Wales/Eddy Family

I'm sick of everyone being sick.

2009-03-29T12:12:00.000-07:00

This winter has been brutal for our family, and many others from what I hear, being bombarded with ear infections, sinus infections, bronchitis, etc. etc. etc. Some of you know that Nathan had tubes put in his ears just before his 1st Birthday. Just a few days ago, he just finished up another antibiotic trying to get rid of another ear infection. This was actually his first one since his tubes fell out of his ears. (The tubes have been out for just a couple of months). Well, he had a check-up on Thursday, March 26th, with the ENT. He removed the tubes and a bunch of wax from his ear canal and discovered that the ear infection hasn't cleared up yet. So, here we go again, on another antibiotic to try to clear that infection up. This poor little guy has been on so much medicine lately, I can't believe he's still sick. Oh, by the way, did I mention that his nose is not really icky and he has a terrible cough. He has two more days left on this antibiotic and another appointment the ENT on April 10th. If the infection hasn't cleared up by then, he will have to get tubes again and the doctor said he would consider taking his adenoids out.

What fun! That's just Nathan's story.

Marissa has had numerous issues with ear infections, fluid in her ears and sinus infections. Her doctor just recently recommended that she see an ENT. There is one that comes to his office once a week or once every two weeks. She saw her and was told that she has dysfunctional Eustachian tubes. Meaning she's going to need tubes put in.

More fun!

Marissa is supposed to go on Wednesday, April 1st to get her tubes. We'll be praying that it will help her problem.

Andy has suffered with a terrible cough that just won't go away. He's had bronchitis and been on antibiotics. His cough has returned once again and has been sleeping on the couch so that I can get sleep. Usually when Nathan is sick, he wakes me up a couple of times during the night and Andy didn't want to wake me with his coughing. Thanks dear!

Now, Daniel is sick and who knows what's going on with him. But his doctor gave him a prescription a while ago to fill when needed. Well, I think that time is now. He's coughing like crazy (unfortunately waking me up a few times during the night). So, hopefully this antibiotic will help.

So, are you tired of hearing me rant about sickness and antibiotic? I know I am.

I would just ask that you all keep our family in prayer to get sickness out of our home. You have visited long enough. You aren't welcome any more!!!

2009-01-17T05:44:00.000-08:00

These are just some random pictures that were taken recently.

Nathan decided he wanted to get dressed to go outside, so he took it upon himself to get his "boots, hat, hands". As you can see, he got his boots on the wrong feet. But he gets an "A" for effort. He actually got his mittens on the right hands and his thumbs were in the thumb holes. Way to go Nate!
Nathan and Marissa think Anna's sunglasses are the coolest, so they both wanted to try them on.

I'm #1, I'm #1!

Here's my beautiful Marissa! She looks like a movie star with Anna's sunglasses on. Unfortunately I didn't get a picture of Anna wearing her own sunglasses. Maybe next time she's home.

And here's the star of the next Matrix movie. He should have been wearing Anna's sunglasses in this picture.

Christmas 08

2009-01-10T05:23:00.000-08:00

This is at Granma Lane's house. Everywhere he goes he sees lights and presents!

Let's open presents! Nathan has been waiting for daaaaaaaays!

"I don't know -- they've been telling me to leave these alone..."

"A Choo-Choo!!!!!!!" Nathan was so excited to get this.

Church Christmas Party

2009-01-05T04:36:00.000-08:00

Our Pastor took some great pictures at the Church Christmas Party. This first one is Nathan and Hannah. Hannah is our Pastor's granddaughter. I'm surprised that this turned out as well as it did. Nathan was having a hard time sitting still and Hannah wanted to watch Nathan. What a couple of cuties!

Here's Nathan, Anna, Daniel and Marissa. Anna was being a bad influence and teaching Dan & Marissa how to smoke a candy cane. Bad Anna!

This is our family, Anna, Daniel, David, Nathan, Andy, Marissa and Kristan.

And this one is how we feel during the Christmas season. We're such a loving family!

Playing in the Snow

2008-12-16T05:51:00.000-08:00

Last week we had our first "major" snow storm of the season. Nathan had a blast playing in the snow, but was bummed out that it wasn't packing snow. He was trying his hardest to make snowballs and throw them, but wasn't having much luck. Here are some pictures of his outdoor venture.

Visit with Sissy

2008-11-16T05:32:00.000-08:00

Mommy had to take Marissa to an orthodontist appointment. Anna's college is not far from there, so they all went to a Mexican restaurant. They took out the camera and there was a lot of ham on the menu!

