Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Tyson
Ashley called a little while ago to update me. The tumor is not where they originally thought it was, it is behind one of his ears and it is intermingled with some of his brain. I think she said the surgery to cut off blood flow today was successful and they will go ahead and remove as much of the tumor as possible tomorrow. I guess they may do chemo after that. It's a step back but the doctor was talking in terms of the future as in this may affect his peripheral vision, which seems a small price to pay for his little life. So please continue to pray, especially tomorrow as they do the surgery that it would be successful and a huge step forward for Tyson. Thank you.
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Tyson & Baby Stuff
I'm sure many of you who read (all 3 readers that I have, haha) have already heard about Tyson Woody. He is Jeremy & Summer's son, our youth pastor, and our pastor's grandson. He is only 8 months old and they found out yesterday that he has a brain tumor. Some seemingly good news today though. They did an MRI and found that the tumor is not intermingled in his brain but is basically "sitting" on the top right of his brain. So from what I understand, they will do surgery tomorrow (Wednesday) to cut off blood flow to the tumor and again on Thursday to remove the tumor. (If anyone reading this knows more than I do, please comment!). So it definitely seems like there is a good outlook for little Tyson. Continue to pray for him and the entire family and I will pass on updates as I receive them.
Nothing really exciting to update on baby news. I can't really tell if I am getting a belly but I feel like there is more "there" when I bend down when sitting. I keep meaning to start taking profile pictures so I can see the growth, but I keep forgetting! I've been building my maternity wardrobe, mostly through my mom and Ashley! They hit up the yardsales and Goodwill for me. Mom's friend Kay also got me a couple shirts! Also, I think we have pretty much agreed on a name. Anthony has declared that this is the name, and I think it is the one I like the best, I just want to keep my options open. So we're not telling yet, and if I can keep it that long, I'd like to wait till our ultrasound in August, just to be sure it is a girl.
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Surprise!
IT'S A GIRL!!!
It can be predicted with 85% accuracy at my point in pregnancy, and Dr. Thompson is rarely wrong, so we're going with that!
Let me back up and tell the whole story.
I had just written Anthony an email at work today telling him how I knew this next week was going to seem really long, because we were scheduled to have the nuchal transulcency ultrasound on June 17th, next Tuesday. I had heard from Summer (our friend and youth pastor's wife) that Dr. Thompson could tell the sex at that ultrasound, so I got really excited about that possibility. Well, between 11:20 and 11:30, The Women's Center called me and said that Dr. Thompson has to be on call with the hospital next Tuesday so there would be a possibility he might not be there, so could I come today and have the ultrasound. She asked if I could come at 1:30 but Anthony was in a meeting at central office for what I thought was all day so I asked if it was possible to do it later. So she penciled me in at 3, saying she wasn't sure if he would be there, but at least the ultrasound tech could do it, and I frantically tried to get in touch with Anthony! I emailed him and told him the situation and told him to ask if he could leave early (since he already knew how to do everything this meeting/training was for). Well, it turned out they were done with their training before noon! So we got to go ahead at 1:30 and do the ultrasound! We actually got to have 2 ultrasounds at this appointment; after Dr. Thompson was done, he asked if this lady (who I think is a physiscian's assistant or something like that) who was training to do these ultrasounds could do another one on me, and of course I said yes!
It was the most amazing thing. When he first started, the baby was moving around a lot and you could see the little body wiggling around. He took a lot of measurements, as the main point of this ultrasound is to check for risk for Down's Syndrome and a couple other chromosomal abnormalities. Everything is excellent, and we have a tiny, next to nothing risk for those things. He said everything was measuring right on track for 12 weeks and 2 days. The baby is around 2 and a half inches long. We heard the heartbeat and it was 169! She was very active the entire time, just kicking her little legs and turning around. I can't wait till I can feel all that movement. Of course, I may regretting saying that when she is keeping me up at night! :) At the 2nd ultrasound, I guess my uterus was moving some and the lady told me that I was having a little contraction, which she said is normal. Haha. I'm trying to think of every little thing that happened.... it was just so incredible. I wanted to cry the whole time, but if I did that, then my belly would move, and I didn't want to mess him up, so I held it together! :) Anyways, I guess I covered all the high points, so here are some pictures. They are not very good because I had to take pictures of them so I'll show you the real things if I see you!
This is just a profile shot:
Another profile, you can see the spine, right at the back of the neck is where they took measurements to check for abnormalities, this is also one of them where he confirmed it was a girl... I'll do my best to explain... at this point their external genitals are not fully developed but from what I understood from this article Dr. Thompson showed us, there's basically a tube type thing where the genitals will form and it something to do with the angles of that tubal thing that tells you what the sex is. On the right side, looks like at the bottom of the belly, you can see two kind of pointy looking things, and that's apparently what he looks at. It's pretty complicated, but he is a genius! If you enlarge the picture, up in the left hand corner you can see where he typed "girl"!
