What we have been doing??

First of all... I need to know if all of you guys on my email list are getting spam email. I have a source (meagen) haha that is getting emails trying to sell her sex tapes I think she said, they are coming I am pretty sure just how these emails are coming. Please go to the blog and answer the poll at the right to let me know.. if you guys are then I might be changing the blog over.

Ok.. On to the rest of the our lives. Jaemen's Dad and I have been WORKING.. Of course it is Xmas season and we have been working our little tails off. Other then that though we have taken out some time for a little fun...

We went to the Piston vs. LA clippers game on Nov 27th after Thanksgiving..

We have decorated our tree and rearranged our living room even though.. now we are thinking we should have done it a different way and Sherrow has been thinking he wants to lift the tree up with bulbs and all.. I wont let him.

Then, we had Jaemen's 2nd Birthday party... And he had a ton of fun. Here is the cake that I made him

And a couple of the presents that he recieved...

Other than that I have been working on a few things including some scrapbooking pages and a recipe book that is neater then my own writing and if something spills or spashes on it.. it wont bleed!

Problem is I need a picture for it all... Ahh hopefully the next cake I am going to make for JJ's last birthday hurrah will turn out. I have been wanting to make this cake for a while NOW!!

Until next time,

Karidan

Update (107/365)

WHERE DO I START??

Well lets start at some cool news!! I have been picked to design for a digital scrapbook designer. Now that I dont have school (well in a week) I will have time to do some of the things that I love. What this entails for me to do is turn in a layout per kit that she designs (will try to do at least two for her) and for me to post those layouts in the galleries that I already do post plus her store ahhscrap.com. You will see her blinkie to the right and below to go to her blog and see all of her designs. Felicia is a great designer so please go and check her out if you are interested. ****OK so I just want people to know that I didnt think my dad would want to go her store but I guess he is interested soooo click above DAD!! LOVE YOU!!****

But that is pretty exciting... So watch for some layouts to come!!!

Next, Jaemen going to the hospital. I am still getting asked what happened so I guess I will go through the whole 24 hours that we were in the hospital. Well it first started out that night after I put him to bed. But let me remind him that he was perfect ate a whole dinner and everything. At about 10 pm though I had a feeling something was wrong since he wasn't sleeping well at all. He was waking up about every 30 minutes... finally about 3 am I pulled him into our bed with us and he was crying like he was in pain and a little bit of agony. I thought maybe an ear infection so I gave him a little bit of Tylenol. Waited for that to work and 3o minutes later he was still crying and now screaming at times. I was getting pretty worried so I work Sherrow up and asked him if he had went to the bathroom that day and he said no. So now I am really thinking a belly ache plus now I can hear his little tummy bubbling. I finally get him to practically pass out with us at about 6:30. He woke up with me at 9 but still he was moaning and whining all the way through those three hours. At nine I got him some gas X for babies and then went to store for some Prune juice and left for work telling Sherrow to call me if he thinks it is getting worse. Sure enough like an hour into work he text me telling me he is really screaming and still hasnt even walked a step. (very unusual for our on the go little boy) So I called the doctor and they said get him to the ER now. So we get there and they were telling us it sounded like Appendicitis, which is completely scary. So they ordered labs, X-rays, and ultrasounds to check. As we were coming back from x-rays they were telling me the labs did not come back good and we met the pediatrician surgeon that was called in for my child. That is scary. And she felt him and told us she didnt think it was appendicitis but something was wrong still and it could be that his bowels were retracting into themselves causing a lot of irritation. So he got a barium ***enima*** (Sorry spell checker changed it he is not anemic, I have also linked it if you dont know what the poor little guy had to go through***where we good see all of his intestines and after this happened we were admitted for the night. It was so sad to see my little boy so out of it. But it was like something just clicked and he came back to life. We were so excited that he had stopped crying and it seemed like everything was better. So we were discharged the next day with the doctors not really knowing what happened because they didnt find anything during the anemia but they said that it might have not been happening at that time and the anemia fixed it. Whatever it was the anemia fixed it he might have just needed to be flushed out. He has been ordered to eat more fruit and veggies but that is pretty hard we have resorted back to baby food fruit cause he wont eat real fruit and he only eats peas. Oh and LOTS and LOTS of water. (which he gets a lot anyways so that didnt matter) So all in all he is fine and thanks to every one that gave him your prayers and to my dad and maryanne for bringing up the great calzone ever since I didnt get to eat until like 7 that night.

I have updated Shuttercal with pictures. Lately it has been getting pretty hard to find something to take a picture of but hopefully after this little last hump of school I will have time to actually think about it and get a little more creative. Because I have hit the 100th day of Project 365 and I think that is something that I have made it that far. Sherrow asked me the other day, "Have you been taking pictures everyday or have you fallen off?" I was like "Heck no!! I am on top of it!!"

On the school front, I have a final on Monday along with my poster presentation. I also have a paper due (which I knocked out today) and 3 lab report to wrap up on Sunday. Then just my final Analytical lab report for my mini project and I WILL BE DONE!! YEAHH!!!

At last, I am going to leave your with a picture of Sherrow at the casino with his winnings for his first time at the blackjack table. I didnt take my camera (i know, I know) but Sherrow wanted me to just leave it at home so I could just have fun and not worry about pictures. BUT I did was like oh man I wish I had my CAMERA!! So I just took pictures with my Camera phone like I did with Jaemen in the hospital.

