Looking forward to Halloween

Well this Sunday was the primary program. This was Gracie's first year participating. Deven had to work and he was really sad he missed it. I wish I could have recorded it. Of course I thought Gracie did a great job. She said her part without any hesitation and was so proud of herself. She tried to sing every song I saw her lips moving throughout. She kept waving to me and of course I was so proud, yet at the same time she is growing up and it is so crazy to see how grown up she has become. On a fun note, Gracie and I have been counting down the days till High School Musical 3 came out. I am not sure how she came to like it ( I am sure we can thank the older cousins) None the less we went to see it and had so much fun. She was so entertained and couldn't stop talking about how much she loved it. Deven came with us and he even admitted it was a pretty good show.

For Halloween Gracie wanted to be a dalmation puppy. I looked all over and I all I could find was hot furry costumes. She would melt here in Hawaii, so we decided to make her a girlie dalmation. She has already got to wear her costume once to a Halloween Birthday party and can't wait for Halloween to wear it again.

A Guilty Confession

Well this weekend was Deven's 4 day weekend. I had been counting it down since the rotation started. I was only seeing Deven for about 2 hours a day and I kept telling myself just hold on till his 4 day weekend. Well the weekend came and unfortunately he had a PT test Friday morning so it was at 5:30 a.m. so naturally when he came home he wanted to sleep for a little while, we had a late start but finally ventured out for the afternoon and went to Kailua to check out that side of the island. I couldn't help but notice he just wasn't feeling like himself, he was really tired and he was starting to develop a cough. Well the next day Gracie was so excited for him to come to her gymnastics class and then the rest of the day was going to be so fun.... or so I thought. He was not doing well and after gymnastics we ended up coming home and he slept the rest of the day. I was trying so hard to be understanding but by the night, I must admit I was really disappointed. I went to bed crying. Sunday he tried to go to church and he didn't even make it through sacrament meeting he went home early. He thought he was feeling better that night as we had invited some friends over for dinner, but by the end of the night he was having high fever and his cough picked up. He didn't even make it work on Monday. Finally Tuesday we decided he needed to go get something for his cough. He stopped in to talk to the ER doctors about what he should do for work that night and they told him he had been exposed to microplasm (or something like that) apparently it is a really bad bacteria and it causes pneumonia. So they had him get a chest X ray and sure enough he has pneumonia. Now I feel a little bit better not that I didn't believe him when he said he didn't feel well I was just feeling sorry for myself and thinking why now why this weekend. They now have him on antibiotics and other things so hopefully he will get feeling better. He kept saying he didn't feel good and I kept thinking I have been sick for the past 14 weeks and I just keep getting told to hang in there it will pass (so part of me was thinking the same thing. Suck it up.) I told him I felt really bad and I really do hope he gets feeling better.

A Little Miracle....and other fun stuff

Well a lot has been going on in our lives lately. I have only seen Deven one day in the last two weeks. He has had to work every weekend and today is the 2nd day he has had off. I have been trying not to complain but we have been lonely without him. He works 12 hour shifts right now so he gets up at 4 a.m. and gets home around 7 p.m. Just in time to help put Gracie to bed and then he is fast asleep on the couch so I have to wake him up to go to bed. He starts nights tomorrow we will see how that goes. I think this would all be easier on me but we are letting everybody know we are expecting baby #2. It has all come as a shock and as a miracle in our lives. We have been trying for years and were finally told our best shot would be invitro. So we started all the lab work and testing and as soon as we got here we started going to an infertility specialist. I had just finished up all the lab work and was actually going in to set up an invitro date when we found out I was pregnant. Then we went through and ectopic scare as I was having a lot of cramping and with my history the doctor wasn't convinced and told us not to get our hopes up. But after a week of blood work and ultra sounds they were convinced everything looked good and that this is nothing short of a miracle in our life. So we were excited but I have been sick pretty much ever since the beginning. Nothing like with Gracie (so may be it's a boy). I had nausea and vomiting 24 hours a day and it got to where I wasn't sleeping at night so then I wasn't functioning during the day. Thank you to drugs. Deven talked to the doctor and with the help of anti nausea medication I am doing much better. Food doesn't always taste or sound good but I feel like I am getting my life back. So for such a long story we are excited and that is why it has been so hard to have Deven gone so much. But we are now hoping for an Easter Baby. And with that will come visitors so we are excited. Gracie can hardly wait. I just posted a few pictures below of things we have been up to. So I am a little behind with everything right now in my life. I am hoping for a good week and can start to catch up. Our carpet finally came so they will putting it in this week. Also I am trying to up date my blog but I am so computer iliterate, (I don't know what happened to me) I call Lisa all the time to walk me through things so slow but surely I am trying to up date it.
Thanks to Aunt Lisa for Gracie's new pink shirt. The funny thing is she just picked out new pink shoes and thought it was so exciting that it matched.

Gracie has started a gymnastics class on Saturday mornings. She loves it and counts down all week till next time.

On Deven's last day off we tried Kayaking. Gracie was never so sure and clung to me so tight the entire time and kept saying that is enough please don't tip us over. We kept trying to tell her she was safe but she couldn't wait to get out when we got back to shore.

We visited the Honolulu aquarium. This picture was taken in front of the jelly fish. Deven has now decided one day he is going to have an aquarium of just jelly fish. He thinks they are so cool. too bad you can't see them in the picture.

Our little princess... every picture has to be an ordeal. She strikes any pose she can but normal.