A boy and his

bowl of water... You would never think that a bowl of water and the wand from bubbles would give a boy something to do for hours. Here is a picture from the other day... And again today... Yes this is what Jaemen does.. Drinks the nasty water, plays in the nasty water, and I can't do anything about it... He is a BOY!!! Here he is today much better picture...

But on a little bit serious note. I am having a little bit of the medical problems. Yes I say a little because I really dont want to over react but it is getting a little harder to. I have always had a lot of pain with my incision due to my c-section with the boy. I went to the OB-GYN about 5 months ago and he told me it is no biggie and that a lot of women have problems even a year and a half afterwards. He gave me the option to have a steriod blocker injected into the problem spots but also warned me that this would not be covered under my insurance he was guessing and it would cost a pretty penny and would probably have to be done several times. So I needed to weigh my options and if I could deal with the pain deal and it would go away. Well about a week or two ago I was having a much worse pain. A burning sensation now and cant even have my pants rub up against the area. I went and felt the spot again and found a mass about the size of a marble. It has since then became more and more painful and harder. So I do have an appointment with the OB-GYN again on the 6th. I have heard a lot of different options it could be from different people of course they are not doctors... But because of my mother's history with cysts this could very well be one... a hernia... or the best but still real painful option is scar tissue but I am not sure why scar tissue would just appear and be this hard and this painful. And of course when someone finds a lump or mass there could also be another option in which I wont even let myself think about! I will keep all of my close family posted on this topic of course... Until the 6th though we will not know. Thank you everyone for listening...

Hopefully you have enjoyed my pictures...

Karidan

2 Posts in 1 Day...

Yes Sir!!! And guess what?? I decided to scrap someone else other then MY child!! Wow... I have been wanting to scrap some pictures of my nephews for a while and since Afton has not forwarded any pictures to me to date I will just use the pictures that I have. You have seen these pictures before but now they are scrapped.. I have a lot of digital pages to get printed off and I plan on getting to my Project 365 pretty soon too. So it looks like I need to pick up a special shift just to get my pages printed off haha. Anyways... I am tired as you can see from my rambling. So here they are.. I am thinking cute enough to get framed and put on the walls of their bedrooms!! Afton SEND ME PICTURES and you might get a whole scrapbook one day!!! Anyways thanks for looking...

---Karidan

Time Flies...

Another page that I finished up... Yup the boy is 4 months off of turning two and I am just getting to it. But the only thing that matters is it is getting documented. Doesnt matter if it was when he turned 15.

Should be back soon with a some updated pictures...

-Karidan

Jaemen goes "Retro"...

Sherrow has wanted to get Jaemen a red pair of Chuck Taylors for almost a year now. Yesterday was the day. He decided to go and pick him up since he hasnt gotten a new pair of shoes in quite sometime. But look how adorable they are... I am seeing a pair of these in every color haha not really but here... or even the low tops!!

You can also expect a photo shoot with daddy and son with their chuck taylors... He has wanted that too...

Well now for the promised scrapbooking layout... I know it is what 3-4 months off of halloween again this year but I am trying to knock out the rest of Jaemen's Baby Album so we are now getting to his first holidays. At least Halloween, Easter, Mother's Day, and X-mas even though his real first one was when he was a month old he slept through the whole thing so we will pretend!! haha... Here you go!!

-Until Next Time....

Scrapbook update...

I was feeling a lot of creative juices trying to come out of these little fingers the last couple of days so I knew I needed to get back in that room. Once I did though it was like I couldnt get what I had in my head to come out on the paper. This is pretty close even though nothing like what I had in mind at first but then I changed it.. "Perfection" is the first page in Jaemen's second year album. It really doesn't have a home yet since I really want to get these albums. I will do a different color for each person or topic... But that is so I can put them on a shelf in our living room and display them so everyone can see them and not locked all up in my ScrapRoom for only me to see. Anyways.. I am thinking I really like it. Whatcha think??After finishing this up last night I really wanted to finish up some of the holiday pages for Jaemens first year album.. But in the probably about 1500 sheets of paper (underestimate most likely) I did not have any plain black 12 x 12 paper. Wow!! So I will be hitting Joann's today for a whole pack of black since I think this happened before. So expect more tomorrow.

Retweet..

Yes I am back again... but the designer I scrap for just got me another kit for the first time in a long time so I decided to get on it. This kit is perfect for little girls... Yes what I dont have. So I decided to use it for my preggo pictures. At this point I am deciding if I am going to keep all of my digital pages together in an album or mix them in with his baby book already made. Not sure yet??

