Catching Up.............................

Catching up!
Hello Everyone! We are alive and well. Life has gone by so fast. My last post was in January and I know I need to blog lots more of what is going on here but as you can see my site is not set up right and all of your blog pages are so cute and mine is not so- so can someone help me and tell me how to fix it. Tell me how to make it cute.

Well, I love my friends I just have to say. They have been getting me through some tough situations. I have a three year old that is like a two year old. He is so challenging for me. Everyday I am cleaning up HUGE messes. He is speech delay and may have some loose screws as well. We are getting him checked out through our school district for other issues.

I just have no drive to write about my days when I don't really enjoy them half the time. Sounds bad, I know. But the first year after all my babies my brain goes in psycho mode. I happily take Zoloft. Not afraid to say. It keeps me from snapping at my family. My brain instantly wants to yell when little things happen. So I don't take it because I am depressed, I take it because of the rage that builds up inside me. It ususally lingers off around a year of being on it. It's my happy pills. It does make me less excited about things and my sisters are always like, "are you okay?" They know that spunky Chrissy is in there somewhere and needs to come out. Anyhow.......................................

Now that I have spilled the beans on myself I want to on the rest of my family as well. Wade the terror, the pitbull, the alien, the biter and the list goes on. He yesterday made the biggest mess of his life, knock on wood, I leave Kelli, Wade and Trey home while I run to the bus stop most days, its a block from my house and they know how to walk there if they wanted, and this time when I returned I saw wade and it looked like he had marker all over his body I asked him to show me where it was. He led me into the garage, HOLY CRAP!

This is what I saw. HECK NO! He doesn't know its bad to make messes. We think. He does things like this a couple times a week. If you can see in the picture, its snow cone syrup. Tigers Blood is the flavor. It didn't just spill, it was splattered all over, and within minutes. I opened the garage and told Kelli to go get our Neighbor, Brooke- she is a member and one of my greatest friends, and I just needed help on how to tackle this problem. In the meantime, while I am waiting for her to come over, Wade snuck upstairs to get in the bath because I heard water running, I ran up there and grabbed him from the tub, naked, and put him in front of a pot of water and a sponge. He was ticked and sticky he kept saying. He was naked but I could have cared less at this point. Brooke said she was going to find my camera and not to beat Wade in the meantime while she was gone. He sat on the ground and sure enough his stomach was stuck to his legs and his privates. It was funny but he was screaming because it really wasn't unsticking at all. I really let him just cry I was so mad. I had to take everything out of the garage and mop the whole floor while brooke and her husband helped spray down everything I was bringing out. I so owe them dinner..

So I am going to back up to last week. Luke was out of school for a couple days because a normal routine at the dentist office went bad. He went in to get a normal cavity filled and we instantly found out he was allergic to the Epeniphren in the numbing medicine they hav ein the shots. His mouth was swelling as he is injecting it. The dentist stopped and freaked out, he said, " I have only heard of cases in med school but never seen someone have a reaction to this". He referred me to a pediodontist right away. We went down there and he prescribed a antibiotic and said call him when the swelling went down so they could do a baby root canal on it. Well that night we ended up in the ER of him screaming in pain. They gave him Morphine and sent us home. I called the dentist and told him and what the ER did and made us go back to get more antibiotics because the swelling was so bad. The term is called, Facial Cellulitis. Very painful. He had two IV's and tons more morphine to get through the weekend. Monday came and he had surgery

get the tooth pulled because it was absessed. Poor kid.

They had to give him medicine that mad him drowsy that is why he is on Mason's lap looking droggy. He was in so much pain on the way home (he said that was the worst day of his life)he was screaming and just ticked off...

EASTER AT HAVASU!!!!!!!!!

Kadee and my sister, Jessica, came to visit for a couple of days...

PIzza Party at The Dows..

New News! We have been building a house and the date is set for August. Its the perfect house for us. Five bedrooms, six bathrooms, four car garage, and its in a cauldesac right by the mountains.. Its 4, 240 sq ft..

Family PARTY!!

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Wade fell out of the car and hit the curb while we were packing up coming home from the family party...

End Of 2007

Blessing

Day!

Annual Tradition! Sledding on Christmas Eve! It was fun. We had a couple of other families who came with us... Mason rode down with all the kids at the same time..

Christmas Day!

The kids got way too much stuff! I need to work on giving them ONE big present from Santa. Not three or four like you see..

-We bought a real tree this year because our fake one is 9ft and our ceilings in our current house is 8ft. This year we decided to go with a real one and it backfired on us. The tree died 2 weeks after we got it and there was no way to bring it back. We had to take it down Christmas Eve night. It looks weird without the tree and the kids were confused but they survived..

