A little help from the peanut gallery....

Why has it been so long since I posted last?? I am going to be better at that this year....at minimum, twice a month!! I think I can commit to that!! If I forget hit me up with a comment or shoot me an email letting me know that you would LOVE to know what is going on no matter how boring life is here. Awesome!! Thanks!!

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So just a quick update....it is C-O-L-D here in the Pacific Northwest!! It was about 14 degrees when John left for work this morning. I think it was 15 degrees about 5 minutes ago when I was in our kitchen. It is getting harder and harder to stay warm these days while outside and Aidan and I are going a bit stir crazy inside. We get out when we can but its still cold.

As for Christmas stuff, we are slowly getting stuff out. Next year I swear it will be out by the weekend BEFORE Thanksgiving since John is totally useless on weeknights during December. He is just working to much and to tired by the end of the day. We didn't get a thing done yesterday because we had a certain something come up for myself that we had to take care of. Everything is fine, we just got NOTHING done at home. Boo....Oh well. Anyhoo, I have to work in the AM and need to hit the hay. Just wanted to let you all know that we are F-R-E-E-Z-I-N-G here in Seattle!! Weird.....

Thanksgiving!

Well, Thanksgiving has come and gone and I promised myself that I would post a blog....at least I am able to now although it is almost midnight and I should be in bed. We ended up at John's Aunt Joanne's house this year and had a terrific meal there and I hope to get a few recipes from her!! I am so excited about the possibility of making them at some point! We weren't there terribly long and actually had to leave while dessert was being served because we told my mom that we would be at her house by a certain point.

As of last year we decided to only go to one person's house on a holiday due to the fact that it ends up being a lot of driving around and it gets exhausting not to mention that the kids don't appreciate being in the car that much and naps are pushed to the wayside, etc. Then spend another day during the weekend following the holiday with the family we didn't get to see on the actual holiday. Did you follow?? Well that didn't happen this year at all. My grandpa from Eugene, Oregon came up to visit and was here for Thanksgiving. We never get the opportunity to go visit him in Oregon and wanted to make sure we saw him on Thanksgiving this year.

Anyhoo, we went to my mom's and got there as they were finishing dinner and about to start dessert. Mom wasn't feeling so hot (I think it was just a little bug, or possibly from the H1N1 shot she got a few days prior). She felt better the next day. We stayed for a short time at moms then went home when we realized she wasn't feeling good. It wasn't crazy although I wish we could have spent more time at both my mom's and John's aunt's house. Time always flies when you are having fun!!

I ended up getting up early and hitting the sales at Kohl's on Black Friday morning, got some good deals, came home and fell asleep for awhile. We had a fun day and hit up a few more deals before heading home to wait for John to get home from work. Saturday was full of craziness cleaning and preparing our apartment for Christmas decorations!! I can't wait to decorate and wish I could have brought the decorations over myself, but they don't fit in my car with the kids in it.....

We are planning on decorating next weekend and hopefully getting our FIRST REAL Christmas tree!! I am SO excited!! We are so excited to decorate and Aidna asks daily when we are. Now if he would only clean up so that we can.....So with all that being said I should get my beauty rest so that I can get some more organizing done tomorrow. It's my "home" day tomorrow and I get to do a TON of chores.....sooooo look for my blog about the new tree and decorating that we will do next weekend.....it will be a BUSY BUSY weekend but I think it will be a great one. Hope you are all enjoying the Christmas season!!

Going Private.....

So, FYI.....I have been getting within the last 2 days some pretty disturbing messages/comments. I am thinking that I might be going private soon. I'll keep you updated!

Oops....been awhile!

Wow, I've been really slacking in the blogging category. I have had a ton on my plate this year and honestly, wish I never took on the last thing I did. Had I never tackled it I wouldn't have met a bunch of fun people, but it is more work than my other "jobs" put together. Not that I'm not up for a challenge, but when you have 3 coordinating jobs, and a nanny job on top of being a wife and mommy, you have to be choosy. Anyhoo, I'm possibly going to a baby shower today. Not so sure if I will go yet. Depends on if anything gets done around this house. John was home yesterday "cleaning" which consisted of watching Slumdog Millionaire and eating leftover pizza. Today he is taking Aid and heading to my mom's to pick up the pile of leaves that they collected a few weeks back. They might even rake more!! So who knows what I will do. I really feel like I should stay and clean because as things go right now, we aren't decorating for Christmas. There is to much clutter to even think about it. We'll see though. I might just get away and take the break. I'll update very soon with pics and everything that has been going on. Possibly tonight after the kids are in bed and I'm watching my movie!!

She's here.....

