"Our Father in Heaven has given us, His children, much more than any mortal mind can comprehend. Under His direction the Great Jehovah created this wonderous world we live in . God the Father watches over us, fills our hearts with breathtaking joy, brightens our darkest hours with blessed peace, distills upon our minds precious truths, shepherds us through times of distress, rejoices when we rejoice, and answers our righteous petitions." Dieter F. Uchtdorf, "The Love of God," Ensign, Nov. 2009



Friday, December 25, 2009

Messages from Santa

This was a website we found it was cute. Julia and Bryant loved it. Paul had one sent to his brother Bryan it was too funny. We were all laughing when Paul played it.

Julia’s message

http://portablenorthpole.tv/watch/be39d1dae8232c199a09b9b3683e28bf

Bryan’s Message

http://portablenorthpole.tv/watch/bb955fe0a16b43c2a3d6ab37806ba909

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Everybody needs a little TIME OUT!

Two peas in a pod. Always in trouble together. But aren’t they cute little messes.

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After a few minutes in time out    :) ALL is Well

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Thursday, November 26, 2009

Happy Thanksgiving

Hope everyone has a safe and blessed day. We are thankful for all our many friends, family, and the time we get to spend with them. IMG_0842

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Just look at all these SMILES! I am most  thankful for them.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Does anybody recognize this?

Paul decided to organize a few of the closets here at the house before his parents come home and found this hidden in one of them. He said his brothers and sisters would recognize it. I don’t believe him. Can anyone of his sisters or brother back up his stories?

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Saturday, October 31, 2009

Happy Halloween

Since I recently had a C section my sisters took my little girls trick or treating, and boy did they have fun spending time with there Aunts, Cousin, Uncles, Friend, and Pop-Pop Erwin.

Julia was a pretty witch

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Haley was a princess.

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Alyssa, Julia, Joey, and Haley

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Hope yours was as fun as ours!

Thursday, October 29, 2009

Do all girls have to have drama coming into this world or is it just me and mine?

Here’s Cameron Chapman !

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C- Section went ok. Only problem this time was when we went to check out, my Hemoglobin had dropped a lot since I had first checked in. It started at a 12.5, after surgery it was a 9.5, and the morning I got ready to leave it was at a 6.5. It was not suppose to be dropping. I had to go in for a CAT scan and was told I may not get to leave, and if they found internal bleeding or a blood clot I’d have to stay an extra week and Cameron would have to go home without me. My Dr. who had not ordered the scan had my hemoglobin checked again it went up to 8. After I drank the nasty stuff for the Cat scan my DR. came up said he did not think I needed the scan. He Thought everything was ok. I decided to go ahead with the scan just because I had just forced myself to drink this nasty stuff in 2 hrs. The scan showed I did have a blood clot but it was under the incision and Dr Trogolo was not concerned about it, that it should be reabsorbed into my body.  He said if I want to go, he’d sign the release papers. So I was released at about 6:50 pm and made it home by about 8pm. We are doing well. Cameron has an appointment on Tuesday, and I am slowly recovering from all the excitement. Hope to see everyone soon!

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Thursday, October 22, 2009

CRAZINESS

We woke up to a phone call at 4am. It was a reminder from Middleburg Elementary NO SCHOOL  Friday due to teachers planning day. (Craziness) It took me a few minutes to realize they were meaning the next day and they had probably set the time wrong for the announcement. It should have went out at 4pm. Oh well, I tossed and turned for about an hour trying to go back to sleep.  With the thoughts of little Somer Thompson from Orange Park that had been abducted and found earlier that day at a garbage dump. (More craziness) And what else we could do to keep our children safe. When the alarm went off I rolled out of bed knowing I had to get myself, Julia, and Haley ready because Julia had school and we (me and Haley) were meeting the play group at the zoo. On the way to school, (listening to Julia whine the whole time because she couldn’t go to the zoo) traffic was backed up horrible. (More craziness for the morning )So I cut down Main street to drop Julia off. As we drove by the back of the school no one was there, no kids walking to class no cars dropping anyone off. (very strange and unnerving)  As I turned onto Section street to get into the drop off area. The gates were locked and a line of cars sat waiting to talk to the guy in the middle of the street turning everyone away.  When I got my turn he said school was closed due to a threat. I called Paul and let him know and he called the School Board and was told that there was a bomb threat. And all the kids picked up on busses were sitting at the Baptist church, and all teachers had been evacuated, but there cars had to stay in the parking lot until everything could be checked out. No one was aloud in. More Craziness!!!! So I decided to continue with my plans for the day and me and the girls met the playgroup at the zoo. We had a wonderful time with friends, and was able to put the rest of the craziness out of my mind. Afterwards since I had to almost pass my grandparents house to go home and have not seen them in a few months I stopped and spent a few hours with them.  Thankfully the craziness stopped and the rest of the day was uneventful and relaxing. We even had dinner waiting for us when we made it home! (Paul cooked!)

