Ok well. Christmas this year was totally different. We didnt have a tree this year, no decorations or any of the usual. We didnt really celebrate it like most people would do. We was planning on doing the whole 9 yards and all, but things changed once they were having issues with my moms check and bank account. So the little bit of money we had went to pay bills instead. We didnt really do the present thing either. We did manage to get Shalyn, Niki, and the rest of the young ones a little something. So being we didnt have the money for a big Christmas dinner, we had chili, with hot dogs and chips. Talk about a messed up Christmas. But Christmas isnt all about those things. Christmas is about the birth of Jesus, and as long as you remember that, everything is ok. Blair did come over on Chritmas Eve, and she spend the day here with us. We didnt do a whole lot, not that there is a whole lot to do.

Ok, what else...Oh, I had a doctor appointment yesterday, that was totally out of wack too. We called telling them we was going to be running a little late. But we got there, the doctor was waiting for us. We saw the doctor before we saw the nurse. The doctor had to go into delivery, so he hurried up and checked me out and stuff. He measured my stomach and said it is normal sized for 26 weeks. He said I need to do the glucose test in the next couple of days. He wrote out a prescription for us to go over to the hospital to have that done. We will most likely do that tomorrow...Then he was done with me. The nurse checked my weight. I gained 4 pounds since my last visit. So I have gained a total of 11 pounds so far. It took awhile for me to actually start gaining weight. At first I would gain, and then lose, and then gain and then lose, and so on. But now its just mainly gain. The nurse also checked the heart beat. 140 and sounds great! I got 2 months and 2 weeks left.

A few weekends ago me and Morgan stayed at Em's house. Morgan took a belly picture and then messed around on a photoshop with it. I have got the name all figured out now. So she added that one there too. So here is the pic, and basically the size of my belly now.

Ok, well Destiny has been walking for alittle over a month now. She is pretty much a pro at it. I have been meaning to post this when she first started walking, but totally forgot all about it. This is just a short clip of her when she first started to walk.

Just a small update.

Well, Im finally living back with my mom in Peoria now. Still trying to get settled in, but Im here now. We are working slowly but surely on everything. The place we are in is only temperary. Hopefully we will have a house soon. We are hoping to get a place before christmas comes around, but I really dont think that will happen.


I also had a doctors appointment today. Just the small little checkups that they do. Everything is good. I have finally started gaining some weight. Since last months check up I have gained 6 lbs.But before then I would gain a few then lose a few, so I have gained a total of 7lbs now. I go back in 4 weeks for the glucose test then 8 weeks from now I get another sono. but thats basically all that they happened at the doctors.

Some pictures.

Ok, so Im pretty sure everyone has herd about Lily having to go to the hospital now. Well, Im got some pictures of her while she was in after she was admitted to the pediactric floor.



Lily with the baby doll Aprils mom got her. She had a IV in her hand so thats what the warp on her arm is for, so she wouldnt try to pull it out or anything.



This is Lily with the frog on of the nurses got for her. Once she got it she didnt want anything to do with her baby anymore



Lily sitting with April watching tv, thats all she would do was sit like that all day long. Poor girl.



This is Lily yet again sitting on April at dinner time. She had grilled cheese, jello, itailian ice, and a fruit cup, she didnt really eat all that much.



The nurse finally remembered to bring Lily a gown thing. So this is her in it sitting in the chair with her frog watching cartoons.

















I forgot to flip this one, but she was watching tv and then when i went to take the picture she decided she wanted me to hold her...so she was reaching out for me..

This was right before Joe and I left to go home. April was trying to get Lily to lay down to go to bed for the night.

These two pictures are when Lily got home Friday afternoon. She was really clingy and still is. She is 100% better yet, but she will get down and play with her baby, her frog, and little baby stroller she got.

This is the freaky hospital bed that they were wanting Lily to sleep in, it was like something you would see in a horror movie, I can see why april had troubles getting her to go to sleep.

Well that is all of the pictures that I have from her hospital stay.

Its a....

