Saturday, October 31, 2009
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Kaitlin's Makeup Experience
I don't think I need to say anything about this, except that this is her play makeup.
Orchard Trip
So we took the kids an apple orchard up by our new place. They had a bunch of kids activities for them to do. One of them being this ride. These little cars were pulled by the tractor, but Malachi called them choo-choo's. Notice the before and after picture (it's a bit hard to seeing but he's creaming and crying). He was all excited about it until it actually started moving and took him away from Mommy.
Kaitlin's B-day Party with Family
Natalie, Kaitlin, Zach and Taylor
Nana, Aunt Carol, Grandpa, Kaitlin and Aunt Barb
Kaitlin with the gift from Aunt Katie and Uncle Johannes
MalachiFriday, October 2, 2009
Long Overdue Update
So it's already October...and so much has happened to us. It's like where do I even begin to play catch up? I guess to keep things simple I'll just let you know the major changes in our lives. On September 10th we closed on our house, which left us with very little time to get out and find something. We made a couple offers on some different homes before we closed on ours, but we lost out on everyone. The joke became that if you wanted your home sold just have us make an offer, but really I didn't find it funny anymore when we had to just go out and find an apartment since we were down to the last week in our home. So thankfully we found an apartment in Spring Lake, which is about three miles from Lake Michigan. I'm hoping that in the next few months we'll get to know the area better and by next summer we'll have a really good idea of which neighborhoods we want to live in and which ones we don't.
Due to us deciding to move 30 minutes away from Grand Rapids, it means a lot of new things, like a new school for Kaitlin. Luckily we found Muskegon Christian very quickly and had her attending before the move was complete. It's been a bit of an adjustment for all of us, because we really liked Calvin Christian a lot, but MCS is really good as well...Now if I could only get Kaitlin to go to class without a fight! And of course another big change for us is finding a new church, which really hasn't happened yet. I'm hoping soon Levi and I will find one that we'll both be happy attending and getting involved at.
And lastly the news I dread writing about is the loss of our baby. On September 18th we all went in for my twelve week checkup to hear the heartbeat. I was really excited to share this with the kids, but while both kids clung to me while I lay on the table my doctor couldn't find the heartbeat. My doctor thought nothing of it since I have a tipped uterus, which makes it hard to get a heartbeat, plus I had the kids bouncing around. I told her I really wanted to hear a heartbeat for peace of mind, so she set me up with an ultrasound down the hall.
Unfortunately/fortunately the kids were to young to be in the ultrasound room so Levi took them downstairs to get some food. I was relieved to see the baby on the monitor, but as soon as she turned on the color stuff which shows live movement I knew what that meant...and then she confirmed it, and I losted it. I hated being alone for this and then trying to explain to Kaitlin why Mommy was crying when they came back upstairs. It was all to much. This is truly when parents become such a blessing because my parents imediately took the kids for the weekend for us. I had some hard decisions to make, as to what to do. Should I wait things our or have my doctor take care of things. This was so hard. By Tuesday I was still showing no signs of a miscarriage and still signs of being pregnant, but I also was getting a lot of pain. I felt like I couldn't go anywhere incase something were to happen. So I asked to have another ultrasound done since I had hopes for a miracle and we had many people praying for us. Plus I couldn't go through with a D&C without having a second one done. So Thursday, with Levi and my Mom in tote I went in for another ultrasound, to have the worse confirmed. The tech was great and went through everything and showed us what was happening and what should be happening at 13 weeks. Our baby was still measuring the same as a week before, about 9 1/2-10 weeks and still no heartbeat, no bloodflow, nothing. So again grandparents to the rescue and the kids were out of town, so Friday I could have a D&C done. So on the 25th Levi took me to the hospital for surgery. It was a very hard and emotional day. Everytime I thought I had no more tears to shed, out came more. We were there all day and having the weekend to veg and let the drugs wear off was good. So now here I am a week later, honestly fusterated, because I guess I just didn't realize how long recovery would be from the D&C. (My first miscarriage I had naturally and I don't remember it being this way at all, so again fusterated. )
Ahh, anyway, these are some of the major changes that have happened to us in the past few weeks. Thanks for listening to me ramble. I rarely do this on our blog, so I promise I'll go back to mostly posting pictures after this.
PS. If you were one of the many people praying for us during these last couple weeks I thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Due to us deciding to move 30 minutes away from Grand Rapids, it means a lot of new things, like a new school for Kaitlin. Luckily we found Muskegon Christian very quickly and had her attending before the move was complete. It's been a bit of an adjustment for all of us, because we really liked Calvin Christian a lot, but MCS is really good as well...Now if I could only get Kaitlin to go to class without a fight! And of course another big change for us is finding a new church, which really hasn't happened yet. I'm hoping soon Levi and I will find one that we'll both be happy attending and getting involved at.
And lastly the news I dread writing about is the loss of our baby. On September 18th we all went in for my twelve week checkup to hear the heartbeat. I was really excited to share this with the kids, but while both kids clung to me while I lay on the table my doctor couldn't find the heartbeat. My doctor thought nothing of it since I have a tipped uterus, which makes it hard to get a heartbeat, plus I had the kids bouncing around. I told her I really wanted to hear a heartbeat for peace of mind, so she set me up with an ultrasound down the hall.
Unfortunately/fortunately the kids were to young to be in the ultrasound room so Levi took them downstairs to get some food. I was relieved to see the baby on the monitor, but as soon as she turned on the color stuff which shows live movement I knew what that meant...and then she confirmed it, and I losted it. I hated being alone for this and then trying to explain to Kaitlin why Mommy was crying when they came back upstairs. It was all to much. This is truly when parents become such a blessing because my parents imediately took the kids for the weekend for us. I had some hard decisions to make, as to what to do. Should I wait things our or have my doctor take care of things. This was so hard. By Tuesday I was still showing no signs of a miscarriage and still signs of being pregnant, but I also was getting a lot of pain. I felt like I couldn't go anywhere incase something were to happen. So I asked to have another ultrasound done since I had hopes for a miracle and we had many people praying for us. Plus I couldn't go through with a D&C without having a second one done. So Thursday, with Levi and my Mom in tote I went in for another ultrasound, to have the worse confirmed. The tech was great and went through everything and showed us what was happening and what should be happening at 13 weeks. Our baby was still measuring the same as a week before, about 9 1/2-10 weeks and still no heartbeat, no bloodflow, nothing. So again grandparents to the rescue and the kids were out of town, so Friday I could have a D&C done. So on the 25th Levi took me to the hospital for surgery. It was a very hard and emotional day. Everytime I thought I had no more tears to shed, out came more. We were there all day and having the weekend to veg and let the drugs wear off was good. So now here I am a week later, honestly fusterated, because I guess I just didn't realize how long recovery would be from the D&C. (My first miscarriage I had naturally and I don't remember it being this way at all, so again fusterated. )
Ahh, anyway, these are some of the major changes that have happened to us in the past few weeks. Thanks for listening to me ramble. I rarely do this on our blog, so I promise I'll go back to mostly posting pictures after this.
PS. If you were one of the many people praying for us during these last couple weeks I thank you from the bottom of my heart.
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