Scary news and exciting news!

About 4 weeks ago I noticed that I was spotting...I was so scared. My doctor told me there was nothing that could really be done. So at about 10pm at night we called my in-laws and they came over so that my father-in-law could help give me a blessing. It is amazing what a blessing can do to calm you down.

then about a week ago Squirt was up most of the night coughing so we took him to the doctor and found out that his right ear tube is plugged with wax and he has an ear infection in that ear now.

Then this last tuesday I went to my doctors with my lovely husband to hopefully get to hear the heartbeat and she tried to hear it with her little heart monitor but she couldn't so we got to go have an ultrasound and we got to see the baby kick and hear the heart beat and we even have a profile picture of our little one.

Our weeks have been busy but fun.
PS. For those of you that forgot today is my husbands birthday! Which means that Squirt gets to spend the night at Grandma Rosie's house.

Remember to smile it makes people wonder what you are up to.

Christmas fun!

A lot has been going on in our lives lately... My show closed...I also got made head prop mistress. Squirt has grown up so much lately... He loves Buzz and Woody. He knows so much, it is amazing. My husband has survived about 3-4 layoffs in the last 2 months. (Thankfully)

We are grateful for the love and care everyone has shown us... Christmas is a wonderful holiday to make us take a step back and realize that we can help "Pay it forward" any time of the year.

We want to wish you all a merry christmas and Squirt has one final message to share with all of you...

Adventures in theatre land....wow it has been a long time since I have been there.

So my life is starting to get really busy again with the show I am doing, hence why I haven't blogged in awhile. But I have learned alot in the past few weeks. Here are just a few lessons I have learned.

1st is when dipping apples in fresh, hot off the stove homemade carmel, never hold the stick so that the apple is directly over your hand. Why you may ask? because then that hot carmel drips off of the apple and will land on your hand and burn you. See...

Yes it really hurt.

2nd is that no matter who sits infront of your son during his preschool halloween program, your son is still the cutest one there. See...

I think in the last picture he was saying cool because he was looking at this...

They were making witches brew.

Oh and by the way he doesn't like witches. (this is his daycare director)

Well just one last thought - always smile it makes people wonder what you are up to.

Gardner Village fun!

Inbetween the sunday sessions of conference I decided to take the family and go to gardner village to try to get some fun autumn/witch shots of Jimmy. Here are the best ones.
Note to self next time go after Jimmy has had a nap not before!

We hope to get more professional photos done soon!

More recent pictures!

Here is Jimmy playing outside (don't worry this is before it started to get cold)

Jimmy helping daddy and grandpa fix the car

Here is Jimmy saying Cheese.

Here is Jimmy's fish - His name is Bruce - He is a blue male beta fish - Can you guess what movie we watch a lot - Hint: is has something to do with the fish in the background.

Here is Jimmy's other fish - His name is Chum - He is a Chinese algae eater

Life is full of challenges!

So as many of you know I work at Hale Theatre. And I love theatre(this is where my lovely husband would roll his eyes) especially being in shows. Although I haven't made it into a show at Hale, I auditioned for 2 shows just recently Babes in Toyland (at the Empress Theatre in Magna) and Savior of the World(at the Church's Conference Center Theater). Personally I thought that I totally did HORRIBLE for my audition for Babes in Toyland, and that my audition for Savior of the World audition was amazingly better! But what do I know (well ok I know the director of Babes in Toyland) So I am cast in Babes in Toyland!!! I didn't make Savior of the world but I will definately audition again, that experince was amazing (but another story, if you want to hear about it email me.) So much to my husbands dismay I am in a show luckily I only so far have rehearsals on wednesday nights. That was a blessing this last weekend when I didn't have work at Hale(we are inbetween shows Into the Woods starts tonight) or rehearsal, because my son had a very hard night (friday-saturday). It started with him being bit 3 times by the same girl at daycare on thursday, but Friday night he went to bed fine but then I was awaken by an almost blood curtiling scream from him. I ran to check on him, when I got to his room he threw himself down on his bed and was gripping his stomach (mind you he is only 2 and can't really convey what he is feeling very well) and after finally getting him out of bed, he screamed that he wanted daddy, so I rushed to get my husband who helped calm him down but I could tell that he still wasn't doing good, and had spats of screaming. We almost took him to the ER when he finally calmed down I let my husband go back to sleep and between 3 and 6am my son threw up about 8 to 10 times. Then he wanted daddy at 6 so we went and got him then I got to sleep from 6 to 9 while the boys slept together on the lazyboy. He got back to his normal self by monday.

Well I hope to be able to post more later.

Lots going on!

A lot has happened recently in our family (and Lizzy's extended family). My Brother and his family are now finally all together in North Carolina, My sister-in-law, Shallyse and my 4 year old neice Malia and my 7week old neice Kairi, were able to fly back on August 19th with my mom to be with my brother George in North Carolina. My brother got a job with IBM and had to relocate to North Carolina and he left 7 weeks ago (2 days after Kairi was born) and Shallyse and the girls couldn't go until Kairi was 6 weeks old. It has been hard on my mom and I, My mom because she is now no where close to my neices and me because my brother and I have been so close, and we have never really lived very far apart. It is a struggle because Malia and Jimmy don't really understand why they don't get to see eachother daily like they used to.

2 weeks ago we had a scare in our family - I was stuck at the Hale Centre Theatre (where I work part time at nights and saturday mornings) I am part of the Guild and was making dinner for the cast on the 16th and I got a call from my mom saying "why did your husband just call me asking me what the symptoms of West Nile Virus are?" to which my response was "WHAT?" and she repeated herself then said "WHY? and Seth said "well because I have been having head aches(which I kinda knew about), body aches (I didn't know about), and I am now having fevers and chills." My heart sank as I said to my mom "well.... what are the symptoms?" To which she listed off everything that seth had told her he was feeling. As I almost broke out into tears I said bye to her and quickly called my husband and said "Is there something you need to tell me?" and we talked briefly when I told him I would call his parents to see if they could come over to help with Jimmy..... To not gross you out with what came next I will skip a part....My father-in-law took Seth to the doctor and they ran a blood test for west nile, and a urine test. Early thoughts were that he had west nile and that the west nile led to a kidney infection....Luckily for us neither were true they think that he just had a virus. It made Seth's stomach pretty sensitive for a while, but it is getting better. We survived it. I will post more later.