A First

Well, here it goes. I thought blogging would be a good way to keep the family updated in one shot, but I'm not the best writer or speller so I'm not sure that it was the best idea I've had. For those that don't know us here is some background. Jesse and I met in high school and dated through our senior year. We attended all the major high school stuff like prom, senior banquet, and homecoming. By the end of the year I knew I wanted to marry Jesse and by the time we left for college I knew we would be married. In March of 2003 we finally got married. In July of 2005 we bought our first house. In July of 2006 (exactly one year later) we welcomed our oldest, Kathryn, to the world and in December of 2007 we welcomed our baby, Lorelai, to the family. Life has been busy.

Right know we are remodeling our house and hope to have everything done this summer. Jesse was working the weekend shift at his job, but got moved back to weeks and we are enjoying our weekends together. Kat and Lili are taken with the new pony that Papa just got and are having fun at the farm visiting the animals.

The main thing that we have been focusing on for awhile is me. I wasn't feeling like myself and FINALLY went to see the doctor. Dr. Lange is wonderful and made sure that extra test were run even though things seemed okay. I have a heart murmur that I was unaware of and it was and is causing some problems. I'm on medicine and that is helping, but it is just something that I will have to live with and monitor yearly. What really upset me was the heart specialist advising us not to have anymore children. We wanted to get pregnant this summer so Jesse could hopefully have his boy. It hurts that I can't give my husband something that I know he really wants, but we made the decision together and it is what is best for our family. We might adopt in the future, but that will be a few years down the road. Thankfully, God is good and gave us two wonderful girls!!!

Well, I don't want this to be too long so here's a peek for now and I'll try posting pictures tomorrow!