When people say that every pregnancy is different, I always say that I know. Well this time I can for sure say that I do know! So far, this pregnancy has been soo different then my first, it's crazy!!

I'll start at the begining of everything that has been going on, especially for those of you who I haven't really said anything to about it. Well, on Friday night when I was driving home from work, I started coughing (keep in mind I've been pretty sick since Wednesday) and coughing really bad that I pulled over twice before I got to pick Emma up from Tim Hortons where my mom was. On our way home, I started coughing more again and it felt as though I had peed a little from all the coughing, so I didn't think much of it. Got home, put Emma to bed, got in my pajamas and went the bathroom, my usual bedtime routine. Well when I went to the bathroom is wasn't pee, it was blood.

The only thought that ran through my mind was that I was losing our baby. So I called Adam in hysterics and told him, I don't know how he understood half of what I was saying between all my crying and coughing, but he got it. My mom came over for a bit that night, which was nice that i wasn't sitting at home by myself going through this. Well to say the least, I had the worst nights sleep of my life.

In the morning, my mom called and asked if anything more had happened, I said no, asked if I was cramping and back pain, and I said no. Then she said we need to go to the hospital because a miscarriage usually have some serious cramping and back pain, which I didn't have, so there must be something else going on to cause my bleeding. Well that was a bit of a relief.

We waited in the ER for 4 hours! My mom left for a bit to go a funeral and my Aunty Tina came and sat with us. Which was nice to have someone else there with me and Emma. It was soo busy in the ER, but I felt fine so I wasn't too worried when ambulance after ambulance kept bring people in, and there was a few old men having heart attacks, so I was okay with waiting...even if it was the longest wait of my life to find out if the baby was okay.

Finally when we got to see the doctor, he asked me all the same questions mom did about cramping and what not, and I said there was nothing just bleeding. By this time my mom had returned and my Aunty Tina left and the doctor was bringing in a bedside ultrasound machine. We got to see the baby, and it's heartbeat. The weight lifted off my shoulders and I felt much better, but still didn't explain the bleeding. So the doctor said he would set up an emergency ultrasound for me on Monday so that we can figure out what is causing the bleeding. Like the doctor said, you don't bleed for nothing!

So Monday, I went for my ultrasound. Was squeezed in between appointments, so was no really set time for me to get in. I had to drink the hundred cups of water and sit for almost an hour with a beyond full bladder till I was able to get in to see the tech! The tech checked everything out, and told me there was no tears, nothing wrong with me that would be causing the bleeding, however...she said what it looks like was that when the egg implanted into the uterus it implanted on a blood vessel and burst it. Go figure my baby already gave me bruises before it was even alive! She said the bleeding was stuf behind the egg till now, and she thinks that with all the coughing it caused it move enough that the blood was able to come out. There was no other reason she could come up with that would cause the bleeding other then that. Said everything looked perfectly fine. Until she looked at the baby.

She went and got another tech to come take a look, she said the baby itself was fine but there was something that she wasn't quite sure about. Well I was glad baby was fine but what the heck did she find!! So the other lady came in and they talked there "tech talk" and then she proceeded to tell me that we were not 12 weeks along, that the baby was much too big for being only 12 weeks, that we were atleast 15 weeks. Umm okay.....then she said that she thinks that we started pregnant with twins and we lost one beause there was a seperate place on the placenta which looked like another placenta that didn't not grow (obviously if there was no baby in there) Umm Crazy!! Then she said if that was not that case that I was pregnant with twins at the beginning and the space was not a seperate placenta then there was a band on the placenta and we would be having a few more ultrasounds then normal.

Well the twins part makes a little more sense to me considering I thought we were only 12 weeks, not 15, and the dates that my LMP was are exactly 3 weeks apart. Which makes total sense, so I am seriously hoping that is all it is, because the things that I found online that had to do with a band on the placenta did not make me feel very good. We go see our doctor on Thursday (tomorrow) so I will be asking her a million and one questions about it all! I bet she's looking forward to our appointment!

So needless to say I have had a week from hell, yesterday I found out that I have bronchitis and cannot go to work for the rest of the week because it is a very contagious virus and with me working in retail I do not need to get anyone else sick. So Emma and I have spent alot of time at my moms house. The last few days actually! It's been nice having someone to help me out with Emma, especially when I get coughing alot of am soo tired from the lack of sleep. Hopefully they don't get sick...well other then Dale, he always seems to get sick when I do and vice versa! It's inevitable that he already has it! Sorry Dale! Emma so far hasn't gotten sick, knock wood but I think it's coming unfortunately, that's the joys of having her around 99.9% of the time.

