Watch out for that Deer!

Sunday evening, hubby and I were at the gym when my cell rang and here it's our son.  He was driving Amy's car....they'd gone to her parents for dinner....she forgot her cell phone so they turned back to go get it when across the median comes jumping a deer right into them.  On a main highway no less!  He said they were fine...Emma slept through it all....but the car wasn't driveable.  So hubby calls for the rollback at his work to go get them and we head out to go pick them up.  As we arrived, the state police had also just arrived.  He looked over the car and said he felt it could be driven.  The driver's door won't open because the door bent.  Rather than explain it, here are the pictures.  The deer hair are still stuck to the doors.  Ewwww  It's to go in the garage in the morning for the next 7 days.  Thankfully they were all OK.  That's what matters most!

I didn't make it to WW tonight.  Still struggling to keep everything out of my mouth.  Sometimes I win and many times I lose.  *sigh*
Since I have my camera out, here's also a few pictures of the zoo when we went a few weeks ago.  I can't say enough wonderful things about the Pittsburgh Zoo.  It's just awesome!

Last, and I know this is a long post so please hang in there with me.....I was chosen for a jury last week.  There were 2 defendants accused with attempted homicide, aggravated assault and possession of firearms.  It was an extremely stressful week listening to all the testimony.  Then Friday we deliberated for 10 hours before we decided that they were not guilty.  We had too much reasonable doubt about the evidence.  It's bothered me tremendously wondering if we did the right thing.  It was covered in the newspaper today.  If you'd like to read about it more, send me an email and I'll be glad to send you the link to the article.
Until next time, please stay safe and well.

Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween to you all!  I'm not going to talk much....just put pictures here.  Still have the zoo ones to add....will do that soon, I promise.

Emma's 1st Halloween

Daddy and Emma carving his pumpkin

Daddy and Emma showing off his carved pumpkin

Mommy and Emma with their carved pumpkins

Our pumpkin fairy dressed up and ready to go trick or treating

Emma and Sydney ready to trick or treat....she's such a great big cousin!

Sydney, Allison, Emma after trick or treat

Aren't they beautiful?

Pumpkin Patch

We've been super busy lately.  Last Saturday we went to the pumpkin patch for Emma's first visit.  Today we visited the zoo.  I also finally went to the gym yesterday.  YAY!  Today with all the walking we did at the zoo, my legs are telling me they know I went to the gym.  The leg cramps aren't pretty though.
Here's some pictures:

Amy, Emma, Zach at Schramms for their first pumpkin patch visit as a family

what the heck are these things???

Hey!  They are pumpkins and are my size!

Grandma and Emma with the Penguin mascot...right?  lol

Aunt Kayla helps Emma sit on her 1st pumpkin

If Zach and Amy are Queen and King then it only goes to reason that Emma is our princess

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and she is!

A few pictures

I haven't posted any new pics of our little beauty lately so thought I'd share some of those.  We're leaving for the beach soon and I can't wait to see what she thinks of it!  Zach used to ALWAYS fall asleep when we'd go.  She's liking the pool and is kicking her legs around and starting to splash.  My little fish :-)
The weather's been very hot but I'm not complaining since I'll take it over snow any day!  Plus it means lots of pool time.  Yay!  Which also helped in me losing 2.2 pounds this week.  Double Yay!

 

Her 1st bikini....and 1st time going into the pool

Just looking so dang adorable with new sunglasses while in her exersaucer

contemplating what to do for the 4th of July

Catching Up

WOW!  Has time flown by!  I've been super busy and it seems never get a chance to sit and catch up with my blog.  I've wanted to add some pictures too and seems if I do have time, I'm not near my camera.  So today it is!  LOL

Let's do the weight thing 1st and get it done.  I gained 2.4 pounds 2 weeks ago.  UGH.  I've been experiencing terrible pain again with my left arm so I called the doctor and she prescribed an anti-inflammatory and recommended I keep my arm in a tennis elbow brace to try to remind myself to rest my arm as much as possible.  She knows Emma lives with us and how difficult that is.  So I've not done anything different in my eating and have been walking when I can and to have a gain that big was really hard.  My feet and hands have been swelling so I know it's the medicine.  My feet actually hurt like they hadn't since I started WW.  NOT good.  I lost .6 this week so that at least went in the right direction.  I saw the doctor again yesterday and am not taking the medicine anymore.  Besides the side effects, it's not working in helping with the pain. I'm not scheduled to see an orthopedic doctor on June 7th and will be scheduling a MRI this next week.
I went to 3 WW meetings this week to issue the invitation to other members to join us on Sunday, June 6th at 9:30 a.m. to walk a 5k at Penn Middle School.  I'd been promising Kelly for over a year that I'd attend meetings with her to talk about my loss.  It's one thing to sit and blog about myself, but it's another to stand in front of your fellow WW and talk about yourself.  We're each in it together though.  I took something away from each meeting which gave me a push of motivation.  Still plugging away to that 9 pounds now til goal!

