Audrey turns 4!!!!

It can't be our baby girl turned 4!!!! We must be old now LOL. We were luckly and the weather broke for just long enough to have her party out side (I'm not kidding it stopped raining for 4 hours enough time to set up have the party and then everyone headed indoors for presents when the clouds came back in)




The kids invented a side hoop game:







Kassidy poses for the camera

Present time:
of course all her friends wanted to help her open her gifts :)

She is one lucky and received a few toys but a whole slue of what she really wanted Fancy dresses:

Train Ride

We took a train ride with Grandma, just up the coast for 30 minutes, but the girls loved it!!





We had some lunch, frozen yogurt, watched the waves, and the the girls played on a playground for a few minutes.



We headed back to our train only to find out that it was running 30 minutes late!!! We entertained them and waited and waited and waited.

Finally we were on our way home :)

Audrey starts at a new Preschool

We found a new preschool for Audrey this year, A Child's center of Wonder and Discovery, and she loves it!!!

She is going great and loves her friends and teachers :)

Slacker LOL

Wow I can't believe it has been over 3 months since I blogged I am sitting in a quite house, the girls spent the night at grandma and grandpa last night, I am going to do some back blogging and get caught up (I hope).

Kassidy Starts Kindergarten

Kassidy started Kindergarten!!! Time flies by so fast. She did a great job and loves her new school and her new teacher.



sitting in the Queen chair with her new teacher Mrs. Papunhausen (Mrs. P)

she was dancing so well that Mrs. P called her up to help lead the class :)

Daddy and his big girl at her desk :)

Summer time

The family has been busy busy busy this summer. Here is a quick picture recap of our summer:

Kassidy Finished EAK with a class picnic:

Her with her Teacher Ms. Vaca

and mommy

her class

We spend The Forth of July at the Cabin moving wood, watching the parade and enjoying the sun.



The girls and I took a train ride with grandma to Solona Beach


We headed to the Zoo for Night Time Zoo:


Where we saw many many animals up close and personal :)
Love her face :)

Weigh in

I weighed in a day early this week due to having a day full of parties and date night on Saturday so I wanted to see where I was at.

187.5 another 2 lbs this week!!! whoo hoo!!

I felt that I didn't have a very good week in the way of points this week and was not expecting to lose anything this week so I was very surprised at the lose. But I am excited to get back at it this week, I'm hoping it will be easier with it being break these next 2 weeks.

Weight Loss Journey

For the last few years the scale and I have not been friends, however about 4 weeks ago I hit my highest weight and decided that I had had enough. right about the same time a friend of my mom's talked us into trying Figure 8 by Arbonne, who she is a consultant for, I have tried shake replacements before and have been starving within and hour, so I took her sample pack with some skepiticism and tried it. I was truely surprised I loved the Vanilla and I stayed full till lunch (The trick is in the fiber suppliment they suggest adding in). I liked the idea of the shake in the morning because I don't eat breakfast I never have time, but with the shake it was really easy to get breakfast in me. I was convinced along with my mom. So we signed up to give it a try. I decided to join weight watches online as well to help me track my regular food points throughout the day. As well as hitting the Gym or pool 3 -4 times a week. (which I had been doing for about a month)

My beginning weight on Sunday, March 7th was 197 (not a fun number for me at all). I drank the shake in the morning and tracked points all day as well.

I weighed in Sunday March 14th and had to weigh in twice I was at 191.5, I was shocked, I felt better and felt like I lost some weight but not 5.5 lbs.

This past Sunday March 21 I didn't expect any weight lose (I was bloated and on my cycle sorry if that is TMI) but the scale read 189, I was excited, 2.5 lbs down.

I'm feeling great and I'm looking forward to continuing to see those numbers drop. But I know it is going to get harder every week but I excited to be off to such a great start, it differently has me motivated!!!

Family Tree

I have been working on our family tree on line with myherritagefamilytree.com. Kassidy has been working on her's as well for school. I like her's better:

Back blogging

We have been so busy the past few months I have been slacking in blogging. I am going to be working on catching up, I also want to know how I can save my blog just in case something happens (so I can save it for my girls, since I have sooo not been doing photo albums).

All Grown up

Our big girl turned 5 this week, time goes by way to fast. this precious little girl:


Has turned into this amazing big girl:


Everyone has a great time being fancy at her Fancy Nancy Party and jumping on her bounce house. I still can't believe she is 5 already, she is growing up so fast but I am completely loving this stage with her.

Happy Birthday Big Girl!!! We love you!!!

Christmas and mixed emotions

I LOVE Christmas!! However for our household it comes with many mixed emotions, love and happyness of being together and the missing of Doug's mom and the reminder of Christmas of 2006, when Audrey was fighting for her life in the PICU of Children's hospital.


For those of you who have come into our life since then. Audrey was admitted into Children's on Dec 19th (her 2 month birthday) with a 103 fever and a white cell count of over 20,000. With in 48 hours she was went into respitority distress and was rushed into PICU where she was sedated and put on life support for 10 days. She was dianosed with RSV, which was very uncommon for a healthy full term baby to become as sick as she did, most extreme RSV cases like her's were results of preterm births, the drs called her the sickest RSV healthy baby they had seen. She fought with all she had and we got to bring her home on News Years Day 07.

I am forever greatful to have her home however more so around the holidays. Even if her fighting demenior drives me crazy sometimes LOL!!

This year has been really hard on Doug and I without Priscilla around, I know she is watching over us but I would much rather have her here with us. I hoping spending Christmas at the cabin this year with help lift and brighten our spirits this year.

Rain Rain,

Stay as long as you want we need it LOL. The girls had a blast playing in the rain over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend.

My First Thanksgiving

ok so it was not my first Thanksgiving, but it was my first Thanksgiving cooking the entire meal. Doug and I were in the Kitchen on and off through out the day, it was a long process but it turned out great!!! We had Turkey, Stuffing, Yams, Green bean casserole, and Rolls.

A Christmas for Noah

This is Noah, he is 5 and he has been fighting Nueroblastomia (the same cancer Madeleine's has). Unfortunately he is loosing his 2.5 year battle and the Doctors have told his parents that they only have a couple of weeks left with him. They are celebrating Christmas early next week and all he has asked for is Christmas cards. We are trying to get him as many Christmas cards as possible from all over the country. Please send him a card if you can here is his information:

Noah Biorkman

1141 Fountain View Circle

South Lyon MI 48178.

Kassidy is growing up

Kassidy is offically enrolled in "Big Kid School". I turned in her paperwork today for EAK (Early Admissions Kindergarten). EAK was formed for those students who just miss the cut off date for that years Kindergarten, Dec 15-March 15, who are ready to start a modified K schedule (only 3.5 hours) instead of staying in a Preschool setting. She will be starting in Jan.

I didn't think it would effect me to much since she is in preschool, however it is weird to think of her in a school setting.

Trick-or-treat

We were super busy this year for Halloween. Madi had her 2nd Birthday (her first one since chemo) The kids wore their costumes, the girls had a wonderful time playing with their friends and it was great to see Madi's extended family on happy terms not in a hospital.




Then it was home to rest and get ready for trick or treating: