Getting Closer

I know it has been a bit of time since I have blogged AGAIN! Sorry. Things are just going so well. I have been working and so has Brent. Dylan is enjoying his summer at the Youth Center. He has gone on two movie field trips, two hiking field trips for his "ology" club that his is in. That is a club about pretty much the outdoors...so you know he LOVES it. They went to Mt Diablo and to a Rock Center where they had fossils and rocks and such. Then he has gone to a museum and he is going to another one next week. They have really kept him busy. He starts back to school I believe on Aug 20th. We have been staying busy getting the room set up for guests and the baby. We have gotten the baby's crib set and stroller/carseat combo. The girls at work are throwing me a baby shower on the 29th of Aug. They keep telling me that I better not have the baby before that...ha ha. The weather has been just wonderful. It has rarely hit 100 degrees this summer, which makes it nice for me to be able to get out and have some fun. We spent all of the 4th of July running around. We went to the parade in the morning, then over to the fair, then home for a nap, then to the Demolition Derby. Dylan LOVED that. I have always liked to go and Brent and I wanted to share that with him. He was screaming....he couldn't believe that they were actually hitting each other on purpose! It was so cool to watch him watch that! Then we made it to Suisun City to the Harbor just in time for fireworks. It was a really nice family day! Since then we have gone to see Frank and Lynette, we went to Santa Cruz to ride the steam train at Roaring Camp thru the Redwood Forest and then off to the boardwalk for dinner and games. We have been shopping quite a bit when Brent has to stay close...or I sleep a lot on the weekends to catch up from the busy weeks! This past Friday we went to Redwood City to sit with Frank's family while Tina, his mom, had open heart surgery. She did wonderfully and is on the road to recovery. Thank you to all of you who prayed for her...I know it helped! Well I guess that is it...pretty much. The baby is getting bigger...as am I. We are really excited to see him and hold him. The doctors say that everything is going very well. I will have an appt this Wed. to check on the baby and myself...but I suspect it will be just as quick as the last visit was. This little man is in no hurry to come into this world...I think he thinks he will just take up permanent residence...ha ha. Oh well...all in good time. Best get going. Hope all is well with everyone. Hugs to you and yours!

Summer Pics and Happenings

Hey Everyone,
I know it has been a lot longer this time. We are just so busy with work and trying to get out and have fun that I haven't had much time to do this. Sorry for the overload of pics to look at. This is about 2 months of us out wondering around California checking out cool places to visit with you all when you come to visit!
The first of the pics is from Sutter Mill. This is the first place that Gold was discovered in California sparking the "Gold Rush". We went to gold pan and looked around for a while. It was really neat. The next day we decided to go to San Francisco to the Zoo. It was wonderful! It was sooooo cool and the animals were all out! There are some pics of when my wonderful husband finally got the recognition that we all feel he deserves by getting Senior Non-commissioned Officer of the Year! The next pics are when we went to visit Frank and Lynnett and got to go to a Portuguese bull fight. Dylan got hit in the butt by the baby bull and it was soooo funny. He got right back up and went back out. The bull got him again later! That was probably the last time we will see them before their baby is born. Lynnett is due one month before me! Next is Brent getting his Father's Day gifts and then our awesome day at the NASCAR race! Brent got us tickets for free from Big O Tires to sit in their private box with other military families. They gave us money to get souvenirs, catered breakfast and lunch and we saw Tom and Katie! It was the most fantastic day. We got to go to the pits and everything! Finally we went to Bodega Bay last weekend because it was so hot here in the valley. We thought it would be cool. We had a wonderful day...but got FRIED! We stopped on the way home at a winery that had animals and was a beautiful spot.
Not much happening here. Dylan is enjoying being out of school for the summer. Brent is at work most of the time, but has been trading weekends with the other Fist Shirt so that we can take some family time. I still love my job. We have been really busy and I have helping out in the GI Clinic with sedations until they get more nurses! The baby is growing as you can tell by the pictures. I feel HUGE!!! I have a doctor's appt this coming Tues in Oncology and Wednesday in OB/GYN. I am sure all is well. I have been feeling much better...just really tired. The baby is not a fan of letting me sleep at night and I can't wait to get my bladder back! The baby moves all over the place and Dylan giggles when his brother kicks him! He probably won't find it funny in a few months when his brother is here! Well this has been long enough. Thank you to all in OH that prayed for our Niece Presley. She came thru her surgery just wonderfully and back to her spit fire ways! I hope all is well with everyone. Once again...I will try to post more often.....
All of our love to all of you!

Almost 6 months!!!!

