What a Day!!!

This was after he was sugared out and opened his presents. He was done for the day and Mommy was making him wear his b-day hat....What a mean Mommy, I am.

Easton is 2

Easton turned 2 on 1/27. We had a party for him and 10 of his little friends and their parents. He had a blast.

Easton and Eli

Here is a picture of Eli Chandler (Erik and Kim's son) and Easton. They had some fun playing together while Jon and I went out on a date a couple weeks ago. Aren't they cute in their jammies!!!!!

Our 5th Anniversary

We celebrated our 5th anniversary yesterday. We got to go out and celebrate two nights in a row. Which was great. We really enjoyed going out to dinner and having an adult conversation. No asking for highchairs, cutting up Easton's food, or hoping he sits still for the duration of the meal. It was fantastic. Here is a picture of us on our wedding day and then after five years of marriage. Don't we look so happy. My have we changed.

Heart Issues

After much prayer, counsel, talking to a few Dr.'s and tons of research. I am taking the beta-blocker. My OB will be monitoring me extra closely with ultrasound and fetal monitoring. We are just trusting that God will keep me and our baby girl healthy through all this and I will go full-term.

New Years Eve

The reality of parenthood hit me this New Year's. We got home from a New Year's Eve party at 1am and Easton woke up and was rearing to go at 7:30am. No more sleeping in on New Years. Easton came in and dumped all his matchbox cars on me. Fun Fun!!!!!

Update on Melissa's heart issues

I went to the cardiologist this morning to discuss what is going on with my heart. All they really could say was they think I have an electrical issue, like a misfire that causes it to beat fast all of a sudden. The Dr.'s really do not know what is causing it though. The whole structure of my heart is fine though. I guess that is a good thing for a 27 year old. They want to put me on a beta-blocker medication. But I am so conflicted about taking it. I really do not have a peace. If that makes any sense. I really am praying for ultimate healing and that all these issues will not bother me anymore. I am taking the next two days to really pray and seek God's will in what I am supposed to do.

Christmas Pictures

Our Crazy Kid

Do you think Easton is too big for this? He climbed into this at our friend's house on Christmas. What a crazy kid. He played in it for over a half hour.

How we spent christmas Morning

We spent the morning at the ER. Just what you want to do on Christmas. My heart was acting up again so we had to go...At least this time they got it on the heart monitor and EKJ except this time they had to give me something to slow it down. My heart at one point was at 300 beats per min. WAY TOO HIGH!!! I am on first name basis with the nurses now. We then went home to open presents and hurried off to spend the day at our friends house. I go to the cardiologist tomorrow to discuss what he wants to do in regard to what is going on.

Christmas Eve

We had a very relaxing Christmas Eve. We went to church, took naps, went to the mall, which was not very busy and found a restaurant that was actually open to eat dinner at. A lot of places were closed even at 6pm when we were hungry. We came home and Easton got to open one present and then we read the Christmas story together as a family.

Easton got a Big BOY Bed

Easton got a big boy bed for Christmas from Grandma and Grandpa. He got to open it early. He climbs up all by himself and practically jumps off. He is such a monkey. He flips off the bed rail and then climbs back up and does it again and laughs. He is ALL BOY!!!! Our little guy is growing up. It was weird taking down his crib and rearranging his room for all the new toys he will be getting for Christmas. We have noticed as he gets older his toys just get bigger and bigger it seems. Which is always fun trying to find space for them. Here is the monkey on his new bed. The bedding is from Grammie and Grandpa. It is a surfer theme with a monkey. Which when I saw it I said that is so Easton. He has to keep his CA roots with a surfer theme and he is a monkey so it fits him perfect. Easton says thanks to the grandparents for the new bed and cozy bedding. He loves it.

