My Life with a Princess

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2009-02-24T18:27:00.000-08:00

Ok I read your blog Heather and thought it was a cute idea...

The instructions were simple - you'd think they were simple, at least!All I had to do was open the sixth file and post the sixth picture and blog about it. Well, I open my pictures and find the sixth file and this is the sixth picture:

This was taken about 2 years ago at a local park. Abby loved feeding the ducks. We used to stop every week at the bread store and pick up a loaf of bread out and feed the ducks. This was one of my favorite outfits on her and I loved her pink sunglasses.

I will take the terrible 2's over this...

2009-02-08T18:05:00.000-08:00

Whoever said terrible twos were the worst didn't have the Sassy Sevens yet! I have had it! We were doing good for about 2 weeks and then all of the sudden this weekend hit and it hit hard! Saturday morning I had a meeting for work and we planned on going to Sioux City after that. Abby woke up a little after 6 which is way too early for her on the weekends! But I thought, or hoped, she would relax until I got back from my meeting and would be in a good mood to go to Sioux City. Boy was I wrong! It was attitude after attitude. Her manners were horrible and no matter what we said she did the opposite. We finally got home about 8:30 and she went to bed after I told her she was not to get out of bed before 7:30am. She gets up again right after 6. Again all day she was a bear! We made her take rest time from 1-2 hoping that would help. She laid on her bed for an hour reading and was ok for about an hour after. Then the attitude started back up. I can't even tell you how many times today I have heard how mean I am. This is ridiculous! What happened to my nice sweet little girl? I am sure a lot of this has to do with her lack of sleep but what do I do to keep her in bed later on the weekends?
Tommorrow night we have parent teacher conferences. I am sure I will hear what a sweet child she is. Does a different kid come home from school? Is my child wandering the halls at night while I get this sassy seven year old instead? I have no idea what to do anymore! I am at my wits end!

Update

2009-02-01T18:38:00.000-08:00

His surgery is scheduled for March 17th right now. We don't know a time yet so we don't know if we will have to go down the night before yet or not.

I think we will stay at Beau and Erin's. That way we don't have to pay for a hotel the entire time. Rhonda will come down the day of surgery also so she will help entertain Abby and keep me sane. I just need to get some projects and shows recorded for Abby between now and then. She will get bored fast!

Saturday Abby woke up at 6AM! My noon she was a bear! After several temper tantrums she lost her television until noon Sunday and had to go to bed at 7pm. She actually fell asleep fast. Then John and I played the Wii. I love Mario Kart. He then went to watch a movie while I played. We played more today and were able to open more tracks. It is amazing the muscles you use and the graphics on these games. Then I have been doing my work. UGH! Hopefully things will be a little saner this week.

2009-01-29T18:01:00.000-08:00

Grandpa is doing well. Grandma looks tired but so far so good. It was nice finally getting over there to see him.

Otherwise life has been hectic as usual. Tuesday night is dance night. Abby loves it. She fights going at first because she might miss something on TV(ADDICT!) But she always has so much fun. She is battling a cold but hopefully it will end soon. We are still dealing with attitude. We had a family meeting the other night and told her we would not put up with it. We explained how we should all act and that is what is expected. We also told her if she does not act like she is suppose to there will be consequences. She has gotten a little better. She blew a gasket last night and lost her TV for today. She was much better today. We also put in affect that the TV goes off at 7:30. She then needs to read and get ready for bed. She did good with that tonight. It is 8:05 and she is in bed! Hopefully she will get up better in the morning.

We also found out this week that John has to have back surgery in March. It will be in Omaha so I will have to take some time off from work. We will probably have to keep Abby out of school during that time since we don't have anybody that can stay with her. We will talk to her teachers in a couple weeks during conferences. John will have to be off for about 2 weeks afterwards.

Other than that not much going on. Hopefully Saturday we get a bunch of cleaning done. I told everybody it was Ullrich family cleaning day. We so need to get organized again!

update....

2009-01-18T18:11:00.000-08:00

My grandpa got out of the hospital Saturday afternoon. He is doing really well. He is very frustrated that he is not independent again yet but he will get there. He can't use his arm muscles because of the opening his chest. So pushing himself out of a chair and going to the bathroom he has to be helped. My Dad and Uncle are taking turns spending the night to help him and Grandma out. We are going over next weekend since a cold hit me this weekend. He will have a long recovery but they think he is doing exceptionally well for his age.
Mom is still doing her treatments. She has several weeks to go and then hopefully she will be done. They are talking about another possible surgery if the pain does not go away.
As for us we are ok. John is getting over strep throat from last week, I am not battling a cold and Abby is still as sassy as always. She is driving me nuts with the back talk and the not listening. UGH!

Oh and the snow melted some this weekend. We actually hit above 30 degrees! WOO HOO! It is like a heat wave!! Hopefully it continues.

A bad start of 2009!

2009-01-14T17:16:00.001-08:00

I certainly hope 2009 improves!

Well 2008 ended with all the drama with my Mom. She continues to get IV treatments at the emergency room twice a day. She has 3 weeks left of that. She may also have to have another surgery. Then last week my Grandma had her uterus removed. She thought she was done with it. LOL! I guess it was slipping and they thought it would just be best to remove it. She is doing fine. Then Sunday my 81 year old grandfather thought he should shovel some snow off the sidewalk so the farm cats paws would not be so cold when they ate. He ended up with chest pains and my Dad took him to the hospital. They did some testing and today he had open heart surgery, quadruple bypass! He is doing well so far. They are waiting for him to wake up yet then last I talked to Mom. He will be in intensive care for a couple days and then will move him to a room. So we plan on going over Saturday. My grandparents are unbelievable people. They just celebrated their 61st anniversary on January 6th. They both turn 82 this spring but you would never guess it looking at them or with all the activity they do. When Grandma had her uterus removed the DR said she had the body of a 60 year old.

My grandparents...

Oh and it is 27 degrees below 0 currently and this is warm to what they say tomorrow is suppose to be like. I HATE WINTER!

I hate winter STILL!

2009-01-12T16:52:00.000-08:00

I know I have mentioned by dislike for winter but let me say if I have any day like this one we will move south! It started out with a nice 37 degree day. Then all hell broke loose. We had a light snow, still not bad. Then the 50 mph winds picked up so we had complete white out conditions. I left work about 3pm to pick Abby up from school. My office is 2 miles outside of town. I nearly went in the ditch, got hit head on, and nearly rear ended somebody. I could not see the hood of my van! It was horrible. It wasn't nearly as bad in town but still bad. I was never so happy to be home! Roads are closed all over. There is now a wind chill advisory out. I hate WINTER! SPRING WHERE ARE YOU????

These were taken where the buildings block so the wind.

Happy 2009!

