Happy Birthday Isabella!

Well my baby turned 2 on Friday the 13th. We had a nice party for her on Saturday with some of our family and friends. It's always nice to see everyone and we had a great time. Although I am exhausted now! Here are a few pictures from the party.

Halloween 2009

Happy Halloween!

Happy Late July!

Ok, talk about being a horrible blogger...it's been well over a month sine I posted anything. So let's fill everyone in on what's been going on.

Amber - I work every single Saturday and Sunday that I don't request off, so I'm busy every weekend. I finally had 2 Saturday's off these past 2 weeks and it was wonderful. I celebrated my 29th birthday on the 25th, but other than that I haven been doing much. I have finally gotten most of our pictures organized on the new computer. I know I have been saying it for a while, but there were almost 7000 pictures to go through, so cut me a little slack. I am now uploading them to the Picasa site as is. I will get to editing them someday

Matt - He works every weekday, so you can imagine that not much gets done around the house most days. He's having a tough time at work right now with the project he is assigned to, but we're hoping it gets better here real soon.

The girls are both growing bigger everyday. They got to take their first trip to Bear Lake at the beginning of July and LOVED it! Talk about some water babies. Just like their mama they had to be dragged out of the lake to eat and go to bed. It was great to see all of our family up there, but one special person was missing. We did find out that Isabella is awful to get to sleep anywhere but her crib, so we ended up only staying 1 night. Maybe next year we'll try camping with a camper and see if she does better. I think that brings us up to date. We are going to the Shedd Aquarium this coming Sunday so I'm sure I'll have a bunch of new pictures to put up.

Updates/ Happy June

Well the month is almost half over and I'm just getting around to posting...oh well. We haven't been up to much. Just work and some playing in between shifts. The girls are getting bigger everyday and I really need to get more of the pictures posted. I have been really bad lately. I have a free 30 day trial of some new picture editing software that I'm trying out. I'm hoping to learn it quick enough to decide if it's worth the $200 price tag. So far it seems pretty cool, but I'm not really sure what I'm doing. It seems like our summer is filling up already and summer just barely started. I just wanted to post a quick note to let everyone know we are still here and haven't fallen off the face of the earth. Here are a couple of new pictures until I can get the rest up at our other site.

Isabella's hair is finally long enough for pig tails.

And the new picnic table. Emma's reward for going to bed/nap like a good girl 5 times in a row.

Forgot...

I forgot to post this a week or two ago, but there are new pictures from Emma's birthday up on the Picasa site. Here is the address: http://picasaweb.google.com/seggers12

Guess?

Can you guess who is in the box?

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keep guessing...
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ok, I'll tell you.
It's grandma and Isabella!

Check-ups

The girls had their check-ups on Monday so I figured I would update everyone. 

Emma had her 3 year check-up and was 28 pounds(25th percentile) and 35.25 inches (10th percentile). She's still a little shorty, but perfectly healthy.

Isabella had her check-up also and was 24 pounds, 10 ounces(75th percentile) and 31.5 inches(75th percentile). So she is still my giant, but also perfectly healthy. She had to have one shot while we were there and was not happy about that, but a few minutes later she was waving bye-bye to everyone and blowing kisses. 

We found out that our doctor we love so much is moving back to Pittsburgh to be closer to her family, so we are bummed about that. It also means we have to find someone new to go to. The girls also have to have their lead levels checked, so we are all going to go in 2 weeks when I have to have my thyroid rechecked. I'm not sure how they are  going to do a blood test on a 17 month old who does not stop moving, so that should be interesting.

So that is the updates for now. We are all pretty healthy and ready to start enjoying this warmer weather that is coming this weekend, although I have to work all weekend. The girls are napping now so I'm going to go sit and relax. Here are a couple of new pictures. The playhouse is one of Emma's birthday presents and the other is what Isabella does when I turn my back for a minute. 

Happy Birthday Emma!

So I'm a bad mother because I didn't post this on her birthday, but we've been busy. Her party went well and we had beautiful weather so we all got sunburned. Here are a few pictures from the party.

Yes, I know you can see up her dress, but this is the only picture of her looking at the camera that day and she has shorts on just in case.

Happy Birthday

Happy 30th Birthday! We love you!

Quick Update

Well I had my blood work done last Tuesday and my levels are still off. The doctor changed the dosage on my medication so hopefully I will start to feel better in the next 2 weeks. Hopefully my thyroid will be more normal then and I can get back to life. Other than that the girls are still crazy as ever! As I type this they are jumping off the couch, yes, Isabella too! She has to do everything her older sister does. I can't believe Emma is going to be 3 in just a couple weeks! 

Meet Buster!

Well we finally got a new puppy. We have been talking about it for some time now, but we finally got one. We went and picked him up Saturday after I got out of work. He is slowly adjusting. Before we took him home he had never been outside, so potty training is a little difficult right now, but he's doing ok. He was born November 22, so he is almost 4 months old already. Because of his age we got a discount on the price. He is a fully registered AKC puppy, so he will have a full fancy name. I will post that when we finally register him. Hope all is well with everyone. We are all sick right now, but are getting better. I have a doctor's appointment next week so I should have some news then.

