Praying for Evie

Praying so much today for John and Lindsey and their baby girl Evie. They are having their second daughter today but very small percentage she is going to make it. They have known this for most of her pregnancy. Prayers and tears - prayers and tears.............I ache for them........

Here is a link to their blog - she put up scriptures she is going to have in delivery room - so powerful.

www.eviejayne.blogspot.com

Ethan to the ER.......again

I had a haircut appt. last night and so Micah took the kids to the park. I guess they were walking (Ethan of course running) to the playground and he went flying into the sidewalk. Micah took him to urgent care and they said he had to take him to ER and Micah finally said "look, I'm a physician he's okay he just needs glue or stiches" They (no offense - but it was a nurse - there wasn't even a physician on site) were so concerned with head trauma and told Micah as a physician he should no better and that he needed to take Ethan to ER. (interesting thing is last time he had "head trauma" was just above his right eye and I took him to that urgent care and they never said a thing to me about head trauma concerns) Basically they were busy and didn't want to deal with him and that's the last time we will ever go there. Anyway, turned out to be a blessing because Micah took him to ER at hospital he works at and friend just had him come in the back and glued Ethan up and they were on their way in 10 minutes. I have to admit I was glad Micah was there to take care of it this time - I just don't deal well with blood. Not sure if I blogged this but about a month ago he fell outside and chipped his front tooth - thankfully baby tooth. Sigh........I'd like to hope this is the last, but deep down I know it's probably just to be continued.............

Preschool and Cubbies

Wednesday was kickoff to preschool in the morning and cubbies in the evening. Kayla was exhausted by bedtime!

Kiddos not cooperating in photo time - they were holding hands all cute but couldn't get it quick enough.

Last spring we started attending a new church. Micah isn't always able to get to church Sunday mornings and if he does it is only for late service and our old church had sunday school at 9:00 which put that all together he was never there. So, we talked, prayed, talked and prayed a lot and decided that we needed to find a church that has small groups that meet in the evenings so Micah could be involved more. We are settling into a new church and it is large so it takes time to connect but feel like we are where God wants us. We are connecting and enjoying our small group. All that being said, our church has Awana's program which we were excited about and so this is Kayla's first year. Not sure why Micah chose this background for the picture but oh well! :) Kayla loved it and told me all about it the whole way home. I'm helping out in the 3 year old room and it's just awesome hearing these precious kids saying their verse!

Ethan - Big 2

These past couple weeks have just been crazy around our house - that's my excuse this time for being such a slacker on posting Ethan's birthday pics. He turned 2 August 27th and Micah's parents were here last weekend and my parents came up this weekend to celebrate for Ethan and my bday. I'm going to be honest here, I'm exhausted and am happy to just have some pics up even if they aren't organize to well. Once again also disappointed in my picture taking and I don't have good pics of kids and grandparents - I'll get there.




Baking with Mimi (Shanna's mom)

Ethan enjoying every minute of his birthday cake - he really had his eyes closed eating at this moment, I guess that's how much he loved it. He picked Elmo theme and the pic of his cake is on camcorder and haven't gotten those downloaded yet.

Telling Ethan he gets to open his gifts now. He is the most animated kid - cracks us up.

I'm 2!!!

Yes, of course I made everyone wear Elmo hats.

We went to Children's Museum here in Omaha on Ethan's actual birthday. The special exhibit right now is Sesame Street so we knew Ethan would be excited. The kids just ran from one thing to the next. Micah enjoyed it just as much I think. :)

Birthday streamers - he had them all pulled down within 1 or 2 hours I believe.

Washington

We got back to Omaha last Monday night (Aug. 10th) from Kansas. We had flew out of there to make it easier picking up the kiddos. Tuesday we unpacked, did laundry and repacked to head to Washington to see Micah's brother and his family. No, it wasn't ideal to head off so quickly but for Micah's work schedule he was able to do vacation the first 2 weeks of August. We also were trying to fit it in before Ethan turns 2 on Aug. 27. We flew into Seattle and spent the day and first night there and then next day went up to Mt. Rainier. We then drove to Ellensburg and stayed with them through Sunday. Thank you guys for a wonderful visit!!!!


Grandma had sent pj's for all the kiddos!


Cute family at Lions Rock - can't wait for baby coming in October.

Cousins had so much fun together!!!

Mt. Rainier - it was 40-50 degrees - freezing!!! I had brought some warm clothes but not near enough. Micah's Uncle Roger and Aunt Jo happened to be camping there that same time so we met up with them and thankfully they had some warmer clothes they shared with us. Despite the cold, rain and fog it was still beautiful.

The hotel had a pool so of course the kids loved that - okay brothers did too!

You can't go to Seattle without going to Pike Place Market. Do they look like brothers?

Family at the market - oh how I wish I could just walk down the street to buy produce, flowers, fish, etc. from there. Do we look like we had been up since 4:00am traveling that day?

