Baby Austin and more

Just thought I would share a couple pictures of my cute little, and she is little, niece. It's kind of hard to get a good picture because of all the tubes and stuff, but you can still see her and how small she is!!!!! Austin is doing well and the doctors are pleased with her levels and such. She hasn't grown too much weight wise, but she is a fighter and she's doing well!!!!!

Keri is not doing well however. There is pretty much constant pain and while the doctors are still treating the cancer with hopes that it will help with the pain, there is no medical hope for a cure. We have not given up hope as the Lord can and does work miracles, but life is kind of a waiting game right now. The cancer brings with it a high risk of blood clots, which will likely cause death before the cancer will, so it's tough to know what to pray and what to do right now.

I am doing well with the pregnancy however. The second ultrasound is in a three weeks and I am feeling baby move every day and we are just waiting for when Dan can feel it on the outside!!!!!!!!!!!! My sister is also pregnant now, and so at Thanksgiving supper we took a picture of the two of us. We are due a week apart and are pretty much exactly the same size!!!!!!

And that's it for now!!!!!!

My Baby

A week and a half ago I went for my ultrasound for our baby. Dan took the day off so that he could come with me, and it was a great experience!!!! We were able to see baby quite clearly and because Dan wanted to, we found out what we were having, but we are keeping it a secret from everybody else. It was fun though!!! I also had a doctors appointment last week and discovered that I need to go back for a second ultrasound because they couldn't get a good picture of the spine in the first one. Everything else was normal and the doctor was not at all concerned, so I am not worried, but it is sometimes hard to think positive, so please pray that I will have a continued positive mind set.

We have also had a big week in regards to family situations!!! Due to complications with the placenta, Dan's sister Keri had a somewhat emergency c-section to deliever her baby at 27 weeks, 13 weeks premature. Keri has been struggling with health issues for the past year and a half and has been in the hospital pretty much her entire pregnancy fighting cancer. Both her and the baby were doing well, but last week the baby went into distress and had to be taken out so that both Keri and baby would survive. The baby (a girl named Austin) is a surprising 1 1/2 lbs and 11 3/4 inches long and is doing well!!!! Praise God for that!!!!!!! She is breathing on her own, in the incubater but without forced air. Keri is also doing better now as well. Please keep praying for Keri and Austin that God would be faithful and present to them now and that Austin would keep developing properly and that healing would be quick for Keri.

Dan has a work course in Edmonton tomorrow, so he has gone down and will see Austin and Keri tonight, which is good for him. He has been quite worried, and reasonably so, with the whole situation.

And that's kind of it right now!!!!!

Fall

How I love fall. The colors and smells and brisk air.... it's just a great season!!! In fact, and flip flop on this every year, but I think fall is my favorite season. Granted, when spring comes I always think it's my favorite, but for right now, fall is my favorite!!!!

I have experienced some changes in the past few months, and am currently kind of settling into a routine that should be doable until baby comes!!! Seeing as I am not in school (sniff, sniff) I took on more piano students this year and started the teaching this week!!! Not all my students were able to start this week, so I did only 3 hours of lessons, but next week I should have 4 1/2 or 5 hours!!!!! It's a change, but I'm still excited about it, which is nice because this may be my "job" for the next few years. I just seem to always enjoy teaching and always enjoy teaching piano!

My belly has currently popped a little bit, so that I look more pregnant and not so much fat.... it's nice!!!! I have also been able to feel the baby move a bit more this month, and next week is my ultrasound so by this time next week we will have actually seen our baby!!!!!! We are still unsure as to whether we will find out what gender our little baby is, but even if we do, we aren't going to be telling people because that just ruins their fun and if the ultrasound is wrong, then we don't have to backtrack!!!

And I think that's going to be it for now!!! I have to go to town and buy some stuff.... baby stuff and groceries.... so I will see you later!!!!

Surprise, Surprise!!!!

Well, now that the news has spread among family and some friends, I'll do the announcing here, in the form of a question.

What happens when you don't use birth control?

Answer: You get pregnant.

