The last week...

So, this week has been interesting to say the least. Kendall got very sick with an ear infection which caused a fever and lots of puking. Yuck! She stayed home 2 1/2 days from school. Thank you, Mama Gail! She went to the doctor and got some medicine. She seems to be doing A LOT better, Thank God! It was a pretty difficult week because of how bad she felt. She would just sit in our laps and put her head on our chests. Poor miserable baby. She was also waking up several times a night, I think this may have been harder than when she was first born. ugh... She's upstairs playing with her house right now. "Light on, Light off" So, I'm thinking she's feeling better for sure. ;-)

Oscar has an ear infection too, I guess this is ear infection season or something. Eeww... He seems to be doing better too, Tony took him back to the vet this week to get his ear re-packed with medicine. He has to go back next week too to make sure it is all gone.

Yesterday we went to the mall, I got a few shirts. Thank goodness 'cause I tend to wear the same 5 shirts everyday! Boring!!! Then I made lasagna for our friends Ken, Kristen and Austen. If I may say so myself, this was probably the best batch I've ever made and I've been making it for a long time.

Today we were going to go to the movies, but we decided we just needed to rest at home, this last week was very long and tiring.

Next Saturday is a girls day with my sister and other mom. We are going to facials, massages and lunch. Tony and I may go to that Luminaria thing downtown in the evening. It's supposed to be really cool. Let us know if you're interested also.

Well, that's probably enough for now. I don't really have much else to say, this was just a post with a run down of our ear infection week. ha ha...

Have a wonderful week!

Original post from www.tlwhitefamily.blogspot.com

Kendall's 1st Birthday! part two

Last Sunday we had Kendall's first birthday party. It was a roaring success. We are so thankful to have such wonderful family and friends! Your generosity and love is astounding!!!

Kendall had such an awesome time and we really hope you guys did too. She got so many awesome presents, we finally got them all put away yesterday. Woohoo! We love all of the clothes that she will grow into and she loves all of the new toys that she gets to play with.

We had a ton of food at the party and the venue worked out great! We used an upstairs loft area which had a TV and DVD player. I played the movie I made of Kendall's first year, then we watched the basketball game. I think it turned out great for kids and adults. I wonder what is in store for next year. I'm looking forward to it.

Here are a few pics of the day, I hope you like them!
Happy Birthday Kendall!
Kendall's Cake and Cupcakes - cute right?

Happy Birthday to you!

Mmm... Mmm... Good!Mimi, Trudy, Jeff, Mackenzie, and NickMost of the group, some were on playground at this point. We had like 60 people there. I couldn't believe it!Todd and Denise Reus with Aaden and Addison. Denise is an awesome realtor if you need one. :-)

Annie and Kenzie take Kendall to the playground, isn't this cute?

Mackenzie took Kendall down the slide. She loved it!

Dada and his sweet baby K.

Our friends Ken and Kristen, cute couple!

Mimi and Kendall, isn't this sweet?Patricia and Kendall - beautiful pic!Carson, son of Bonnie and Ryan. He's so cute and getting so big.

Look at Aiden go! He's the son of our friends Jennifer and Rick who are also in the pic with him.Mama and baby! Go, K, Go!

Cousin Nick! Such a sportsman!

Austen playing soccer - he's the son of our friend Kristen. So cute and definitely looking older than he is. Time sure flies.

Poppy with his grandkids. Connor, Mackenzie, Layton and Kendall. Kendall was so tired by this point. But, she was a very good sport about it all. Good girl!

All in all it was a great day! I can't believe my little pooty is so big already. Time flies when you're having fun, and boy are we having fun with her. We cherish the time we have and look forward to experiencing what God has in store for us with her in the future.