Here is the kit... It is called Retweet and you can find it here at DigiRidoo Scraps

And here is the layout I made from the kit!!! Probably another one coming soon!!

Should be back tomorrow with an update for Project 365... Trying to get back on track.

Karidan

First little taste of...

weddings. My friend of mine had a little wedding party and really she just wanted candids of everyone but of course I tried to go a little bit and above. It was completely nerve racking still and there were wasnt that many formal shots. Here is just one picture that I took while I was there...

Let me know what you think for my first time... Never know I might just get a Wedding gig one day!! I would be pumped but totally NERVOUS!!!

Karidan

Pictures...

I was over at my dad's house last night and got a few pictures of the kids cause they have sprung up in the last couple of months..

The twins are WALKING.. full time now... Here is Christopher... He is getting huge also. He is starting to take some of his first steps also at 10months old.

Then of course we have Jaemen...

I am working with my camera getting some pretty dark shots so I am working with that... Until later..

Karidan

So Sorry...

So a lot has happened since the last post...
1. I was in another accident.. Everyone was ok but the car did not make it
2. We have bought a new car... 2004 Grand Am... and LOVING IT!!!
3. Sherrow had a family reunion
4. The internet was down for almost a week
5. Jaemen had a temperature of between 102-104 through the whole week of the fourth
and last but not happy to report...
6. Project 365 has taken a major hit.

So I guess let's recap a little more in detail on each one of those.

1. So the day of my mother's side graduation open house/party. I was traveling to go and get Sherrow from work and was in an accident. It was pretty bad but everyone (Jaemen and I) made it through. I suffered pretty bad the next day considering I turned the car so I was take the blunt of the accident and not Jaemen. I suffered also on the emotional side for a little. I had a lot of guilt about having JJ in the car and not being more careful.. About smashing another vehicle and no this one was not quite paid off. But after a late night breakdown Sherrow and I conquerred all of my feelings since I held them in until now and I had to see through all of it.

2. The accident was on the 6th and drove off in a car I think 18 days later. I am very happy that we could bounce back from the accident and not take as big of a hit as I thought we were going to take. We went from a 1996 Bonneville to a 2004 Grand Am and only increased our payment by $50.. We have been wanting something more but I definetly didnt want to smash one to get the other. But we came out on top and are very proud of ourselves.

3. Sherrow had a nice family reunion over the fourth. Unfortunely, Jaemen was not feeling his best and could not enjoy the beautiful beach at Seven Lakes State park. (which is very far out) Flint did not have fireworks this year due to the recession so we just enjoyed a few back at his sisters house. Also due to the fact I had a sick child in my arms the whole day I only have one picture and I didnt even take it.. But at least it is of our family.. You can tell that JJ was not feeling it.

4. Not much more to say the laptop was acting up and no internet.

5. On the 3rd when I went to put Jaemen to sleep I noticed that he was a little warm but nothing serious. So I went to check on him about two hours later and low and behold he was burning up at that time I think it was 102.4. So gave him some tylenol and hoped he would wake up and be better. NOPE... about 4 o clock I woke up again and he was still burning up this time it was 103.1. Long story short... Everytime the dang tylenol would wear off his temp would be right back up in the 103's. He didnt eat anything other then one helping of applesauce and one juice. I knew then something was up. So the next morning I took him to the clinic and there you go he has a throat infection. This poor kid just got over pink eye.. oh yeah I guess I should have put that in the list too.

6. Well sad news.. at least to me. Project 365 has taken a major hit in June. I thought ok Karidan just bounce back in July and yeah I think I have only taken 3 pictures of the past 7 days. It will be ok I will get back to it. And hopefully pack to blogging more also.

Meagen also just came to see us for an hour. I am soooo excited they might (fingers are crossed) be moving back to Michigan. I CAN NOT wait to hear if Mike gets the job.. But while she was her she was more the kind enough to TRY (key word) to get some pictures of us together. It really didnt work. Jaemen still wasnt feeling the best and Sherrow WOW Sherrow was giving the craziest faces ever. I should post them just to embarrass him so he wont do it again even though he claims he didnt know these were serious pictures. WOW... anyways here is the best and ONLY picture I can pull from the batch...

Well I will try to be more on top of the blog now that the internet is back up...

Karidan