Home Sweet Home!

We LOVE, love, love our new house! Benton and I feel like it was meant to be, everything worked out for us perfectly. We both can see us raising our family in this home which means we can see us living here for a long time. It has felt like home since the first night we slept here. We cannot wait to see what 2012 has in store for us!

We have met about 10 of our neighbors, which is unbelievable for us. I keep feeling like we should pinch ourselves because it is a dream come true. We have never been friends with any neighbors except the Nobles in Illinois, who I miss daily! I think this is going to be a wonderful neighborhood!

We normally are a little faster at putting our stuff away but the trip to the hospital delayed us a couple days. But I can say as of yesterday our house is officially all unpacked and clean! I love being able to relax in our new home.

Our house was built in 1969 but the previous and only owners of the house took really good care of it and did some renovations.

Come take a tour of our new house with me!

 

Our backyard...

 

 

 

Our entry way. I have this pet peeve of wearing shoes in my house. Ever since I had Cambree I've been obsessive about taking our shoes off. I imagine where the shoes have been and then what Cambree is touching and it makes me a little sick. So I got this cute saying off Etsy along with this basket from TJ Maxx, I think it's pretty cute!

 

 

Living room upstairs, it will probably be where Cambree plays during the day. I love that she can scatter her toys everywhere.

 

 

My favorite part of my house is this kitchen. I have never really had a big kitchen and I am loving the size of our new kitchen. I could sleep on the floor because I love it so much, I spend so much time in the kitchen that I am pleased to be cooking in here!

 

 

Also, I have never had so many cupboards in all my life. I love that the drawers in the cupboards pull out, it's amazing!

 

Dining room...

 

Our master bedroom, thankfully our furniture fits!

 

This is hanging on our closet door, any ideas of what it's for? I'm trying to understand if it's a rack to hang clothes, shoes...what is it?

 

Master bathroom. After one year of only having one bathroom I am in love that I now have 3 again.

 

 

Cambree's bedroom, I still need to finish a couple touches~like adding a rug, but it's still pretty cute!

 

 

My second favorite room in my house...the laundry room! Again, we have never owned a house with an actual laundry room. It's amazing, I'm not sure how I survived without it?

 

Built in laundry baskets, such a great idea!

 

 

Guest bathroom downstairs...

 

Our family room, we bought this sectional since our other couch is stuck in our Syracuse house...when we moved we couldn't get it out so it's there with our tenants!

 

 

We bought a new TV stand, Benton was done with our other one. He was pretty happy about his find and purchase!

 

And that's our new home. We are ready for visitors whenever you'd like, now I finally have a home that friends can come and play for a while!

Stats are in!

Cambree went to her 18 month check up this past Wednesday and we got her stats.

She weighs exactly 19 pounds, still in the 0% and is in the 50% for height. Her doctor asked if she was still in a rear facing car seat and I told her I just barley switched her to a front facing car seat and she kinda got upset with me. She said that kids now should be in a rear facing car seat till they were 2. Did anyone else hear the same thing from their pediatrician?

Cambree is loving her new house and is a busy little girl! I had to show these to you guys. She's been brushing her teeth, this is new to us because she has just gotten teeth during the last 3 months. I love when she brushes her own teeth, such a big girl!

 

 

Love you Cambree!

 

Never Again...

On Wednesday I was running around doing errands all morning long, just a normal morning. I arrived home about 12:40, brought in my things from my car and called my sister Chelsie to discuss my morning. Benton left as I arrived home, he had to run some of our garbage to the dump. I was looking in the fridge trying to find something to feed Cambree for lunch.

As I was talking my words began to slur. It was the craziest thing. In my head I knew and understood that I was slurring my words really bad but as I was trying to repeat myself. I couldn't verbalize what I was thinking. Chelsie of course was trying to understand what I was saying. At first she thought I was laughing or crying but as she tried to understand me she realized something was wrong. She hung up the phone with me and frantically called Benton to tell him to turn around and go home because I needed help.

