life stresses

Lately, I feel like life is throwing me every punch in the book. First, our white car died... and we could not figure out what to do to fix it. So, we bought a new truck from a used dealership. The NEXT day, the check engine light came on. not cool. We waited a few days, thinking maybe I didn't tighten the gas cap. we bought a new cap in case this one was bad. The light never went out. We then had it checked out and found out that the transmission needed fixed, and we needed new wheel bearings! I took the truck to a transmission place in Cedarburg. They did a nice job for a good price and replaced both wheel bearings and the brake pads. So, i picked up the truck. They did have one problem with it not starting at first, and said we might need a new fuel pump, but hopefully not for a while. Back on the road, and the truck was running nice! Everything was looking up. two days later, I go out to start the truck before work. I smell gas in the garage, and the truck won't start! So needles to say, now it's sitting in my garage until we can get it fixed and again, I'm borrowing my parents van. So, I've been praying and asking God to help me get through this, trying not to stress and trust God that he will provide. Last night I get home from work and Nathan informs me that the washer broke. Hopefully he'll be able to fix it. But geez, what else is going to go wrong?

So this was my rant, one way to get my stresses. I KNOW God is in control and everything will work out. I need prayer from others that I always keep that in mind and that I don't stress.

Thanks for listen.

Straight No Chaser

So this past weekend my mother in law took my husband and I out to dinner and so "Straight No Chaser" in concert at the Pbast theater for our birthdays. A friend of the family Andy came along!

We went to Mo's Irish Pub for dinner. I had a penne dish, which was very good. Nathan got a burger, which took forever to get since our waiter forgot to put it in! oops! For dessert we got a huge homemade chocolate chip cooking with ice cream on top. It was SOOO good!

The concert was amazing. I had never heard of this group before, but they were very talented and entertaining. Check out some of their work on You tube!

Bathtime

Bathtime at the end of a long day is such a special time for Jonathan and me.

Its becoming a lot more fun too as he is learning to splash the water and

play with the bath toys! He loves his yellow rubber ducky!

Jonathan's 1st dinner date

We started our Tuesdnight bible study with Michelle, Tim, Beth, Scott, and us. While we talked, the babies played and had thier first dinner date... :)

Only a helmet???

This has been a challenging week for me. I took Jonathan to his 6 month appointment last week and brought up this bump appeared on Jonathan's head, just above his forehead and a ridge that runs down this forehead to the top of his nose, between his eyes. I've never been very concerned, and the doctor wasn't too concerned either, but wants us to take him to Children's Hospital for an x-ray to see what is going on. If anything, she thinks the bones might be overlapping and the treatment for that just wearing a helmet.

Of course, as the parent, I thought WHAT?? ONLY A HELMET??? HE'LL HATE THAT!!!!

But I calmed my nerves quickly and told myself, lets not worry until we know what's going on. I'm sure it's nothing.

Nathan and I have discussed what to do since then. Do the x-ray? watch and see if it gets bigger? get a second opinion? do we really want to put our child through the x-ray? what will be be exposing him to? does our insurance cover this? (I checked, the neurosurgeon is in our plan... praise GOD).

So, the concerned parent I am, I started to research online. At first I wasn't getting much, and the stuff I was finding, what just freaking me out. I finally ran across picture that reminded me what Jonathan's head looked like, only more severe. It's called Trigonocephaly. A lot of research is scary, but I am trusting in God to look after my little man, to show us if this is what is really going on, and if it is, what we need to do.

I called the neurosurgeon today to set up the appointment for the x-ray. Just to be sure. I'm worried, but I honestly believe that God is in control, and I do not have to fear. Until I know anything, no need to stress. Below is the website that I found out my information. Interesting.

http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/neurology_neurosurgery/specialty_areas/pediatric_neurosurgery/conditions/craniosynostosis/types.html


I started rethinking about the helmet.... only a helmet huh? I guess that's not too bad. It doesn't look serious enough for surgery.... so only a helmet. I can handle that.

Please be praying that it is nothing, and if is, God will guide us.

Labor Day weekend: Up North

We went up North for labor day, a weekend that was overall fun for me, but not for Nathan. For starters, he ended up having to fix the back of the house which had water damaged, but it all got "fixed". The main reason he went up there was to go disc golfing at a course up there, but ended up driving around for 1 1/2 hours just to not find it. thirdly, while working on the house he got stung and bit by a bee right under his eye. His left side of the face swelled up pretty bad. I felt so back for him. It was not the weekend he was anticipating!

Here is the fun stuff we did do!

We rested at the house:

we ate out a lot and ate a lot!

we went to the Lakewood Zoo:

we got our pictures at the tank and with "Larry". We have pictures of Nathan as a child on these and us when we 1st got married.

Jonathan is 6 months!

Jonathan is 6 months old! How time flies! Here are the mild stones that I can think of this late in the evening!

*he officially sits on his own. He sat for 20 minutes today before he started fussing!

*loves to eat... eats TONS of solids, 3 meals a day

*is attempting to get up on all 4's, but ends up scooting backwards.

*loves to stand with assistance

*laughs a lot

*Cries if strangers come too close

*love mom, and gets upset when she leaves the room

*when on tummy, can lift all of his chest and stomach off the ground

*loves playing in his Toy Saucer

*loves to swim

*LOVES dogs, he has recently discovered them!

And the best part........

*Jonathan sleeps now for 9-10 hours every night!!!! how exciting is that!! As soon as I took the pacifier away he started sleeping through the night, and no crying. Most naps he even goes down without crying! yeah!

What gets me is I put together a scrapbook so far, of just birth through 4-5 months, and it's over 70 pages already!!!! I have at least 15 pages for 5-5 1/2 months old! I think I'm going to need to start a new album for the last 6 months!