15 month update...better late than never!!

A couple days ago a friend of mine posted on Facebook about taking her little boy for his 15 month check-up! What???  A 15 month check-up???  We didn't have one of those and we go to the same doctor.  I called immediately to check and see what the deal was and just as you would know it we missed our 15 month check-up.  So, we went for that today.  Actually I took Emma on Monday because she STILL has a lot of green yucky junk running out of her nose.  This has been going on for weeks now.  Good news...the ear infection was cleared up but Dr. Felder put Emma on Zyrtec because she thinks Emma may have allergies.  NO SURPRISE THERE!!!  Back to our 15 month update.  The appointment was at 10:00 and Justin met me at the Dr. Office.  Evan was not in a good mood because he wanted to get down and I am not about to let him roam around that germ infected place.  We have enough trouble staying well without doing that.  So, he was already pitching a fit before we even saw the doctor.  Fun times....I tell ya!!  Evan weighed in at 25lb 8oz (58%) and was 32 in long (68%).  He head is 19in (90 something %).  Emma weighed in at 23lb 8oz (56%) and was 30 in long (36%).  Her head is also 19in.  They both are doing great developmentally according to all the questions Dr. Felder asked.  We ended the appointment with 2 shots.  You can imagine how that went with a baby that was already CRANKY!!  We got in the car and as soon as we pulled out of the parking lot Evan was asleep!!  After naptime and lunch...they seem to be back to normal.  Dr. Felder also gave us a new antibiotic for Emma.  This makes #4!  I hate giving her all this medicine.  She is going to become immune to antibiotics before long.  Hopefully this one will help get rid of all her congestion.   We are getting ready for our 1st mountain trip this coming weekend.  It looks like we are going to have perfect weather.  Yay for a weekend away!  Be sure to check back next week to see how our weekend went.  It's time for me to go start supper.  Happy Wednesday!!

Momma and Emma before church on Sunday!

Momma & Evan...best picture I could get!!

Another week behind us...

I don't normally wish my life away...but I will be GLAD for this week to be OVER!!  Our week started out pretty bad and didn't get much better. Emma & Evan were both sick Saturday with runny noses and crankiness.  Friday night my throat was killing me...so  I decided to take Emma & myself to the doctor on Sunday and we both left with antibiotics.  Evan was already on an antibiotic...so I didn't feel the need to take him with us.  He actually went to do some things with his Daddy.  They went to visit an older man that Justin turkey hunts with, they went to check the trail cameras, and ended up at the Stewart's house.  Sam worked on Justin's bow for him.  After Emma & I left the doctor's office, we did a little shopping while our medicine was being filled.  Justin and I are going to a wedding in April where everyone is wearing cowboy boots and I didn't have any...so we were on a mission to find me some boots.  We found some at Shoe Carnival that I love.  We also visited K-Mart for some baby essentials.  Little Miss Social Butterfly proceeded to wave at everyone that passed us as we strolled down the isles.  You would have never known she was sick.  Emma & Evan have both been sleeping A LOT this week.  Monday when they got in the car from school they both fell asleep...which was 12:00 and Abbey had to wake them up at 3:30 to feed them.  They both have slept MUCH better the past fews nights...can you tell I am one THANKFUL momma??  Hopefully we are all getting better.  I went for my follow-up with Dr. Tarasidis on Monday and to review my bloodwork.  I got really good news.  My right thyroid is doing a fantasitic job and I won't need to take medicine.  He was very pleased with the whole surgery and released me from his care.  Since the mass wasn't cancer and there weren't any nodules in my right thyroid...he is hoping that I won't have any more problems.  Yay!!!  Momma and Daddy are busy getting their house packed!  I'm not going to lie-- I was sad when I drove up Sunday and saw the sold sign in the yard.  We know the couple buying it and know that they will love it as much as we did...but it is still hard to imagine someone else living in our house! :(  The other house is just about finished.  All the painting is done and Gary Price is coming to talk with them next week about the additions they are doing.  We have a lot of moving to help with over the next few weeks.  Since Daddy is just now healing from his knee surgery and momma still isn't supposed to be using her arm for lifting...they will need LOTS of help.  On the bright side...she is fixing to start keeping Emma & Evan again.  She is such a lifesaver!!  Last night we celebrated her 61st birthday.  Emma, Evan, & Alison missed the party.  Emma & Evan were already asleep because they decided to only take one 30 minute nap yesterday...so bedtime was extremely early!!  Alison is in Santee with Nick for his birthday, which was the 6th.  We had planned to celebrate momma & Daddy's birthday's next weekend while we were all in the mountains but we just had to do something on momma's birthday.  She goes out of her way EVERY year to do something for ours...so that only seemed fair!!  I am so thankful to have such a wonderful mom.  I can't imagine my life without her!!  Work is starting to get interesting.  At the end of last year, we talked about me taking on several new roles and now it has turned into me taking on a lot of new roles.  I actually got started with some of the new things this week and I love it.  Budgets and managing money are right up my alley!! :)  I knew that financial planning degree would come in handy one day!!  This weekend is supposed to be warm and sunny...so we are going to get outside and have some fun.  It will be spring and summer before we know it and I can't wait!!  We all have our new Easter outfits ready and waiting!!  Anyways...this is just a little update about our week. Hope your's was healthier than ours!!