We've been traveling each weekend with Zach's bagpipe band.  2 weekends ago we spent the entire weekend in Lexington Park/Prince Frederick Maryland.  For the 1st time since Zach joined the band, they came in 1st place and were recognized as such.  (They'd placed 1st last year but it wasn't until after the awards were awarded that it was discovered that they were in 1st not another band.)  Here's a picture of him, Amy, and Emma celebrating afterward. (OK so Emma was sleeping)  It was Emma's 1st festival and she did GREAT.  Even though it was a drizzly, cold miserable day.  It was SO nice to getaway. 

Here's 1 of the whole winning band!

Then the next weekend we spent a Saturday in Bridgeport, West Virginia and again they placed 1st.  WOOHOO!  Now we'll not compete again until the end of June.

My cutiepie, Emma, is just growing and changing so much.  She's holding her head up nice, holding her toys, sleeping through the night (most nights), chattering away to us and she's found her piggies.  Here's a few pictures of her.  The 1st one is the day she went for her 3 month pictures at Target.  Every one of them was so stinking cute!

Last picture I'll share is one of a card I made a while back.  Yep, actually had time to make a card.  LOL

My Easter Blessing

It's been a while since I've shared any new pictures of my granddaughter, Emma....so here are a few :-)

 This was as much help as Emma could give her cousin Sydney in finding any eggs.

 The end of a LONG day for Emma

but isn't she just beautiful :-)

I have many other Easter pics but they include my niece

and my sister would not be happy if I share them.

So here instead are a few of my other favorite pics of Emma

from other days.

she finally sees the toys above her and was watching and smiling at them

Her Mommy takes her for walks about every day.

They both loving going out.

After a bath...you could just eat her up!

Emma's 1st official picture

Today Emma's official picture from the hospital arrived. YAY!
Isn't she just beautiful?

Off Work

Didn't have school yesterday or today. Now they are calling for 6-15 more inches of snow today into tomorrow. Hasn't started yet, but if it does as predicted I won't be going to weigh in tonight at WW. I'm on a double dose of steroids for my hurt arm (went to dr on Friday and she thinks I have tendinitis) and since weight gain is a side effect, every day I've been jumping on the scale hoping not to have gained. UGH...just went and checked since I hadn't today and I am up today! The snow has also begun! BLAH!
So instead here is my favorite princess. :-)

Daddy and Emma taking a nap :-)

Amy's family came to visit on Sunday. Pappy is holding her with Grammy also on the couch. Uncle Zach is there on the corner. He still won't hold her.

Emma getting her 1st bottle ever (was Mommy's milk since Grandma and Pap were babysitting)

Mommy, Daddy and Emma after they arrived home from celebrating their 1st anniversary.

Pictures

LOVE this bright outfit. She's in her rocker chair...quite content :-)

Mommy and Emma adoring one another. Amy is a very good Mom

The Naturally Sweet Emma...even her shirt says so :-)

Buddy shoveling ...he loves snow! BLECH!

That "bubble" is Zach's car. Our front hedges are almost even with the snow.

I know our pool is under there! And no, it's not an inground one

The deck for the pool. Look how the snow is higher than the swing.

From our back porch. I've looking at our neighbors tree.
Can't read the penguin to see how much snow we have.

We've got probably close to 24 inches of snow and are in a state of emergency. Here's some pics I took a bit ago...and of course, of our sweet Emma also. :-)

Emma's 1st week

I thought I'd share some pictures of Emma and her 1st week. She's a VERY good baby who is only fussy when she wants to eat. She's a real joy!

Great great Grandma Rose and Emma


Daddy, Emma and Mommy enjoying being home

Pap and Emma looking at a balloon from Aunt Kayla
Emma enjoying her boopy chair in her cute frog outfit


Mommy and Emma on the day Emma saw the doctor for the first time. She went from 8.4 when she left the hospital on Friday to 8.11 on Monday. :-)