Thursday, June 26, 2008
I've got pictures!!!
All you friends and family are going to get sick of seeing pictures :)Hailey had a little end of the year celebration at school yesterday. They had ice cream sundaes and did a little show for us. It was cute! I had some other pictures of her and all her friends too, but I don't want to post pictures of other peoples' kids all over the internet. Here are some I took of just her though.
After the party, we had riding. I was so excited to finally be able to take some good pictures and video of her riding!
I took a LOT more, but I didn't want to bore anyone :)
After the party, we had riding. I was so excited to finally be able to take some good pictures and video of her riding!
I took a LOT more, but I didn't want to bore anyone :)
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
It's up, but....
...not filled :(
Isaiah has known for a while that we were getting the pool this weekend. He works for a well company (who has PLENTY of extra water sitting in big water trucks!)and I just assumed he would have lined up someone to come fill the pool for us this weekend. He doesn't have his "class b" licence so he has to have someone else come and do it. But, he didn't. And we definately can't fill it again with our garden hose! We dried up our well last year doing it...plus it cost us about $200 extra dollars in electricity that month because our water pump was working so hard. So, anyway, I'm putting in a few calls to some local pool stores today to see if they know of any place that will come fill it (for a price). I am determined to have it filled before Friday!!!
I told you...there was no way I could keep Hailey out of it! There is literally an inch of water in it and she still played in it all afternoon!
It was my birthday on Sunday and I got what I wanted....a camera!!! I'm so excited! Now I don't have to try and take pictures with my cell phone. So, now be prepared to see a lot more pictures from me :)
The twins were gone all weekend to Six Flags in Mass. My sister in law takes them every year for their birthday (that's their present) and they look forward to it every year! They turn 15 on Monday, YIKES! Sammy got some cute pictures and I thought I would post a couple of pictures since there is a rare one of the twins together :)
Isaiah has known for a while that we were getting the pool this weekend. He works for a well company (who has PLENTY of extra water sitting in big water trucks!)and I just assumed he would have lined up someone to come fill the pool for us this weekend. He doesn't have his "class b" licence so he has to have someone else come and do it. But, he didn't. And we definately can't fill it again with our garden hose! We dried up our well last year doing it...plus it cost us about $200 extra dollars in electricity that month because our water pump was working so hard. So, anyway, I'm putting in a few calls to some local pool stores today to see if they know of any place that will come fill it (for a price). I am determined to have it filled before Friday!!!
I told you...there was no way I could keep Hailey out of it! There is literally an inch of water in it and she still played in it all afternoon!It was my birthday on Sunday and I got what I wanted....a camera!!! I'm so excited! Now I don't have to try and take pictures with my cell phone. So, now be prepared to see a lot more pictures from me :)
The twins were gone all weekend to Six Flags in Mass. My sister in law takes them every year for their birthday (that's their present) and they look forward to it every year! They turn 15 on Monday, YIKES! Sammy got some cute pictures and I thought I would post a couple of pictures since there is a rare one of the twins together :)
Sammy, Dylan and Dana (my neice...she's only 3 months older than the twins)
And here is a couple pictures of the girls being silly!!!
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
This is "pool set-up" weekend!!!!
YAY!! This event marks the "official" start of summer for our family :) Unfortunately, it's a little late this year since we have to buy a new pool. We usually set it up and fill it in the beginning of june...but, better late than never. Last year was a little bit later too, since we had to excavate (sp?) the yard for a flat surface, since the pool has to be on 100% perfectly level ground. Isaiah even got out there with a leveling tool. That was quite a project!!
This is the pool we've had in the past.
We bought it for the twins for their birthday when they turned 10. It was worth EVERY penny we spent on it! This is one of those things that you get your money's worth out of. And since all of my kids are half fish anyway, it was a great investment :) That pool lasted us 4 seasons...not too bad. Last year we had issues with it because a little mouse decided to make his winter home in it and chew it to pieces. Plus, half way through the summer, out cat decided to jump up on it to see what was inside it. Since the top ring is filled with air, she popped it. This year, it's time for a new one. We have decided to go with a different model though, and avoid the whole "blow-up" aspect of it. We're going with this one:
In this picture, the new one looks smaller, but it's actually the same size as the old one. It's not huge, but it serves it's pupose perfectly. The water level goes just about up to Hailey's shoulders (this one might be deeper than our other one though). Someday we'll have a "real" pool, but this is good for now as I have a hard enough time keeping this size clean and chemically balanced.
So, I'm going out to buy one on Saturday and I can't wait!!! I hope that Isaiah can get permission to bring the water truck from work over on saturday or sunday. We tried to fill it with our hose last year in this house and we ran the well dry several times :( Of course, that means I have to try and hold Hailey off from getting in it until monday or tuesday. That's going to be hard!
This is the pool we've had in the past.
