4 months!

Thomas is 4 months old today! I am LOVING this age! He is the sweetest little thing. He is laughing, smiling, jumping, standing (with help), rolling and chewing on everything! Gabe and I have so many nicknames for him it is ridiculous. Probably the one we call him the most is Mr. Moo. Then there is Mr. Magoo, Tom Tom, Tommy tippy cup and so on.... I am having so much fun with him as his personality progresses. We are so thankful

3 years ago today

3 years ago today my mom died. What a crazy three years this has been. I am happy she is in heaven, but wish she could have met Thomas. She would have loved him so much and been the best Grandma EVER.

Miracle

Tuesday was an interesting day. Gabe, me, Thomas and our friends Anneke, Justin and their baby Hudson were heading back from the cabin in McCall. I text my dad to ask him something about work, and he text back and said that my brother had been in a motorcycle accident. He said he thought he was okay, but we didn't know much. He had gotten in a wreck on the freeway. We were about to get on the freeway, but figurd it would be stop and go, so we turned around to find a quicker way home. I kept calling my dad and we still didn't know what was happening. We finally found out my brother was taken in ambulance to St. Al's. This freaked us out because we thought trauma only went to st. al's. We finally got home and I sped to the hospital. My brother was in the ER, but was doing good! He had a neck brace when I went in just for a precaution. OH! And another weird thing. As I was driving to the hospital, I was tailing this tow truck. I was getting so mad, and then I noticed what he was towing. MY BROTHER'S BIKE!!! How weird is that! His bike looked not bad, so I figured he wouldn't be too bad. Here is the story my brother told.

He was driving in stop and go traffic, and it started to pick up a bit. He saw the brake lights in front of him, but thought they weren't really stopping... so... he ran into the back of a pick up going 30mph. He flew through his windshield and landed in the back of the pick up, then rolled onto the pavement. He said he then jumped up and walked to the guy driving the truck, shook his hand and said sorry.

The God thing... first of all, my brother was NOT wearing a helmet. Second, the back of the pick up was full of pillows and blankets!!! The guy had just got done moving. Seriously! PILLOWS AND BLANKETS broke my brother's fall!

Michael was the talk of the ER. They all kept cracking jokes about him landing in pillows and blankets! Michael was in a surprisingly good mood despite the fact he had just been in a crash and received about 200 dollars in tickets. He got away from the entire crash with nothing more than a sprained thumb!!! No road rash, no nothing. God is good.

We are hoping this will be a wake up call for Michael as he did not have motorcycle insurance, a motorcycle license, or health insurance. His bike wasn't in bad shape, but he is looking at quite a bit of debt. We are SO thankful though that he is OKAY!

Farmville and obsession

Oh my goodness... I am obsessed. Our cousin Anneke told us about a game on facebook called famville. So now I am looking at the clock for when it is time to harvest my crops! Don't ask...

My best friend Courtnee and her husband Bryce are in town! They are here before they take off to South Korea to teach English for a year. I am so excited for them to start this awesome adventure! I think it will be so fun to just be on their own without any in-laws to get to have fun by theirselves!

Today was such a great day! The rain was such a blessing for Gabe, me and Thomas. We got to go do random stuff and just relax. Then tonight Gabe and I just laid in bed and had a long deep conversation! This hasn't happened much lately because we have a bouncing baby boy keeping us busy!

I think I may be an obsessive mother... I have called the nurse twice in the last week asking questions about Thomas. First, he projectile threw up for the first time, and I freaked out. When I got off the phone with the nurse, I felt like an idiot for even calling. Then today he had a temperature of 99.7. Again after getting off the phone with the nurse I felt like an idiot because they keep telling me all this is normal and not to freak out. I think I may have gotten this from my mom. I always remember her calling the nurse when we had a sideache, because she couldn't remember what side our appendix was on! I swear she probably called about 10 times in my childhood that I can remember, and she NEVER remembered what side it was on! haha. Good memories.

I'm going to graduate!!!

Horray Horray Horray!!! After 4 years and about 80 credits I am going to graduate with an associates degree! Sounds kinda ridiculous because I have been in school so long, but I have been off and on, part time/full time. I am just so happy to get a degree to keep my credits safe for when I want to go back for a real degree! Right now it is looking like I am going to have some horrible classes. I have to take a science and all the good ones are full so I am going to take Geology... The professor will probably teach us about how we evolved and all that other crap, but oh well. If I can get the teacher of the art history class to let me in on the full online class, I will have 2 online classes and only one class and one lab at the school! This would be so great so I wouldn't have to be away every evening from Gabe and Thomas! I am really hoping and praying this works out! I have kind of been feeling like a failure after everyone I know is getting real degrees, but I will be proud of my associates degree! YAY!