nervous energy

I'm trying to burn off some nervous energy today so I actually completed last week's scrapbook pages on time! Why am I so nervous? Lydia has her much dreaded appointment with the "brain doctor" (neurologist) tomorrow. I keep telling myself that there's probably nothing wrong with her and that her headaches are just a fluke thing. Sadly, that negative little voice inside me is constantly displacing my positive thoughts with thoughts of "what if they find something?" Anyway, my stomache is in knots but we will push on! Hopefully by tomorrow, all of this stress will be gone. In the meantime, any prayers you might want to send our way would be awesome! Crossing our fingers for a healthy Lydia. :)

So sorry this has taken me so long! Life has just gotten in the way of scrapbooking. Tonight however, the younger girls are in bed and Casey took the two oldest girls to see harry Potter (for the 2nd time) so I had a quiet moment to get mostly caught up. Here's our last week!!

new week

I finally finished last week's Project 365. (I have been finding other things that I'd rather be doing than scrapbooking but today I forced myself to sit down and finish it before I forgot what happened last week.) enjoy!

Lydia turns 4

My baby turned 4!!! this week! I can hardly believe it. She still seems like my little baby. She had an excellent birthday party with a "pig" cake and presents. She is obsessed with pigs. Ever since she got a pig beanie baby (a few years ago) and named him "Hammy," she has had a love affair with pigs. She of course requested a pig cake for her birthday. I made the big pig and Maggie and Jillian each made a baby pig for the top of the cake. She was thrilled with her "hammy" cake.

We invited Grandma and Grandpa Walburger over for a dinner of some of her favorite things...homemade chicken nuggets, cheesy mashed potatoes, banana bread and a green salad with her favorite snack...croutons. :) Unfortunately, Lydia was battling a headache all day and by dinner, she was not feeling well at all. She perked up enough to blow out her candles and open her presents though. (Mom, don't worry...Casey had a headache all day too...we think it was just a bug :)

Grandma gave her a Princess porcelain Tea set and when she opened it, she said to Grandma, "How did you know that this was just what I wanted?" She's been playing with that tea set ever since.

the next day, feeling much better, Lydia invented a new word. As she was playing with her new Tinkerbell dolls (whose clothes are easy to remove) she said, "Mom, look, the clothes and shoes are 'off-able.' " She's so funny and we are so very happy to have her in our family!

Bridal show 2011

Hello everyone! This weekend has been a crazy one! Casey did his 13th bridal show for the Lane county wedding showcase. He talked to hundreds of potential brides. This event gives us about 75 percent of our summer business so it's pretty vital. This year, he took Charlotte with him. As each couple climbed into the photobooth, she cut their photostrips. She also put together packets so that Casey (and uncle Jared...who is a REALLY good salesman) could hand them out. Casey said that she was SO helpful and she didn't complain a bit. During slow moments, they got into one of the photobooths (he had 2 set up) and took some fun pictures. Casey had props inside the photobooths to add to the fun. All in all, it was a very productive weekend!

In other news, Lydia got a mostly clean bill of health from the doctor. They checked everything... her optic nerve (to make sure there wasn't a tumor sitting on top of it), her mobility and speech. (I'm guessing it was to make sure her brain wasn't being affected by something bad inside.) I need to take her to see a neurologist soon but my doc assured me that everything is probably fine. So, for now, I'm choosing not to worry. :)

Here is Week 1 of 2011!

Happy day!

This picture makes for a really good day! Farewell speaker Pelosi...can't say I'll miss ya!

One more page to finish and 2010 is in the books!

Lydia

Hey everyone! Thought I'd share a page of Lydia with you all! She is in love with all things pink and girlie. My other girls really didn't get into dress up, princesses, shoes and jewelry, but Lydia LOVES those things! She is my little buddy. Today, we went to lunch together and as we sat at McDonald's (her favorite), we pulled out a pencil and paper and designed her birthday cake. (she turns 4 at the end of the month.) Of course, the cake will feature pigs. :) Lately, she has been waking up with severe headaches. Last night, her headache was particularly severe. She and I sat out in the front room by the fireplace at 1:00 a.m. until her headache went away. Needless to say, I am stressed and worried. I have an appointment with a doctor this week to hopefully put my mind at ease. Looking on the internet for answers of course doesn't help. Every website that I go to tells me that headaches shouldn't be worrisome unless they wake your child up at night. Great! :( I don't know why I can't be more like Casey and not immediately go to the worse case scenario in my mind. He doesn't worry about stuff unless there's something confirmed to worry about. I don't think I'm engineered that way. Anyway, hopefully tonight I will get a full night's sleep. I'm crossing my fingers!



While we were at Borders before Christmas, we spotted a hot pink christmas tree for sale. This week as we were taking down our tree, Allison said, "mom, we should throw away this old tree and next year, get that hot pink one!" Lydia, overhearing our conversation, replied... "No!! I don't want a hot pink tree, I want our cold green one." We all got a good laugh. She brightens our lives.

Here's our final week of 2010!