BOY! I just found out Im having a so far healthy baby boy. The name I have picked out is Kaiden Alexander. I was really hoping for a girl, so I was alittle bummed, but I will get over it, as long as that baby is healthy, thats all I care about. I have some pics, they are not the clearest since I took a picture of them, but they are good enough.

Leg

Foot

ITS A BOY!

Also, I came down with a sore throat a couple days ago and I had that checked out at the appointment. The doctor checked it out. He looked and he said it looked like it could be strep, but might not be, so he gave me an anit-biotic to take to help it. So lets hope it works. I sound horrible.

Update!

Ok, Everything for me is going pretty well. havent had anymore freakish blackouts.
Things at Joe and Aprils house are not going so well. They are losing the house. They got a summons to go to court about it. I havent really herd much on it. Joe finally got another job after 3 long months of being without one. He got a job at Xport packaging. he started on Monday. We no longer have internet or cable, which explains the lack of updates. Im at my moms now. She is doing much better. She has some freakish diabetic attacks though, which are pretty scary. She has not had to go back to the hospital for anything go which is a plus.

Everything with the baby is going well. Had some blood work done to check up on the baby and to check for birth defects and all. Tuesday, the 6, I go back to the doctor to have a sono, and hopefully find out if its a boy or girl. Really hoping for a girl, but will be happy with a boy. As long as it is healthy. So I do have names picked out already. For a girl-Nevaeh Skye, and a boy-Kaiden Alexander.
After that appointment I have one the following week to see the regualr doctor for the regular check up.

But yea, that is really about it though. Not really a whole lot has happened. I will try to update sooner next time.

Ok, well nothing much has happened since last post. Went to the doctor on Tuesday and told them about the black out situation. She told me I was either dihydrated, or my blood suger was low, and to keep hard candy with me in case I were to get light headed, which happens alot actually. Also at the appointment, I got to hear the heartbeat, 160 was the heartrate. Next appointment it Oct 17, for some blood work for any birth defects, then the appoint after that, I should be able to find out what it is. I cant wait!


But anyways. Morgan is here for the weekend. We have just been kinda bumming it today. We layed down for bed last night at 2:30 but didnt actually go to sleep til like 5:00 in the morning just talking about the past. We woke up at 12:30 ish, and just been laying around watching movies and eating food. We got supper started. April went out with a friend, so we are watching Lily, Lydia is with her grandma. But yea, we are making Manicotti. Its in the oven now, cooking, the longest part, I think anyways.

Ok so yesterday we was messing around on the laptop watching funny videos. And we found this one that will literally make you want to pee your pants. Check it out.
Ok well Not sure how to do videos yet on here so I will leave you with the link to look at it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKNzEvK_5u8

I now know what it feels like to be blind...

So yesterday, I took Shalyn, Niki, and Damein to the marigold festival to ride a few rides. Not long after I got them back home, I started getting a headache. I had Melissa take me home. As the rest of the day went on, the headache got worse. I laid down for awhile thinking it would go away, but woke up and it was even worse. It got so bad it made me sick. I watched a movie with April and then went to bed, woke up this morning, and I still had it. I didnt go to church because of it being so bad. I called my mom telling her about it all . Then me and April decided we wanted to go to the Art in the Park part of the festival, we walked around and stuff. we made one last stop and a soy candle stand so April could get a few. After she paid, We was getting ready to walk away and I just got light headed and leaned over on her. Then I was like "April, I cant see." I literally couldnt see. I like totally blacked out. I was holding onto the stroller, and we walked over to the shade trying to get to some picnic tables to sit down. I wasnt liking the fact I couldnt see anything. I just wanted to sit, so I just sat on the ground. After sitting down for about a minute, I was able to see again. We sat there for about 5 minutes in the shade on the ground. We got up and we still had a wlak ahead of us to the car. We was kinda by the kiddie part of the park, and had to go over by the high school to the car. We stopped at a water fountain and got a drink. made it back to the car fine. On the way back home we stopped by the gas station and I got a gatorade and a small bag of chips to eat. The first thing I did when I got home was call my mom and told her what had happened. She said it sounded like I have high blood pressure and that could be the cause of the headache too. She also said that there is a possiblity that I could be diabetic, since it runs in the family, and if I am I might of had a diabetic attack. I have to call the doctor tomorrow, and my said if anything else happens today to go to the hospital. The whole experiance was not fun at all, not being able to see or anything. It was kinda scary...