Karidan

St. Patty's Day (77/365)

Well both me and Sherrow had to work so Jaemen spent the majority of the day with Granny but when we did go get him we went to Buffalo Wild Wings for 60 cent wing night!!! And then we played outside.. Jaemen is loving be able to just run.. run.. and RUN some more...

I am really still getting used to my camera and I just found this awesome site, Borrowlenses.com (Meagen check it out) It lets you borrow lenses. So you can see how you like them before buying them!! I am soo going to try this when school is out!! I have been looking into possibly getting this lens in the far future so this might help my decision.

Here a few pictures and a comparison (meagen has been asking for this)

This is his new thing... He just goes around saying Oooooo....

And now that he is walking he wants to do a lot himself like going up and down stairs... (rusty cage action kinda cool)

This picture I didnt know if I liked it better in color or in B&W but for once I think COLOR...

And look at this one year later.. Jaemens little hair wasnt even curling and now he has a little fro. He looks so much more grown up and I CANT get him to smile for the camera anymore where it used to be so EASY!!! Now he smiles as soon as the darn shutter closes!!!

Until next time.. Photo of the day for today will come later went to the Space Research building at the University of Michigan.. (not very interesting picture just the pic of the sign) but I went there to see this...

Analytical Electron Microscope

Until next time!!

~Karidan

Hope you had a very....

Merry Christmas. Because our family had a great one. It was very busy sometimes not getting home until the middle of the night but a wonderful christmas and I just cant wait for the years to come with our little boy. He was looking fabulous on Christmas, I have been waiting to put him in this outfit for forever and finally got all the pieces. *even though he wasnt up for having his picture taken at this time*

The new camera defiently got some usage but I have to work a lot with it still. You defiently have to know your basics of photography. Much different from the old camera. We had our first christmas at our house. We got jaemen just a few presents things that we have been wanting to get him for a while. Here is Daddy and Son having fun even though he wasnt so into opening presents this year of course.

Other then that for everyone that hasnt seen us in the past week... We have a WALKER!!! He still likes to crawl when he wants to get somewhere quick but he walks everywhere now!!!

Scoot always getting in the way!!

Jaemen is also 13 months today!!!

Until next time

Karidan

What I will be doing this weekend..

HOMEWORK!!!

Analytical Chemistry

• HPLC Lab Report
• AAS Lab Report (done)
• GSMS Lab Report
• Write up PreLab for GC (done)
• Outline for Presentation(done)

Physical Chemistry

• Iodine Lab Report (done)
• Write up Last weeks lab
• Homework Set #4 (DONE)

Prof in Chemistry

• Finish my Senior Seminar (most important it is friday)DONE!!!!!!

Oh yeah and get my resume together for a job opening for a Forensic Technician in Sterling Heights??

I cant wait for this next week to end!! I will have no more Analytical Lab so that means no more school on Tuesday and Thrusday!! U Can track my progress through the weekend I will cross them out!! Not that you care but I just wanted to get my to do list down somewhere before heading to work!! Love all of you!!

Karidan

11 MONTHS!!! WOW

Can you even believe it?? He is going to be a year old in one month!! WOW!!! Not much is going on here other then a lot of very little sleep nights!! I am working on a lot of stuff for school until bout an hour until jaemen wakes up at night ( i should just stay up until he does) doing my homework!! Crazy and I cant catch up!! anyways... Like I said not much going on here!! I do have some good news though.. It looks like I will graduate in the SUMMER!!! AHHHH!!! I am going to have the same exact semester next semester!! Just the advanced side of what i am doing so 3x harder!! But I want to get it done so I am going to push through it!! I CANT WAIT!!

Halloween was good here... I sat inside the door and watch Sherrow and Jaemen hand out candy... or watch jaemen almost fall down the stairs THREE times!! (See below) He thinks he is a big boy and can climb the stairs.. OH and.... we might have a walker any day now!! He took two steps tonight!! we just have to get him over this whole fright thing and letting go!! He is standing all by himself now!! Not really excited for that though.. when you ask him what he has he is already starting to dip on us and crawl away as fast as he can go so what do you think he is going to do when he can walk!!

I will try and post some more soon!! Jaemen has a photoshoot coming up maybe tomorrow if I get sometime cause I have to get his invites out!! But here is a few pictures!!! Love you all!!

Fall is Here.....

I love this time of year!! The colors, the chilly mornings (until i have to get out of the warm covers and then sherrow has to bring me sweat pants and a sweatshirt so I can get dressed under the covers :)) the only thing I dont like is my CHILD HAS NOTHING TO WEAR hehe!! Time to go shopping!!!

Well I finally got a minute to myself to give you guys a small update... Sherrow is back from Oklahoma and it is soo nice to have him back. I cant finally get a little bit of homework done with Jaemen up. School is still kicking my butt.. I have tests, quizzes, a 10 min presentation all this week to do still. On top of that I have to start planning jaemens 1st birthday, decorate the house for fall/halloween ( I would love to do something like this or this, Take jaemens 1 year pictures for this birthday invites ( i have great idea in my head that involves quite a mess), and to buy jaemen a new warobe because he has out grown everything!! So my to do list is a mile long and I dont have anytime to do any of nor the money because I dont have time to work either hehe...

Next on my agenda is to make christmas cards to get up on the website so look back to them. They are going to come with a mini family session to get a updated family picture also. So i have to get that all put together I am hoping to do it before the fall colors go away!! You can also opt to just give me a family picture and just get the christmas cards!! So look for those soon hopefully (probably not until my Chemistry presentation is done next friday though)!!

well until next time!! I have to go get started on my powerpoint presentation!!! Love you all!!