Some Updated Info

First of all The Hubs no longer works in Montgomery!  Can I get an Amen?!?!  The Hubs was having to drive a over a 100 miles each way and was having to work 24hrs on, 24hrs off.  That totals over 700 miles a week!!! Be grateful you didn't have to buy that gas!  In case you were curious that's $10,000 a year we were spending in gas for him alone!!!  Now he is working about 5 mins from our house and his schedule will be 24hrs on, 48hrs off!  We are all so excited to have him home more!  TB said the other day she never wanted him to go back to work :)  Someone has gotten a little spoiled by all this attention. 

We have also made a new purchase recently!  We bought a MacBook Pro!  The Hubs has been wanting one for as long as I can remember and we finally bit the bullet and bought one!  He loves it, I love it and TB loves it!  So it;s a win in the Payne house!  A funny side story: I was texting a girl at work while we were at Best Buy purchasing MB and told her The Hubs reasoning was he needed it for work!  Her replay was priceless; Wow, Apple has now made their laptops fight fires!  That's freakin awesome!  I burst into laughter and had to share with The Hubs who did not think it was so funny.  He really wants to start his own side business and the computer will help with that job, not directly though.  Oh, and my most favorite program is iPhoto!  We had a horrendous time with our wedding pictures (another post, another day!!!) and I have been able to fix most photos with iPhoto.  That really makes me happy but also really pisses me off because it shows how our HORRIBLE photographer didn't try anything to help! 

TB will be starting a new preschool :/  I am very sad that she will be leaving her current preschool but also very excited!  The school is currently at is a private school with grades K2-12.  Therefore, you have to be 2 before you can start and seeing as The Hubs wants babies we wanted TB to have time to adjust to her new school before a new sibling.  I went to visit the new preschool last week and I was amazed!!!  It was the cleanest, nicest preschool ever!!!  They have real classrooms with a computer and tv in every room.  They also have a potty and door to the playground in every room.  This preschool is located downtown so it is under major lock-down which I LOVE!!!  Don't get me wrong, our "downtown" is not like most.  We live in a very small town but still I love knowing how protected they are with their facility and kids!  I took TB to meet her teachers and see her room yesterday and she LOVED it.  She is so excited and I am so grateful.  I was really dreading the move thinking she would hate it but she really seems happy about it. 

Picture Overload...

So, what has kept me so darn busy you ask?

 We went to the beach and ate at Poppa Rocco's!

 TB acted a mess and danced the night away!

 Me and Mr Wonderful! Aka, The Love of My Life!!!

 We ate at Cobalt, Yummo!

 We took family pics on the beach!

 We celebrated the Fourth of July by going to Bham!

 LOVE my baby girl!

 T and I went to Atlanta to have an "us" weekend! This is ONE of T's prizes :) More to come on that...

 The view from our room...

Another view...

We are all still alive...Promise

Yes, it has been a while since we blogged but we are alive!  It has been crazy busy here and we just bought a new lap top so I promise to be updating more!

Our Weekend in Pictures

Our weekend was slammed packed full of super fun things and I decided to take a few mins to share...

We played with "some" of our baby dolls...
from L to R Carrington Leigh, Trae, Betsy Sadie, Mary Spencer and Anna Kathryn

Nap time for babies...

They look just like their Mommy...

Shhh...

We watched T work in the yard...

We played with a few cars...

And then just left them...

I swapped her clothes out in her closet!  Out with Fall/Winter and in with Spring/Summer. Yay :)

We also played some domino's!

Whoo-hoo!

Then we jumped into our suits and on the trampoline!  The sprinkler was going full force!

I promise she was bot jumping off!

We threw the Frisbee for Marley Jane!

Jump...

Yay for MJ!

We pitched a fit... Or two or three when it was time to clean up for dinner.

We built a fire...

We had some family/friends over to enjoy the fire...

Mimi got to watch TB ride her bike...

...oh and Pop too!

"Here I come to run you over..."

We played dress-up...

My beautiful baby girl...

So much fun!

We taught the babies at "school"...

The have an amazing teacher!

Those are a "few" picture from this weekend and we are all worn out.  The fun thing about the Spring and Summer is it only gets more jam packed from here on out!!!

Horrible Blogger...

You know it is sad when can not even remember the last time you blogged or what you blogged about.  Well, I am there.  I really thought I would be able to make time to blog but I am telling you I have z-e-r-o time and it seems like every day I watch more and more of our day fly by!  So until I actually have time to fill you I will let you know we are all alive and well :) 

We Interrupt This Series to Bring You Up to Speed

I am still working on the "Story behind our House" posts but I thought I would also catch you all up to date on what has been going on with the Payne's. 

