Wall E

THE KIDS ARE HOME!!!!

The kids came home a couple days early, my brother Brad was in town, Mt. Vernon that is, and brought them home for me. Saving me gas money and 10 hours on the road!! Thank you Brad, you Rock!

The kids slept in, Skylar slept til noon, then we went to go see Wall E and had dinner. It was was back to the same ole same old but it was wonderful!! I really missed them. Apparently mom does too because they hadn't been gone but a couple hours from her destroyed house and she was calling me all sad and lonely. Don't worry mom, we'll be back in a couple weeks and I do mean We'll, as in all of use, all 14!! You won't be lonely that weekend.

Until next month!!

Anniversary weekend

It was a long and exciting weekend. The Darley's planned a wonderful weekend and every minute we were doing something. From dinner at the Country Club to River tours and Dinner Cruises. It was fantastic. I had been to Chicago before, in 1994 for a wedding, but this trip was truly extraordinary.

I still miss my kids but I'm now only 6 days away from going to get them so I'm doing better. I talk to them every day, their having fun. Yesterday they went down the way to the pond to go fishing. Chase came home earlier very well not happy. Skylar caught 6 fish and papa caught 2, needless to say Chase didn't catch any, hench why he was not happy.

Anywho...more Chicago pics on myspace if you're interested. There's great fireworks shots.

Bored!!

Monday morning the kids and I got up with the car all packed up and hit the road. I meet mom and dad in Clarksville, TN to give them the kids for a couple of weeks. We got there around noon time and met them at Cracker Barrel for lunch. It was so cute, Chase sat in the middle of three chairs at the table and made sure that Nana sat on one side and Papa sat on the other of him. And Skylar sat in Papa lap and wouldn't let him finish eating, poor papa.
After lunch we went over to the fabric outlet and I found the most perfect fabric for a baby sling for the newest edition to the Rakestraw family!! It's chocolate and pink stripes, absolutely perfect, I'm hoping to be able to do the nursery in the pink, chocolate and cream stripes and circles, kinda retro but I love it.

My kids don't even miss me, I call every day and their having a blast. Nana and Papa let them do whatever they want to and I get to sit in the house all quite and alone. It's kind of depressing. We're leaving for Chicago Friday morning and returning Sunday for an Anniversary celebration thing for Travis' work, and we've been married for 12 years on Sunday. 12 years!! with the same man. I'm only 32, lordy!
Well, I'm gonna go to bed now. I have nothing to do, no baths, no pj's NOTHING. You would think I would be enjoying all of this seeing as how I haven't been with out my kids for longer than a couple days. But after 10 years of having them here, it's hard not having them here. And with me not working anymore, I have a hard time even getting out of bed, I mean really..why?

Good News

We had our appointment today with the perinatal specialist to do another sonogram and look at what my OB/GYN says is an irregular heartbeat or fetal arrhythmia.
She checks out fine and the doc said 9 out of 10 babies that are diagnosed with fetal arrhythmia in the first or second trimester usually corrects itself. They measured her and with their measurements I am only 20 weeks today so they want to keep the October 30th due date. No biggie, what's 4 days any way after 9 months. He, the doctor, says she looks great, no downs, no cleft lips and weights about 14 ounces and approximately 10 1/2 inches long! He does want to see me again in four weeks but I'm not surprised, they want my co-pay, hehe.
We got some more really good pics of her, no 3D ones though. I'll try and get them from Travis so I can scan them and post. There's a great on of her little footsie.
I'll keep you posted when more arises. My next appointment at my OB is July 1st, I believe I'll be doing the glucose test, yummy! And my next Perinatal appointment is Juy 9th.

The results are in

And we're having a GIRL!!!!!

Renaissance Festival

Saturday we drug the kids to the Georgia Renaissance Festival knowing they would have a great time. Guess what...they did and can't wait to go back next year. Last week I saw a commercial for it stating that this was the last weekend until next year. I called Travis and told him we needed to take the kids. Friday night when we told the kids we were going they moaned and groaned and through temper tantrums because they wanted to go to a neighbors and go swimming. Boohoo....

They LOVED it. They didn't want to leave. Sword swallowing, Jousting, glass blowing, pirates you name it and it was there. Skylar got her hair braided and they both got their face painted. We were there for 6 hours and still had to make them leave. I couldn't handle anymore walking, my feet were so tired!! All we've heard for the past 24 hours is "Can we go back next year?"