So, Emma has been trying to use her potty lots lately, she has yet to pee in it in the past week, but she sits on it and says "Done" flushes the potty and leaves...even though nothing has happened! She doesn't like getting her diaper changed, which really is a pain and I just keep telling her if she doesn't want to get her diaper changed then she needs to use the potty. Soon she'll get it. I'm in no hurry for my baby to become a big girl. Even though I know it's coming. Next step is to get rid of her sucky, which already seems to be a chore. I am not looking forward to when I start that.

Adam and I are still not "together", we are woring things out slowly, which as been kind of nice. We are talking more, hanging out more, just things that we had lost in our chaos of life. We are hoping to have things back to normal by the new year so that we can get prepared for baby to come and spend some much needed quality time with our Emma before a new baby arrives.

Here's to hoping and praying that nothing else goes wrong for me or anyone. That we will get through everything that comes our way, no matter how difficult it is.

Some serious updating!!

Wow, it's been forever since I've been on here to write anything! Either my life is just crazy busy or I just procrastinated soo long! Oh well, I'm here now so...this is either going to be super long or super short. We'll see how much I want to write!!

Okay, so let's back track a little here, my last post was the end of June! Holy....okay I may leave some things out so bear with me if I forget something that included you!! haha So let's start with July...

So July, on July 1st we watched the parade at Justan and Celena's place (my brother and sister-in-law). Was fun, Emma love the horses!! She would get excited as soon as she would see one coming down the street! At one point Uncle Justan took her out to the road to see if he could get some candy, everyone would throw candy at the people beside us but never to us! So he tried, but no one threw candy while he was out there! He even tried with Brooklynn but still to no avail, but I think he did end up stealing a couple pieces from the kids next to us! The afternoon/evening of the 1st we got to celebrate Daxton's 1st birthday!! Was lots of fun! All of Daxton's cousins were there, so Emma had so much fun playing with a bunch of new kids!! After all the craziness of the party Emma fell asleep with Uncle David, which was pretty exciting because she isn't used to him quite yet. So we of course took pictures of this!! That night we watched the fireworks at the rodeo grounds. We stayed in the car because of the horrible bugs outside. Was okay, however Emma only watched the first few minutes and fell asleep! So I had to hold her and try to look out the window of the car to see the fireworks. Was pretty uncomfortable! But she thought they were pretty cool!! There's probably more stuff that happend in between all of this but I can't remember off the top of my head!! July 15th, beautiful little Makayla was born! I don't remember what time but the 15th to my cousin Cassie and her boyfriend Kody. Martha was soo excited to have a baby sister!! July 31st was Adam's friend Brians wedding! He married a girl named Brittney out here in Raymond. Adam was one of the groomsmen. Which by the way he looked pretty darn good all dressed up if I do say so myself! There wedding was beautiful, colors were so nice together. Everyone looked good!!

So now for August!! August 1st we celebrated my Grandpa McCoy's 80th birthday!! Was a lot of fun. We got to see family we have not seen in many years and Adam got to meet more of my extended family!! Finally got a picture of Emma with her Great-Great Aunty Emma!!

August 5th we went to the RCPM Musical Ride in Milk River. Was a very interesting day! Emma was soo excited to go, I kept telling her that we were going to go see some horses!! The first performance that happened was with the police dogs, and she loved that because of all the dogs. In between the two performance we went for a walk and saw the RCMP mascot, Emma wouldn't let me get within 10 feet of him! So we didn't get a picture, Brooklynn did okay until she realized what was beside her!! Then when the horses finally started coming down to their preformace, she was soo excited until they got close to us! I have never seen her move so fast in her life to get away from something that wasn't even coming to her!! We were sitting on small bleachers, I want to say 4 rows, I was sitting on the 2nd row, Shirley was a few people down from me and my Grandma was sitting behind me. Emma went from me to Grandma Shirley to Great Grandma! She cried and cried, until she finally realized that they were not going to get her, then she sat there and watched. At the end the horses lined up around the arena for people to pet them ask the RCMP guys questions, etc...well we had to walk by three of them to get out....not so fun! Screamed the whole way through!!

