Birthday Galore

Sorry I have been a little lacking the last couple weeks.  Things have been CRAZY (literally) between work, home, doctors, animals, etc.  We have not slowed down one bit.  So, beware... picture and information overload in this blog.  Grace is doing much better!  For those that did not know or were unaware, after her birthday we had a follow-up (physical) scheduled with her pediatrician to get her shots and do the normal doctor visit stuff.  Well that visit turned into a much worse than well visit.  We actually ended up back at the children's hospital with more respiratory issues.  They wanted to monitor Grace's oxygen and heart-rate just to make sure things didn't get worst and to see if they could get her levels back up and heart-rate back down.  A few hours, x-rays, and breathing treatments later, we learned that she yet again has bronchiolitis.  They told us that with her getting this respiratory illness at such a young age the first time, she is more prone to get it with each common cold she may get.  As she gets older she will outgrow this (hopefully) because her airways will get larger, her immune system will get stronger, etc.  This is just something we will have to manage when and if it comes up.

So, she is currently back on breathing treatments, but on the bright side after the hospital visit we were able to do her well visit finally (3-weeks late) and get her shots.  She came in at a whopping 18lbs 02oz, 28.5" long.  Yep, she's pretty small, but doctor said she looks good and they just want her to be a lean healthy.  So, she is on a multivitamin supplement with iron to help bring her iron up some, is on breathing treatments to help with her dry coughs and breathing, but all in all healthy! :)

We had a family pool weekend last weekend and were finally able to get her into the pool because it was warm enough and she was well enough.  Look at our little rockstar in the cute new bathing suit that her friend Charlee and her mom, my sweet friend Tara, got for her.  Can you tell that she was ready for some fun in the sun!

Playing with daddy

Also, as promised in a previous post (52 Weeks Old), here are some more pictures from her birthday party that Torie took for us.  I was finally able to find the time to upload them to the computer.  She is such a blessed gal to have the wonderful family and support system that she has.  I could not be more thankful and blessed for everyone that was a part of her special day and are a part of our lives every day!

All squeaky clean and free after her cake smash! :)

I'm a little biased, but do believe she is quite a beauty!

No cowgirl birthday is complete without a Cambrie ride :)

Happy girl on her big day!

 Some other favorites of mine are:

Yes, we are a little silly

Ready to crash mid-party because she was too excited to nap that day

Having fun with her Papi!

Vercamen family 

Myers family

We also celebrated my mom's and sister's birthdays this week, so here is a little photo montage that I did for each of them :)  In honor of two of my favorite ladies... love you both so very much!!

Where has the time gone?! Happy 21st to my little sister Amanda!!!
Love you so much Boo! You have been my best friend and mini-me
from the beginning of your life and I cannot imagine
a better little sister than YOU!

Happy Birthday to my biggest fan, supporter, motivator,
and most importantly role-model. You are not only my mama,
but also my friend and I love you more than you could ever imagine!
May today be as big of a blessing to you as I know
you are to everyone you meet!!! Love you mama

A look back...

Well... I did all those weekly pictures of our sweet Grace Lynn.  To put things into perspective, here is a large checkerboard picture of our girl from 4 days old to 1 year old (I had to break it up into 3 separate pictures, lol).  This is just crazy.  When [they] say "time flies"; [they] were not lying!  I would not have changed a thing about this last year.  Garrett and I have both learned a lot about parenting (and still are), about each other, and about our sweet girl (as her personality continues to develop).  She is a blessing for sure!!

Love this girl!!! <3

This last week, she had her well visit which turned into a sick visit with a follow-up and now with another follow-up scheduled.  She still has a respiratory infection.  She's been on  breathing treatments and antibiotics for going on two weeks now and hopefully come Monday, we will get the okay to pull her off of both of those.  She is well enough for school, etc, but still is wheezing some.  She's our little trooper!  Her weight at her 1st well visit was 18lb 10oz and came in at 28.5" long.  Her weight at her last visit just came down slightly to 18lb 4oz, but all in all the doctor said that her demeanor seemed much better and her breathing has improved some (praise God!).  Here are a couple cell phone pictures from this week.  She got to use the big-girl scale for the 1st time!!  She loves her Maggie.  She loves to swing on our hammock with daddy.

52 Weeks Old

Well the time has come; Our little girl will be a year old tomorrow!!  Hot Dog!!  Where has the time really gone?!?!  Everyone asks how long I am going to do the weekly picture; I believe I will stop this week with the 1 year mark.  I will still keep up the blog though with the different happenings and milestones, and other things going on with the Myers family.  I just will not have the typical weekly picture post with her sign and all.  I will try to cut that down to maybe monthly or who knows quite yet... so with that, here is our not-so-little girl now.

