New President...

I won't lie, sadly I didn't even think twice about turning on the tv to watch the inauguration, and now tonight sitting here I wish I had. I have to just give kuddos for several of the Christian blogs I read and the awesome things they said about today and made me really look at the whole day in a fresh positive way. History was made and how amazing! No matter who I voted for, today we have a new president and God is still in control and like I have heard over and over, let us pray for this lovely family that is embarking on a huge new journey, they need our prayers. They are just people, humans just like me and you, a family just like mine. That's another thing. President Obama is human and humans will always let you down. We must keep our eyes on Jesus for He alone is worthy and forever faithful and true. Let's pray God will help guide him and all of our leaders in doing what is right for our country. I want to leave you with a link to a blog that totally was a smack in my face and made me really look at myself and ask some big questions....Check it out....(Watch the video at the beginning too, never thought of it like that...)

http://www.itsalmostnaptime.blogspot.com/

Leah also did a wonderful job at making me look at today with a fresh look. Thanks Leah!

Prayer for my dear friends Mom...

One of my dear friends from Waco, mom is in need of prayer. Please lift her up. She had gangrene, pneumonia, possible staff infection and something wrong with her blood count. Pray for healing, for God's will, for peace and pray for God to give my friend the PEACE that surpasses all understanding. I can't imagine if I were in her shoes with my own mom. All I know is I would want everyone I knew to be praying and that is why I am passing this on, because I know many of you are prayer warriors... Thanks friends....

Updates! Dr. checkups, fishin' and more!

Well I didn't post about little Miss Teagan's trip to the ER! She and her brother had some major congestion but hers didn't seem to go away. I took her for a checkup to see if I needed to do anything else besides Vicks vapor rub and the humidifier...(These days you can't give them ANYTHING and even the pharmacist can't consult you until they are 4!!) So we went to the Dr and she said she had mild wheezing and gave her an inhaler and a breathing treatment in the office. We used the inhaler every 4 hours but it just seemed as though the congestion wasn't going away. My mom came over while Chris was on nights to try and let me catch up on some rest but at 3am woke me up because Teagan was having trouble breathing with the major mucous flem she had going on. We just decided we would rather take her to the ER because we had no clue what we were to do if she choked on flem?? Well after like 5 hours we got a chest xray and she had bronchitis. Praise the Lord it wasn't anything worse. We got an oral steriod and were told to continue the inhaler. Also if they choke on flem or anything for that matter they said put them leaning down and firm pats on the back. Good to know! :) She had her 4 month check up Wed and is healthy and well! She is now weighing in at 15.5 lbs and 24 in and of course a tiny head. That's to be expected since brother and daddy have tiny heads! ;)

We also took the Gauger fishing! Chris needed to run the boat and it was a gorgeous day so we took him out and we all three caught a trout! Mine was the biggest by 1/2 in., of course ;) And Gauge caught a baby trout! Literally! I had him holding the pole for the couple of seconds he stopped and was interested and lo and behold the child caught his first baby fish! And what makes it so great is that we all three had matching fish and his was a baby. So cute! His daddy was quite proud and told me when we got home, PLEASE let's do this more! It makes my day! ahhh I think we might ;) Really we had a blast! He can't wait until all 4 of us can go and each fish on our own. Ahh the stars in his eyes! I'm sure he will get us all matching fishing shirts, visors and put us in tournaments if its up to him!

Lately we have just been having a blast with the kiddos and laughing at how fun they are. Gauge just cracks us up and aboslutely loves going to Chuck E Cheese. Teagan is a different child! She is such a happy baby and a smily one at that. She is just now discovering her hands and talking up a storm! And I have been having a blast with my new blackberry phone that my sweet husband talked our tmobile person into giving me for a good deal! Thanks honey!

Have a fun weekend! I am looking forward to seeing Marley and Me with my mother in law tomorrow just the two of us and eating loads of popcorn! YUM! :)

2008

So I have seen some posts that recap the last year and I kind of liked that so I thought hey! I think I shall try this.... :)

* Found out about Chris' diagnosis of AS.

* First baby appt to confirm Miss Teagan was indeed beginning her life in Mommy's belly!

* Went to my first pro b-ball game, the Spurs! :)

* Had our good friends, the Wards, visit and found out Nat was preggo with her 2nd while they were here! SO fun! And enjoyed Sonic happy hour drinks while the kiddos played...ahh good times friend!

*Our Mr. Gauge turned the BIG ONE!

*Celebrated 5 years of marriage!

* Layne married Jon! What a pretty wedding...

*Spent many of the hot summer days feeling like a whale in Gauge's baby pool as he splashed about :)

*Miss Teagan made her debut!

*Went to New York with my honey!

Its' been such a big year with a tons of Gauge's 'firsts' and having a sweet baby girl! It has been one of the most stretching, rewarding, amazing, exhausting, and joyous years. God is so good to us and I am thrilled to see what 2009 holds for us!

Be blessed!!

I was tagged by Abby to list the 5th picture in the 5th folder...Here it is and such a sweet one! I love how Teagan's cheeks are mashed! haha




I was also tagged by Abby to share 7 random facts about ourselves that people may or may not know.

1.) Let's see I always wanted to be a radio dj on like the oldies station. Oh how I love my oldies and I think I should have born in the 50's....

2.) Following that I absolutely LOVE vintage clothes and in high school and college had some odd numbers I would wear but I still love looking for vintage clothes at the antique stores... Not to mention my love for vintage jewlery!! YAY!