 

 

 

My sweet boy is ready for spring & summer. 

 

Momma's birthday cake!

Me & Katie with the birthday girl.  Just noticed how big the shirt makes me look.  No more wearing it!! :)  I also just noticed my last few post have had no pictures of Emma.  Probably because my little wiggle worm won't be still...but the next post will have some pictures of Emma.  No showing favoritism in this family!! :)

 

 

 

It's off to school we go...

 

I know I have been posting a lot lately...as if I have time for that! But...I had to share this. Emma & Evan got bookbags for Christmas from Katie & Alison. I decided Wednesday that they should start carrying them to school. The looked so cute with their bookbags on. It was actually funny because everytime we would put it on Emma's back it threw her off balance. Evan didn't even seem to notice it was on his back. Anyway...just want to share a couple pictures of my sweeties heading off to school!!

 

Evan sporting his new bookbag!

Emma with her new bookbag!

E&E's cute bookbags!! :)

 

 

Where did the weekend go???

 It can't already be Monday again. Justin is playing basketball tonight, Emma & Evan are sleeping, the dishwasher is running, the washing machine is running, the Bachelor is on, and I am taking a break from folding clothes to blog for a little while. It seems that a mom's work NEVER ends. Between everything I have to do at home added to a full-time job...this momma stays tired!! :) What did the Turner's do this weekend?? Well, Friday we had planned to meet Katie in town for lunch and a little shopping. Emma & Evan changed those plans. When I got home from work, neither of them had taken a nap or eaten lunch...so we were a little later meeting Katie to shop for Colby's & Caroline's birthday presents. Saturday, Katie & I took Emma & Evan to Colby's birthday party. Again, neither of them had much of a morning nap...so I knew this was going to be an adventure. They did really good until right before the party ended. They were now beyond tired and didn't want us telling them no. Emma pitched a little fit while Katie had her. This was Katie's first public experience with a child pitching a fit. She was so embarrassed. I decided that was our key to leave. Thankfully everything was pretty much over by this time. They slept maybe 30 minutes on the way home and that was it for the day. Justin and I had planned to go out for supper Saturday night. I was a little skeptical that we should just get take out and head back home. After the Fatz parking lot was completely packed and the line at Chili's was out the door...we ended up at Cracker Barrel. Not your typical fast food...but it turned great. Emma & Evan did wonderful. I don't brag on them much because just like earlier in the day...they can easily embarrass us...but they did so good. Maybe we should go out more often when they are exhausted. The girls sitting next to us even complimented us on how well behaved they were. We even had a little fun with hats before we left. 

