liv’s first easter

olivia’s first easter was a lot of fun.  the easter bunny brought her a nice swing like the one that savannah has & a bunch of snacks too!  we went up to my parents house for easter dinner w/ the bruneau family that afternoon.

posing w/ the easter bunny : )

livi and all of her easter loot

this is why i love my husband…..

april 09

i have a feeling it is going to take me a lot longer than i had first thought to get myself caught up…….  here are some of my fav pics from april 09.

visiting the reed's to play on their new play set

my 3 favorite girls : )

some baby LOVES the swings!

doug's cousin laurie at her baby shower

livi at laurie's shower

olivia and her 2nd cousin emma

me & my love : )

my silly girl

don't they look like bff's giggling and sharing gossip! lol!!

sleepy baby

watching ethan and enjoying the beautiful day

sooooo cute!

he was actually sleeping like this! lol

more park play, this time w/ aunt emily

lol

the puppies basking in the sun

still a kid at heart : )

spending time at uncle joe & aunt leann's cottage

taking a walk in livi's new carrier

olivia’s mri

because of some of the issues that olivia deals with one of her doctors suggested that she undergo an mri to rule out a tethered cord.  we were quite anxious because in order to preform an mri on a child they must be put under anesthesia for the procedure.  it was a hard day, but she came out of it like a champ.  all of the nurses were so impressed and surprised by how well she did and best of all the results came back negative for a tethered cord.  such great news!  here are some pictures for that very stressful day.

bright and early in the waiting room at strong memorial

that morning was very emotional and full of hugs and kisses

like a big girl in her hospital gown right before they took her away to put her under the anesthesia

just starting to wake up after the procedure, still very groggy

i have to admit, she is my hero!

beautiful people make beautiful pictures

here is another march 09 post.  the weather turned warm early last winter.  we were able to enjoy march in upstate ny in just long sleeved t-shirts.  meghann & i decided to take advantage of the nice weather and we were going on walks almost daily during those few warm weeks we had.  on one of our walks i decided to break out my good camera and take some pics.  they turned out amazing!  i have to say, it’s not hard to take good pictures when you have beautiful models!  here are just a few of the pics we took : )

gorgeous savannah, btw, that is her actual eye color, no editing was done at all!

my beautiful baby

beautiful mykaela

march 09

i’m going to do a picture highlight post for each month that i missed and if anything super important happened i’ll do up a short post for that.  lets see how long it takes for me to get caught up to the present!

playing at the park w/ nana & aunt emily

visiting w/ some old friends, alisa & landon

a little fun w/ photoshop

nana entertaining livi while we waited in the car before her ortho appointment in rochester

i know this doesn’t seem like much but…. we were told olivia might not be able to use her legs correctly b/c the nerves in her legs were to quick. one morning i noticed that liv had stuck her big toe through a small hole in her pj’s. i pushed it back though and she proceeded to push it back out. seems silly to most of you i’m sure, but to me it showed that she was able to move her toe and make it do what she wanted. i cried! lol

taking a walk around the cabin w/ nana, papa, aunt emily, uncle kyle, mommy & daddy

i'm going to eat you! lol

livi & mykaela swinging double at the caton park

going on a walk from wegmans to denison park w/ our fav girls

celebrating mine & dad's birthday : )

my little family : )

first pic w/ my new camera!

lol! she loved those leg warmers!

"playing" xbox w/ daddy

watching daddy & aunt emily playing b-ball at the park

my sleepy baby

cheese : D

playing outside

cute, chubby little baby feet : )

out for my birthday : )

1 year away

wow, i can’t believe that i haven’t posted in almost a year!  this past year has been a bit difficult for us, i’ll be the first to admit that i’ve been a little depressed and that probably attributed to my lack of posting.  i have recently decided that i need to do something for me, something to help me get out of the depression that i’ve slipped into.  i’ve come up w/ a few thing that i am hoping will help and starting my blog up again is one of them.

last march, actually just a few days after my last post my husband doug got laid off from his job at Corning Inc.  unfortunately he is still having trouble finding anything though just with in the last week or so a few things have come up that look like they may have some promise.  we are crossing our fingers (and our toes) that one of them come through.

in july we found out that i was pregnant again, we were very nervous at first what with doug being unemployed and all, but quickly got excited and were anxious to welcome another member into our family.  we were devastated when at 6 1/2 weeks i miscarried.  i of course knew what a miscarriage was and knew it was something that could happen but i never really thought it could happen to us.  like everyone else who has had to deal with this loss, we healed, it just took awhile.  it made us realize though that we were ready to be parents again and that as soon as we could we could try again.  and we did.

we got pregnant again in november and are currently a little over 13 weeks along.  we are very excited and anxious for her or him to get here.  actually, my due date is the day before olivia’s 2nd birthday!!!  that should be interesting!

speaking (or rather writing) about olivia, she is doing great!  i don’t think she was even crawling yet the last time i posted. now she is not just walking, but running and jumping and climbing and dancing.  always dancing!  i’m not sure if you’ll remember this or not, but her developmental doctors had originally said that they weren’t sure if her legs would work correctly or if she’d be able to walk on her own.  such a HUGE victory it was to see her walk for the first time!  we actually have an appointment with her orthopedic specialist later this month.  it should be her last and we are very excited about that!

her bladder is still not working on it’s own.  we are still intermittently cathing her 5 to 6 times a day.  that will probably continue on for the rest of her life, though we are still playing that God heals her and she is able to go on her own.  her bowels are still a bit of an issue as well.  but with medicine and restrictions on her diet we are slowly getting a handle on that situation as well.  we will be seeing her gastrointestinal specialist at the end of the month also.  hopefully they will be pleased w/ her progress and also have some answers for us.

i’m hoping to post every few days.  we’ll see how that goes.  i’ll definitely be posting some pictures from the past year and probably some back posts.  hope everyone is having a great new year thus far!

i could not be more in love…

…with my daughter.  enough said!

fun day w/ our girls

 

our beautiful girls

olivia & i went up to hornby to go for a walk w/ meghann & the girls.  we walked a long way, about 2 miles all together.  then we hung out for awhile and let the girls play.  we decided that we were going to go for a few walks a week from then on.

such a rockstar

mykaela loves to make olivia laugh, they are so cute together!  

final adjustments

sach, meghann & the girls came up a couple of time to get the dishwasher completely installed, which was probably a pain for them, but liv & i really enjoyed it because we got to spend time w/ our bff’s : ]

bff's just like their mommies