New ornament

I got my camera out to take a picture of Lynlee's new ornament for this year. When I transferred the pictures over I found some from decorating day that I wanted to share and forgot...

 

 

Awww... I love the holidays. Last night I spent time wrapping the presents we do have and putting them under the tree..

 

And today Lynlees new ornament came...It makes me smile and cry at the same time.What an amazing year we've had.. You can see her other ornaments from last years Christmas blog here

 

For those of you that don't know that's the liver transplant ribbon.

 

 

 P.S.. It's never to late to be organ donor! You can always give the gift of life!

 

 

It's starting to look a lot like Christmas.

After having 3 Thanksgiving dinners total, it was time to get ready for Christmas. Yesterday started the madness and I have to admit I'm so excited about it this year. We weren't home for Christmas last year and even though we were still celebrating in March when we got home it really wasn't Christmas.

Lynlee cracks me up. She is SO excited. She had to decorate her tree all by herself.. And even stole stuff off the big tree for hers! haha..

Can you find her princess wand in there?

And ours is done. It looks like exact same as last year I think..

And this is Ryan's pride and joy. He's been working two long days on this..

Now if only we had presents! One step at a time.

Something new to be thankful for!

It's been a big week in the Arbogast house. Lynlee never ceases to amaze me. It's no secret that she's always hated the park. Well not hated it, but she never wanted to do anything. We would around look at the ducks, throw acorns, etc, but she didn't want anything to do with the swings or the slide..

Well all that changed.. Yesterday was a beautiful day. After we ate Thanksgiving Dinner (and oh boy did she eat) we headed to the park to walk and get some air...

In case you missed picture on Facebook or don't have Facebook here's her first time eating Thanksgiving Dinner!

And Lynlee was a whole new kid.. Seriously...

Lynlee looking for ducks...

My favorite!!!

After 2 plus hours at the park she was tired..

 

There's always something new with her. Something that puts a huge smile on our face. What a wonder Thanksgiving. There is something new every day to be thankful for!

Happy Thanksgiving

I haven't been participating in the 30 days of Thankfulness on Facebook because I honestly can't imagine having to do one more thing in my day... But I am thankful.. Here's just a few on my list....

For My husband... he's my rock, my soul mate, my best friend...

For Lynlee... She has made me a better person just by being born.

For Lynlee's organ donor.. His family gave us the gift of life. I'll never be able to thank them enough for that.

For our Parents, family, and friends. This past year has been hard but we always knew who was there beside us along the way.

For my best friends/sisters.. Erica, Kristie, Heather, and Kara - There is no way I could have made it through these past 3 years without each of you.

I'm thankful this is the first Thanksgiving Lynlee will eat and drink with us at the dinner table.

I'm thankful that I've found an amazing job with a wonderful team.

And last but not least I'm thankful that not a day goes by that I don't appreciate the small things. I never take life (or anything) for granted. I'm thankful for the ways God has blessed us, and I'm thankful I can share it with you..

Happy Thanksgiving to Each of you...

Happy Tuesday...

Yes, it's Tuesday before 8am and I'm blogging.. I guess your body can only take so much sleep. Warning I've been awake since 5:30. I've already had cups (yes that was plural) of coffee, I'm ready for the day and the rest of the house is asleep... You can stop reading now if you want :)

I'm officially a true believer of Zicam. With the help of Vitamin C. Within 24 hours I was feeling soo much better.. What would have turned into a full blown cold has went away.. I'm beyond impressed.. And no they didn't pay me to advertise for them, but I'll accept donations if they want... Ha!

It's no secret we've been wanting Lynlee to drink from a straw for months.. When she finally blew her whistle it was huge but we just couldn't get her to suck..... It's been months and months.. Even at a birthday party on Sunday (yes two days ago) they handed her a Capri sun and she couldn't drink it. Yesterday we she picked up my jug of water (It's a huge 56oz water bottle) she drank it. I was in shock. Literally brought tears to my eyes and then I was like NO, I'm sick.. Nothing like letting your immune suppressed child drink after someone sick let alone me!! I went and got her a sippy with a straw and she wouldnt' do it? I thought it was one of the those things were she wouldn't ever do it again.. But she did later when Ryan got home.. And then we went out to dinner and she drank like she'd been doing it all her life. She didn't hesitate, didn't have to think about it.. A huge milestone for us.

I'm so thankful we never take anything for granted. Everything is a huge deal for us.. And I know this is just one step closer to getting her tube out and moving on with life...

Happy Tuesday to everyone! I'm off to work (in like an hour) and I will have a huge smile on my face all day long!

Whiny Monday post

I'm not a good sick person.. I don't like to feel down like I need to rest.. And because of that I feel like I'm sick longer because I don't give it the rest it needs.. So yes this is my whiny Monday post. I've been fighting something since late Saturday night. Sore throat, body aches, chills, etc... Last night I felt rough so I didn't do any home visits today. I stayed home and I'm trying to rest. I really am.. I'm trying not to give it to Lynlee because that would be horrible. I'm thankful it's me and not her.. If only I can keep it that way.

As most of you have seen on Facebook I hit a deer on Friday. Actually he hit me, but isn't that how it always is. Of course the car repair place is closed this whole week for deer season so we won't even get it in until next week.

My vacuum is done and Lynlee dropped her measuring scale and broke it so I have to find a new one today..

But that's all the bad news I have.. and I'm just whiny.. but so very thankful..

All in all last week was good. I was on the road shadowing 4 days and out of 5.. It was so nice to get out there and learn something..

Okay that's all I can seem to pull together today. I'm sure there is some Vitamin C to take and some Zicam calling my name.. Plus dealing with the insurance stuff and car rental.. I need a nap :)

What Lynlee's Thankful for.

I feel like I don't blog enough about the little stories that make me smile. I usually update and say all the stuff you guys want to know but never share stories...

So here goes..

We were told today about Lynlee's day at school yesterday. I guess they had got all the kids in a circle and was letting them tell what they were thankful for. Some said elephants, others said no they wanted an elephant, and all the other crazy things that three year olds say... Well the whole time I was hearing this I got scared for Lynlee. Was so scared that she didn't get to "say" anything and that she would feel upset that she couldn't communicate..... but anyways, when they got to her and the ask her what she was thankful for she said "Momma and Vava". 

 I've never felt so proud to be her momma..