tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58047354258845112862024-02-20T20:29:15.874-08:00Gretchen And EldenGWarnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17016958361407310581noreply@blogger.comBlogger48125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5804735425884511286.post-77104158465304900602016-03-22T00:43:00.000-07:002016-03-22T00:43:01.723-07:00Riley turns 3!<br />
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This is the first year our little family has been together for Riley's birthday. First year Riley and I were in the states, and second year Elden was in Africa. So we made sure we had a lot of fun this year. Riley requested a Thomas cake. He loved it! (and it was super easy! I didn't know that blue velvet cake was a thing, but it is, and it made the perfect thomas cake!) I dyed some frosting green (saved a little to do brown for the tracks) and then kit kats for the tracks.<br />
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A few days later we drove to France to go to Disneyland Paris. We stayed one night in a pretty awesome hotel that had a pool with a pirate ship in it and two water slides. We made sure we got there early enough so Riley could swim. He and Elden went down the slide over and over and over for about 2 hours I think. He slept very well that night!<br />
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Disneyland was cold, windy and rainy off and on. But Riley didn't mind! We had prepared for it so we were all bundled up. It seemed strange to be at Disneyland in hats, coats and gloves! </div>
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I'm really glad Elden can stomach the rides that go around and around really fast!! </div>
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He was a little afraid of Mickey. Which is unfortunate since we waited over 45 minutes to meet him! </div>
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Riley LOVES having his picture taken.</div>
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A lot happened this year and I realized today the last time we posted was about christmas. </div>
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Elden deployed to Africa the middle of January, so Riley and I took a Space-Available flight on a cargo plane with a friend to Washington state, we rented a car, dropped Erika off in Portland and drove down to my sister Penny's. We stayed in Oregon for a month and a half, and while we were there, Penny, Caylyn, Riley and I flew to Oahu for 10 days. It was amazing! <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit-q1AzZsZ5Q5BotyMS6Qgpn-aEyfI71MyMb3TjYgcdXs6H_tHIWRr8fCn_sDeFngh3fwX12X3-IP5h9J4w_BMNvq7-ukrbj3jqPyfP8TbpxsCv17iudsqgQniIft-kV3itqNDdHup2QSm/s1600/IMG_1459%255B1%255D.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit-q1AzZsZ5Q5BotyMS6Qgpn-aEyfI71MyMb3TjYgcdXs6H_tHIWRr8fCn_sDeFngh3fwX12X3-IP5h9J4w_BMNvq7-ukrbj3jqPyfP8TbpxsCv17iudsqgQniIft-kV3itqNDdHup2QSm/s320/IMG_1459%255B1%255D.JPG" width="239" /></a></div>
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Then at the end of February, we flew to Colorado to visit the grandparents. Riley celebrated his 2nd birthday on March 1st.</div>
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The giant tricycle that used to be my Granny's was a big hit! Riley would get anyone he could to take him on a ride. </div>
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On our way back to Germany, we had to stay an extra day in Baltimore because the Space-A flight back was full, we got to spend the day with my good friend Rachel Young, and we went to the aquarium.</div>
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Every August in a town near us, is what's called Pigfest. (if you care to know the history-here you go. http://www.mygermancity.com/wittlich )We go every year and ride the ferris wheel. This year Riley actually enjoyed it. We also took him on the pirate ship ride that just went up and down, but the video is too big. I've got to make it smaller and then I'll post it.</div>
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We have some friends the Cook's we travel around with occasionally, and after both the guys were back from deployments, we went to Cologne to the Lindt Chocolate Museum. Riley was super interested since he's related to me and LOVES chocolate!<br />
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We also went to Brussles with the Cook's to show them the chocolate factory we like, and then our favorite waffle place. This time, we also found the famous Manneken Pis...its famous because it's super old, and over the years people have donated clothes for it to be dressed in a few times a week. Apparently the day we went was the naked day. </div>
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The end of September Eldens Parents flew in for a visit. We let them rest for a day and then drove down to Rothenburg which is an old walled German village (with an awesome Christmas store).<br />
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And then Elden's dad had to go back to work, but Luraly stayed and looked after Riley for a week so Elden and I could go vacation in the Canary Islands. We went to the island of Fuerteventura. Just FYI- it's not a tropical island. It's a desert island, like all dirt and rocks!! Meaning, it's not Hawaii. My mistake! But the weather was 80 and sunny, so you really couldn't beat that for it being October!<br />
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We had our first ACTUAL snow yesterday. It hasn't snowed much the entire time we've been here. Riley loved it!</div>
