Tatum and Braia

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Project 365: Week # 1-4 Part 2 Started

I can't believe that I have "journal-d" for a good YEAR!!  I am so proud of myself :-)

YEAR TWO

Week #1

January 10-16

Sunday, Jan. 10, 2010
We went to church at 9am. It has been so nice having church early again!!
We had dessert with my parents.
The kids went to bed rather early.

Monday, Jan. 11, 2010
Zeke and Tatum had school today.
Adleigh had her speech therapy this morning as well. She did amazing; the therapist is rather impressed by her growth every week.
My friend, Becky, came over for a play date with her 3 kids.
I met with the PTO staff to go over the fireside party I am planning. Did I mention that I like to punish myself!! Anyways, we decided on going with a disco theme…so…FIRESIDE DISCO BLAST…I am actually way excited and it has been a little less stressful then I thought it would be planning it for the whole school.

Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2010
The 3 older kids went to school today. It has been such a treat spending some one-on-one time with Adleigh, I think she really needs to extra attention. We are able to practice more of her speech this way.
I had a doctor’s appointment to check on the possibility of Downs. Luckily, everything had fixed itself and I am been “released” from the high-risk doctor…FINALLY!! I did get some great 3D pictures of his face…I am so excited to meet him, now if we could just come up with a name!

Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010
Zeke and Tatum went to school this morning.
Adleigh got her 2nd H1N1 shot today, poor baby!
I met Deb and her girls for lunch today!

Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010
All the kids had school today. The girls had “Cowboy” day. They dressed up as cowboys and ate cowboy type food. It is a cute little theme the preschool does every year.

Friday, Jan. 15, 2010
Zeke had school today.
Megan came over this morning with her younger boys. I have such a great time talking with her, she is a great friend. PLUS, I get to hold her DARLING baby boy!!

Saturday, Jan. 16, 2010
Braia had her friend birthday party today! She had a bunch of her friends come. We ate pizza and played some games. I even got a piñata to hit outside on; the kids seemed to have a wonderful time. Most of them had never hit a piñata! We had some cake and ice cream and opened presents. This was her first birthday party and she LOVED all the attention on her!! 

Week #2

January 17-23

Sunday, Jan. 17, 2010
We had church in the morning.
We went straight to the Cannon’s after church for lunch, it was so yummy, I ate WAY to much!
Austin came for dinner, I made burritos.
I started, learned from Deb, on how to knit (for real) a hat!!


Monday, Jan. 18, 2010
The kid did not have school today.
Adleigh had her speech therapy this morning, the kids got to play outside while we worked with Addie. They really enjoyed playing outside without snow!
I picked up my books for school.
I had interviews in Brighton this afternoon.

Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010
All 3 older kids had school today, yah!
It was a pretty slow day; I started my school classes, English and Humanities.

Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010
Zeke and Tatum had school this morning.
I hit 24 weeks today, a viable pregnancy now, exciting! Still have NO idea what to name this little guy!
Jed passed the Oral Boards in Brighton and had his background check and lie detector test this afternoon; we won’t know the results for 7-10 days, crossing our fingers for good news!

Thursday, Jan. 21, 2010
The 3 oldest went to school today and I hung around with Adleigh.
Deb came over for lunch today with her youngest kids. We practiced knitting our hats.
Zeke started Chess Club after school, it basically just playing the board game with other students. He has never played before and I thought it would be fun for him to learn, even thought I have no idea how to play.
The girls had dance class this afternoon.
Jed worked at the Boulder Hospital from 7am-7pm, a really long day, his first day training!

Friday, Jan. 22, 2010
Zeke had school today.
Jed worked this evening at 5pm.

Saturday, Jan. 23, 2010
Jed had the Castle Rock Test today; he did really well in the written and physical test. Now we just have to wait to be contacted for the Oral Boards, I hate this waiting.
We watched the Cannon kids tonight so that their parents could go out. It was a lot of fun; our kids get along so well together. The boys disappear into Zeke’s room and the girls play nicely downstairs. Easy!

