A Photo Shoot

We went to Lynette's on Thursday during our "snow day" off from school. She got some great shots of the boys! I didn't take Sadie since she was still ill, so I will have to take her one day next week to get some of her.














PS- Cobe won his soccer game this morning 5-0, and he scored a goal! Ryan is STILL sick as a dog and is at Prime Care now hopefully getting an antibiotic so he can start to improve. My cold is worse today than yesterday, but I still feel relatively okay. I canceled our plans for tonight already knowing that Ryan cannot go anywhere. Hmmm.... not a bad night to be snowed in ONCE again as we are supposed to get hit with an arctic cold blast and another bad night of snow. (Did you notice the sarcasm?)

Plans are shot!

Well, this weekend isn't going to turn out like I thought. Ryan is now sick as a dog. Agh! I was going out tonight with Lynette, but Bailey got sick yesterday (see post) so she couldn't go. I wouldn't have been able to go anyway since Ryan is so sick. He is miserable with the chest congestion, sore throat, etc. that seems to be hitting every Michigan household around. So here I sit. We will have to see tomorrow if we can even make our party tomorrow night, but the way things are looking, it doesn't look too promising. I will most likely be taking Cobe to his 9:00 game alone in the morning. I don't see how Ryan will make it, nor should he spread his germs.

Jen took the boys to Chili Friday and the high school basketball game tonight with her family. Thanks Jen! They were very excited to go. They played out in the snow all afternoon so I am sure after playing hard and going to the game, they will be tired tonight. I am going to finish up my BSF lesson for the week while they are gone and turn in early myself. I have a stuffed up nose, so I am hoping it stops at that. We can't all be sick at the same time. Sadie seemed to feel great today, so I am hoping she is on the mend. She's felt fine the whole time though, so her illness is deceiving.

Our showing seemed to go well this morning. The couple was extremely nice and had a 3 year old little girl with them. She played with Sadie while her parents looked around. They said they had 2 older children as well, so I don't know if our house would be big enough for them since we only have 3 true bedrooms. They have already sold their house, so I know if we don't hear back soon from them, then they pursued something else. I didn't ask them when they had to be out. I was mad at myself when they left because there were several things I wanted to ask them that I didn't. I never want to seem like a pushy sales person, but then I regret not giving them a sales pitch as soon as they leave. I still believe though that God's timing will be revealed. Our house will be filled with the perfect family for it. :-) If you feel like you are the perfect family, then please give us a call to set up a showing. Haha

Still not well

Ryan took Sadie back to the Dr. this morning, and he didn't seem to think she had improved. He said her left lung still sounded bad, so he has now put her on steroids for 5 days. The doctor warned that the steroids may cause her to be hyper and crabby, but since that is her normal personality, I didn't think I'd notice a change. WAS I WRONG!!!! She has been extremely crabby all day. Way more than normal. It is wearing off now so she is finally content with life. She only has to take it once a day so I hope she isn't crabby for a solid 5 days straight.

We had a wonderful snow day today. The roads weren't bad at all, so I am surprised, but will take one whenever I can get one. We hung around here while Ryan and Sadie were gone, then the boys and I went to Lynette's for pictures while Sadie and Ryan slept. She took some pics of the boys and Cobe stayed to play with Landon. We picked him up later this afternoon after making a stop at Family Fare. Now we are home for the evening. Mark just came over and the boys are in the basement playing PS2.

Tomorrow is another showing of our house in the morning, then a regular work day- no snow predicted that I am aware of. Then Lynette and I are heading off for dinner and shopping in Grandville. Saturday morning Cobe has a soccer game at 9:00. Ryan and I are going out Saturday night to the Lamers' for Euchre. Sunday we'll head to Sunday School and church, then I have a health class Sunday night. I went last week with Lynette (it is at her church- Community Reformed), and it was amazing how much I learned. It is a series and each week is a different topic. I missed the first two classes, but plan to go to the rest. I informed Ryan of all of the changes we need to make and he was hip with it. We'll start making little changes so it isn't overwhelming. And we'll see how long it lasts! haha

Hope everyone enjoys their upcoming weekend!

A Busy Day! Whew!

I am exhausted. I cleaned all afternoon after I got home from work because I got a phone call that someone wanted to come see our house tonight. She had called on Monday and asked to come this Saturday, so we set it up for then. Then she called this afternoon to see if tonight would work instead. I stashed things left and right to get ready. She and her husband came around 6:45. They haven't even put their house on the market, so I assume nothing will come out of the showing. As soon as they left, I got another phone call of someone who wants to come through Friday morning. So at least the house is clean and picked up somewhat. I only have to worry about keeping it that way for one more day. It will be hard, but I can pick up again Thursday night and re-do the floors which seem to be the main thing that get trashed.

Amanda and Kyle really need prayers tonight and throughout the next several days. They have three sick little girls. Gracyn is in the hospital with RSV, and Selah and Braelyn are at home with RSV. Click here if you want to see Amanda's updates. Please keep them in your prayers. Sadie too- she goes back to the doctor in the morning to be re-checked for her viral lung infection. I think she is doing better- she has been doing her nebulizer treatments like a champ! (see pics below)

Well, even though it has snowed like a banshee all day, I am sure we'll have school tomorrow, so I am off to bed to get some much anticipated shut eye!