August 9th, my cousin Nick welcomed his little man, Kohnner to the world. We are all pretty excited that we finally have a boy on the Graves side!! The end of August Emma and I went camping in Writing-on-Stone with my dad. Adam unfortunately had to work all week so he wasn't even able to come down for the day. Emma got to sleep in a tent for the first time this time camping!! Was lots of fun, she thought it was pretty cool!! We spent a lot of time at the river, playing in the water. One night, my dad and I tried to take pictures of the hundreds of bats that were flying around! I will say that those suckers come really close to you! Stupid bugs that have to fly over our heads!! On our last day, Shirley, Sandra and I went tubing down the river. Was soo much fun and I finally got to even out my tan!!

Also, the end of August we found out that we are expecting baby number 2! Was a big surprise, but we are looking forward to having two beautiful babies! Emma seems pretty excited about a baby, she pats my belly once in awhile and says "baby in there" So cute! She's going to be a great big sister! Everyone, especially Adam, is hoping that this one is a boy! But there are a few that hope it's another girl! I'm indifferent, a girl would be nice due to the tons of girl stuff we have already, but a boy would be nice because we already have a little girl! We'll see! On the 18th of October we get to hear our babies heart beat for the first time! I am pretty excited!! Right now, we are ten weeks and are due the end of April.

As well, the end of August became a bump in the road for us as well. Adam and I have split up and are hopefully going to get things in our lives straight and get everything figured out before baby arrives. Adam moved in to Lethbridge with his friend Brian and his wife Brittney. It's been hard not having him around, but he knows that we love him and miss him and hope that we will be a family again soon.

September...well September 5th, my cousin Robin finally had her little girl, Berlyn! We were all excited of course but she lives soo far away that we won't get to see her till next year, but it'll be worth the wait! I started working full time at Thyme Maternity and have been enjoying working there. However, the working so much is starting to tire me out, but being pregnant doesn't really help that out much either! Emma and I moved in to a 6plex in Raymond just down the street from Sue (Adam's Mom). It's been exciting, we have a full place to ourselves and Emma just loves that we have a little deck that she can play on! That's been her favorite place in the house since we've lived there! I still have some unpacking to do, but working all day and being so tired at night...it'll take me another month to get it all done!! But it'll get done and I won't have to worry about moving for a little while!! Adam went to his 'Disturbed' concert in Calgary this past weekend, he said it was soo awesome! Bought some stuff, of course!

October 1st, Patrick and Lynsey had there little guy, Carson. We are all pretty happy about that. Emma thought he was pretty cool, wanted to hold him and carry him around! Such a great helper! Hopefully it doesn't take me another 4 months to get back on here and update everyone on the wonderful life we are living!!

Okay so it's been almost 2 weeks since I blogged anything on here. There has been soo much going on that I just haven't had a chance to get on here and actually write it all down!

The whole week of the 13th we had rain...rain...rain...and more rain! Needless to say there was a lot of freaking rain! There were houses that had water up to there front door....up there doorstep! Lakes and ponds were soo full that you couldn't tell where the grass bank was...poor birds! There was soo much water that we were all surprised that no one was flooded out in there homes...even those that had the water to there doors! Until Friday came along....yup Friday. Everyone that I know in Raymond had a flooded basement...well nearly everyone some lucked out! So in short...my basement flooded!

Thursday when I got home from work, the bottom of our stairs was about 2 inches of water, which was coming out from under the stairs form the storage room underneath it that had about 4 inches of water!! Ya...I was worried it was going to get into our place but..nothing. Until i walked on to the kitchen floor and little bit of water leaked out from the crack between the lino and tile. Landlord and I figured it had come from him cleaning up the laundry room water so we just dismissed it and forgot about it. When we went to bed Thursday night, our floors were dry! That was around 1130-1200...when Adam woke up at 530am to go work our floor was soaked!! Everything that was on the floor was soaked! So I was up at 530 Friday morning picking everything up off the floor so it wouldn't get ruined! Everything was picked up, Emma's chair, books that were left on the floor, games, pictures...etc... and tossed on the couch! I called my mom around 800am to let her know that we would be hanging out at her place till the water went away. She then found out that her basement had flooded too! So even though she complained that I called...it was a good thing I did or she may not have noticed her basement was flooded till later and would have lost more.