2009-01-02T18:54:00.001-08:00

Where did 2008 go? I swear it just started!
Yes we are boring people. We went out for dinner New Years Eve. Then we stopped at the store for last minute snacks and went home. We played the Wii and watched WallE. Or I should say John and Abby watched WallE while I fell asleep. I swear I can't watch a movie without falling asleep! Abby and I went to bed at 9pm! Yes Party poopers! But 2009 will happen whether I am asleep in bed or asleep in the chair. I just as well be comfortable! :)

New Years day we just hung out and took the Christmas decorations down. Why does taking them down take 5 hours?!? It was really nice just being able to relax! Today Abby had her friend Jacy over for the afternoon. They had a blast playing the Wii and with all the toys. Abby's room is once again destroyed but at least they had fun. Jacy did ask Abby if she was spoiled this much because she didn't have any brothers and sisters. LOL! Abby would love to have a sibling and loves Jacy's little brother and sister and Jacy thinks they are more trouble than they are worth. I guess it is all about the amount of time you spend with them and always wanting what the other has.
My goals for 2009 is to be more organized! We will see how long that lasts.

Here are a few pics from the last couple weeks...

Abby in her Hannah Montana chair

Abby rocking out with her new pink guitar

Abby and her snowman

Snow angels

Merry Christmas

2008-12-25T19:24:00.001-08:00

Mom had surgery Monday. They found one small tear in the membrane above one of the nerves he repaired it but didn't think that could be causing all the pain. So he did some blood testing and checked for spinal fluid leakage. The fluid was fine. Did you know the ansethiologist can make you cough?!?! Wierd! Her blood test came back funny. Normal was 12 for infection level and hers was 85. They think she may have gotten a staff infection from the original surgery. She got out of the hospital Christmas eve with a pic line. She has to go the the hospital twice a day for 6 weeks for antibiotic treatments. Hopefully this cures the problem. After countless call my Dad and I finally convinced my Mom and stupid sisters to postpone Christmas until Sunday so Mom could get some rest. So yesterday afternoon John ran to the store before they closed and picked up ham for dinner today at home. Abby found a mysterious gift from Santa dropped off at 4pm Christmas eve. She read the letter saying Santa's sleigh was too full so he thought he would drop off one gift for the family tonight. So we opened the Wii. She was so excited. We set it up and started to play. She got really frustrated because she is stubborn and "knows how to do everything" but wasn't getting it. We were then regretting getting it. But she finally caught on today and is the lead in bowling. She bowled a 203 today! We also played Mario Kart today and that is hilarious! We all love that one. She made a haul today. She loves her pink guitar and her MP3 player. She has been walking around with it on all day. Well I am beat. Rhonda and Gregg come tomorrow. Hopefully everything is ready. I am going to bed! Hope you all had a Merry Christmas!

Week from HELL!

2008-12-21T17:56:00.000-08:00

We got over 10 inches of snow Thursday night/Friday. We have beyond frigid temps. My Grandmothers Christmas was cancelled due to white out conditions and my Mom was taken to the hospital by ambulance! My Mom had back surgery shortly before Thanksgiving. They had to fuse part of her lower back together. They told her recovery would be about 6 months. My Mom is not one to lay still so I am sure she has not followed all of the doctors instructions. She seemed to be doing ok until she started to get this pain down her leg. She thought she had over done it with Christmas shopping. So she tried to take it easy and then Friday night she couldn't even walk the pain was so bad. Dad called the ambulance. She was taken to the hospital and did an MRI. They thought spinal fluid had leaked or she had an infection. If it was infection she would have to have surgery and they would have to scrape the infection off. UGH! They first tried by using a needle to remove some of the spinal fluid. They would then test the spinal fluid for bacteria. So Saturday they did that. By Saturday evening she was feeling no difference. Sunday she got the test results back that there was no bacteria in the spinal fluid. So now she is going back into surgery tomorrow to find out what is going on. So I am going to try to get off work early tomorrow to run and see her. She told the DR she didn't care what he did as long as she was home for Christmas. DR told her that she shouldn't count on that. My Mom is a Chrismas fanatic, as you know! We are suppose to go there Christmas day. So now I have no idea what is going on and I LIVE by a plan! We were not able to go over to see her all weekend due to the white out. UGH! I HATE WINTER! Friday Rhonda and Gregg are coming and staying until Sunday. We have Christmas here on Saturday. I feel I have 10,000 things left to do and I am running out of time. All the presents are wrapped and everything is decorated. Groceries are bought so I am sure we will survive but the house is not perfect. I know no body will care if they find a crumb on the carpet or that not all trash containers are not completely empty but I do! Plus AF is starting and I don't have time for her either! BAH HUMBUG!

I hate winter!

2008-12-14T15:17:00.000-08:00

I know it is only beginning but boy I hate this. We currently have a windchill of 23 BELOW zero! We have 49mph wind gusts with snow. All week is suppose to be cold and miserable. I need to move where it is 70 all year round!

Yesterday Abby had cheerleading camp. This is her second year and she has so much fun. Plus is gave John and I time to run some errands and finish last minute Christmas shopping. We have all the gifts bought just needed to pick up stocking stuffers and some finishing touches. After her performance we drove to a nearby town that has Santaland. We met Rhonda and Gregg there and had supper and then went through Santaland and stopped to see Santa. This is the first year we have gone up there and I think we will make it a tradition. It was so nice and Abby was enthralled. Then today we got hit with the frigid wind and snow so we are homebound. We are all actually still in our pajamas!

Tuesday is Abby's Christmas concert. Then this weekend we travel to my grandparents for their Christmas.

Here are some pics....

Christmas Shopping is done!!!

2008-11-30T18:41:00.000-08:00

Well mostly done! I still need to pick up a couple things for John but otherwise we are done. John conquered the crowds of Black Friday and picked up some deals. Then we drove to Sioux City and finished everything else. I am so glad we are done! We decorated Saturday and I got some wrapping done today.
Abby is getting pretty excited but the rate she is going I will be returning a bunch of Christmas presents! The sass is non stop and always have to go one step further than she should. I can only imagine what the teenage years will be like. I will need therapy!
Well I better get to bed before that early alarm clock goes off. UGH! Back to work after a long weekend sucks!

Halloween

2008-11-05T18:23:00.000-08:00

We went to John's sisters house for Halloween. We normally just hit the mall and a couple friends houses. This year we went house to house in Rhonda's town. Boy did she make a hall! I always buy a medium size gift bag for her treats and we had to empty it 3 times because it was too heavy! Way too much candy!!!

Flip Flop Withdrawl

2008-11-05T18:20:00.000-08:00

I think Abby needs therapy! We live in Nebraska and weather changes at the drop of the hat. We have had a unusually warm fall so Abby has still been wearing flip flops until about 2 weeks ago. I told her that it was time to put them away and start wearing her tennis shoes. She threw a fit! "I love my flip flops!" She has about 15 pair and lived in them all summer. I swear every morning she asks what the temp was going to be so she can see if it will be warm enough for flip flops.