Week #3

January 24-30

Sunday, Jan. 24, 2010
Zeke gave a talk in church today during Primary.
Jed had to training at the hospital; he started worked at 7pm till 7am!
Monday, Jan. 25, 2010
Zeke and Tatum had school today.
Adleigh had her speech therapy in the morning.
Zeke had to get his H1N1 shot today.
Tatum had a doctor’s appointment today and she got 6 shots, she was so brave, I just had to keep reminding her that she can NOW go to kindergarten!!
Jed worked again tonight at 7pm till 7am

Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2010
The 3 older kids went to school today.
Jed worked at 4pm today. He is so tired from the 2 graveyard shifts.

Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2010
Zeke and Tatum had school today.
We met for our first playground in the mornings at the park, which was CLOSED. So we headed over to the church building and played in the gym! Only a few of us came but because we weren’t able to call everyone to tell them the park was closed, we think more could have showed up.
We started our taxes today, very important when we have been unemployed for 6 months 

Thursday, Jan. 28, 2010
I broke down and got Zeke a cell phone. I have been worried about leaving him after school and having no way of contacting him to make sure he makes it to his activities. It has been such a a relief having the extra phone!
The 3 older kids had school today!
I met my friend Wendy and her son at the Broomfield Rec Center so that our little ones could play and we could talk.
I had a doctor’s appointment today. Everything is going great. Still gaining to much weight but that always happens, sucks!
Zeke had Chess Club this afternoon.
The girls had dance practice; we got to see their costumes they will be wearing this June for their performance! So cute!!

Friday, Jan. 29, 2010
Zeke had school today.
Jed worked from 7am-7pm.

Saturday, Jan. 30, 2010
I bought myself a speed light for my camera, still trying to figure out exactly how to use it to get the pictures that I want!
Went to Costco for the first time in a long time, so much fun, how sad is that!
Jed worked at 5pm tonight.

Week #4

January 31 – February 6

Sunday, Jan. 31, 2010
We had church today.
Jed had to work today at 1-6pm.
Parents came over for dessert.


Monday, Feb. 1, 2010
Zeke and Tatum went to school.
I met my VT friends for dinner at Panera Bread! A new family has moved into our ward and so we invited her to join us, she is so nice!
Jed worked from 7am-7pm. I think I have gotten use to Jed being home so much that I have really had to struggle with him being gone all the time again. I can’t wait till he actually gets a “real” job and will be able to be home more.

Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010
The 3 older kids had school today.
I hung around the house with my buddy, Addie!
Jed worked again tonight.

Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010
Zeke and Tatum went to school.
I met playground at 9:30am, we had a GREAT turn out. So glad that everyone wants to come 
Jed worked again tonight.

Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010
TATUM IS FIVE!!
The 3 older kids went to school today.
The girls got to go over to the Cannon’s after school for lunch and play. It was great because I was able to get our house ready for Tatum’s party.
I can’t believe that Tatum is 5, the years have gone by so fast and she is growing into such a beautiful girl.
Zeke had Chess Club today.
The girls had dance class.
The whole family met at our house for dinner, we just ordered pizza. We then opened presents. She got an American Girl (generic) doll and my mom bought her the horse that goes with it. She wanted one SO bad. After presents we all met at Chuck E Cheese for games and fun. Adleigh LOVED it, she had never been there before. We ran into my friend Megan, who was there for a birthday party. Tatum disappeared and we had to drag her over to cut the cake and sing to her! I hope our girl realizes how special she is and hope much we love her!!