Stressfull weekend. To top that off....Friday the 18th was supposed to be my first day at Thyme Maternity, I didn't go. The manager told me to get my house cleaned up so I can come in on Sunday. Which was soo nice that I was able to get my house half cleaned.

So we've been doing a lot of basement cleaning the past two weeks. In my basement, the landlords pulled out all the carpet that was in the living room and my bedroom. They said the are going to get the living room fixed up, then do the kitchen and possibly do the floor under Emma's bedroom (Her floor is about 3 inches off the floor) Oye...so we've been staying at my moms since the 18th of June! It's been okay but would be nice to be in my own place, in my own bed....but have to wait till our house gets done. Stressfull to say the least!

Then on top of all this stupid stress, my Grammie isn't doing so good. Went to the hospital on the 21st because she was haveing seizures then we find out she has bleeding on her brain that there is nothing anyone can do but wait to see what happens. Either it'll stop or not. It stopped. Thank goodness, but now she's not eating. But Grammie is one stubborn old lady that I'm sure she'll start eating soon and cause us more grief!! We love her, even when she is crazy and trying to give us all heart attacks!!

So, I've been working at Thyme Maternity since the 20th of June, and I love it! The ladies there are soo much fun...well there's only 4 of us and 2 of us are new! So it's nice to get in somewhere and actually enjoy working with everyone and getting to learn everything with someone else! I only work a coupe days a week, which is totally fine, I still get to hang out with Emma during the week and Adam gets to watch Emma on the weekend, so works out pretty good. In the fall, the manager told me that I can be moved up to full time because her full time lady is going back to school in the fall!! So that's pretty exciting. Finally things are picking up for me!!! Only took forever!!!!

I signed Emma up for swimming lessons out here in Raymond. They are the parented preschool classes, so I get to go swimming with her everyday till next Friday!! She had her first class yesterday, was lots of fun! Only 3 kids showed up, including Emma, and two little boys! They said there was supposed to be 6, so we'll see how today turns out! But yesterday we didn't get started right away because we were waiting to see if the other kids would show up, so we only swam for about 15 minutes of our 30 minutes.....that's okay it was fun! Emma got to blow bubbles in the water, float on her back and tummy, jump in to the water from the edge! She had fun! Today we go again! I'm pretty excited...and maybe I'll get a little bit of a tan out of this! hahah I can only hope!

Adam is still working everyday at Timber Tech, plays softball Wednesdays and Thursdays and paintball on Sundays. This past weekend his brother McEvitt was down so he did some golfing Saturday night and early Sunday morning! He also got some tickets to go to Disturbed concert...I think it's the end of July not 100% sure but he got tickets!

So aside from my stress level being out of whack and driving me crazy, things seem to be going okay. Emma is growing like crazy, weighs just over 23lbs not sure how tall she is but she's always growing! Is starting to talk, says "rama" (Grandma) "papa" (Grandpa) "anny" (Aunty) "puppy", "bebe" (Baby) and many other words those are just the most common ones at the moment! Even says a few phrases once in a while..."What's this" "I don't know?" It's crazy. And in a couple of days I am starting to wheen her of her sucky! She'll only get it for naps and bedtime....it's going to be fun!!! Oh yes...and did I mention she has become a little terror?!?! She tries everything...even after we tell her no! She gets into lots of trouble! But...even when she is a little hellion I still love her more then anything in the world!

Okay, so I kind of suck at keeping up to this blog! But that's probably because nothing too exciting is happening that I feel the need to share things with everyone! I know we need to get a more exciting life! haha Well lets see if I can recap from the past month!.....

End of May....Yup got nothing! Beginning of June...nothing really, spent most of our time hanging out with Lincoln and Adam working. Our weekends are usually spent at one of our mothers houses, usually my mom on Saturday and Adams on Sunday. Usually how it goes! Hmm... What else is there..... I really have nothing! haha

Emma has had a little rash on her hand, arm and leg...but it went away as soon as I made a doctors appointment to find out what it was from! I am still not sure what caused it, not like I was putting differnt lotions or soap on her....we think maybe it was something in the air that may have caused the rash. But it is gone so that is good! What else has Emma been up too...getting into a lot of trouble! The terrible two's are coming alot sooner then I was expecting!!! She is sure trying out my patience lately! Knocked over a pod of wax, opens and closes the dvd player and even changes the movies in them (Yeah she knows how to use the dvd player!!!) pulls all her clothes off of her shelf..which brought me to making some baskets to put her clothes in, in hopes that she won't pull the clothes off the shelf anymore....so far so good but it's only been a few hours!! She is a little terror! I know hard to believe, but she is! lol

