Showing posts with label love. Show all posts
Showing posts with label love. Show all posts

Thursday, September 29, 2011

Inroducing Miss Grace

{only 5 weeks late on this post}

My best friend, Holly, gave birth to her rainbow baby,
Grace Gillian
on 
August 24

She is one of the most beautiful babies I have ever laid eyes on


Within a couple hours of her birth, during her bath, one of the nurses noticed that Grace was breathing rapidly. They took her to the nursery to evaluate her and then she spent the next 11 days in the NICU. After a few scary moments, one dose of surfactant, many sticks, pokes and prods, Grace told the NICU it was time for her to go home because she didn't belong there.

Grace is home and capturing everyone's heart. She is so easy and so loveable. Now, I just need to find some time to hop on a plane up the East Coast to go snuggle, love and kiss this sweet baby girl. Isn't she stunning?

Thursday, June 9, 2011

{four}

Four years...
1460 days...
35,040 hours...
2,102,400 minutes...

11 years together
one "surprise" wedding
3 pregnancies
one loss
2 births
2 sons
one death of a parent
5 four-legged furry animals
3 turtles
2 jobs
2 vacations
one major diagnosis
many hospital stays, surgeries, procedures, results
buckets of hope
steel beams of strength
hundreds of tears
ten thousand laughs
never-ending love
one promise of forever

June 9, 2007
the day I said
I do.
the day I said
I will hold you when you fall...
I will laugh with you and smile with you...
I will stand by you no matter what...
I will love you for the rest of my life...
I will honor you and cherish you...
all the days of my life.

Friday, April 1, 2011

April Fools Day FAIL

Ugh... the title says it all. For some reason, my creative side thought it had the capability to pull off a clever little prank on my husband... in reality, I think I may have shaved 10 years off his life ;)

From time-to-time, my husband forgets that I can no longer become pregnant. I mean, really, how can you forget that. I guess I have to give him a little credit because (1) he is a male and (2) he confuses my tubal ligation (with which there is a teeny, tiny, itty-bitty percentage that you could become pregnant) with the hysterectomy. Oh well.

So I decided this morning, hey why not get my family and a few close friends in on what surely would be a great prank. I sent a Facebook message and a text to the people I wanted in on it. I asked people to send him a text saying something along the lines of "Congrats on Baby #3!" My first mistake: the first person to text him was a friend of ours, but her number was not in his phone. He started calling the house/my cell non-stop... he received 2-3 other texts and the phone calls continued... then I heard the door unlocking and there he was... I started laughing so hard that I was crying. I really thought I pranked him well... until he opened his mouth.

He told me that I scared the crap out of him because I wasn't answering the phone. He said he became worried when he received the first text from a random number saying "Congrats on Baby {our last name} #3." I asked him why he was still worried after she replied with her name. And he said he got scared because of the moron that semi-stalked us 9ish months ago. He thought someone was in the house and on and on... so all I succeeded at was scaring him, not pranking him. And he STILL didn't realize that today was April Fool's... until he was leaving and I said "Happy April Fool's Day!" --- he shook his head, turned around, smiled and said that everyone who was involved in my little prank would pay for it...

I felt so bad for the way he reacted... So my prank was a failure, well kinda... ;)