Writing from Oregon

Just a quick note from Oregon here. For those who have never been here in Southwestern Oregon, it is beautiful. Here in Roseburg where I am visiting, the hills surround the area and they are covered in green trees. Yes it's small town and perhaps may have a small town mentality, given the views they wake up to everyday...who cares. Its easy to imagine that there is nothing else beyond those hills. There are two rivers that run through here, the S. Umpqua and the N. Umpqua and they meet at this incredible park. At the fork of the rivers, you can stand and watch the two rivers each going different speeds, merge and become one river. And Its green, green, green. We had ice cream the other day at a grocery store called Sherms. They had an ice cream counter at the front of the store. And the one scoop serving is actually 2 scoops, 2 different flavors if you choose. And the best part? It was 99 cents. And it was fresh and incredibly good. I had mountain blackberry revel and huckleberry cheesecake (yes with real bits of cheesecake in it too). The funny thing is that they had a Coldstone here in town, but they went out of business because they couldn't compete with Sherms. SO the moral of this story is eat Umpqua ice cream, you'll never eat any other kind again!...lol

Reminscing

Here in Sacramento, I keep passing by places that I remember my mom being at and dong things at. In the last year and a half I have found myself at odds with how my relationship was with my mom versus how I feel with her gone. Her death hit me harder than I ever thought would. It shook me to my foundations. and I miss her so much, but there were so many times we did not get along. I can picture here here in Sacramento so easy. We moved here when I was in my junior year of high school and I hated it here. Yet it was here that I met my husband briefly before we re met at BYU after his mission. I was so eager to move out on my own away from my parents. I was never homesick at college. So why now do feel myself looking back? I'm a mom now with 2 wonderful children. One who remembers her grandma and misses her and the other who came 4 months after she died. I know she loved Anna with all her heart and would love Caiden in person the same way. Guess she will just have to do it from above now. Ok, this is sappy enough, but thanks for letting me get it off my system. Until later see ya!

In Sacramento

Just a quick note to all as we are visting here in Sacramento. Casi (thats me) and the kids are visting Dave's parents on our way up to Oregon to visit my friend, her family, and then over to visit my dad and Grandmother. So far the trip has been not too bad. I made it through the first leg of driving alone with 2 kids in the car. Well almost made it fine, Anna did puke all over...yech! Dave's sister is here with her husband and child also. Cousin Max is a couple months older than Caiden, so it is fun to see them interact together! Anna is loving having 2 babies to mother.

Please don't go into shock!

Yes, here I am updating...and six months hasn't even passed yet!...heh heh heh. SO this week has been full of being sick, Caiden being sick, Dave feeling sick, and Anna being busy girl. On Monday Anna started swim lessons. On Tuesday she started karate lessons. She definitely loving both! Of course on Tuesday Dave had to take her and he was amazing to get the day off as I spent the whole night previous, spewing (can you believe the Dr didn't know what spewing was?). So out of pity or was is preservation for the kids, he got the day off to take care of them, and I slept. Caiden has been under the weather also since Friday. So today after talking to the nurse at the clinic, I was told to take him to urgent care. (Now why couldn't they see me or send me to the main clinic?.....). The urgent care has virtually no one in there waiting and still it took 1 1/2 hours to be done! All of it for the Dr to come in, make some noises, comment on how he does not look like me (yes Dr he is adopted...) and ask if our other child was biological (nope, and happy for it!). Some other nonsense (I think trying to assess if I had brains enough to understand anything, hmmmm) later he said well he has a viral infection (no duh), a little red in the ears and throat (I did just tell him the whole family with the exception of Anna has been under the weather and had sore throats). Since hes not dehydrated (yes I know to make sure my child has plenty of liquids...), then to just give him Pedialyte and watch him and have him seen on Friday......... An hour and a half for something I already knew and was doing. argh!!!!

Hmm well thanks for letting me get that vented. Lol.

Faces of Caiden in May

Ahhhh You Caught me! 11 May 2008

Daddy Daughter Dinner Dance 7 june 2008

First day exploring Yosemite 5/10/2008

I'm Back

As you can all see, I've decided to take charge of my blog and change it. Not that I'm satisfied with it yet...but it's a start. Everyday is so full that it's hard to sit down and put it into words...or even have hands free to type..lol. But I love my life. It's full of those moments where I am feeding my baby and hes falling asleep in my arms. At that precise moment as I look out the window at the great view, everything is right with the world. Anna may be outside playing or watching a little T.V. and I know I wouldn't give any of it up.
Caiden continues to grow more each day. This week he cut his first tooth. He weighed in at 21 lbs, 28 1/2 inches. He's developing into a perfectly happy baby and I know its for him and Anna that we weren't able to ever get pregnant. And I'm fine with that. He's crawling everywhere and he can get up the stairs and into his own room within a blink of the eye. Thank goodness for gates!
Anna graduated from preschool last week! Wow she is growing so fast! She starts swim lessons in the morning tomorrow and karate lessons in the afternoon at the youth center on base. She adores her baby brother and is so stinking cute (and yes she knows it). Shes still my baby girl though and I still get snuggles from her and she still willingly holds my hand, gives kisses, and creeps into my bed during the night.
Dave keeps busy at work and keeps coming home with saying he got more jobs to do. And of course he can't tell me any details about it at all.
My time is kept busy with making jewelry (loving it) and teaching other friends how to. Then there's house cleaning, baby caring, and child rearing. Of course there's reading, playing, and hanging out with friends and their kids. Eventually I am going to get my Pampered Chef business up and going again...sigh.