So..what's new with Adam..nothing much. Working still, playing soft ball with some guys from his work a couple evenigs a week, plays paintball every other Sunday. That's about it!
As for myself, nothing to exciting...I got a job at Thyme Maternity in the park place mall...start there this coming Friday. I am pretty excited, I loved shopping there when I was pregnant and the upside of working in a store like that.....I won't be able to buy anything!! Haha well until maybe next fall! ;o) I've been making some baskets for Emmas room, bought some cheap baskets from the dollar store and covered them with girly receiving blankets!! They turned out pretty good if I do say so myself! (I"ll post pictures after I get her room organized!) Well I better go, Emma just woke up from her nap, so she's going to want some lunch!!

So it's been a week or so...I've been lazy okay and just haven't gotten on here to write anything! Nothing exciting has really happened. Emma is starting to talk more, which is nice but makes me a little nervous that she's just going to start talking and shock us! Then it'll never stop!! I was sick the beginning of last week, just couldn't seem to stay away from my friend "Mr Porcelain" Unfortunately, Emma and I didn't get to hang out with Lincoln for a few days. But I am feeling much better, thank goodness! No one else got sick, so that was really nice. Knock wood it stays that way! Adam has been working and started playing softball with his work team for the 'beer leagues" in Lethbridge. He's liking that. Emma and I have gone to one game, but given that the weather wasn't too great for the last two games....hopefully it's nice tomorrow so we can go watch but we'll see!

So..we have a new nephew on the way, Lynsey and Patrick are having another boy! We are all pretty excited! I mean we were all rooting for a girl but we'll take another boy! He'll be just as much fun as Lincoln is so we'll take him! haha Not that we have much choice in this matter!! :O) She's not due till the beginnig of October so we have some time to wait for him to arrive still...patience is a virtue I know! :O)

Hmm....a friend of mine asked me the other day how I liked being a Mommy, and I got me thinking about being a Mom. So, just for you Alyssa, here is a list of 10 think I love about being a Mommy.

1. I get woken up every morning with a soft nudge, a smile and a cuddle. What more could you ask for at 7 in the morning!
2. Even when I am having a bad day, all I need a smile from the most beautiful girl in the world and I feel better...even if it's for only a moment.
3. I get to spend everyday with the most entertaining, interesting, cutest person in the world, now that makes for a good day!
4. I get a hug any time that I want, and an occasional kiss that feels like getting a million bucks (the kisses are hard to come by!)
5. I never thought that I could love someone so much in such a short period of time, and that is an amazing feeling to know that they love you back just as much.
6. I get to experience everything from a different perspective that I never thought I would ever see...again. Like finding a grasshoper and oohing at how high it jumps, or thinking that everything is a dog and likes to bark! :O)
7. I have a whole new out look on my life, and I want to do the best that I can so that she can be proud of me.
8. I enjoy the moments that her and I get to share, like her poop experiences at the hospital or wiping it on my arm!
9. I love watching her sleep and cannot wait till she can tell me what she dreams about!
10. That I can help make a difference in the world because of an amazing little girl that I have been so blessed to have in my life.

I love you Emma!

Well this weekend we took a break from the internet. Was nice to not have the computer on, however Adam was not soo good! He tried to sneak onto facebook and hotmail a few times...then I threatened to disconnect the internet and he stayed off all day Sunday!! I was pretty proud of him for that...however I will not go without saying that he did complain an aweful lot! lol Oh how I love you Adam! :O)

