A few months ago Casey and I decided to try for another baby. We had a few ups and downs thinking we were pregnant when we weren’t, but didn’t let our hopes get down. I had seen a few different doctors because of my medical history, and eventually given the “go-ahead” by the medical professionals.

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So….

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Guess what?!

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WE ARE FINALLY PREGNANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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We actually found out a few weeks ago, but were waiting to tell most of our friends until after I had seen my doctor. My first appointment did not go well, so we had to post-pone our announcement until later tests confirmed everything was ok. As of now everything is fine.

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I had a lot of complications with Sam, but I think that was mostly attributed to some illnesses I had at the time that went undiagnosed until about a year after he was born. I had several surgeries to remove and repair the problems I had. I actually feel better now than I did before I got pregnant, and everything seems fine. I’m about 5 weeks along now, and even though you can barely even see a little dot on an ultra sound it’s heart, brain, spinal cord, muscles and bones are beginning to develop at this stage – and to think that some people think that fetus’ aren’t real living beings. Creation is such an awesome thing, its so amazing to think about what we are capable of, isn’t it? A new life has been created. Wow.

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Psalm 127:3

Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.

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Sam loves the fish at both of his grandparents houses, and I talked to him the other day about the responsibility of getting his own pet fish.

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Mommy: “do you want a fishy, Sammy?”

Sammy: “Yep!”

Mommy: “will you help feed your fishy, baby?”

Sammy: “Yep!”

Mommy: “Will you give him his own name, like ‘Thomas’ or ‘Barney’?”

Sammy: “Yep!”

Mommy: “ok, we’ll pick out a fishy tomorrow.”

Sammy: (big smile)

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So I took him out to breakfast at his favorite place, Denny’s, and talked the whole morning about getting a new fishy. After Denny’s we went next door to Wal-Mart to choose a fish, but they literally didn’t have ANY. Sam was very upset that we had to leave empty handed, but we headed off to another Wal-Mart down the road and they had a few to choose from. Most of the fish looked very sick and on the verge of death so I choose one healthy red beta and one healthy blue beta for him to choose from. At first he acted as though he wanted both fishys, but eventually ended up with the blue one.

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Mommy: “Do you want to take this fishy home?”

Sammy: “YEP YEP YEP!”

Mommy: “what do you want to name him?”

Sammy: “Bluefish”

Mommy: “Bluefish is a nice name, baby”

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Bluefish is now enjoying his new home in Sam’s room. Here are some photos of the fish choosing process: (and yes, he choose to wear his buzz pj’s from grammy allllll day!)

will post pictures when i get home from work (if i remember!)

Sunday morning after sammy and i got home from church i laid him down for a nap and finished making my christmas cards and some other chirstmas crafts to give out on thursday. Then once sam was up we fed him lunch and opened our presents to each other. We basically just got smaller things for each other this y ear. (although casey did get me some james avery earings that i have wanted for a long time!) and sammy got a few small toys, a little piano, animal cookies and a snack size bowl of manderan oranges (his favorite snack!)

(oh, while i am thinking about it... i also got a gift subscription to guns and ammo magizine - and YES it was something i wanted. we are going to buy each other new guns in april - ish. WHOO!)

after we exchanged our small gifts we headed out to Tomball, Texas to check out the 'night of lights' neighborhood. There were hundreds of others there to check out the lights, and it took several hours to drive down just a few streets. Sam really liked it - especally when a lady knocked on our window and gave sammy a mini-candy cane. The only time sam got upset was when he noticed me and casey getting into our stash of sugar free life savers and of course we didn't give him one (they are choking hazards, but sam doesn't know all of that... he just knows he wants one and mommy said no).

then we came home to a big pot of cajun chicken, sausage and rice simmering away in our crock pot.

casey and i always do something for our little festivus, but having sammy with us and going out to see lights made it that much more awesome. i also decided on changing the name of 'festivus maximus' to "festivus-kelchmas" i just like it better.

this week we'll be celebrating christmas with our familys.

MERRY CHRISTMAS YA'LL!

PLEASE BE SAFE!

whoa, where do i even start? there have been so many things going on and i haven't blogged in a long time about it all.

i guess i'll start off by saying i got a new job! i started at Cameron on monday. Today is day 4 and i totally love it so far. I have made one new friend, Lauren, who is about the same age & height as me and she has a 23 month old son. We seriously have waaaaaaaaaaay to much in common. She's pretty cool. On my first day here my whole team took me out to Caraba's to welcome me to the team, that was awesome because not many companies do that now-a-days. After orientation i got my offical name badge, car decal, and Cam EZ tag... so i guess its offical. This morning I had a few extra mintues to grab some of the framed photos of sammy that i brought home from Mercer to bring up here. So its starting to feel like this is really *my* desk now. They hired me a neighbor that is starting on 1/5/08, but untill then i am kinda alone on my side of the hall. No one is really far from me at all though, so i still see and talk to everyone on this team.

Raise - Check
Earlier Hours - Check
Sleep Deprived - Check

When i accepted this position i promised sammy that we would have a date night once a week to spend time alone together. we'd either go to denny's (his favorite place on earth), the park, or to the pond to feed the ducks. yesterday was sopossed to be our first date night, but since it got dark at like 4:30 and it was raining we just went to my mom's house for dinner. Tonight i plan on taking him to the park and the pond if the weather isn't too bad. man, i do love my new hours but i can't seem to get in the habbit of going to bed BEFORE midnight and waking up at 5. Last night i went to bed at 9pm (the earliest i have gone in WEEKS) and managed to almost crawl out of bed on time today. The atmophere is much more relaxed here, but you do have to dress super-professional everyday (no jeans on friday!) so that meant i had to get alot of new clothes. I still need more, but the ones i got will last me a little while. But this also means i ahve to get up earlier and do my hair and make up (something i never did at any other job before now, because i HATE makeup and i HATE doing my hair.) but i am getting used to it. oh, god.... heels aren't my friend. I am short and used to being close to the ground AND they kill my feet. LOL

christmas is coming - we have shopped our tails off and now i need to mail out the cards (and make about 50 more) and wrap the presents.... i hope to do that (or part of that) tonight.

i am so tired, i know this blog makes no sense.... i'll try to right another one tonight!

adios.