I have mentioned before that I was hospitalized in September.  Well during that lovely stay at DCH my doctors diagnosed me with either diverticulitis or with Crohn's Disease.  Well neither was good news but I was trying my best to eat healthier and follow my extremely strict diet :)  I was to have a colonoscopy in February 2011 and I knew everything would be fine until then.  Or so I thought...  Last Saturday morning about 2am I started hurting!  It feels like someone is bursting through some organ (which I now know is my colon) on my lower left side of my body, kind of behind my pelvis.  I woke the hubs up and he insisted we go to the dr.  We waited until 7:30 to get up and went straight to the er.  I had a CT done which normally can show whether or not I have an abscess and if so where it is at well go figure no abscess!  The er dr wanted to admit me again and start me on antibiotics and call my gastro.  Long story sort, gastro came in and said we would do antibiotics for 48 hrs and then colonoscopy on Monday morning!  Whoo - Freakin - Hoo!!! (Major sarcasm there!)

I was in tons of pain and honestly most of the pains meds they give do not even touch the pain!  I have become a pro at what meds I can tolerate and what works best and for some unknown reason the foreign dr that was covering for my general dr decided to switch my meds up on me!  She gave me a pain med that was "10 times more potent than morphine" and after trying two doses and me explaining I did not like the way it made me feel she decided to change it to actually morphine.  Hello Foreign Lady Dr. I have never seen before in my life, but you need to spend more than two seconds in a room with me and listen to the words I am saying before you just start throwing out the pain meds you think would be best for my condition!!!  (Side note: I do not have a problem with foreigners and my gastro is a foreign dr who I LOVE and ADORE!  But this dr might have been 25 and she was rude as all get out!)  Needless to say the morphine did not work either and the nurse had to call my general doctor to change the meds once again!  Demerol and Phenergan, O how I love thee!!! 

Then Sunday afternoon I was to start the prep for the colonoscopy on Monday!  Who, in their right mind created that drink?  You know the one I am talking about... Go Lytely!  Seriously peeps we are in the year 2011 and you mean to tell me there is no other way to fully rid my colon of all it's crap?!?!?!!!  No pun intended, hehe!  It was awful!  So my amazing, sweet, incredible hubs was sitting right along and feeding me jello after I took a sip of the infamous drink!  LOVE him!!!!  (Side note: This is about to get gruesome and way to much info so this is your warning!)  After about two or three cups the drink started to do its job and where do you think my sweet hubs went for this part of the night?!?!?  In the bathroom with me or sitting in the chair right outside coaching me on!  Your probably thinking no big deal but I was not going number "2" like normal it was like a bomb had been set off inside my colon and we were living through it!  I mean it had the same noise and the same outcome, I promise!  Never once did T say gross, yuck, you look like crap or anything!  I drank 1/4 of a gallon and I started puking!  At that point I asked for more phenergan knowing I would not be able to drink the rest but what good does it do to drink it if I am just going to throw it up?  Trust me I was pretty cleaned out!

Fast forwarding, I had the colonoscopy and whatever meds they gave me I can not remember ANYTHING from the time the nurse said "Your bp is dropping so I am going to give you some meds to bring it up." until about lunchtime on Tuesday!  They were amazing!!!  (I just realized I might sound like a junkie!)  Dr S, my gastro, supposedly came in and told us he removed about 47+ biopsies of my colon (to test for Crohn's) and I had NO diverticulitis!  Can I get a HALLELUJAH!!!!!!!!!  He said I could go back to a regular diet and eat whatever my little heart desires!  Whoop-whoop!  But, I will in extremely baby steps!  I am still too scared!  Dr S said the abscess from September was probably on the outside of the colon instead the inside (in other words-not his problem since he is a gastro!). 

His nurse called and said all the biopsies also came back NEGETIVE for Crohn's!!!  HALLELUJAH!!!!!!!!!!!  I am still in pain (which has not really left since September) but I am trying to take it easy =) and let T wait on my every whim!  Hahahaha, not!  I went back to work and life full force Wednesday and have yet to stop!  Whew, hope I don't over do it!  But I am super duper excited about a dear friend's baby shower at our house tomorrow and then dinner with another friend Monday! 

Whirl Wind Weekend

This weekend was crazy!  We live in the South and it never snows here!  We actually that is a lie.  It has snowed every year TB has been here :)  However, either it does not snow long enough or hard enough to stick or it is too cold and it turns into ice!  The weather man said mid-week last week it would snow this weekend but no one believed him!  Well it snowed and iced here enough to close everything down on Monday, delay most things until noon Tuesday and close all schools down until Wednesday :)  T and I were a little excited at first because we thought it would be so much fun to get to stay home and play in the snow with the fam!  Well...  Then the mean Mommy I am decided if it really did snow I was going to have to put limits to TB being in the frigid weather seeing as she has been sick going on three weeks!  So T and TB were not happy campers that I wasn't going to let TB play ALL DAY in the snow!  Then when we woke up Monday there was snow...all 1/18th of an inch only along our fence line and trampoline!  Whew...  I didn't even have to argue with either of them!  :)  We cuddled by the fire and watched movies and then went to our neighbors house to watch the National Championship game...Boo!  It was a nice long weekend until I got to work this morning!  Then I immediately regretted praying for all the snow and ice to keep home on Monday because I am so far behind and without a scanner :( 

Anywho, I am working on a series of posts about the Payne's so keep an eye out for them!