Last week I think It was I went to Mrs. Bettys house for awhile. I took Destiny along with me, and I have some pictures....

Destiny and Micayla

Destiny and Ellie. Ellie is a little girl that Mrs. betty babysits.

Destiny and Kristen

We didnt really do a whole lot that day. I just went over to visit and let Destiny play and all. Matthew was also there, he is another kids she babysits. During the kids nap time Mrs Betty went to the Chiropractor for her neck, and i watched the kids. After the babysitting kids were gone, we took Destiny Home and went to WalMart, and the to long John Silvers/A&W to eat. After that I went home. So not a whole lot.

I have to throw in this picture of Preacher from Sunday. Me and Morgan were taking pictures and such and Preacher looked at us and signaled us to take on of him and he posed...This is the picture..

Hair, camping and more

Wow. It has been awhile. Well. To explain the title. Last tuesday...I chopped my hair off :( Its not like super short though. Its like at my shoulders. Here are a few pictures of it.

I also just got back from camping today. We only went one night. I have a fe pictures, but not too many.

This is me and Nici in the back of the truck sitting on the tool box thing heading over to the lake to go fishing. Nici is a good friend of Aprils. She is hilarious!

Joe and a bull frog that he caught. He wanted me to take a picture, but was all the way on the other side and I didnt want to walk all the way around the lake, so I just zoomed in. Thats why its kinda fuzzy.

Lydia fishing with her Barbie pole

This is rasputia, the tadpole that Nici found in the Moss that was stuck on her fishing pole. We kept it for about 5 minutes then let it back in the lake. It had its two back legs developed and one on the front. The other front one wasnt fully there, but their was a little stubble from it starting to develope.

This is me, playing with the fire. I was extremly bored, so I was poking it with the little stick to cook hot dogs and marshmellows on. Then I got the nickname Piro because I played with it alot. I then made the fire really big from playing with it, so then I became in charge of the fire :) Thats Logan in the background, he is Nici's 6 year old son.

A few weeks ago Joe and April got a new dog. its husky and Alaskan Eskimo. Its just a puppy. It jumped on Lily and scratching her face. Lily had to get 3 stitches from it. Poor kid., It was terribel. Cant seem them to well but you can still see it here

Some pictures

Well, I have been at Melissa's here alot lately, spending some time with the kids, and all. So I figured I would show pictures of them to see how big they have got.

This is all four of them on a Sunday morning waiting for the church bus.


This would be one of my favorites of Destiny.







All the wetness onDestiny here, its all slobbers...


Damein showing off his spiderman shirt. He absolutly loves spiderman.


Damein went shopping with me and I got him his very first pair of big boy boxers. He wanted spiderman, but they didnt have any small enough for him. So we went with these ones...


Destiny was final able to go to church with us for the first time, so I got some pictures before we left for church. She even got to ride the church bus.










This last one, is alittle older, its got al four of them in the pic. It was before Destiny learned to sit up, and before Damein got his head shaved.

Another final grade

Ok, Well I just checked on the school website thing to see if they got my last exam for Psychology. They have, and my final grade for that class is a 91%

So So far I have recieved to A's for my final grades.


I have one more book left before I get some more, the last subject I have to do now before I get more is World Lit. Lots of reading involved....

Well, I just thought I would post up my final grade.

The past week or so

So, I have been lacking on posting on here, but I have some things to tell now.