Hey All,
Sorry it's been so long again. There is so much to tell you about. Let's see. We took a trip about 1.5 hour away a few weekends ago to go to the Bass Pro Shop. It was really neat. Then we went to Dixon May Fair. It is the closest we can find to a county fair around here. It was so hot that we didn't last too long. I did get some yummy fair food and Dylan played some games. Because he still had his cast on...he was not allowed to ride the rides, but he wasn't too upset! I guess that was Mother's Day we did the Fair. Then we have been up in Napa a lot lately. It is cooler up there and so beautiful this time of year. I have some pics of the fair, a winery in Napa, Dylan at his open house at school, Bass Pro Shop, and Dylan putting his little brother's bed together (which was his bed too!). The last really cool thing was that we went and got one of those 3D/4D Ultrasounds done! It was really neat and they gave us a website that you all can go and look at the pics that we got! We also get to go back at 30 weeks and get more pics done. They also gave us a disk with the entire US on it in motion! Dylan got to hear the heartbeat for the first time and see his little brother move around! If you get a chance, go see the website...it is http://babypeeks.net/user/ccook . I have also attached some pics here so that you can get a sneak peak! It is so awsome! Anyways...for anyone who cares...we have finally gotten a registry started at Baby's R Us. You can look into it if you would like. Anyways, let me get going. Hopefully everyone had a great, relaxing, and safe Holiday weekend. Let us not forget all of those who have given their lives for our freedom and those in harms way now. We pray for all of our Brothers and Sisters in the Services and for their families! Take care and God Bless

CAST IS OFF!!!!!

Hey all,
Sorry so long again...but finally good news! Dylan got his cast off today! Brent looked at the films and it is healing! We have to take it easy...but he can finally take a shower without a bag over his arm, go in the sprinkler with the neighbor kids, go on rides at the park and so on. We get out summer fun back! Now let us pray that Dylan can keep safe and not break anything else for a very long time! I have pics from mother's day, the Dixon May Fair and some other things that I will post soon. Hope all is going well for all of you. We see the OB/GYN doc tomorrow and I will update with pics and more info later this week. Love to all.

It's ANOTHER BOY

Well everyone...we are going to have another boy! I have attached the Ultrasound pics. We were sorta hoping for a girl...for Brent to have his little princess...but we are both happy that the baby appears to be very healthy and growing just fine. I will keep this short so that I can get it posted. I will write more this weekend hopefully.

Sucking his thumb.

Smart little man...thinking with his hand under his chin.

Top pic is to prove that he is a boy.

Second pic???

Last one is front view of his face with mouth wide open. Looks like a scary movie!

Our calm (finally) little man.

Well that is all for now. Hope you all are doing well. Thank you for the prayers...The little men are all doing very well. Take care and God Bless you all!

Dylan's Birthday and Easter

Sorry it has been so long. Things are going really well. Dylan is on cast #3. The doctor's aren't sure if the arm is healing...but we will keep an eye on it! Brent got his braces on this week and is a bit sore, but looks really cute! Dylan's birthday went really well. We had a great turn out and hopefully our last party at Chuck E Cheeses for a few years! I think he was spoiled rotten like usual and had a great time with his friends. I had the Ultra sound for the kidney last week and the tumor has not grown and I talked to the Urologist and he is still going to do the surgery about 2 months after the baby is born. We have the Ultrasound for the baby this Thurs. We hope to find out the sex of the baby at that time! I went to the doctor last week and I have gained 3 pounds since getting pregnant. They wanted me to have gained more...but they are happy that I am just not losing weight. Everything is going well for us. The weather is getting pretty hot pretty quick and Dylan is looking forward to getting his cast off so that he can go swimming with the other kids. Work is going well for Brent and I both. I really enjoy being back to work with patients. Dylan is doing a wonderful job at school and is looking forward to the summer break. I will try to keep up on this better. I know I keep saying that...but I really am trying. Take care and God bless. Thank you for all of your prayers...they are really felt!

It IS Broken

Well we went to the Ortho Doc today and at first he said that it wasn't too bad but we were gonna put on a cast for 2 weeks to protect the joint and prevent further damage. The Ortho doc was great and Dylan was pretty excited to get a cast. We kept teasing him that he was going to get a Hot Pink cast....he refused. I am sure that you all can guess what color he did chose...of course GREEN! As we made the follow up for 2 weeks to get the cast off and new pictures of the elbow...the doc came out and told us that they reviewed the x-rays and determined that the break was worse than they thought...they now think that it involves a bit of the growth plate. We will have the cast on for 6 weeks and then go from there. We go back next week to have it looked at again. So Dylan is trying to learn to write with a long arm cast on and he is having so much fun hitting the cast on EVERYTHING! Brent got his first set of spacers today. Next week they will take those out and put on bands and then put another set of spacers on for another week for the other bands around the back teeth. I am really suprised that he is able to eat so well...well maybe I am not so surprised...HA HA. OK...enough for today. Hope all of you are well!