Luke & Hannah & Little Leah Corinne

Leah says happy birthday sweetie pie!!  We’ll try to get together one of these days, until then, enjoy all your one-ness!!!

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yes she’s back. leah’s back.

i hope i’m not jinxing it. for the last week she’s been a cranky, teething, rashing, puking, “don’t put me down!”, “don’t hold me!” mess.   last night she played and laughed, and today and tonight she seemed much better as well.  i need to remember next time she gets like this that she’ll come back. i got so scared my sweet happy leah was gone forever. i should know better.

other than that, we’ve been busy making driveways and destroying yucky party sheds (to be replaced with a fun patio area), enjoying no cable, surfing the internet way too much,  washing dishes, trying to fix yucky attitudes, and grow through trials. i’m not doing the best on those last two, but one foot in front of the other, enjoy the blessings i have, focus on the now, rinse, repeat, rinse,  repeat repeat. i can’t sit in the mud and cry that i’m not pregnant, but i often want to and sometimes still do.

okay, here’s the good, the blessing, there is modern medical testing, and they found out two things “wrong” with me (yes, there are many more, no smart comments….) first, I can’t process folic acid right (MTHFR gene defect) and second, I have two defective blood clotting genes (PAI-1), so my body can’t break down clots right. The link I have on PAI-1 is very technical, but very interesting.  so, regular vitamins, extra folic acid, extra B vitamins, a baby aspirin for now and daily heparin shots if i get pregnant again. yep, personal information on the internets, but maybe someone will search for these gene defects like they have for leah’s hand and i can encourage others.  it’s a mixed bag, i’m glad i know what to do next time,  but also a little sad that the easy, textbook, carefree pregnancy that is oh so prevalent in magazines, media, and my mind isn’t really a reality in my life.  you won’t see me on TLC’s  “I didn’t know I was pregnant” BUT, we can deal with this, will deal with this, and it’s what is meant to be.  i seriously thought the tests would come back with nothing, and i don’t really need a WHY, but i have one now, at least medically.  one foot in front of the other, again and again…

anyways, time for a movie.  here’s a picture of the monkey.   or two… i can’t resist. there’s new ones up in the june gallery.

grandpa t bought her sweet cowboy boots from texas…

“BALL!!” yep, she looks like a real little girl here…

9 years and I still love you like a fat kid loves cake!

Ahhh. Dork love.  6/3/00 we began our crazy journey…

Happy nine years Luke. This is the best Anny Anny!! video I could find.  Something about Jar Jar wishing us a happy day makes me laugh….but for the record he is the worst character EVER.

sparkly glowy anny….

Finally got pictures of the house uploaded since we cleaned very very good last week.  A few things still need done, like trimwork, the tile in the downstairs bathroom, and a little bit of plaster work and painting in the laundry room, but we’ve made definite changes.  I am making a before and after gallery, go to here…

Here are a few before and afters….
Back yard BEFORE..

Back yard AFTER…

Kitchen BEFORE:

Kitchen AFTER:

We worked at Jason & Laurie’s workcamp patio party this week, the guys got a ton done, and the kids had fun outside. Here’s cutie pies Leah and Juliana :)  “Here Leah, you need some sunscreen”

Also, I’m a proud dumpster diver. Look what someone was throwing out (hint, it’s definitely not the baby!)

GRRRR!! For months now I’ve been saying I want to get a King costume and wake people up/ scare people up. You know, “Wake up with the king”. Well, they wiretapped our house because the commercials are on the air today.  Funny, but thought everyone should know it’s MY idea.

This past weekends was one of the best weekends ever! (Or as Luke and I like to think, same old same old for Leah-  every weekend is the greatest in her mind.)
Saturday- party day. Girl took a nap, and then woke up to a beautiful party with all her friends and family in the backyard. Walk with mom and dad at night.
Sunday- church- play in the morning, play in the afternoon, play in the evening.
Monday- there was a PARADE for her birthday (okay, it was for all the veterans -thank you! - but it’s very cool to think that Leah will have a long weekend and a parade every year for her )  Then we went to the ZOO with her friend little Billy (thank you Billy & Julie!).  It was a hot, beautiful day, lots of animals and no crowds.  Very fun.

We have at least a hundred pictures we took, I’ll post pictures here and in the gallery soon.  (okay, they’re uploaded! here are a few!)

Thank you God for our little Leah, and everything she has brought into our life. Leah, you are our sweet sweet blessing and we love you more than you will ever know.  Now rest up for another year of fun!

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now I am off to make cuppy cakes for leah’s party.

Ever been riding your bike, going up the hill, having a great time and then the chain falls off and you fall on your face, feel like an idiot and then spend the next who knows how long getting that chain back on? Well, my chain fell off. Again.

About three weeks ago I got that first double line (yippee!) pregnancy test, followed by the same result the next week. On 5/20 we were scheduled, all good to go and see our baby. Well, this past weekend, things started to go bad, and this morning a doctor’s visit confirmed the loss. What should have been there was not. Don’t know if there ever was or if it was gone already.  Doesn’t make it any better.

We are sad, disappointed, and everything else rolled into one,  but know God is in control, and that He has something GOOD planned, somewhere down the line, we’re just not there yet.  Last time,  we ended up with Leah on the way a very short time thereafter. I’m not saying that is what is in the cards this time, just something good will come of this, and that is what my hope is now.  So, we’re cuddling our baby girl, holding each other,  and walking on into the sunshine of the good we have right now.