Ok so yea, my birthday was like last week. We didnt really do a whole lot. We had a little birthday party the weekend after my birthday. Not a many people showed up as planned. Friday was just a sleepover, I invited about 5 girls, only 2 made it, Morgan and Kayla. We ended up having a pretty good time though. We just ate some food, jumped on the trampoline and stayed up late. Saterday morning Kayla had to leave to go driving with her instructor, and was suppose to come back later after she was done. We had a birthday party that day or me and Lydia, her birthday is today... Still not everyone planned showed up. Austin and his parents came, it was kinda awkward actually, A friend of April's, Nici, came with her son Logan for Lydia. Morgan was still there. Kayla called and said she was going to take a nap because she was tired and come back after she got off of work. So basically no one was there. I told my mom about the party and all, she never did say if she would come or not. The party to me seemed kinda boring actually. We all just kinda sat and watched Legally blonde on tv, and talked. The kids and Austin seemed to enjoy playing with the dog. April spend most of her time in the kitchen fixing up the bread dip and vegetable tray. We all went into the kitchen and ate. Morgan and I got bored, so we went out on the trampoline, Austin joined shortly after. We went back inside and had the cake. Lydia had a disney princess cake, and mine was just an ice cream cake. Lydia opened her presents and played, I had some just didnt think to open them. Austin and his parents had to leave to go pick up the neice and nephews. I then opened my presents. That was basically the party. KInda boring....

A few days later I talked to my mom online, she said she was planning on coming, but they all got busy over at the place in Peoria. We talked for awhile I cried, Im really missing her. I dont get to see her much now.

On wednesday, I got online and was able to talk to her again. She said she had my birthday present for me. She got ahold of my brother Chris to see if he could take me out there. She isnt suppose to drive right now. I told her to do it Thursday because I had to get ready for church and all. So yesterday Chris came and picked me up and took me out to see her. I didnt get to stay long, I only got to visit with her about 15 mins. at the most.This was my first time seeing her since Valentines Day. I was hoping they could just drop me off and then come get me later, but they didnt have the gas to do that, but later this coming week, if they get some gas money, they are going to take me and drop me off. Not being able to see my mom as much is kinad difficult. I almost cried when we left because I didnt want to leave yet.

My moms health isnt really the best right now. Back in Febuary, she went into the hospital because her feet and legs were really swollen and she couldnt really feel one of her legs. They found she has a clot in her foot and the back of her leg. She went to the doctor 2 weeks ago and they said the clots are going down with the meds they have given her. She went back yesterday but Im not sure what they said, I havent got the chance to talk to her and ask her yet. But she showed me her foot yesterday, and you can see a big bump on the top of her foot, and its where the clot is. It looks really bad. She has lost some weight too. Not sure if thats good or bad right now. But yea, that about all the things that have been going on right now. I will try to update a little more often, and when I get a chance.

Final Grade

So I check the school website to see if they have recieved my last 2 exams in Plaaning you Career's class. Well They did and they got them graded. I got a 100 on the both of them. They also have my final grade for the class. I finished the class with a 97 A! I think it was Awesome! I dont think I have ever had a final grade that high in any classes I have ever took.

Mud

Shalyn and Niki came over and are staying the weekend. Me and April came up with the brilliant idea to let all the kids go outside and play in some mud since it is really nice outside. Well we took some pictures of them. Shalyn had the most mud on her, and suprisingly Lily was the cleanest.

This here is jut the beginning of them playing.

Here they are a little dirtier. As you can tell Lydia's pants are a little big on her.

Niki

Shalyn playing in a big bucket of mud

Shalyn and Lydia sitting in the mud

Lydia and Shalyn showing us the mud on there hands

Niki showing us her dirty hands

Lily and the mud on her hands

Shalyn wanted a mud mask, so I gave her one

Niki wanted one too

Shalyn was pretty much caked in mud on her legs. She had a little difficulties keeping her pants up.

Same as Lydia, just not nearly as much on her legs

Lily didnt seem to like the mud so much.

Lily started to get cranky because she didnt have her nap yet, so we started with her and stripped them down at the front door and stuck them all in the shower to get cleaned off, Lily we put into the kitchen sink because she doesnt like showers.
So that was basically how things went today...