This past weekend we celebrated her birthday western style.  We did the cake smash prior to the party per photographer/mom/friend, Torie's, advice because of her most likely getting dirty (which Grace most certainly did!).  Is she not the cutest thing ever?  Torie took many other pictures and I cannot wait to see them.  Thank you so much Torie for capturing Grace's big day for us.  This is just a sneak peak few that she has already edited and posted.

After her cake smash, we cleaned her up and put her in her western birthday outfit to get ready for all the fun.  We had 10 children along with several adults to come celebrate Grace's big day with us.  She is certainly blessed (as are we!) to have such wonderful people surrounding her.  A BIG thanks goes out to my mom for helping provide decorations and some goodies, my dad for providing additional tables and chairs, Allie for providing decorations and the adorable cupcakes (home-made at that), and to Garrett for the moral support and all his help.  I could not have gotten through the wonderful and successful day without their help.  Here are some pictures of Grace throughout her big day and of some of the decorations (thank you mom for taking these pictures).  Once I get some of the ones that Torie took, I will share those :)

LC: birthday girl, stopping by watering hole for ice, riding Cambrie
RC: singing "happy birthday", getting sleepy, opening presents
Center: all tuckered out after a busy day with mommy and daddy

Animal Cupcakes, Hay  Bales, Tractor Wheels,
Watering Hole, Goodies to Go, and Animal Farm

Happy early birthday baby girl!!

51 Weeks Old

Sorry, I have been slacking this week a little, but with good reason.  Amazing Grace Lynn is 51 weeks old!!!

Grace has been sick (again) since Thursday.  She developed pretty bad ear infections along with a bad respiratory infection.  She had to be pulled out of daycare on Thursday and taken to the doctor... there he immediately decided to give her the first dose of Rocephin and said had I brought her in a day later, we may have been back in the hospital.  Friday she received her second shot of Rocephin.  Then come Saturday; I took her in and she was still having fevers, which should not occur with the amount of antibiotics she was receiving through the Rocephin.  So, she also received a breathing treatment while there, as well as the final Rocephin shot because her wheezing had not improved and her ears were still pretty bad.  She was also prescribed 3 other antibiotics, daily breathing treatments, and a probiotic to help counter the antibiotics.  Monday, Garrett took her back into the doctor and her ears look much better, her breathing has improved, and overall she is doing a lot better (Praise to God).  She has however developed a rash from one or multiple antibiotics she's been on, and therefore, that has to be monitored.  Fortunately, the fever has not returned and rash hasn't worsened; so she was able to go back to school yesterday morning for the first time in almost a week.  She is still not quite 100% herself and it was so hard to leave her because she did not want to let me go (which is very unlike her).  I know it was good for her though to interact with her little friends and to just get out of the house.  This morning she she was even more herself and more playful when I dropped her off.  I think she just needed some time to get back into the normal routine and swing of things.  Here are just a few cell phone pictures of our sweet Grace from this week.  We bought her a swing for her birthday and decided to give it to her early since she's been unable to really get out and about; plus she will not know the difference on whether she receives her gift now or later.  She loved it!!  I was so happy to see her smile because her sweet smiles have been harder to come by this last week.  The top picture is pre-swinging and her typical behavior all week (understandable).  The other three are her happy to be swinging faces :)

Garrett and I are both just thankful that she went through all this this past week and not this coming week, as we will be celebrating her big 1st birthday!! :)  Here's to her continuing improved health and that she is 100% for her big day!

50 Weeks Old

Happy 50 Weeks Old baby girl!  Here is her Easter artwork from school too :)

This week has been a crazy busy one, but looks like every week may be like that here on out for a little while.  This Friday evening we went with some of our church family to the Magic Game.  Grace really does enjoy the games!  She zonked out by the 3rd quarter though.  We also got to see our favorite dancing dad, Fred, perform and talk to him in person in the concourse   Grace loved his goofy light up glasses.  Happy that he finally got to meet Grace too!