It can be predicted with 85% accuracy at my point in pregnancy, and Dr. Thompson is rarely wrong, so we're going with that!
Let me back up and tell the whole story.
I had just written Anthony an email at work today telling him how I knew this next week was going to seem really long, because we were scheduled to have the nuchal transulcency ultrasound on June 17th, next Tuesday. I had heard from Summer (our friend and youth pastor's wife) that Dr. Thompson could tell the sex at that ultrasound, so I got really excited about that possibility. Well, between 11:20 and 11:30, The Women's Center called me and said that Dr. Thompson has to be on call with the hospital next Tuesday so there would be a possibility he might not be there, so could I come today and have the ultrasound. She asked if I could come at 1:30 but Anthony was in a meeting at central office for what I thought was all day so I asked if it was possible to do it later. So she penciled me in at 3, saying she wasn't sure if he would be there, but at least the ultrasound tech could do it, and I frantically tried to get in touch with Anthony! I emailed him and told him the situation and told him to ask if he could leave early (since he already knew how to do everything this meeting/training was for). Well, it turned out they were done with their training before noon! So we got to go ahead at 1:30 and do the ultrasound! We actually got to have 2 ultrasounds at this appointment; after Dr. Thompson was done, he asked if this lady (who I think is a physiscian's assistant or something like that) who was training to do these ultrasounds could do another one on me, and of course I said yes!
It was the most amazing thing. When he first started, the baby was moving around a lot and you could see the little body wiggling around. He took a lot of measurements, as the main point of this ultrasound is to check for risk for Down's Syndrome and a couple other chromosomal abnormalities. Everything is excellent, and we have a tiny, next to nothing risk for those things. He said everything was measuring right on track for 12 weeks and 2 days. The baby is around 2 and a half inches long. We heard the heartbeat and it was 169! She was very active the entire time, just kicking her little legs and turning around. I can't wait till I can feel all that movement. Of course, I may regretting saying that when she is keeping me up at night! :) At the 2nd ultrasound, I guess my uterus was moving some and the lady told me that I was having a little contraction, which she said is normal. Haha. I'm trying to think of every little thing that happened.... it was just so incredible. I wanted to cry the whole time, but if I did that, then my belly would move, and I didn't want to mess him up, so I held it together! :) Anyways, I guess I covered all the high points, so here are some pictures. They are not very good because I had to take pictures of them so I'll show you the real things if I see you!
This is just a profile shot:
Whole body shot, head at the left, legs on the right.
Another profile, you can see the spine, right at the back of the neck is where they took measurements to check for abnormalities, this is also one of them where he confirmed it was a girl... I'll do my best to explain... at this point their external genitals are not fully developed but from what I understood from this article Dr. Thompson showed us, there's basically a tube type thing where the genitals will form and it something to do with the angles of that tubal thing that tells you what the sex is. On the right side, looks like at the bottom of the belly, you can see two kind of pointy looking things, and that's apparently what he looks at. It's pretty complicated, but he is a genius! If you enlarge the picture, up in the left hand corner you can see where he typed "girl"!
The "creepy one" as Dr. Thompson called it... the face, you can see the two eye sockets, tilt your head to the left if you can't see it! :)
Saturday, June 7, 2008
Saturday
Don't have much to update about really, but I'm trying to stay faithful to this. :)
Last night we went to Jeremy & Summer's (our youth pastor & wife) house for dinner. Pastor Don and Sandy, and Clayton and Nicki (our summer interns) were also there. We had some excellent chicken parmasean for dinner and then we had dessert and talked a while, and then we played Pit. We had a really good time and didn't get home till about 11. I went straight to bed after that! :)
This morning Anthony had graduation, which was on the football field. In the extremely hot weather. Poor thing has a sunburn on his forehead where his graduation cap was. I went to the library and to Walmart to get groceries while he was gone. Once we were both home, we lounged around for a little while, and then we got to work on cleaning. With all the coming and going we do many weekends, we don't get everything cleaned like we should. But the house got a thorough cleaning today, so I feel so much better! Then we went to El Puerto for dinner and went to Kohl's and got Anthony a pair of pants and shirt. Now we are just here chilling out. Anthony just came back in from shooting some hoops on his new basketball goal. :) He has really been enjoying it, so I'm glad I got it for him.
