Lady Ellice

So it has been several months since I blogged last. Let me hit the highlights. 1. got injured at work (I deal with volitile students) It was a work related injury. so I am covered by workers comp. but this is still a bad time as I got injured right after I announced that I was pregnant. That being said I had the 1st of 2 surgerys. my knee was locked and I couldn't walk. they were worried that as I got more pregnant I would become more unstable and a fall and further injury would be an issue. So they fixed my miniscus (the cartilage stuff between your knee) and will fix the ACL after I am done being pregnant. the surgery was not horrible, even though they couldn't give me a general and I had to have a local. the days after when the local wore off and I couldn't take anything for the pain were pretty bad, but now a month later, I can walk and the pain is just a memory. 2. We have announced that we are having our second child, which we know to be a boy (name not announced ye...

I just realized that the last time I was pregnant a bunch of my friends were pregnant with me. there was comfort in the fact that others were going through it with me. This time is different because there is only one other person I know who is pregnant right now. I feel alittle alone right now. I guess it just has to do with my pregnancy, and the fact that I don't get out much. I think I need to spend more time with friends, I am starting to feel like a hermit (like brad :) actually with basketball in full swing brad has seen more of his freinds lately then I have of mine. I need to get out more :)

chirstmas pictures

Friday was nana's birthday. Since we never know what to get them for birthdays, like Grandpa, we cooked her something. Nana loves cookies so Laurana and I made sugar cookies for her. Shee the cute video of Laurana rolling and cutting below. She ahd so much fun and got flour on everything. Then I changed her and she made a card for nana usisng markers.. see her baby decorations below, cause the drawing didn't stay on the paper. Then we had to give her a bath. We went over to nana's with icing and decorations. As you can see shemostly ate icing instead o putting it on cookies. But mommy and Nana decorated cookies well.

WE had a really good snow yesterday (for us) so we dressed little bear up in her full winter gear and took her out to let her play in teh snow. She loved it. She plowed through the knee deep (on her) snow, and made snow balls, she even laid down like she was going to make a snow angel. (she didn't) then she looked over at mommy, shivvered and went straight to the door to go back in. We were outside about 20 minutes. WE also got our christmas tree and other decorations up today. I am very proud cause last year we didnt' get them up til like the day before christmas.

Yes I know it has been forever since I blogged. This time of year has been very busy. I was injured at work, by a student, and have torn up my knee. At this point, I can't straighten it and there for can't really walk on it. It happened the week before thanksgiving. I am up to walking on just one crutch, but it does make things difficult. Lala has had a cold on an off, the joys of her frist year in day care. but things ahve also been fun. Thanks to Brittany we had a good pie day. I will admit I cheated and used premade curst this year. At the time I couldn't even stand without pain. Thanks to Jan and Phyllis we had a great cookie bake this year. by then I could move around on one crutch and in my rolly chair. so that went way better. WE baked a ton of cookies. Lala helped she had alot of fun, but didn't like to share the cookie cutters. She wanted both all the time. she also learned a new trick from jan's son. He is a year, and about 7 months youhger. h...

Hey yall.. Things around here are good. As you can see from the video baby girl is growing big. Yes those are clean panties around her neck. She has learned how to put things around her neck like shirts, skirts, and panties. She has also learned to dance. She knows how to turn my clock radio on so that it will play music. It is funny except when daddy is trying to sleep and she goes over and turns the radio on for him. then not as funny.. for daddy anyway. Still can't tell if she likes daycare or not. Some days are great and some she just cries all day. I think she likes it except by the end of hte week she is tired. At home and grandma's she is still getting two naps a day, because she wants them. At day care only one nap a day.. so I think she is just tired. We are hoping to get down to Nanny's house this weekend. She hasn't been feeling too well and we thought a visit from Princess Lala would cheer her up. School is going good. I love my job, yes I kno...

We went to the pumpkin patch yesterday. Wow, Last year we went the week before Halloween and it as cold and there was no one there, and not alot of pumpkins left. this eyar it was nice weather and there were a ton of people there. Laurana loved the bunnies, chickens and the goats. She wanted to get in with the goat. she loved the big spider haybale. and she had fun wiht daddy in the corn maze and the haybale maze. all in all it was a delightful trip and I can't wait to do it again next year.

So here we have Laurana teaching everyone how to play cornhole at the church picnic. As per usual the church picnic and hte "walk to remember" were on the same day. being really tired from a week at work, and Laurana teething, we dcided taht we were goint to just do the picnic. besides the walk and seeing Hope's grave are always really hard and we wanted to try to focus on Lala this year.

Tea Party with mommy.

So last night, brad has the stomach flu, not feeling to great, and I was cramping pretty bad, so we were laying on the couch and laurana was playing on the floor. then she went into our bedroom and came back out... no noise so we didn't worry. then she sat on the floor and started saying..yea, yea, yea, mom, yea, yea, yea, mom... so I got up to look and she had very carefully taken every last tissue out of the box of tissues from daddy's bed side. I think she was telling us that she wanted a little more of our attention than we were giving. :)

So I got a temp job (in teacher terms a long term subsitute position) There is a storng chance that it could be come permanat so please pray. in other news Laurana is cute, and adorable, and growing in leaps an bounds. she is talking some. using words, and babbling about stuff. We can'tunderstand most of what she says but I think that one day it will all of a sudden start making sense.

Well this weekend has been packed. Saturday we had a UK game, awith good friends and family over to watch. It was a blast and UK won which makes it even more fun. Laurana did pretty good for not having had a afternoon nap. Sunday we taught nursery, which they had a lesson they wanted us to teach to 1st graders. Which was halairous cause they were all looking at brad like.. what are you talking about dude. but we put them all at the table gave them cherrios and balls and they sat through the whole lesson. Brad however was completely overwhelemed by that many toddlers, so I need to find a new nursery buddy. He is so stressed during the week he doesn't need stress on the week end. then sunday afternoon we went to Lykins park and got to see a concert. the country music singer Justin moore was there.. very good music, then there was also funnel cake and snow cones which is what fairs are about. Phyllis and Eric had fired oreos. then after lots of sining and getting very very c...

Things here have been interesting. Brad's job has changed this year, and I would nto say for the better. At his last school were he worked as an asst. the teachers and admin. didn't respect or treat him well. At this school his teachers and Admin like him and want him to succeed, but the distcit person who deals with the students he works with and his supervising teacher are unsure what to do and being a structured kind of guy the crazyness is stressing him out. this is also a very physically demanding job and where brad is a asthmatic and severe allergies physicallity is not his strong area. needless to say he is tired and worn at the end of each day. I am adjusting to being at home. as you can see from the video Laurana loves to help me clean and do laundry. we are getting along well. think she is transitioning from a 2 nap schedule to a 1 nap schedule. I miss teaching. I really wish that I was in the class room, but I love spending time with LAurana it is a catch 22. We shal...

Went to the re-enactment of the battle of Richmond. Laurana liked it alittle, daddy liked it alot. Laurana eventually was kissing her hand and waving goodbye to the cannons cause they were so loud. she liked the Fry Bread and the homemade soda.