Yup. Dan and me are, unexpectedly, expecting a baby in February of 2010. The news came as somewhat of a surprise to us, as we were not really planning on having a baby this soon after we got married, but hey, we'll take what God gives us with excitement anyway!!!!!! This does put some kind of kink in my school plans, so I am taking this year off and we are praying about what to do after that.

Surprise!!!!!

For Melissa

Especially for Issa, but for all of you who look at my blog also, here are some wedding photos for you!!!!!

It's about time....

Well, considering all of the changes that have gone on in the past month, I guess it's about time to blog about it!!!!! I won't go into all the details, because that would just take WAY to long. But after I was done my final day of work, I took a road trip with my mom to Cochrane to see my Aunt graduate with her masters, came home and cleaned Dan's house from top to bottom, and then worked out last minute details on the wedding.

May 16th was the GREATEST day of my life so far. It was a relaxing and stress free as I wanted it to be and nothing really went wrong!!!! The only really kind of "not planned" thing was that Dan had a runny nose throughout the whole ceremony!!!! We had a BLAST doing pictures and spent some relax time in Tim Hortons between pictures and reception, so that was fun as well!!!!! The reception was great and basically it was just the awesomist day ever!!!!!!

We also had an awesome honeymoon and just spent the week relaxing in Radium and having fun. After the week we came home, opened gifts, organized the house, and just had fun!!!!!!

The past couple of weeks have been spent getting used to regular life again. Dan has been back at work and I have continued getting the house settled and figuring out what we are gonna do with everything. My house has been rented to my sister and brother-in-law for a few months while they are building their new house in Sexsmith, so that has also been a relief for us, as I am not working throughout the summer. I have done some temp work in the last couple of days at our church, and there are is a week that I am doing at my brother-in-laws clinic at the end of the month, so I am doing stuff, just not lots.

So yeah. That's kind of where we are at!!!!!!

Life's Changes

Today is a bittersweet day. Actually, this week is a bittersweet week.

The sweet part of my week was monday because as of Monday, April 27th I am officially done my second year of school!!!!!! My last exam, my computers exam, was on Monday at 11:30 and by 12:15 I was done and out of there!!!! It is such a relief to be done and have 4 months before I have to do any kind of school again. Next year should be a bit more busy with school as I start my actual education degree and do a 5 week practicum during the fall semester.

Also on Monday was my bridal shower with the church. It was a good shower and I felt very blessed by everything that we received and the ladies that were there. Dan's mom and sister came up for the shower so it was good to see them and I very much appreciated the effort they made to attend. It was a little bit weird to be at the church for a shower that was mine though. I've been to so many different bridal showers there and then all of the sudden this one was mine.... it was a weird feeling, but I had fun and enjoyed the evening.

The bitter part of this week is that today is my last day of work..... Because I was going to be quitting in August, work decided to bump up my final day to today in an effort to save money (because of the economy....). So Tuesday evening the girls from work went out to the Keg for supper and just had a fun evening. I had rib and lobster.... and it was SOOOOOOOOOO good. It was a fun evening, but all week has been slightly overshadowed by the fact that I am done now. And as I am sitting at work now it's still kind of sureal that tomorrow I will not have to come in and I won't have the work keys that have been on my key ring for the last 4 years. It's hard to believe that it's been almost 4 years since I took this job, but it has been that long and it's a different feeling knowing that this chapter of my life is coming to an end, although I must admit that I am looking forward with eager anticipation for the next chapter!!!!

So that's kind of what's happening right now. A week of mixed feelings and events!!!!! In an effort to just get away to process, I am going to Cochrane with my mom tomorrow for my Aunt's graduation from seminary. It will be good because I won't be sitting around at home going "what do I do????" and when I come home it's gonna be busy, busy, busy because I am going to steam clean Dan's house while he is in Edmonton for school and then getting ready for wedding. So yeah, I'm looking forward to the weekend and then the craziness of the next couple of weeks before my wedding on May 16th!!!!! Whoo, hoo!!!!!!!