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New blog

It's been awhile since I've had time to write. I've missed blogging, but so many things in our life has changed the past year. We had a baby, then the man deployed when the baby was 6 weeks old, then two of our kids were diagnosed with celiac disease, we went to Texas for a few months, the man came back when the baby was 9 months old, and we moved to another state. We entered the gluten free world a little over a year ago and my most of my time has been spent in the kitchen cooking, trying new recipes, researching the right mix of GF grains to make an okay bread, and nursing a growing baby. Now that the baby has weaned and entered into toddler-hood I've found myself with more time on my hands. I've started a new blog

http://gluten-freefoodstorage.blogspot.com/ to write about two things near and dear to me. Gluten free food and food storage. We've always had several months supply of food because I have always bought in bulk to save money and stocked up on items when they were on sale and I had coupons. But now, now it's different. There aren't that many coupons for GF foods and GF foods are not generally cheap. There is a peace knowing you have enough to feed your family if something bad happens. But when we went GF we gave away nearly all of our food, and started over. I found that it was hard to store GF foods. I searched high and low for a gluten free food storage blog. I never found one. So, I am starting my own. Hopefully, Lord willing it will be a help to some other GF families out there. Check it out, you may learn something new.

Beach

Running

Crawling straight into the ocean

Crawled into a wave, not happy.

coming back to mama

He's back!

After 7 months my husband is back! We were all excited to go pick him up. He's been home a week now and life is almost normal again.

The kids waiting for daddy to come.

Playing

The buses coming!! This always makes me cry. When the buses come everyone

starts screaming and whistling.

Munchie cried. But she is slowly getting used to him.

Happy to be home again ;)

watermelon

Love this!

Watch this short video here!

And I'm back.

It's been a while since my last post in Dec. Lots have happened since then. My husband deployed with the Marine Corps. in January. I had a difficult time recovering after having our third baby who was 11lbs. and 10 oz. Nursing was difficult but we finally got it down. Levi got diagnosed with Celiac disease in Feb. Annabelle followed after him with a diagnosis in June. We went to Texas to visit family we haven't seen in three years and stayed 6 weeks. Caroline got her first tooth and started crawling there. Life has been busy but it's so good.

Caroline with her first piece of corn.

Crawling.

And now, standing.

Caroline Elizabeth

Caroline Elizabeth was born Nov. 29th at 8:36pm. She is 11lbs. 10 oz. and 22 1/2 inches long. She was born naturally with no tears and no stitches needed, Praise GOD! We are doing wonderful.

Two post in one day...WOW

It's been awhile, and now I am posting twice in one day. I haven't fallen off the face of the earth, just busy and tired. Shane's been in and out, 1 week here, 2 weeks gone, and the like. He is now home for good but working long hours.

I am 39 weeks now and dilated 3-4 cm. I've gained way more weight than I wanted too (19lbs since my last Dr.'s visit which was 2 weeks ago). I am now 187, still under the 198 I got to with both of my other babies though.

Soon we'll have a baby...well hopefully. I've never made it this far with the others and surprisingly I still feel pretty good.

Well, enough of my rambling. Who knows maybe the next post will contain lots of baby pictures....one can hope right?!?!

You know...

You know you haven't blogged in a while when you forgot the name of your blog. Yep, I couldn't remember the web address. I suppose it happens to the best of us some day. ;)

Fall is here!

Fall is here and I love it! Soon, we'll have a new baby too. I've been super tired and trying to get the house in order , not easy with two toddler's though. Shane's been in and out which leaves me with all the work. He has done more than his fair share though when he is here, which makes for a happy momma.

The kitchen has been busy with lots of baking for Levi's Gluten free experiment. And lots of pumpkin pies, I seem to not be able to get enough.

I wish blessing upon all of you and your family's as we welcome this cooler weather.

Levi's two week experiment...

Levi still isn't fully better after being off dairy and soy. While we have slipped and sometimes he has gotten dairy or soy (you can tell when he's had either, it isn't pretty) he still hasn't gotten 100% "normal".

We are going to do a 2 week experiment of taken out all gluten, dairy, and soy from his diet.
I'll be tracking his progress or lack there of at his blog, http://glutendairysoyfreetoddler.blogspot.com/.
You'll be able to see what he ate, his activity level, and of course his bowels daily.

We hope this helps him some while we wait for him to see a ped. GI.

Another update

Tuesday we dropped off the kids and made a trip to the hospital. I started having contractions about 11 am and I decided we better go and see what was going on at 1pm and see if they would stop my labor. Once we got there I was having contractions about a three mins. apart. They hooked me all up and checked me, I was 2 cm dilated. They waited an hour and checked again...still 2cm. So we waited another hour, still 2 cm. Finally they decided to let us go home a little after 6pm. At that point I was having contractions about a minute apart but since I wasn't dilating anymore they decided I wasn't in labor and we could go. Around 10pm that night the contractions stopped.

I've had some contractions since then but nothing like Tuesday. I will be 35 wks Sunday so I am hoping she holds out just a little longer. Here are some pictures of the past week.

Me at 34 wks.
Annabelle and Shane watching the goats.

Annabelle and Levi looking at the chickens.

Levi on a hayride to get a pumpkin

The whole family on a hayride to get a pumpkin

Annabelle in fleece pj's

Levi in fleece pj's

Being goofy. Looks just like his daddy!

Look at his shoes...so cute

Being Silly

Belly pic and more

It's been a very busy week here. So much to get ready for and not enough time if you ask me.

For those of you who wanted a belly pic, here you go...self portrait. I had to turn the flash off so it's a little yellow.


Me and my new glasses. The husband liked the red, I'm still trying to get used to it.

Baby Caroline's baby blanket. I've made one for each child so far. Hers is made with a cotton fabric from Japan, and fleece on the other side. Hoping it will be warm for this winter baby.

Finally...

After missing my camera for a week, I found it yesterday while searching the house for the check book. So now, an update.

Today we went to Raleigh to pick up some raw milk (not all pictured) and other dairy items. Since we were there we stopped into Whole Foods and got a little over 2 weeks worth of groceries. Almost everything we bought was organic and I was really surprised at how cheap everything was. Some things even cheaper than the commissary.

My "baby" in the Moby.

They were playing "catch" although neither one of them actually caught the ball.

See the ball in the top left corner?

Updates....

We've been busy lately and I am trying to enjoy these last few weeks with the kids before we get a new baby! We've been talking a lot about a new baby in mommy's tummy and Annabelle is getting really excited. She's been caring around her babies a lot more lately and got into Levi's closet and found a few leftover Born Free bottles from Levi. She now sits down to feed her baby several times a day. It's really precious, especially since she has done it all on her own without our prompting.

I am now 30weeks. I have been put on light bed rest due to contractions. I am still able to move about, just no lifting, cleaning, or moderate activity. I failed the glucose test, so I will be taking another one this time three hours though :( I am really praying I pass. I am not a candidate for gestational diabetes. I am not overweight, I'm active, and I don't eat too terrible bad. It's upsetting for sure.

I hope you enjoy the pictures of our last few weeks.

Feeding her baby
Getting her baby all tucked in

Watching the rain

My two favorite men

Watching Levi and Daddy play

Running back to mommy after daddy put him in the water

My favorite little boy digging away

The beautiful Beach

The kids yummy bento

The Man's Bento

And my candida diet friendly bento