First off, sorry for not keeping the site up to date recently. Life has been extremely busy for all of us. I’ll start with an update on the website.. As you can see, there is a new design. What you may not notice is that I have changed the software the runs the photo gallery. You will hopefully notice some improvement on the loading speed of the images in the new gallery.

Paige

Paige continues to improve on her communication skills every day. She holds very mature conversations with others and loves to talk on the phone. She likes to tell her Mommy that “When I am a Mommy I will…” and then say whatever it is that Mommy does that she doesn’t get to do or like to do. (When I am a Mommy I will like my vegetables, or I will be able to drive) Hope told Paige on day that Paige was “pushing her buttons.” Paige looked at Hope very confused and said “Mommy I’m not pushing any buttons.” Some things are still lost on her, however it ends up being quite funny anyway. Paige is learning her days of the week by associating what happens on each day. Tuesday is trash day, Wednesday is water day (at school) Friday is candy day (at the end of the school day, each child gets a piece of candy).

Peyton

Peyton has grown beyond all belief. It is hard to believe that he is only 16 months old with as big as he is. He will pass his sister in size before too much longer. He is now running everywhere and full of energy. He is able to jump, and has a pretty good vocabulary for someone of his age. He will always let you know when he is hungry, or if something is “mine!”

Hope & Chris

Hope is branching out with her skills at work. During the month of May, instead of working on the burn service she worked on the trauma service at ORMC and this month she is working on the ICU team. This will make her a more rounded provider, which is never a bad thing.

I have transfered stations, and now no longer work on the same shift. I now work on the east side of town, which is a little bit of a drive for me, but only having to do it twice a week, it isn’t too bad. I am also now a Paramedic with the fire department.

Currently the Photo Gallery isn’t working. I will fix this as quickly as I can.

It’s been a while since I have posted, so I figured I’d say something. Peyton is doing wonderful. He is growing very fast. He loves smiling and just spending time with his family. Paige is doing great. Now that she is back in school her vocabulary is expanding extremely quickly. I picked the kids up from school yesterday and got to spend a little bit of time with them, which I really enjoyed.

I have been extremely busy with school, which has been really stressing me out. Yesterday was the only time I got to spend with Paige all week since she goes to bed so early. Peyton on the other hand, I can spend time with after class since he seems to be up until about 9 right now. Between classes, clinicals and work, I feel like I don’t have any time to study, and then trying to spend time with Hope, it is all quickly becoming too much.

Today I added 26 new pictures to the photo gallery. That’s all that I have for now.

Sorry for the lack of posts or pictures from me, but I have added the pictures from February to the photo gallery!

On the 23rd of February, I gave Peyton his first bottle, which he seemed to actually be ok with. He wasn’t satisfied with only one bottle, so his sister gave him his second bottle. Pictures are in the gallery.

We have also moved our website to a different web host once again. This time it is to a much more powerful server that we can upgrade later on if we need to. I have already noticed that our website responds much quicker on the new server and hope that you will to. If you notice any problems with the site, please let us know and we will fix it.

For weeks Paige had been talking about “Elmo Party.” Well, the day finally came, and Paige got her Elmo Party, full of an Elmo balloon, an Elmo cake, and Elmo presents. What more could a two year old ask for? The Elmo party went off without a hitch. Paige loved it. I added pictures to the gallery of the Elmo Party.

Well, this last two weeks have been very busy around our house.

Paige was diagnosed with pnemonia two weeks ago, however last Monday, Dec. 3, she had an allergic reaction to the antibiotic that she was given. We ended up spending the night at Arnold Palmer Hospital in the ER. Tuesday, Hope’s truck broke again. The truck would not turn off, again. Even with the key out of the ignition, you could still put the truck in reverse and start driving. One problem though, the steering wheel was locked because the key was out of the ignition. Hope took the truck to the dealership, and got yet another rental car.

The tenant at the rental house decided that December would be a good month to not pay rent since they somehow had a $600 water bill and a $580 power bill. The water last month was $37, and there are no leaks in the system. They seem to think that this is my problem. So, on Monday we decided to begin the eviction process with them. They have one month to be out of th house. This Wednesday, Dec. 12 we went for an OB appointment. Our appointment was at 9am. At almost 10am, the Doctor had just gotten to the office and started seeing patients, we were the third in line. We had to leave because Hope had to go to work. As of today, we have 39 days until Peyton is expected.

While all of this was going on, I was studying for my final exams for the first semester of Paramedic school, as well as A&P.

Last night we went to get family pictures done, and we should have them before Christmas, so I will try to post them on the website as soon as possible.

Today is Paige’s 2nd Birthday Party. It is “Elmo Party” as she refers to it, complete with an Elmo cake.

No one has posted in a while, so I thought that I should just give an update. I have 2 weeks left in my first semester of Paramedic school. My clinicals are done, so I have free time now, and I don’t really know what to do with it.

We didn’t do anything for Thanksgiving since I was at work and my parents were out of town. I ended up working Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday. Hope was on call at the hospital all weekend. Hope and Paige made a few trips to Lake Eola to feed the birds and play on the playground while I was at work. They both seemed to enjoy the time that they spent together.

Paige is growing by leaps and bounds. She can put together small sentences now. She sings “The Itsy Bitsy Spider,” and of course she still loves Elmo!

We went to the OB last Wednesday, and everything is looking good. According to the countdown, we are down to 57 days until Peyton’s due date.

I added about 25 pictures to the photo gallery.

So far I have spent more than $15,000 on the rental house, and I am still not done, but I do have it rented out again. The new tenants moved in on October the first, which makes our life a lot less stressful without having to pay the extra mortgage and other bills associated with the extra house. I took some pictures of the house now that it has been made livable again.

Here is the third set of Peyton’s ultrasound pictures.

…The children will play. Today the three of them decided to play with a lizard, which Paige calls a loo loo.