Painting Pumpkins

2008-11-04T18:34:00.000-08:00

A couple of weeks ago I babysat a friend of Nathan's. Her name is Maryn. She's about 5 months older than Nathan, she'll be 3 in December. She is a smart little cookie. We took a trip to the Produce stand next to Walmart to buy pumpkins to paint, with the help of my Grandmother. I'm not sure if I would have been able to take both of them on my own. Here are some pictures of them painting their pumpkins. While Nathan was painting his, he kept using the green paint and saying "Hulk, Hulk". He used mostly green paint for his whole pumpkin.
I love the look on Nathan's face.

After Andy got home from work, he decided to paint one of his own. He showed Nathan how to paint the Hulk.

Fudgecicles & Gotees

2008-09-12T18:52:00.000-07:00

A couple of weeks ago (when the weather was warm) Nathan decided he wanted to go in the pool. While he was in the pool, I gave him a Fudgecicle, since I knew it was going to melt all over him...quick clean-up.

Andy says everybody is always saying he looks like his mom, but with the melted Fudgcicle goatee, he clearly resembles his dad.

the Gap Girl

2008-08-24T07:11:00.000-07:00

Anna called last night. She was just leaving her second interview at the Gap. She got the job!!! Yeah! Congratulations Anna. Don't spend your whole paycheck on new clothes!!!

Here she goes again!

2008-08-23T04:37:00.000-07:00

Yesterday Grandma Wales, Marissa, Nate and I took Anna to college. Here's Anna leaving our house (she doesn't look overjoyed to me, does she to you???) :-)

Baptist Bible College is about 1 hour and 15 minutes away from Athens if you go to Binghamton and then down Rte. 81, unless of course you hit construction traffic. Ugh!!! I think it took us 45 minutes to go 4 miles. So, a 1 hour 15 minute trip actually took us about 2 1/2 hours (we had to make a pit stop in Gibson). After getting out of the car, Anna threw herself down on the truck of her car and yelled "I hate driving". I then said "I hate driving in slow traffic!" to which every agreed. There were many friendly faces at Fletcher Hall to greet us and lend a hand in taking all of Anna's stuff to her room.

Here's Anna entering her dorm building.

The dorms are very cozy and set up with a common area in the middle, then 4 corner "pods" with three rooms and 1 bathroom each. So, rather than one big bathroom for the whole floor to share, you have 6 girls sharing 1 bathroom. I'm sure that isn't important to some people, especially if you aren't a girl.

After unloading Anna's stuff in her room (see picture below), she went to get her parking permit, get her picture taken for the yearbook, get her schedule and fill out numerous papers.
While Marissa and I were rearranging the room Nathan was running around in the "common area" and everyone was taking turns watching him. It looks like he was having fun.
This is Anna as she is going into her room.

And here she is in her room looking through her "schedule" for the evening. She decided to skip the dinner at the school and go and have real food with us at Bennigans.

This is Anna trying to get Nathan off of the floor to go to dinner. He was being a little obnoxious because he needed a nap and when he gets to the point of exhaustion, he gets a little crazy.Here's Grandma Wales in the common area getting ready to go to dinner.

Here is Anna again, looking less than thrilled to be riding in a vehicle again. We were all a bit tired, especially after stuffing our faces with some delicious food.

After we ate, we dropped Anna back off at the school. She then had to drive to the Viewmont Mall, which isn't too far from the school, for an interview at the Gap. Once we hear from her, we'll let you know if she got the job or not.

Easy as pie

2008-08-14T15:08:00.000-07:00

Today I went to meet with Roseanette Abrams thinking I was going to her office for an interview. When she came rushing out of her office to the reception area she looked at me and asked, "so, when can you start???" Wow, that was the easiest interview I've ever been to. You know, the Lord has sort of just handed me the past three jobs that I've had. God is good!

Pictures from Kingdom Bound

2008-08-10T13:55:00.001-07:00

Here are some pictures from our trip to Kingdom Bound. As you can see, they are all of Nathan riding on rides with various people from our family. He had such a great time on the rides. Here he is with Daddy.
When he rode on the swings, I thought he was going to fall asleep.

This ride was one of his favorites. He loved spinning around and would lean from side to side and yell "whoa". He was really cute on this one.

Here are a couple of shots of Nate in the water park. He did not want to leave, but he was shivering and I was beat. It's hard work taking a 2 year old to an amusement park, but I'm glad he had a good time.

Kingdom Bound

2008-08-06T04:29:00.000-07:00

Back at the beginning of July our family entered an art contest to win 6 full event passes and a campsite at Kingdom Bound. We didn't win the contest, but the radio station that was holding the contest sent us 4 1-day passes because they really liked the comic that we entered. Being that we have 7 in our family, we would have to purchase 2 tickets (Nathan would be free because he is under 3). Well, tickets weren't going to be cheap--$49 a pop. Knowing that we really didn't have the extra money spend on these, we were going to have to ask Anna and Daniel to pitch in a bit of money, which they said would be fine. Then, out of the blue, a friend called us up and asked if we were going to Kingdom Bound. To which I replied, yes, but we only have 4 tickets. He said well, I have two tickets for you. My jaw dropped. I was amazed that the Lord was looking out for us in such a way. I told our friend that he had truly blessed us with his kindness. God is good!