 

Sunday, we had a great service at South Main and ended our Parenting study in Sunday School.  I have absolutely LOVED that study.  I can really see it being something I use in the future with Emma & Evan.  I already catch myself thinking about some of the things we talked about.  We went and ate lunch at momma's and headed to Caroline's party.  Evan feel asleep maybe 5 minutes before we got there.  Emma...not so much!!  Thankfully this party was outside and Emma was able to run around and have fun.  Evan woke up after we had been there probably 10 minutes and joined in on the eating and playing.  They had a great time at both parties.  I had planned to take my camera and take pictures but I have yet to charge my battery.  So, I didn't get any pictures of my sweeties with the birthday babies.  We ended our Sunday with a trip to Wal-Mart. 

That's about it for our weekend.  Hope your's was a fun-filled as ours.  I am looking forward to not having much to do next weekend.  Our mountain trip is coming up soon.  We are READY for a little vacation!!  Have a great week!!

Just thinking...

This week has not been a very good one.  Tuesday night Justin found out he had to go to Tennessee AGAIN and had to leave at 5:00 Wednesday morning.  Thankfully he was able to finish his work on Wednesday and actually drove back home Wednesday night.  He got in about 1:30.  I had E&E all by myself to get ready for school, then when we got home to feed, bathe, & get ready for bed by myself.  Bath time is not fun when you are by yourself.  They did good and acted like good babies for me.  So, that was a relief.  Thursday turned out to be bad day.  We got news first thing that two of the guys, Rick & Jeremy, that fly our company plane for us sometimes were in a plane crash the night before.  Thankfully our old pilot, Skip,wasn't on board this plane.  Skip has actually gone to work for Rick and was actually supposed to be on this flight and got bumped because Jeremy needed the hours.  Rick is in critical condition and thankfully Jeremy walked away unharmed.  The 5 passengers were all killed.  Then, there was a wreck right in front of our office about 2:15.  A guy ran into the back of an 18 wheeler and was killed.  We heard the crash.  Hillary immeditaely called 911.  You could tell the guy in the truck wasn't moving.  An off duty police officer arrived on the scene within minutes and a lady passing by who just happened to be a nurse stopped to help.  I heard her scream he's not breathing and they immediately took him out of the truck and started working with him until EMS arrived.  I have spent the last 24 hours constantly thinking about all these people who lost their life within the past two days.  It really puts into reality how quickly this life can come to an end.  As they drove that man off in the ambulance...there sat his truck and personal belongings that he would never come home too.  I think about this same thing every morning as I  pass right by Phillip Leagues house, an older gentleman from our church who died a few months back, and there sits his truck and house.  It just makes you think, we work and work for all these material things that will just be left behind when it's our time to go.  If most people are honest...they will agree that we spend too much of our time focused on ourselves and things we want rather than worrying about others and the where they will spend eternity.  I don't know the man that died literally just feet away from me yesterday.  I don't know if he was a Christian man.  I don't know if he left behind a family or what his story was...but I do know this has really made me think how I need to be living my life as if there is no tomorrow.  Time is so precious and we really need to be living every second we can for Christ and trying to reach other's for Him!!  I ended my Thursday with a girl's night out.  We went and saw the movie Safe Haven.  It was so good.  But again...it reminded me how quickly I could be taken from this life.  So, from now on...I have lots I need to be doing.  Emma & Evan, who are supposed to be napping...are still awake...so I am going to go spend some time with them.  I might just hold them a little tighter today and be sure they know I LOVE them more than anything...because we just never know what our time is coming.   

Pajama Day...

So, I said in my last post I would be posting again today for pajama day!  Emma & Evan both looked so cute for PJ day.  I must admit, I could really go for everyday being pajama day!  My camera battery was dead, like always,  so I had to take these pictures with my cellphone camera.  Those of you who know what my cell phone looks like...you will completely understand why these pictures aren't the greatest.  Anyways....I was able to capture the moment...so that is all that matters!!  Happy Wednesday everyone!!