Quick Update on Sadie

Ryan took Sadie to the Dr. this morning at 11:00. It was a long appt. b/c the doctor had her do nebulizer treatments in the office. He said she had a definite ear infection and most likely pneumonia. Ryan left the office and took her to the hospital for chest x-rays. The doctor's office called when I got home from work to tell me that she was being prescribed an antibiotic for her ear infection and 4 nebulizer treatments a day with albuteral for her lung infection. The x-rays showed a viral lung infection in her lungs, not pneumonia. Never heard of it. But like I said, she seems fine other than a slight cough. So I am assuming the worst was yesterday when she seemed to be in pain when she coughed. Since that is viral, it just has to run its course. She goes back to the Dr. Thursday morning to be re-checked. She is a champ- nothing medical seems to bother her. Much different than our first-born and me too!

Sunday/Monday

We had a great day on Sunday. The kids decided to put on a crazy show in the morning (see pics below). It made us late to Sunday School, but it was worth it. They put on extra undies and hats and shorts on their heads, etc. and just went crazy. Mornings like that are priceless. Sadie was determined to go to Sunday School, so we went late. She LOVES Sunday School. Mrs. Amy and Mrs. Mary do such a great job with the 2 year olds. She is so comfortable in their class. I know she will love 3-school next year because she begs to go to school every morning when Cobe and Brooks leave to go. We went to church as well, and Jen took Cobe and Brooks home with her from church (Thanks Jen!!!!). Sadie napped when we got home for a short nap (go figure since we didn't have the boys home), but I did get a few preparations done for the Superbowl. We were going to some friends of ours to watch it, but decided on Sunday to just stay home. So the Boeves came over and the Bells came over after they went to another party first. The kids all had fun playing, and I had fun chatting. Ryan and Cobe weren't happy with the outcome of the game though.

Yesterday was a regular work day. BSF last night (HEY BECKY!!!!!!!!!!), then home to find Ryan cleaning out our bedroom closet. He had trash bags of shirts he was throwing out, so I joined him, and we got a pile of shoes and hats to get rid of as well. I had already gone through my shirts on Sunday and made a pile to get rid of, so our closet looks halfway decent for a change.

Today I am going into work early to meet with my student teacher. Ryan is taking Sadie to the doctor. She still can't get over this cough. Yesterday she acted like it hurt her to cough, so I am assuming strep or pneumonia. She actually seems much better this morning and hasn't coughed hardly at all, but we are still going to take her in to make sure she isn't harboring some illness. She ate a big ole' breakfast, slapped her brother, changed her clothes 500 times, so she is acting normal, but I would feel better with a doc's diagnosis.

Here are a few pictures from Sunday:


Cobe and Landon's activity during the Superbowl was to have their own "mini" football game.
Here is Sadie during our Sunday morning variety show. Boxer shorts on her head was part of her costume.
Cobe put socks on his hands and part of his act was trying to blow out a fake candle.
Brooks lined up bathing suits, underwear and other clothes on his arms while dancing around in a helmet. Hmmmmm.... think these Huizenga kids take after their dad or their mom????? :-)

Weekend

We never did get a snow day on Friday like we should have. I shoveled the driveway 4 times just to keep up and I know there was at least 3-4 inches of new snow each time I shoveled. But of course, it stopped right when school was getting out anyway. Oh well- it's done and over with now.

Presley was supposed to come over Friday morning, but we had to postpone b/c Sadie was running a fever Thursday night. She has had a horrible cough and runny nose for a few days now. I thought she'd have a fever when she woke up Friday morning, but she didn't seem to. It did come back Friday night though, and she didn't feel well again. She was fine during the day yesterday and has been fine today as well, so we'll see if it comes back tonight.

We went to Chuck E Cheese yesterday afternoon with the Boeve girls and let the kids play some video games and eat pizza. Ryan went to GR to the Kid Rock concert and had to work all day yesterday, so he wasn't around. They are having a Kid Fun Night every Friday night at Westshore Mall, so after C.C.'s, we went out in the mall. There were singers, face painting, a clown making balloon animals, and 94.5 radio station was set up. The kids got their faces painted, but Sadie felt so bad at that point, that we didn't stay long. The kids all crashed when we got home.

This morning, we went to Landon's basketball game. Wow! He is such a great player. He dominated the court when it was his 1/2 of the quarter to play. I was very impressed as was Cobe. Cobe sat glued to the court, and as we left, immediately started asking if we could go home and play basketball. Hard to do when there is feet of snow on top of our b-ball goal and ice in the driveway. :-) So he settled for playing out in the snow with Brooks and Mark. The three of them played together all afternoon and ended up at the Elgersma's for most of the day. I left right after the game to go shopping and out to lunch with Lisa. We hit the mall ( I got a $180 coat for $44.50 and a $29 pair of jeans for $14.50), Crazy Horse for lunch, Meijer's, Target, and Walgreen's. The only other thing I got besides the coat, jeans and groceries was a sweater at Target. 3 things for myself??? Unheard of! Nothing for Ryan or the kids. Pretty productive shopping trip! I was mad because I wanted to get some more black frames, a camera bag, and some lamps, but was unsuccessful on all three of those missions.

I made a chicken casserole for dinner and now since we have eaten, we are running to the Hains' to drop something off. Cobe got picked up by Chase and his dad to go play video games, so we need to go get him as well after that. Ta-ta!