We are going on two weeks of Emma sleeping in her big bed! She has been doing an awesome job of sleeping in her bed. Only comes out when she has a bad dream, we cuddle and she goes back to bed no problem! And I am thoroughly enjoying not having to get up to get her out of her crib in the morning...she just gets out of her bed, nudges me, and we cuddle in my bed till we have to get up for the day! It's soo great! However...the last couple of nights we have not had this luck, she goes to bed and is back up within 2 hours crying and wanting to sleep in my bed with me! Last night I tried to just put her in my bed and let her sleep but she crawled out and came to me...so I layed down with her till she fell asleep but I fell asleep too and Adam had to sleep on the couch! Tonight...she didn't last 30 minutes till she was out crying and screaming....she is in her bed tonight, fast asleep. I hope this doesn't become a habit because staying up late with a crying baby who won't let me go any where without her is kind of a pain in the butt....literally because she's usually sitting one me!! Hopefully she stays in bed all night and I get to actually sleep tonight! Emma has recently became kind of obsessed with wearing my shoes! lol I don't know why she started doing this but every pair of my shoes gets worn at least once within a day! haha She even wears Adams work boots once in awhile! Crazy Lady!

Sorry video is sideways and has no sound! I can't figure out how to rotate it or get sound going!! lol Sorry, but you'll get the jist of it!

Hmmm....what else is going on with us....nothing! How exciting! Well, I am going to go watch the rest of Smallville with Adam and go to bed. Emma and I get to hang out with Lincoln tomorrow! Hopefully it's nice outside so we can go to the park! :O)

A few things have happened in the past week. Nothing to major but things!
Emma and I hung out with Lincoln all week last week. Emma's Uncle Patrick has gone out to Manitoba to sell security systems, so we've been hanging out with Lincoln everyday! It's always fun! They are both learning so much from each other and picking up on weird quirks the other has too! Emma now bangs her head against the back of the couch when she is sitting on it...it's funny! She is just a crazy lady as it is, and she is talking up a storm! Even if we till don't understand what she is saying, she is talking like we do know! She is such a big girl. On Thursday we made Lynsey, Lincoln's Mommy, a Mothers Day present! I had him paint her a picture, Emma wanted to paint too but we did one at home already! We also made Mothers Day cards, which Lynsey was the only one to get her because the others were left behind at my Dads!

Tonight I took down her crib and put her in her toddler bed, I am hoping it goes good and she doesn't fall out! It's only like 10 inches from the floor so it's not a far drop if she does, but if she does she'll wake up...so I am preparing for a long night tonight!! She was pretty excited to help me take down her crib but I don't think she realized what was really happening though until I did put her to bed!! She screamed but....she will eventually fall asleep! I'm excited!!

On Thursday, Emma and I took a much needed trip to Red Deer. The trip to Red Deer wasn't needed, the time away was, but Red Deer was a good choice for some time away! We arrived at bed time so we didn't do too much Thursday, Friday we met my Dad for lunch, Emma got to taste Jello for the first time!! Then we hung out with Erica and met baby Bella! Emma loved Bella, she's a baby of course she would! Saturday we went for lunch at an all you can eat Japanese restaurant...was soo good! Emma got to have her first taste of sushi there! It wasn't raw sushi, had crab meat in it I do believe! She liked it! Then Emma went shopping with Grandpa, he said she was a hoot talking to everyone!! That night Sandra and I went to see Nightmare on Elm Street, not so great. Wasn't a bad movie if it would have been the very first one made for NES but it wasn't and they just ruined the whole story line...but you'll just have to see it to know why I say that! Grandpa and Grandma Shirley got to babysit Emma while I was gone, and they enjoyed it! Then on Sunday Shirley took us girls out for a Mothers Day Brunch! Was very nice, Thanks Shirley!! Emma got to dip her own strawberry into chocolate fondue!! She did very good, eating the strawberry was messier then the dipping itself!! Our ride home was horrible!!! It rained, and when I say rained it poured rain so bad that I was doing 80 on the highway!! There was even times when it was hailing!! That happened from Red Deer to Calgary, and to top off the horrible rain, my windsheild wiper got lose so I had to stop in Bowden to find a wrench to fix it! I drove around Bowden for almost 15 minutes looking for a gas station!! Then in Calgary there was a few stops that lasted almost 20 minutes each because there was construction going on and had to slow right down or the lanes were ending!!! I am glad to be home from that drive!! Emma slept from Bowden to Fort Macloed! Was nice to have her sleeping, unlike the drive up when she was awake 95% of the time and screaming at me because she was throwing her toys and treats on the floor!! It was nice to get away and to have time to myself...with Emma! lol

Had time to think about things and figure things out and what not. Was nice! So we have some big changes that are going to be happening and hopefully they are for the good and do us all good in our lives together! We'll see what happens!