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GWarnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17016958361407310581noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5804735425884511286.post-90026766072227125692014-12-22T11:45:00.000-08:002014-12-22T11:45:19.865-08:00Pictures in Garmisch<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
We went to Garmisch (Bavaria) for Thanksgiving again this year, and had some pictures taken. Honestly, I was NOT happy with the family pictures (which makes me sad!), but he did get some good ones of Riley! And you can't beat the beautiful background of the Alps! </div>
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We didn't do a whole lot while we were there because I was sick basically the entire time, but we were able to go walk through Partnach Gorge. These pictures don't do it justice!! The water is almost clear blue and it was a nice little walk. It has a path carved out of the rock with some areas you have to duck through. Riley fell asleep on the way up, but coming back down he woke up and loved walking through all the tunnels. </div>
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<br />GWarnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17016958361407310581noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5804735425884511286.post-21113205890691937382014-09-20T11:36:00.002-07:002014-09-20T11:36:59.911-07:00Paris (Again) & Rachel's VisitMy old roomie from college came to visit us for 10 days and we took her to a few places here in Germany, Paris and Brussels. It was fun, but exhausting!!<br />
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Today I tried finger painting with Riley. At what age will kids stop putting everything in their mouth?<br />
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GWarnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17016958361407310581noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5804735425884511286.post-80841710800319807062014-07-08T12:06:00.001-07:002014-07-08T12:06:27.594-07:00We love Brussels!Yesterday we went up to Brussels because Elden had the day off work. We've been there twice before, but never really did much sight seeing-just eating. We did a little of both on this trip.<br />
First was our standard stop at Maison Dandoy for waffles. Riley had his first Belgian Waffle! He wanted Elden's though since it had strawberries and ice cream. Seriously-if you're ever in Belgium, it's worth a trip for their liege waffles!!!<br />
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We also visited the Atomium. It's a structure that was built for the Brussels World Fair in 1958. It was renovated a few years ago. We took a lift to the very top sphere which has a panoramic view of Brussels, and then we went into a couple of the other spheres (on a crazy steep and long escalator ride!)</div>
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It's been several months since we posted last.<br />
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End of January I turned 30! EEK!!! I feel so old. Elden made me this awesome cake (from scratch)! He used our delicious dutch cocoa from Belgium for the cake, and then the frosting was peanut butter. It had peanut butter cups on top and in the middle of the cake. Seriously the best frosting I've ever had. The cake would have been better, but our oven is terrible and unless you're sitting on the floor in front of it adjusting the temperature continually, it doesn't maintain the needed temperature. We burn a lot of food! :(<br />
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In February Riley & I (Gretchen) hopped on a cargo plane from Germany to Washington. It was a cold, loud, long flight, we were both sick, but being stretched out was much better than cramped in a seat on a regular passenger airplane! We took a sleeping bag, and once we got up, we were able to fold our seats back into the wall, and lay down and sleep and play. Riley kept trying to climb up the cargo netting that ran down the middle of the plane, but he definitely enjoyed being able to get up and crawl around.<br />
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These are the only two pictures I took, which were before take-off. He only left his ear protection on for about 5 minutes. He didn't seem to be bothered by how extremely loud the ride was!<br />
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My sister Penny picked us up from the base in Washington, and we drove to Oregon and spent a few weeks there with the Sheldon's. Riley's favorite thing to do at Penny's was play with Blake at the window.</div>
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He really loved his cousins (I guess i never got a picture of him with Caylyn)</div>
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Then we loaded up all of Kiley's stuff in a U-Haul and drove it down to Utah. Riley was a champ and didn't complain too much! :) While we were in Utah, Riley turned 1! I'm ashamed that I didn't really do anything for him since I didn't want to without Elden. I still feel bad about it-but I know he won't remember that we waited a few weeks. Elden Turned 30 while we were in Colorado, and I guess we didn't take any pictures of their party.</div>
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After Utah, Penny, Riley and I continued on to San Diego for Kiley's wedding. Riley wasn't so sure about the beach, but since he's related to Elden and I, I'm sure he'll love it eventually!</div>
