Hi everyone, well we had a fantastic Thanksgiving and ,as usual, Chris & Jim did a fabulous job.  I was suppose to bring a camera and I forgot. Sorry!  Larry and Stephanie and their two girls were in.  Scott had to work over the holiday.  Amanda and Kelsey are two very nice beautiful girls.  Bo & Kathy are in for a little longer as Larry and his family left today.  Everyone looks good.  We missed some of the Einig children as they were sick.  Get well Peyton and Nicholas!  Karen was also down due to some very tough mountain biking!  

Dad and I started with the decorating yesterday.  And, after some direction from me we got the houses in place and the mantel done.  Today I am attempting some of the dining rooms.  Going to Grace and Tom's for dinner tonight so that should be nice.  Hope all are enjoying the time off.  Love Mom

17 weeks

We just got back from our 17th week apt. "Monkey" aka baby is growing well and is now 5 inches long and weighs in at 5 ounces. We got to hear the heartbeat and it sounded wonderful. It was much easier to find this time. The nurse was surprised to hear my heart skip a beat while she was taking my blood pressure. She had never heard anything like that before. I assured her and my doctor that my heart has been checked out and that I have been diagnosed with an irregular heart beat. My gyno wants me to send over my heart monitor tests so that he knows what he is dealing with. He said it should not be a problem but when I get further along the baby "steals" so much of my blood so my heart could potentially be compromised. So, he most likely will look at my heart monitor results and he wants to run an EKG just to check things out. But he does not seem too worried and I do not feel it so I think should it be fine. Should I start feeling my heart skip around then we will have to pursue something.

I am feeling better. The puking seems to be going away, which is great. I puked twice last week but I really do feel as if it is on the tail end. Next apt. we will find out the sex, Dec. 10th. We are really excited to find out!!!!!

Here are a few pictures from Branson. Michele Atkins and I were trying to be serious in the cowboy pic. but as you can see it did not work out so well. We had a good time but boy was it cold. I do not think I have ever been as cold as I was on Saturday. We stayed in a house that allowed dogs so of course Kasey went too.

Enjoying the good life.

This looks like trouble

Hi everyone, here are the latest from the eighth grade trip to Springfield aboard Amtrak, the sixth grade at camp and especially the Alpine Tower, grandchildren, and last of all our trip to Naples.

This is at the All Saints Day mass at school. Ryan decided he needed a little extra prayer at the statue of Mary. (No, I didn't pose him!) He actually had his eye on the rosary that Mary was holding.

Lauren was Saint Lucy (patron saint of the blind). It really is fun to see all of the 2nd graders dressed as their chosen saint.

Happy Halloween from the Foxes!! Ryan was so excited about his Scooby Doo costume. He ran from house to house and even Lauren couldn't keep up with him!