Lady Ellice

Hope : I am not going to add this to face book but I wanted to blog about it anyway. Today would have been Hope's 2nd birthday. It doens't really feel like two whole years have past. In some ways the pain is still very new. alot of people have pointed out that now that i have a beautiful baby girl I shoudl be over the loss. I can say that it will never go away. It has eased some. I don't cry over i often. but it is not easy to move on. As we go through this time of year please keep us in your prayers. at the time of Hope's loss brad put all of his emotions into helping me deal with mine. And while I have found a calm, if not quite peace, about it, brad is just now having the emotional time to deal with it. As my mom says, when things hurt, or injure us we can only hold hte pain inside so long, eventually it comes out. So keep him in your prayers. The Future: but also know that I am looking to the future. I see Laurana's bright shining face, her smil...

Isn't she jsut the cutest thing you have ever seen. and the easter dress Oma bought her looks really cute wtih her big blue eyes.

Well the baby bear had her first ice cream cone.. okay really she just ate about 3 bites of daddy's vanilla, and 3 more bites of mommy's cherry chip, but it counts right. She seemed to really like it. her mouth got cold at one point so she put her lips on daddy's arm and breathed into it to try and warm her cold lips up. it was really cute. I think she is a fan.

Spring Break Saturday- Cleaned, and had David, Brittany and Isabella over for dinner and Cards. Lots of fun, even if I lost. I really am not taht good at Hearts. Sunday- Went to the early service and had ot be there early. Brad did a little skit for the choir so we were there at 7:15. Then I We did nursery. Brad ran me home after church, then went back for the 11:00 to do his skit again. I put the baby girl down for a nap. When she got up we drove out to Great Grandma (MaMaw) , and Great Grandpa (PaPaw)'s house for Easter lunch. uncle Timmy and his wife Lynette and Little Girl Daylyn were there. Lunch was good, and the baby enjoyed her first try of real ham. On the way home she was exhausted. thus her li ttle bow in her eyes as she slept. Monday- Up again Crack of Dawn, and went to the car dealer ship to try and get the gas tank fixed (this was our third try they ended up giving us a rental which we used til wed. while they call cooporate and figured out how to fix the pr...

So we finally found a chance to take Laurana to the park. She had a blast. she rode down the slide with daddy. she seemed to really love the swings. when I took her out she actually turned back and asked to be back in the swing, so we let her go a little longer. then she walked on the bouncy bridge (with some help). Since it is spring break we are hoping to walk down there at least once or twice this week adn let her swing some more.

Okay UK is in the elite 8, and brad is in a great mood. Today we took Laurana to the church easter egg hunt. We were pretty excited. she got dressed up. they had the playground set up for the little ones. it was fun, she got to grab the little eggs they had put out. she also got to ride on the slide with daddy.

It is offical, Laurana can crawl forward. She did it a bunch yesterday for daddy. Daddy took his personal day so he could stay home and watch the 1st day of the NCAA tornoment. they had a blast together. She also has taken to the colossol fit a couple of nights now. she is exhausted but jsut doesn't want to go to sleep. last night took 20 mins with some screaming involoved. but this morning she woke up none hte worse for wear happy and smily. and last night at 9 when we got her up for her late bottle is when we got the video of her crawling so obviously she was not to put out with us. I think she just is cranky in the early evening. Cause brad said she was smily all day. in other news this has been about the worse week I have had in a long time. On Tuesday I got called in to the princpal to check on a report from a parent. of coruse it was something I had not heard at schoool. Kids like to go home and tell mom not the teacher, but that was take care of, but it stressed me out, and ...

Okay I am a horrible Blogger this month. I know it has been weeks. Let me see if I can catch you up. In Brad News: UK has a good chance of winning hte SEC and getting a 1 seed in the NCAA. This makes brad very very happy. His working conditions have not really improved, but they ahve not gotten worse either. Please pray that God will provide the right job for him next year. something that is equal to his education and were he can get a little more respect. In Ellice News: we are gearing up to host regional Gov. cUp, which is stressing me out a little. but other than that I got new contacts and glasses, and I really love my job, so that is good. In Laurana news: we got the first of our upper teeth. came in on Monday. just poked right through and is moving out more and more each day. She has gone back to her normal smiley happy, giggly self. She can crawl backwards iwth great ease, and and forward with help and carpet. she also says mommy, daddy, baba (bottle) and can make her walker go ...