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The rest of the Sheldon's, Elden, Mom, Dad & Mary met us in San Diego for the wedding. ( I guess we didn't take any pictures of that). It was a beautiful sealing in the San Diego temple, Kiley looked stunning and it was a happy day! They had a little reception/family get-together at the beach. </div>
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And we got some 1 year old pictures taken. I swear this kid could not be any cuter!!! </div>
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Elden's sister Carrie and her husband Jeremy drove all the way from Utah to see us while we were visitng, so we were able to see the entire Warner family, so it was lots of fun for Riley to get to meet and play with all his cousins, aunts and uncles. </div>
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The last four days we were in Colorado, I got a stomach bug, and then the day before we left, Riley ended up with pink eye and a double ear infection! But he still tried to be happy! He's one tough kid!</div>
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Then we flew to Baltimore, stayed the night there, and then caught a space-a flight back to Germany. Hopefully I don't have to make the flight back to the states for a while! The time change kills me! It takes a good week-10 days to get Riley re-adjusted.</div>
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Now that its summer, the weather is getting a little nicer. Riley loves to be outside and on the go! </div>
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Luxembourg American Cemetery and Memorial</div>
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His FAVORITE "toy" is an unused fly swatter </div>
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This kid loves to vacuum!! I'll ask him if he wants to help me and he'll run to the closet where it is.</div>
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The picture is dark-but his face is so cute! He was so happy when Elden climbed into his tent with him.</div>
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He has recently discovered his ears and nostrils. So this is the first time I ever saw him sticking his fingers in his ears. Since-he will occasionally do that when i'm singing him a song before bedtime. (hint hint I guess). I'm trying to teach him NOT to stick his fingers up his nose!</div>
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This little monkey is Marvin. His Auntie Trina gave to him before he was born. Riley snuggles and gives him kisses if he sees him laying around. He always sleeps with him, and sometimes when we put him to bed and he's not ready to go to sleep yet, he will play "boo" with the monkey by turning his face away and then back and saying "boo!" </div>
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Waffles are his main staple. This particular time we had whipped cream and strawberries and he was eating the cream by the fist-full!</div>
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When Riley gets excited he lets out these excited, long, "ooOOOOOoooo". It was pretty cute listening to him open his presents.</div>
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Riley had his first aebleskive. He liked it. We tried to feed him something else after, but he wouldn't have it.</div>
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Family, I put Nutella in the aebleskiver today. Boom, you're welcome. I still like apples better, but Gretchen liked the chocolate.</div>
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<br />GWarnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17016958361407310581noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5804735425884511286.post-91475308952645854782013-12-20T13:33:00.002-08:002013-12-20T13:33:43.466-08:00Riley OverloadWe're pretty much obsessed with taking videos and pictures of EVERYTHING Riley does. Sometimes when we go back and watch videos we take we ask ourselves "why did we take this" and then we remember, he was starting to babble, or wave his arms, or hold onto his rattle for the first time. Which ISN'T so amazing now since he's crawling, pulling himself up and learning some sign language...<br />
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Anyway-this video is Riley mimicking Elden, or at least trying to. I thought it was pretty cute!<br />
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At the beginning of October, Riley and I flew to Colorado. It was nice to be back home! While we were there Mary & Stephanie had their babies (on the same day, in the same hospital). So it was nice to be there to see them, and see Lindy (Caroline's little girl) who was born the end of September.</div>
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Riley & Grandad</div>
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Riley & Granny</div>
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Riley & Great-Uncle Tom</div>
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While I was home, I went and got Riley's pictures taken. He only lasted about 15 minutes, but we got some cute ones! </div>
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While I was shopping one day with Mary & Penny, I found this hat the Children's Place for like $3. I thought it was too cute! I wish i could have captured the look on Riley's face when i put it on him for the first time. He thought it was great. AFTER that, he would rip it off his head. :(<br />
