Grandpa was so blessed!

Well last night my grandpa was driving in Oregon City and accidently drove on the train tracks and was hit from behind. He is up at OHSU for observation and is talking and everything. It was such a scary experience for our family. I'm etremely close with my grandpa and so I have had such a rough day. It's hard to accept that he is getting older and with such a freak accident as this, I'm still in shock. The news said that he was ejected from the car, but he wasn't. He is doing pretty well right now and we are just keeping him in our prayers. Thank you to everyone who is doing the same. We appreciate it so much.

A little late

I have been so busy with life, and with Ava's hospital visit that I neglected to put up some pictures from her first birthday. We had a nice celebration with some family and friends. We had it at the church because our place is too tiny to hold everybody! It went well, except for the fact that that was when Ava was starting to get sick so she was a little grumpy. Here is a few pictures from the party!
Also a few new things about all of us-
*Feb 2nd we noticed that Ava is finally getting a third tooth!
*She is saying All done, up, done, and still dogs is her favorite word for any moving animal. She is probably getting close to 20 pounds now and is sure a cute little thing.
*David is still working as hard as ever in school and working.
*I'm working full-time as a preschool teacher and because of the economy everyones hours are getting cut, so I have been going to a different center to get the much needed money!
That is pretty much what is going on here in good 'ol Troutdale!
Have a great day everyone!



Ava loved the cake that Grandma Waddell made her!
It took her a minute then she started to dig right it.
Isn't this a cute little cake? I thought it was beautiful.
Our little family 12-27-08

Bath Time Buddies

Tonight David and I went over to my good friends, Becky and Mark's, to have dinner and we decided to get the kids in the tub! Ava is a little scared of the water still and Liam kept splashing her, but it was quite hilarious watching the two scream at each other and throw toys! What a pair, and being only 9 months apart they sure had a good time.

Ava's trip to the hospital

Well little Ava was throwing up this past weekend starting with at Church. She got it all over the floor and then decided to dress daddy up with it too. It continued through the weekend and I felt that she needed to go into the doctors today. I had my mom take her in and they diagnosed her with Gastroenteritis. Its an inflammation of the intestines. They told us that if she didn't have a wet diaper by 3 that she needed to go into the hospital.

As 3 o'clock rolled on through there was still no sign of urine and so we made our way to the hospital. We got right in and they took her back and tried to get an IV going but her veins were too small to find them. They concluded that she was a moderate severity of dehydration and just gave her oral hydration, but David and I have to get her up every 2 hours and give her enfalyte. She is already doing much better, but it was very hard watching them pin her down to a hospital bed and take blood from her little body.

Tis the Season

Where to start? This Christmas was a fun, but crazy one! We were snowed in for many days and that kind of put a damper on all of our holiday shopping, traditions and just the spirit of Christmas. We did though have a wonderful Christmas and wouldn't want to even think of changing it!

Karlee's mom, Lois, made Ava and I matching Aprons for Christmas and they are just adorable. Ava looks like a doll in it. I have so much fun with her wearing it that I never wanted to take it off of her.


On Christmas eve we were going to have Christmas eve over at my Sister-in-law Joy's house, but the snow was just a little too risky so we had it at David's parents instead. We had an great evening snacking away, talking, and enjoying each other's company. By the end of the evening my sister-in-law Leslie said that Ava was feeling a bit warm and we decided to take her temperature and it was sure enough, 100.9. It wasn't sky high, but enough to worry a little. We then headed on home and got Ava dressed in her little Christmas jammies and were off to bed.

Christmas day was fun with the three of us first waking up at 5:30 due to Ava and her cough. We figured we might as well open gifts so we had a wonderful time doing that and then headed on back to bed. We then didn't wake up till 10:30. We quickly got ready and then went over to David's parents again and played some Sequence with Mom Waddell and had a yummy breakfast. We were glad that we could see Grandpa and Grandma Montague right before we took off and went on down the street to my parent's house.

When we got to my parent's we had a lovely dinner and ate my mom's famous 12 layer jello, which is AMAZING. We played Clue and laughed and Little Ava was acting a little bit sick, but still was a trooper and had a blast playing with Grandma and Grandpa. A funny story is that Ava has this little doll over there that my mom bought and Ava ripped off the head, but that didn't stop her from loving that baby. She walked all around the house hugging the headless doll and saying, "awwwww" it was pretty hilarious, if you ask me!

We found on Friday that away is starting to get a mild form of Bronchitis and so I was totally bummed because it was her birthday weekend, but everything worked out great!

We truly hope that you enjoyed your Christmas and we wish you a Happy New Year!

Cabin Fever

As of right now, I'm waiting to see if I need to come into work today. I had to ask my boss to come get me if she needs me which I feel bad about, but I just can't drive in this. We have close to a foot and a half here and it just keeps snowing! This morning Ava and I were having fun taking pictures because there is not much else to do around here. Have a great day friends.

Waiting on Daddy

This afternoon the three of us were just hanging out and so David went into the bathroom and Ava has to follow him where ever he goes, but he shut the door. Well, I caught her sitting by the bathroom door reading her book and babbling. It was so adorable I just had to get pics of it. It's funny how mothers think their children do the funniest things. We are getting along here, but we are getting such bad cabin fever being in here for so long! Hopefully it will melt soon. Actually I think I need to enjoy this while it lasts. Have a great afternoon everyone. :D