Today is a new day

As you can see... everyone is all better today. I still kept Connor home from school today since I wasn't really sure how he would be feeling today. Obviously, he is fine. Tomorrow it's back to school with him!

Whitney discovered the slide today for the first time. It was so cute! She was concentrating so hard to climb up the slide but would only get so far before she slid back down. She never gave up though! lol!

Just Shoot Me!!!

Things took a major turn last night around 11:20pm. Just as we're going to bed, about ready to fall asleep... we hear Connor throwing up in his bed. Lucky for me, we had Lasagna and Strawberry Shortcake for dinner last night. Uggg! So between 11:20 to 2:00am Connor threw up over 20 times. Every 10-20 minutes he was in the bathroom.

Then, around 3:00am, Aiden starts throwing up too. Between 3:00am to 7:00am someone threw up at least every 20-30 minutes. Jeremy slept on our 2-person loveseat downstairs. I slept between the boys in our bed so I could get up with each one every time they threw up. Several times I had Connor in the bathroom throwing up while Aiden was bent over a large bowl throwing up at the same time. Then as we get settled down for 10-20 minutes until the next round... Whitney would wake up and I would go feed her and come back to both of the boys throwing up again.

Jeremy had to take Eric to the airport this morning. He came back home and let me sleep until 11:00. No one has thrown up since around noon. So, I think we are over the worst of it. Needless to say, we are ALL going to bed at 7:oopm tonight!

Uncle Eric

Eric Brown was visiting this week to take the Western Board Exams for Dental Licensure. The boys took an immediate liking to him. We just got back from celebrating the end of his tests at Gates BBQ. The boys DID NOT like the spicy BBQ sauce and Whitney wasn't too thrilled about the pickles. lol!

Then... Eric tried to pull Connors loose tooth out. He totally failed! Connor actually said:

"What are you doing, Dude!"

Explanation

Ok... my last post was my first attempt at posting pictures. For some reason it did not publish the pics in the order that I put them, so it's a little confusing. But, you get the idea. These are pics of our home here in Prairie Village, KS. It is currently a work in progress and will be looking great this time next year. We've got lots of work to do but we love it!! :)
BTW - if you look closely at the pic of Whitney's bedroom you'll see her little head in there sleeping and then one of the backyard pics shows Aiden out there looking for bugs.

Pictures of home

Background

It appears to be working. So now I need to be better about posting here than I ever was with writing in a journal or even in the kids baby books!
I guess I'll start with a little background. Jeremy and I got married in Jan. 2000 while living and going to school in Kansas. We had our first child, Connor, 2 years later in California. Our second child, Aiden, was born less than 2 years later in Utah. Our 3rd and last child, Whitney, was born 31/2 years later back in California. Now, here we are, back in Kansas. We have moved a lot in the 8 years we've been married.
Here is a summary of all of our moves:
1. Tonganoxie, KS to Napa, CA
2. Napa, CA to Midvale, UT
3. Midvale, UT to Sandy, UT
4. Sandy, UT to Spokane, WA (with a short stay in ID for Amy and in TX for Jeremy)
5. Spokane, WA to Napa, CA
6. Napa, CA to Fremont, CA (apartment)
7. Fremont, CA to Fremont, CA (house)
8. Fremont, CA to Prairie Village, KS (with another short stay in ID for Amy)

Somehow during all these moves we managed to also have 3 kids!!! It's been busy! Things are finally starting to settle down a little for us now.
Jeremy has a great job. He works for GSA within the Federal Government. We just bought our first home and live in a great neighborhood. We love it our here! I am adjusting from working full-time PLUS to just staying home with our kids. Staying home has been our goal all along and all I've really ever wanted to do ever since Connor was born, but it just wasn't possible. I love being home and am so grateful everyday that I don't have to drop my kids off at daycare anymore. But, I won't lie. It is REALLY hard being home. I think it would have been easier if it had been more gradual instead of coming home after having 3 kids. I'm not really creative so I have to put some work and effort into thinking of things to do. But, I'm learning. My best days are when we have a full schedule with things to do as opposed to just waking up and having nothing planned. Those days seem to DRAG on forever!! I guess I'm just not used to all the free time.
Well, I imagine there is some kind of rule out there as to the length of blogs. I've probably surpassed it with this one. The rest will be shorter.

Testing

Ok... so now that I'm a "SAHM" I've been told that I need to have a blog. This is my first entry... let's see if it works.