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Riley has also learned how to give the most slobbery kisses. Sometimes, he'll even suck on your cheek or nose, or put your entire nose in his mouth. He thinks it's great, we think it's gross.. Sometimes he insists it's on the lips and other times, he doesn't care as long as it's your face. He's a very affectionate child!<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For Thanksgiving this year, we went down to Garmish with some friends from the ward. It was great! We stayed at Edelweiss Resort. It was right at the base of the mountains, which were covered in snow, but was absolutely beautiful. If it hadn't been so cold, we probably would have taken more pictures... We're thinking about making it a Thanksgiving tradition while we're here in Germany, so maybe next year it won't be as cold. I doubt it though :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We mostly stayed around town, but on Saturday we went and saw Hohenschwangau & Newschwanstein Castles which were awesome! Riley is pretty much the best traveler ever! He LOVES being outside and on the go, so he hardly complained at all! We're pretty lucky! </span><br />
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Our first stop was a Godiva store where we sampled some chocolate and purchased some truffles. <br />
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Next we walked to Dandoy for our waffles. We didn't think to take a picture of them until after everyone was through with theirs, and I only had 2 bites left of mine. They were delicious! My waffle was the one covered in chocolate :)<br />
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Then we headed to the Grand Place-which is a big market square surrounded by old beautiful buildings. All built in a different time period and very different from each other.<br />
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On our way home we took a little detour to go to Jacques Chocolate Museum, but we made it there a little too late and it was closed. What WASN'T closed however was the chocolate store! They had the normal chocolates that they made and sold everywhere, but also had the defective stuff that tasted perfectly wonderful, but that was broken or didn't look quite right. We picked up a couple 2lb bags of chocolate for 3euro each (which is equivilent to around $4.06). I'm glad it's an hour and a half away! Otherwise I might be tempted to go back often!</div>
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The Louvre was next. Beautiful. Gretchen and I were sometimes more amazed at the architecture than the art. We were always saying, "Look at these beautiful floors!" We are ruined for life, I know. Some of the most beautiful parts were the courtyards, which you couldn't get to. I think we spent about 4 hours there, and we didn't even set foot in 1 of the 3 legs in the museum. We made sure to see the important stuff.</div>
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All in all it was a great trip. It was our first big trip with Riley and was a lot of work. I think now that we have done it the next one will be easier. We are grateful to Dan and Stacia for being our Guinea pigs. They were great company and a lot of fun to travel with.</div>
<br />Toast Habithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18285468488246369009noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5804735425884511286.post-77943846749906110112013-09-02T07:10:00.002-07:002013-09-02T07:10:42.397-07:00Cute boy!I was transferring pictures from our memory card onto the computer so we can have plenty of room to take pictures while we're in Paris tomorrow. I couldn't resist sharing :)<br />
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<br />GWarnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17016958361407310581noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5804735425884511286.post-25099641885114648752013-09-01T13:03:00.004-07:002013-09-01T13:03:43.106-07:00By the way...I don't think i ever posted about us moving to Germany...<br />
Last November (the Saturday after Thanksgiving to be exact) Elden and I were in our basement just hanging out and talking. Elden was at his computer checking his email and said to me "So you want to move to Germany next year?" I thought he was joking at first, but he wasn't. Only after a year at being stationed at Schriever we got new orders.<br />
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We moved to Germany 2 1/2 months after Riley was born. It's taken some adjusting, but it's definitely a neat experience to be here! I'm not going to lie...I miss living in the states! It's a whole different lifestyle over here!<br />
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I miss seeing words on a sign or something and actually knowing what they mean. I miss being able to talk to people without having to ask them first "Sprechen Sie Englisch?". Also-I miss driving on wide roads, and roads that don't make me car sick when I'm not driving. Groceries are expensive (and i'm not working full time anymore). Mostly though, I miss my family! Before we left, Caroline & Jordon moved back, Elden's sister Julia and her family moved to Monument, and right after we left Mary & Corban moved back. I try not to think about it because it makes me sad since I don't know if we'll get stationed there again.<br />
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Don't get me wrong-I enjoy some things about Germany as well. Like, I haven't had a cell phone since June and don't really want one! We live in this quiet little village (except when there is an all night festival down the street with live music playing until 6am.).<br />
