At least the carpet is clean now! :)

Now that some time has passed, I think I can write about this. :)

Yesterday, I awakened to Kaylee, who came into the room and whispered, "Mom.....There was a little bit of an accident this morning.....don't worry,  I cleaned it up." :)  Of course I WAS worried. I was still quite groggy because I was up all night with another little one, so I sleepily said, "What do you mean? What happened?!?" Kaylee informed me that she started drawing her bath water and got busy and forgot about it. When she discovered it, the water had overflowed the bathroom and went into the hallway, where it drenched the carpet. At that point, I didn't know how bad it was. My tired brain didn't fully comprehend, or process all she was saying. I thought maybe a little got on the floor and she wiped it up and it was good. I was too tired to deal with it at that point anyway, so I said, "Ok, thanks for telling me." I also thanked her for cleaning it up. :) I ended up dozing off & once I did wake up, I saw the enormous pile of sopping wet towels, sitting on the carpet outside the bathroom! :(  As I began lifting some of the dripping wet towels, I noticed the dripping wet quilt that apparently absorbed most of the water. :(  These were some heavy towels & blankets. I honestly could barely lift the piles. I took a dry towel & began blotting the water in the hallway. It was still a little damp, but it didn't feel too bad.

Thankfully, John was working while all this happened. We all began to get ready for church. We had a meal to prepare & I had to help the little ones get ready. John came home in the midst of it all & I was busy & didn't tell him about the water incident. We began talking in the garage when a drop of water fell from the ceiling. :(  I said, "Did something just drip from the ceiling?"

John said, "No. You're imaging things." Just as he said that, another drop came down, then another & there was no more procrastinating....I had to tell him. :(  I told him what happened & he flipped. (I can't say I blamed him, but I felt bad for Kaylee who felt just terrible).  My parents were on their way over to help John build some shelves in our Laundry room. So, in stead of shelves, they ended up cutting a hole in our ceiling and removing the soaking wet insulation from the Garage Ceiling. :(  We now have a couple of holes in our ceiling and a lot of sopping wet insulation sitting in a huge bin on the garage floor. I felt so bad leaving with the girls to go to church while they were working on the ceiling. I asked John if he wanted us to stay and help and he said, "No, just go to church." 

So, that was our Sunday morning excitement. :)  

Declaring a Do-Over!!!

I have decided to give blogging another shot. I started 3 of them & only posted a couple of times in each of them. So, here I go again. This time I hope to do a better job in writing more. :)

I posted a little bit about each of the girls on our Homeschool Blog, so I think I will try to do that on this one, too. My next post will be a short intro about each of the girls. :)

A Lesson learned the hard way! :)

I actually wrote this at the end of May & am finally posting it. :)

I just thought I would tell you about the little Tea Party that I had yesterday with Karly, who is now almost three. I had just sat down to nurse Katie when Karly came over to me with her little teapot full of water and a little cup. I watched her pour me a cup and she very proudly offered me some of her wonderful tea. :) I said, "Thank you, Karly. Where did you get the tea from?" She told me that she got it from Khloe (Her 5 year old sister). So, I figured that Khloe must have helped her fill up her little teapot from the fridge. I had a little bit. She kept bringing me some tea and I sipped on it a little as I nursed Katie and just enjoyed her sweet company. We had a great time. A little bit later, I went into the family room and started talking to John. As we were talking, Karly came running in with her empty little teapot and I watched her as she dunked her little teapot into the Dog's water bowl. :( Ewwwwwwwwwwww!!! :(  Note to self.....ALWAYS be leery of tea served by a two year old. :) I hope you all have a great day!!! :) 

Introducing our girls

I decided to write a little about each of the girls, so you could get to know each of them. :)

The Lord has blessed us with 6 girls and we feel blessed beyond words. Here are their names and ages:

Kaylee (14)

Karissa (11)

Kyla (8)

Khloe(5)

Karly (3)

*Karina

Katherine "Katie" (3 Months)

*We sadly lost a baby to a miscarriage in September of 2006. We truly believed that it was another little girl. We named her Karina Dominique, which means "Little one of God." She will always be in our hearts.

I will write a little about each of the girls in separate posts. :) 

Recap on Baby Katie

We decided to start a blog to share news about our family and post updates about our newest little blessing, Baby Katie, who we are expecting sometime in April. We thought it might be helpful to have a blog we could keep up and just direct friends and family here to read the updates, rather than sending the updates directly out to their e-mail boxes.
We were also planning on using this Blog as a place for us to share The Lord's daily blessings in our lives and to just write about all kinds of various things. :)


Today, I thought I would recap what we have been dealing with this pregnancy with our sweet, little one. We found out last August that we were expecting another little one. :) We were all so excited! We had experienced a miscarriage a year earlier and were thrilled to be expecting again. All of the girls were so excited! As time went by in this pregnancy, I began to notice that I wasn't getting as large as I normally do. (I tend to get as big around as I am tall. LOL! :) ) I had been on a Gluten-Free diet this time, so I just kind of attributed it to that. By the time we went in for our routine ultrasound at 19 weeks, we were immediately sent to a Perinatologist and another ultrasound. The only thing they told us was that they thought our baby may have a Fetal Infection. The Perinatologist office was across the parking lot, so we went over there and waited for what seemed to be an eternity. I sat there and balled, not knowing what to expect. We finally got in to see the Doctor and she had said that it looked as if our baby had one of many possible Fetal Infections. They had recommended an Amnio to diagnose what type of infection she had. They had said that a couple of them had treatment options, but it was still an extremely serious issue. It makes me sick to even bring this up, but they at that time actually gave us the option of ending the Pregnancy! :( We said that there was NO WAY we would ever consider that and we decided to seek another opinion. We went in to OHSU and saw a couple of specialists over there who had told us of some other possibilities, but they basically agreed with the Perinatologist, so we prayerfully decided to go with the Amnio. Once we had that test done, we agonizingly waited for results, which took a little longer than normal, due to it being Thanksgiving week. We had put out prayer requests to all of our family and friends and they passed on the requests. We had so many wonderful people praying for our little one. We felt so blessed that there were so many praying for our little one. We could truly feel the love of the Lord through each person who contacted us to let us know they were thinking of us and praying for our little one. The results finally came in and we were so happy!!! :) It showed NO INFECTION!!! :) They also said that there were no chromosomal abnormalities that they tested for in the Amnio. :)


We have continued to be followed by the Perinatologist because she is still "Highly concerned" that our baby is so tiny. We had many ultrasounds and with each one, she has continued to grow, but not a lot, so she wants to keep her eye on her. We are now doing a series of Biophysical Profile Ultrasounds. We had one last Monday and we were excited to see that she got an 8 out of 8 possible points! :) We are praying that she will receive the same score next Monday. On the 27th, we go back in to for a full weight assessment ultrasound to see if our little one is growing. She has been following the 17th and 18th percentile, so we pray that she will be above that next time. We are now at 30 Weeks and are so excited to welcome this newest blessing into our family soon! :)


We have decided to name her Katherine Grace, which means "pure grace." We feel that it is very fitting for her because the Lord has given us pure grace by blessing us with another little one. We will call her "Katie." :)