We bought it for the twins for their birthday when they turned 10. It was worth EVERY penny we spent on it! This is one of those things that you get your money's worth out of. And since all of my kids are half fish anyway, it was a great investment :) That pool lasted us 4 seasons...not too bad. Last year we had issues with it because a little mouse decided to make his winter home in it and chew it to pieces. Plus, half way through the summer, out cat decided to jump up on it to see what was inside it. Since the top ring is filled with air, she popped it. This year, it's time for a new one. We have decided to go with a different model though, and avoid the whole "blow-up" aspect of it. We're going with this one:
In this picture, the new one looks smaller, but it's actually the same size as the old one. It's not huge, but it serves it's pupose perfectly. The water level goes just about up to Hailey's shoulders (this one might be deeper than our other one though). Someday we'll have a "real" pool, but this is good for now as I have a hard enough time keeping this size clean and chemically balanced.
So, I'm going out to buy one on Saturday and I can't wait!!! I hope that Isaiah can get permission to bring the water truck from work over on saturday or sunday. We tried to fill it with our hose last year in this house and we ran the well dry several times :( Of course, that means I have to try and hold Hailey off from getting in it until monday or tuesday. That's going to be hard!
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
The twins...this describes it all :)
Now that I have my parent's computer, I have access to all of their pictures and videos on it :) I found this one the other day, and I had to laugh at it. It's a video of them a year ago, on their 14th birthday. It's so typical :) As the video goes, watch the twins and it pretty much explains them and their personalities. Sammy, she's ALWAYS been the leader, the "bully". She has an extremely strong personallity (I love that about her) and she's not afraid to tell you how it is. She gets that from her dad :). In the video, you can see how SHE tells Dylan when to blow out the candles, how SHE's the one you hear speaking up, how she pulls the "attitude" when Isaiah asks her to make a wish and how she makes sure she's the one to blow out the last candle! She's going to be one strong women when she grows up! Dylan on the other hand, as you see in the video, is very quiet and pretty reserved. He's so laid-back! I love that about him too. He just goes with the flow and takes life in stride. He has no problem letting his twin sister "boss" him around (even though HE'S older!). Nothing phases him!
Friday, June 6, 2008
M.I.A.
Yes, I've been "missing in action" lately :) Unfortunately, I lost my computer. It was fairly new, we bought it two years ago this June, and all of a sudden the motherboard went. We brought it to Best Buy, where we got it, and found out that it was the motherboard and that it would cost anywhere from $400-$700 to send out and get fixed. You can get a brand new computer for that much! So, thinking they were just "scamming us", I got a second opinion. I brought it to a local computer guy here in Center Harbor who is highly recommended and he said the same thing...motherboard. How that can happen on a new computer, I have no idea. One word of advice...DON'T buy a Gateway!!
We do have another computer in the house, but it's literally ancient. It was our first computer we ever bought, about 9 years ago. It's an emachine and it's still going strong. Well, not STRONG, but it's still going :) It's incredibly slow if you ask it to do anything, like load a website with tons of pictures, etc. and sometimes it just gets so overwhelmed it just freezes up. So, basically, I can check email on it and that's it.
Now I have my father's old computer, which isn't old. He bought it right before he bought my Gateway for me. One good thing about working for your father...he buys you great stuff like computers and laser printers for business :) YAY! So, now I have a computer again!! Also, I've been working like crazy lately. Last week, I had a stretch of working every night (at various places) for 11 days! No days off for 11 days is pretty hard while trying to take care of a family. I thank the twins for it, because without them I wouldn't have anything to do with Hailey. I just can't thank them enough. It's been really hard on all of us. We've had a few meltdowns/breakdowns on my end and the kids end. It's quite an adjustment for the family to go from having a mom who is ALWAYS home, and who is always around to drive you wherever you want/need to go to a mom who is never home and now you have to find your own rides to places or can't do things because you don't have a ride. I missed spagetti dinner at Hailey's school...she was heartbroken! I also missed the last day of t-ball and the little awards ceremony for her...that was hard for me. I know many, many kids have parents who work and they make it through life just fine, but I still feel like somehow I'm failing my kids when I'm not around for those things. And it's not like Isaiah can even go in my place either...he works 10-12 hours a day too. That was a rough week, and it's a little better now. It will be a lot better in the summer when the kids are home during the day when I'm home too. There was a stretch of days last week when I didn't see Isaiah at ALL from Monday night until Thursday night. We were like two passing ships in the night! I saw the twins a lot, since they get up early and are home from school early. I would see them for about an hour before I had to go to work in the afternoon. With Hailey though, I only saw her for about 45 minutes in the morning, to get her ready for school, and then I never saw her after school or at night. It was very hard on her (and me). Anyway, it's over, and I'm glad. To top it all off...it was never busy at work so I didn't really make any money :(
We had Hailey's consultation at the endocronologist the other day too. We were getting the results back from all her bloodwork she had done. Isaiah took the day off to come (we didn't really know what kind of news they were going to give us, so we felt it was important for both of us to be there). Thankfully, everything came back perfectly perfect!!! She didn't have any elevated levels of anything...which is a great sign. Her bone age scan came back as normal too, even a little young. They came back as her being 6 1/2 yrs old...which is good. Basically this tells us that whatever is going on is not something sudden (which could mean terrible things like tumors) and is not something that need immediate attention. Nothing is ruled out, because we really just don't know how fast things are moving. We caught it so early that it's hard to say how fast things will go. So, what we are going to do, is go back again in 4 months and do another bone age x-ray, no bloodwork :). With that we can tell how fast things are going. Amazing what our bones tell us about ourselves! If it comes back within normal again (anything under 7 1/2 yrs old) then we don't go back again for another 4 months to get another bone age x-ray done. If all goes well, we will just go back every 4 month to get the x-ray to make sure it's not moving fast. If it comes back not normal, then we discuss the next step, which is an i.v. test and lasts 12 hours. So, for now, all is perfect! We will continue to see our endocronologist until Hailey is within the normal puberty age of 10-11 yrs old no matter what happens though (that's a lot of driving down to Manchester every four months!). If she ends up needing treatment though, it's monthly shots :(
Thank you everyone, for keeping us in your thoughts and prayers!
