Cars...

We spent yesterday car shopping from 11:30-6. I was exhausted afterwards. We drove 9 or 10 cars. We found some we like but trying to fit our bucket car seat in the back and still have room to sit comfortably in the front is hard. We will keep you updated with what we get, we are still looking and going to retry two of the cars again. There is no rush but gas is eating us alive so the sooner the better.

New car again?

So we are leaving in a few minutes to go car shopping again. I love my Explorer but I don't love the gas mileage of 15 mpg in town with Kris driving a minimum of 50 miles a day. So we are going to downsize to a car with better gas mileage and a lower monthly payment. G-pa is watching Addy so we can test drive cars today b/c taking a car seat out of many different cars is not our idea of fun. We have narrowed it down to Honda (great car they run forever), VW (my favorite), Dodge (cute mini SUV), Nissan (Kris gets a corporate deal, no haggling over prices). So we will have a car for a few years but will go back to a SUV when we have 3 children. We are also looking at Hybrids, great gas mileage but a little more money up front. So wish us luck.

Lots going on and on and on

It's been a month since our last blog. A lot has happened since then. I don't have enough time to go into all of it. Addy has had a sinus infection with pink eye, then I got a double ear infection with the flu, then Kris got a upper respiratory infection. We were OK for a few days. Then on Friday, Addy ran a temp of 104.5 so we took her to the Urgent Care, they pumped her full of Tylenol, Motrin and an antibiotic. It was scary, she just lay in Kris's arms, not moving, not wanting to drink (which is what she needed to do), finally it went down and we went home before they put her in the hospital. She slept the rest of the weekend, was awake for almost 8 hours collectively for 2 days. She went to school on Monday and broke out in a rash all over her body. We had to go to the doctor again and we are trying different meds and it has cleared up. Needless to say we all have been sleeping alot to try to get better, with no energy, and our house it starting to show the signs of it too. (We really need to put away clean clothes and vacuum :-)

Sickness issues aside, one of Kris's paintball buddies was murdered on Sunday night, shot in the head for his wallet, ridiculous, what has our world come too. A friend of the family that are a couple that have been together 30 years have decided to divorce. Not to mention two sets of my cousins are getting divorced from their wives after many years of marriage.

Seems bad right? Well we have been doing 40 days of 24/7 prayer at our church and things have been changing with us and with church. Twice I have had to leave service to go to the prayer room and intercede for people. Once for a family member, which was uplifting for me to pray and I had lots of peace afterwards. The second time was different. I had to go find a girl's mom so I could pray for her daughter with her then I went to the prayer room and just cried, bent over a couch, couldn't stop sobbing, crying out to God. I haven't cried like that since..., I don't know if I have ever cried like that. I just kept getting that God's heart was breaking. You know when you are praying or interceding and God lets you feel or see a glimpse of what is going on, well that happened and it was horrible, his heart was breaking for this girl. I didn't know what was going on in her life just that she is not following God.
I keep thinking since then 'Break my heart with the things that break your heart Lord'. You see the world differently when you pray that, I have started to see what is wrong with things around me and the people and it saddens me. But then it just takes worship to make it better, not everyone gets what it is to be a worshipper. It is the most wonderful thing, to be in God's presence and tell him how much you love him, I wish everyone could take the barriers down and just worship. If they could know that freedom, that emotion, that love, that joy, if the world could just see his face.
The other thing that i have learned in this 40 day fasting and praying is how blessed I am. Kris and I were talking about marriage. Kris asked me 'do you think people are like us and love each other like we do?' I said I hope so, I hope everyone feels like we do for each other. Unfortunately we know that some have not married their best friend, or appreciate each other, or desire to spend every waking and non waking moment with each other, or talk on the phone every chance they get when they are apart, or simply touch each other all the time. We are sappy people who would be lost without each other and it saddens me that not everyone has that. I believe each person deserves it.
In the last five years Kris and I have not prayed together alot, we pray separately but that has started to change. We have had prayer time together lately and it has been great. I feel God is preparing us so we can minister together.
So that's our life in a nutshell right now. Crazy, busy, tiring, but full of love and God.
Good Night.

Addy's b-day party

Her cake that Nana Sue made

the cupcake tower

Nana, Maddie, and Addy

Jenny and Addy

kissing her babydoll

her cupcake

sugar rush!!

pink frosting in her hair, on her way to her bath

Maddie and her doll









Adyson's birthday was on Wednesday, she is now ONE. She is 23 lbs and 9 ounces, 31 1/4 inches long. She got to play hookie from school on Friday and got to leave early on Thursday b/c Mommy had to go home b/c she had a double ear infection and the type B flu. They put me on some great drugs and I feel great now, still don't want to go back to work tomorrow but I have too. So we had her party this Saturday. It went great. She got a babydoll, a raincoat and boots, a blue jean dress, shirt, and jellies, animal magnets for the fridge, a bath toy, a bear, a musical wagon, a striped hoodie with 3 pair of matching pants, and a house with people. She still has presents on the way from Aunt Chanda and Mama and Papa Fuller. Sue made the cake and cupcakes and Addy ate/wore her cupcake and had to have a bath afterwards. It was a great party. Jenny, Joey and thier two boys stayed with us so it was nice talking and hanging out with them as always.

my baby

My baby only has one more day until she is one! It seems like yesterday that I was checking into the hospital. I have mixed emotions, I am glad that she is healthy and growing strong but she is growing too fast!!!

Addy

I wouldn't say that Addy is a sickly child but she is "sick" a lot. But she hardly ever shows it. So we brought the New Years in with Adyson throwing up with a temp, and diarrhea which lasted about 5-6 days. Then she was back to her active self for a couple of days.

We went to The Call (12 hours of fasting and prayer, it was great and Addy slept thru most of it) in Cincinnati last Saturday and stayed with my cousins and she started wheezing and coughing really bad. So we took her to the doctor this Monday and she was put on breathing treatments b/c she has RSV, which has been going around her room at school. She lost her voice yesterday, it so sad to hear her try to cry, it's more like a squeak. We put her to bed last night and she started crying, well rather squeaking so I did the wrong thing and went and got her and took her to bed with me with a bottle. I just couldn't hear her cry like that or I would cry. You wouldn't know that she is sick except the occasional wheezing and coughing, her energy level has not went down.

She has had a few firsts this week. She signed 'more' three times now while eating and she slept on a cot at school. She is going to be moving into the one year old room in 2 weeks so her teachers have started to prepare her with sleeping on a cot. Today was her first day and she did great.

A crying baby

So Adyson is 10 months now and we have almost always put her to bed asleep. So the other day, we were exhuasted from lots of taveling and running around and we put her to bed half asleep. She did not like that and she cried, well more like screamed herself to fell asleep. She cried for 20 minutes, not a sad cry, an angry one, she threw her pacifier at the door but finally fell asleep. We on the other hand laid in bed tense, staring at the ceiling saying do you think she is ok (keep in mind that we can sit up in bed look into the hall into her room and can see her standing in her crib) Kris asked if I had said goodnight, i said yes and then we debated on going in there a million times, should we pick her up or not and how long would we let her cry and is this method a good one for us. Long story short, she fell asleep, was not emotionally hurt, and woke up in a great mood the next day. I put her down tonight and she screamed for 4 minutes and went to sleep, big difference. I just hate that she cries when we put her in her bed awake but she is the child that will keep going and going until she passes out if we let her. I hope next time she just goes to sleep no crying, I can't take it when she cries :-)