New Things

I am trying new things with the blog! I'll be back with pics and more fun stories tomorrow!

Helpless

I am feeling totally helpless today, I never quite realized what the restrictions I have for Placental Previa would mean. No carrying or picking up Cassie I knew, we can work around that. I didn't think about getting her in and out of the bathtub, soaking wet, or who to explain why mommy can no longer catch her etc... Then you add in the fact that people all disagree what weighs 20 lbs, heavy grocery bags? my husband says they may so I have to take the whole family grocery shopping.. Baskets full of laundry, too much. so my husband god bless him has really put the breaks on my activity... He is doing it all and letting me rest as much as possible, Which I know is great but man it makes me feel completely helpless.we'll just keep on hoping that this migrates and my restrictions are lifted! Tomorrow since I can't do much I hope to get pictures of Cassie from Halloween posted!

Catching up

So to get everyone caught up a little more we enjoyed summer, with lots of trike rides on our street and playing with friends. Cassie got a new big girl room, and Anthony and I just tried to stay on top of everything! I have the big news in the family, a new job! I started in September and immediately got to do a little travel. Week one on the job I went to Las Vegas for a team meeting and managed to sneak in a bit of time with two of my favorite girls who are lucky enough to live so close to one another! Of course on my first trip away Cassie got the stomach flu and gave daddy quite an experience!

Here I am with Steph and Jamie!
The next two weeks included trips as well, Albuquerque where I got a great dinner out with my mom and Larry and finally get a taste of green chili again! The following week I hit up Phoenix for a Ruth Clark Certification training with my whole team. Three weeks of straight travel was crazy, but also nice to meet my team, as we are virtual and no one else lives in Iowa.







Cassie has been practicing her new role of BIG SISTER by singing to my ever growing stomach and naming the baby, "Baby Huffington" ( From the Max & Ruby show) That's right if you really haven't heard from me in a long time We are expecting baby # 2. Due on April 8th. I am 17 weeks and things were pretty uneventful in this pregnancy until yesterday. Of course in true fashion I cannot just have an easy pregnancy right? Well yesterday morning I thought I had started to go into pre term labor and knowing that I am not near far enough along for that I immediately hit the dr. Turns out I am not in Labor THANK GOD, but I do have a conditional called Placental Previa. For me that means no lifting over 25 lbs, so I cannot pick up Cassie at all... and if it doesn't migrate I will need a C-section at about 37 weeks. We are just keeping out fingers crossed the placenta migrates and I am being very careful not to do anything I shouldn't and we'll see what happens! We tried to get a sneak peek at what we are having yesterday but baby brown was sitting on his/her legs and hiding all the goods, We'll look again in 3 weeks and hopefully know how to decorate the nursery!

Birthday Girl - Long Overdue

My great intentions never seem to follow through but I will say in my defense I have been busy since June. Cassie turned 3 June 19th! She had a PINK party, everything was pink and in her eyes perfect! Here are a few of her Third Birthday Photos,

And here she is on the tilt a whirl during her birthday trip to Adventure land!

June Birthday's

Can you believe it my baby is going to be THREE in 11 days. Cassie isn't the only one with a June birthday either, yesterday we took off for Iowa City for my nephew Michael's 9th birthday. We had a great time, notice the cuteness of cousins cudding below. The cousins are moving in less than a month to Virginia, so snuggle time is very important right now.

Summer has begun!

Anthony is out on the 4-wheeler, Cassie is protesting her nap and I am finally getting a update written! It is official the summer has begun... In true Brown Family fashion we have some projects to complete.

Anthony and our neighbor Jim built a new deck on your house last weekend, notice we know have built in entertainment for hours of toddler fun!

We added a new vanity to the bathroom in the spring and in the process ripped up some of the flooring. Come to find out instead of getting a few replacement tiles we have to re-do the whole floor(our tiles were discontinued a year ago) so we decided to re-paint and re-decorate the bathroom to go with the new vanity and new flooring.

Cassie is almost three and I am amazed at where the time has gone, seems like we just had her first birthday

She is enjoying the summer as you can see below!

Headed to her second cousin Sophia's First Birthday party or in Cassie' s language "My Presen Sophia" which sounds very similar to my present so we always think she is asking for a present when talking about her cousins.

Enjoying a popsicle on the first warm day...

Trying out the pool!

SUMMARY

To quickly summarize the last two months we'll say busy!

Life has been fun, we have been on the run all the time and we are all doing well! I'll do a summary with photos to fill you in. First off we went to Chicago in August to see the IOWA HAWKEYES! play at Soldier Field. It was a fantastic weekend away and a ton of good food, friends and of course football! Here are Anthony and I with Tiffany and Josh @ the Hawkeye Huddle!

We got to meet up with my great friends Annie and Ross !

and hang out with our buddies Craig and Jenny from Denver!

I finally got a much needed Mom's weekend away so Megan and I headed up to Minneapolis to visit Katie!

Since then Cassie has begun potty training and talking like there is no tomorrow. She is so good on the phone she even answered the call waiting today and went from Anthony's mom to mine. Imagine my surprise when I took the phone back and instead of Kathy it was my mom!

Here are some good shots of Cassie's fun this fall, don't want anyone to get the impression only the parents in this house are having a good time!!!

At the Zoo!

Playing in her Bounce House!

Cheering on the Chariton Chargers @ Homecoming!