Awesome!

Today I received a disc from Discraft Discs. This is the disc I got. Check it out! It's a little different for the art but it's AWESOME! Thanks Discraft!

Thanksgiving

So we had dinner at my mom's house and that was awesome! My mom, dad, sister and her boyfriend, my nephew, my niece and her boyfriend, me hubs Bradley and Chase were all there. Chases first Thanksgiving. EVERYONE kept trying to get me to let him have some food. Grrr...I didn't falter! He gets formula until 6 months or he is eating more than 8oz every feeding. Also needs to be ready for food (i.e. opening mouth when presented food). I have a week and a half until winter break! I got most of the house decorated and can't wait to finish our marriage scrap book as well as Bradley and I doing his and me beginning Chase's. Depending on the photo needs...I might not be able to work on Chase's because I don't have any printed even tho we have tons of him! I got some great crafts planned and going to do fun stuff during xmas break! Janurary 3rd I go back to school for 15 credits and 5 classes...ick! But we are doing it! :D
Anyways that's an update. Talk to you soon!

OMG! Forever and a day!

So it's been forever and a day since I have updated! Chase was born on my 25th birthday- August 6th, 2010 at 10:47pm. 9lbs 7.8oz, 14.5" head, 22.25" long. Adorable! He is now just over 3 months old.
Bradley started school and now is sounding things out and beginning to read. :( It's bittersweet. They aren't supposed to grow up!
Just hanging out on a tuesday afternoon because we are all sick...except for the uber high immune-system freak of a husband I got. ;)

Crockpot Cheesecake!

Crust

- 1 cup graham cracker crumbs
- 2 T brown sugar
- 3 T melted butter

Filling

- 16 oz cream cheese, room temperature
- 3/4 cup white sugar
- 2 large eggs, room temperature
- 1/4 cup heavy cream
- 1 tsp good vanilla
- 1 tbsp flour

Directions.

Find a heat-resistant dish that will fit into your crockpot for the cheesecake. You are going to create a bain marie, or water bath. I used a 1.5 qt Corning Ware dish and it fit nicely into 6qt oval. I tried a round cake pan in a 4 qt round, and that fit too. But I opted for my 6qt, because I'm more comfortable with how it heats.

In a plastic zipper bag, beat the animal crackers into crumbs with a rolling pin. Put a cup of the crumbs into a medium bowl, and add melted butter and brown sugar. Stir until it's wet and crumby. Press the crumbs into the bottom of the dish you are going to use.

In a separate bowl, cream the cheese, sugar, eggs, flour, cream, and vanilla with a hand-mixer. Unless you have one of those fancy Kitchen Aids. Then use that. Pour the cheese mixture on top of the crust. Lick the bowl.

Add 1/2 to 1 cup of water to the bottom of your crockpot. Lower the dish inside, being careful to not slosh water into your cheesecake.

Cover and cook on high for 2-3 hours. Check after 1 hour, just in case. The cheesecake is done when the edges are no longer shiny and have set. Touch lightly to see that you don't get a bunch of stuff on your finger---then you know it's done. My cheesecake wasn't perfectly set in the middle, but I unplugged the crock anyhow.

I cooked it for exactly 2 hours. Let the cheesecake sit in the cooling crockpot for an hour, before removing and transferring to the refrigerator. Chill in the refrigerator for about 2 hours before cutting and serving.

It's a BABY!!!

We just had our 23 week ultrasound and its gonna be a baby! We are gonna stay surprised. The baby way curled up in a lil ball and faced towards my back. The ultrasound pics: one shows a profile and the second is a face on view with an arm over the face, being able to see the nose and mouth. Very stubborn already! :D Totally excited. Next time we see the baby will be when it comes outta me.

Scary

So on saturday 3/12/10 my son had a seizure at his dads house. When I showed up to the ER he was unconscious, tubed and ventilated. I guess he stopped breathing from the anti-seizure meds they gave him. It was a very scary thing to see that happen to my own kid. I still have that picture stuck in my head. It's getting easier to deal with it. He was in the hospital til that following monday. Every test they had BUT the MRI came back good. The MRI shows a cluster of blood cells that could cause him to be at a higher risk for seizures than the normal kid. We are going back in 3-6 months for a contrast test of his brain as well as another MRI. My son is perfectly himself now. Hoping that he won't seize again. There is that chance he may NEVER have another or if he does they can't predict when. It could be tomorrow, years down the road or in adulthood. So we got some emergency meds incase he does seize again for longer than 5 minutes then we give it to him (RECTALLY) poor kid. But things are starting to seem normal again.
On a side note, we have our 2nd ultrasound the beginning of April so YAY!!! We are 20 weeks now and I'm growing like a cow.....not gaining much weight I must say! Lol. Anyways thats the big news and what happened.
I honestly think the seizure was brought on by a higher than normal temp, but no evidence to prove that.

Addiction

I hate your meetings. I hate you 12 steps. In fact, I hate anybody who has anything to do with a recovery program. Allow me to introduce myself.... I AM YOUR ADDICTION!
I am known to many in your program as "cunning, baffling and powerful." And yet, I did not come uninvited. You CHOSE me! In fact, you welcomed me with open arms. I was your courage, your strength and your hope. I took away your feelings of being shy, angry, lonely, tired, hungry and happy. Eventually, I took away any feeling you ever had until you were nothing but an empty shell-void of any feeling at all. When we first met, you said that you didn't deserve all the good things you had in life. I was the only one who agreed with you and was more tan happy to take it all away from you. But now you claim to have found a better way? You say that you have found a Higher Power?! HA!!! I thought I was your higher power. Wasn't it me you used to turn to every morning and pray that I would stay down in your guts? Wasn't it me that you used to ask to steady your nerves and give you courage to face the world again? I thought it would be you and me forever-friends until the end. And damn it! I almost had you until the end. But I let you slip away from me. I had you wrapped around my finger. I could make you beg, borrow and steal just to have me. I had you at the point of believing that suicide was the only way out....
...until your so called Higher Power came to the rescue.
But that's ok, I'm patient. I CAN WAIT! You can't see me, but you'll always remember me. And ever once in a while, I'll remind you that I'm still here-waiting for you to return. So until we meet again...(If we meet again), I wish you a long painful, suffering death like you could have had with me!!!

BABY!!!!

Well, I have been feeling the baby rolling round and round, kicking me. Yesterday after our shower, I had Richard lay down with me and he got to feel his baby kick for the first time. His face lit up like a christmas tree. Total joy and bliss he says. YAY! So I go in for testing to see if I have cancer on my cervix...scary but atleast we will find out. And term is almost done with school....yay no more writing!!!! Totally stoked! Well thats about it for now.

Janurary

So I started my two classes- health and wellness & technical writing. hehehe online. I originally thought health was going to be difficult but then saw my technical writing course....hahaha health is a fart in the breeze compared to technical writing. It's going to be fun!!! YAY! Get to hear the babys heart beat on wednesday!!!! And then the ultrasound on the 13th!!! We have decided we WONT find out what the babys gender will be....lets keep it a surprise. Anyways thats my update.