Great seeing Fred, Grace hanging out with Papi, and Zonked out by the 3rd

Saturday morning after Grace's mommy-and-me class (which mommy and daddy both got to go to this weekend!), Grace got to experience her 1st Easter egg hunt and had a great time with Molly and Beau.  She loved picking up the eggs.  She even shared her basket with Molly because Molly didn't want much to do with her own basket :)

She had so much fun; loved seeing her smile as she hunted for eggs

After the Easter egg hunt, we headed over to Uncle Donnie and Aunt April's for an Anniversary BBQ for my Grandparents.  Happy 56 years Grandma and Papa!!  It was such a wonderful event for the two of them.  We even played the "Not-So-Newly-Wed Game" and Garrett and I won!!  Yep, we beat out my grandparents and Aunt and Uncle... Way to go Garrett!!  Grace had so much fun with her cousins, Ava, Logan, and Wyatt.  Thank you to Uncle Donnie and Aunt April for hosting.  It was so nice to get all of the kids together and watch them interact.  I really hope we can do that more often.  It was also great for me to see all of them and the family as well too!!

Happy Anniversary to Gaga and Papa!!

Riding in the trailer, Petting the bunny, All the cousins together,
Flying with Papi, and riding the roller coaster with Ava

Then Sunday, we had our resurrection service at Church, followed by lunch with the family.  The service was absolutely beautiful and always nice to also see some old familiar faces that came back around and some new faces!

Loves to worship, After her Aunt Goober's special performance,
Family picture on Easter, hanging out with her Nana

Later Sunday evening, Garrett's family came over to visit with us for a little while also.  We had a great time with them!

Playing with her Aunt Sam, and Swinging with her Aunt

So, talk about a busy weekend, but all was wonderful and we truly did enjoy every minute.  Here's to yet another busy week ahead... counting my blessings and just trying to stay stress free in the hectic busy life right now, remembering all that we really have to be thankful for.

49 Weeks Old

Out little cowgirl is 49 weeks old this week and is a happy girl.  I can't believe how big she is getting and how fast she is getting that big.

 This weekend Grace actually got to attend her first baseball game.  We went to the Braves vs. Astros pre-season game.  I'm a Braves fan, so it was nice to be able to enjoy the game with her... we argue over whether she will be a Rays or Braves fan (Garrett loves the Rays; hey at least they are in different divisions).  She is also allowed to like and root for Pedroia of the Red Sox (so long as the outcome does not affect one of those teams).  The Myers' family know why we like him :)  Anyways, she did wonderful at the game... had her first real BallPark Frank, had some ice-cream with her daddy, had some of Nana's pretzel, and just had an all-around good time.  Can you tell she likes to eat though??  And winner-winner for us... She did not burn!!  We did well with the sunscreen, lol.

Great seats!  Go BRAVES!

Loves her daddy!

Other than the baseball game, this week was a pretty calm one for Grace.  As promised, a few more pictures from her playday with Nana and Aunt Boo :)

My Girl on two big Tractors, in the Train, and SWINGING!

48 Weeks Old

Grace Lynn is so very close to that 1 year mark it is scary.  She has finally reached 11 months... I say finally, but it feels like yesterday I was holding her for the first time at the hospital.

Also, big news this week... She is breaking a tooth in... yay!! :)  She is handling it like a trooper too!  She has pretty much been her normal self aside from YES, another ear infection and having to go back on the inhaler.  I swear, it never ends.  I'm just thankful to be blessed with an all-around healthy happy baby girl.  I could not ask for more!

Bottom right tooth just starting to show itself :)

This last weekend, we went to Grandma and Grandpas for their annual pig-pickin' and had a wonderful time! Our time there consisted of some very delicious food, air boat riding, 4-wheeling and yep, mudding.  This was Grace's first (of many, I'm sure) pig pickin's.  She loved it!!  She got food from anyone willing to feed her and she got to go on the rhino again with mommy and daddy.  We took her out to the lake, which is actually the first place that Garrett took me the first time that we went 4-wheelin' together.  Beautiful, right??

Lake Harney

Then Monday, Grace got to leave school early to play hookie with Nana and Aunt Goober.  She spent the day at the parks and just enjoying herself with them.  I don't have many pictures yet, but believe me, her Nana has some and has an adorable video of her laughing on the swing.  She absolutely loves to swing!!!  After her day with them, they came by the house for a little bit to help us out and to drop baby girl off.

Fun, fun, fun!

Aunt Goober earning her boots as Garrett would say, lol;
Helping to unload the boys' hay.

Now, it's back to the grind and back to getting her to her 100% self... so on the antibiotics and inhaler she goes.  For fun, here is a picture of our first baby girl, Cambrie, and Grace Lynn, our little cowgirl; love these two and how they can interact with one another more now :)

And our sweet little sassy thing, Grace Lynn :)

P.S. shout out to my best friend Stephanie that I got to catch up with again this week; a very happy early birthday to YOU as well as to your sweet girls Karley and Amanda!!

Friends Always!!