So, now we are home and trying to get back into the swing of things. Last night Micah, Kayla and I all started feeling icky have colds now - punishment for 2 weeks of fun vacation I guess. Hope we can recover quickly.

10 years

It's been awhile since I've posted anything. Where has this summer gone? On August 7, Micah and I celebrated our 10 year anniversary! If you haven't heard the story here you go. My family moved to Hutchinson, Kansas area when I was in 6th grade and that is when I met first met Micah. Both of our families went to the same church and we were in the same class in school. Micah asked me out every year (I still have a note from 6th grade from him that says "will you go with me circle yes or no") and I always thought of him as a very good friend but finally middle of our senior year in high school it all clicked and we've been together since. I transfered out to Virginia to college our sophomore year and then Micah came out junior year and we got married before our senior year (yes we were young). So in 10 years we have lived in 6 states (Kansas, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Iowa, Ohio and Nebraska) and have added 2 wonderful kiddos to our family and who knows what the next 10 years will bring. We are currently on our way home from our trip to Maui (sitting in Dallas airport with 4 hour layover) celebrating 10 great years! We met A LOT of honeymooners and you should have saw their reaction from most when we told them we were celebrating our 10 year anniv. and not on our honeymoon - we just followed it up with yes we were young. Micah surprised me and brought our wedding video (yes it was VHS but he had it made into DVD) and we had a lot of fun watching it and seeing all our friends and family from 10 years ago! We enjoyed some good laughs! :) To the next 10 wonderful years honey!

Our last night on the beach - we watched the sunset.

Ziplining

On our actual anniversary we went to a Luau.

Black sand beach

Micah's birthday is August 1st so I told him I would go golfing with him for his gift. If I could golf with the ocean in view, I would go a lot more! :)

Tired and very long post

Happy Father's Day Micah and to all the other father's out there! Micah worked this morning and then made it to church for the about the last 20 minutes. We both got a little nap which was nice, kids played out in the sprinklers for awhile and then we went out for dinner. Micah picked Texas Roadhouse and we got there early (so we thought) at 4:55pm and there was a 1 hour and 45 minute wait - NO JOKE!!!! Crazy, we obviously opted out and went to Charleston's. Very yummy! Love you honey - thanks for being such an awesome daddy!

So, the projects are finally done......almost. I didn't take pre pics but here are some after.

I love the tile in the kids bathroom. We are going to do the same in our bathroom - hopefully in the next few weeks but depends on Micah's time. Kayla actually went up and played with her my little pony's on the floor...she said she liked the floor and wanted to play in there...whatever at least it's all clean!!


We painted entry way (seen below), kitchen, family room and upstairs hallway. I figured you all get the point of the color by this pic. It is slightly (and I mean slightly) darker than the previous color. We went very neutral for resale purposes. I really can't wait to have fun with some color in the next house - so tired of boring cream. It feels so good and clean with new paint!

The kids and I got back from Kansas Friday night. It was a good trip. I was thinking on my way back to Omaha how much has changed in a year. Ethan has come a long way - he tolerates the 5 hour drive WAY better than he used to.

Crazy story, Wednesday on my way back to Kansas to get the kids I was in my parents car and I saw black clouds ahead and figured I would just run into some rain. About 20 minutes later it was raining so hard I almost had to pull over and then hail started, intially pea size and then literally golfball and baseball size hail. NEVER in my life have I experienced anything like it. I felt like I was being shot at...it was constant and the windshield kept shattering (didn't break through just broke the glass) and felt like hail was going to come through the car. Thankfully I found a gas station and myself along with 4 other cars were trying to hide under the awning. I am so mad that I didn't pull my camera out - after it was done the whole ground was white and felt like I was driving on huge gravel chunks. I am so glad I was by myself! Ended up being$4000 in damage to my parents car. :( My dad was so great about it and only was worried that I was okay and that I could see enough to get home. Hopefully and probably won't ever experience hail like that again.

Saturday morning at church they had a father/daughter/son (ages 3-5) adventure. It was Indiana Jones theme and Kayla LOVED it. Micah had to leave straight from there back to hospital so I don't have a pic of them together but these were all her treasures she got. They had a map they followed, made treasure chest, binoculars, used flashlight through tunnels, made cross necklace (told me she really wanted a pink cross and not black but she loves the necklace and has worn it constantly), took pic together and she decorated the frame and decorated bag to keep all the goodies in. Micah said it was a lot of fun and they tailored some of the stuff for the dads to (such as quotes form the movie, etc) A great father/daughter memory!

Friday before kids went to Kansas I met a friend from Des Moines at the zoo along with another friend from Council bluffs. It rained the whole time and we all forgot college world series baseball was starting (stadium is across the street from the zoo) but we had fun regardless and we'll never forget the day! I couldn't resist sharing this pic - was hilarious watching. Ethan LOVED the gorillas and cried every time we walked away from one.

Kyle, Cole, Kayla, Annika and Sydney. Ethan had crashed asleep so no pics of him. Sorry buddy.