Project Dawna Jean DONE!

The biggest project I have EVER taken on in my life (besides raising children) is finished! YEE-HAW!! My next big project is to actually be able to shower by myself without having a 2-year-old climb in ever single time.

I was going through and trying to decide which picture to post...and quite frankly I could not decide. So I made a movie. It's not perfect, and I'm sure it's technically not legal because I used a song that I was probably supposed to buy rights to in order to use, but I'm not selling it, so whatever. I wanted to find some great country song that fit them, but the only country songs in my itunes library are "The Gambler" and various party-like or old-school songs that my husband has. I have various "exercise" songs as well, but none of those fit them either. I don't think a "club" beat would really be great for a wedding video. So I just imported the Lighthouse song and decided to see how it went. I bawled while viewing it the whole time. Especially at the part in the song where he says "You still my heart, and you take my breath away" because it just HAPPENED to be the part of the video at the ceremony where Bob saw Dawn coming down the aisle towards him and he was crying and I could tell his heart was stilled. Hang on....gotta get a tissue so I can finish typing **sniff sniff** I didn't cry this much at the wedding! But I think I am seeing everything put together for the first time and it's pretty emotional:)

I am so happy for this girl and her kids and his kids and her family and everyone that has prayed and waited for this man to come into her life and "still her heart". So without further ado....months of work in a 6 1/2 minute clip....enjoy!

I apologize for the super small size, but apparently blogger has an issue with imovie and will not upload ANYTHING bigger.....GGRRR!

To see all her photos, you can go to my flickr site at www.flickr.com/myhousephotography/sets and choose "Bob and Dawn's wedding"

I have been tirelessly working on the rest of Dawn's pics....it's repulsive that I have not gotten them done yet, but MAN were there lots! If you want to see what has been done so far, feel free to go to www.flickr.com/photos/myhousephotography/sets and pick "Bob and Dawn's Wedding".

I found a few personal ones in the batches, and probably even a few more I might post later.

Doin' my thang.....If I could find it, there is one of Di doing the same thing:)Didi....my awesome "assistant". I wish I was rich and famous and could just pay her to work for me. She totally speaks my "language".

The girls were SO entertained at Bob's house....Nothin' but tons of girl stuff to play with.

Tired and haggard baby. She totally just got done yelling and bossing around the ring bearer. For nothing. Totally Mae-Mae.

More to come!

Fortress of Solitude

A few weeks ago, we had one of those limbo-type things where Mae wasn't necessarily "sick" but still had a runny nose, so she couldn't go into her Wednesday night class at church. When given the choice, she chose for daddy to stay home with her because he would build her a fort. This is what the girls and I (after putting on their jammies...I would never consider these outfits as appropriate church choices!) walked into that night:

I'm not sure if you can tell, but he totally re-arranged the living room, took apart the couches and everything. There were doors, hallways, secret passage ways, everything. I even love how the girls posed. Notice Mae's new "cheesy" grin pose.......

I of course made him clean the mess up.

Little by Little

Today was a good day. I only had a couple dizzy spells, and one was when I had to go to Wal-Mart to get the kids's valentines. Quite frankly, I don't even know if I can count that one because as much as I love to go to Wal-Mart, I hate going there just as equally. Especially when there are 2,586,000 people in there buying the same things you are.

So I am hopeful I'm on the mend. I finished my cousin's baby pictures (finally), and I just had to share a few. Beware....you will want to eat this child. He is chock-full of chunkaliciousness.

That last one is my absolute favorite....if I were their parents, I would probably order the biggest dang size I could fine:) Heck...I just might for my office.

Update

First and foremost, thank you-thank you-thank you, to ALL of you who have been praying for me. I am so blessed to have so many friends who are willing to step in and intercede for me at a moments notice. So much has happened since my last post, I don't even know where to begin. Basically, an ER visit, MRI, and a couple different blood tests later, I am still dizzy. I still have weird lumps in my neck (the ER doc says it is indeed a lymph node), I have this really obnoxious headache thing going on, I can't sit at the computer for longer than 15 minutes without seeing double and getting that strange vertigo thing, and I have no answers. None. Nada. Zilch. Zero. I have good insurance, GREAT insurance in fact, and it seems like I have not one doctor who is remotely interested in figuring out what is going on. Yeah, and the government thinks they can come in and make it better? HA! That's for another blog.......

I don't go into the ER for nothing. I went in one other time in my life, and that was because two days after giving birth to my second, I literally felt like my guts were burning up on the inside of me. I was in more pain then I have EVER been in in my whole entire life before or since, and that is AFTER birthing three kids naturally, as in no drugs, felt-every-inch-of-those-little-suckers! In the end, it was a severe colon infection that presented as ischemic colitis. Look it up, that will be a fun two minutes of your life trying to figure out how a 24-year-old woman could have something usually only 75-year-old men bound to wheelchairs get. But I digress. The fact in this case is that I would rather have a colonoscopy than go to the ER. Actually, scratch that. The prep is "rough", but in the end, you get a pretty darn good nap out of the deal. I would rather give birth, have a colonoscopy, eat peas, AND ban cake from my life for 6 months than go into the ER . The thought of going into the ER makes me crazy. I am reminded of that story in the bible where Jesus casts the demons out of the crazy naked dude into the pigs who then run off a cliff. I don't know who I identify with, the crazy screaming naked dude or the pigs, but either way, it's not a good feeling.

I guess I am just glad that I don't HAVE to get answers. I don't have to HAVE a name (although my crazy brain feels the need to have one) in order to pray and receive healing. I am thankful to have friends and family intercede for me when all I want to do is sleep. I am thankful for a husband who spends his sick time on me to make sure I'm ok and has a job that allows him to do so. I'm thankful to have great friends who bring me dinners and desserts (brownies, puppy chow...mmmmm......) and come and watch Lost with me, even with threat of a gross and messy house and a scary looking chick (and thankful to have a husband who understands my needs to have a clean house when company is over!). I'm thankful for a sister who comes and spends the weekend with me so my husband doesn't have to take any more sick time, makes me cupcakes, and watches a Pushing Daisies marathon with me. But mostly I am SO thankful that I don't have to count on doctors or ER's or anyone else to figure out what's wrong with me. I have a Savior and a Healer, and it doesn't really matter what the "name" of something is, He has it under control.