Today we had Lincoln come over instead of if us going to his house to hang out! Was lots of fun! He loves the fish and Kalie! He followed Kalie around meowing at her! Was funny! Emma and Lincoln took a nap together on my bed, was soo cute. They cuddled up together for about 10 minutes, then they seperated and slept like they normaly do! Granny Sue came over for a visit and they played 'ring around the rosie' Emma just laughed when it was time to fall down and Lincoln fell down! Was a fun day today!!

Happy 'belated' Mothers Day!!

This past week has been crazy. I didn't have to watch Lincoln all week, which was a nice break from driving back and forth to Lethbridge, but boy did it screw up my week! Thursday I thought it was Friday, Saturday I thought it was Thursday!! I'm looking forward to watching him tomorrow so I can get my weekdays back!!

Wednesday we had another snow storm, not nearly as bad as the last one. More wind then snow. Our power went out yet again! From my understanding it was only Raymond and Stirling that had there power go out! Like a friend of mine said, she didn't know she had volunteerd to save power! haha Either way it sucked again, got freezing cold down here and Emma came into our bed around 3am when her room started to get cold. However this time around the power came back on around 830, which was soo nice! The little bit of snow we had lasted till Friday, I think we were at 10-13 degrees!! But now....we have alot of water, everywhere!!! It's nuts!! The farmers fields look like lakes, all the pot holes are full of water so really you don't know which ones are bad anymore cuz you can't tell!! It's crazy, but we need to moisture so I guess it's not too bad.

On a very good note, my landlords have been fixing my leaky floor! Has not been wet for a few days, which has been sooo nice!! The smell is finally starting to go away, however I do sprinkly baking soda on it on a regular basis to keep the smell away so who knows if it's just going away or my baking soda! It's been nice not having to keep my fan on all day and night to dry the carpet, my house isn't cold!

Calvin, Dales son, came down this past weekend. Emma and I went and hung out at my moms for a bit so Emma could visit with her Uncle Calvin. He left early this morning, so we only saw him the one day. But he'll be back soon.

Erica finally had her baby!!! Took alot of poking and proding to get that baby out but Viktoriya Bella Lynn (Schmidt or Thompson) was born April 26th! Everyone is excited another baby in the family...well extended family! Her mom is dating my dad...so family! Emma and I are taking a trip up to Red Deer this coming weekend so we can go visit and meet baby Bella! We are pretty excited!! I'll have to take lots of pictures of our road trip!

Emma has started wearing her sunglasses everywhere that we go! We have yet to get a picture because she pulls them off just before the picture gets taken! So here are a few pictures of her playing with her toques!! She has been playing with them an aweful lot lately, putting it halfway on her head and pulling it off, putting it her dollies, on Kalie....She's crazy!

So first off I would like everyone to know how much work has been put into making this page look soo good!! I was on here for almost 3 hours last night trying to figure out all the quirky things this blog has. I still don't know how to do half the stuff that can be done. I tell ya, these things should come with instructions or something!!! I will perfect it one of these days and this page will be phenomenal!

Nothing too exciting to tell about. Emma and I spent all week with Lincoln. Granny bought us a wagon so I could take Emma and Lincoln for walks! So much better then one walking and the other in the stroller, or better yet both of them walking!! Don't get me wrong they both are good little walkers but it tooks us almost 20 minutes to get to the end of a block because they both had to stop and look at everything!! Not that I'm complaining about that but it's just easier to have them both in the wagon!! Emma loves going for walks in the wagon, there's a little cup holder and she puts her water/juice in it and just sits back and relaxs! I'll have to get some pictures of them in the wagon next time we are hanging out with Lincoln!

My fiasco with telus is finally over! Monday a guy came and fixed my phone lines so that my phone number was the number being used, not the people upstairs. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday....my phone had no dial tone!! I talked to someone at telus every single day and they all told me it was probaly my phone so when the line started to work agin to phone them back. So when the phone did get a dial tone, I did phone them back and by 7pm that night it was gone again. So finally a guy came to my house to see why this was happening. He was outside for almost half an hour till he came down stairs to try out the phone line. He informed me that the plastic around the lines were worn off, the copper wire was green and when he touched one of the wires to move it, he said it all but crumbled in his hands!!! My phones eh?! Freaking telus, I'm glad I got a smart telus guy out to fix this otherwise we'd probably still have this problem. He said the lines had to have been like that for awhile for them to be so bad!! Sure says something about the ones who hook up our lines out in Raymond now doesn't it!! So we are pretty excited that our phone line now works, and we have internet!