2008-10-19T17:55:00.000-07:00

The wedding was nice. I will post a few pics....

The camera---Is the new Kodak 14.3MP. It takes HD pics and video. I love it!!! It is my birthday gift from John.

The safe haven law---Nebraska never had one until the one that went active this summer. Except they forgot to put an age limit. So parents have been dropping off teenagers at the hospitals in Omaha. They are suppose to be having a special session to fix it. But it has been a big joke around here. Nebraska is becoming the dumping zone. Even some Mom from Michigan dropped off her 14 year old last week.

2008-10-19T16:29:00.000-07:00

Well the anxiety for Abby is getting better. She goes to see the counselor every Tuesday with a few other girls. We have parent teacher conferences on Monday. So I am sure we will how she is doing at school. Hopefully it is a lot better than her attitude at home. At home Abby has been horrible! She is sassy, arguementative, and just plain rude! What happened to the nice little Abby I gave birth to? If we tell her no for any reason we get to listen to her scream at the top of her lungs "HMMMM You just don't want me to have any fun!" Yep that is our plan. Take all the fun out of her life! Nebraska's messed up safe haven law looks better and better each day! JK!

We survived my sisters wedding! It is finally over and we are all married! It turned out nice and even though not everything went perfectly she still ended up married. Shocking I know!

John is calling me spoiled. I ordered another new camera! Yes this is my 4th camera in 3 years! :) But I love it and it was on SALE!!!! I will post some pics shortly.

Well the laundry monster is calling so I better continue with it as soon as I post some pics....

Anxiety at the age of 7!?!?!

2008-09-09T18:45:00.000-07:00

Ok now our problem....
Abby is suffering from some serious anxiety! I don't know if it is the new school year or the fact I was gone for a week for work. She doesn't want to school because she misses us too much. She complains of her stomach hurting. She is attached to my hip! We are about to go crazy. We are taking it one day at a time. She was even leary about going back to dance. She loved dance! But she went and it was all new girls, except the teacher, but a couple of the girls were pretty outgoing and started talking to Abby. She seemed to have fun. I just hope this ends soon! If anybody has any suggestions I am totally open!

Golden Birthday!

2008-09-09T18:27:00.001-07:00

Ok--I have found out that not everybody celebrates nor knows what a Golden birthday is. It was a huge deal in my family. If it was your golden birthday your party was a huge ordeal. A Golden birthday is when you turn 7 on the 7th or 13 on the 13th. So this was Abby's Golden Birthday. First of all I can't believe it has been seven years! I know I say that every year but OMG! She is 7! Saturday we had her friend party or you could call it a Hannah Montana Extravaganza! We had it at the Y. She invited 9 BFF's and they all showed. The invitations were concert tickets. They turned out so cute. I will post an example. they swam and played on scooters. Then we did gifts and cake. We gave out the goody bags and I am sure the screams were heard all over. They were all so excited. They got all Hannah Monana stuff...pencils, pencil sharpners, tatoos, personalize candy bars, and a watch. Plus lots of candy.

Then Sunday we had the entire family over. She raked it in as usual.

Here are some pics...Her invite

cake #1

Her BFF's

Cake is finger licking good!

Cake #2

Too much stuff!

Let's try this again....

2008-08-17T14:34:00.000-07:00

Ok things have been insane! It has been nearly a hear since I have been on. Life has been hectic. My job has been crazy and it never seems to calm down. John also just received a promotion, he is now the supervisor for the intake and investigation unit. YAH HUBBY!! He deserves it and I am so proud of him. Abby starts the 2nd grade tomorrow!!! I can't believe she is going into the 2nd grade. What happened to my little baby? But by talking to her you would think she was a teenager! I swear I hate the sassy mouth! I thought we had time before that started. Boy was I wrong! She also just got her first pair of glasses. She is not really liking them but we are hopeful she will get used to them. She was a flower girl in May. She looked so cute. She really looked like a little princess. But my little princess has decided she is beyond the princess stage and now she is a Hannah Montana Rock Star princess. YIKES!! She is so into Hannah Montana. We had to take the princess stuff down in her room and hang up Hannah Montana posters. She is having a Hannah Montana birthday party. We even made invitations to look like concert tickets. She is also very big into stlye. She is constantly telling me what is cool and what is not. Her new favorite phrase is "That is sweet!

Ok that is a quick catch up. I will post pics....

at the falls...

with her new glasses...

flower girl

after having her hair done at a spa!

she started dance this summer, ballet and tap

swimming...

goofing off...

Her birthday pics from Penney's

First tooth gone

2007-10-10T18:31:00.000-07:00

I don't have time to type much but had to stop and say that Abby finally lost her first tooth!!! WOO HOO! She no longer the "last one to loose a tooth!" LOL!

http://www.scrapbookflair.com/shellrene/Abby_loses_her_1st_tooth/page1

2007-09-16T18:26:00.001-07:00

Ok first I need to say sorry to you Heather--I have not had a moment to email you back. My new job is going well but extremely busy. To try to get these people used to having me as a boss has not been easy. The worst is one girl who has been there for 19 years. She has really caused havoc. But I am getting by. I have already fired my first person and rehired another. I have also made numerous changes. So hopefully it lightens up soon.

Last Saturday Abby had her other birthday party with her friends. We had it at the YMCA and it was so much fun. It was so nice to have them take care of everything!! She really raked it in! But as sassy she has been lately I am not sure if it was all deserved! She is driving me crazy! I have no idea what is up with her.

This weekend we kind of took it easy. Saturday we did some much needed cleaning. Then today(our 7th anniversary) we went out to Muskathine Lake and did some fishing and she played at the playground. It was a beautiful day. It has been pretty cold lately and today it was 80 again. So nice! We didn't catch any fish but it was so nice out. Then we ran into one of her friends there so she played with her at the playground.

Next weekend is "Child Free Weekend!" Now I love my daughter but I sooooooooooooooooooooo need a break! We are going to Lincoln to a Husker game and then to start some Christmas shopping. Rhonda is going to take Abby for the weekend. I can hardly wait!

Oh and our other big news! Abby has her 1st loose tooth FINALLY! We have heard 1000 times how EVERYBODY has lost a tooth except her! Of course now she is afraid to eat anything! UGH!

Ok pic time....

Ok i forgot back to school pics!

2007-09-03T18:29:00.000-07:00

Bad Mom!

She was extremely crabby and nervous so I didn't get many good pics.