We should be getting our new living room furniture soon. I think I'm going to have a hard time figuring out how I want it set up in here. I'd like to go to some of the neighbor's houses and just ask them to see how they have their living rooms arranged! They might think I'm crazy. :)
Well, tomorrow we have church and my aunt and uncle from Georgia are going to be in town, so I'm excited about seeing them. We also have started this new life group, Dave Ramsey's Financial Peace University. We've only had one week so far, but I already feel like we have learned so much. These principles just seems like they can be absolutely life-changing. If you are looking for something to help with financial stuff, I highly recommend at least reading the book, Financial Peace Revisited.
Last night we went to Jeremy & Summer's (our youth pastor & wife) house for dinner. Pastor Don and Sandy, and Clayton and Nicki (our summer interns) were also there. We had some excellent chicken parmasean for dinner and then we had dessert and talked a while, and then we played Pit. We had a really good time and didn't get home till about 11. I went straight to bed after that! :)
This morning Anthony had graduation, which was on the football field. In the extremely hot weather. Poor thing has a sunburn on his forehead where his graduation cap was. I went to the library and to Walmart to get groceries while he was gone. Once we were both home, we lounged around for a little while, and then we got to work on cleaning. With all the coming and going we do many weekends, we don't get everything cleaned like we should. But the house got a thorough cleaning today, so I feel so much better! Then we went to El Puerto for dinner and went to Kohl's and got Anthony a pair of pants and shirt. Now we are just here chilling out. Anthony just came back in from shooting some hoops on his new basketball goal. :) He has really been enjoying it, so I'm glad I got it for him.
We should be getting our new living room furniture soon. I think I'm going to have a hard time figuring out how I want it set up in here. I'd like to go to some of the neighbor's houses and just ask them to see how they have their living rooms arranged! They might think I'm crazy. :)
Well, tomorrow we have church and my aunt and uncle from Georgia are going to be in town, so I'm excited about seeing them. We also have started this new life group, Dave Ramsey's Financial Peace University. We've only had one week so far, but I already feel like we have learned so much. These principles just seems like they can be absolutely life-changing. If you are looking for something to help with financial stuff, I highly recommend at least reading the book, Financial Peace Revisited.
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Need an Update
Well, I need to update, so here we go. Trying to think what all has happened the past week.
Saturday morning I went to yardsales in Grottoes with my friend Malisa. Got some good baby stuff, and a brand new basketball hoop for Anthony. I got it for $40 and it had never been used, still in some of the packaging and everything. They bought it for over $100 so I got a good deal. Anthony had been talking about wanting one and I just happened upon this, not really looking for it. But he finally got it put together and he has been enjoying using it.
After yardsales on Saturday, we went to Charlottesville to meet up with Matt, Amanda, Lily, and Vicky. We had lunch at Chili's and then did a little shopping in Barracks Road shopping center. I got a maternity shirt from Old Navy for 97 cents... go me! :) Then we came home and did our normal Saturday thing.
Sunday we had church. We had "promotion Sunday" in Sunday school. So we lost all our kids that just finished 8th grade. :( I am still really sad about it cause I love those kids. But we still have some great upcoming 8th graders (if we can get them to stay with us, they want to move up with their friends) and some really fun kids coming up from 6th grade. We have an intern for the summer to work with the junior high kids and he will be doing the Wednesday night thing, so I'm looking forward to that tomorrow evening.
In other news, Amanda's sister Dawn had her twins yesterday! They are really cute and I'm so glad for her since her journey to another child/children has been a long, hard one. Congratulations Dawn! (and Auntie Amanda too!)
We found out today that Brynn & Jeremy (Anthony's younger brother) are having a baby girl! That makes 2 new nieces for me this year! And only two more weeks till we get to have an ultrasound (although it feels like it's taking a long time)!
Saturday morning I went to yardsales in Grottoes with my friend Malisa. Got some good baby stuff, and a brand new basketball hoop for Anthony. I got it for $40 and it had never been used, still in some of the packaging and everything. They bought it for over $100 so I got a good deal. Anthony had been talking about wanting one and I just happened upon this, not really looking for it. But he finally got it put together and he has been enjoying using it.
After yardsales on Saturday, we went to Charlottesville to meet up with Matt, Amanda, Lily, and Vicky. We had lunch at Chili's and then did a little shopping in Barracks Road shopping center. I got a maternity shirt from Old Navy for 97 cents... go me! :) Then we came home and did our normal Saturday thing.
Sunday we had church. We had "promotion Sunday" in Sunday school. So we lost all our kids that just finished 8th grade. :( I am still really sad about it cause I love those kids. But we still have some great upcoming 8th graders (if we can get them to stay with us, they want to move up with their friends) and some really fun kids coming up from 6th grade. We have an intern for the summer to work with the junior high kids and he will be doing the Wednesday night thing, so I'm looking forward to that tomorrow evening.
In other news, Amanda's sister Dawn had her twins yesterday! They are really cute and I'm so glad for her since her journey to another child/children has been a long, hard one. Congratulations Dawn! (and Auntie Amanda too!)