Poor Baby Girl

Last Sunday afternoon, after her nap, Kendall's eyes were pretty much glued shut from eye boogers, poor baby. We thought this would be a quick passing thing and that she would be fine the next day. Well, when she woke up on Monday morning, we had to really work hard to get the crusties off so she could open her eyes. Poor baby girl! We took her to daycare thinking that surely this would pass. Ummm... No! By the time Tony picked her up from school that afternoon you could tell that Kendall just really wasn't feeling well. To add to all of this, she has had a runny nose and congestion for about 4 months now. We've been to the doctor several times where they have told us that it is just because she is in daycare and she just has a cold that needs to run its course. Well, obviously it had not run its course and the humidifier that we run in her room on high every night was not working. On Tuesday morning when we all woke up, Kendall's eyes were crusted over again and really red and puffy. I had looked this up the night before on the internet and found that it was most likely the result of allergies. But, I called the nurse at the hospital, which is where the doctor's office routes its medical questions when they aren't open yet, to ask them if I should take her in. They told me that she is probably fine, but that the doctor would want to check her to make sure it is not pink eye. So, Kendall and I got ready and she ate some breakfast and I took her in to the doctor. I could tell she wasn't feeling well because while we were waiting for the doctor to see us she just sat in my lap with her head laying on me. The doctor listened to her lungs, checked her oxygen intake and looked in her ears. After hearing how long she has had the congestion, the doctor finally gave her an antihistamine/decongestant. She also said that she has pink eye, but it's not like she ran any tests, I really still think it is allergies that caused the eye crusties, but I'm giving her the eye drops just in case. Because Kendall has been coughing for so long, the doctor ordered a chest x-ray even though she reassured me that her lungs sounded clear. She just wanted to check her. So, I bundled K up and took her straight to the imaging center after the doctor's appointment. It only took about 5 minutes to take the x-rays and Kendall cried the whole time. Awww... But, good news, the doctor's office called later and said that she doesn't have RSV (forgot to tell you that they checked her for that AGAIN) and her lungs are clear. So, I'm supposed to give her the eye drops for a week and I'm giving her the sample medicine for her cough, if it works I'm supposed to get the prescription filled. It's been 4 days of using the cough medicine and the only thing that I'm noticing is that it makes her sleepy. If she still has the cough in another week and a half, I'm supposed to take her back to the doctor so they can try something else I guess. I'm glad they are finally giving me something for her, I was getting really fed up with the "Oh, she's in daycare" line. I can totally understand that logic, but it seems like she would have had periods of time when she was well also. Oh well, maybe now we can figure out what is going on. I have a feeling that she has allergies (they are supposedly genetic) and that she will need to be put on some allergy medicine if she wants to have any type of time without congestion and runny nose.

Anyway, I guess that's enough for now. Tonight we are going out to dinner with our friends Ken and Kristen for our first annual Double Holi-date. We decided that instead of buying gifts for each other we would go out to a nice dinner. I'm excited! K is staying with my mom and spending the night with her tonight. I'm hoping I'll be able to sleep past 6:20 tomorrow morning, that's the time that i woke up this morning. Yuck!

I hope everyone has a great weekend, maybe I'll write more tomorrow.

Lots of Love,
Lisa

Saturday turns into Saturnight

Here's how our Saturday went...

- Addressed Kendall's b-day party invites
- Went to order b-day cake/cupcakes
- Went to post office to mail invites
- Drove to parents to pick up Annie for lunch
- Parents drove up and offered to keep Kendall while we ran our errands (Yeah!)
- Went to Alamo Cafe for lunch
- Went to Party city
- Went to Costco
- Went to Barnes & Noble
- Went to pick up Kendall and then planned to go home and watch movies - Annie was going to come along
- Kathy came over to go out with my mom for dinner
- Annie and I change plans and go out to dinner for Kathy's birthday
- Driving downtown to Aldaco for dinner, traffic was too bad so passed our exit
- Drove to Little Red Barn and ate there instead. Annie and I split a small filet, neither of us very hungry
- Decided we should go do something after dinner (maybe LaserQuest Annie suggested), received laughs from Kathy and Mom. Don't understand why... ;-)
- Stopped at Phantom Stop Signs and Green Lights in the middle of the intersection, tried to treat a stop light like a stop sign and make a left on red, laughed the whole rest of the way home... (I wasn't driving)
- Well, we were going to go home, but then saw Bob and Bev's truck at Charlie Brown's and decided to go visit
- Mom and Kathy had one drink, Annie and I just chilled and talked with everyone
- Kathy took Mom, Lisa and Annie to Mom's
- Annie took Lisa home since hubby had taken baby home a few hours before

Well, that's your Saturday wrap up. Phew!!! That was kind of fun and that's how SaturDay turns into SaturNight!