2007-09-03T18:09:00.000-07:00

Ok it has been forever since I have posted. So much has happened. I got a huge promotion and work and have been extremely busy with that. I still have decided it is a good thing or not. I just need to weed out the bad apples. Abby started first grade and thinks it is "cool" There are 17 kids in her class and 14 of them are boys. OMG I pity her teacher! This past weekend was round one of the birthday bashes! The family came over and of course she raked it in as usual. Then Friday night (her actual birthday) we will take her out to eat. Saturday she has a party at the Y with 10 of her friends. That ought to be interesting! Oh it was also John's birthday yesterday. His gift should arrive Wednesday--a new flat screen HDTV! He is so excited! Of course now I won't get him away from the TV especially since he ordered the first 3 seasons of the Family Guy. UGH!

Ok pic time....

Oh and what birthday is not complete without a carnival!

Oh and her birthday pics we had taken....

2007-08-12T18:58:00.000-07:00

This past weekend we went to Sioux City for my side family reunion. We haven't had one since 1991! So it was nice to see everybody again. We left town about 1pm on Friday. We did some shopping Friday afternoon because 1st grade starts in 3 days!!!!!!! I can't believe she is going to be in the first grade but we will get back to that later! Saturday we went to the reunion with the lovely heat index of 115! UGH! So we spent about 3 hours there and went back to the hotel with the pool! 115 is a lot more bearable when you are in the pool! Sunday we went and had Abby's pictures taken for ther 6th birthday(which I also can't believe is coming up!) They turned out so cute. I can't wait to get them back. I found a cute speghetti strap haiwaiian slip dress with matching flip flops. We also left all her hair down which we normally don't do.

So anyway, Tuesday night we go to meet her teacher and see her classroom and Wednesday she starts school! I can't believe summer is almost over and that I am the mother of a first grader! What happened to my baby? We still need to decide what we are going to do for her birthday. We need to get those decisions made in the next week. UGH Life is just so hectic right now!

Anyway I will post some pics.... The first ones are of my niece Lauren and her "twin" My 2nd cousin Troy and his wife had Chloe 2 months after Lauren and I swear they could pass as twins! And considering both babies look like their Mom's really make you wonder!

Chloe

Lauren
And both of them in white sun dresses!

Now some of Abby...

Way to busy!

2007-08-02T17:37:00.000-07:00

Ok sorry it has been so long. Life has been so busy. I am averaging 12 hr days at work and going in some over the weekend! I will be glad when it slows down!
Ok update...
The funeral for Landon was extremely hard. Abby took it pretty hard. At first she was very mad at him because he "didn't look both ways!" Then the questions started. Here are a few..
"When does he get his wings?"
"Does he know how to fly right away or does he go to school to learn?"
"If he knows how to fly does he go to school to learn to fly really fast?"
"Does he get a magic wand?"
"Who does he cuddle with if he has a bad dream?"
and they go on and on....

This past Friday we went to my Dad's retirement dinner. He retired at the age of 57 after 35 years with the same company! Mom and Dad wanted to keep Abby for 5 nights! Abby was pretty leary at first because she has never spent that kind of time away from us but she decided to go. Mom and Dad were going to take her and Taelyr and Kaelyn to Okoboji on Tuesday. So we left her there Friday night. It was pretty difficult to leave her! But I held it in. We were just about on the interstate to home and the cell phone rings. It is Abby crying. She wants us to come get her. I talked to her and told her we would come get her but that would mean she wouldn't get to go to Okoboji and do all the other fun stuff that was planned. After some hesitation she decided to stay. She was pretty tired at the time. So by Saturday she was fine. She made it the whole time! It was so quiet here! We got a lot of stuff done and she had a blast! She loved Okoboji and rode all the rides she was big enough for. They brought her back last night.

Work has been a complete zoo! I just want a nice easy week soon!

Hug your little ones!

2007-07-13T19:10:00.000-07:00

Sorry it has been so long. Life seems so hectic but let me say the last 2 days have really put life in perspective. Wednesday night about 8pm we got a horrible phone call. One of Abby's friends from daycare(gone together since they were both in diapers), who is also the son to the detective John works with for the past 10 years was ran over. He was life flighted and passed away yesterday. He was 7 years old! I am so sad. He was the sweetest little boy. Abby just adored him. When the bigger kids would pick on Abby, he was always right there to help her out. It is just so sad! I can't imagine going through what his parents are going through right now. Landon's neck was broken as well as his top vertabrae in his back. He had bleeding in the brain and was non responsive. They kept him on life support long enough to donate his organs. I just can't get over that Landon is gone. So hug your little ones. Those days that they are driving you crazy just be happy that they are there to drive you crazy.

Fathers day

2007-06-17T19:12:00.000-07:00

Saturday Abby and I ran some errands. The mall was having childrens day to get ready for fair season. So we played some games. One was the nickle dash, which I don't know why they called it that because there was more than just nickles. Abby had a blast and came out with tons of candy and over $13 in change!

Today we took John out for breakfast and then I ran to work for a few hours. Then I picked Abby up and we went to the park and had ice cream so Dad could have some quiet time. Tonight we had dinner and then played some games. Now I am trying to get Abby to sleep.

2007-06-08T19:42:00.000-07:00

Life has been so hectic lately! I worked over 12 hours just today! UGH! Plus Abby has had swimming lessons every night. The 3rd night she finally jumped off the diving board. WOO HOO! She is doing pretty well in swimming lessons and she loves to swim!

Hopefully it will be a quiet weekend so I can get some stuff done around here. I did do a new page for scrapping. They had a new embelleshments and such that I just loved. So this is what I came up with.

2007-06-04T18:08:00.000-07:00

2007-06-03T18:50:00.000-07:00

I think I need to change the name of my blog to "My Life with the demon child!"

She is driving me nuts! We are back to temper tantrums over everything! Crying over EVERYTHING! Everything is "Not Fair" "Your Mean!" What will it be like with she is a teenager! UGH!

Saturday morning we all went to garage sales. We gave her $3 to spend. Which she did rather quickly. She didn't do too bad the rest of that time. Then the plan was to go home and have lunch and then we were going to pick up her friend Mackinzie and take them both to the circus. We got Mackinzie and got to the circus and it down poured! We were soaked! The rain would just not let up. So we decided to leave and all go bowling instead. It was a lot of fun but Abby must have been getting tired because she was mad when she didn't get a pin, when she wasn't first and so on. Mackinzie is an extremely nice polite child. I wish Abby would behave like her! We bowled 2 games and then took Mackinzie home. The rest of the night and today has consisted of Abby whining, complaining and throwing a tantrum over everything. She has been in time out countless times and has lost her television. I am at my wits end! This better be a quick phase!

Tomorrow she starts her excellerated reading program and swimming lessons. So John will take her to the school for the reading program. I will pick her up at lunch, we will come home and have lunch. John will take her to Sherry's and then I will pick her up there and come home put on swimming suit and go to swimming lessons. This will be everyday for 2 weeks. She will be tired! I also have my yearly OB appt tomorrow. WOO HOO! NOT! Hopefully all goes well.

