Blog Revival- An Update

So, I haven’t blogged in about 2 months.  Sorry about that.  I have good excuses though!  First of all, I was deathly ill and quite pregnant the entire month of January, which pretty well hindered my motivation to do anything.  Second, I had a baby!

Isn’t she beautiful?

Hailey Mae was born at home on February 3rd (more on that to follow).  She is the light of our lives and we have loved every minute with our beautiful baby girl.  It’s hard to even remember what our life was like without her.  

Here are some adorable pictures for your viewing pleasure:  

I am planning on getting back in the habit of blogging now that we have found our footing and things have settled down--or perhaps just reached a new normal* for us.  After all, now I have a baby to update you on!  

*something tells me that things won’t actually “settle down” for a few years!  :) 

Chiropractic Love(rs) and Other Matters

So, I feel like I could go about another 300 years without having the energy to write a blog post...  But here I am, writing for you.  Partly out of guilt, and partly out of fear that my followers would soon rise up in revolt and storm the castle.  It's a pretty well-founded fear.  In any case, here we are. 

About a million years ago (okay, May) around the time of my last blog post, we went to Washington!  While we were there, we got to visit these cool people:

We checked out Spokane which was really, really pretty, though kind of rainy.  I'm not sure what else I expected from the great state of Washington.

While we were there (praise the Lord!) Brett was able to get adjusted!  Here's the story:  Brett's absolute favorite person in the entire world to be adjusted by is Keven, and vice versa.  This makes the many states (and occasionally, time zones) that separate them quite problematic.  Ever since graduation day Keven's wife and I have had the joy of listening to our husbands complain about not getting proper adjustments.  So here you have it, reunited at long last:

Brett may or may not ever admit this, but "going to Washington to visit friends" could probably be translated as "going to Washington to get adjusted with the added benefit of seeing friends."  The world may never know.

Hmmmm....what else?

We helped ourselves to a ride on their kid's teeter-totter, which I am certain I have not done since elementary school.

Beyond that, June was a rather uneventful month.  Just to give you an idea:  I usually take at least 500 pictures a month, sometimes over 1,000.  In June, I took 16.  I have a couple more things to tell you about, including another exciting announcement, but these things involve me dusting off my camera (and getting off my butt) which I promise to do at some point this weekend...  Just not right now.  So, I will make you sit on the edge of your seat until then.  :) 

Brett & Amy Update

Hmmmm...what to blog about? It seems as though Brett & I have been stuck in the doldrums of Winter lately...but I'll try to scrape together a few things for this post. ;)

First...I cut my hair!! I cut about four or five inches off. I really really like having it short again. It makes me feel ready for spring.


Brett cut his hair super short, too. Not on purpose. There was an incident. He got fed up with his hair so rather than go get it cut, or wait for me to do it like I sometimes do, he decided to cut it himself. He has done this before without a problem, but this time the guard fell off of the clippers while he was cutting, resulting in an extremely short strip being carved right down the middle of Brett's head. The only remedy of course was to make all of his hair the same length. So he was walking around with very short hair there for a while. I unfortunately don't have a picture of that, so you will just have to use your imagination.

Last week was my mom's birthday, which was kind of sad, but Brett made it fun by sending me beautiful flowers at work and then taking me out to dinner, because he's awesome like that.

I made another skirt out of some adorable fabric that I am in love with. It's just a simple drawstring skirt, but I can't wait for it to be warm enough to wear it.


Brett is studying for Part 3 national boards. His test is on Sunday, so he has been holed up at the library a LOT lately. You know your husband is in grad school when the big spring-break decision with his friends is "should we go to the Bettendorf or Fairmount library today?" This has been the view around the house for a while now:


He takes the test on Sunday, then he takes Part 4 in a few weeks, then he is DONE WITH BOARDS. Hallelujah.

Meanwhile, Moose has been up to his usual antics:

Brett & Amy Update

Wow. I haven't blogged in forever. I sort of reached that point where I hadn't blogged in so long that the amount that I needed to fill you in on was so overwhelming that it was almost easier just not to blog...but then more things accumulate to blog about, and the problem doesn't go away. So I will write one post to fill you in, and then resume normal blogging.

Brett & I went to San Diego for about 9 days. We had a lot of fun, saw a lot of sunshine, family, and old friends, but we are happy to be home again.

For a while it didn't seem like we were going to make it home. We arrived at the airport for our 4:50 flight to Denver (from San Diego) at about 2:30. When we got there we learned that not only was there bad weather causing flight delays into and out of Denver, but the plane we were supposed to be on was having mechanical issues as well. So, the flight was postponed until 7:10 which meant that we would miss any connecting flights to Moline on Sunday, and due to all of the weather issues they couldn't even guarantee us a seat on any flights on Monday... So needless to say going to Denver was not an option.

Because the Quad Cities has such a small airport, we can only fly into it from San Diego via Denver or Chicago. Chicago was having weather issues as well, but theirs was just high wind. Lucky for us, a flight to Chicago from San Diego that was supposed to take off at 1:50 got postponed until 6:30, so we were able to catch that one. We wouldn't arrive to Chicago until after midnight, but we had been guaranteed seats on the first flight to Moline the following morning.

This is the part where I need to remind you that we are supposed to be moving the following morning, so we absolutely HAD TO be home by Monday.

After landing in Chicago, Brett & I made ourselves comfortable for the long night we would have to spend at the airport. At one point during the night Brett got up and happened to check the departure board. When he did he discovered that our flight to Moline had been altogether canceled!!!!! The next flight to Moline wasn't until 2:30 pm, and of course they couldn't guarantee us a seat on the flight until we could talk to the booking agent at 5:00am (this all happened at 2:30 am).

At this point we decided we could no longer rely on the airlines to get us home, so we rented a car and by 4:00 am we were in a rental car on our way home.

The next day we moved into the fabulous new house we rented. We are really enjoying having more space and lots of peace and quiet. Lots of things are still in boxes right now, we are hoping to be able to get things a little bit more organized this weekend.

Last weekend we went up to see Brooke & Joe for Brooke's baby shower. We had a really fun time. We also managed to squeeze in a much-needed trip to IKEA on our drive home. We must have been quite the sight to people though, because we had such a long drive ahead of us it was truly a speedy IKEA run....more like an IKEA sprint (haha)...we were pretty much plowing through all of the casual IKEA-browsers, but hey- we were on a mission! :-)

We really don't have too much new and exciting coming up, but we are enjoying that right now. The weather here is finally warming up, so hopefully that will lead to some better blogging opportunities.