I figured it out finally!! I added pics! Yay! Now I will start adding more pics more often! Enjoy!

Thanks for this weekend!!

We had our house warming yesterday. First time we have had a real get together at our house. Thank you to all of you who came, and for the gifts!! It was great to see everyone, we love to entertain, so it is always fun!! I hope that we can have many more get togethers at the house, and look forward to being able to spend more time with everyone. I also want to welcome back some of the boys from the squadron, we are glad you guys made it back safe. Halia and Joshua had fun playing together, and Halia is quite the ham. She started pulling up on the couch that night, and now it is constant. She is standing up in her crib every time I walk in her room now. Ahhh, they grow so fast, and before we know it, she will be walking and into everything!! Anyways, Thanks again to everyone! I will post again soon, and if I can ever figure it out, I will add more pictures.

It is Friday, and the weekend is here, and I can truly thank God for that. This week has seemed to take a toll on us. Not only has work been crazy for us both, it seems we come home to do more work, (as do most of you right). Jake had surgery Thursday morning and that went well. We dropped Halia off at daycare and got to the outpatient clinic at about 6:30. He went into surgery at about 8:40 and I got to see him at about 10:20 once he had recovered. They fixed his Flica in his knee and also scraped out some arthritis. The Dr said that it might be something that will bother him off and on as he does anything from here on. He is eager to get back to softball. His crazy nurse got him even more excited by telling him he could probably be playing in a month or month and a half!! Ahhh some people. Anyways, we got him home and settled in the chair and I headed to work, when about two hours later, Halia's daycare called and said she had a fever of 102.8! I went into instant mommy panic. I went and picked her up and called the Dr, who told me to just monitor it throughout the night and call back in the morning to be seen. Well I call this morning to let them know she still had slight fever 99.5 and I thought it might be her ears. She told me to just put drops and she should be fine! Um... No she has had probs with her ears for so long, we need to get her checked and need a note for daycare. I went to get the note and our nurse got us in with Dr. Williams, so I feel much better now. Our little angel is fine, she just has an ear infection and they gave her some medicine for reflux for her cough. I hope she starts to feel better. It seems like she has had an ear infection and cough since she came home from the hospital. Anyways, this weekend we are off to fort smith!! I am looking forward to it. Just relax, swim, and bbq with the family. Jake and I might even be able to sneak in a date night(the first real one since Halia came home) on saturday night! Hope you all have a great weekend!! God bless!

Well I know its been a few days since I have updated. Halia started crawling today!! It really just amazes me how big she is. We decided this week to move her to the daycare at my work. They finally had an opening after being on the list since I was pregnant. I never knew that making a decision about a daycare could be so nerveracking:) It will be good I think though, she will be close and it will be easier on all of us. Other then that, we just had a relaxing day. Played, and went outside for awhile, and she is sleeping again. I love the weekends, but they go too fast, and it seems she sleeps alot because she doesnt hardly sleep at daycare, so maybe she is just catching up.

Each day is so fascinating to watch how much Halia learns. It is so exciting to see how someone so little and innocent has to literally learn everything, but to actually see her figuring things out and teach herself. She is pretty much crawling, it went from belly crawling, to leap frog, and now she does a kind of jump, but gets where she wants to go. She can have a ton of toys, but finds the dogs chew toys more fascinating every time. She has also just started doing what I call her cheese grin, when she is doing just about anything, she scrunches her face up and huffs and puffs and laughs, it is so cute. We are having so much fun being parents and growing with our little one!




This is a poem I found while going through some inspirational quotes, etc, and I wanted to share.


SLOW DANCE

Have you ever watched kids
On a merry-go-round?
Or listened to the rain
Slapping on the ground?
Ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight?
Or gazed at the sun into the fading night?
You better slow down.
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.
Do you run through each day
On the fly?
When you ask How are you?
Do you hear the reply?
When the day is done
Do you lie in your bed
With the next hundred chores
Running through your head?
You'd better slow down
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.
Ever told your child,
We'll do it tomorrow?
And in your haste,
Not see his sorrow?
Ever lost touch,
Let a good friendship die
Cause you never had time
To call and say,"Hi"
You'd better slow down.
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.
When you run so fast to get somewhere
You miss half the fun of getting there.
When you worry and hurry through your day,
It is like an unopened gift....
Thrown away.
Life is not a race.
Do take it slower
Hear the music
Before the song is over.

This was written by a little girl who had cancer, to live life to its fullest since she won't get to. It makes you think about how important the little things are and to not worry so much about all the day to day pety stuff.

Welcome!

Hey all, well I figured I would try to create a site where everyone could better keep up with us. I think it is a great way to keep everyone posted and keep in touch in what seems to be a busy world!! Our family is doing good, but just busy as usual. Jake is working, and seems to be overworked much of the time(haha). I am working at Children's hospital in the ambulatory surgery area, and enjoy it. Halia is going to daycare, and is enjoying the interaction with the other kids, she seems to be learning alot. She is so big now, she was 18lbs at her last check up two weeks ago and finally made the charts! She is in the 25percentile for everything now, height, weight and head circumference which is good, that means our little one has finally caught up with the other kids her age, yay!! She is trying hard to be on the move, rolling and belly crawling, and getting on those and hands and knees rocking. Before we know it she will be crawling and walking, and we will be trying to get her to sit still. They grow so fast! I can't believe she is already 10months olds, how time flies. We also finally got into our new house and love it!! We are almost settled, and it feels like home, and we are so glad we are out of that crazy base housing. I hope everyone is doing well, and I will try to get on every few days and post something small. I love inspirational quotes and all that, so when I find things I like I will put them on here and once I figure it out, will add pics. God bless, and stay tuned to our sight.