Sleepy baby

I was trying to change a stinky baby the other night at the park and was amazed at how well a baby can sleep on anything.

Happy Birthday Jim

So yesterday was my late step dad's birthday. He passed away from cancer a few years back but even though he isn't with us anymore my Mom decided we should still celebrate his birthday. So yesterday we had a really fun party at the park in his honor.

It was really fun we had BBQ chicken, fruit salad and home made root beer (Jim's favorite) we even had cake and ice cream. After everyone had eaten we all took turns telling what we had learned from him or what we had remembered the most about him. I didn't think I was going to have anything to say when it was my turn, but I surprised even myself with my memory about Jim was that he never yelled. It actually annoyed me at the time (I was a teenager what can you expect now it is a treasured memory) But any time someone would be mad and yelling at someone else Jim would always say "where is the fire? Why are you yelling? I don't see a fire" I guess in his mind having a fire is the only circumstance where yelling is allowed. =) It was so much fun getting to see all my step brothers and sisters and most of all getting to remember Jim.

Happy Birthday! We love and miss you!

Fun with Chocolate Cake

Ok so since I have been home and in bed for the last few weeks my only outlet has been watching TV. I like watching while Jace eats or just having it on in the background for ambiance. I have recently become adicted to the show top chef on bravo. I've actually almost become adicted by default since daytime television is pretty much non exsistant even with cable. Ok any way on this show top chef the chefs have to create great tasting food and great looking food. It is so fun watching them come up with creative ways to make their food look better. I enjoyed it so much that I decided I would try my hand at it. I made this really great fancy decorated cake for my Mom for mothers day but I didn't get to take a picture of it. So I had some free time and decided to make another one with some extra flare. The extra flare being the Chocolate swirl garnishes =) so fun. So here is my creation that I got some really good pictures of.

Baby Tattoo

So last weekend we went to a party Steven's work had at a park in Scottsdale. We went primarily so Steven could show off Jace to everyone he works with. While we were there Steven and his friend Kathryn decide that Jace needs a tattoo. Don't worry folks it's just a stick on. You know one of those that you put on with a wet wash cloth. What kind of parents do you think we are? I actually thought it was really cool so here are some pictures.



I have a strange feeling this is going to come back and bite us in the butt when Jace comes to us with a real tattoo and says "well you thought it was cool when I was a baby!" Stick on Jace it was a stick on!!!

Some Cuteness

Here is a video of little Jace hiccuping so you should put your sound on to hear it.

Below are some pictures as well. Steven's favorite is the knee high picture. Looking like a real player with those socks!








Here is one of Jace with his cousin Rosey Jane. She is about a month older than Jace and look how much bigger Jace is than her. We sure do have one big boy.

Hospital and Emergency Surgery

Usually I like to keep blog posts happy and interesting. This post is interesting but not that happy. Sunday morning unfortunately found us in the emergency room. I have been bleeding for a while now, as you should a little bit after having a baby, but every now and again I would have huge gushes of bright red blood that would leave me feeling dizzy and weak.

I didn't think too much of it the first few times it happened because some of the books I read said that was normal in the first few weeks. Well it didn't go away and Saturday morning I had another gush in which I lost a significant amount of blood that took me all day to recover from. Since this was Saturday and there are no doctor's office open, we decided to wait until Monday and make an appointment. I was so worried about it though that we decided, if it happened again we would go to urgent care.

Well Sunday morning it happened again and in we went. First going to urgent care and then they sent us to the ER so they could do an ultrasound to find out exactly what was going on. They discovered that I had some left over placenta that the idiot intern that delivered my baby didn't get out. So I had to have and emergency surgery called a D&C to remove the rest of it. I think they commonly use this surgery for women who have had miscarriages because the anesthesiologist thought I had miscarried.

Everything went well with the surgery and I even got to go home that night. The doctor told Steven that they found quite a bit so it was a really good thing we went in. Everything should be fine with me now and I have a check up in a few weeks with the really nice doctor that did my operation just to make sure. The worst part is I feel like I just had another baby and now have to recover all over again.

Thank you for all your thoughts and prayers hopefully this should be over and I can finally get back to normal.

Birth Announcement

Here is Jace's Birth announcement. I just need to find a good place to print it and then you'll all get one... in case we forget to mail you one... then consider this one the one we sent you =)