Ok, so many of you know that Miss Taylor Ann has made her long awaited arrival!! Alexis is thrilled to finally be a big sister. Katie and Dave are on cloud 9 to have her in their arms and to start loving on her. So without further ado, here are her stats and a few of the pics that I have. She was so bundled up that I didn't get many good ones. Enjoy!!

boys being goofy....

Lexie's first real good look at her new sister!

Nana and Brookie!

Taylor Ann Dosen

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

7 pounds 15 ounces

21 1/4 inches long

1st family photo!!

Brookie & Uncle Dave are buddies!

Lexie "helping" with Brookie....I think she might have been practicing for when Taylor is bigger!

A-D-O-R-A-B-L-E!!!

I just love my nieces!!

I finally got to hold her!!

What a peanut!!

It's been awhile!!

Has it really been over a month since I last post anything??? WOW!!! I have obviously been in a blogging funk. So, let's see....it's been a busy month. I am "working" 3 jobs and took on another. Still only 14 hours a week but still.....More on that later.

Aidan had his first day of school and LOVED it!! He can't wait to go and wishes he could go every single day. He loves his new teachers and has a few new faces in his class. He is excited as ever about sharing and we go through a list of things that he could bring. They have a letter of the week (follows the alphabet) and they are suppose to bring sharing starting with the letter. He doesn't always want to but we have made it fun so he will. He is actually asking to go an extra day each week for lunch bunch. We never signed him up for that because it is an extra fee and I didn't feel he needed to go to school 4 days a week right now.

John has been working a lot lately but at the same time not a lot. He is working at least 40+ hours a week but when you are use to 48+ and usually more like 50-52 hours its a bit weird that he is home by 6pm. It was nice though. We are hoping that things continue this way. We know it will through Christmas at least but after not so sure. Other than that he is enjoying his weekends with the fam and is happy to not be working 2 jobs anymore.

Ok, so as many of you know I took on the commitment of being the Moppets coordinator for my MOPS group this year. That means that I coordinate around 50 kids and 15 workers/volunteers. It's a huge commitment and thus far its not horrible. Nothing I can't handle!! I am also coordinating childcare for the bible study like I have for the past few years. Essentially Moppets is the bible study on a MUCH larger scale. I also am still nannying. We are going on 4 years now!!

The other job I took on this past week is the same as the other jobs. Another coordinator job. They are starting a young couples group at the church where MOPS and bible study is at and they approached me to coordinate the childcare aspect of it. I took it on!! I hope that starting from scratch isn't overwhelming and that it doesn't make me regret my decision. With the other coordinator jobs I had most everything laid out for me I just had to connect the dots, but with this I have to figure out how to get everything to work....its a bit more involved....

So there you have it. It's going to be a busy year for me.

On top of everything, Aidan got a concussion last Wednesday. We had gone to dinner and he rode home with Auntie Kate and Lexi (and my mom) and when he got out of the car, he was trying to get his car seat out and Lexi shut the door. It slammed into his head because the car was parked on the slight slope of my mom's driveway....just enough.

Well John was reading to him and he vomited. I called the nurse hot line for our pediatrician's office and they gave us stuff to watch for and one of the things was any more vomiting and if he were to slur his speech at all. He did both within 20 minutes of me getting off the phone with the nurse. He earned himself a trip to the ER. So off to Children's Hospital we went!!

Long story short, he kept throwing up, hard to wake, slurring his speech so they got a CT of his head. There is something about seeing your child laying in the CT scanning machine that just terrifies you. I felt so horrible. I wanted to switch places with him. He was so brave and actually had a bit of fun despite feeling so darn crummy.

He ended up with no fractures or bleeding on his brain. We were able to go and we got all ready and he was starting to run a fever and threw up again. So they thought on top of the concussion he had a bit of a virus. We ended up leaving the ER at 2am. Home by 2:30 and by the time we got the kids to bed, I packed the diaper bag for work in the morning it was almost 3:30am. I woke up 2 hours later and went to work....thankfully it was only for 3 hours and then took a 5 hour nap the next day. John stayed home.

Cousin Christy was in town over her birthday weekend so we celebrated with her!!! It was so fun!!!

Now he is becoming hoarse and has a slight cough. Poor guy isn't getting a break. I just hope he is healthy soon.

Brookie has been a trooper through it all. She was a champ in the ER and has been going with the flow! She is crawling like no other and is pulling up, trying to stand, starting to cruise. Super busy little girl. She is growing like a weed and is eating table food for all meals now and loves to get messy. In fact I feel as if she needs a bath after every meal practically.

Anyhoo, I better head to bed, I have been on call for Katie to go to my mom's to watch Alexis if she were to go into labor and need to go to the hospital. Tonight is one of those nights. I will be sure to post a new blog when little Miss "T" makes her appearance!!! We are so excited to meet our newest family member/niece!! Stay tuned for more updates and I promise I won't be so tardy!!!