Dancing with Daddy

Family Fun Expo At Summit Mall

Pretending to ride the carousel

Lydia, Kaela, and Logan posing with Sid The Science Kid (One of Lydia and Boaz's favorite PBS Kids Characters!)
Sid and Gordon from Sesame Street Singing/dancing on stage:
Bo was star struck by Sid up on stage:

Play Dates!

How To Ride In Style

Lydia's Birthday Party!!!

3 years ago TODAY!!!

My Lydia was born! We were getting ready for Church and I lost my mucus plug while in the shower and I wasn't sure if my water had broken along with it or not so after a quick call in to the OB on call we headed in to the hospital. After a very tearful goodbye to Sammy (my tears not his! :) ) as the Martin's graciously took him in for the week, the maternity triage team did several tests on me...plug gone, water bag still in tact...dang it! :) The resident was going to recommend that I go home to continue to wait as I progressed, but my OB (Doc Z...gotta love him!) decided to put me on the monitor just for kicks and giggles (his words). Well, apparently I was in full blown labor and hadn't the first clue that I was having strong, consistent contractions! So, the decided to admit me after all. YAY! By the time they got me checked into the Labor and Delivery Room I had already progressed to 3cm but wasn't very "effaced" so Doc Z recommended cytotec to help "ripen" me up. Wow...that brought on the contractions...I did eventually opt for the epi...mostly for fear of having full anesthetics should C-section be necessary (It wasn't praise God!) and after the epi I stalled a bit so they started a pitocin drip to keep things rolling. I got sort of tired and decided I wanted to close my eyes for a few minutes, but not five minutes after I did, the nurses came running in all frazzled because the baby's heart rate was becoming irregular...after shifting me around and it not having an effect, someone decided maybe they should check my progress. Full ten and ready to go! So, after we got the ok to start pushing, the very GREEN nurse was so cute (she was soooo excited) she even had Chanda help her get her scrubs on! LOL Well, twenty minutes of productive pushing and she was out! (My Doc had been trying new hair styles on her as she crowned). My beautiful cone headed princess made a squalling debut!

ScrapBlog Fun

I love the idea of keeping a scrap book, but let's be honest...who the heck has time to do that??? So, instead, I use scrapblog.com to make these scrap pages that I can print off. I was WAAAAY behind so I had some catch up to do (YAY for being off work now!!!) Here are some of the pages I've been working on:

Hockey Clinic

Jeff and Lydia went to the annual clinic we hold for the kids at the Salvation Army in Akron. Lydia did really well!

Spring Preview Part II

HELLO SPRING (well sort of...)

Lounging in the screen room:


Exploring the plants around the deck:


Walking with a leaf: