Year in review...and hopes for '09

What a crazy year '08 has been.
January: We spent a lot of time at Disney and saw our wonderful cousins with our new annual passes.
February: Nelson turned 26.
March: We spent the first week in Seattle, WA. The girls were fabulous on the airplane...I suggest everyone fly at bedtime with toddlers :). On the 8th Alison got married to Bob, and my girls were their flowergirls. I was a bridesmaid and ended up walking down the aisle with my shy Brianna as Mikayla was so big and brave and walked in front of Alison :).
May: We moved to our new house, where we are going to stay forever and ever ;). We also found out our friends Sara and Dan were expecting a baby!
June: Nelson and I celebrated our 5 year anniversary in Vegas. We went with Sara and Dan who were celebrating their 1 year anniversary.
July: Tiffany turned 27.
August: The girls started pre-school!!! My babies are actually big enough to be in school.
September: We were so thrilled to find out we were pregnant again.
October: At the end of October we found out we lost our precious baby. On the 9th, the girls turned 3. We celebrated at Disney World for the weekend with our family. It was a weekend full of wonderful memories.
November: I found out the pregnancy had been a partial molar pregnancy. I had weekly blood tests for 5 weeks until I was finally negative. I will have a monthly draw in January. I'm hoping for the best and that we'll have a healthy pregnancy and baby in '09.
December: We had such wonderful Christmas memories and fun family times. We enjoyed seeing Santa bunches, and Disney with friends, and making cookies together. This month was just perfect.

As for '09....
I'm praying we get pregnant and stay pregnant, and that our baby is healthy. Please pray about this for us...we could use all the prayers we can get.

I'm hoping the girls can be potty trained at night pretty easily

I'm so looking forward to our trip in May to New York to meet baby Lucy and go to Niagra Falls.

I can NOT believe my babies will be turning FOUR. That is just too big. I'll definitely have tears that day (so hoping I'm preggo by then so I know there will be a baby on the way)...pray pray pray!

I'm praying the market gets better so my husband isn't so frustrated at work.

I hope my sister graduates college and doesn't stress so much over it.

I hope my parents living close is a blessing.

I need to figure out where I want the girls to go to kindergarten...public or fundamental???

I want to be more organized.

Great Christmas!

This was by far the best Christmas morning with the girls. They were so excited, and so thankful. It was so sweet. One of my favorite parts of the morning was when the girls opened a gift from each other and then went over and hugged each other and said thank you. I captured Brianna's thankful, excited expression...

They are just the best little people :). Today they pretended to be husband and wife. It was the funniest thing ever. I'm listening to my work out mix...looking forward to going tomorrow. Hoping I can be more consistant with it. I'm going when Nelson gets home from work because the girls got sick after starting the Y and being in the kidzone, and Mikayla always gets upset when I leave. SO, MWF I'm going when he gets home, and TR going when the girls are at school. I'm bound and determined to shed some lbs before we can ttc again :).

Hanukkah

We went over to Nelson's mom's to celebrate the first night of Hanukkah. She got the girls a power wheel barbie jeep...that they LOVE! The girls painted a menorah for their Nana, and then had so many questions on the way home.

M~Why does Nana have Hanukkah?

Daddy and Mommy~we explained different holidays and 3 year old understanding of why.

B~*thinking a lot* Mommy, is there a Christmas tree for Hanukkah?

Mommy~No

B~Nana has a Christmas tree...bewildered look...

Mommy~That's because they celebrate both.

Brianna and Mikayla~I want to celebrate both! (they just see more presents!) lol. I then explained again...we are Christians we celebrate Jesus' birth....so funny.

Negative

Got the call Friday...I'm at zero :). I go in in a month to get my levels checked again. If they are still at 0 we are good to go :). Had a great weekend in Orlando with our friends. I love this time of year. Can't believe it's almost 80 degrees and almost Christmas though!

My STARS!

The girls had their first Christmas show today! They were beautiful, sweet, angelic singers on stage. Since they are one of the younger classes they came out towards the end and did two songs. I took pictures, and Nelson recorded them :). I don't seem to have the patience for YouTube, always seems to take forever to upload for me, but if I do upload them singing I'll for sure post :).

Tomorrow we are going to Orlando with friends. I'm excited :). I hope I get a call tomorrow saying I'm FINALLY negative. We'll see. I had my blood drawn again today..I feel like a damn regular. HATE that. Dr. seems really certain we'll be fine next year...praying he's right. I'm just so sick of these weekly dr. trips to be surrounded by husband and wives excited to see their ultrasound. Today I walk in and the ultrasound tech who gave us our bad news got a huge smile on her face when she saw me and smiled and said hi...I quickly walked away and said hi...afraid she thought I was there because we were pregnant again. It's been SEVEN weeks so likely if it was a normal miscarriage that we could be pregnant again...BUT I had this horrible molar preg. attack me which is like a prison sentence. I hate that normal people get to decide when they ttc, and me I have to be told, don't try cancerous cells might still be in your uterus it's not safe. This dr. visit was a rough one for me...praying I hear ZERO tomorrow.

Looking Good!

Today I'm in my room listening to my girls at nap time on the monitor. They told me they weren't sleepy...so I told them to get a book and look at it quietly in bed. I could hear them "reading" and then it got really quiet (this can mean they are sleeping, or getting into trouble). I need to create a monitor that records what they say because I LOVE listening to their funny talks on the monitor :). As I'm listening I hear..."How do I look sister?" Then, Brianna said, "You look GOOD!" SO cute. So I went in, and they were in their closet. Brianna had three shirts on. Mikayla had completely changed her outfit. Oh goodness. CAN'T wait for their first Christmas program tomorrow!!!!
<3

Christmas Party

Mikayla has a stomach bug, and missed her first Christmas party at school :(. Brianna has been fine, and she went and Mommy went :). Uncle Ricky was awesome and stayed with Mikayla...Brianna packed a bag of goodies to bring home for her sister it was so sweet. Mikayla seems to be doing better, and has been able to hold some food down today. You can tell she's sick when she didn't want the cookie her sister brought home for her!

We are going to a neighborhood party tonight and Santa is coming on a firetruck! Then, the girls' first Christmas program is Thursday...hoping Brianna doesn't get sick and Mikayla is 100% by then!!!

Here are some cute pics from the party...

Brianna in circle

Eating her treats with her friends

Lacing and decorating the stockings Mommy made for the class craft.