Light

Sometimes I find light in my house that I haven't ever noticed before.  This was a day when I decided that I wanted to experiment with that, so I grabbed Grace, and we took a few snapshots.  She is such a pretty little girl, and a pretty girl standing in pretty light  ~ well......is pretty. :)

I love this girl.

 

Internal Struggle

I've been struggling with myself whether or not to blog about this...obviously I decided I would. But here's my disclaimer. I am not telling this story to get you to say, "oh, poor, poor Emily." I want to tell this story because of how blessed our family is. You have no idea how much I have come to appreciate all my close friends and neighbors.

Friday night we had a really good night with some really good friends. We went to the temple, and then B-lined it over to the church house for some dessert. I heart dessert. After eating about half I decided that I wasn't feeling too hot so I threw out the rest. Well.

We hung out a little longer with our friends and then decided to head home. We brought home our sitter, and then I talked Chance into letting me read while he went to sleep (with earplugs.) I read for about an hour and then turned out the light. About 20 minutes later I woke up with some crazy, painful cramping. See, most pregnant women won't tell you the craziness that is your intestines during pregnancy. And if they DON'T have crazy intestines ~ they need to keep it to themselves.

ANYWHO ~ I thought I was going to pass out. I was lying in my hallway thinking to myself, "Chance has earplugs in. He can't hear me if I call for him." At this point I was in a lot of pain, and my arms decided to go numb. I'm freaking out because I'm wondering if I'm having some kind of stroke...fun times.

Well I stumble into our bedroom, shove Chance and basically start demanding that he help me. He ran into the kitchen to get me some tylenol (my entire body felt like it was on fire) and then decided to get some consecrated oil so that he could give me a priesthood blessing. As he was gone, my hands decided to start freezing up. I couldn't move them, and I couldn't feel them.

Time to call 911. The paramedics come, bombarded me with questions (which I'm not feeling so inclined to answer...I get a little grumpy when I'm in a lot of pain...) and then told Chance that they couldn't see anything there. They suggested I get checked out at the hospital ~ so I stumbled, barefoot, down the stairs, into the freezing cold and went for a most-memorable ride to the hospital. PS ~ getting an IV in an ambulance? Not one of my all-time fav's.

Chance stayed home so he could find someone to watch our kids. What's amazing is that he arrived at the hospital only about 5 minutes after me. I love my man. Okay so the final outcome of this? They think I was having a food-reaction. Lactose Intolerance? Perhaps. The reason my arms were going numb? Hyperventilation. Who knew? The doctor mentioned how pregnancy messes with your body (no....really?!) and how problems can get a whole lot worse during pregnancy (again.....noo, are ya' sure about that?). So in the last few days I've avoided milk after about 12:00noon. So far, so good. Oh, and one more thing. Here's an ER tip: When going to the ER, make it a point to find some shoes, or SLIPPERS or something. Going home after the ER with bare feet, a T-shirt and no coat? Not so fun. Chance said he'd try to find some matching pajama's for next time as well. Those red plaid pajama pants and camo shirt didn't really hit it off with the nursing staff. Hey ~ at least we looked like we belonged together, right?

Now. Here's the point of this whole story. Do you have any idea how many phone calls, visits and even dinners have been offered and brought into our home?!? So many that I feel pretty unworthy. I phoned ONE friend Saturday morning who brought our Morgan over to the Church for a service project. She then called me right back offering to take ALL of our children that day. She kept Morgan at her house the ENTIRE DAY to play... AND she also showed up that night with some more good friends of ours and brought us dinner. HELLO?! You guys are amazing. AMAZING.

Oh, and then there is our good neighbor a couple of doors down who came over Friday night at MIDNIGHT to sleep on our couch so that Chance could be with me at the hospital. She then called me on Saturday asking to bring us dinner. I got another great visit that evening from yet another good friend bringing me chocolate and support. She wanted to make sure I was okay. Does it end here?! Uh...no.

