A New Friend

We met a family through my friend Meghan that have a little girl that is just a month younger than Abby. Her name is Collette. We saw them again at a BBQ at Meg's house yesterday. The girls are so much alike! It is really fun to watch them interact. Incase you can't tell from the pictures, Abby's new thing is giving kisses, although it's more like eating your face!We will be having a BBQ at our house next weekend with Colette and two other babies! I will take a lot of pictures!

Back to Life!

What a week! I thought that I would use this blog to update all of our friends and family to let you know that we are alive after a crazy week. Abby started school last Monday which is very exciting. She is a busy girl and loves the action and activities there.

Last Tuesday night she woke up at around 11 PM and had thrown up ALL OVER her crib. And then she threw up again and again. At that point I remembered that she had fallen earlier that night (she is getting really close to walking, but doesn't quite have the balance yet and falls a lot) and hit her head. We were worried that the vomiting could be due to that so we rushed to the emergency room where they did a CT scan and determined that she had a concussion. Well, either they were wrong or we got hit with a double whammy because the next day I took her to the pediatrician for a follow up and he determined that she had the flu! Abby was all better by Thursday night, just in time for David and I to get the flu! There is not a feeling worse than having to take care of a baby when you feel so sick and weak. Luckily aunt sissy was in town and she came and took her to Grammy and Grampy Colgan's so that David and I could lie on our deathbed! Thank God for Chrissie that day. I am not sure what we would have done since Gramma colgan got the flu too! Anyways, after missing three days of school and work we are back in action. I just wanted to let you know why we have been so out of touch for the last week!

In other news...David starts his job with the City of Sacramento next Monday! I couldn't be more excited for him! Also, MONEYSCHOOL has officially been launched! The press releases went out last week through a company called send2press. They will distribute it to over 600 newspapers nationwide. It is up to the individual papers if and when they print it. We are so hopeful. If you would like to see the official version go to: http://www.send2press.com/newswire/2008-04-0416-004.shtml

Also, check out the website if you haven't already: http://www.moneyschool.com/

I will keep you all posted on our progress!

Finally!

I have been wanting to create a blog for our family for almost 8 months now (since Abby was born). It's amazing how much free time I didn't know that I had before she was born! I wouldn't trade all of the relaxation in the world for her though! And I know that David wouldn't either! We have been lucky this winter because David has been able to stay home with "the pants" (as aunt sissy likes to call her) quite a bit! He worked such long hours during the summer that it is nice for them to spend some time together now and she LOVES being with her Daddy! So by the time I went back to work full time, David was off more. It worked out perfectly. However, this week David has been back to work (leaving the house at 5am) so we have had to get back into our crazy morning schedule. Abby and I leave by 6AM to get to gramma Julies by 6:30. I HATE waking her up when she loks so cozy, but she always gives me a smile in the morning no matter what. Really if it were up to Abby she would never sleep anyways. She has too much to do all of the time - or at least that is how she acts! She has been crawling, sitting up and pulling herself up since January 12th (gramma nan's b-day) and being the brave women that she is her new thing is to let go of whatever she is holding on to and try to balance on her own. She really wants to walk! Other than our days revolving around work and Abby I don't have too much to report. I finally found a gym that I like and I have been going either on my lunch or after Abby is in bed (or both). I feel so much better when I work out and I have finally figured out how to do it without missing any abby time! I better get back to work. I will try to keep this blog up to date!