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A profile of my sweet baby girl...



Much has happened since my last post. Nothing really exciting, but blog worthy, of course.

First of all, I celebrated my 31st birthday, which is just insane to me. I hear about people that are in their thirties and I think they are older than me, but then I stop and think, "Wait, I'm thirty something too!" I have to shake my head to get that realization out. I don't feel like I'm thirty. I feel like I'm mid-20's still... anyway...

Addie enjoying my ice cream dessert I "earned" at Red Robin. I had to wear balloons and flap my arms like a bird.

My mom and me

Andrew (emptying his plate), Debbie (my SIL), & Micah


After dinner, we went to Costco to walk off our full stomachs. Here's Addie relaxing in the cart. We put a big dog bed underneath her to make it more comfy.

You've probably notice the yellow splint on her arm by now. We failed to mention that Addie had to return to Urgent care only two days after her previous visit to the ER. We're pretty much embarrassed at the frequent trips we took to the doctor on behalf of Addie's health last weekend, so we put off sharing the news about her latest fiasco. Last Saturday evening, we went out to dinner and then stopped by Walmart to return something. As we're standing in line, Micah was letting Addie climb up his legs. When she reached the top, she began crying and holding on to her wrist. We were sure she was just exaggerating so we did some shopping, thinking she would let up. She never did. In fact, she refused to let go of her wrist. So we took her to CM and were almost positive that she must have a broken bone.

To make a long story short. They did an XRay and she has no fracture...maybe some soft tissue damage. We let her wear the splint for 4 days and then took her back to the orthopedic doc to have a look. She didn't see that anything was wrong with the way she was using her arm, but Addie was very unhappy. She cried her heart out and stared at her splint laying in the trash can. The doc gave us a removable splint to use if she continued to persist, but luckily, after her nap, she woke up and never asked for it....and she's been fine since!!!


Micah got me the best birthday gift I've ever received (& his parents contributed too!). I've been saving for one with my Mary Kay money but it was taking me forever. Any guesses on what it is?

A DYSON vacuum cleaner: the top of the line animal model. You might think, "That's not such a great gift! It's a home appliance!" but you couldn't be more wrong. To me, it is my dream machine. I would take this Dyson over a new car at this point in my life. With two big doggies that shed like CRAZY, it seems like I can never get our floor clean...now I can lay face down on the carpet and not be irritated b/c by the sight of dog hair. Don't get me wrong...those dogs are worth every strand of hair, but it's nice to have that hair in trash and not on my floor.


While mom and dad where in town, we went to the spray park. Here's our "burrito baby" with her grandparents.

I just got out of jury duty this afternoon. We waited about 6 hours when they said that the case we'd been assigned to settled out of court. YEAH! I was kind of intrigued by the whole process and wouldn't have minded being assigned, but I really hated the waiting part...and the pay. I made an entire $6.84 today! Whahooo!My dad had stayed an extra day so that he could watch Addie for me and he just took off. I'm so blessed to have people so willing to help out.