Giving blood

So, I went to give blood on Tuesday and had an interesting experience with almost passing out afterwards. I gave myself an hour to do it which normally is plenty of time. Right after I had finished filling my bag,the nurse that was helping the guy sitting next to me called for my nurse to help her. I looked over at the guy's arm and the nurse was trying to stop the blood and called for my nurse to help her stop it. Well, I looked over at exactly the wrong time and saw a ton of blood. I am sure I turned grey because the guy with the bleeding problem told my nurse to get back to me. She flipped my chair up and put cold compresses on my neck and head. I was so close to losing it, but I didn't pass out, thank goodness. But I think I may hesitate a little more before I donate again.

5 cavities for our 5-year-old

Elizabeth went to the Dentist yesterday to have 5 cavities filled. She did such a great job with it for most of the time. I probably would've been better off sitting in the waiting room though. I told her to squeeze my hand if it hurt and the dentist kind of reprimmanded me for making her think it would hurt. But from my experience, going to the dentist to get anything done besides a cleaning hurts... so there!

I was surprised she didn't even cry! Maybe the laughing gas truly does make you happy! :)

I told her she had an elephant trunk on. She kind of got tired of having it on after awhile.

Manzanita Basketball

Christian has played basketball this year with the Manzanita 5-6th grade team. They divided up the team into 2 separate teams because there were so many boys that wanted to play. Christian ended up on the Gold team. I have had a heck of a time get any good pictures because of the flourescent lighting in the gyms but these are a few of the team playing from last week. Christian had an excellent game. He played point guard a lot of the time and got fouled at the end of the game when the score was 19-20. We were ahead by one point and he just had to make at least one of his free throws to not give them a chance to win the game. He made his first one and missed the next one. We won the game 19-21. He enjoys basketball so much and really loves his coach, Mr. Schrodeor.

Lizzy with all her girlfriends!

This was the first party that I've done when we actually had time to break out the toys and play with them. Notice Christian is even in there playing with the beads!

The older girls went to work and did all of Lizzy's party guests make-up and nails.

It's so cute whenever little ones open presents the only decent pictures you can get are of the top of their heads because they all want to be right there.

Some of the girls posing in the bounce house! They were all in heaven! ;)

She's thinking, "this is what it's all about... fun fun fun!"

Page's dress looked so pretty with the bounce house colors I just had to take a picture! Such a cutie!

All the big helpers! They did such a great job.

All of Lizzy's buddies (except for Jordyn, who was hanging out with Christian for a little bit... we just couldn't get her to come for the picture)

Lizzy and Maddie jumping (Lizzy still coughing a little bit)

The Little Mermaid Cake that Aunt Kerri made for Lizzy!

My Lizzy is 5!

I just wanted to share a few things that I love about Elizabeth. She loves fruits and vegetables. She gets excited about avocados, pickles, asparagus, tomatoes and apples. She will pretty much eat anything except for purple onions. When I laugh, she laughs, even when I'm sure she doesn't understand why I'm laughing. She loves to do puzzles and her attention span is so amazing!

She loves to play hide and seek. The last time I played with her (just us two), I said, "Lizzy, you are such a great finder, I just can't seem to find a good enough hiding place." Lizzy responded, "Mom, it's okay, you are just so big, you're easy to find." I felt like that story of Danny and the Dinosaur when Danny is playing hide -n- seek with the Dinosaur and Danny has no problem finding the Dinosaur. I am the Dinosaur! I guess she is getting older now and I can stop hiding behind telephone poles and make it a little harder. ;) She always hides from Aaron when he comes home from work and when he forgets to come find her she says, "I'm hiding in here!" She is a giant for her age. She weighs 52 lbs, wears a size 13 shoe and seems to be catching up with Meliah. They are already sharing some clothes. Most of all, I love that I have been blessed with a daughter that loves unconditionally. She really is a sweet, wonderful little girl!
This is a picture she took of herself. I just love it!

Happy Birthday Lizzy Lou! She had a very girlie birthday party on Saturday and I will be posting those pictures this week.

Chiropractic!

So, I have been having a ton of thoughts going through my head lately about how different Chiropractors are from Medical Doctors. I just had to document and share.
Lizzy has been having a few issues lately with different things (nothing really major). At the end of February, we took her into urgent care because she was in so much pain. Aaron took her in and told the doctor what he thought it was and what the symptoms were. They prescribed some antibiotics and said that should probably take care of it unless we wanted to do a bunch more tests and maybe some x-rays. Aaron was not happy with that and said he didn't want to do any tests on her. They left the clinic and went to Walgreens to get the prescription and found an extremely long wait before they could even get that filled. Lizzy, all the while, was screaming and unhappy that the doctors hadn't done anything to help her pain.
Yesterday, we took her to the Chiropractor, her Uncle Alex. Literally, within 5 minutes of being there in the office, Lizzy was already feeling better. He adjusted her, gave her some suppliments according to some of the strength tests he gave her and we were on our way. We even stopped by Costco on our way home to get a few things. She was a completely different little girl. She said, "Mom, I like going to Uncle Alex and Grandpa more than going to other doctors?" She is so great about taking the suppliments. It was funny this morning when I went into the kitchen I came across a little girl eating her suppliments with a very sour look on her face. I'm so happy that she is willing to eat things she doesn't like. I would much rather go the Chiropractic approach to things unless I absolutely have to go to a medical doctor. We are so grateful to have Chiropractors in the family so that we are able to avoid the antibotics sometimes.
She is definately on her road back to recovery... she better be, afterall, she has a birthday on Saturday. My baby is turning 5! Oh how time flies!

Bon Jovi Concert

On Tuesday, Aaron and I went to the Bon Jovi concert in Sacramento. It was such a fun thing to do and totally unlike any of the concerts I've been too. This was Aaron's 1st concert and very much our era of music. It was so fun to be able to sing to all the songs that we knew from the 80's. I was so impressed with some of his newer songs too that I'm not as familiar with. Bon Jovi was a great performer and the set was insane. Drastic Confessionals out of Florida lead him off, they are kind of a young boy band. Normally we would have never done something like this because we are way too cheap to spend money on concert tickets and on a school night? Aaron won the tickets on a radio station! He was supposed to be the 16th caller to win and told me that there was only one other caller calling in that early in the morning. So he was the 2nd, 4th, 6th, 8th... all the way to 16 and then he won! It seems like Aaron and his siblings always win stuff on radio stations.

We were grateful to go out and have a fun time for the price of parking and a babysitter. I have also formed a small crush on Bon Jovi and an even bigger crush on my adorable husband! I feel like a teenager again! ;)