Adam is pretty excited about the internet, he has been on his world of warcraft since it has been working!! Doesn't surprise anyone! Today he went out paintballing in Taber. Said they were doing something along the lines of bush paintball????!!!! Basically no set ups or anything just trees and bushes! Fun, I guess!

Emma and I didn't do much, I haven't been feeling very good today so we didn't go to church. We did go to town got me some drugs to hopefully make me feel better and picked up a fish and tank from a friend!

Now our fish story... We have three goldfish already in a goldfish bowl. The fish that we were given is a bayta (??Sp??) So I moved our three fish into the bigger tank and the new fish into the little goldfish bowl. While I was doing that I had Emma hold on the new fishes food while I moved them around. And she did. She left the kitchen once and now we can't find the food! I've looked in every hiding place that she uses and no food! So, when Adam gets home tonight we will be doing a search party to find the missing fish food! She usually goes and puts it on the shelf wher the fish bowl is but this time she hide it! Next time she won't be holding the fish food, she can hang on to something else!!

Here is our new fishy! We haven't named him yet but I think we'll call him "Kit" lol Why I don't know, it sounds good! The three fish, we haven't named them either, but The black one is Adams, the Gold one is mine and the mulit colored on is Emmas!

I cannot believe how beautiful it has been outside after having that snow storm a week ago!!! It's soo nice!! This past Friday I just about had a heart attack, Emma fell down the stairs at my Moms house!!! I have never moved so fast in my life!! She was trying to be a big girl and walk down the stairs! She does good when there is a railing to hold on to, but when there isn't....not so good. Thank goodness she didn't get hurt, well she did get hurt found a pretty big bruise on the inside of her right knee, which I think is pretty impressive for falling down 4 stairs! If that would have been me, I would have been bruised head to toe, she is one tough cookie! I got a lecture from Mom and Dale about making sure the baby gate is up, and you bet that sucker gets put up when I walk through the door!

Sunday, we all went mini-golfing! Was soo much fun! We took Emma's golf clubs that my Mom got for her for Easter. She would hit the ball with her little club, so cute! And me being a little lazy...I brought the camera so I could take pictures but I left it in the car and didn't go back and get it!! So I have no pictures to show of her first mini-golf experience!! She hit the ball with her club the first few holes and we just added one stroke up from the highest of ours for her score. About the 9th hole she decided she didn't want to hit it anymore, so we would just toss it towards the hole and she's run after it so we could hit our balls!! There is one hole that has a little hutt that has two holes that the balls go down and then end up at a different spot, well she would put her ball down the hole, run to the other side watch the ball come out and go back again! She did 4 times till we had to move to the next hole! At this time she finally figure out that the ball needs to go into the little hole! So after we tossed her ball, she'd get it and put it in the hole! lol We counted them as 2 strokes! Needless to say with everyones effort, Emma beat us!! lol Then we went for ice cream and to Henderson to the new park to play. Emma had fun at the park, so many kids and puppies!! She didn't much car for the swings but loved the slides! And every dog that walked by she had to point and bark at it! What a turkey!!

Yesterday we had Lincoln over at our house. I had to be home so the telus guy could fix our phone line so we could have a phone! I don't think he liked it much, there was too many girly toys and Emma only wanted to play with her babies so he read alot of books!! Then after lunch and naps we went for a walk to go visit Granny! We didn't get far because Granny was on her way to our house to get us! So we ended up at Grannys, Lincoln walked around the driveway while Emma pushed a bubble lawn mower for them to play with the bubbles!! Those two are so cute together!!
Hopefully this week stays nice, it's been so nice being able to go outside without a winter coat on!! Soon we can break out the shorts and capris!! Oh yes, our "cousin" (I guess that's what we can call her) Nancy had her babies this past week, two beautiful little girls Charlotte and Danica!! Can't wait to go see them! Emma is just going to love them! We are still waiting for Erica to have baby....patiently! So then we'll be making a trip north to go visit my Dad and Shirley and of course to see Erica and baby!! :O) This is a good month..so far!!

Charlotte Quinn Danica Genevieve With their big brother Mathieu