Friday, Feb. 5, 2010
Zeke had school today. His class earned a pizza party for good behavior, he was excited for that.
I met at Deb’s house in the morning to hang out. We ended up staying for lunch, thanks Deb!
My niece, Abree, had a karate performance tonight, so the whole family went to support her. I ended up signing up Tatum and Zeke for trail classes…I always get suckered in.
Zeke had his Art Show at school this evening; Jed took him because the girls were so tired.
Jed had to work a late night.
Saturday, Feb. 6, 2010
It was the Stake Relief Society meeting. It was a very good talk and performance. It talked a lot about patience, which I have none of, and made me realize that with this whole job situation that it will happen when it is suppose to be and he’ll get the job that is meant for him. I am just so inpatient and want to have it NOW, but it is never on MY time table.
Jed worked, again, late tonight.

Project 365: Week # 46-52

Week #46

November 22-28

Sunday, Nov. 22, 2009
We went to church at 11am.
We had dessert with my family and then watched old Christmas home movies.
Monday, Nov. 23, 2009
Jed had to go to the Academy today. The kids are out of school this week.
My mom and I went walking this late afternoon around the neighborhoods, I think she is destined to make sure that I don’t gain to much weight this pregnancy, good luck with that, I am such a loss cause.
I went VT dinner tonight with Alicia and Deb. So much fun!!

Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009
Jed had school today.
Zeke went to Art Club at his school. He had such a good time, they did some pencil drawings of dragons.

Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2009
Jed had school today but as soon as he got home we headed to Utah for our Thanksgiving vacation.
We left at 6pm and it seemed like such a quick trip. We were so excited to spend some time with Jed’s family and my sister!

Thursday, Nov. 26, 2009
Thanksgiving Day!
We went to the Elder’s Thanksgiving, which they set-up at the church because there are like 100s of family members. It was fu to meet some people that I have never met in Jed’s family. The kids had a wonderful time, they met many new friends!
We spent most of the day hanging out with family.

Friday, Nov. 27, 2009
Adleigh’s SECOND birthday!!

I planned to get up EARLY with Heidi and go shop on Black Friday but we were all way to tired, so we headed out around 7am. We got some great deals.
We planned a small birthday party at McDonalds with all of Jed’s family to have breakfast and open gifts. She got some great presents and had a great time playing on their playground.
We then went over to Jed’s parent’s house to have a Thanksgiving dinner with the Buchanan side of the family. The food was MUCH better  Again; it was nice to meet some of the family members on that side that I have never met.

We headed down to Lehi at 4pm to meet up with Lindsey and Spencer. We got to go see their house…their HAUNTED house, hehe She spent the day making a cake for Adleigh’s birthday, it was so nice of her!! We all went to dinner at IN N OUT…it was SOOOOOO yummy!! I have missed that food, or else I am just REALLY pregnant. We then came back to their house and opened more gifts with Adleigh. The kids were so tired so we put them to bed and stayed up late talking with Lindsey and Spencer.

Saturday, Nov. 28, 2009
We woke to Lindsey making us WAFFLES, such a great sister and good auntie! It was very yummy. After that we decided to leave to go home because Jed wasn’t feeling too well.
I ended up driving for the first few hours so that Jed could take some medicine and let it take effect. He blames the In N Out but NO one else got sick…
We made it home 7.5 hours later and so EXCITED to be back in our own beds!

Week #47

November 29 – December 5

Sunday, Nov. 29, 2009
We went to church
We celebrated Adleigh’s birthday with the family. We had cake, ice cream, dinner and presents. I still can’t believe my baby girl is TWO!

Monday, Nov. 30, 2009
Jed, Zeke and Tatum had school today. Jed is getting so close to being done with the Police Academy!
Adleigh had her 2 year old doctor’s appointment; she is such a healthy LITTLE girl. She was 22lbs, we were all very excited that she FINALLY passed 20lbs!

Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2009
Jed, Zeke, Tatum and Braia had school today.
Adleigh had her friend birthday party in the morning. She had many of her friends come. WE had breakfast, muffins and opened some presents. THANK YOU for everyone that could make it, it was great getting together and chatting!
The kids had a Primary Activity this evening. I offered to help out during it, which wasn’t very smart since I had Adleigh with me the whole time.

Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2009
Jed, Zeke and Tatum went to school this morning.
I had a Doctor’s appointment, everything is going well.
Adleigh had an appointment with Imagine, a Boulder Valley School District program. They tested her heading and good news is that her hearing is great, we just need to wait on the x-rays to come back to see if there is scar damage. Adleigh also had her speech therapy this afternoon. It went really well, for her  She is starting to open up a little more with the therapist but she still is a little shy.
Zeke went to a friend’s birthday party at Pump it Up this evening.

Thursday, Dec. 3, 2009
Everyone went to school this morning.
It was a pretty laid back day.
The girls went to dance this afternoon. They are really enjoying it!

Friday, Dec. 4, 2009
Jed and Zeke went to school.
We had a worker from Imagine come over to evaluate Adleigh and get some paper work filled out. It was funny because she was someone that I went to high school with. Crazy world!

Saturday, Dec. 5, 2009
The older kids went bright and early to the doctor’s office to get their flu shots.
Zeke had a basketball game at 2pm, he had a great time!
We had family pictures at 5pm at Portrait Innovations. They turned out REALLY cute!

Week #48

December 6-12

Sunday, Dec. 6, 2009
Today was a pretty lax day.
We went to church and had a big family dinner
We all met at Ben’s house for dessert.

Monday, Dec. 7, 2009
Tatum, Zeke and Jed all went to school today.
I spent most of the day cleaning, something I have done little of since being pregnant again.

Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2009
Jed, Zeke, Tatum and Braia went to school this morning.
I have a doctor’s appointment.
The Relief Society had their Christmas Program. It was Okay, years before the food has been better, we ended up leaving early because the program kept going…and going…and going.

Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2009
Jed and our 2 oldest kids had school today.
Adleigh had her appointment with Child Find (BVSD Program) and they evaluated her. They said she definitely does have a speech delay but there were no other concerns. It was nice to hear because we were really worried that something else could be wrong. They think that all of problems we were curious about were from the speech delay. So she is starting speech through the school district beginning of the year.
Zeke had basketball practice this evening.

Thursday, Dec. 10, 2009
Everyone went to school today.
Adleigh had speech therapy and did really well; she is definitely getting better every time.
The girls had dance this evening.

Friday, Dec. 11, 2009
Jed and Zeke had school today. Jed only has about 2 weeks left, we are so excited to be finished with the Academy and start his career!
I went VT at 12:30pm with Deb. Always fun!

Saturday, Dec. 12, 2009
Zeke had a basketball game at noon.
We did a bunch of cleaning and laundry today.
Not a real exciting day.

Week #49

December 13-19

Sunday, Dec. 13, 2009
We went to church this morning.
I spent the afternoon wrapping gifts for Christmas.
My parents came over for dessert.

Monday, Dec. 14, 2009
Jed, Zeke and Tatum had school today. This is the LAST week of the Academy!!
Adleigh and I met with Child Find this morning, to finish paper work for her speech therapy.
I wrapped more presents this afternoon.

Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2009
Everyone that has school went today!
I went to Denver for another doctor’s appointment. They did an ultrasound and found that the baby has some cysts on his brain that could indicate Down syndrome. I am so sick at this point of going to the doctor’s because every time I go I find out good news and then some other problems pops up. The doctor goes through all of the tests that I can do to find out for sure but I decide not to do anything. It really doesn’t matter to me one way or another. I would never end the pregnancy, so I figured I would deal with it when he is born. They scheduled another appointment in 4 weeks.
I had my Cookie Exchange party. It was so much fun and we all got to eat a ton of cookies. Thanks to everyone that was able to make it!!

Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2009
It was a very slow day.
Jed, Zeke and Tatum went to school.
I spent the day clean because we had family coming to stay with us for Jed’s graduation.

