Numbered Happenings

Well, well, well.

Quite a bit has been going on around here. 

Lets see:

1. I'm preparing for halle's THIRD birthday party.

2. The twins went from 6 teeth to 12 teeth in a month in a half (both of them).

3. I got a tooth extracted and a piece of metal in my face.

4. BOTH my sisters are expecting little babes.

5. My husband finished his last elective class to officially be graduated with his masters.

6. My uncle was sent home with lymphoma with no other options or treatments.

7. My sisters town (minot, nd) was flooded, now living on bottled or boiled water.

8. Plus, we're in the grueling process of getting the details sorted to begin our house.

Man, i could keep going, but those are the pressing things on my mind currently.

So i'll start from the being and elaborate.

1

Halle, turns three July 18th! THREE! she's so big and beautiful and smart and so so much personality and being quite the big sister. She's potty trained, through naps and sleepy times (its just those dang #2's that are unpredictable apparently). She starts Mothers Day out in the Fall, and i'm so excited for her to get out and interact with other kids and play and have a teacher to listen to and learn, i really am so thrilled for her because i know she'll just love it. Its so crazy how much a year changes my little girls. From babies, to full blown toddlers, to little girls ... bittersweet for sure. For her party i'm doing yellow and red, butterflys, tissuee paper pom poms, butterfly cookie, and 2 shipley's doughnut cakes, one chocolate and one cherry! :) I'm thinking pizza for our eats but that just seems like a cop-out, we'll see. but, lots of gifts and goodies for everyone. 

2

Teething, what a bitch! times 2, lord save me! When this teething passes i think i'll be able to breath again. It has been a true test of patience and unconditional love. But so frustrating because there really is nothing i can do to bare the pain from them or for them. Load them up on ibuprofen, oral gel, things to sucker on, chew on and then what ... just sit back and watch them suffer. The twins work as follows: when one is slightly hurting the other see's she's getting attention so she needs to 'hurt' more, but then the other one see's this and then she needs to 'hurt' even more and so on and so forth. It can get quite ridiculous at times but then i think, all babies just want and need to be held, by their momma, for their our attention and moment and they never quite get that solo moment they ever so crave. (one of the down sides to multiples) It is what it is, and we make it through and it really isn't so bad after all is said and done, and tomorrow is a new day (a better one, we always hope for) Don't you love this picture of my innocent crazed Teethers :) this will always be a super favorite picture.

3

My upper right tooth #4 developed a random of random disease, internal resorption. Its where the tooth hollows itself from the inside out. So last month's xray showed all that was left was the enamel of my tooth and the disease was starting to make the root of my tooth bulge in attempt to protect itself. And it looked like the bulging was almost about to get into my sinuses. In the end, i had the tooth extracted and sort of chipped out of my bone (becuase is was bulging too big to just pull straight out), the sinuses were thankfully unaffected, they put some calcium bone grafts in the fill in some space to hold a metal implant in place, a few stitches and some hydrocodone and i'm just like new, just a little toothless. 3 months down the road i'll get a crown that screws into the implant and i can wash my hands of this toothy business. This pic is my actual tooth. Its the 2nd one from the left. Click to enlarge and you can see the root and the cementum bulging around it and you can only see partial hollowing in this pic.

4

Both my sisters are expecting. I think that makes 8 grandbabies on my side, all within 4 years. Thats a bit much, right?! :) But the more the merrier i like to think. There's never a dull moment. Aimee is due this December and Tiffany is due March 2012. I love me some babies, there's nothing more fresh and pure and innocent. Love them all, that's for sure.

5

My husband officially can have his piece of paper, aka diploma, for his Masters in Architecture. He had one lousy elective he needed to have everything complete, and July 7th, to be exact, he took his final and he can be rid of school! So proud he did it all but so ready to get to our next chapter ... home owning and home building.

6

My uncle, Tom, was diagnosed with lymphoma a while back. He was able to get it to go into remission, but lymphoma almost always comes back, and back it came. He has been threw ever treatment he could possibly ever go through and for a brief moment it looked a little positive where he could maybe get a bone marrow transplant but in the end a test showed the the cancer was in control of over 95% of his blood. And he is now home to live whatever time he has left. I need, I have to be thankful for each new day because it is a gift to have another day. Another to love and live and to breathe ... It is a privilege to have such amazingly beautiful and wonderful people around me and to love. 

Click to know more about lymphoma: Lymphoma

7

My sister is a comin'! With the husband and kidlets in tow! I'm so excited to see them all. With the flooding in Minot, now is as good a time as any to come down to see ME! :) haha. We're gonna have a Harry Potter date to see the new one, i'm so pumped to see it, i know to some its way dorky of me but i really can't help myself. The kiddos will have a blast playing and plus halle's birthday party fun. They live SO far so i really like their visits, its a lot to come all this way and with kiddos in tow, so it just means that much more.

8

OUR HOUSE. OUR HOME. it cannot happen fast enough. I'm so anxious excited and nervous, its crazy. We still have lots to figure out but now thats Brett's 100% done with school we can really move forward with things. We do officially own the lot now. I'm gonna try to document as much of the home building as i can. Odds and ends, drawings, pictures, random annoying facts. Something so exciting definitely MUST be documented (in my opinion).

There's just so much to keep track of and wrap my mind around. It always happens that everything just happens all at one time, and then there's a calm to the storm and then *bam* again! I do happen to work well under pressure so maybe its just nature that things happen that way. I have my downer days but much more upper days to make up for the those down days. And i do really appreciate those calms so much more after it all.