I couldn't comprehend what was happening. Why couldn't I speak? I must have blacked out because when I woke up Benton was home trying to talk to me. He couldn't get me to respond so he went to find Cambree so he could stick her in her car seat to take me to the hospital. As he was walking away from me I woke up. I tried saying his name but what I was thinking was coming out all mixed up. I yelled for him and was asking him to come help me while sobbing. I tried wiping my tears from my face and realized my body, face, legs, everything was numb. I couldn't stand up, I was stuck helpless. Benton came to my rescue and was on the phone with 911. The operator asked "Does she have an onset headache?", "yes" I replied, "Is her body numb?", "Yes it is", "Is her speech slurred?", we replied "Yes". Benton also said that half my face was slumped. Then within minutes 2 ambulances were at our new house telling me I probably had a stroke and needed to go to the hospital.

We spent the next 5 hours in the Emergency Room. Benton called Chelsie, who dropped everything to come get Cambree so she wasn't stuck at the hospital. I felt back to normal except a splitting headache. They first had me get blood tests, a Cat Scan, a chest x-ray and finally an MRI. Luckily they said I didn't have a major stroke. The test showed it didn't leave any long term damage. With a mini stroke or a TIA, unless you have the symptoms at the hospital it is too hard for them to determine if that is what actually happened. The doctor said our technology for that still isn't good enough to let us know what actually happened. What happened to me matches exactly what the symptoms are for a TIA (transient ischemic attack or mini stroke). They referred me to go see a Neurologist within 2-5 days. I will call on Monday to schedule an appointment.

I am so thankful I did not have a full blown stroke and that it didn't cause any serious damage. I know Benton and Chelsie have been traumatized by this, which is understandable. My family as well as Benton's have called me daily to check on me, they have all said they will be calling in periodically to make sure I am alright.

Today I drove past a funeral progression and it hit me hard. I of course began to cry and it finally sunk in how serious what happened on Wednesday really was. I love all my family and friends and I promise you I will go to the doctor and figure out what happened to me so it doesn't happen again.

Our Holidays!

My parents as well as my brother, Thomas were able to come to town for Christmas this year. It was perfect timing for me, I always had a babysitter if I needed one since we were in the middle of moving!

We ate at Market Street one day, which is one of my favorite restaurants. Here's my mom, Thomas and my dad...

 

Cambree enjoying a healthy and filling lunch of ranch dressing...

 

When we were leaving the restaurant there was a table of about 15 people and Miss Cambree stood there and blew them all kisses while laughing, she thought she was hot stuff...such a silly girl I have.

On Christmas Eve morning we went to Benton's moms annual breakfast. We were a little late since we dropped off a load of our stuff to our new home!

Cambree and I all ready to eat some breakfast!

 

Nanny Linda gave Cambree a Baby Alive doll which eats bananas and drinks juice. Cambree is in LOVE with it, she loves her new baby!

 

Cambree loves getting attention, here she is acting silly and of course I thought she was just too cute not to get a picture of.

 

That night we had dinner at Chelsie's house with my mom's brother and her 2 sisters. It was nice hanging out and enjoying each others company! I didn't get very many pictures but I thought this was cute of Chelsie and I with our little girls!

 

On Christmas morning this is what I woke up to...

 

Once our sleeping beauty was awake we opened presents! My parents and Benton and I went in on this chair for Cambree, she LOVED it!

 

My sister Karly gave her this cup and of course she tried to drink out of it once it was opened, where's the milk?

 

I think she enjoyed opening presents but she didn't quite understand it. She loved sticking her hand in her stocking to see what else was in there.

 

On Christmas day we went back over to Chelsie's for a ham dinner. I am so grateful my family was able to spend time together this Christmas.

Family picture with us and my parents...

 

Emma and Cambree wearing matching sweaters...

 

Cambree was exhausted on our way home, I love a sleeping baby.

 

Happy Holidays, hope yours was as good as ours was!