Thursday, Dec. 17, 2009
JED HAS GRADUATED!!!
We are all so proud of him. I couldn’t help but cry as he walked across and got his diploma and awards. He did such an amazing job. He was ALWAYS #1 on the physical tests. He bounced back between him and another guy on the shooting tests. He was a Squad Leader. He did an amazing job and I hope he knows how proud of him his family is.
Jed’s parents came into town this afternoon.
After the graduation ceremony, everyone came back to our house for dinner and dessert. It was nice to spend the evening with Jed’s parents; I could tell them were so proud of Jed.

Friday, Dec. 18, 2009
Zeke had school today!
Jed finally got to sleep in! I am sure he felt great after spending the past 4 months getting up at 4:30am to make it to physical training every morning.
Jed’s parents left early this morning.

Saturday, Dec. 19, 2009
Zeke had a basketball game at 11am.
We had our church Christmas party this evening. The kids got to play some games and do some crafts.

Week #50

December 20-26

Sunday, Dec. 20, 2009
We went to church this morning.
My family came over for dessert and to finish watching the rest of our home videos of past Christmas’s.

Monday, Dec. 21, 2009
Jed has his Post-Exam today. This was all what the Academy was preparing him for. He was so nervous but he did so well. He found out before he left whether he past or not. Again, we are so proud of him!
The kids are out of school for Winter Break!

Tuesday, Dec. 22, 2009
Jed went on a ride alone for Loveland Police Department. He is testing in quiet a few different cities. It is hard to get a job right now because of the economy, not many places are hiring or they are hiring for 1 position and have 300+ applicants. I know that Jed will get a job eventually BUT hoping its sooner rather than later. We thought he had a definite position in Longmont but they ended up hiring from a lateral position. So we are at square one.

Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2009
A very slow day spent the day with the kids getting ready for Christmas. They are so excited.
Tatum’s friend from pre-k actually gave us a Barbie Power Wheels Jeep that looks brand new to give to Tatum. They didn’t use it anymore and said that we could have it. Tatum wants one SO dang bad. We are so excited to give it to her.

Thursday, Dec. 24, 2009
Christmas Eve!!
We had our normal Christmas Eve program at my parent’s house. We met for dinner and had potatoes soup and meat sandwiches, then headed to the basement for our program. I played the guitar for a few songs. Zeke sang “The First Noel,” Tatum sang, “Santa Clause is coming to Town,” and Braia sang “Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer.”
All the kids got to open up their Christmas Eve PJs. We left for home around 8pm to have the kids in bed early and to finish preparing for the morning.

Friday, Dec. 25, 2009
We woke up early and made breakfast, the normal breakfast casserole with Orange Juice. My parents showed up to watch the kids open their presents. It was way fun this year because they are finally old enough to understand where the presents came from and who they came from. It was rather funny because every time Tatum or Braia would open a gift the other would, “You know you have to share that!” haha
All of our decorations were down and put away by 1pm today! So glad that it is all put away and I can have my house back.
We met at my parent’s house for Christmas Dinner with everyone. We opened more presents there. The kids were excited to see their cousins, they all bragged about what they received and made plans about getting together to play with each other’s toys.

Saturday, Dec. 26, 2009
We spent the day inside playing with our new stuff.
We all had a great Christmas and absolutely LOVE this holiday!

Week #51

December 27-January 2

Sunday, Dec. 27, 2009
Today we went to church and then spent the rest of the day as a family. I taught Primary this morning for the Sunbeams, it was interring.

Monday, Dec. 28, 2009
The kids are out of school again this week. What am I going to do with all of our free time!?!?
Tatum went over to Brynn’s house to play.
Jed spent the day job hunting; he is trying to get a part-time job doing anything so that we have SOME income coming in while we are waiting for a Police job. It is like a 6 month process to actually get a job, about 3-4 weeks between each hiring phase; this is seriously going to drive me CRAZY!

Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2009
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY JED!
We got married 8 years ago today. I can’t believe time has gone by so fast and here we are getting ready for baby #5. There have been a lot of changes these past few years. We are happier NOW then we ever were our first year of marriage. Marriage is so hard and I am so happy everyday for Jed and the wonderful example he is to our children.
Austin was nice enough to babysit our kids so that we were able to go out on a date! We just went to dinner and a movie. I am too tired to stay out late, so we only saw ONE movie, when normally we would have stayed out late and saw TWO!

Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2009
Jed had oral boards in Loveland today, hoping it turns out good. It is his first oral boards and we were told they never go as planned but it is a good learning session. Hopefully Jed won’t have to many more of these!

Thursday, Dec. 31, 2009
New Year’s Eve!
I had a doctor’s appointment this morning and it was so nice to have Jed home so that I could go to the appointment ALONE!
We spent New Year’s Eve home with the kids, eating some great food and playing games. We weren’t planning on staying up until midnight (mostly because I can’t make it past 9pm lately) but we did! We are excited for this New Year and hopefully everyone has a GREAT new year!!

Friday, Jan. 1, 2010
2010 WOW, crazy that we are already a decade into the 21st century. We really didn’t do much today. Kids are still out of school, so we are barely surviving over here!!

Saturday, Jan. 2, 2009
We spent the day with the kids. The kids have been so into their new stuff from Christmas that we hardly see them leave their room or the play room. Jed and I have been catching up on a couple of our shows…Dexter and True Blood!!

Week #52

January 3-9

Sunday, Jan. 3, 2010
Braia got to Primary for the first time!! She was so nervous but very excited to be a big girl now!!
We had dinner and dessert with my family.

Monday, Jan. 4, 2009
No school for half this week.
Adleigh had her first speech therapy at home today. Her new therapist, Ms. Susan, seems really great. Adleigh was a bit nervous and would hardly talk or play but hoping that she warms up in the weeks to come, I mean we have at least 9 months of this 

Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2009
Jed had an Oral Board this afternoon with Lafayette, hoping everything turns out alright.
I had my first meeting with Liberty Tax…this is going to be a LONG season!
I made my first Turkey ever! It actually turned out gross but at least now I can say I have tried or made a turkey before.

Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2009
BRAIA is FOUR years old!!
Jed had a garage door job this morning.
I took all the girls to Braia’s 4 year old doctor’s appointment today. She is officially my biggest 4 years old, weighing in at 37lbs and my TALLEST 4 years old as well, 4 inches above Zeke and Tatum were are 4. CRAZY!!
As soon as we got home from the dr. office, Tatum started to complain about her ears. I tried to ignore it but she was getting more whining about it, so I called the dr. and they had her come and she had 2 ear infections!!! Why couldn’t she have said something when we were at the dr. earlier!?!?!
Jed had an interview with Boulder Community Hospital, a security job, which he got!
Our family came over to celebrate Braia’s day, we have dinner, ice cream and cake and opened up MANY presents!!
We sure love our Bear and glad that she is a part of our family!!

Thursday, Jan. 7, 2009
Zeke, Tatum and Braia are back to school, yeah for me!
Braia got to bring birthday treats to share with her class, she was so excited.

Friday, Jan. 8, 2009
Only Zeke had school today.
Jed had a ride-along with the Lafayette Police Department. He has such a fun time going. He gets to ride with an officer during his whole shift.
Braia, the poor girl, had to get 5 shots today, she got her 2nd flu shot and then they decided to get some of her shots for kindergarten done now so that next year she wouldn’t need as many!
I did some Liberty interviews this evening.

Saturday, Jan. 9, 209
We went grocery shopping today.
I had more interviews for Liberty in Brighton.
We went over to our friends, the Jensen’s, and had dinner, it was so yummy! We also played a new game, Ticket to Ride, so fun, I think it has finally taken over my Settlers addiction. Uh-Oh!