Pink eye :(

Sunday we were at church, and Hunter was brought into Sunday School from the nursery leader. She said her forehead was warm and she wasn't feeling well. She also had a runny nose. McKenna has bad allergies right now, so we figured Hunter had allergies as well. Hunter didn't want to stay with us in class and she didn't get why she couldn't go back to nursery. I took her out into the hall and tried to get her calmed down. She started crying so hard, she hyperventilated, started gagging and I ran her to the couple of yards down the hall to the bathroom. She made it into the bathroom and almost to the toilet. I had to clean up a little bit on the tile floor but the most of it was in the toilet. Poor girl :(. So, I got her all cleaned up and went and got Ian from Sunday School. I explained to him that we needed to take her home because she had thrown up. We went to get McKenna from a friend of ours who takes her to their Sunday School class, and then went home. We made a quick stop to CVS down the street to get a thermometer, and found this: forehead strips that take your temperature. She fell asleep on the way home, so we took her inside and got her changed. We decided to take her to Ian's parents for family dinner, but warn them that she wasn't feeling well. That night as we were there, she started getting gunk in her eyes. Not thinking anything of it, we went home after we were done visiting. It got worse as the night went on and was bad the next morning. Her eye was swollen and she continued to get gunk. We took her to the doctor and found out:

She has pink eye. So, I called into work and stayed home with Hunter and McKenna, but not before going to CVS to get the drops. She laid down on the couch most of the day, and only threw up after having lunch. We kept her on bland foods (bread, pancake, crackers, etc), and she slept on the rocking chair that night. Tuesday morning came and she was doing better, so I went in to work to make up some hours. Ian was off, so he was home with the girls. I got off around 1:00, then we went and ran errands. We were at Kohl's and looked at McKenna's eyes and....

She has pink eye. Go figure :(. So, we started her on the drops and kept on our way running errands. We went to the grocery store, then to Ian's parents house to drop the groceries off, then off to the mall to meet them there. We enjoyed some shopping at the mall, then went back to his parents for dinner and came home. McKenna slept all through the night, only waking up once to get a bottle. I called into work again this morning since McKenna is contagious. I am hoping Ian and I don't get this pink eye since we can't miss any more work. We need to be saving up money and getting ready for the summer.

Look for pictures of this Sunday when we celebrate McKenna's birthday with the family.

New hi-lites

Oh, I made i-spy kits a couple weeks ago with a sister in our ward, who just happens to be the bishop's wife. We had a blast and I got to know her even better and found out we have a lot more in common than I thought.

I got new hi-lites done yesterday (first ones in my whole life). Let me know what you think. I love them, and am grateful to the lady in our ward who did them in exchange for service work. I love her salon and her work that she does for others.

Not much new going on. Still narrowing down the list of places that we are considering to move to when our lease is up. I'm praying that we can stay in the ward, but probably won't happen since rental houses normally want 3 times the rent to qualify, and we'd only be making 2 times the rent :(. Hopefully we can find a complex that gives us a backyard or BIG patio of some kind. Otherwise, I don't know what we'll do. Hunter needs room to run around...

Trying to keep my blog updated more often. Ian is down 16 pounds since we started hard core in February. I'm down 11, but I know that girls lose it slower than guys do. I'll try to send pictures later of our progression when I'm happier with how I look....

April.... enough said

March came and went and I only blogged once. I swear one of these days, I'll get the hang of blogging more often. March was busy with us enjoying the missionaries (yep, still the same ones since December) for dinner, drop by visits to check up on us, work, school and taking care of the girls.

April is here and already half gone. We celebrated Easter morning here at home enjoying conference and then had Ian's parents over for dinner. McKenna and Hunter opened their baskets when they woke up, and I think Hunter was more excited with her stuff, then McKenna was since McKenna is still too little. She's getting bigger though and will get the concept next year, definitely.




I'm in the 3rd trimester of school and will be done June 4th. I'll finish my internship middle of May and will stay with the company until I find something different. I am looking to go into financial services of some kind (bank teller), or be a receptionist at a medical office which I would love too.

Ian is still working at Famous Footwear and should be starting to work days in the next couple of weeks. This will be easier on us as he'll be home for dinner and be able to spend more time with the girls.

Ian is prepping to go to a sleep study for his sleep apnea on the 20th. He'll get there at 7:00 P.M. and will get 8 hours of sleep. They have you go to sleep between 9-10:30 as it's an 8 hour sleep study and everyone must be out of the office by 7:00 in the morning. They will hook him up to monitors the first 4 hours of the night, then hook him up to a sleeping mask the last 4 hours of the night to see how he sleeps. It will be interesting to see how well he sleeps, and how long it takes before he's able to get into the doctor to get a sleep mask. I'll be grateful (and I know he will too) when he's sleeping better as he'll wake up earlier (sleeps for 10 hours now and still groggy), happier, and wanting to do more activities with the girls without getting headaches as easily. Hopefully this will help his body aches too as he'll be sleeping better, and I know sleep has something to do with body aches.

Look for more updates as Ian goes to his sleep study, I get blonde highlights (yes, I said blonde), and McKenna turns 1 (YIKES!!!!!!)