We do have another computer in the house, but it's literally ancient. It was our first computer we ever bought, about 9 years ago. It's an emachine and it's still going strong. Well, not STRONG, but it's still going :) It's incredibly slow if you ask it to do anything, like load a website with tons of pictures, etc. and sometimes it just gets so overwhelmed it just freezes up. So, basically, I can check email on it and that's it.
Now I have my father's old computer, which isn't old. He bought it right before he bought my Gateway for me. One good thing about working for your father...he buys you great stuff like computers and laser printers for business :) YAY! So, now I have a computer again!! Also, I've been working like crazy lately. Last week, I had a stretch of working every night (at various places) for 11 days! No days off for 11 days is pretty hard while trying to take care of a family. I thank the twins for it, because without them I wouldn't have anything to do with Hailey. I just can't thank them enough. It's been really hard on all of us. We've had a few meltdowns/breakdowns on my end and the kids end. It's quite an adjustment for the family to go from having a mom who is ALWAYS home, and who is always around to drive you wherever you want/need to go to a mom who is never home and now you have to find your own rides to places or can't do things because you don't have a ride. I missed spagetti dinner at Hailey's school...she was heartbroken! I also missed the last day of t-ball and the little awards ceremony for her...that was hard for me. I know many, many kids have parents who work and they make it through life just fine, but I still feel like somehow I'm failing my kids when I'm not around for those things. And it's not like Isaiah can even go in my place either...he works 10-12 hours a day too. That was a rough week, and it's a little better now. It will be a lot better in the summer when the kids are home during the day when I'm home too. There was a stretch of days last week when I didn't see Isaiah at ALL from Monday night until Thursday night. We were like two passing ships in the night! I saw the twins a lot, since they get up early and are home from school early. I would see them for about an hour before I had to go to work in the afternoon. With Hailey though, I only saw her for about 45 minutes in the morning, to get her ready for school, and then I never saw her after school or at night. It was very hard on her (and me). Anyway, it's over, and I'm glad. To top it all off...it was never busy at work so I didn't really make any money :(
We had Hailey's consultation at the endocronologist the other day too. We were getting the results back from all her bloodwork she had done. Isaiah took the day off to come (we didn't really know what kind of news they were going to give us, so we felt it was important for both of us to be there). Thankfully, everything came back perfectly perfect!!! She didn't have any elevated levels of anything...which is a great sign. Her bone age scan came back as normal too, even a little young. They came back as her being 6 1/2 yrs old...which is good. Basically this tells us that whatever is going on is not something sudden (which could mean terrible things like tumors) and is not something that need immediate attention. Nothing is ruled out, because we really just don't know how fast things are moving. We caught it so early that it's hard to say how fast things will go. So, what we are going to do, is go back again in 4 months and do another bone age x-ray, no bloodwork :). With that we can tell how fast things are going. Amazing what our bones tell us about ourselves! If it comes back within normal again (anything under 7 1/2 yrs old) then we don't go back again for another 4 months to get another bone age x-ray done. If all goes well, we will just go back every 4 month to get the x-ray to make sure it's not moving fast. If it comes back not normal, then we discuss the next step, which is an i.v. test and lasts 12 hours. So, for now, all is perfect! We will continue to see our endocronologist until Hailey is within the normal puberty age of 10-11 yrs old no matter what happens though (that's a lot of driving down to Manchester every four months!). If she ends up needing treatment though, it's monthly shots :(
Thank you everyone, for keeping us in your thoughts and prayers!
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