Crazy Weekend!

Well, it has been a crazy weekend here at our house. We have two extra kids, the Crise kids. Katherine can be a big help when she wants to be, but she likes to get under her little brothers skin, and William, well, lol... He is definitely a 4 year old boy. Katherine has had a little trouble with scaring herself at night, so both nights she ended up sleeping in my bed with me. I do not sleep well with other people in my bed, so needless to say I am a little sleepy after two nights of that. But I love those kids and I love having them around.

We went shopping for some fall clothes this weekend. We got some pretty good deals. Old Navy had $7.00 kids jeans and GAP had their jeans buy one get one half off. They will obviously need more before the fall shopping is done, but we made a good dent.

We spoke to the adoption case worker Renee Teague at Adams county and told her that Michele is ready whenever they have a match. She is leaning towards wanting a boy, just because it would be so different from Annabelle and maybe would bring up less of those feelings, but she told Renee she would not turn down a girl if the situation were perfect, like if she were abandoned or relinquished. I pray it works out better this go round. If Michele loses another baby, I am almost certain she would not give it another try.

We saw our new neighbors yesterday. It appears that it is a single mom with three kids a teenage girl in 11th grade, a fourth grade girl and a three year old boy. They seem very nice and fairly sociable so far. Well that is all for now. Talk to you all later!

Ear infection, neighbors & a big preschooler

Well, sure enough, Her left ear drum was ruptured. She is on oral and topical drop antibiotics now. Poor thing, no wonder she kept me up all night. She already seems to feel 10 fold better. I just hope this is not the beginning of another rough year of ear infections. I assume if it is we will end up getting her tubes replaced. And now she is older, and I think it would be a little more tramatic. We go back in 2 weeks to recheck them. This morning when I put her drops in, I saw something sticking out of her ear. She has a lot of gunk in her ears from the rupture, so at first I thought it was part of that. But then I realized it looked hard, so I got it out and it was the tube they put in her ear over a year ago. They are suppose to eventually fall out, but all of the fluid coming out must have pushed it out. It was so much tinier than I expected it to be, and shaped kind of strange also. The doctor said her ear was to full yesterday to say weather or not it was still in the left ear, but she could still see he right tube was there. Well now I can say for certain that the left one is no longer there.

We got new next door neighbors this past weekend. We haven't met them, but I sure hope they are nice. And I hope they do something about that sorry excuse of a backyard. It makes ours look bad with the low fences.
But mostly I just hope they are nice and friendly.

Abby started preschool yesterday, Michele said she enjoyed it and was not shy about it at all, for more on that and more pictures of her there, check out Michele's blog. Well that is about all for now. I have a full sink of dishes calling my name.

Love you all!

Blog is rolling & here is my first real post!

So here it is! I am soooo excited. I think it looks so cute. If you all noticed, there are links to other family blogs attached to pictures. If you click on the pic. it will take you to those blogs.

I'm taking Princess Brianna to the doctor this afternoon. She had me up at 12:30am and kept me that way until my alarm went off this morning. She has a low temp. and is complaining about her left ear. We have not had an ear infection in over a year, and this is only the second one since she had tubes put in back in may 07'.

Michele and I are adjusting to not having Annabelle (Charlotte) around anymore. It helps me a lot to be able to look at her blog and see what she is doing. Michele has been in e-mail contact with her new mommy Salina almost everyday since she left. I think it worked out as well as can be expected, she wants us to remain in Annabelle's life and that helps our loss a great deal.

Abby goes to preschool open house today. She will be meeting her new teacher and gets to see her classroom. Brianna is jealous. She seems to think she is going also. We keep telling her she has to be 3 first, but I am not to sure she cares much for the rules and regs aspect of it.

Well that about wraps it up for now, I hope you all enjoy the blog!

Summer fun!

Summer fun is great, for the kids anyway. They love playing in the water and picnicing outside. I on the other hand am truly ready for fall to get here. I am just not a heat person. Plus I cannot wait for the fall colors and the holidays to start. Not to mention my body gets a lot more forgiveness in a sweater and jeans than it does in shorts and a tank top. Ashton was here for a few weeks and just left at the beginning of the month. He is growing up, and with such long gaps between visits it just seems as though we have missed half of his childhood. He will be back at Christmas though, just one more reason for the holidays to get here and for the summer heat to leave us! :) I never know how to talk to him though, now that he is getting to be a teenager. I ope he knows how much the people out here in Colorado love and miss him when he is gone. Well thats all for now, everyone enjoy the heat!



Abby and her boyfriends enjoying a nice picnic lunch in the sun.

WELCOME TO OUR BLOG SITE!!!

Welcome to our family blog site. This is a great way for me to share with friends and family. We can communicate to you whats going on in our lives as well as posting pictures of the family. More specifically Princess Brianna's pictures. But I will post pictures of the whole family, events, holidays, birthdays etc. You can come on any time you want and see whats going on in our lives. If you want any pictures, just go to Brianna's pictures and you can order or upload any you like. WELCOME!!!