Wreath for Zach and Ellie

Fall Porch

Fall came way too fast for me this year.  I heart fall because that is when Sawyer was born.  We had a great weekend in Roche Harbor for Zach and Ellie's wedding.  I almost divorced my husband because he backed my truck into a boat trailer and there's a huge dent in my tail gate.  Sawyer is going to be two.  Christmas is right around the corner.  We also watch Shrek like ten times a day.  Our house is always messy.  Sawyer is a dancing queen.  More winter projects on our to do list.  I'm still breastfeeding.  The list continues.  But in the mean time, enjoy my Fall decorations. 

Here is my burlap wreath I made last night in the love seat, bad idea.  Burlap sheds and it also itches.  I've had two showers since then and I'm still itchy.  Good thing I just threw a blanket on top of my shaggy mess or I would never have had time to write this blog post.  I just cut strips of burlap, tied it in knots around the wreath and then hot glue gunned some loops, this is just my natural talent, I can't really explain my sweet skills.  I am sure there is a tutorial somewhere in blog land.  Then I topped it off with a fake flower.   

Here is our porch last year, boring white door, no wreath.....

I decorated two floating shelves in our living room.  We are pretty much ready for Halloween.  Just a visit to the pumpkin patch like last year.  I can't wait to see Sawyer with her strawberry costume. 

Happy Halloween, early!

Vacay

We had a rough last couple weeks.  With the stomach flu rearing it's ugly head.  Work for me lately has been insane to say the least.  Crazy psycho busy with no end in sight, I leave sweating and thinking I wonder what I forget to chart today?  And thoughts run through my head like, at least no one died on my wacth.  I had a cry fest last night and I actually feel a little better.  Sawyer is also getting her big girl molars and has been quite the crab lately.  I love Fall but we haven't had a very good start.  But we are going away for the weekend to a very beautiful place for a very lovely wedding! 

We plan to stay here. 

I try to remind myself to just breath.

Fall is here

So we all recovered from a brutal stomach bug.  Sawyer got sick Saturday night, myself Monday and Tuesday Jake got sick.  It was awful and I wouldn't wish it on anyone.  We are better and Fall is here.  We have kept busy this Summer alright and I haven't been blogging much.  Just to catch you up.  Sawyer had her follow up appointment with her regular doctor and she got a clean bill of health.  No speech problem what so ever.  People just expect more out of her because she is so tall, even nurse practitioners.  She told us Sawyer talks better than her three year old.  She sent us home with the 24 month eval and we will check again when she turns two.  EEK a two year old, where has the time gone?  So depressing.  But at the same time I am so proud of her because she is learning and getting so much brighter every day.  Thank God for an awesome pediatrician and a beautiful perfect baby girl, don't know if I could have survived the last couple years without either one.  Jake is excited for hunting season.  I started teaching boot camp!  I also go back to school November first at WGU and am getting my BSN degree online and everything transferred.  I only have to take nursing classes!  All those hours spent at O.C. payed off.  Other than that we are doing fabulous. 

Here's our girl.  At Aunt Leslie's, where we spent most of our Summer.

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Let's play catch up...

Sawyer had her first episode of puking.  She never even spit up as a baby.  Always kept everything down.  She had a snot face for like three days and was totally fine, thought she had a UTI (that went away on it's own).   So this was foreign  to me.  Then Saturday night, well actually Sunday morning at 2:17am, Sawyer had vomited up her hot dogs and s'mores all over her bed.  So I cleaned her all up and was like well ok, she had some water and breast milk and laid right back down and went to sleep at 2:37, she puked up more and by this time I knew she was sick.  So we moved out into the living room, I went through three shirts and I just let SJ rock a diaper, and we went through my whole pantry of clean bath towels.  It was awful about every 20-40 minutes she was hurling up her stomach contents, until nothing was left.  After she'd puke she would rub my arm and say, "Sorry mah".  Poor girl.  Then she would go back to sleep and wake up puking again.  I would have taken her to the ER, and I work in one but there was no way I was putting her in a car.  I knew she was sick.  She couldn't keep anything down, she would just puke it right back up.  Then she looked a little better by daylight and slept a good two hours from 8am to 10am.  She would only drink water but would puke it right back up about ten minutes later. She would walk around the living room and then just put her head down on the coffee table.  I was so sad to watch.  By noon she was able to keep sips of water and some breast milk down.  I thought at first she just played too hard the night before, swinging on this huge swing set, Jake's parent had, because I know how motion sick I get.  But then today is Monday and she is eating a little more and drinking she still isn't 100%, but she had two bouts of diarrhea.  Poor baby.  I figured it wasn't the stomach flu because I definitely got some of her puke in my mouth, but knock on wood, I never got sick.  No one else in the family is sick either, that I know of.  Except maybe baby play group.  Grrh.