Well I better post bowling pics and head to bed!

2007-05-31T19:12:00.000-07:00

Catching up on my scrapbooking. Here is one for Easter

scrap book pages family fun day

2007-05-28T17:45:00.000-07:00

Family Fun Weekend

2007-05-28T17:02:00.000-07:00

Boy am I exhausted! We left Saturday morning about 7:30 and headed to Lincoln. Abby was pretty crabby at first so we had to shake the crabbies off since crabbiness is not allowed for Family Fun weekend! We headed to the Children's Museum first. We had a blast there. Then we went to lunch and stopped and picked up some things for the hotel. Then headed to the hotel. It was so nice! It was a bunch of little cottages. So it was really private and we had a full kitchen, livingroom and bedroom. We went swimming for awhile. Abby has gotten so good! She starts swimming lessons next week and I think that will really be beneficial. Then we went to the mall and did some shopping and ate dinner.

Sunday we went to Pioneer Park and Chuck E Cheese. Abby has been wanting to go to CEC for so long! We played games for about 2 hours! We went back and swam for about 3 hours and then went out and about again. We took her to the capital building and showed her the Husker stadium.

Today we came home through Omaha and stopped at a few stores there. But we are finally home and another Family fun weekend has gone by. We really need to continue doing these. Abby's attitude will hopefully get over this sassy phase so it will be easier on Mom and Dad! UGH! She will stay home with Dad the next couple days and he plans on taking her fishing one day.

Soccer 07

2007-05-24T17:27:00.001-07:00

Well we finished up with soccer and she wants to play in the fall!

Onto the 1st grade!

2007-05-24T17:20:00.000-07:00

I can't believe Abby is done with kindergarten! What happened to my little baby? I just can't get over how fast this is going.

another digital scrapbook page

2007-05-20T19:03:00.000-07:00

2007-05-20T16:14:00.001-07:00

We had our last soccer game Saturday. Leave it to my daughter to wait until the end of the season to get out there and play. She had a makeup game Thursday evening and she actually got out there and and went after the ball. She skipped more than ran but she was out there! WOO HOO! Saturday she did really well also. I will post some pics.

Then Saturday afternoon we went to see Shrek 3. It was pretty good. Not as good as the first 2 but it was still pretty good. Today we went out and about and went to the old railroad bridge on the cowboy trail. I have been trying to take some scenery pics to put in the frame John gave me. I was orginally going to put black and white pics in it but now I am leaning toward to color pics. I just can't decide. I will post some of the scenery pics I am debating on.

2007-05-15T19:18:00.001-07:00

ok i am on a roll...

2007-05-15T19:02:00.000-07:00

ok here is another page. Weston's 1st birthday

digital scrapbook

2007-05-15T18:50:00.000-07:00

Ok I love to take pictures as you can tell but I am horrible at sitting down and scrapbooking. So I would like to start digital scrapbooking. I just worked on my first page. What do you think?

Catching up!

2007-05-13T06:33:00.001-07:00

Boy do I have some catching up to do!! Our computer has been on the fritz! UGH! We ordered a new one and it arrived Friday. So now I will try to catch up.

Abby has graduated from Daisy girl scouts. They had a bridging ceremony so in the fall she will be a brownie. She has really liked girl scouts so I think we will keep her in it. Brownies meet during the week though. I liked that Daisies met on Saturdays, it gave her something to do on the weekends during the winter months. Then the following Saturday all the local Daisy girl scouts had a Teddy Bear tea party. It was so cute!!! This will definatly be a birthday party idea! They all made necklaces and hats out of paperplates. They learned how to set a table properly and all about table manners. The girls had a blast!! I will post some pics, of course!

Otherwise life is as hectic as always. Yesterday we went to Sydney's for Weston's 1st birthday party. I can't believe he is 1 already and that there will be another one in a couple months! She will definatly have her hands full!

Feeding the ducks

Bridging ceremony

Teddy Bear Tea Party

With best friend Jacy

A LITTLE BETTER 2ND TIME AROUND

2007-04-22T17:46:00.000-07:00

Nothing like a little bribery! LOL! John promised Abby, ice cream cone, a trip to dollar tree and the arcade if she played soccer at her game. She actually went out there for 2 quarters! She kept her hands in her pockets most of the time but at least she was out there! She even admitted she liked it afterwards! So hopefully we get better each game. I will post some pics..

(one of my current favorites!)

Otherwise life is so hectic right now. Today we had to go to my grandparents 80th birthday party. They both turn 80 3 weeks apart. So we through a huge open house for them. There was several hundred people that showed up! Happy Birthday Papa and Gramma!!!

Official Soccer Mom --or not?!

2007-04-15T16:39:00.000-07:00

Saturday was our first soccer game. Abby was all excited about it and loves her new soccer shoes with pink stripes. They also help her run really fast! LOL! So we think all will be fine. We get there and she is the only girl on the team! So she pulls her shy attitude and refuses to play. We get her out there for a couple minutes and we got her to get her pictures taken but that was about it. She just clung to us. I am so tired of this behavior! So we have had a talk with her and she says she will do better next week. We hope! There was only one girl on the opposing team but according to Abby she is huge! There was one other little boy who was being shy also and would not play so at least we weren't alone. So here are a few pictures of the short time she was out there....

WHAT ELSE?!?!

2007-04-10T11:50:00.000-07:00

Monday we spent the day in Omaha at the surgery center waiting for John to get out of surgery and recovery. It was a long day but Abby did much better than I expected. She was a little unbearable by the time we got home at 7pm but she was getting pretty tired. She finally fell asleep on me about 8:30. So I think woo hoo! WRONG! I get John taken care of and head to bed and at 12:30 Abby wakes up and has puked all over everything! UGH! So I get her cleaned up and take her downstairs with me so John can rest. She is up several more times during the night. So I stay home from work and she stays home from school. But by 9am I think she could have went to school. She is driving me crazy. She seems to be feeling better. She says her tummy hurts a little and her throat hurts--from throwing up I am sure. But other than that she seems fine. But we keep her home. I am exhausted!

Cleaning her room

2007-04-09T02:44:00.000-07:00

Ok I forgot to posts Abby's conversation with Daddy about cleaning her room Saturday morning....

Dad: "Abby you need to clean your room"
Abby: "Can you help me?"
Dad: "No, I didn't make the mess"
Abby: "No, but you bought me the toys!"

LOL!
Dad: "Well I don't think we will be buying anymore!"

Abby: "Humph..."(in her whiny tone as she walks off defeated to her room) LOL

Where do they come up with these things!

Ok --Easter Pics!

2007-04-08T17:04:00.000-07:00

Abby and her Easter basket she was taking to Grandma's for the egg
hunt.

