Today is Tuesday!!

So today is Tuesday and I am one day behind on writing my tests for this month. I wanted to make sure that I was ready to write them as I need to get really good marks this year. I was supposed to have them written by yesterday but that just did not happen. Last week I took Hannah to the doctor and after having chest xrays we found out that she has pneumonia. So she has been on meds and has been a bit cranky the last little while. I had been praying that she would be feeling much better by Sunday as it was her dedication at Church. When Sunday morning rolled around I knew it was going to be a good day. She was so happy and content and she had a great day with her cousins. It may have been too good of a day for her though. When Monday came around she was quite grumpy unless I was holding her and when she got tired she screamed and screamed until she just could not keep her eyes open any longer. It did not help that I had to take her for another chest xray in the morning. I am not sure if I have described the chest xray process to you but i will do that now. The technician put her onto what could be described as a bicycle seat for babies. Then the other technician held her arms up while the first guy wrapped a plastic cone around her little body to hold her in a seated position with her hands up over her head. Once she was strapped in they took a couple pictures of her chest and told me to go and wait while they checked the images to make sure they got 2 good pictures. Did I mention that she had to be naked for this procedure? Well she did, she could keep her diaper on but that was it. I felt so bad for her. So bad that I thought I would leave her in the seat just a few seconds longer to get a picture so that all of you could see what it actually looked like. But alas the room was too dark and my picture did not turn out so you will just have to use your imagination.

I do not have any pictures to show this time but maybe on wordless Wednesday I will be able to scrounge up a few pictures for all of you to see.

A long day!!

So I took Hannah to the walk in clinic yesterday. We found out that she has a croupe like sound coming from her chest. I had to take her to get chest x-rays and to pick up some penicillin to help her get back to her normal self. She apparently takes after me when it comes to taking penicillin, she stays wide awake instead of konking out. She has been much crankier the last few days and not sleeping much. I sure hope this passes over soon so we can get back to normal.

Sunday is her dedication at Church and I am sure hoping that she will feel much better by then.

Wordless Wednesday!

Busy September

So things have been really busy since school started for Mike and myself. I have been working on school stuff and Mike has been trying to get his real estate stuff finished. Mike has finally completed everything and is a full fledged real estate agent!! Yay!! I am working on my last year of school and I am actually enjoying this year. Hannah is doing great! I took her for her 2 month needles on Monday! She was a trooper. She only cried when they started to inject the fluid stuff and she only cried for a minute. I took her to the waiting room and she started talking away and was happy. She has been a little cranky the last few days though so I think she is just getting it out of her system. She is getting so big and so sociable. I just want her to be awake all the time but we also need the time when she is sleeping to get stuff done. When she is awake all I do is either hold her or lay on the floor with her and talk to her. So I guess her sleeping is necessary for me to get stuff done!

Today was our first Mots class. It was fun, a bunch of moms from the church or community were there. I was able to leave Hannah with some grandmas from the church who volunteered to come and babysit and I was able to spend time with other moms and not worry about Hannah. It was nice to talk to other people who have babies. I am glad that I went.

Busy morning

So today Hannah and I had a very busy morning. Mike was asked to bring pictures of Hannah to school so all the teachers could see his baby but since we have not developed any of our pictures of her we decided to just bring her to the school. Everyone thought she was just so cute and that she looked just like her daddy. After they all went to their classrooms I took Hannah to my old school J.R. Reid to show her to all the teachers that I used to work with. She was such a good sport about being shown to so many people. She smiled a bunch and then fell asleep. After that visit we went to the church for a Mots meeting which took till lunch time. Now I am home and I am fed, Hannah is sleeping in her swing and I feel the need to get some homework done. I also feel the need to take a nap. I am not sure which one is going to win out on this one but I do know for sure that a blanket, warm slippers and a cup of tea will be involved in whatever I choose to do!

Wordless Wednesday!

Weekend Seminar

On August 20-22 I went back to school for my last year of school. It was the first time going to classes after having Hannah. I was feeling stressed just going back to school and having to find someone to watch Hannah while I was in class. I had asked my sister Christine to come and she was only too happy to come and spend the weekend with Hannah and myself. Then Dwayne and Judy found out that they were going to be induced and were going to have their baby on the weekend. Since Chris had told Judy she would watch Meredith for her when baby #2 came along Chris was not able to come. I asked my good friend Whitney if she would be able to come and she said yes. The weekend went faster than I thought it would but it was still as stressful as I thought it would be. I spent much of my time in class worrying that Hannah was crying and that Whitney would be stressed out having to care for a screaming child. She did cry but not as much as I worried she might. It was good to come home and see Mike. After we arrived back in Brandon we went to the hospital to meet my new niece Chloe. She was so little (compared to Hannah) and so very cute.

