Still Here :)

Hello all my blog readers out there! It has come to my attention that people are concerned that there has been no blog recently and are worrying about us Gatchel's. All is well - no worries!

My apologies for being missing in action for awhile. As of tomorrow, we are officially done with the first trimester and I am only anticipating that things will be much easier. (knocks wood) I have had a rough couple of weeks, and I don't like to use the blog as a venting mechanism, so I've kind of been avoiding posting. I'm sorry to anyone that's been missing us. I will do my best to keep you updated.

We've had a rough couple of weeks that have resulted in numerous doctor visits, a trip to the ER, tons of new meds and a fired OB :) But other than that we've been great. I don't want to dwell on things here, just going to say that I'm feeling tons better and am looking forward to meeting my new OB next week and for things staying relatively under control. Continued prayers for Baby G 2.0 would be much appreciated.

Noah is getting bigger every day. He has a new favorite food (pizza) and a new favorite thing to do; climb! While Daddy was "in charge" a lot more last week, he began climbing and walking all over the furniture... Mommy is slowly now trying to break this habit ;-) But boys will be boys I suppose, and he's mostly been a good kiddo lately. He got two pairs of new shoes (both of which passed the Auntie's muster) this week because his feet are just getting too big. He's wearing some 24 month clothes now. I can hardly believe how big he's gotten.

Grant is officially off the never ending project at work (YAY!!!!!!!) and moving on to bigger and better things. He confessed to me tonight that his biggest problem on Monday will be figuring out what he's supposed to be doing. He says it might be a day for twiddling his thumbs. To have such a problem after all the hours of overtime! ;-)

The big news to share here is that Scott comes down tomorrow. We're really looking forward to having him here for a week before we go on vacation. I'm not sure how my budget it going to survive feeding him for a week; I guess it's good that Grant put in all that overtime before ;-) We've got tons planned to do while he's here, so hopefully lots to share.

A week from Saturday we leave for vacation! We're going to be meeting up with my parents, sister and Grandpa in South Carolina for a nice relaxing week. Sounds like lots of books and sun for this Mama! I am really looking forward to just hanging out and enjoying the fam being together for awhile.

Alright, I've tried to give at least a little big of an update. Now that I'm feeling better I plan on trying to keep this a little better updated. I enjoy writing the blog every night, it gives me a chance to remember all the things I've been thankful for throughout the day. Today, I'm super thankful that it's Thursday and tomorrow is the end of the week :-p Until then....