My new nieces Jaemee and Lauren. They are a month apart in age and Jaemee is older but Lauren is quite a bit bigger.

Jaemee looking pretty standing

Look at those cheeks!

All went well. Abby had a blast and we have enough candy to restock Walmart!

Crazy Life!

2007-04-07T16:47:00.000-07:00

I am so sorry I haven't posted in awhile. Life seems to be so crazy at the moment. Work is insane! Wednesday I had to fly to Emporia KS, spend 2 hours and hop back on the plane and fly to Greeley CO. TG for the companies private jet! I put in nearly 60 hours this week alone! The overtime on the check will be nice but I am beat! Abby has also suffered from not much Mommy time so today we had some girly time. We went and had our nails done. She loves getting hers done. We ran into one of John's coworkers who is pretty prissy and has a daughter Abby's age and was so shocked Abby loved getting her nails done. They turned out great. We then did some shopping.
Our weather has been so cold lately it doesn't even feel like Easter!

I will try doing better and hopefully post some Easter pics after tomorrow.
Happy Easter everybody!!

St Pat's

2007-03-18T16:47:00.000-07:00

Of course St. Pat's is pretty big in our family. So Saturday we went to O'Neill for the big St. Pat's celebration. It was the best in years for the temps. We usually freeze while watching the parade. But it wasn't too bad this year. After the parade we went to the children's carnival and then out to eat. It was a lot of fun. I will post some pics....

Abby loved the puppies at the petting zoo of the carnival

You can't have a St. Patty's day parade without a green horse!

Weston on his first St. Pat's day

2007-03-11T16:22:00.000-07:00

This was actually a pretty good weekend! It was a very busy and hectic work week so it was very nice to have a good weekend! The weather has been beautiful, FINALLY! We were actually in the 60's today and they are talking 70's tomorrow! WOO HOO! Next Saturday is the big St. Pat's weekend and so far they are showing temps in the 60's.

Ok John took Friday off and actually got all the laundry caught up. Friday evening we vacuumed and picked up. Saturday morning we were on the road by 7:30am to Lincoln to get my new vehicle!! WOO HOO! I love it! We were driving home and it was so peaceful! Abby had the wireless headphones on listening to her movie in the dvd player. We actually got to listen to the radio instead of her movie! This is also the first vehicle I have gotten with the onstar. It seems pretty cool. We will have to decide if we want to keep it after our first year. After getting the van we went and had lunch and then to the mall. We got Abby a new spring jacket. Still no luck on finding the black soccer shorts in her size. I see Old Navy has some so I may just have to order them.

Today we just hung out. I got the Onstar set up and then we went to the park to play. I am so glad spring looks like it has arrived!!

Here are a couple pics from the last couple weeks...

Abby with a hat on to celebrate Dr Seuss' birthday and with one of her favorite Dr Seuss books.

I hate winter!

2007-03-04T11:47:00.000-08:00

Ok I am sure most of you have heard me say how much I despise winter! But this week has put me over the edge! The only good thing was at least we didn't have the -50 degree windchills! But the snow came along with wind, and not just wind 60mph gusts! So we ended up with white out conditions! Luckily our snowfall wasn't nearly as bad as 50 miles from us in every direction. We were in some sort of pocket. But here are some pics....

my sisters..

My sister-in-laws

My parents...

This had better be the last storm! I have had enough!

Where do they come up with these things?

2007-02-07T17:35:00.000-08:00

I swear Abby has come up with these phrases lately that I have no clue where they are coming from! "Freaky Deaky" is quite popular! So is "That's interesting!" in a tone you would expect to come from a detective trying to solve a very serious case. You just never know what she is going to say anymore. I kind of miss those days when it was just "Mommy" "Daddy" and some other babble you couldn't always understand! LOL Everything now is "actually" "evidently" "eventually""exactly" AND she uses them correctly! Odd child!

We have also realized Abby has never ran to answer the phone or tries to call anybody. I don't really mind that but I think we better start teaching her how to use in case of an emergency. I swear this is the only girly thing she is not into. I am sure she will be at one point.

We had parent teacher conferences this week. She got a good report. The teacher said the only thing she needs to work on his her sometimes sloppy handwriting. She thinks Abby gets bored and just hurries through since she already knows everything. She said she is more than ready for 1st grade even if she started now! She said she will have to come up with more activities for her to keep her occupied. She reads anything and everything now. I can't believe how fast she is growing up!

Family Fun Day!

2007-01-29T18:21:00.000-08:00

We had so much fun! We arrived to Council Bluffs and ate lunch and played in the game room(this game room sucked!) Then we found our hotel and went to the Mid America Center. We arrived and Abby still thought we were meeting a friend. We blow in(wind was 35mph+). We get in and there is this huge Clifford gift shop set up. We bought Abby a t-shirt and a Clifford flash light and she still has not figured it out. I don't think she will follow in Daddy's footsteps as an investigator! LOL We then tell her we were going to go in and see our friend. We walk in and she reads the curtain. She looks at us and we tell her she is going to see Clifford live. She was so excited! She loved the show. It was actually pretty good. John and I really enjoyed it. After the show we checked into the hotel and she gave us big hugs thanking us for taking her to Clifford. She said it was a great suprise. We then swam for 4 hours! She has gotten so good! She was jumping in the deep end to Daddy and going completely under water! We were so impressed. She would swim the entire length of the pool with the floaties on. WOW!
Then Sunday morning all hell broke loose! She wakes up in the hotel bed vomiting! UGH! We get her cleaned up and quickly pack up. She vomits several times on the way home. We get home and she sleeps most of the day. But Sunday evening it has hit me and by Sunday night it hits John! So we all stayed home today feeling horrible. John is still vomiting but it has been awhile since Abby and I have. Hopefully this ends fast!

I hate winter!

2007-01-21T09:00:00.000-08:00

Ok I know we have lucked out so far with this only being our 2nd snow storm but yuck! We got another 5 inches last night. It better not do this next weekend! We made our hotel reservations. Abby is so excited to have family fun day. I can't imagine how much more excited she would be if she knew we were going to see Clifford! She is actually running around in her new swimsuit because she "gets used to it" before next weekend. LOL Yes running around in a swimsuit while we are having a snow storm! Only in Nebraska! LOL!

UGH

2007-01-17T17:53:00.000-08:00

Ok I still suck at this!

I just can't seem to find time to do anything!
Abby's surgery went well. She did better than we thought. But let me tell ya the girl under anastheia is hilarious! The questions were just rolling! "Why is there green in a rainbow and not another color?" "What did they do with my tonsils? Do they give them to another child?" They just kept coming. LOL The nurses got a big kick out of her freaking out before surgery when she found out she had to wear a little hospital gown and the back is opened for all to see her panties that did NOT match her gown! Major NO NO with her!