Emma sporting her new pj's!!

Evan was not into picture taking this morning.  He is a cutie even if he wouldn't smile or sit up like a big boy!!!

 

Wow...what a weekend!!!

I am sure you are wondering from the title what went on with the Turner's this weekend.  Well...it didn't quite go like we had planned but it was so much better.  We bought us a new car this weekend!  Our car shopping adventure started last weekend.  We have known for a while now that the Kia just wasn't going to cut it with two babies, but I was dead set that we were not having a car payment right now.  Two babies are expensive enough...not to mention, I just had surgery, I started the babies 529 plans, and my free babysitter has been out of commission for over 2 months now.  Anyway... I had found a couple cars on the internet at CarMax that I wanted to check out.  We had already planned to go to Greenville this weekend to visit Costco.  However... the cars I found were in Columbia so I just figured we would go to the Costco in Columbia instead of Greenville.  Once we got to Newberry...I decided to check and see where Costco is in Columbia....and much to my surprise there isn't one in Columbia.  Just about everywhere there is a Sams there is a Costco...everywhere BUT Columbia! :)  So, we decided to head to Greenville and what should have been a 1 hour trip turned into almost 2 hours.  Emma & Evan were troopers though.  Anyways...we went to Costco and out for supper before we started looking for CarMax in Greenville.  Surely they had to have some cars for us to look at.  Little did I know that when you go to CarMax, you park your car and have to walk through the salesmen to get to the cars. I was not in the mood to talk to a saleman at this point in time...so we rode through a couple of the lots in Greenville and headed home.  I was not in a very good mood at the point and neither were Emma & Evan who had been either riding in the car, a buggy, or sitting in a high chair for the past 5 hours.  Once, we got back home...I decided to check out Bagwell's...one of our local dealerships online.  My family has bought 11 cars from them...12 if you count my new one!  Why didn't I just check there first.  I found a Chevy Traverse that I really liked.  It was a 2009 and had 43,000 miles on it.  So, we rode up there Sunday after church to check it out.  I LOVED IT!!!  I got my dad to call Donnie first thing Monday morning.  He told Daddy what price he would sell it to us for and we told him we would be by on Friday to test drive it.  I knew I wanted it before we left the house Friday but Justin still hadn't made up his mind.  Once he really got to look at the car and drove it...he loved it too!!  It has all kind of features that are great.  It has captain seats as the second row...that slide...and make it EASY to get to the third row.  The sliding seats also make the 3rd row really roomy! Adults can easily fit back there.  It has 2 sunroofs, a back-up camera, and it beeps at you if you get to close to something backing up.  I think this car knew I would need that!!  The trunk space is a decent size even with the back seat up.  That was an advantage over the Tahoe, which is what Justin really wanted when we started talking about a new car.  The Tahoe with the 3rd row seats up...has no trunk space.  Ask Justin!!  He didn't believe Brandon when he told him that so we had to go check it our for ourselves!  The 3rd row seats lay completely flat which is also another plus for when you are traveling and need more trunk space.  AND...it gets better gas mileage than my Kia did.  Who knew I could get a bigger newer car and get better gas mileage.  It was a win win situation!!  I could go on and on about this car.  Can you tell I LOVE IT???  Donnie gave us a great trade-in on my Kia.  So, with the trade-in and the deal on the new cat that he made us...we were able to pay for the car and not have a car payment!!  WOO HOO for us!! :)  That is enough for now about the new car.  I will have to take some pictures and post for you soon!!  Wednesday is PJ day at Emma & Evan's school...so I will be posting again soon about the babies.  This was just a post for me.  I was just super excited about our deal and since Justin is playing basketball and the babies are sleeping...I figured I would blog for a while before I head to bed.  So, come back Wednesday to see how cute E&E look in their new PJ's for Pajama Day!!