The Autobahn! I LOVE being able to drive as fast as I want (until there's road construction and have to slow WAYYYY down). There are only a few stop signs, most of them are yield signs. We live 15 minutes from base instead of an hour, which means we can go have lunch with Elden as much as we want. The German's I've met so far have been so very sweet! I was getting my car serviced last week and the guy that was helping me thought Riley was just the cutest, he kept coming over and talking and playing with him while we waited and before we left he gave Riley a stuffed Volvo polar bear (didn't know Volvo had a mascot??).<br />
I enjoy that stores are closed on Sunday. Sunday is still a sacred day here. You're not allowed to do yard work, wash your car, or basically do anything noisy that might disrupt anyone else. The food so far has been good (especially the ice cream!!!!) And of course, we get to travel.<br />
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Dan & Stacia are coming tomorrow on their way to Russia for Dan's study abroad semester, and we're going to see Paris, Brussels Belgium, Luxembourg City, and then some other places close by. (of course, they're all pretty close by-Paris is the farthest away which is only about 4 hours!) We're pretty excited to finally start traveling. We've not really done much since we've just been trying to get the house put together, and because we have 4 years to see everything we want to see.GWarnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17016958361407310581noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5804735425884511286.post-56744522097792392092013-08-05T12:29:00.001-07:002013-08-05T12:29:13.035-07:00IKEAIn Germany, Ikea is still a big blue and yellow building. That is where we went this weekend.Toast Habithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18285468488246369009noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5804735425884511286.post-35856877053628431412013-07-19T13:09:00.001-07:002013-07-20T11:38:53.884-07:00Riley, Little Buddy, or Dude<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />GWarnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17016958361407310581noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5804735425884511286.post-45748743333196886382013-04-17T14:25:00.000-07:002013-04-17T14:25:16.011-07:00Riley Elden<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Riley was born a month early, on March 1 at 3:59 pm 6lbs 5oz and 19.9" long. (I was admitted to the hospital on February 25th because my blood pressure was too high-the adventure being induced is a long one which i don't think i remember well enough to explain. It was horrible...and we'll leave it at that!) Labor was not terrible (after the epidural of course), I believe they said I was only in active labor for 4 hours, I slept through the last few hours of it, woke up said to the nurse "I feel a lot of pressure" she checked and said "you're 10cm and I can feel his head. Let me go let the Dr. know we're going to start pushing and I'll be right back." She came back we pushed a few times and she said "ok! I can see his head, don't push, I have to go get everyone in here!" So a few pushes later, here he was! For being a month early-there wasn't anything wrong! They took him to the nursery that night just to make sure, but the next morning, he was able to come be in the room with us. Because I had preeclampsia, and because they induced me, I was hooked up to 5 different IV's. One was magnesium, which I had to be on 24 hours after giving birth to make sure I didn't have seizures (due to the preeclampsia). That one was the worst by far! I felt horrible and totally out of it!! Because of all the fluids I was having pumped into me I was totally swollen. It took a good week for the swelling in my feet and legs to go down. I couldn't even hardly put on a pair of socks and had to wear slippers when we went to his first few dr appointments!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsQN88a4zOk6TDhHZeFIO54HyiixJo2ig9Hrz1gKSyKP875rgddiX8ggQHmzHnpuIqLkGSNZCKaBT1eCX55lyMt_MHmyHbkOp1oRRwzz42HYX-9k86wXFDKQq39ywSgPSQ4GRP14ubE5wp/s1600/DSC00842.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsQN88a4zOk6TDhHZeFIO54HyiixJo2ig9Hrz1gKSyKP875rgddiX8ggQHmzHnpuIqLkGSNZCKaBT1eCX55lyMt_MHmyHbkOp1oRRwzz42HYX-9k86wXFDKQq39ywSgPSQ4GRP14ubE5wp/s320/DSC00842.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>
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He was jaundiced, so he had to have photo therapy That was really hard to have to leave him in that bed and not be able to pick him up much other than to feed. He cried pretty much the entire time he was in it, and Elden or I had to stand above the bed and keep his arms down so he'd stay covered up and somewhat calm. :( They even made us stay an extra day so he could have more time with the photo therapy.<br />
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We're home and doing well now. He doesn't like to be put down very much. He typically only sleeps out of my arms at night, when he's laying in bed next to me...and most nights he sleeps 3 hours at a time, but the last few he's woken up every hour or so. He's growing like crazy, but he's still skinny enough for the newborn stuff, but too long for it. And unfortunately they don't make any slim/tall baby clothes! </div>
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My sister Penny and 3 of her kids came down for their spring break to meet Riley. Penny took some pictures of Riley-and I love them!!!</div>
