Midwifery Picnic

So Sunday was the midwifery picnic for Kate and Stacia. It was fun! I meet a lot of awesome moms and was introduced as a new doula in the area. Stacia and Kate encouraged me to apply for the MMA scholarship to go to the MANA conference in Nashville in October. They are offering neonatal resuscitation at the pre-conference so I'll take it there or at The Farm - which is AWESOME! So I applied, getting my books for the neonatal resuscitation and just waiting to hear back from MMA.

Cleaning House and other random-ness.

So yesterday I started cleaning the house and I mean really cleaning the house. I have about 5 trash bags in from of various room, a large pile of Salvation Army stuff and moving furniture around to make more space. The end goal: to love my house again. We can't move yet, though Jesse says we'll know by the end of year if we're going to buy a new house, or if he's offered any positions out of state.

It's one week until I leave for Chicago. I'm super excited and getting my stuff packed up. I just have a couple things to pick up. I walked 8.25 miles with Jackie last Saturday and it hurt, but then I walked some more Sunday and Monday and started feeling much better. I didn't get to walk Tuesday and Wednesday though because I haven't been feeling well. Tonight I'll start walking again with the goal of walking 16 miles on Saturday.

Dylan has his dentist appointment on Monday and his tooth looks fine, just to keep an eye on it for any changes.

Friday we had some excitement!

Dylan was suppose to be taking a nap, instead he played in his room. So a couple hours later of playing and not sleeping I had Ashlyn open his door for him. He comes out and has blood on his nose and lip. I finally have to pin him down to see what's bleeding. It looked like a gash in his upper lip and his tooth definitely didn't look good, blood and slightly discolored. I called Jesse home and called my mom so I could get him to the urgent care asap. He has a torn frenulum and the doctor said his tooth looked "iffy". So tomorrow I need to call our dentist to get him in to be seen.

Chicago here I come!

Friday I made it to my fundraising goal!!! And a correction: 8.25 miles around Kensington - not 18! LOL

This week...

Wowzers!! It's been a rough one. A friend was diagnosed with breast cancer, the kids have no behaved and are definitely ready for school to start. I'm getting my stuff ready for the 3 Day. My flight is booked and I have almost all my gear. Tomorrow Jackie and I are walking 18 miles at Kensington. I started school shopping, see I'm ready for them to go back. Monique and I are getting details sorted for the 10-11 PTO year. And I registered for Life Science and Ethics.

Eclipse

It was pretty good and I can't wait to see what they do with Breaking Dawn. Also saw the trailers to Narnia and Harry Potter. Both look fantastic!

I need some help!

www.the3day.org/togo/kpmurray If you're able to donate, please do. I still need 900+ in order to walk! Thanks!!

My Riley is 7 Months old.

Where is the time going? You wouldn't know he's 7 months though. He wears a size 1 diaper, 0-6 month clothes, still in his infant car seat, not crawling yet - but soon I think. He started sitting up by himself on Kailey's birthday. He loves sweet potatoes and finally likes to eat solids! It's time to start thinking 1st birthday idea's. *blech*

We're Home - AGAIN!

Saturday we headed up to Mackinaw for our 4th of July camping...it was HOT! Sunday we went to the Soo Locks but only saw one freighter roll through. While we were there Mikey called me to see what we were doing and he decided to come up for the night. He got there around 2:00 and he surprised the kids. He came over the campground to go swimming and then we headed to Mackinaw City's fire works. The bugs were bad! I got bit by a horse fly on my ankle and it's still swollen four days later.

Monday we all went to the Mackinac Island and we took a carriage ride around the island. That was pretty cool since that's something I've never done. Been to the island many, many times and never did that. It was raining and Jesse didn't know what else to do, so we went on the carriage. Saw many parts of the island I'd never seen before. Once back at the campground we watched movies and vegged out.

Tuesday we headed north to Munising to see the Pictured Rocks . I had been there before but Jesse hadn't. So it rained and was hot. The rocks are still really cool and we even dipped our feet in Lake Superior. It was cold! Wowzers, how did I used to spend the day in that lake? It was freezing!!

Wednesday Jesse and the kids went to the park and the pool and got sunburned. Then we walked around Mackinaw City and I got my fudge. Yummy!! Once back at the campground, Jesse checked the weather and storms were rolling in with lots of rain forecasted for Thursday. We decided to pack it up (9:00pm) and head home so we didn't have to breakdown camp in the rain and get home and have to pop everything up to dry. So we got home at 2am this morning. Now we sitting the couch in the air conditioning.