Wedding Anniversary

10 years........Yes, I said 10 years............Today is our wedding anniversary. This is a photo from our reception. I walked down the same aisle as my mother only 31 years later. The ceremony was delayed about 20 minutes because I lost Phil's ring. My sister, God made her invisible that day, so she could break every speed law possible to get to our grandmother's house, find the ring and get back to the church.

During the ceremony, I was so nervous that my knees were shaking so bad when we sat down my whole dress was shaking and Phil couldn't stop laughing. We started a fire in the church with the unity candle display. After the ceremony, the wedding party all piled in the limo like prom night and laughed all the way to the park for pictures.

I remember being so excited to see all of our family and friends at the reception. We danced, drank and crammed cake in each others faces. The hall for the reception was brand new, we were the first wedding to use it. The floor was very slippery by the end of the night I had wiped out twice. I remember we took a few ballroom dance lessons so we could dance the whole floor.

Probably the funniest part was the day we picked up the rental car to drive to Toledo the next morning. The rental company could not find our reservation until we told them to look under my maiden name as we were getting married. The nice man at the counter upgraded us to a white Cadillac at no additional charge. So here we are early in the morning not showered yet Phil in his wife beater, glasses (didn't have his contacts in yet), ND hat driving down the highway in a pristine white Cadillac. He looked like he stole it. I laughed all the way.

As we left the reception, neither Phil nor myself could wear our shoes and we crammed Jon and Dixie (Phil's brother and sister in law), Justine and Ed (my best friend and her Hubby), Jen and Angie(my sister and her roommate), Phil and I and the designated driver. I have never seen so much formalwear in one tiny place before. We laughed all the way to the hotel and even sat outside and talked before we all went to our rooms.

It was defiantly a day I will never forget. Our 10 year journey has been amazing. I remember days I was walking on clouds (graduated from college, the day we found out Kaitlynn was coming, the day we found out #2 was a boy (Jackson), the day Madelynn was born just to name a few). I also remember some of our darkest days (Jack being sick a lot that resulted in 3 surgeries, losing very special friends and family, Madelynn's heart surgery days I don't care to remember but will never forget.

We have made it through just about everything and are still here. Happy Anniversary Pilbert!!!

XOXOXOXOXO

TTFN

Uncle Ted

HAPPY BIRTHDAY UNCLE TED!!!!!!!

WE LOVE YOU!!!!!

XOXOXOXO

Chelsea, Philip, Kaitlynn, Jackson and Madelynn

The cardiologist.............

Maddie's 1st birthday included a visit to the cardiologist to check her heart. He said she looked great!! She weighed 18lbs and was 28 inches long. The Dr. said the pulses in her legs and ankles were great. She had no murmurs in her heart. They did an echo of her heart and said the repaired area had no scar tissue and looked great.



This will be the biggest area of concern is this scar tissue area. If this area ever were to shrink or start to misshape they would have to do a procedure to balloon it back open. If that did not work then another surgery would be required. This of course is a worst case scenario. We were also told she no longer needed to take the aspirin a day. We were told originally that it would be forever but the cardiologist today said that it was not necessary and she could stop it. In cases like Maddie's 6-8 months of the aspirin is all that is required.



The only medicine she is still on is the breathing treatment once a day. We do not see the pulmunologist until October and he will make a decision then as to the breathing treatments. Until then we are grateful for all of the exciting news at thought we would pass it on.

TTFN

Happy Birthday Madelynn.....

So many pictures no song long enough................... As I thought about what I wanted to do for Madelynn's Birthday a little photo video collage seem to be the answer. The one thing I have is plenty of photos of Madelynn's first year of life. I ended up with a ridiculous amount of pictures. It was so hard to choose just enough for a single song.

Once I narrowed down the photos then I had to find a song. The song chosen was appropriate for so many reasons. As you watch Madelynn's first year of life unfold, please remember there are never enough words to say Thank You. We had so much help from our parents, our friends, to the teachers at the day care, to those of you that just prayed. So many of you just opened your hearts no questions asked even for the littlest favors.

Again, we say THANK YOU for all the love and support. Enjoy my creation.


TTFN

Madelynn's First Year

Something to make my dad proud.......LOL

There are no words for these photos but they just make me laugh. When I went to go get Maddie out of her bed this morning this is what I found. So I thought I would share. Enjoy the giggles. I did.

TTFN

you are doing what?!?!?!?!?!

As if my life weren't busy enough I decided to work on some changes in my home and see how inexpensively I can do it. Originally we had I bonus room that had a guest sleeping area, office area and all of my craft stuff. We also had a room for Jack and a room Katie and Maddie shared. Katie and Maddie shared the smallest room in the house. Well not anymore.

The past three days (starting Thursday) have been very busy. I took all of Jack's belongings and moved them to part of the bonus room. A few weeks ago I moved my work station out of the bonus room and in to the living room. Once Jack's room was empty, I patched all the holes from the stuff hanging on the walls, sanded, painted, hung new wall border, changed the ceiling fan, and moved all of the items I had for the guest room into Jack's old room.

Except for swapping the ceiling fan, moving some of the furniture and the extra hands it requires to hang wall border I did all of this myself. Tomorrow I will move all of Katie and Maddie's belongings out of their room and start prepping Katie and Maddie's old room to be Jack's. So far I have only spent $15.52 on this project. I will need to buy a few items but I am trying to do all of this for less that $250.00.

I know I will need to buy one can of paint, a few curtains and blind for one of the windows. There will also be a few painting accessories. Over all it will mostly be my time and energy that will be spent. The kids are so excited to get new rooms. Back in January or February I was out shopping and found a $55.00 bed in a bag marked down to $20.00. It is so cool. It has animals, lion, tigers, bears, etc in earthy blues, browns and greens. I was going to save it for Jack for Christmas.

However, Katie and Jack are so excited about getting new rooms I figured I would paint his room with some existing paint we already have that matches the comforter. I will be sure to post pictures when my changes are complete.

We are also getting ready for Maddie's first birthday party, Katie starts kindergarten in about 4 weeks and poor Jack, he is just waiting for Mommy to finish his new room. He is most excited about these changes because his room will now face the front of the house and he can see when Daddy gets home.

It has been along day. I still need to work on a project for Maddie's birthday.

TTFN