Happy March

Well we are almost halfway into March and I haven't posted yet, so here it goes. Umm... there is nothing new going on. It's cold and snowy again today after being 60 last week, so that's crappy. I'm still waiting for the medication to work. The doctor is sure that my dosage will have to be increased in about 2 weeks when I have my levels rechecked. Then I may start feeling a difference.

We are getting ready for Matt's 30th birthday and Emma's 3rd birthday & party. Emma is going to have a Tinkerbell party and hopefully we will get good weather this year so the kids can play outside. So that's about it. Maybe I will have something better to report toward the end of the month.

Happy Fat Tuesday!

Yes!!! We all like paczki!

Bad News...

Well the next blog I posted was supposed to be the good news that I was finally pregnant again and due in September, but unfortunately the news is not good. I had another miscarriage this week. This is the second one since October. The doctor finally ran some tests and here's the kicker...I have Hashimoto's Disease. It is a very common form of hypothyroidism and an auto-immune disorder. Basically my own body is attacking my thyroid and causing it to not work. I was started on medication today and they will hopefully have the right dosage figured out within 2 months. I now have to take a pill everyday for the rest of my life, but at least I might start feeling better now.

I get a little comfort out of knowing the likely cause of the miscarriages and that it wasn't my fault. Some women never know why they have a miscarriage and that is hard to deal with. I have another appointment next Friday to do some more testing and rule out anything else. So for now I just have to keep taking my medicine and wait it out for a few months then we can start thinking about trying again. Hopefully in a few months I will also feel back to my normal self and my thyroid problem will be on the mend.

Happy February!

Well I'm a few days late, but wow, it's February already! I have been getting scheduled all day Saturday and Sunday lately, so I've been having a hard time keeping up on everything. The whole family has started a new diet. It's not really a diet so much as eating healthier and portion control. The diet is the 50 million pound challenge from Dr. Ian Smith. Matt liked the idea of it because it has a meal plan and that is where we always fail. We can never think of what to eat, but this has all your meals planed for you. It's really no different for the girls since I already make sure they eat healthy, but it's a pretty big change for Matt. He doesn't like fruit and veggies as much as I do and he is addicted to coke. He's reached the 4 day mark of not drinking any and is feeling pretty crappy, but I know it will get better. My biggest challenge is eating breakfast. I'm usually so busy in the morning with feeding the girls, doing dishes and laundry and vacuuming up all the dog hair that I rarely eat until lunch. If you want to check it out you can register for free at the website and track your food and weight loss.
The site is: http://50millionpounds.com/

Not much going on here, but hopefully the next time I post it will be on my new Mac Mini! It should be here on Thursday! I am very excited since I hate the current computer we have. Hope all is well with everyone.

Just saying hi!

The girls are eating breakfast so I have about 2 minutes... Things are good here, not a lot to report. But I have a couple of cute pictures I thought I'd post.

Matt took this one the other night while I was at work. He said he came out of Isabella's room after putting her to bed and this is how Emma looked:
The other pictures are Isabella's new game. She likes to play peek-a-boo upside down:

Christmas Pictures

Ok, I have almost all the Christmas pictures up on the Picasa site. They are in the folder Christmas 2008.
http://picasaweb.google.com/seggers12

The Christmas Story

Well I wanted to do this in 4 separate parts and put up pictures and such, but it's already half-way through January and I don't see myself finding that much time. So....

Christmas-part 1

We went to my mom's house Christmas Even and opened presents. Gave the girls a bath there, put on their jammies and drove home on a sheet of ice.

Christmas-part 2

Woke up Christmas morning and had our own family Christmas, just the 4 of us. Emma takes FOREVER to open presents. She wanted to open one and play with it all day. We'd probably still be opening presents if I hadn't hurried her along. Because later that day was...

Christmas-part 3

After opening our presents and getting cleaned up we drove to my grandparent's house for the HUGE family Christmas. Huge= 28 people. Surprised my grandparent's with a big family picture we had taken back in October. Then the chaos insued. My grandpa likes to pass out the presents to everyone at the same time. So it gets a little crazy with wrapping paper and gift boxes flying everywhere. After all the maddness we had a big dinner and then most of the guys and a few of the teenage/college students took naps. I will post one picture from that day on here because it's really cute. It's Emma and Isabella with a bunch of my younger cousins. They are watching the Grinch Who Stole Christmas. Although I was informed that it wasn't the real one because it didn't have Jim Carey in it...

Christmas-part 4

Matt's parents and brother came down a week or so after Christmas and we had a nice dinner and opened presents. Emma got one of her favorite gifts of all...her dress up clothes. There are tons of princess outfits and gloves, crowns, shoes, wands, oh and jewelry.

To wrap it all up, my living rooms looks like Toys R Us after an earthquake! Thanks a lot!

Happy New Year!

The title says it all. We hope everyone has a safe and happy 2009! I'm still working on all the Christmas pictures. It's taking me a little longer than normal because I have been working full-time the past 2 weeks while Matt has been on vacation. There are also 300 and some pictures from 3 days worth of Christmas's, so I'm having a hard time picking a few to post.

But here are a couple of cute ones....