On the Tuesday of that week Hannah and I got back in the car and drove to Austin to visit my parents and sisters. It was good to see them and spend some time just relaxing while other people took care of Hannah for me.

Then Thursday came around and Mike took off to the farm to be a farmer for a couple of days so my mom came out to Brandon to pick me up and take me back to Austin. Chris and Judy came to mom and dads on Thursday evening to hang out. Again it was a great day to have other people to help take care of Hannah. I came back on the Friday and boy oh boy was it nice to be at home. On Sunday we went to a picnic to celebrate our friends 1 year birthday of his bone marrow transplant. Later on that night we went out to our friends Thomas and Shelda's farm for a bon fire. It was so good to hang out with friends.

We spent Monday and Tuesday at home relaxing. Then on Tuesday evening I drove out to MacGregor to my sister Kim's house for a girls night of eating ice cream and watching a movie. We stayed up late. Wednesday morning we got up and got ready for a day of shopping in Winnipeg. Mom, Chris, Kim and myself went to Winnipeg to spend the day shopping and just spending time with each other. Judy decided to stay at home since Chloe was only a week and a half old but I think she will be able to join us on our next venture out to the big city.

We had a great time shopping and got back to Austin late so I stayed at mom and dads for the night before come back to Brandon.

On Thursday Mike and I went shopping for shelves to make my coat closet in my kitchen into a pantry. While I sat on the computer for my evening class Mike put up the shelves in the closet. It looks great and I am so thankful that my husband is so handy.

That about sums it up!! Maybe next time I will blog as things happen and you won't have to read so much about my life at one time.

Ok so, the last few weeks have been a bit busy for me and Hannah as we have been gone from home quite a bit. The last place I left all of you was the day of our anniversary. So I have a few pics of me in my wedding dress (cause I fit) and a few pics of our date night. Mike and I went to the Keg for supper. It was really great, we had a chance to talk about the expectations that we have for each other and how we truly feel our marriage is going. We then went to the bulk barn and bought some candy and then went to the theater. We watched Inception. It was actually pretty good. We left Hannah with Mike's mom for the evening and she was quite a good baby for her Grandma. Mike and I were very thankful for the evening out just the two of us. It was fantastic to go on an actual date!!!

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Wednesday!!

So today is our anniversary and Mike and I decided to do something special. We have a reservation for 5 at the Keg and then we are heading off to see inception. Mike's mom is coming to babysit for Hannah while we are out spending time with each other.

This morning I decided to play a little dress up with Hannah. I found two outfits that I had worn when I was a baby so I thought I would try them on her and take a picture. The pink outfit was a little snug and she did not really like it. The picture of her in the duck shirt and brown pants is what she is wearing today!

New people to meet!!!

Yesterday we went to Boissevain for supper. Mike's grandma, aunt Val and cousins Alex and Dixon were out and they had not seen Hannah in person. Grandma made a wonderful supper of Cheelcha (not sure if I spelt that right), smontfat and sausage. It was so good!!! We all had a good time!

Monday!!!

So we took Hannah to church yesterday even though she had proved to be quite grumpy in the morning. I think it was the best thing we could have done. She slept through the whole service (with some rocking of the car seat)! Then we went out for lunch with some friends and she slept all through lunch. She started to wake up just as we were finishing lunch so we sped home and fed her before she got to angry. Then all afternoon she was only awake long enough to eat and then she went right back to sleep without having to be rocked or have to sit in her swing. It was a great afternoon of hanging out with friends and being able to actually visit without having to console a crying baby. She slept her usual hours at night so my guess is she really needed sleep. Today has been fairly good. She has been awake for a good amount of time but she has also had a really good nap. I am hoping that she will nap long enough for me to get some baking done this afternoon. I was also thinking that I might pack her into the stroller and walk to the mall and mail some letters that I have sitting here on my table.

Today is my day to make some cold calls for pampered chef. I am quite nervous about it cause I don't like talking to people I don't know and asking them to have a cooking show in their house. First of all, I don't really like doing the cooking shows. I just wish I had people calling me asking me to put in orders for them so that I could just sit here at home and put the orders in. Oh well, I will just have to suck it up and do it. We could use a little extra money around here so here I go...

Oh so tired!!!