So today was disticts for Academic team. We spent the whole day at Strode. Little bear spent the day with Aunt Sonya and Cousin Hayden. She had alot of fun. she was all smily and having a great day. After a two hour snow delay, that didn't get posted on the TV so I was supposed to call all my students, but I didn't have all their numbers cause there are like 25 of them and it was supposed to be on the TV. Several of them got there at 8, but luckly the building was open and a great parent waited with them til I could get there. I had to go to school for imporant papers I forgot, which Ms. O'hair came and let me in, (yea, for ms. O'hair) then we started, I had to change some students at the last minute when one of them didn't show up. Then I had a studnet that didn't get called (or didn't hear his name cause he was play DS) and was jsut sitting there, when I found him 10 mins later after they ahd started. but they let him test in a room alone so it was okay. W...

For Valentines day this year Brad out did himself. First he he bought me a beautiful red rose. Then he got Laurana a Teddy bear that said be mine and a cool box that makes a neat nose when you hit it and has lots of fun flashy sides and different textured cornors. Then he fixed my new laptop so that it would do what it was supposed to do. then he cooked me dinner. London Broil, green bean italiana, baked potato, cresent rolls, salad.. a nd a nice wine to top it off. it was a wonderful meal. Then he made dessert, deforsted chocolate whip pie. Which was wonderful. and a card that was so sweet it made me cry. All in all I would say that I lucked out when it came to husbands. I really feel like the goes to alot of work to make things special for m e.

Here is little Bear and Daddy Playing ball. She is really getting big, and is generally a happy baby, although some of her new noises don't sound like it. She also sounds so sad when she eats and then is completely happy two minutes later. Oh well. she sleeps well and plays well. andshe loves to just be put on hte floor with her toys and left to play.

So friday I came down with what I thought was another yeast infection. I was pretty tore up. that is one a month for the past six months. this is getting really old. So I took the meds they gave me. and .. it didn't go away. In fact it just got worse. and worse. So on Monday I went to work half day then went to my Ob Dr. Had to wait forever and a day even though i was the first appointment after lunch and there was no one in the waiting room when I got there. very annoying. If they weren't such good dr. I would go some where else the wait could kill me. anyway. they decided that it looked like a bactera not a yeast. so now I am on an antibiodic and things are getting better every day. They said that might be why it kept flareing up each month. so this might take care of it. (however antibodicts cause yeast infections so I hae that med for when I finish this one.) oh the fun. Then On Monday on the way home, I wasn't feeling good and the stress from the babysitter issuse was ...

so my heart says, "God will provide, he will get you a babysitter for little bear, now that we are losing two babysitters, and somehow there will be enough money to pay all your bills now that obama's great jack up your creidt card payment plan has gone into effect." My head says..."AHAHAHAGGGGGG, we can't pay all our bills now, and we will have to skip work to take care of the baby. But since I can't come up with more moeny, and I can only pray about people to babysit, I guess I am going to have to try to drown out my head with my heart. Lets see if it works. :)

Last friday Laurana was cranky at grandpa's and when we got there we found out she had a new tooth breaking through the surface. Saturday was trying as she was cranky and kept rubbing her gums and crying. Sunday we skipped sunday school and just went to chruch. Laurana slept for about 45 mins before we left so she wasn't as cranky during church. but once chruch was over adn we were at the potfaith, she was very cranky and not wanting to eat well as her tooth was bothering her again. Monday, we decided to go to the dollar theater and see Couple's retreat. We were late leaving hte house, late dropping her off and by the time we got the lexington, we hadn't eatten and teh movie was starting, so we decided to go to the other theater and see if there was something we could watch there. so instead of paying 11$ for a dollar movie popcorn and the not, we paid alot more to see Avitar in 3D at the regualr theater, with popcorn and hotdogs. ( a great healthy lunch). It has been a...

so We brought her down yesterday morning and put her in her high chair so that she could play with her linkadoos while we packed lunches, got breakfast and loaded the car. She likes to look at hte cars go by so brad had pulled her high chair over next to the window. I looked over and she was leaning toward the window, and looked like she was just chilling. Then I went over the check on ehr and noticed that her hand was playing in the dirt in our potted ivy in the window. Then I noticed that Not only was her hand covered in Dirt but hse had dirt in her mouth. So I took a few pictures, wiped it out, and she seems to be just fine. She laughed when I called daddy to see her dirt covered smile.

