Your Pregnancy: Week 16

Your Pregnancy: Week 16

At 16 weeks I thought for sure I would be feeling great by now.  Unfortunately, I'm still sick to my stomach most days, very tired, unmotivated, irritable, and very lazy.  I'm starting to get used to it so its definitely not as bad as 6 weeks ago.  I find myself wondering how people with diseases and terminal illnesses cope with day to day life.
  
I wish I documented more how I felt with the other 3 pregnancies.  I remember being tired with Kaiden and a little nauseous, but that's it.  I was pretty sick with McKenna for a while and had the flu on top of it.  With Seer I was sick for about 3 months.  So I guess there all different-just like the babies born.


One thing that makes a difference is how you spend your time.  I was a Junior at the U of O with Kaiden.  I was 6 months along when summer break came and I was back to school in the fall.  I graduated with McKenna.  I was 8 months along when winter term ended and I had her a few weeks later finally with my degree.  We were in the process of transitioning JE Illusions when I was pregnant with Seer so I was busy for the beginning.  Now, I'm pretty much a stay at home mom who has gotten very lazy so I think that makes me dwell on how bad I feel.  If I can just get out of the house and do something I know I would feel better.


Hopefully next month will be a different story. Until then stay clear of grumpy bumpy:)

Kaiden's Baptism

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Seer Riding Pilot Video...So Cute!

Hopefully you are able to Seer and Pilot in the video-I took it with my phone.

Happy Halloween

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Kaiden's 8th Birthday

Kaiden's party was a success with friends from school and our neighborhood along with cousins.  We're so glad everyone could join us and have a great time.

I Didn't Know We Could Get So Many Kids on the Tramp

Kaiden's Loot

Kaiden's RC Truck from Dad

The Party Animal's

Ah Brother and Sister Love!

Spencer Butte Hike

They look sweet, but just moments after they were pushing each other off the mountain...just kidding.

I am notorious for having really "great" ideas, mentioning them, and then never doing them.  So we've been trying to become more organized and actually plan things to do as a family.  I am usually dragging my feet by this point because it always involves a lot of work for me and a lot of whining.  BUT...in the end we always have a great time and memories to take home with us that we will remember forever so its worth it.

Friday, September 3rd we climbed Spencer's Butte as a family.  The kids did great and I'm glad I had Pilot to pull me along.

A Beautiful View and Beautiful Subjects

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Komen Eugene Race for the Cure

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Komen Eugene Race for the Cure

This event is planned to start at 8:00 am on Oct 10, 2010 at Autzen Stadium.

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2010 Ellison Family Reunion Scrapbook

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My Summer Vacation

The Ellison Cousins minus Montana who is On his Mission in Honduras

We were fortunate enough to be able to go to Southern California for a family fun get-away and Ellison family reunion a few weeks ago.  It was so much fun and the pictures capture only a glimpse of the memories we all had.  Here are just a few photos of what we did over the last two weeks.  We hope you enjoy.

Cousins During the Reunion and Newport Beach

Bailey, McKenna, Lauren, Seer, and Kaiden

Grandpa Rex and Seer

McKenna and Seer at Newport Beach

The Waves Caught Kaiden and McKenna

The Waves Caught Us and No I Wasn't Expecting to Get Wet

Oceanside before the Ocean

Shamu Show at Seaworld

McKenna Feeding the Dolphin

Mama and Seer Petting Dolphin

Kaiden Petting the Dolphin

End of the Day at Seaworld

Seer and Daddy on the Skyline at the Zoo

Seer Petting a Goat at the Zoo

San Diego Zoo July 2010

Legoland, California July 2010

Fall Creek Summer Fun

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Josh's "Sketch"

McKenna really loves to draw horses so I asked if Josh could do a quick sketch to help her learn to draw them. This was the result. Impressive.

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We seem to spend quite a few time in the car dropping of daddy and picking him up for our business so needless to say mom has some time on her hands.

We also spend a lot of time in the office and Seer has begun to try to do what the big boys do like homework. It looks like she's ready to help Kaiden out in first grade math already too.

Seer began taking her steps this week. There is nothing cuter than your precious baby grinning from ear to ear walking to you.

Seer's First Backyard Adventure

We have been working on our backyard since November of 2009. We decided to tear out all of our grass and put a huge concrete slab in along with only hardscape materials mainly because of the dog, but also because of the natural and beautiful look of rocks, logs, etc. We've both always loved dryer climates like Bend, Oregon, Arizona, and Utah landscapes so Josh designed the project and chose the materials we used.

We both did the work (although of course I'm 10 times stronger than Josh so I did 75% of it) which still has a lot more to go. We shoveled somewhere in the neighborhood of 15 truckloads of dirt, gravel, river rock, boulders, etc. If you know Josh you know that his trucks are lifted 8-10 inches and are huge. So we're talking about 37,500 pounds of material that we have shoveled, dumped, and spread out in our backyard.

We wanted to eliminate the swamp land in our yard so we had to elevate it quite a bit.

I plan to have Josh take some professional pictures of the final project. We still have a patio cover to build, a new gate to build and install, concrete staining, run a gas line to our fire pit, and some more planting to do. But is where we can enjoy it now and Seer along with her siblings and cousins got to crawl around outside for the first time today.

She loves the outdoors and truly loved it. She didn't seem to be bothered by the rocky terrain and munched on a few (with supervision of course) with success.

We're looking forward to getting the kids a trampoline and hosting a hot dog party with the fire pit soon.

Seer's 1st Birthday

Seer's new drum is a "hit." She loves to make music on anything. She also got some great new clothes, shoes, barrettes, necklaces, money, and a teddy bear. Thank you everyone!

She had a lot of fun in the ball pit.

We're so glad that cousins could celebrate with us. Hey McKenna what happened to your tooth?

This is before she began crying like we tortured her with birthday cake.

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