Ok so today is Sunday and my baby has not had a great start to her day. I am not sure if I ate something that did not agree with her stomach or if she is growing and has some growing pains, but she sure can scream. I fed her, changed her, rubbed her back and her stomach. I let her lay skin to skin, gave her gripe water, put her in the swing, layed her in the play pen with the vibrator and nothing seemed to work. By the time she was into a full forced angry scream it had been 1 and a1/2 hours since I fed her last so I fed her again while I was eating breakfast at the table. She fell asleep while I was feeding her so I just left her laying on the table. I know I can here it now " you left her on the table unsupervised??? WHAT ARE YOU THINKING????" Well, I am thinking that when my baby is happy then I am happy so if she is content to lay on the table I will leave her there. I am not a bad mom, just a very tired mom!!! As I write this I can hear her making happy noises while she listens to the dishwasher run! OH the sounds of contentment. Well, it is almost time to go give her a bath and get her dressed for church!!

I don't really have a whole lot of new info to post but I thought I would post some new pics of Hannah!!

Wow time is flying by!! On Tuesday our baby was one month old and growing like a weed. I can't believe how big she is already. We went to public health on Tuesday to weigh her and she was 9lbs 12ozs. She is super long and starting to develop quite a large double chin. I don't think we need to worry about her gaining weight, she has that part under control. She loves her baths and she loves her new swing. We found a swing on Portage online and bought it for $80. It is pretty much brand new and it is a $200 swing. I love finding good deals. Hannah has started to fight sleep and screams until we finally convince her that sleeping is a good idea! It takes a bit and is draining for both of us but we are working on it.

I start back to school next weekend and I am not really looking forward to it. I have gotten used to sleeping in for however long I want and just hanging out on the couch but now I will actually have to get up early and sit in class and pay attention. This should be interesting! My wonderful sister is coming along to sit with Hannah while I am in class!!! Hopefully Hannah is good for her or she may never volunteer again. So if anyone else is reading this other than Chris and you are available on a weekend to come sit with Hannah while I am in class please let me know.

Also, if you are reading this please leave a little note so that I know that someone is reading my blogs and that it is actually worth updating them!!

A Lot of Changes!!!

Ok so I have decided that it is time to update my blog. I thought of this all on my own with no nagging from my sister Christine!!!

There have been a lot of changes to our family in the last couple months. I will try to break them down for you in this post.

On June 18th we moved into a new house. We now live in a bi level home with an unfinished basement. The plan is to finish the basement ourselves. There are 2 bedrooms and one bathroom on the main floor. We plan on adding one more room in the basement as well as a laundry room, bathroom and rec room.

On July 13th we were blessed with the birth of our beautiful baby girl Hannah Elizabeth Peters. She was born at 11:59 am. She was 8lbs 12ozs 20 3/4 inches long. We had quite a few visitors come that day to see her. Hannah was tested for jaundice on Wednesday and had to spend all of thursday and thursday night under the light. She hated it and I could not stand to see her cry and not be able to do anything about it. So my wonderful sisters came in and kept me company and brought me ice cream. We were finally able to bring our beautiful baby girl home on July 16th at 7 pm. We had some friends come over that evening to bring me a birthday cake and celebrate my birthday.

Things have been going really well for Hannah and myself. Hannah sleeps approximately 5-7 hours a night and really only cries when she needs something. We are so blessed!!

Spring has come!!

It is the middle of March and already the snow is gone from the streets. It is almost time to drag the scooter out of the shed and get it gassed up.

I am now 23 weeks pregnant and feeling great. A little bit of heartburn now and then but that is about it. This baby is moving around more and more these days and I am just in wonder that there really is a little human being inside of me. I realized that I did not post any pictures of our little one so here is a picture from the ultrasound.

Mike wrote his phase 2 exam and aced it with a 91%. He is doing really well and I am so very excited for him. He is working on phase 2 of his real estate course and then he is done. I can't wait for that day. God has blessed us both with so much and I am forever grateful!

A new addition!!!

Hey everyone,

I have not been very faithful in keeping the info here updated. So the newest news is that Mike and I are going to have a baby. I am now five months pregnant and really enjoying being pregnant. I have not really had any morning sickness just a little bit of nauseousness. I have started to feel the baby moving around which is so amazing! What a wonderful gift from God.

Mike is studying for his phase 2 exam. He should be able to write soon.

Mike and I are both in a wedding next week. I am really excited about going to this wedding, I just know it will be a lot of fun. Hopefully I will fit my dress.