Love,
Lisa

YUCK!!!!

Well, I had to stay home from work today. I woke up soooo sick. I am hoping it is just the 24 hour stomach bug that I've been hearing about. I'm finally feeling a little better thanks to the Sprite my lovely husband brought home for me. Unfortunately I had to forego the Celine Dion concert I was going to attend with my friend and sister.. ;-( Luckily Kendall was going to be kept by my mom while I was at the concert, so we just kept those plans and Tony will pick her up after bowling tonight.

Speaking of bowling... wish T-Dub luck using the new bowling ball for the first time that I gave him for Christmas. This was the first week back to league and he was pretty excited to throw the ball. He threw a couple of practice games last week after he got the ball drilled and threw a 190 and 200. Not too bad for a brand new ball that you still need to get used to.

Watch out, here comes another segue. :-)

Speaking of getting used to... (okay, that transition wasn't as good) Kendall has started trying out the regular lunch menu at daycare. I think she seems to like it. Hopefully we'll be baby food free pretty soon. I guess next on the list is teaching her to use a spoon. That should be interesting.

Okay, well I need to get back to resting and trying to get rid of this stomach bug. Wish me luck, I haven't felt like this since I had food poisoning the Christmas before I got pregnant. (Stay away from that Chicken Bacon Ranch sandwich from Mickey D's.)

Leave a comment, let me know you were here. Talk to you soon! -Lisa

Kendall's 1st Birthday! part one

Today was Kendall's first birthday. What a day! I can't believe it's been a year... Time sure flies when you're having fun. Today when Kendall woke up I got the first picture of the birthday girl. She was in a good mood. She had her 12 month check up today and is the picture of health, but on the small side. She is 18 1/2 pounds and 28 inches long. She is in the 10th to 25th percentile for her height and weight. Her doctor says she is doing great and can now eat whatever she can get down and can switch to whole milk from formula. Woohoo! Poor baby had to get 3 vaccines today, yuck. But, baby girl was very brave and by the time we were at daycare she was all smiles again. I dropped her at daycare for lunch and a nap and I went to get some vanilla mini-cupcakes for her little classmates to have during snack time. I went back to the daycare during snack time and watched all of them eating their cupcakes. It was a fun time. They all made a huge mess with their cupcakes. Kendall ate an entire cupcake and loved every second of it. She would pick off a little piece at a time and put it in her mouth. She was the cleanest cupcake eater in her class. I took her home after cupcake time and we played and played and played and played and... well, you get the idea. She was on a huge sugar high from that cupcake. It was really funny to watch her run around like a crazy kid. She finally crashed and took a little nap. Then her grandma Carolyn came over and we all sang happy birthday to her with a cupcake that had a flower on it. She was still sleepy, so she wasn't as excited as she was when she was at daycare, but she had fun eating her chocolate cupcake anyway.

The title of this post has "part one" on it because we will be having her birthday at a later date. Plan for January 25th from 1 to 4, invitations to follow. We ordered the invitations today, we made them on Shutterfly. I think they turned out soooo cute and we can't wait for you to see them. See you all soon!!! We'll have a part two to this blog later and add some party pictures.

Kendall's first pic on her birthday!!

Mmm... Cupcakes at daycare. Sorry if this one isn't as clear, it was taken with the camera on my phone.
Fresh on the sugar high and eating some cherry puffs and yogurt nibbles. What fun!!! This is before the crash. ha ha...
Poor baby, she was so tired, but we still sang and had a flower cupcake with a candle.

Christmas Weekend

The day after Christmas we went to Horseshoe Bay to visit Kendall's Mimi and Poppy. We stayed for the whole weekend and had an awesome time! Here's just a few of those pics.

Poppy with Kendall, he's probably teaching her about Longhorn football... just kidding.
This is Mimi with Kendall and me. This one turned out pretty good.
Kendall being silly here putting on a Santa jester hat that she borrowed from her cousin.
Kendall didn't really understand the whole opening up the presents thing, but in this picture it sort looks like she understands.Kendall with her Dada.
Poppy and Kendall. Isn't this picture awesome?
Kendall and her Uncle Terry. They get along great!
Kendall with Aunt Susan, looks like they were having fun. ;-)

Christmas Day 2008

Christmas Day we went to Mama Gail's and Greg's house. It was a lot of fun! We opened a lot of cool presents and then went to Bill's and Barbara's for our traditional Christmas Dinner of Enchiladas. Yummy!!!
Below are just a few pictures that we took.