Otherwise we have been dealing with snow, brutally cold weather and can I tell you how much I hate winter!

We got tickets to go to see Clifford live next weekend. Abby will be so excited. We haven't told her and don't plan on telling her until we get to the show. She loves Clifford. Her and Daddy watch it every morning before kindergarten. She loves the Puppy Days theme song because it is "just like me!" "Love makes little things grow!" LOL But if her attitude doesn't change soon she will be lucky if she can leave the house before she is 30! She is driving me insane!

Well I need to put yet another load of laundry in. Does laundry ever end?

Pics

2006-12-27T18:40:00.000-08:00

Where did December go?

2006-12-27T18:18:00.000-08:00

I know I have been horrible this month! But so much has happened! Abby got sick with a horrible cold and ear infection. So we took her to the DR and she got an antibiotic. 10 days later she is still sick. We get a call from school to come and get her because she says her ear hurts. So John goes to get her and takes her to the DR. He takes one look at it and say her ear drum is about to burst. After looking at her chronic ear infection history he gives her a stronger antibiotic and tells us we need to see and ENT about tubes. UGH! I tried this with our last ped and he said she didn't need them even though we couldn't go a whole month without an ear infection! So John gets the antibiotic and takes her home to ear a message from the ENT's office saying the DR called and they needed to see her right away. So John takes her to the ENT. 2 DR's in one day was way to traumatic for my little petrified princess. The ENT took one look at her and said we should hold off on the tubes and have her tonsils and adnoids removed. Her tonsils, even when not infected, cover 2/3 of her airway and is the cause for her snoring and poor sleeping. Finally an answer to why my 5 year old has only slept throught the night a handful of times! He said that it is probably why her ears do not drain properly. So we think ok we will get this done in January after the holidays. But the next day the surgery center is calling to schedule her for DECEMBER 28th! AHHHHHHH!!! They think they need to come out right away! So last week she had to go get a blood draw in which she screamed so loud I am sure an earthquake happened somewhere. She also walked around with her arm straight for 2 days! So we did not tell her about the surgery. We didn't want to ruin her Christmas plus have her stress and freak out for a week! So Christmas happens and it was the best Christmas ever. She was so excited! She did get the throw ups Saturday night but that ended by Sunday morning. John then got it Sunday night. UGH! But Sunday we had John's family over for Christmas. Abby had so much fun. We had to check out the norad website about 5o times. After everybody left and we got stuff cleaned up somewhat. She asked to check it again so we did. She just freaked out! She said "He is getting close! I need to get to bed!" She was out by 8:15!!!!! WOO HOO! So we got everything moved down. What a spoiled child! She first woke up at 1am. Just begging to go down and just check to see if Santa arrived. "She said it was driving her crazy!" LOL I got her back to bed and fell back asleep only to have John get up at 2am sick. So he went to the recliner. I fell back asleep and Abby was back in at 4am. She just KNOWS he has been there and we need to get up and go see. I try to explain it is too early. I finally get her back to sleep next to me at 5am. I wake up at 6:30 to go potty and try to hold it because I know she will get up as soon as I do. So I hold off until 7am. I am not in the bathroom 2 seconds and she is up. So we get Daddy and go down. She was so happy to see that Santa had eaten her cookies and had left her a note. She loved everything she got and was so dramatic with everything. Her favorites are her castle, her pink keyboard, her princess pillow, her Polly Pockets and her ultimate favorite is her white teddy bear that lights up with a magic wand. She begged for 3 months for that! She loves it!
So now here we are the night before surgery. We told her tonight and she is petrified. She screamed and cried that she is just not going to go. So tomorrow could be very interesting! I can't get out of my head all the days and nights of her laying in the NICU. I know this is different and pretty routine but I can't help going back to those days. So please say a prayer for my little princess tomorrow.

I better post this one before I loose it. I will post some pics next.

ALL DONE!!!

2006-12-03T19:42:00.000-08:00

We are finally all done Christmas shopping!! WOO HOO! Including stocking stuffers!!! This is a new record for us!!! Saturday we dropped off Abby at my Mom's and John and I spent the day shopping. It was great! First it was nice to go to stores with out somebody begging at every store for a toy and for John and I to spend some time together. It was been quite some time that we have had the day together. Abby had a blast playing at Grandma's. Plus Taelyr, Kaelyn and Jaemee were there. So she got to spend time with her cousins.
Today we just did some cleaning and I got everybodies stockings made that will be here Christmas day. Plus Abby, John and I worked on a project with Abby. We painted Christmas ornaments. She loves to paint.
It was a great weekend I just wished it would last longer. Back to work tomorrow. UGH!

Thanksgiving

2006-11-26T14:25:00.000-08:00

Well the end of a long weekend! I could still use a couple more days! Thursday we went to my parents for Thanksgiving dinner. It was delish! It was nice seeing everybody and the two new babies.
Friday John, my great hubby, got up at 4:30 am to battle the black friday sales! What a man! He went to Walmart first and got the stuff we needed there. Then he headed to Menards. We now have enough AA batteries to last a very looooooooooong time! LOL! But you can't pass them up when you get 40 of them for $2! We also bought Abby a digital camera. Maybe she will leave mine alone! We plan on putting it in her stocking. We then decorated for Christmas. I can't even tell you how excited Abby is! I think it would be a long month! LOL Actually a few days before Thanksgiving she asked if we could call Santa and have him move Christams to Thanksgiving and we could have Thanksgiving when we would normally have Christmas. I tried explaining to her that we had Christmas when we did because it was Jesus' birthday. SHe didn't think He would mind having his birthday early! LOL! So when that didn't work I told her that Santa was just not ready. She still thinks he could just bring her stuff! LOL
Saturday we just hung out and Abby went to girl scouts. But not enough girls showed up so they canceled the meeting. I was quite irked but that is another story! You would think she would have checked with the parents the meeting prior to see wh0 could make it. Abby was quite upset because she loves girl scouts. So we went to the park and library. Today we went to see Happy Feet. I don't think we will be buying that one! Not at all what I expected! That was pretty much it other than the normal laundry and cleaning. I will post a few pics.

Sunrise in Nebraska

All the grandkids--ALL GIRLS!

Our Christmas village

Our Christmas Tree

Abby at the park

2006-11-12T18:34:00.000-08:00

Boy I am bad at this!

Halloween was great. Abby had so much fun. I will post some pics shortly.

She has been so mouthy lately. I really hope this phase ends soon. I told her the other day that she better start watching out because Santa was watching her and may not come if she is naughty. Her reply was"Oh well there is always next year!" LOL! I about died! So I don't think that threat will work anymore. She did go to see Santa Saturday. She actually sat on his lap this year! This is the first time since she was 4 months old! She actually sat that quite some time. So I just kept snapping pictures. I think I will use one of them for the Christmas cards. I am just not sure which one yet though.