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GWarnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17016958361407310581noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5804735425884511286.post-20957209138719908112013-02-01T12:01:00.000-08:002013-02-01T12:01:20.242-08:00Baby Stuff<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Wednesday I went for my appointment with my midwife, and ended up having to go to the hospital because my blood pressure was super high and they couldn't get it down even after 2 hours.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">Turns out I have preeclampsia and am now on bed rest for the next two months, unless they have to induce me before the due date :( I am fully willing to comply (even though it's killing me since I know there's so much to be done at work, and no one to fully cover me). I'd rather lay in bed than have a 2 month premie! Luckily Riley is doing well, so as long as i can keep my blood pressure down, he can grow a little more. I have to keep telling myself that so I don't get up and do things i'm not supposed to. I can be up 10 minutes to eat 3 times a day, 10 minutes to shower, and can get up to use the bathroom...otherwise it's either laying in bed or in the recliner. Poor Elden has to do everything else. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">I now have to go down to Ft. Carson twice a week to be monitored for an hour, and on one of those days have labs done (meaning I have to collect my urine the day before and take all of it down there...SOOO GROSS!). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia;">On top of preeclampsia, as i was leaving my midwife, she came back in the exam room and said "did anyone call you about your glucose test you took a couple weeks ago?" I assumed no news was good news, but apparently in this case it wasn't good news. They just forgot to call me and tell me my levels were elevated, and that I need to go back and take the three hour glucose test. I actually was assuming i might end up with gestational diabetes because Caroline had it also (we both have PCOS)-and it appears that may be the case. We'll find out next week I guess...i'm keeping my fingers crossed I don't so I have one less thing to worry about. </span>GWarnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17016958361407310581noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5804735425884511286.post-84103545455449112122012-12-20T16:24:00.002-08:002012-12-20T16:24:54.732-08:00Newest Ultrasound<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="text-align: start;">I got another ultrasound a few weeks ago because in the last one they did-he wasn't cooperating and they couldn't get a good look at his spine. I didn't mind! :) (usually when you're seen on base-they only do 2 ultrasounds apparently)</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: start;">He's so cute...even if the 3D looks a little creepy! </span></div>
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<span style="text-align: start;">The whole time he kept moving his hand which was holding the cord, in front of his face-or putting one of his feet in front of his face-so it was hard to get a good one. But these ones turned out pretty good</span></div>
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<br />GWarnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17016958361407310581noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5804735425884511286.post-30309841583530940922012-11-13T16:46:00.002-08:002012-11-13T17:07:15.745-08:00BabyIt's a boy! :)<br />
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I like that he figured out the "peace" sign :)</div>
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He kept yawning the whole ultrasound.<br />
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And he might be mad at me later on in life for posting this...but here's proof of a boy! :)<br />
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(Elden might make me take this off after he finds out)</div>
GWarnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17016958361407310581noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5804735425884511286.post-65303986120696238372012-09-26T14:43:00.002-07:002012-09-26T14:43:55.000-07:00It's Official....I NEED to move to Hawaii! At least at some point in my life-even if it's just for a year! It would be like a permanent vacation.<br />
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Our vacation was wonderful (well...except for the whole part when Elden got sick). It was just the vacation I needed. We didn't do a ton-just layed out, swam and snorkeled, ate hula pie twice and at Puka Dog. :) Had Elden felt better-we probably would have done more outings-but I'm really ok with just doing nothing and laying in the sun!<br />
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We did go to the Polynesian Cultral Center one night-and the HA: Breath of Life show was AMAZING!!! It's seriously the coolest show I've ever seen! The fire dancers were my most favorite part! I highly recommend it if you ever go to Oahu! We got discounted tickets on Hickam AFB (another benefit of being in the Air Force), but even if you have to pay full price-it's worth every penny!
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We didn't take any pictures really-other than the 3 I took on my cell phone which really aren't anything good. I did take some when we went snorkeling at Hanauma Bay-but they're on the disposable underwater camera we bought in 2008 for our trip to Mexico, and we're still not done with it. We're not very good picture takers! So it will probably be another 3 or 4 years before we finally develop the thing.<br />
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