While we were at Kingdom Bound, Andy and I stopped by the worship tent while Jason Upton was leading worship. He is truly annointed. One of the songs he sang called Father of the Fatherless was ministering to me as well as many others, but unfortunately in the middle of the song the power in the worship tent went out. It was truly unfortunate because the presence of God was really strong and seemed to dissipate after the that. Well, I found a video of Jason singing this song and have posted it here. May it minister to your heart as you listen. Here are the words to the song.

I don't know how, to say what i'm feeling.
I don't have words, to write you a song.
But i have this hope and i have this prayer,
and i am believing.
Your words are true,
you never leave us alone.
father of the fatherless, come down and rescue us
we need you, we need you again
friend of the friendless, come down and visit us,
we need you, we need you again

How many sons, have cried for their fathers.
and how many fathers, have cried like a son
now every tear saved through the years in memory's bottle
becomes the fine wine, You serve to the children of god

Where were you at Midnight Last Night?

2008-08-02T05:42:00.000-07:00

Well, I was at Barnes & Noble with my daughter and cousin. (Marissa & Amy) For those of you who don't know, my daughter has a book obsession. Her latest obsession is with the author Stephenie Meyer. Stephenie's newest book in the Twilight Saga is "Breaking Dawn" and it was released for sale at Midnight last night, or should I say this morning??? Anyway, B&N was having a Release Party and my daughter had to be there, because, like I said before, she's obsessed. Which is actually okay. I'd rather her have a book obsession than be obsessed with boys, drugs or something unworthy of an obsession. (No I'm not saying that boys aren't worthy, but she's 14 and I'm glad she isn't obsessed with boys at this time.) We arrived at B&N around 9:45pm because the "party" was beginning at 10pm. The store was buzzing with teenaged girls who obviously were also struck with the Stephenie Meyer obsession bug. Many had homemade t-shirts depicting their favorite book or an interesting quote from the series. My favorite t-shirt was of course the one that my daughter made (pictured here).She used a quote from the Twilight book. "And so the Lion fell in Love with the Lamb." Isn't it cute! On the back of the shirt she named all of the books in the saga and their release dates. She was proud of the way it turned out.

At the party, they had trivia contests, a corsage making table, a table where you could get your nails painted black and get "blood bites" on your neck, because, for those of you who don't know, the books are about vampires. You could also place a vote in the cafe for the man that you want Bella to end up with, Edward or Jacob. Edward ended up with the most votes.

Marissa and Amy spent most of their time filling out one of the trivia sheets. You had to get all of the answers correct in order to be entered to win a t-shirt. Well, they got all of the answers right, but didn't win a t-shirt. They weren't too disappointed because it wasn't a great looking t-shirt.

At 11:45pm they started lining up the crowd to purchase their book. The people who had pre-ordered the book lined up first followed by those who didn't pre-order. Marissa and Amy were ones that didn't pre-order, but they were excited because they were #9 & #10. Unfortunately there were over 75 people who had pre-ordered and were ahead of them. When I found out how many people were in line ahead of them, I thought we were in for a long night. I couldn't believe how quickly the line was moving. We actually were out the door at 12:15am. I was impressed. Those cashiers were moving like lightning. I thought the drive home was going to be awful because my usual bedtime is 9:30-10 o'clock. But, after having a Venti Carmel Macchiato, which was extremely strong (so unlike Starbucks coffee :-), I made it home without falling asleep. Yeah for me! Of course the singing, the cold AC and the need to empty my bladder also helped. All in all, the evening was a lot of fun.

This is Marissa and I as we were driving to the event. Don't we look pretty!

Things that drive me crazy

2008-07-29T12:02:00.000-07:00

Do people who work in customer service know what customer service means???? I had to go to the bank today to make a car payment. I walked up to the counter where three bank tellers were working, one helping a customer and two standing next to her, so three all together. The two that were standing there weren't doing anything besides looking at their computer and then just staring out into outer space not saying anything. Okay, are they ready to help me or are they actually working on something on their computer? They just kept looking at their computer then looking at me, still not saying anything. Wouldn't it be nice, if you are ready to help the next customer to say, "how can I help you?" Would that be too much to ask? So I proceed to hand them my check and tell them I'm here to make a payment and the loan number is on the check. Still, they say nothing, but take my check and start to process it. Still nothing. I hear a noise, but is it someone saying something to me? No, it's just the printer printing out my receipt. Then finally, the bank teller hands me my receipt and says "thank you". WOW!!! Two words. OH MY GOSH!

