Kaelyn and I were both in the wedding, she was a lovely little red headed flower girl. I was a pregnant blond bridesmaid.
The wedding was great, it was on a boat in Newport and Raeanne looked lovely, of course. And she was just sweet as pie and never showed her pre-wedding nerves in the form of snapping at all of us. ;o) She denies it, but even being a bit snappy, as I'm sure most brides are, she wasn't all that bad. I'm waiting to see the pictures from the photographer, but here are a couple in the mean time.
Just days after the wedding we all got sick and we were miserable, but I think I already blogged about the misery. No need to hear it all again. Then we started to feel better just in time for Kenny's birthday. We went to celebrate at Disneyland since this is their celebration year and everyone gets in free on their birthday. We left Brandt at home with Nana and just took Kaelyn and we had a positively splendid time. We felt super guilty leaving Brandt out of our little family Day-cation. We kept going back and forth about it. However, once we got there, especially with how crowded it ended up getting, we knew we had made the best decision for everyone. Kaelyn just soaked up the one on one attention from us all day, you could actually SEE a positive change. She was in heaven and was totally acting like it. It was much more easy going and low-stress for Kenny and I also. We never had to split up or trade kids like we would have had to do if we had Brandt. He still naps quite religiously and it would have been really hard for him to wait in the lines. He is still just too young to make it worthwhile. So he had a fun day at home with Nana. They played outside, ran errands, got dirty, ate a lot, and took naps and went to bed at a good time. I know he was a much happier boy for it.
We didn't get home until super late from Disneyland; Kaelyn crashed in the stroller and Kenny and I walked around Downtown Disney for a couple hours, just enjoying each others' company.
The next day we had lunch with Kenny's parents and I made a cake, but forgot the candles! Haha, oh well. Then we went home and he fiddled around in the garage for a while and we watched rented movies and spent some nice time together. It was a nice birthday weekend and I am so glad that he was able to enjoy it!
I had to work on Sunday night and when I got home, for some reason my whole body started to feel really sore and I was having hot and cold flashes. I relaxed with Kenny before going to bed early, hoping that I just needed to put my feet up. Well I woke up in the middle of the night because the body aches were SO bad and SO unbearable. I got up to walk them out and got super dizzy and almost hit the floor. So I laid back down, took a tylenol and drank some water and hoped they'd go away. They didn't! I was up seriously the rest of the night because I was in so much pain. I've never felt that way about body aches before! In the morning I tried to get up and eat, but couldn't stomach the thought of anything. We went to the mall to run a couple errands and I thought maybe I just needed to get moving. I didn't last 15 minutes before my vision was blurry and my head was spinning. And I couldn't figure out if I was burning up or freezing, I kept going back and forth. We went home and I took a nap with the kids. I HAD been up the majority of the night, I probably just needed some sleep. I woke up almost three hours later feeling the same if not worse. I called my boss because I knew I couldn't make it serving tables for four hours on my feet, and then I went back to sleep. When I woke up later, I had a little bit of chicken soup Kenny had made for dinner because I hadn't eaten anything all day. I barely made it to putting my empty bowl in the sink before I was throwing everything up. I had a small fever, but nothing to worry about. That night my fever went up to 102.7. I was freezing and sweating, still so dizzy and weak, throwing up all night, body aching, congested, headache, coughing, pretty much everything you can think of. I had called the dr the day before and they told me that if I couldn't keep my fever down for the night or the next day to come in. My fever never dropped below 101.5 and spiked to 103.5 a couple times. In the morning Kaelyn was sick too. The poor thing. She had a fever of 102.4 that wouldn't go down and was feeling just as miserable as I was. Brandt barely had the sniffles, but I was predicting it. I made all of us doctor's appointments and we went in that afternoon. We got tested for the H1N1 virus and were put on Tamiflu. When we got our results, they were positive for Swine flu. The next few days were awful. Kaelyn kicked it out of her system pretty quickly, and then Brandt started getting bad after we all had our bad days. Kenny got it too. It was seriously so horrible, it was like it was immobilizing! We had to cancel all our plans of course, stay completely quarantined and try to get as much rest as possible. I am so thankful to have such sweet friends that were always calling and texting to see how we were doing, getting stuff from the store for us, bringing us dinner and then taking Kaelyn out on Halloween. She was better by then and Brandt and I were still pretty sick. I had to change plans drastically on a baby shower I was supposed to be hosting, I felt so awful for it. I was on the verge of pneumonia the Dr said, so I had to miss another week of work. But this week we are starting to do so much better. I am so excited! Still super congested and coughing a lot, and I get really winded quickly, but we are definitely on the mend!! Praise God!!
I went out to the mall yesterday to return something and was so happy to hear Christmas music here and there. All the department stores had their Christmas decorations up already. I love it so much! It really lifted my spirits and I am now totally revved and ready for the season. I've been working on things for our annual holiday party. It makes me giddy seeing everything all glistening and sparkly. ;o) Yay for Christmas! Bring it on!
The kids are doing fabulous. Kaelyn is just growing so beautiful and so smart! She was a princess for Halloween and was so pretty!! She is constantly running around singing any song she can, dancing and being a ballerina and playing with her brother. They are two little peas in a pod, they love spending time together. Brandt is also doing well, getting bigger and super smart as well. He not only has a huge vocabulary, but he puts sentences together and can have a little mini conversation with anyone! He is also still begging to go potty like a big boy, so we are starting that journey this week. ;o) They both weigh 25 pounds, Kaelyn is 36 inches tall and I'm not too sure about Brandt. He goes in for his 18 month well baby in a couple weeks, so I will let you know how it goes!
Baby three is developing along nicely. I am 28 weeks along, the baby is somewhere around 15 inches long and 2-3 pounds! Yikes!! The baby is starting to get chubby and all the major organs are developed, everything is just growing and getting stronger now. The baby can blink at this point!! My baby moves and kicks ALL the time, but never very hard. It feels like it's doing a graceful dance inside. We still don't know what we're having, but it's starting to drive me crazy! We have no names picked out, I do like a couple, but nothing is decided and I'm still trying to nail down an idea for a baby room! Any suggestions? Anyone?
We took the kids to Bate's nut farm early in October. We've gone every year for years and we really love it. It was totally packed this year, but the kids had a good time anyway.
Kaelyn has developed a fabulous artistic talent. I bought her this book that shows her how to draw things step by step. She drew this picture of a tiger all by herself!! AMAZING, if I do say so myself!!
Well that's about it for this post...hopefully another one will be coming soon!!
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