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 ...
Aliceana’s Journey Home: Her first day
After I had Aliceana my husband and I got to hold her. I remember asking him if it hurt his hand to hold her (he had carpal tunnel surgery earlier in the week), and his response was “I don’t even care,” while he smiled down on her. My mom, Grandma, and Grandpa got to come see her that night, we still hadn’t told many people that I was in labor. I didn’t ...
Aliceana’s Journey Home: Labor
Three weeks and a few days ago I had my little girl, she's had quite the journey in the last few weeks. This is the first installment about her journey home. My swollen self on the 4th of July. It all started on the 4th of July. My mom had been telling everyone that my baby was going to be born on the 4th of July, and everyone ...
The 6 month bump
I haven't posted any bump pictures on here yet. I'm not one to over share about pregnancy things. My two biggest pregnancy pet peeves is people that over share ultrasound pictures and people that refer to their baby by it's name during their entire pregnancy. I don't know why, but those two things drive me nuts! I actually only take bump pictures because I have this adorable ...
My rock n’ roll wedding!
Our wedding was a very hands on DIY Rock and Roll theme, and it turned out just like we hoped it would. We met at a concert, and music really brought us together in the beginning of our relationship, so it only made sense to break out the chucks, guitars, and records. Here are the down and dirty details. My wedding came in at around $8000, because I did everything myself. We ...
Happy Birthday Hobbits!!
Today marks the birthday of two of the greatest Hobbits ever. I'm talking about Bilbo and Frodo of course! The Lord of the Rings series is basically the greatest story ever told. If you haven't read the books do it, right now, nothing you could be doing could be more important than reading LOTR. The Lord of the Rings movies are how I spent a few of my first dates ...
First Post
A glimpse at our wedding. You can call me the domestic geek, move over Martha Stewart I can pwn you at video games. I can not count how many times my husband has said that, "We need to start a website about how awesome we are!". So I'm not that completely jaded...I'm a little jaded, but I wouldn't label myself that awesome. I've been married a little over 2 months. We ...