Don't you just love those friendly bank tellers who work in customer service????!!!!

Sunflower and Sunshine

2008-07-28T16:40:00.000-07:00

During the Spring our gardener (a/k/a Anna) planted a bunch of things around the house. Well, here is a picture of the most beautiful sunflower I have ever seen. It brought a little sunshine to my somewhat dreary day. Thank you Anna!

George's Birthday

2008-07-27T06:43:00.000-07:00

Yesterday, we went to Harris Hill to celebrate my father-in-law's Birthday who turned 82. When we got on the highway, I said, "shoot, I was going to get the camera, and forgot it". So, unfortunately I have no pictures to add to this post. Maybe John and Georgia can e-mail some to us and then I'll post them. We had a nice time visiting with the Wales family and Andy and I were able to visit because Daniel, David and Marissa helped chase Nathan around. There was alot of good food, as always, and I went away stuffed. Hopefully we can get some pictures on soon and we can complete our story.

Nate's New Undies

2008-07-22T11:55:00.000-07:00

On Sunday, Grandma Wales came to our church to hear our guest speaker, who just happened to be her son, Andy. After church she came over to our house for lunch and presented Nate with new Superman undies. He immediately started to remove the shirt he was wearing and wanted someone to help him put the undies on. He just loves Superman (a/k/a "B"). Later in the day, Andy, Nate & I were going to go out to dinner, but before we left I wanted to change Nathan into something else. Daddy proceeded to remove the Superman tank and Nate went crazy. He didn't not want to wear anything else. So, we decided to just put on a pair of shorts and leave the tank on him. Nathan didn't have a problem with that and was happy to be able to keep his new tank on.

Love the belly!

Marissa's Return...Happy Cat

2008-07-22T11:36:00.000-07:00

For those of you who didn't know, Marissa went to Nebraska from June 19th until July 17th to visit my sister, Marlene and her family (Lynn, Cody & Delaney). It was weird to not have her around the house for a whole month. Our cat, Trixie (pictured below with Marissa) didn't know what had happened to her friend. So, she would come into my bedroom at 4:00 or 5:00 in the morning and meow (which doesn't happen when Marissa is home). I think she was saying "where's Marissa? I usually cuddle with her in the morning, I NEED some attention, pet me NOW!" Well, since Marissa has been home, Trixie hasn't been in my room meowing at me, well, except for last night when Anna shut the bedroom door and Trixie couldn't get to her food, water and litter box. So, at 3:30 this morning, she decided to come and "yell" at me, so I let her into the room and all is well.

Summer Fun

2008-07-21T15:33:00.000-07:00

Nathan has been having a great time this summer. In this picture Nate and David are getting cooled off in the pool that Grandma & Grandpa Morningstar gave to Nate. By the smiles on their faces, they are really enjoying themselves!

Here's Nathan playing in the "sand" at Cowanesque Lake. We went to visit the Waters and Keeney Families while they were camping. By the look on Nate's face, he doesn't like the feel of the sand on his hand.

One of Anna's summer jobs is to babysit two boys, Nate & Will. Anna decided she would bring them along on our visit to Cowanesque lake. Here, she's having a splash fight with Will. She said, he's the active one.

Nathan decided to try out Will's goggles. He thought it was pretty cool. Now he just needs a pair of flippers and a snorkel and he's ready to to do some snorkeling.

Nate loves his sister, that is, he loves to run away from her when she wants some lovin'. You better be giving her extra hugs and kisses or she's going to get a complex.

The Real Story

2008-07-20T21:12:00.000-07:00

Andy: Kristan posted the description to the right of how we met. I'm glad she did so now I can remind my self of what anniversary we are going to celebrate next. I'm not good with dates, but I'm fairly sure the current year is 2008. Her description does not give the complete story, so I will fill in the gaps with the comic strip below. If there are any discrepancies, mine is the true one, unless it involves dates, times or true facts.

Beach

2008-07-20T14:15:00.000-07:00

At the beginning of the summer, my mom (Kristan), Nathan, and I took a trip to the beach along with my Aunt Marlene, Cousin Cody, and Cousin Delaney. We had a blast! Here are a few pictures I thought I would take the liberty of posting! They are all from Ocean City, NJ.

A bird on the beach. I thought it looked cool on the fence post.

This is Nathan on the merry-go-round. That blur in the background is me.

This is Nathan, Delaney, Kristan, Marlene, Cody, and me on the surrey. This was a blast! If you ever go to the beach, you should ride one of these. I just suggest that you don't wear flip-flops, because I ended up getting a sliver after losing my flip-flop and walking on the board walk to get it. So, don't let that happen to you!

That was our trip! I love the beach, but there's no place like home!

-Marissa (^_^)