Sunday came, and with it brought about 8 inches of snow. Grace was sick, Chance was snowplowing, and I was home in my pajama's. Well guess who shows up to shovel our driveway? Oh, only about 1/2 of our Young Men's group from church. You guys are great. THANK YOU. Later that night we even got cookies from one of our neighbors 2 doors down the OTHER side of us. Seriously?!

I so appreciate all the thoughts and acts of service on our behalf. I cannot believe how loved we are. Let me just say though ~ the feeling is definitely mutual. Us Bailey's are so blessed. THANK YOU everyone for helping me and my family this last weekend. We love you ALL.

My Excuse

Yep...

this is the reason why I haven't been "catching up" like I promised back in...

oh....

NOVEMBER...

See, about a week after that post I started feeling reaaaaally cruddy at night. Hmm. I started having a LOT of headaches, felt nauseated, basically I had a hard time getting out of bed in the morning. I took the test, and ~ well ~ as you can see here I'll need to change the address of this blog to thebaileyfamilySEVEN.com

Let's just start by saying.... AAAAaahh! We knew for awhile that we had another child up there for us, but it's one thing to PLAN for another child and quite another to actually HAVE another child. I'm pretty nervous, but excited at the same time. This ultrasound (which I'm SURE you can all see perfectly, right?) was really cool because I could actually see the baby's legs crossed, arms, fingers, everything.

Anyway, we're still not going to find out what we're having until that blessed day in July....so keep stopping by. :) And now that I'm feeling a bit better I can actually start catching up on my blog and my photo's.

Morgan's Christmas debut performance

We have an UBER talented neighbor, that Morgan affectionately calls "Mizan".  (Her name is Andrea...Miss Andrea....Mizan).  Well.  She volunteered to put together a Christmas program for the 2nd graders.  They had to practice early in the morning before school each Wednesday, and Morgan was so excited.

Mizan kept telling me how much she loved Morgan because she likes to sing so much.  This program was a super big deal....with a LOT of songs.  It was fun to watch them perform.

Plus I get a kick out of seeing their faces in these photo's.  They were really into it. :)

Mizan gave Morgan a special "task" during Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer.  Morgan's job was to ding that cowbell during the off chants (....."like a lightbulb!" and "like Columbus!").  Can you tell Morgan took that seriously?  Check out her stance and that concentration in her eyes.  Don't mess with her.

 

They just sung their little hearts out.

My Styrofoam Stinkers

Aaah.  I never thought I'd need to get Styrofoam off of my children.  Leave it to these 2 to find a way for this problem to come up.  Chance has a very large, and very "in the way" Styrofoam target that he uses for his bow practice.  Apparently these 2 decided it would be fun to poke and dig and demolish the thing.

So. 

I got to spend the afternoon picking little tiny pieces of Styrofoam off of my children.  Do you have any idea how hard that is?  It sticks to EVERY.  THING.

It's a good thing these guys are so cute.

PS ~ can you tell that Crede could basically care less?

Catching UP

It's a sad day when you realize that you still have oh......about 300 photo's still on your SD card just waiting to be downloaded to your computer. **sigh**

I'm here, and I'm behind. My sanity has been around though, so maybe that's a GOOD thing I haven't been blogging so much lately. My organizational skills have improved, my vocabulary isn't quite as lacking (due to my book obsession as of late) and I've actually been spending time with the Childdrrrn (Cat in the Hat reference there...)

So, the point of this random post? Keep checkin' back for some fun filled (and late) posts. I promise, you will be left breathless. (Or at least you'll smile to yourself.)

Lataz.

GAPkids

Hi everyone! I'm just posting this short post because I just entered my cute kiddies in the GAP casting call. If you want to go vote for them, go here for Grace, here for Crede, and here for Gage. I'll have to enter Morgan next time 'round.

Here are the photo's that I entered: