Skating Party

We have recently realized how much our family loves roller skating. It turned out to be a great way to celebrate Emma's birthday. What made it even more fun was a double party with one of Emma's best friends, Josiah! We officially took over the skating rink with about 50 family and friends skating, eating pizza, having cake and opening gifts.

Emma's Birthday

Today is Emma's 4th birthday. I was blessed to take her on a mini mommy and me vacation. We went to Anderson Island last night to spend some time with Aunt Janelle and Aunt Laura. After a fun evening playing with the kitty's and doggy we settled in for the night. Early this morning we were joined by Grandma and Grandpa Myers, Grandma and Grandpa Tomasch, Aunt Desiree and Uncle Raymond. We were thrilled to attend church with everyone and watch as Uncle Raymond was ordained as a minister. Great Job Uncle Raymond!

After returning home we went out for Emma's annual birthday desert. she decided that she wanted to go to Baskin and Robbins for ice cream. It was a chilly choice for January, but still a ton of fun!

I love spending time on each birthday thinking about the moment each child has entered our lives. Today was spent thinking about January 18, 2005. I was 39.6 days pregnant and couldn't wait to find out if we were having a boy or girl! Tomorrow was our due date but I knew that today was the day we were going to meet our little baby. We woke up, showered, gathered our bags and waited for Grandma Myers to arrive at our house. Today we were scheduled for an induction. I was contracting throughout the night and when we arrived at the hospital I was dilated to a 3+. As our nurse started the pit she asked when I thought I would be delivered. She laughed at my answer...I want this baby out by noon!

Several hours went by and I was having regular non-painful contractions. Dr Shope came in at about 11:00 am to check me. He did an exam and my heart sunk when he told me that I was still a 3...maybe 4. He said that it looked like it might take a while for this baby to make his/her arrival. He ruptured my membranes and went back to the office. Within a couple of minutes I had my first contraction. It hurt really, really bad! I rested in bed, went to the bathroom, and sat up in the chair for a while. The next time the nurse came into our room I told her that my pain level had increased.

She asked me how bad my pain was, and I told her that it was a least a 6. She looked at me for a few seconds then told me that I looked like my pain was at a 3. Knowing that I had hours to go I requested an epidural.

The anaesthesiologist was wonderful. He did a great job and our epidural was done shortly after noon. I expected instant relief but the pressure only progressed. I told our nurse that I was still having the pressure and she stopped in her tracks. It had only been about 1 hour since I was checked at a 3 but she did a quick exam. She looked up with fear in her eyes. I was complete and baby was coming...

"Don't push...Don't push...Don't push...we need to get a doctor here!!!" she continued to say while she frantically called Dr Shope and got our room ready. I was so thankful that I had that epidural. I sat there enjoying the scene filled with joy just waiting for our doctor to arrive.

About one and a half pushes later Emma was born and placed on my tummy at 12:58pm. Kevin kept saying "It's a girl!" over and over. She was beautiful was a head full of black hair. If I didn't have the epidural I just know that I would made my noon goal! Emma Lynn Currey weighted 7 pounds 15 ounces and was perfect in every way.

Creative Children

All I am going to say is that I have a couple very creative children and that I have been very busy cleaning up after them!

Roller Skating

This evening as the snow began to fall again, we packed up and hit the rink. It has been almost 4 years since we tried to take the family roller skating. The last time didn't go so well. Emma was a little tiny baby, and Austin was 3 years old. We told him how fun it would be as we put the skates on him. He stood up and started wailing. We were only there for about 5 minutes before we gave up and decided leave. The manager was wonderful and graciously gave us our money back.





Back to tonight...





We had a great time! We were joined by the Matt Earnhardt family, The Greg Earnhardt family, the Finnestad family, Grandma and Grandpa Myers, and Aunt Janelle. Wow-that means that there were 11 adults and 12 children skating; plus 2 babies that were loved and cuddled.





Austin used the inline skates and took off like a pro; he even won the race. He skated for almost 2 hours straight and wouldn't even stop to eat. Emma loved to skate with Grandma and Grandpa. She went around and around and fell many times, both on and off the rink. She tuckered out after about 30 minutes but had a fun time watching and eating cotton candy. Even Kadin had a fantastic time. I believe that he made it around the rink at least 2 times with Aunt Janelle and Grandpa. He spent a lot of time driving on the car-type video games.

As we left Austin asked if we could go back soon and Emma wanted to know when she could have more cotton candy!

White Christmas

This year we had a wonderful surprise...our first white Christmas in 18 years!


What a beautiful blessing to wake up with the excitement of opening presents and snow falling out side (okay- it was still dark, but still...)

It has become a tradition to spent the night with Grandma and Grandpa Myers Christmas eve for the last several years. This year we had planned to stay at home and join them on Christmas day in the late morning but our kids would't hear anything about that. Thrilled to continue our tradition we packed up and moved out.

We spent Christmas eve eating, laughing, and visiting with Great Grandma and Great Grandpa Tomash.


Grandma surprised us all with a Christmas eve gift: Pajamas! She even got all of the grown up women matching PJ's. What fun!

Christmas morning came more then once through out the night. Emma woke up at least twice in the middle of the night asking if it was time to get up and open gifts. We finally allowed them out of bed at about 5:45 am. Santa had filled all the stockings to the brim and they excitedly and quickly opened them up.

We enjoyed opening our first round of gifts right away then ate some wonderful cinnamon rolls that grandpa and the kids made for us. The kids loved playing with their toys for a few hours and we loved watching and playing with them.

Then it was off to the snow!!! Yes, it was cold but how could we miss the opportunity to make a 6 foot snowman?!

After getting cold in the snow we warmed up by decorating our Happy Birthday Jesus cake and gingerbread houses.

As soon as Aunt Janelle got off work we surprised our little ones with a second round of gifts. Austin could hardly contain his excitement and Emma said "You joked us!"

Our day was filled with family, joy, excitement, activity, gifts, snow and food. We couldn't ask for a better Christmas.

We are home and we have snow!

After a long flight I am so happy to say that we are finally home. The first thing that we did when we woke up...play in the snow! We jumped the fence (shhhh, don't tell) and enjoyed the rolling hills on the golf course with our sleds.

Christmas in Virgina

For the first time in over 4 year, I was able to spend a Christmas with my brother. Even more fun was having our wives together and our kids meeting for the first time. At times chaotic, but mostly pure joy as the kids played. We had a small gift exchange between the kids. It was awesome to see their expressions. We had a great time.