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Two of my three favorite people had some fun on the trampoline the other night. I couldn't help but snap a few pictures. :) What fun!

Yesterday was Crazy Hair Day at Shayna's school. Boy did her hair get CRAZY! lol I told her she reminded me of an 80's Rock singer! Check it out for yourself! I was dying laughing when I saw it! Some of our awesome girls got together and did their hair together that morning. Don't they look HAWT!!!

Last week Addison and I took off for the Arboretum with Stephanie and her boys Gavin and Greyson. We had such a blast! Addison was absolutely worn out by lunch time after hours of running like a wild child in whichever direction her little heart desired. Here are a few pics of our fun day with the boys. We plan to go back again this week - thanks to my parents who gave us an early Christmas gift of a years membership! We can't wait to put it to good use!

Shayna is getting good at making the music for her school cheer squads halftime performances.  The highlight of my day on Tuesday was watching this performance at the FMS football game.  The girls choreographed this dance themselves and Shayna made the music.  I can't believe how fast these kids are growing up.  Seems like just yesterday we were moving here with our little 3rd grader.   Shayna is the one with the knee brace on her left leg.  

...and so begins the next journey in our life.  We have four more years (AHHH...ONLY FOUR?) with sweet Shayna - to mold and shape her before sending her off into the great big world.  We have 17 years with Addison - and that will be it for us in the youngster department.   Today we received the bad news that my HCG levels had dropped between Monday and Wednesday.  I went from thinking about baby names one minute, to the reality that there will be no baby the next.   It is almost comical how one begins to want something so bad when they aren't able to have it. How a person can think they don't even want any more kids...until they are faced with the inability to make that choice.   What's ironic, is that I had dealt with it.  I was okay with not having any more kids after Addison.  But I decided that we could give it one more try before I threw in the towel.   So we did, and never in my wildest dreams did I imagine we would actually get pregnant last month. But we did, and I ...

We are at a crossroad in our lives.   In September I declared that I was in for ONE MORE MONTH and that was it on the baby making stuff.  We would try that month - and let the chips fall where they may.  I will be 35 in June and this is the last month that we had to have a baby "before the dreaded 35".  This has been my cut off age for wanting to have anymore kids since the beginning of this adventure.  I held out very small expectations that anything would come of it and had accepted that Shayna and Addison were it for us.  Not that I am complaining cause they are a wonderful "it" to have.  Both girls just rock my world! However, God has a funny way of working sometimes.  On Friday, my "aunt" was all of about three hours late arriving - so I did what I always do, I grabbed a handy dandy pregnancy test and figured that once I got the negative result my aunt would appear shortly.  Isn't that how it always works?  It's like taking the test just ...

So this is how the transformation went on Saturday.   We got up - had breakfast together - played.  Addison went down for her nap and we made plans that when she woke up we would go to Ikea for an entertainment unit purchase.  I had looked at the catalog, had in mind what I thought would be great.   We arrived at Ikea - had some lunch with Addison there *yummy* then began our shopping.  We found a gorgeous unit that we both agreed on both in price and style.  It was a unit that you piece together and build based on your own personal desires for your home.  So we chose the pieces that we felt would be best for our home, our style.   We came home, moved items around as discussed in my previous blog.  Such excitement!  Steve spent the next several hours putting the unit together in our front room while Addison and I played around him and part of the time just stayed out of his way.  When she went to bed, the unit was almost completed in our room.  We are IN LOVE!  It is beautiful!  We cou...