Another ER visit

Well, I was back to the ER again with a fast heartrate. This one was for an hour and a half. Today Jon, Easton, Jon's mom and I were out shopping at the factory outlets about an hour away and we then went to have lunch. As I was finishing my lunch my heart began to race. I grabbed my handy dandy heart monitor to record it. Well, guess what it did not work. It was DEAD!!!! Great timing, right. We frantically look for batteries. Jon ran over to a hotel next door to get some. Those did not work either. Then we could not find a landline that allowed me to call out. I finally got to use the phone in the back office and found some batteries there. After a long ordeal with calling the cardiologist and the heart monitor company trying to get the silly thing to work. Arguing with the nurse b/c she thinks the monitor takes AA and I am like I pulled AAA batteries out and that is what the monitor says. The nurse says, "You must have bad wires. I am going to send you a new monitor, wires and batteries tomorrow via Fed Ex. You'll be home, right." I am like are you serious that is all you have to say while my heart is about to beat out of my chest. She said, "Well, if you think you are having a meical emergency please go to the nearest ER." I am like ok, thanks for the help. Oh, and this is the real funny part. The nurse said since you had problems with the monitor today I am going to extend your testing peorid a week or so for the inconvenience this caused you today. I was like thanks. We drove 45 min back to Knoxville. I am stubborn and wanted to go to the ER that I went to 3 weeks ago and plus God forbid something happened to the baby. I wanted my OB close by. So we got to the hospital and the second Iwalked into triage it was back to normal. So we don't know the cause is AGAIN!!!!! But the baby's heartrate was good and she has been moving and kicking me ever since. I have never been happier to be kicked. So that is a good sign. Please pray for my heart, for our baby girl through this and that if it does happen again my silly monitor will work and be able to record it.

Ultrasound pictures of our little lady

Here are some ultrasound pictures of our little girl. She has got some long legs on her.

Update on Melissa's Heart problems

I went to the cardiologist Tuesday. They have no idea why my heartrate was so high last week. Thankfully it has not happened since. I have a heart monitor that I have to wear for a month just in case it happens again they can get a reading on it. I had a echocardiogram Friday which showed a healthy heart. Which I guess is good for a 27 year old, at least that is what the tech said. He said the Dr. will review and let me know if he sees anything wrong but the tech said my heart was fine. The thing the Dr. is concerned about is being that I am pregnant he does like to see an elevated heartrate, but thinks my heart may have been aggravated with the increased blood volume since I am pregnant.

Christmas at Chilhowee Park

We went to this Christmas event tonight with some friends. It was fun. They had a tree lighting ceremony, free food, a tour of the grounds which was all decorated with 125 lighted trees and 25 floating trees on the lake. We decorated cookies, heard Christmas carols, roasted marshmallows on the fire, drank egg nog and hot chocolate. It was frigid cold, but we had a good time and the kids braved the cold. It was so cold Easton hardly moved out of his stroller.

It's a GIRL!!!!

We found out today we are going to have a baby girl come the end of April, beginning of May. We will try and post the ultrasound picture if I can find someone with a scanner. We had a 3D ultrasound and got a cute picture of her little face. She looks like Easton did when he was a newborn. It is crazy. They have the same nose and mouth.

Melissa's ER Visit

We had an eventful Tuesday. I had a health scare today with my heart that landed me in the ER. My heartrate was 236. Normal is 70 to 80. The nurses were frantcially getting me processed which was good but I was like ok, something is wrong for them to be working this hard. I had the heart monitor going off. One nurse thought it was not working b/c it was so high and the other nurse was like that is her heart rate. Of course by the time they got me a bed. It was back to normal so they were not able to get it on the EKG machine. They got it when they took my blood pressure. We don't know what the cause was. The baby was ok during the scare. I have to go see cardiologist to see about getting a 24 hour monitor to see if it happens again they can record it. I am just hoping it is an isolated episode. Very scary.

Pony rides

We went to this hoe down in October that the church we go to threw. It was at a barn that someone at the church has on their property. Only in TN. Ha. Anyway they had a mechincal bull to ride. I wanted to ride it Jon would not let me in my curent pregnant state. I was only kidding. I would not really ride it. They had goats for the kids to pet and play with. Easton liked the goats. We had a lot of fun. Here is the big E riding a pony. He was not to sure about the whole experience.

Waiting to go to the gym...

Easton and I go to this little kid's gym every other week. It is huge. They have trampolines, slides, foam pits and more. He has so much fun climbing up on things and running around. Here I was waiting for my friend to show up so we could go in and Easton was just giggling and being silly so I took some pictures. He was being a corn dog in his car seat. If you are wondering what the red thing on his face is it is from this wacko lady that opened a door and hit Easton in the face at a restaurant and then she hardly apolgized. Easton completly freaked out. I was not happy. I could only imagine how much it hurt to have a door hit me in the face. I'd cry too. It happened like three weeks ago and you still see it now. Anyway back to cutie pie, Easton here is our silly boy....He is so funny. This age cracks me up.