Kansas Bound

Today the kids and I are heading to KS to help take care of my mom. She had unexpected surgery last week because of her ulcers. Apparently there was a "huge" ulcer in her lower intestine that completely blocked off about a foot of her intestine. As you can imagine this caused serious problems for her. She has been in the hospital since last Tuesday and they did surgery on Friday. My dad said she is doing well and sitting up and able to talk a bit but she still has tubes in her throat for something so she doesn't talk much. She is supposed to be released either Friday or Saturday. So the kids and I are headed up for a week or 2 to help take care of her so my brother and dad can go to work without worry. We are headed to Clarksville for a day to crash with one of my friends and then hit the road early Saturday morning. Saturday is her birthday so I really want to get there that day. It is a long trip - it used to take Tyler and I 10 hours but now it will probably take longer plus I am bringing the little dog Lily. It will be nice to see them since our visit in Feb was so short due to our car problems in Idaho but it is a bit bittersweet because these are not the circumstances one wants to go home on.

I will keep you posted on her progress and we will try to have a little fun while we are there :)

Seems like it has been forever since I have updated this....not too much going on though. Pregnancy is going fine....hard to believe that in another week I will be 4 months pregnant. Hopefully the rest of it goes that quickly. This weekend we are going to TN for the Nightstalker Memorial Ride (Donnie's old unit). We are lifetime members even though we are not currently in the unit so we are driving up and bringing the Harley so we can go on the ride with all our friends. I look forward to this every year. There is nothing better than being on a bike and cruising thru the country on a nice day. I haven't been on one in a few years b/c Donnie had been deployed so I am looking forward to this one. Donnie is teaching me how to ride so maybe by the next one I can ride my own bike.

Other than that there really isn't much happening. Tyler is out of school next Friday. He got a letter in the mail from the mayor of Enterprise congratulating him on making the honor roll all year. We are very excited because he has struggled for so long in school and now he seems to be doing really well. I actually was concerned when I got it because I could not understand why the city was sending a letter to Tyler - I figured someone opened something up in his name - thank goodness it was a nice surprise. Vanna just had her end of the year gymnastics program. She was so cute. I will have to post some pics eventually - as you can tell I am not the best at doing that. We are going to sign her up for the summer so she can continue cuz she really likes it. Have a doctor's appointment on Thursday - will post any new news. Hope everyone has a great Memorial weekend.

I had my first appointment today and it went very well. The official due date is December 2 (which means for my kids it should be about a week later if the pattern continues.) I got an ultrasound with 3 pictures of the "peanut" which Vanna thinks is so cool. I will have another one at 20 weeks to find out the sex and then at 28 weeks I even get one of the new 4-D ultrasounds. I don't know if this is standard in the civilian world but those don't exist in the military world so I am completely excited. My doctor even said that at 39 weeks we can discuss scheduling an induction as long as things are going ok, which totally made my day since my babies tend to hang around well past their due dates. I am also glad because we live almost 30 miles from the hospital so I was a bit worried about getting there on time if I happen to go into labor on my own (not likely though). So overall this has been a pretty good day w/ alot of excitement.

Twilight Addict!

I have to admit I have been bitten by the Twilight bug and I am now a complete addict to the series. Tyler was dying to see the movie so when it came out we got it and I really liked it to my surprise. I had heard all the hype when the movie came out but since I had never read any of the books I really did not get it. The only reason I considered seeing it is because the lead actor Rob Pattenson played in the Harry Potter movie and I am a big fan of those so I figured I would get around to see it. So after I saw the movie I read the first book which I had but had not read yet. I finished it in about 5 hours. So I went online to the website and I got the storyline for each of the next 3 books. One thing led to another and the next think I knew I had ordered the remaining books from ebay. Luckily Donnie went to TN this past weekend so I read the remaining 3 books in 2 days - obviously I did not do anything else that weekend, but I could not put them down and the fact that I knew the basis of the storyline made me that much more anxious to see how it all happened. So I am now a self proclaimed Twilight addict and have joined the ranks of all the Edward and Bella fans out there!

Officially Pregnant!

I went to the lab yesterday and now the army considers me officially pregnant. They asked me who I wanted to see as a doctor, which threw me for a loop because in the army world you get an appointment with whatever doctor, nurse or midwife is available (hardly ever seeing the same person twice) and when you go into labor the doctor or midwife on call delivers the baby. So there is really no continuity of care. But because Ft. Rucker is so small they don't even have an OB/GYN clinic on base so everyone is referred to civilian care. So my doctor is a woman in the next town over - about 20 miles and I will see her the entire time and she will deliver the baby as well. I even get a private room (which again is not the norm in the army world). Have to say I am a bit excited about this situation. I won't have a first appointment for a while - I have to wait for my referral in the mail which will take about 2 weeks or so and then I can make my first appointment. So more to come....

Baby # 3 is on the way!!

So we just found out that I am pregnant and we are completely excited! It happened really fast - much sooner than I thought as I have only been off the pill since the beginning of March. I took a test on Tuesday and it came out positive so I took another one this morning just to be sure before we told the world. I have not called the DR yet because in the military world you have to take a pregancy test at the lab and then they see you in OB a month or 2 later, but being so newly pregnant I know from experience that my test will come out a "weak positive" and they will make me come back in a few weeks. I checked the due date calculator online and the baby should be here around December 2, but I have a history of late babies so we will see. Poor Donnie - he is the only one in the family with a summer bday - now we have Tyler in October, Vanna in November and me, the new baby and xmas all in december (better start saving our pennies now :). Regardless we are excited and have already started talking about names. Neither of us care what it is since we already have a boy and a girl but if I had my choice I hope it is a boy - they are just easier!

I did not realize it has been so long since I last blogged. We are settled in and doing well. Not too much to report as we have only been here a month. Tyler likes school and is doing really good. Vanna is getting registered for kindergarden next week. I cant believe it. She is now doing homework at the table when Tyler does his homework. She is writing her name, ABC's and numbers. She doesn't have to know them before school but I want her to be ahead of the game. She thinks she is a big girl now. She is in gymnastics and loves it. Tyler is not much of a baseball dude and that is in season now so I think he is going to do karate til football starts in the fall. He is also going to start taking guitar lessons - unfortunately he is being forced (sounds familiar doesn't it) but he will get over it. Vanna actually wants to play the piano and has been asking for a few years now but she has to wait until the fall when school starts. She is also going to be a pee-wee cheerleader for football season. I can't wait.

The weather is great here....of course it is raining today but it is warm. We have been to Pensacola, FL 2x since we have been here to see Donnie's grandma. We also got our fishing licenses since there are 4 lakes on Ft. Rucker. Donnie and I belong to a poker league as well so we have plenty to keep us busy. One of these days I will take some pics and post them.