of the activity. We had 6 ladies from the 12th ward come and help the girls sew. Two of the Achievement day leaders were helping the girls iron, I was helping the girls who weren't there last time cut out their skirts and the other leader walked around and helped everyone out. We ended up with 20 girls there last night. Christy and I went early to start setting up. Right before going to the church Christy and I had been to the dentist. Christy had a cavity that she had filled. So her mouth was numb and she had a fat cheek. When we got to the church Christy asked me if she could go to the bathroom, I reminded her to walk reverently in the halls. A few minutes later she comes back into the room with blood gushing from her lip. She said she had ran into a wall and her tooth had cut her lip. I guess she wasn't walking revernetly. I told her to sit down and put her head back to stop the bleeding. Of course that is to much to ask of Chirsty. She was up bouncing around and then wondering why her lip wouldn't stop bleeding. It was gross. Finally I made her lay down on the floor and the bleeding stopped. There was lots of whining the rest of the evening. Girls not wanting to wait their turn, girls deciding that because it was taking so long they no longer wanted their skirt and girls just plain whining! We only had six or seven girls actually finish their skirts all the way. The rest of the girls are going to set up times to meet with the leaders in their wards and finish sewing their skirts. Christy of course finished hers even though I wanted her to be one of the last ones because it's easy for me to help her at home. I hope that the girls at least learned a little something from making skirts.

I have been falling behind on my blogging and my journal writing. On Wednesday February 9th we had the first of our two sewing activities for Achievement Days. The girls all picked out their material and then cut out their patterns. It went a lot better than I expected. We had 16 girls show up and in an hour they all had their skirts cut out. On Thursday the 10th after Christy got out of school, her and I headed to St. George. We got to St. George in okay time. Friday morning Christy and I did some light shopping then I dropped Christy off at Alisha's house to play with Kayley and Michael. I went to ZIO. When I got there I clocked in and worked for a little while, visited, and had lunch with the girls. It was so nice to visit. I miss working :( Then I went back to Alisha's. We ended up spending the rest of the evening there. We ate, watched movies and played. Kayley is so cute. I just love her. She talks so much and her hair is getting so long. Saturday morning I had a braces appointment. I am done with my bottom braces except for at night. I have 10 weeks left on my top braces. After my appointment Christy and I headed to Enterprise. We spent some time with the Bushar's. Scott and Selma's kids were at grandma's house so Christy had someone to play with. After spending a few hours there we headed back to St. George. Papa watched the grandkids while mom, Crystal, Alisha, Jen and I went out for a girls night out. We had dinner at Applebees then we went and browsed at Deseret Book. It was such a great evening. Sunday Christy and I went to church with mom and dad. After church we came home. It was really nice to go and visit family and friends, but it is always so good to be home. I am all done with my Lovenox shots and my Progesterone prescriptions. :) I am happy to be done with the shots, now I just have to wait for all the bruises on my tummy to go away. David and I had lunch together on Valentines Day. David had duty and class so we couldn't do anything in the evening. Today I had my last appointment with Dr. Brody :( I had another Ultrasound but all we could see was the babies head and the two hands waving around by the head. I guess my Uterus is measuring 18 weeks even though I will only be seventeen weeks on Sunday. The baby has been moving around frequently. The baby seems to move more after I have done some kind of physical activity. Like after I walk Christy to school or pick her up from school. Sometimes at night when I am laying in bed the baby moves a little. It is the most amazing thing to feel. I haven't gained anymore weight :) but I can defiantly tell that my belly is getting bigger. While I was in Enterprise Rachelle gave me some of her maternity clothes. It has been nice to have them. I really wish that I could go see Amber. It has been really hard for me to be this far away from her. When Amber had Buddy and Kenneth I was right there in St. George, I am missing all this baby stuff. I get so frustrated when I watch the news. I am frustrated with all the stupid people out there and how it seems that no one takes any responsibility for their actions. I wish I could just slap some sense into some people. There is so much that I could say about all this but that's not what I need to do. I need to not watch the news. The last few days the weather has been so nice. Today it started raining again and is supposed to rain thru the night. I love the rain! I wish I had a window seat with a window that opens outward where I could sit and listen, watch and smell the rain.

15 weeks

Today I am 15 weeks along in this pregnancy. I had two appointments last week. One with the OB from Balboa and one with Dr. Brody. I saw Dr Morocco at Balboa. I discussed with her my concerns regarding being told that I could take Zomig while pregnant and how Dr. Chan from the Fetal Assessment Unit told me that Dr. Brody was wrong in all the medicines that he had me taking. Dr. Morocco listened and addressed all my concerns. Then I saw Dr. Brody two days later and discussed with him the same things plus what Dr. Morocco had told me. He rolled his eyes at a lot of what they had told me. He went over everything with me and reassured me that I had been doing the correct things. Also that starting at 16 weeks I will be weaning off most of the medications that I am currently taking. I still am not very happy about going to Balboa but I really don't have other options. David tried to get the Balboa clinic to release me but they refused. I could switch to TriCare standard and be able to see a civilian provider but then I would be responsible for 20% of my medical costs. Anyways things are going great with the pregnancy and for the most part I feel good, just fat but good. Sometimes I wish I could wear a tent :)

Just thought, no pictures

Saturday David and Christy went to the Mormon Battalion celebration. I wasn't feeling up to it. They had a good time. Christy made another fabric doll. Sunday evening we went to a special Military Fireside put on by the missionaries in the area. Elder Whitman and Elder Oaks from the Quorum of the Seventy were the speakers. We enjoyed lots of musical numbers from the Elders and Sisters as well. I really enjoyed the fireside. Today when I went to pick up Christy from school I was greeted by the principal. Never a good thing. I guess today during class Christy was complaining that she didn't feel well and one of the other girls gave her a pill to take. I guess it left a bad taste in Christy's mouth and she kept asking to get drinks. When the teacher asked why her mouth tasted bad, I guess Christy told the teacher that the other girl had given her a pill to take. Both girls were taken to the principals office. The other girl said that it was a pain pill that her mother had given her. So both us mothers and both girls, the principal and the teacher all met together. The other little girl got suspended and both girls have to write and essay on drugs, why not to take them and what they can do to our bodies. I felt really bad for the other girl. She was trying to be nice and give Christy that pill. I hope that both girls learn from this experience. I don't necessarily agree that the other girl got suspended, but I'm not the principal. The sad thing is that Christy knows better that. We have had many discussions about taking drugs and other things from other people. I am glad that she has to write an essay, it will help her remember. It turns out the pill that Christy took was an acid reflux pill. I'm glad that there was no serious reaction to the pill and that it was only an acid reflux medication. The joys of being a mom!!