And now some more Applewood pics, (continued)

Liam 2007

And now 2008

Brenna 2007

Brenna 2008….um yes, the same shirt still fits!!!!

And a few more faves

This frog used to be in our mall when I was a little , but they took it out because of safetly issues and now its home is here.

This is Brenna freaking out when she looked in the seat next to her and realizing it wasn’t Liam, it was cousin Loch…..full reaction next picture.

  Ummm…guess she really misses Liam after all.

Way up high in the apple tree….two little apples looking at me.

Actually Brenna was amazed and confused that apples grew on trees, she kept looking and giggling and clapping her hands.

Loch and Braeden

   

Okay….I know that was a lot, but I had over 300 pics, so that was the most narrowed down I could get.  I love this place, its so pretty and I love to go there every year.  Next year I hope my mom gets to come with us again.

Applewood-Braeden

Every year we have made it a tradition to go to the Applewood Fall Festival since Braeden was only 1.  It is at the Mott Estate which is a very pretty place to visit any time of the year. They only have it open to the public a few times a year.

My mom always made the trip with us, but since she was in the hospital we made it on our own this year.  Thank goodness its only 3 minutes away, I was able to take the kids up to see here….they didn’t cooperate for too long so we went home.  Today I am doing a flashback to all of Braeden’s Applewood pictures.  I can’t believe how time flies!!!

Braeden AGE 1

Braden AGE 2

Braeden AGE 3

Braeden AGE 4

Braeden AGE 5

She’s Home!

All is well, yesterday went well and they just released her tonight.  She still isn't out of the woods, but since things are going through her, they said it was silly just to keep her there, everything else was normal.  She was bored and they had taken the tube out of her nose and taken her off morphine and the IV came out today.

She has to go back to a specialist and another dr to follow up.  They are concerned that there are lesions in there and this is going to happen again.  Hoping surgery can be avoided, but they really need to see what is going on first.

On her way home they popped over to see the kids.  Liam had just woken up and she went to get him out of his crib.  He was so excited to see her, he was hopping up and down.  She realize that she forgot to turn off his alarm and she passed him to me while she went to turn it off and he just started screaming  “NA-NA,

NA-NA!!!” and just was sobbing the thirty seconds she was gone.  Silly guy!  Guess he had missed his nana.

Thanks everyone for your thoughts and prayers we appreciated them and are hoping with good news with the upcoming appts and tests.

Quick Update on my Mom

Yesterday they sucked everything out from her intestines up through her nose…bleck!  They did get quite a bit out.  They are really hoping to avoid surgery, but only time will tell.  They started her on jello and broth today, the first time she has ate in 3 days.  Pretty much long story short….they have to see if what goes in will come out.  So my mom is pretty much held hostage up there and everyone is waiting around for POOP!  She would die knowing this was on my blog…now the world can wait for it to happen, no pressure there mom.  Sooo, that’s the story for now.

I took the kids to Applewood at the Mott Estate today, something I have did with mom every year since Braeden was born.  So we went as planned got a few pics which I haven’t had a chance to upload yet, but will post later tonight, tommorrow, or who knows next week.  Took the kids up to see my mom while we were there and they weren’t very cooperative visitors, so I will be back up tomorrow without the kids.

Prayers please

Today I called my mom at work, we talk to each other a minimum of about 2-3 times a day and her bosses wife answers the phone and says she shouldn’t say anything but my dad had to take her to the hospital.

So I call my dad, call the hospital, no answers, I am freaking out a bit.  Finally I get in touch with a patient advocate and they find them and have them call me back….of course I had to worry a few hours waiting.

In the meantime, I passed time talking with my sil talking, she tells me our other sil has a growth on her brain (which we knew…newly discovered a few weeks ago) anyway, the growth has doubled since then, so they are sending her to Ann Arbor.

While I was talking to her my mother called me and said she was okay and feeling better, she got some sharp pains and then started vomiting.  She did this in Alaska but she thought it was food poisoning.  She hasn’t felt good for a while and has openly said something has been going on and I have been nagging her to get it taken care of.  She wanted to put it off until after her half marathon she is running in October.  She is training a group of runners for this race.

Anyway, she was waiting to get an MRI.

My dad called later saying the MRI or catscan looking good and it sounded like she would be heading home soon, so I was a bit relieved.

