So Easter is basically here, I don't know how that snuck up on us so fast! We've had a busy month, St. Patrick's Day fun (we didn't really do anything for St. Paddy's, but I did make some yummy desserts), we're building an office, we decided to go for a little getaway to Door County, my grandma just had knee replacement surgery, I'm planning a psuedo birthday party/Gears of War ...
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DIY Famous Couples Print
If you're still looking for a last minute gift for your special someone; this is an awesome, quick, and easy DIY project. I made this a couple years ago and we still have it proudly hanging in our dining room. It's a fun conversation starter too, people are always trying to figure out where the famous couples are from All you'll need is: Cardstock Printer Pretty ...
Savory Brunch Bake
My family has started having brunches a lot the last few years, which means I have to do the majority of cooking since everyone loves this dish! They also love my cinnamon rolls, but I’ll get to those some other day. I can’t even pick a favorite part of this breakfast bake, there are just too many great things about it like; the flaky crescent crust, the garlic and rosemary ...
Our 2012
2012 was a big year for my little family, but I’m so glad it’s over!! We’ve had lots of ups and downs along the way. Here’s a breakdown of our 2012. January: We finally let everyone know that we were having a baby. It turns out my mom had told everyone already, but it was nice not to have to hide being pregnant anymore! February: On Valentine’s day we had our big ...
Snowday!
It finally snowed this past weekend. As much as I hate the snow, I don't mind it being here. It's helping it feel a little more like Christmas! She seemed pretty indifferent at first. Yep, she seems super impressed here... She looks a little more interested here. I didn't catch her smile on camera..big surprise there! She hates cameras. Yeah, ...
Our Early Christmas Miracle
If you’re a reader of my blog, you know my daughter was born (full-term) with a long list of health problems. One of those health problems is a very rare lung disease called NEHI (Neuro Endocrine Hyperplasia of Infancy). She was diagnosed at two weeks after she wasn’t recovering from her pneumonia and they ended up sending us home with her on oxygen 24/7. We were ...
…and best friends were made.
Aliceana and Buddy haven't had the best relationship so far. Buddy is annoyed by the crying, Aliceana is annoyed by the barking. Lately Aliceana has become pretty obsessed with Buddy. She loves watching him, if he scratches his ear or wags his tail she goes nuts. Buddy occasionally will sniff her, but normally he just walks away and pretends like she doesn't exist and that ...
Star Wars and Owls, oh my! (nursery decor)
The theme we came up with for our little girls nursery is a combination of Star Wars and owls. Before we were even thinking about trying for a little one we knew we wanted a Star Wars nursery. It started when I stumbled upon some adorable Star Wars prints on Etsy when I was planning our wedding. Once we found out we were having a little girl my husband suggested we ...
Dealing with gawkers (having a special needs child)
When you have a special needs child, you'll always get stared at and rude comments, and it's not always the easiest thing to deal with. After finally getting Aliceana home (on oxygen) we went on our first outing as a family the next morning to the local Farmer’s Market. We had only gotten to the first couple booths before a little boy started asking his mom about the oxygen and ...
Aliceana’s Journey Home: NICU Week 2
Days 7 and 8 were pretty uneventful, but still terribly hard to get through. The doctors’ plans for both days were to do nothing and wait. She was done with her course of antibiotics at least. On day 8 her nose cannula fell out of her nose and she desaturated again, they considered this her test off of oxygen and decided they would try again on Wednesday (3 ...
Aliceana’s Journey Home: NICU Week 1
It was pretty late Saturday night by the time we got to Meriter Hospital in Madison. When we pulled up and I got out of the car and went to the front desk the woman at the desk started telling me the directions to get to the triage. That’s how terribly I was walking at that point. We got to the NICU, which was so far away from the parking garage. Not very fun for me to ...
Trip to the orchard
Yesterday we went on our first family trip to our local orchard, called The Little Farmer. It's a great place to take kids as they have so many fun things for them to do. Aliceana is too little to truly enjoy it though. We still took the opportunity for a cute photo op! When we got there I had fun looking at all the cute animals, the goats thought my phone was ...
Hoorah, for our last home nurse visit!
Little Miss Aliceana last week. I haven’t posted about Aliceana’s whole story about being in the NICU yet, because it’s tough and when I wrote out what happened I think it was all too fresh and I was still feeling quite bitter about the whole situation, so I have quite a bit of editing to do before I want the world to hear that part of our ...