2012 Pet Parade

Every year I look forward to the pet parade. I love it. All the people gathering around with their animals.

I never realized how many people have weiner dogs (or Dachshunds) There were a LOT of those lol.

I was excited this year because we now have Jack Jack.

Ari was just as excited about it. She walked Zoe in the Parade, while I walked Jack Jack.

Eddy found us and walked the puggys with us.

it's not everyday you get to stand in the middle of the street!

the hairless hero dog. He barked to let his owner know the
 Palace Theater was on fire!

here we come

the wolf hounds... wow, they're brave to have that many lol

Ari doing Zumba with Kimber and her family

bowling

they're great!

I love this little kitty!

handsome Jack Jack

this is 2012 and the one below is of 2011 of the same dogs :)

These pictures below are of people that I took pictures of,

and in some way or another came to 'know' them

Pastor Dom (in orange)- started going to
Silverton Church of the Nazarine in Aug '11

I took this picture, cause this little dog was 2nd place winner in the dog costume contest- going through my pictures the other day I realized the guy walking the dog is named Tyler (days younger then my brother Tyler) He is Kimber's brother! and the woman in the middle is his wife... I forgot her name :(

Elsie Mae!

I am finally an aunt!
My sister had her first baby on the 18th this month.

She called me at 3:15am and said that her water had popped. I talked to her for 2 minutes. I started at my alarm clock in the dark while talking to her, then stared at it for another couple minutes after we hung up.
I tried to call mom a number of times. Being in Scotts Mills makes it hard for them to get a signal all the time, so I kept trying with no luck.
I thought, maybe I should go back to sleep.
What the heck are you thinking? I asked myself. I got up and wandered, still trying to call my mom. They never answered, so I finally dialed my brother. Kimber answered, and I sent Tyler over to wake up mom.

She got to my house around 5:15ish and we headed to the hospital. I forgot my camera and realized it when we pulled into the parking lot of the hospital, so we went back for it.
I called work at about 7ish and said I wouldn't be there.
At five minutes to 8 me and Ari went outside to wait for Becky (her best friends mom) to pick her up. They had a feild trip to the Gilbert House that day, which worked out just perfect.

We waited in the waiting room for a little bit until Keith came back out and told us how it was going to go. We were going to sit on the bench, which was perfectly fine with me! I was so anxious and my adrenaline was going so much, my hands were shaking and I felt dizzy. I kept telling myself, You'd better not pass out!! lol


After laboring all day, finally at 3:25 Elsie was born!! It was amazing.
They weighed her about 2 hours after birth. She was 7 pounds 13 ounces and 20 inches long.
She had really light hair, but it seemed a little darker after a while, but still really light.

Dad and Tyler picked up Ari, since Elsie still wasn't born yet, and Lindsey was still pushing

walking around to get things started

working quickly to get the blanket done before Elsie comes

trying the jacuzzi

When can I get the epidural?  How long until I can get the epidural? 
Questions asked about 3 times in 5 minutes! lol

the doctor finally came in

and there she is!

OHHHHH!! So you'reeeee my aunt??? Sweet!!

She's finally here Ari!~

she's getting weighed and measured

Day #1

Sweetness

Ari loves her new cousin

Ty-Ty Loves her

Kimber also thinks shes super cute!

Grandma's turn to hold the new baby!

Awww uncle Shaney

Darcie-Lou and baby

And Ari took her again! :)

.I decided to add this picture of Lindsey, and one that I think looks simular lol... I thought at first that Elsie looked like Keith, and since she's so new, she will change a lot but on day 2 after she was born, she reminded me of this picture...

It's been a few months since I last posted a blog! Since then, we've gotten a second dog, went to Chicago, Ill. and spring is here finally! Oh yeah, and I don't think I mentioned that I got a new camera? I love it! It's a Canon PowerShot with amazing zoom (can't remember off the top of my head how far it goes though!)  It does pictures obviously, but does video (I can take pictures while videoing also) it does slow motion video and so on. I haven't played with everything it can do but I have done a few fun things with it.


We got our puppy on Valentine's day. I was not planning on getting a second dog, then one day I got it in my head to look around at some puppies and found Jack-Jack (then named Fargo) I had to have him. I talked the lady down on his price and eventually he was here. He was (is) adorable. But he was doing sooooo horrible on potty training, I was days away from getting rid of him. I couldn't stand that he was soiling our new home.
Well he got better after a while and hasn't gone in the house in a few weeks.


picture I saw of him on the website

picked his furry butt up from the airport (the guys working there said they had to put him back in the back room because he wouldn't stop yelping and crying)

cute and fluffy and round

losing the fluffy and growing up... I like this 'potty trained' dog
better then the pooping machine he used to be!

they torment the cats together now

                                                 (he's sick tonight though, poor thing.)


Arianna is doing great in Kindergarten! She doesn't like to go when I have days off work. She'd rather stay home with me. I wish she could. But she's only got a few more weeks left before she's out for the summer!
A couple weeks ago I stayed in class with her. She'd been begging me to do it, and I've been complaining that I never have time to just do things like that with her. But when I do have a day off I just want to get home and enjoy that time to relax or get things done.
So instead of going home and being lazy I stayed with her. First it was just going to be until she went to PE. Then it was until PE was over. Then it was when recess was over. After recess, I went home. It was fun watching her in school.

In March we went on our trip to Chicago for the Twilight Convention. We'd been so excited to go. At the very end of Febuary we got news that Chaske (the whole reason of me wanting to even go) was going to be in Australia for the month of March. I was horrified, but had hope that he was going to be there. The convention was at the butt end of March.
On March 6th, checking up on the Creation website, I was absolutly horrified to find that he had been cancelled from the convention. I have to admit I even cried (lame, I know) but I felt that there was no point in going. I was not interested in seeing the others.
But as the days went on, I kinda got over the fact he wouldn't be there. I wasn't excited for the trip anymore, not really.
The plane ride, which I'd had different weird dreams about how our flight would be was alright. I paniced as we were descending into Chicago O'Hare Internation airport though. That rollercoaster feeling paniced me and I was recording at the time and I can be heard saying "Oh God....Ohhhhhh my goshhhh!!" and finally I stopped recording. LOL

I was a little more excited after we'd arrived at the motel. (I'll go into detail about the trip later.)

It was a lot of fun, and we especially loved meeting Boo Boo Stewart (and his amazing family) even though we weren't interested at all in the begining. I left there wishing we could keep in contact, especially since Ari made friends with his little sister Sage.

we were having breakfast, talking with the stars, while
Ari and Sage had their own conversation... her dad sat by

Time for Boo Boo to go and another star to come

checking out the HillyWood area

these two danced from about 10 to midnight!! both fell asleep within minutes of returning to the motel rooms (BooBoo told us the next day that Sage almost fell asleep in her dad's arms and Ari fell asleep with a piece of jerky in her hand once we got back our room!)

Elsie Mae is almost here! Lindsey has been having contractions the last few days. She was having random Braxton Hicks contractions for a few weeks, but she said these contractions and pretty regular.
The other day (the 8th of May) she called me at about 10 or 11am and asked me to go with her to get checked.
She took a shower first and I got Ari ready for school.
After dropping Ari off at school we headed to the hospital. They put her in one of the waiting rooms taht I was put in when I first checked into the hospital to have Ari. They put her on a monitor and and watched her for 30 minutes. We think they must not have believed her, because after the 30 minutes was up and the nurse came back in, she said "Oh, well I didn't think you'd have this many contractions, so how about you walk around for an hour and come back and we'll check you then." So me and Lindsey walked the hospital for an hour. I would have gone into labor too!! lol
We got back to the room at about 2pm. We waited for someone to come back in.
Nothing new. Still at 1cm, so they sent her home at 2:30.... Ari was out of school, so we had to rush over and pick her up. We were all bummed that Elsie wasn't coming yet.... but soon! :)