Friday, October 9, 2009

What do you think?

Julia asked me today, “Mommy do you think my new baby sister Cameron, will look like me?”  My guess is there is a big chance she probably will! Take a look at these two cuties at about the same ages.

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Pretty close resemblance I’d say!

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Whitehead Family Reunion

This past Saturday we had a family reunion with the Whitehead side of the family. Most of them I haven’t seen in about 2-3 years and some that came I haven’t seen in about 10 years. I got to see cousins that I grew up with that I missed. We got to catch up on each others lives. What a fun day it was with lots of great food. Here are a few pictures that I took. I didn’t get as many as I wanted because I was watching the girls some of the time.

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Sunday, September 13, 2009

Happy Grandparents day!

I just wanted to start off with how wonderful I think my grandparents are. I’ve always looked up to them. And though I know they have made mistakes in their lives. I still idolize them. My maternal grandparents are 75 and my paternal grandparents are 72 and 75. Both grandfathers have served in the navy.  One for a short period of time and the other retired from the navy.  Both have worked very hard to achieve the things in life they have.  Both have raised wonderful families, and are willing to assist those around them in need. They have been great examples for me in my life. I enjoy their stories and hope to have them around for several more years to hear more stories.  They are also great examples for my children too. Who love to go and see them!

Julia and Haley also have wonderful grandparents for examples in their lives, and I know they idolize them too.  Grandparents are wonderful! We all feel their love when we are around them wither it is grandparents or great grandparents, we know we have them to love us and we love them very much.  I’ve also got to meet most of Paul’s grandparents and think they are just as wonderful as mine, and can’t wait to meet the ones that passed away before I met Paul.  Here are some pictures of them.

Don’t they all look so happy. grammy and pop-pop

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Paul’s Grand daddy and Grandmother Chapman

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Paul’s Grandmother Thompson

 

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Paul’s Birdie-Mae and Grand daddy Thompson

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Kid’s Pop-Pop Erwin

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Ilene’s Grandpa Erwin

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Ilene’s Grandma Erwin

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Ilene’s Nana and Grandpa Mitchellmom and denny

Kid’s Grammy and Pop-pop Whitehead.

I also have a great grandmother Crone still alive but can not find any pictures of her right now. I defiantly need to get updated pictures of everyone together! These took hours to find and most were taken 2005! I can’t believe I’ve slacked so much in picture taking!

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Ok I tried to email this to Grammy and Pop-Pop but the file was too big. So no one tell Paul I put it on my blog to send to them! Yea right I'm sure everyone will tell him right :)It was way to funny. This is a song Julia learned in VPK that I thought was very funny. And I thought it would be fun to share with grammy and pop-pop. Maybe you can teach it to the kids in Barbosa!

Monday, August 31, 2009

Julia’s first day of Kindergarten

Julia started kindergarten today. She was so excited. He teacher is Mrs. Caldwell. There were no tears. She sat at her little desk and said hi to one of the other little girls (Kaylee) that she met during orientation. Today only half of the class showed up and yesterday the other half came. And tomorrow all of them will be there together. Last night we had her favorite dinner to celebrate (hamburgers, fires, and brownies). Hopefully she has a good day. Haley will miss her.

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Sorry it took so long to post. I couldn’t find my cord to the camera to get the pictures. Just to update Julia had a great first week of school and loves it. And Haley misses her each day.

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Update on the new arrival

Last Monday I went for an ultra sound appointment. All is well the baby weighs a little over 3 lbs. She is moving around a lot and sits in a very uncomfortable position (for me) resting her bottom on my pelvic bone, facing my left side and her spine curves around to my right side. Not sure if she’ll turn to the right position before her due date, but it doesn't mater. Since everything is right on target, we scheduled the c-section for October 26 at 7:30am.  I think we have also decided on a name, Cameron Irene Chapman. But with Paul he may change his mind again, but hopefully not because we don’t have any back ups!  The ultrasound specialist was very nice and since my sister works there I get special treatment from everyone. She did a 4- D picture for me, not that it shows a whole lot but it was cute. 

She has her little hand up by her face like she’s sleeping on it.  4d face

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We can’t wait to see this new little Spirit, and find out what her personality is like. They are always such fun.