News Concerning G's Sister

Please read this exerpt from G's sister's email. She sent this out yesterday to the family and worded things better than I ever could. Please keep her in your prayers as things have changed some with her pregnancy.

"Because of the difficulties with my last pregnancy, I am working with a high risk ob group. They have been doing a number of tests to determine what might of caused the problems last time and what might be done to prevent them from reoccuring.

In the process, we found that I have a genetic defect, heterozygote prothrombin gene mutation, which causes clotting problems and has been linked to preeclampsia and premature birth. It is a clotting disorder that impacts the vein system and as such does not appear to have anything to do with the history of stroke and heart disease in our family. It is linked to blood clots forming in the lungs and legs.

As for me, they have started me on twice daily blood thinner injections for the remainder of my pregnancy. They feel as though, along with the blood pressure drugs I'm on, this should help prevent what happened last time from happening. It's still considered high risk, and I will be monitored closely. But I feel good about things, and we're very excited to meet this new little person."

I'll keep you all posted on things - I think the general consensus is that we are all glad they found the cause of the preeclampsia and feel like they can prevent an early birth this time around. It's a little bit scary, but the more informed she and the doctors are the better.

No Phone

Mine Died. :(

I'm getting a new one tonight - but until then if you need to get a hold of me leave a message or call G - I'm checking my messages periodically.

No Computer

Mine Died. :(

So I can either take my work one home every night or share G's. We are looking to buy a new one but until then my internet time is limited.

Some News... Wandering Heart is due August 21st and G's sister is due August 24th! It looks like August will be a busy month!
We also found out the reason G's sister developed Pre-eclampsia with her first child and their is a chance she could develope it again with her second. Apparently she tested positive for a genetic disorder which causes the blood to clot. This explains all of the heart attacts they have on thir dads side of the family - there's a good chance G has this disorder as well. I guess she only talked to the nurse at this time and is going in to the specialist Tuesday - I'll keep you posted. From what we heard this does raise her chance of having complications but since they know this early there are things they can do to lower those chances. Please keep her in your prayers.

That's about it for me - we had some snow 2 nights ago and it looks like it's going to snow tonight as well - we'll take some pictures.

Whirl-wind

Our Booth...

We survived another bridal show yesterday! After family left on Tuesday we knew we needed to get our act together to get ready for the show. We wanted to change a few things about our booth and only had a few days to pull it together. Wednesday we bought the bookcase but couldn't take it home since it didn't fit in the car. It also would not fit on Thursday with G's car (his back seat folds down), so G had to pick it up with the truck we rented on Friday. Also on friday I was able to get some old carpet samples - enough to have carpet for our booth. So Friday night we drove up to the convention center with only 45 min. of set up time left. We had Sat. morning but we were worried about how long the carpet would take and how hard would it be to put together the bookcase. Luckly we had enough time to do both before we were kicked out. That night we put together all of our photos in frames, a bunch of new albums, and a few new printed pieces as well.
Saturday morning we were up early and on our way to the convention center with another truck load of stuff. We worked hard for a few hours and still had enough time to change and have something to drink and eat before the doors opened at noon.
We felt the show went well. We had more traffic than we did at the last show and we hope to have a few bookings from it. We'll see! We both agreed as did others that our booth looked great and we really feel we have what we want it to look like for a while.
It took us 2 hours to get everything taken apart and before we were able to get a cart to get our stuff out to the truck. Then we had to unload everything into the house and return the truck back in chatt. that same night.
I was upset because we use G's desk-top as a table there and since it's a solid door we've stained and finished, it's very heavy and almost more than him and I can lift. Last time we had a friend help us so they did the door. Anyway, when we were setting it down here in the house, just inside the door it slipped and hit the floor pretty hard. Luckily it landed flat so the damage was minimal...
This morning we got up sore and tired and after we recouped some we worked most of the day on putting everything back in it's place.
G has his first day teaching tomorrow so he's getting ready for that, and I'm debating on laundry...
Anyway, that's our weekend.

A Post

Well, before my blog gets highjacked I thought I would write.
We've had a busy but great Christmas and New years. I went to California to travel for work a few days before the first group of family came in and G was a huge help in helping me get the house ready. G's family came in on the Friday before Christmas with a big announcement. His sister is expecting in August. We had a few days of eating, playing games, watching movies, and enjoying being together before Christmas and then had a nice Christmas eve dinner before Santa came. We were also worn out from playing with "A" who is in a stage of requesting his playmates, place, and of course "now". Lots of fun though! Christmas day was fun - it was the first one we've spent at our house since we usually are traveling to others so that was nice. Then before we knew it the house was empty and the cat was grateful to be let out of our room.
I worked a couple half days while we got the house back to clean and ready for more family. Mom & Dad, and Wandering Heart's family came over on Saturday with another big annoucement - that she too was expecting in August. August will be busy!!
We enjoyed being together, eating, playing games, watching movies and a little shopping. Plus we got to play with Bear who was a joy to have over. New years eve we had a nice meal and stayed up late playing Apples to Apples - a great game! And then welcomed in the new year with a toast and a kiss.
Before we knew it again our house was empty and I was on my way back to work.
We picked up the "Furminator" last night and got rid of most of Caslon's loose hair. She liked it - the way she likes getting brushed. The only problem is we couldn't use it around her neck becuase she has some scabs. Once those heal though we'll clean that area too. We were amazed afterwards that we could pet her without getting a handfull of loose hair in our hands. I think it really made a difference.
We also picked up some things for our booth at our next Wedding show on Saturday. I think we learned from the last show what we needed to do to step it up some and I think we feel that we will have a better presentation this time around. We have to get ready for that tonight and set up tomorrow night with the show saturday.
Then I'll have a couple days of down time before I fly out to Dallas for work for the rest of next week. We have a very busy January, and the rest of the winter is starting to fill up too.

Anyway, I know this is nothing exciting, but at least there's an update.