We found out today that Brynn & Jeremy (Anthony's younger brother) are having a baby girl! That makes 2 new nieces for me this year! And only two more weeks till we get to have an ultrasound (although it feels like it's taking a long time)!
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
News.....
I meant to share this on my blog last night, but forgot. While everyone was over yesterday, I was looking through our free on-demand stuff to find Zoe a cartoon to watch and I came across free Karaoke!!! It has a few different genres of songs and I just could not believe our cable had something so wonderful (I am a major dork, I know)!!! So anyways, I am just having a good old time singing along (while our windows are open) and this girl walks down our driveway trying to get her dog who escaped. So I pretty much dove to the floor to avoid being seen ("what is that awful noise coming from that house?"), haha. So that was my fun story for the day. Now.... on to the news.....
Well, today is our 2 year anniversary and we got to do the most amazing thing anyone could ever experience on an anniversary, or any day for that matter.....
We heard our baby's hearbeat.
Well, today is our 2 year anniversary and we got to do the most amazing thing anyone could ever experience on an anniversary, or any day for that matter.....
We heard our baby's hearbeat.
Yep! That's right. :) I am pregnant. :) Today I am 10 weeks and 2 days. My due date is December 21st. Like I said, we heard the heartbeat today and it was the most wonderful thing. Around 162 beats per minute and we could also hear the baby moving around. I am so in awe that we could make something that has a heartbeat. What an awesome Designer we have. I feel like there could not be an atheist that has children, because anyone who ever hears their child's heartbeat would have to know there is a God. Anyways, we are very excited, and I am so glad to be sharing this finally. Hopefully this news will make me post at least once a week, if not more. I have not been sick at all, so pregnancy has been good so far. I can't wait till I can actually feel my baby there so I can really enjoy it. Well, happy anniversary to us!! :)
Monday, May 26, 2008
Fun Long Weekend
Woohoo! What a great weekend this has been! On Friday after work, Anthony and I headed to Williamsburg. We got to our hotel around 8:30, got some dinner, got a little lost, found our way back, ate our dinner, and just chilled and watched TV. Saturday morning we got up and headed to Colonial Williamsburg around 9:30 and we stayed till around 2:30. We saw lots of cool stuff, ate at one of their taverns, in the cellar, and had a really enjoyable time. There are a few pictures below. Then Sunday we went to the Prime Outlets in Williamsburg and shopped a little bit. After that we headed home and got home around 3:45ish. Well we pulled in the driveway to find a swarm (and by swarm I do mean hundereds, layers and layers) of bees settled on the back of our mailbox. I have never in my life seen anything like that. Well I headed out to the store to get some groceries and some wasp/bee spray. When I got back, apparently the "bee meeting" had been dismissed, because the swarm was no longer congregated on the mailbox, although there were still plenty buzzing around the area. So at sundown, Anthony took his brave little self out there and sprayed them to death. We haven't seen any hanging around there since, so hopefully they got the message. :)
Then today we hung around the house, cleaned up a little, did some laundry, were lazy, etc. This afternoon Mom, Ashley, Zoe and Kevin came over for a cookout. We had some good food, threw the frisbee around in the backyard, and played Catch Phrase and Uno. It was a lot of fun, and I think we should do that more often!
Here are some pictures....
This is actually from a few week ago when we kept Zoe for the day. I just thought it was cute. Anthony was working on his computer and Zoe had cartoons on, and she just plopped down beside him and cuddled up to him. :)
Anthony in front of the courthouse in Colonial Williamsburg.
Anthony and I in front of the church.
Our hotel room. It was actually a Quality Inn, but had kind of a "colonial" feel to it. Those are peacocks on the wallpaper. It was only about 5 minutes from Colonial Williamsburg.
It has been an excellent weekend and I am glad we get a short week! :)
Then today we hung around the house, cleaned up a little, did some laundry, were lazy, etc. This afternoon Mom, Ashley, Zoe and Kevin came over for a cookout. We had some good food, threw the frisbee around in the backyard, and played Catch Phrase and Uno. It was a lot of fun, and I think we should do that more often!
Here are some pictures....
This is actually from a few week ago when we kept Zoe for the day. I just thought it was cute. Anthony was working on his computer and Zoe had cartoons on, and she just plopped down beside him and cuddled up to him. :)
Anthony in front of the courthouse in Colonial Williamsburg.
Anthony and I in front of the church.
Our hotel room. It was actually a Quality Inn, but had kind of a "colonial" feel to it. Those are peacocks on the wallpaper. It was only about 5 minutes from Colonial Williamsburg.
It has been an excellent weekend and I am glad we get a short week! :)
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