New Years Announcements....

Warning: I am quite blunt in this post...If you don't appreciate that quality in me then you may want to consider passing up this post but I assure you, It will be well worth it!







Any of you who don't know what an I.U.D. is, let me fill you in. It is a form of birth control called an Inter-uterine device. Basically it is 99.9% effective and doesn't allow for your body to grow an embryo. It is placed in the Cervix and since it is a foreign object, your body produces masses of white cells to try to fight it (which your body can't do) so consequently a pregnancy will never survive with all the white cells down there. It really is a fabulous creation. At least I thought so until I GOT PREGNANT WITH ONE IN PLACE!!!

Back up, after meeting with my doctor, it is more likely that it either fell out or is floating around somewhere in my belly. Don't worry, it is sterile. Since you would think that I would feel something like that FALL OUT, I am thinking it may be floating around somewhere. Don't be concerned if you use one of these, this almost never happens. I just get to be the lucky one.

I am 11 weeks along and have gratefully moved past the part where I cried almost daily for the first 6 weeks. We are thankful that we are blessed with another sweet spirit in our family, however now is not the time we would have liked that to happen. Moving on to the next part of my blog entry......


Eric is leaving in the next week to start his training in Hawaii prior to his 6 month tour in Iraq. He won't be here for almost my entire pregnancy and/or the delivery. He won't get home until early to mid November. He is really excited to go (albeit this new info). It really is his calling to go out and do the things most of us don't want to do. I am truly proud of him and his duty to our country. Don't get me wrong, I wish he would be happy with a 9 to 5 desk job but that just isn't Eric.

Eric will be in Hawaii for 2.5 months and then off to Iraq after that. We are planning to go visit him while he is in Hawaii and have a nice little family vacation. I will be posting updates that he sends to me so keep checking out the blog to see what the latest on Eric is.

Now on to more fun topics....Here are some pictures of the kids on Christmas (sorry so long overdue) and just some other crazy pictures.




Here is Finn getting ready to go see what Santa brought.
Here he is with his loot. Neelah was still asleep. Unfair, I know but she isn't even a year old yet.
He didn't want anything to do with his BIKE at first, just the pirate stuff!
Of course Dad had to join in
Here is the favorite! He didn't put it down all morning!