Olivia

Last Saturday we ventured out as a family for our first dress up affair- the Navigators Semi-formal. It was fun to get dressed up again after being SO big for so long :) And Olivia slept through the whole thing! Honestly we were a little disappointed we didn't get to dance with her. But Nate did dance with me and that was SO much fun. During dinner, Michel Buble's song, Everything, came on which is the first song we danced to at our wedding. Nate took me to the dance floor and we had the first dance of the night! Mind you, no one else was dancing yet. It was VERY romantic and I loved it. He is a wonderful man:) And today is his 30th birthday!!! Happy Birthday Nate!!!

And this is just a cute pic of Olivia I think:) She is growing so fast! The last couple of days I have really been noticing that she likes to be awake longer and is interested in looking at things much more. She may have even grabbed at one of her toys on the changing table today. Nate and I both think she has smiled at us at least once- though hard to know if its for real, or just gas- which she also has plenty of! Yesterday afternoon she played two separate times for over ten minutes in her swings. And this morning she had tummy time for over five minutes. She is such a joy and we love her so much!

Flowers, Syrup, and Surgery

Three totally unrelated things- but things I want to share:)

Last fall Nate and I bought flowers to plant and my mother in law graciously helped me plant them in October seeing as I have never planted flower before. This last week they have started to bloom. I took this picture yesterday and with the gorgeous weather we are having - even more have blossomed! They are gorgeous and bring me joy:)

Last Saturday Nate thought it would be yummy to have waffles for lunch- I heartily agreed. He also thought it would be yummy (my word, not his) to have strawberry syrup- so I made some! It turned out so well. Since we have been married, it has been really fun to try to make all sorts of delicious things. Whenever we think of something, instead of buying it, we often will try to make it... although the only other adventurous thing we have cooked that I can think of right now are crepes- so good!

Lastly, my surgery. It will not be April 6th as we originally thought. That one test that we weren't sure about needs to be redone and they couldn't reschedule it that quickly. Basically they know there is cancer on my thyroid and will remove it. They see something that is suspicious in the lymph nodes near it so they biopsied them the last time I went in. The results were inconclusive so they need to test them again. Boo. We were hoping to get it all over with, but now we must wait a bit longer. I will go in April 15th to have them biopsied again and then surgery will be scheduled. I am expecting it to be in early May, but I will let you know. The up side of all this is that I should be able to recover more from having a baby before undergoing another surgery- here is to going on more walks and eventually running again!!!

Olivia is one month old!

Yesterday Olivia turned one Month old!!! I cant believe we have had her so long- Time has FLOWN by with her! And she has already grown so much! She is wearing the outfit we brought her home from the hospital in this picture- except at that time, she was still swimming in it. Yesterday I really think she was looking at me and smiling- but perhaps that is wishful mom speaking:) She is a great baby and we love her so much!

In other news- I am scheduled to have my thyroid removed on April 6th, to get rid of the cancer. We went to Hershey medical a week or so ago to have all the preliminary tests done. My nodule had not grown- praise God!- so we are confident again in having waited to have my thyroid removed. The rest of the tests went well except for one- which we may need to head back to Hershey to have retested. They were not able to tell if the cancer is in my lymph nodes or not. You can pray they schedule a re-test at a time that is convenient for us to head out to Hershey and that they have conclusive results. Obviously, we hope it has NOT spread, but we just need to know so they can do a correct surgery.

James Kwon

My friend James Kwon and my sister Hannah were able to visit this weekend! Here's James playing a song at our open mic after our regular Nav Night.

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Bong collection?

So, I'm waiting in the Ferguson County police station lobby. I'm here for a free car seat installation assessment. On one side there was a glass cabinet full of police gear. On the other side there was this. Sent on the Sprint® Now Network from my BlackBerry®

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Beware

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ides_of_March

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Sleeping beauty.

Hopefully she'll decide to sleep tonight, too! Sent on the Sprint® Now Network from my BlackBerry®

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