The other day Abby announced she decided she wanted to be a "venerian" when she grows up. I asked her if she knew what that was. She gave me the "well duh Mommy" look and said yes it is a DR for animals. I said that would be good. But then she said that "I just don't want to work on tigers." LOL! I about fell over. I told her that was fine. The next day she announces she has changed her mind. She says she wants to be an illustrator. So I asked her if she knew what that was. Again I get the "well duh Mommy" look, and she says that it is the person who draws and colors the pictures in books. I said that sounded fun. She said "It would be easy! I already know how to color and draw!" LOL So who knows what she will change to next.

Well this will be yet another busy week. I turn a year old tomorrow. UGH! Wednesday I go to my nephrologist to see how the kidneys are doing. Hopefully I have not lost any more function!

Well I better get going. Here are some pics....

Pumpkin time--but a princess doesn't touch the guts!

2006-10-22T19:32:00.000-07:00

It was a pretty quiet weekend. The temps were in the 30's and we even had some snow flurries. So Saturday we did some cleaning and just plaid games. You will notice in some of the pics I post that Abby is pretty unkept compared to her norm. But we let her stay in pajamas most of the day. We carved pumpkins to add to the painted ones she had done the week prior. Of course Miss Priss would not touch the pumpkin guts. We have yet to get her to touch them. Every year we try but she just won't do it. Then Sunday I took her to Culver's for their Halloween party. She had a lot of fun there.
Now tomorrow is Monday again. It is red ribbon week for Abby. She is freaking out about it because when we explained what it was for she is now paranoid that drugs are going to get her. Cripes! She even freaked when I took my prescription meds! I can only imagine how she will handle this week! I just can't get over how overly sensitive she is. Well I better get done and get to bed! 5:3o comes too quick!

My Life with a Princess

2006-10-15T18:48:00.000-07:00

Well yet another busy weekend gone by! Friday we went and bought Abby new shoes. She is finally in a size 10. Eventually we will get out of the toddler shoes and into the "cool" shoes. Saturday I ran to a couple garage sales in the morning and then did some housework. Then we headed over to Abby's girl scouts pinning. She is officially a girl scout! We then went to Walmart for groceries and then out for dinner, which Abby did not even eat one bite! UGH! I swear it is a waste of money to buy her a meal. Sunday we went to John's sister, Rhonda for a family turkey dinner. YUMMMMMMMMM! That was about it. I can't believe tomorrow is Monday already! Abby has parent - teacher conferences at 5:20 tomorrow. Hopefully all goes well. (crossing my fingers!)

I ALMOST FORGOT!

2006-10-07T19:58:00.000-07:00

5 years ago tomorrow, Oct 8th, is when we brought Abby home from the NICU! I can hardly believe it has been 5 years! We plan on taking her out to a movie tomorrow. We always do a little celebration with just the 3 of us each year.

5 years ago...

catching up!

2006-10-07T19:45:00.000-07:00

I have been so bad at this!

Ok what has been going on....
Abby loves kindergarten. We have parent teacher conferences on the 16th. I am so nervous! Most of the stuff she brings home she was doing 2 years ago! So I hope she is not getting to bored. She does love the sign language and spanish. She is constantly showing us new signs she has learned. She also keeps telling us we need to talk to her in sign language. I think we better take a class!

Wednesday I fell and hurt my ankle. I went to the DR and they took some xrays and said it looked like a severe sprain. So they put me in a air cast brace. VERY UNCOMFORTABLE! Then we got a call today saying the radiologist reviewed my x rays and actually found a small fracture. OH GREAT! So now I need to be extra careful and keep the brace on for a longer period of time.

Today I bought my first item on QVC! I finally bought a new camera. I have been wanting a new one for quite some time but when I saw the deal on QVC I couldn't resist. I can hardly wait to get it. Now to avoid late night QVC shopping! I am already an Ebay addict! LOL

Abby's school had family night a last friday so we all went to the pumpkin patch. It was a lot of fun. I will attach some pics.

Next Saturday she has her pinning at girl scouts. She is really enjoying girl scouts and her best friend Jacy joined her troop so that even made it better.

Daddy and Abby have fallen asleep together in our bed so I better get Abby carried off to bed. I will try to get better at this and post more often!

Pictures from her party

2006-09-04T17:43:00.000-07:00

Abby's Birthday Party

2006-09-04T17:35:00.000-07:00

It has been so busy since my last post. Abby got sick with strep throat and had to go to the ER for a high dosage shot. :( She finally went back to school on Friday. Nothing like missing 2 days of school in the first 2 weeks! UGH! I wish her immune system would build up!

Then Sunday we had her birthday party with our families. She made quite the haul! She is so spoiled! My Dad walked in and said we forgot to put up the Christmas tree! LOL! Then Sunday night we hired a babysitter for the very first time!! WOO HOO! We went to an outdoor concert of REO Speedwagon! Talk about a flashback! It was a blast! Now maybe we can do the babysitter a little more often.

This week we have Abby's actual birthday on Thursday. That night she has her school carnival. Then Saturday we have her birthday party with her friends.

So off for another busy week!

Daisy Girl Scout

2006-08-27T18:46:00.000-07:00

Saturday we signed Abby up for Daisy Girl Scouts! I am so excited! I loved being in the Girl Scouts as a little girl. Her first meeting is in a few weeks!

It will be so good for her plus get her involved with more little girls on the weekends.

2006-08-27T18:34:00.000-07:00

Some of my favorite pictures!

Finally Starting!

2006-08-27T18:18:00.000-07:00

Ok I am finally going to start this! First a little about my life with a princess. My name is Shelley and I am married to my soul mate, John. We were married Sept 16th 2000. We started to try to conceive right away and on March 6, 2001 we finally got our +!!!! Who knew how much our lives would change! Complications started at the beginning of my 2nd trimester and was put on bed rest. After countless specialist and hospital stays Abigail was born Sept 7th 2001 after I was life flighted and went in for emergency c-section. She was born 8 weeks early weighing 3lbs 8oz 16in long. She spent 31 days in the NICU. But we finally made it home. She will now be 5 in just about 2 weeks. Where did my baby go? She is the light of my life and she is a true princess! I just can't get over how girly this child is!
She just started kindergarten a week ago. Very traumatic for both of us! She is such a worry wart and very shy. Her comment the night before was "They aren't going to know my name and I will be to shy to tell them!" So I mentioned that they might have you where name tags. But my smart little bugger replied "But Mom, we are only in kindergarten! We don't know how to read!" LOL! I swear this child is too smart for her own good. But she loves kindergarten and absolutly loves learing sign language! Every night we go over sign language and the new signs she has learned.

Well that is a little bit about me!