Thursday, April 2, 2015

A Wild Ride

I have kind of konked out of the blogging for the last oh, six or so months and I am sorry about that things have been a bit insane. 

As I briefly mentioned in Silas' birthday post, I remarried!  Erick and I married in August and come the middle of September I wasn't feeling very well. Well, come next month our family of 7, with the whole, yours and mine situation will become a yours, mine and OURS family of 8! I have been incredibly ill with this pregnancy, just like all my others and it has blown Erick's mind that anyone could really be THIS sick for THIS long and not have something REALLY wrong with them, who gets that sick just to have a baby? ME! He had been warned, he did not believe me though. I am down nearly 40 pounds and the bruises from the IV's I have been getting pretty consistently since week 10 are finally starting to fade, I think I stopped last Saturday at 32 weeks.  

Through all of the sickness and baby prep we MOVED! We are now two doors down from my parents in an old falling down house that had a huge back yard and lots of potential. We are hoping maybe it can be ours someday but in the meanwhile we are trying to make it home and getting used to all of its quirks, ie  cabinet doors falling off randomly, the heat not working on the second floor and the sliding doors having to be locked with sticks to make sure they stay closed. 

Grace began the first grade and is in my mother's class. She loves it and is LOVING the fact that she is old enough to walk to school all by herself (moving directly across the school helped that landmark a lot!)  

Henry had his 25th surgery to remove all the mandibular distraction hardware from his face, and sadly had to have another plate put in because his jaw didn't heal correctly, which will have to be removed in about 6 months.  He is attending speech at USU twice a week and when he is allowed to go to preschool (not recovering from surgery) he attends the special needs preschool through the school district 4 days a week and loves it! 

Silas won't stop talking and we wouldn't want him to. From son up to son down that kid is making noise!  He is an explorer and  wandering off is his specialty, typically to my parents house to climb onto the four wheeler and holler for papa to take him on a ride.  He is learning the hard way he is NOT allowed to go into the street and loves to stomp his feet and throw his arms down when he is told that he needs to stay home! 

We have quite the little farm started. Erick,  my dear Idaho Farm Boy  has began quite the grand garden outback and there are currently TWELVE chicks, two geese and a duck living in my kitchen in totes until its warm enough for them to move into the coop my IFB will be building. 

We have undergone quite the shift in our ride and although the road hasn't always been smooth we are chugging along. Together.