Bitsy decided to sneak a sip of egg nog out of Greg's glass. Shhh... it's a secret! Ha ha...

Christmas Eve 2008

This Christmas Eve was spent at my dad and Carolyn's house. My Grandmother Elaine came over, different from in years past, and it was fun! We had some yummy chicken and noodles and took some cute pictures.

This is Carolyn opening her calendar and Grandma's Brag Bag from Kendall.

This is Tony with Kendall. I think they are maybe opening a present.

This is my sister Patricia with Kendall. Patricia was helping Kendall open her present. Kendall was so tired she didn't know what to think.

This is my dad holding Kendall. This is only the second time he has seen her since he works out of state. I thought this was a pretty nice picture.

This is my brother, Stephen, with Kendall. I thought this picture turned out pretty good. Stephen looks like he is enjoying holding Kendall.

This is Great-Grandma Elaine with Kendall. It was nice to be able to get this on camera.

And, this is me with my baby girl.

Oh Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas Tree...

how lovely are thy branches. We don't have a tree this year, but you can bet that next year we will have one. We've both been busy with work and the house is still a mess from when we brought stuff home from Tony's uncles house in March or April. I know, I know...

Tony and I spent the past two days Christmas shopping. Oh my gosh did we have a lot to do, we hadn't done much up until this point. But, oh my goodness did we ever get a lot done. I am feeling better about the progress we've made this weekend. I was beginning to feel a little overwhelmed with all that was left to be done. So, we just have about 4 or 5 more presents to get and I'll be getting those when I have off on Tuesday. Now if I could just decide what I want to get. That's the really hard part.

Friday evening we went to Paesano's for my sister Patricia's birthday, we had a good time. Happy Birthday Patricia! I was sad that I left my camera at home so I don't have a picture to post. I set it right next to my purse too! "How is that possible," you ask. Puh-lease, if you know me, you know that I miss things that are right in front of my face all the time. Anyway, Tony, Kendall and I gave Patricia and purse and a new sweater. I thought they were cute. I hope she liked them, she says she does, so that is good!

My mom was nice enough to watch K for us overnight so we got to sleep in a little on Saturday morning. She was keeping her so that Tony and I could get some shopping done. THANK YOU!!! We really got a lot done yesterday. We went all over the place. Hallmark, Tuesday Morning, GameStop, Costco, The Quarry and North Star Mall... Now, anyone who lives in SA knows it is not fun to go to North Star Mall on a Saturday, let alone the Saturday before Christmas. I think some would say we need to be institutionalized just for considering attempting it. While it was VERY crowded and crazy there, we did make it out alive. Phew!!! We went and picked up the baby at my mom's at about 7:30 and came right home and crashed on the couch while watching a movie. We were so tired from our shopping adventures.

This morning we woke up, got ready and went out again. Though I do admit we didn't make it out until about 1:30 due to Kendall getting grouchy at 9:45 and taking a nap until 12:40. We watched another movie this morning and rested up for the adventure we knew we would be having later in the day. :-) So, we finally made it out of the house and went to the new Target at Stone Oak and 281. It is so big and it was pretty crowded, but it worked out great for us. We got all of the presents for Kendall's classmates and teachers and several of our family and friends. So, thank you Target!!! We were there until about 4:45. We decided that we would act like old people and eat dinner at 4:30. ha ha... We wanted to do that so that we could go eat at the restaurant that is over near Target. It is called BJ's, it is where we went for my birthday. I had roast chicken with a baked potato. I brought over half of it home, they give you a ton of food there. Yeah for me, I have lunch or dinner for tomorrow. Yummy!!! Are you done making fun of us for eating so early yet? The laugh may be on you because we didn't have to wait for a seat for dinner.

Well, I guess I better go for now. I forgot I need to label the presents for K's classmates and teachers. Aaaarrrrgghhh!!! ha ha...

Have a great Christmas if I don't blog again before then!

Happy Birthday to me!

Thank you to my friends and family for the awesome birthday!!!!! ~Love, Lisa