What a girl!

Olivia is 8 months old now.  I can't believe how big she is getting-sitting up by herself and all sorts of noises.  She has to compete with Brother Wyatt so she can get pretty loud sometimes.  She is such a great baby-we ended on a fabulous note!

Same stuff, different day!

I may be crazy...I decided that I really wanted to get my BSN.  So I have started a program online from Western Governors University.  I am excited to get this done but I'm not so sure how excited my family is.  Its completely online so I can do it on all those fabulous night shifts I work so hopefully it won't take too much away from family time.  I finished the orientation and start my classes September 1.  I am pretty sure I can finish it in about 8-9 months so it really isn't that bad and then I am pretty sure I am done for a while. But this will hopefully make me a little more competitive in the job market.

The girls and Wyatt just got back from Island park for the weekend with my parents and they had a fabulous time.  Thanks mom & dad!  I wish I could have gone but the new vehicle would have cost a lot more money to drive up there than we have right now so my parents took the kiddos with them and I stayed home with Olivia and Brad.  It was super quiet around our place this last weekend, kinda weird.

And there is only 2 more weeks of summer left and the kids all start back into school.  Mom is VERY excited and the kids are kind of excited.  They are finishing up swim lessons and trying to stuff in as much play time as they can.

Life is pretty much the norm around here, same stuff, different day!

Hearts

I went to the cardiologist and it left something to be desired.  The guy was a real jerk and had a God complex like most cardio docs do, but he was a doosy.  Anyway, he basically told me that my EKG showed left ventricular hypertrophy but that because I was under 35 I wasn't meeting the criteria to diagnose it.  Anyway, I totally didn't understand it either so I am going to go see another doc and have him assess it and see what he thinks, if I need to see another specialist about it or be concerned about it.  So the story continues...

In other news, Brad took the kids fishing this morning...at 4:45 am!!  Wyatt was suppose to go but he informed his dad that he wanted to sleep in his bed when he was woken up at 4:30, don't blame the kid, he's only 3.  That's pretty early for anyone in my opinion.  But the girls are troopers and got up to go with their Dad fishing.  I hope they are having a good time!

Stuff

There has been some stuff happening lately at our little house...first the fun stuff.  My mom called and ask if I would like to see Wicked and who says  no to that?  So she bought two tickets for me and my sister in law because both of us had never seen it before and my parents and my sister saw it in London.  So JoDee and I went to Wicked.  I wasn't totally sure what to expect other than everyone I have ever talked to says its wonderful, and...it lived up to the expectation.  It was a very fun evening and I really enjoyed the night out with JoDee, she's pretty good

company.

Now for the not so fun stuff...Last weekend at work I passed out again.  I have been doing this every so often for quite a while now, probably about 6-7 years, and every time I have been to the emergency department they tell me its a vagal response and that I'll be fine, no tests, nothing.  Well this time the ED doc decided to run a EKG and found some abnormalities with my heart - Left Ventricular Hypertrophy.  Basically my heart is growing stiff and can't pump the blood like its suppose to.  Could be caused from a few different things, High blood pressure is the most common.  But it can also be caused from problems with the aorta and anything that can cause the heart to have to work harder to pump the blood.  Anyway, left unfixed or not controlled properly and you will have heart failure, not such a great thing.  So I was referred to a cardiologist to get it checked out and see just how bad it is and what needs to happen from here.  My appointment is Monday so we will see...

Kinda has me a little freaked out, but I have "prepared myself for the worst, and am hoping for the best"

Livvy baby

Olivia is six months now- crazy how time flies!! She is still our petite little girl. She's up to 15 pounds and 26 inches- she's got some height. But she's pretty skinny. We love her to death and we're so glad she came to our family. Her breathing is still yucky and it'll be interesting to see how the winter goes because any respiratory problems are double issues with her. Everyone else is enjoying the warm summer months. It's just a bit crazy around here

My little Man

I got Wyatts picture done for his third birthday

I can't believe how big he's gotten. 

He cracks me up everyday-love him to death!

Wyatt-3 years old

Bubba is 3!!!

Mr. Wyatt turned three last week!  I can't believe that my boy is already three.  He is such a handsome thing, but not so little anymore.  He is kinda short and pretty stocky, just imagine a miny wrestler...maybe someday...we'll have to see

We had family birthday dinner for him on the friday before his birthday cuz I had to work on his birthday and it was also Fathers Day that day.  Wyatt wanted donalds for dinner (McDonalds) so we made the grown up version, chicken skewers with an assortment of dips and fruit with dips and potato wedges with yummy creamy cheese sauce-it turned out to be rather delicious.  I made his cake and we decorated it with cars and "dirt" it turned out pretty good too.  I was rather quite surprised that I actually pulled it off.  Working like I have been has burned me out pretty good and it takes me all my days off just to recover so not much happens in the way of keeping house or doing much of anything else.  Someday I will have a job with normal waking human hours.

Wyatts most favorite-a sword and shield-he sleeps with them at the bottom of his bed everynight

Happy Birthday Dude!