So school is off to a great start this year. Teachers had an inseviece day on Monday. Lots got done, then we had a snow day on Tuesday. School on Wednesday.. and then snow days on Thrusday and friday. that is right one day with students this week, and only two days of work. I would have liked to go at least one more day thsi week but I am not going to complain, there is too much good in it. Brad andI have celebrated our snow week but playing video games playing with little princess bear and relaxing. Little bear can now sit up pretty well, she reaches for things, puts everything in her mouth, can kind of use her cup (you have to tilt it for her, she can get it in her mouth but doesn't realize you have to tilit it). She can scoot around in her walker (I know the pediaticts society says walkers are evil but she lvoes hers). All and all it has been a great week. She spent her first wed with Ms. Laura, she had alot of fun and was wonderful. God has once agian provided. Ms. Laura is goi...

We were awake most of new year's eve to new years day with a very fussy baby. she screamed on new years eve when we put her down for a nap, she was just fussy fussy fussy. Then Evan was in a car aceddent on the road back from lancaster, hydroplaned and went into a gaurd rail. mom and dad came over NYeve and said by we dropped him off at the dr. we are leaving for tenn can you take care of him. It was a shock, but somethign we were very happy do do. So we picked him up. waited while mom and dad got a new tire after getting a flat, picked a key up from them. Took Evers to get his meds, to get his car from berea, took it to a collison place. They said more than the car is worth to fix. He is going to look into some other options and see what to do. We took him to lunch them home to sleep. Since we went out to lunch we forwent out year steak dinner nad went to see Sherlock Holms instead. It was much fun, and a good movie. then home for a pleasant evening. I finished the bo...

Okay this is a new year for us. and 2009 was way better than 2008, so we look forward to a new and exciting 2010. Recap 2009 Jan: . found out we were having a girl. Ice storm, lost water and power for a while Got to go see Wicked. Feb: Recovered from Ice storm. Won Districts with Academic Team. March: got three new students in 3 days, had a wild month at school. got to go to UK game. April: painted baby's room, Went to a materity fair, Hope's 1st Brithday (got through with minimal tears) May: Found Out I was rehired to teach again at same school for next school year..(1st). Baby shouwer at Brittany's way fun. Finished the baby's room. June: Brad found out he was still an assistant, Mom Flew in. Had Laurana , spent a week in the nic U July: Birthday's for brad and I, if you are counting this was the second annversary of my 30th birhtday. and brad's 3rd annaverasy of his 35 birthday. James and a very pregnant Jazzy came to visit and meet laurana. Mom flew home Aug...

So Brad, Laurana and I went out for family pictures at walmart on Dec. 18th. Yes we know that it took us a long time to get the posted, but I had some trouble with the size of them. Now I got it figured out. so no worries.

So Brad has walking pnemonia. They say he got it from some cold oddly though he got most of his cold symptoms after he had started the antibiodic. (we think he picked something else up from school). We got through family pictures (those will come later.) and then started the grand tradition of last minute christmas shopping. Then the baby came down with cold symptoms again. Now she just got over an ear infection. and the antibiodic made the cold symptoms go away, so we were a little surprised when they came right back. Then she started not sleeping and crying l ike she was in pain. so we though teething. Then she started coughing at night Saturday night. we checked and a dry cough is the result of a dry room so we got out hte humidifier and turned it up. Cough went away for the day. but she was really fussy all day sunday. thought still teething, chewing on everything drooling, problems eating. Then monday morning she wakes up with a cough again, and this time she is wheezing....