Halloween Photos

Smile
At the church

Trunk or Treat
Halloween Night

Life around here is Crazy! The older three kids have been going to bed late, sneaking and eating way too much candy, talking back to us more than usual, and the list goes on. This last week was the worst. Let me just share with you some of the details.
Wade disappeared while I was nursing the baby and I knew he was probably up to no good when 20 minutes went by and I heard not a single sound. A couple hours later I saw where he was, in my closet. My husbands dresser was emptied drawer by drawer and he used the drawers as a step stool to get on top of the dresser. He then pulled down most of our clothes by the racks. My closet is still a bit messy from that. Next, he is always eating candy and when I say put it down, throw it in the trash, is when I am stuck sitting down nursing the baby and can't get up. No matter what I tell him he looks at me and knows that he is the winner in that situation. He just goes outside with his candy. Then, he never will take a nap, I'll try to lay down with him and then the baby will cry so I have to get up and he just follows me out of the room. Who can sleep when they are on a sugar high?
Kelli, this one day was the winner. As I said when I am nursing is when most of this stuff happens. As the good mom that I am, (j/k) I bought Kelli some stamps last christmas. Well, I haven't seen those stamps until recently. I came up stairs to see what she was up to- to see that my wall going upstairs had rows and rows of a purple stamp. It kept going on my laundry door to kelli's bedroom door into the loft and onto the towel closet. I would guess about 500 plus stamp marks. The best thing about this is that the previous owners used flat paint upstairs, so it is not even Mr.Clean eraser washable. AAhh, is all I said. Knowing that we have paint to cover it up and I told her to get a wash cloth and start scrubbing each one. They are mostly faded but not quite. After lunch I noticed the wall in the kitchen had her name written in green crayon and at the bus stop she took a pen and wrote on the upholstery in my van. She is almost five and she never does stuff like this so I knew it's because she needs attention.
Luke- being in first grade comes with a lot of homework and a full day at school. As soon as he is off the bus he starts whining, he is tired and cries about little stuff. There is alot of pressure and responsibility that he has on his shoulders at school and when he is home he wants to relax and he knows that he has homework he has to do and it makes him upset.
So if you are all wondering how its going this is about it. Ohh, this week is going to be even worse, Mason is going to Chicago for work for the whole week. I love my life. If I haven't talked to you in a couple months this is the week to call. Make sure I am still alive. Make sure to read the blog next week, I'm sure it'll top this off.

Trey Mason Williams

Trey Mason Williams-- 7lbs 3oz 19 inches 10-17-07

Tuesday I went into labor at the doctors office and went straight to the hospital. Mason was in San Diego for a work conference and I had to call and tell him rush home. Masons dad took me to the hospital and waited until mason got there. It was planned for me to be induced wednesday morning but at the doctors office I told him that I may not be able to wait that long. Sure enough, I couldn't.
We thought that it would be a fast labor six hours or so but not this time. 15 hours later, no joke. I was so tired but just glad that it was over. We came home friday and he is a great baby. Jaundice a bit. He is on the lights, its called " the glow worm". Its wraps around his belly and its a light that hits the liver. Its nice to have it at home instead of being in the hospital.. He is so cute, he is very mild. A good baby..

Painting Time

I asked the kids if they wanted to paint my belly a pumpkin. They were so excited. We took them to get some Halloween paint and this is how it turned out.

Sick Kids and Still Waiting

All of our kids have been sick, cough, cold, throat infection, snotty nose, you name it. It has hit our family within the last couple weeks. Its so hard to fight off stuff when you have two kids that go to school to get it all over again. I took Kelli out of school for this week and Luke has to go to school or I will go to jail. Here in California if a student is absent more than five days the district takes over and investigates why. So I guess when the baby is here for sure, he may miss a day or two so he can stay with the grandparents.
Wade is the kid that got the curse of cold induced asthma. When ever he gets any sickness he is on his neubulizer. Flovent and Albuterol is a must in every car, every purse I own, and we have the neubulizer that plugs into the car, just in case. Mason's side of the family all have the asthma but his brother was hospitalized until he was eight with bad asthma. Our poor Wade gets sick and has to always take medicine for some problem, he is taking after me in that sense. I have been up with him all night because his tonsils are so sore- so bring on the baby because I am up all night anyways.
Okay- so you think that sense its my FOURTH baby that I would be dialated to like a three or four like I was with all the rest at this point. So I go into the doctors to hopefully get good news and what does he say? "Ohh, thats weird!", Your cervix closed up from the last two weeks. I was so mad!!! What!! I was expecting to be like a three or so but no, only me goes open to close. It seems to not make sense. The doctor was shocked because not only did I close the head is still high and not engaged. All my babies were head down and engaged so early that it put me on bedrest, but this baby is still high and not helping my cervix out at all. The worst part is that I am contracting so hard still and so that means its all for nothing. It totally sucks! So the next day, I ran to the bus stop with Luke, and he thought it was way cool that his mom is running with a big ol' belly. But this baby likes where he is and causing major rib pain, burning and aching but as long as that is it, I'm fine. SO -- Wednesday of next week, he'll induce me and it'll be all over with. So hopefully the 17th will be the lucky day. I can survive another couple days but I hope that my kids will be healing their own bodies inthe mean time..