Then around 5, my mom calls crying and it turns out she has a bowel obstuction and will be in the hospital a few days.  They were trying to (ignore my non-doctor language) vacuum the food out but nothing seemed to be coming out.  My dad popped over our house later and said they think it might be scar tissue from her gastric bypass (in 2002).  If they don’t get the blockage resolved soon she will have to have surgery and I guess anytime they mess with the bowels it could be bad.

Anyway, please, please, please keep her in your prayers along with my sister in law Tracie.  I am a nervous wreck!

Fall….I think summer is coming to an end

After the kids have been had runny noses for a while we seem to be getting better, although if Liam wakes up with a runny nose tomorrow it really won’t surprise me.

The past few weeks I have been pricing clothes and getting them ready for our Multiples Mom to Mom sale in October.  We had a good weekend last weekend so I planned a last minute garage sale.  I’ve only had one other garage sale with my friend Cynthia a few years back….when I sold all my stuff from Braeden because we weren’t having any more kids.

It went well, I forget that because we live on a main road that cars really fly through here, so without any ad in the paper we did better than I thought we would.  Ed put the kids in their old walkers that were for sale, they were in their glory, racing up and down the driveway, crazy kids…..actually crazy daddy.  I make him take them in when someone pulled in the driveway, I was too nervous.

   

It doesn’t look like a lot of stuff….but there is TONS of it and I still have quite a bit left to take the the sale.

Today while Braeden was at school I went to pick up some fabric to make Liam and Braeden’s Halloween costume.  Braeden is going to be a knight and Liam is going to look like a prince.  Anyway, got the fabric/felt….we shall see how it turns out.  I got Brenna some sequins to wear around her neck of her plain white shirt, it looks really cute, thinking I might only need to glue it on instead of sewing it.  Here''s a sneak peek without the sequins.

POUTY PRINCESS...I wouldn't pick her up and she got ticked.

SILLY PRINCESS

AND today I got the kids little mini people chairs on clearance at Target, the kids LOVED them!

COUCH POTATOS

Yeah, I know the wrong kid is in the pink one.  I want two sage ones, I am going to check at the other Target to see if they have another sage one the next time I am there.

  

Jumping on the furniture.....um no-no-no!

 And at last.....she is trying to give Liam a kiss, but he keeps trying to get away from her!

Nana and Bumpa are home!!!

And they got us some Alaska Jammies!!!!

And a few from this afternoon

Ignore the snot…..this is the least snotty I have been in weeks!

Way back…..Monday?

Okay, I have been REALLY slacking on the blog, I don’t even think there has been a picture taken in the past few weeks.  The babies have been sick….ewwy gooey noses and I have just been feeling run down.  Anyway, we are doing a lot of cleaning, working on getting all the “stuff” out of the basement so we can finish it.  Anyway, found a long lost CD of pics I haven’t seen in a long time, thought I would share. 

 

Daddy and Braeden

Braeden’s first b-day with my sis Amber, Great Grandma, Grandma, and me

First St Paddy’s day, we actually won a contest with this pic, he won a $100 gift certificate to Baby Universe, a sketch of himself, some hooded towels, and lots of other goodies….for free!

Braeden and Bumpa playing the guitar

My Little Valentine!

Our first picnic in Frankenmuth.

Braeden at the Big House

Today Braeden went to his very first Michigan football game.  Most of you know Ed is a huge UM fan and we have season tickets to the games.  This was the first year I have been brave enough to allow him to go with the other 110, 000 other people who are there.  I was a bit nervous sending him off, but Ed said he would be fine.

The babies have been sick the past few days, so we were at home drowning in snot city.  I finally called to check on them and Ed answered the phone,

“Did you find him?”  and then the phone went dead.  The cell quit working, of course I am wondering if this is his idea of being funny, but didn’t realize that his phone would go dead before telling me it was a joke.  Eventually I did get a call back telling me everything was fine and it was a joke….the phone just wasn’t supposed to die.

Anyway, he had a ball doing all the fun things in the stadium and tailgating with the gang.  He thought the motor home was awesome.

In front of where they are constructing the new suites or whatever they are building.

Helping Uncle Bill with the cooler….an important job.

Coloring in the motor home.

Oh yeah, and best of all they won!  GO BLUE!