3.) I am a Food Network/TLC junkie which is slowly and sadly changing to QVC and HSN...Am I an old fogie or what? (I think this switch happened because QVC and HSN are on all night that means they are on when I am feeding little Miss.... BUT I have never bought anything! hehe)

4.) I am a tad OCD. I do love a clean clean home and everything neatly stacked and in its place. I go through random 'throw everything out' moods and also love the look of freshly vaccumed carpet which I don't have...

5.) I have a dumb habit of buying new clothes and shoes and purses and then leaving them in my closet and wearing my grunge clothes because I am either 'saving' them or don't want to 'wear it in case it gets dirty...' this is sad right?

6.) Along those same lines I also have this dumb habit of shopping and then either putting back everything I spent and hour getting or returning it the next day. Yes the NEXT day. It drives me nuts if I have it longer. So I'm thinking as I write this I should probably stay out of stores or find another hobby! But what to do when the little ones want out?! But walk the mall and target! bummer....

7.) Last but not least I can majorly down some sweets in one day. This is not a good thing or something I am proud of but it is WHY I do exercise because I lack in the self control department and for some strange reason think I owe myself 'rewards' for long hard days which are often right now....hehe (this is also why I am a Diet Coke Aholic - 0 calories! Hopefully I don't die from Diet Coke....

SO! That was fun and revealing and now I need counseling... JUST KIDDING!

I tag-Layne, and anyone else who wants to do this and hasn't yet! hehe

New York!

Was amazing!!

We had such a blast together! We left Thursday morning and got to New York that evening around 6. It was raining and I was bummed but then got into the spirit seeing that rain to New Yorkers is nothing! I'm so used to staying indoors here when it rains and in New York, nothings stops them! So we found Junior's Cheesecake and had some dinner and of course dessert! It was SOOO stinkin' good. I watched them on food network and knew I had to try it and it did not dissappoint! They sell the cheesecakes on QVC and heck I may have to get one sometime! The Chocolate Mousse cheescake was awesome and so fluffy! And Red Velvet...YUMMO! We were tired and ready for bed by 8 but we knew we had to stay out, we came all this way! So we walked on over to Rockefeller Center and I dragged Chris over to ice skate. He was not looking forward to it but once we finished our 30 minutes he smiled and said he was glad I made him. It ended up being our favorite thing and if we hadn't been so tired and sore on Fri night we would have done it again...(And if it wasn't $60! Holy Smokes must be cause its Rockefeller ;) Anyhoo we explored and took pictures and finally went back to the hotel, which was amazing right in Times Square! I think it was still only like 11! haha

Saturday I woke Chris up at the crack to go stand in line for Good Morning America. I had brought stuff to make a sign that said "We miss our kids Gauge and Teagan and its only been 2 days!" hehe We stood there for 1 hour or more and I thought Chris may never speak to me again! hehe It was SOOO cold and then once we got in we had to stand for the whole taping! BUT!!! I was on GMA and it was so worth it!!! Chris ducked because he didn't want anyone to know he was there but I was so pumped! Totally worth getting up that early! :) Thanks honey!

We then went shopping and looked around 5th Avenue. Went to H&M, Tiffany's (there are 11 floors of jewlery! CRAZY!) FAO Schwartz (which the ToysRUs was way better..hehe) ate at Ray's Original Pizza, strolled through Central Park, went the the CRAZY zoo Macy's (and it was like a zoo!) and then went to get ready for our show, the Radio City Christmas Spectacular with the Rockettes!! On the way over after dinner we stood in a short line to get a cupcake at Magnolia's Bakery, which is also famous :) hehe It was again YUMMO!!

The show was awesome! I think Chris got bored after the first act but hey I want to be a Rockette so I was totally digging the whole show. It was amazing and they are so stinkin' talented! What was super impressive was that at the end instead of focusing on what the show was about with the older brother not believing in Santa, they totally ended it with the Nativity scene with live camels and sheep and the wisemen bowing down to Jesus and singing Hark the Herald Angels sing. It was amazing that they ended the show on what Christmas is truly about! I think I'm gonna write them and tell them how awesome I thought that was :)

After that we could barely walk back to the hotel we were so stinkin' tired! We slept long and hard and woke the next morning to get a Starbucks and go down 5th Ave. again. Which by the way Starbucks is on every corner and I know why! It's so cold you must have hot coffee the whole time! :)

It was so fun spending time together and yet we were both so excited we were running off the plane to hug our sweet babies! We are so blessed....

New York Tomorrow!!

What what?! Yup Chris and I are leaving tomorrow morning at 9am and headed to New York City Times Square! We haven't taken a vacation since our honeymoon and we just decided the only time we want to go to New York is Christmas time so here we go (and before the kiddos cost us too much ;) ) So we leave tomorrow and Friday we go to the Radio City Christmas Spectacular with the Rockettes and of course do some eating and shopping! Serendipitys here I come! We fly home Saturday evening...So we are both having a really hard time parting from the babies but we will only be gone one full day away without seeing them...ahhh pray for us :) Nighttime is the hardest. You just lay in the dark wishing you could hug them up...Ok I will stop or I'm gonna cry...again...You want a break and then you get a break and you don't really want the break anymore! We just love the little rascals so much! We look forward to the smiling faces awaiting us Saturday evening at the airport!

Here are some recent photos. We went to JCPennys to have Christmas pics taken and whoa...that was an experience. The lady didn't even know what she was doing and if you have kids well there is a short time they are happy and the rest is history...Well we got one picture and Gauge isn't even looking at the camera. But they sure looked cute!

Thanksgiving was wonderful. We have so much to be thankful for! I'm sad Layne is already gone. I didn't feel we got good time together because kiddos are crazy but I miss her and look forward to another visit!

I decorated last night and I will take some pics at night when its all pretty.