Happy belated birthday to my husband Robert (december 29th)! Thanks for being such a great husband always, and for all of the hard work you have been doing while I am on bed rest. I don't know what I would do without you, and thank you for being such a good daddy to Luke. We love you!!!
We had a wonderful Christmas with all of our families. It was so nice to be able to get out of the house, even if I mostly laid on the couch. Luke made out like a bandit, he got such wonderful gifts from everyone. Rob and I were given wonderful gifts as well, even our little one who isn't here yet was spoiled!! We are just so thankful for our wonderful families, and thankful for the greatest gift of all, Jesus Christ. Here are some pictures of our Christmas!
Shower cake!
Cheesing for the camera!
hugging my cousin Auttie
making cookies!
Happy birthday to my sister Melissa! (December 9th). It is great fun having you for a sister! Thanks for always being there to talk with, laugh with, or vent to! You are the best! I wish I could have made it to your birthday party, but I am glad that Luke and Rob could come! Hope you had a lot of fun!
Love,
Kimmy
Happy Birthday Dad (November 29th)! I hope you had a great birthday! Thanks for coming to my house so I could see you on your birthday! I'm glad that I was able to see you! Sorry that I wasn't able to make it to your party. Thanks for being a great Dad to me, and always being there to lend a helping hand, or a listening ear when I need you!
I love you!
Kimmy
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I need to still post pictures of Luke as Buzz Lightyear from Halloween, and pictures from his Imagination Movers concert on November 2nd! I am very behind. I really don't have the excuse that I am busy, as I have been laying on the couch or in bed for almost 3 weeks now! I couldn't do it without the help of my family. My husband has just been awesome, and my mom comes almost every morning and helps clean house, and get Luke bathed and ready for the day. My mother in law has been awesome helping with Luke she comes and picks him up or comes over here everyday. Which he looks forward to so much! The only time I can leave the house is to go to the dr. each week. We had an ultrasound on Tuesday and she looks so cute! We are taking things day by day and hoping to make it 36 weeks. Everything is doing good so far, the bed rest is really helping my blood pressure stay lower, next week we will check for more protein in the urine and hopefully that is doing o.k. too. Then we will move to twice a week appointments. I hope that this finds everyone in blog land doing well.
-Kimberly
I'll have Rob get me my memory card so I can load those pics of Luke soon.
Happy Birthday to my Grandma Betty (November 13th)! I hope you had a wonderful birthday, I wish I could come to visit you. My Grandma is at a nursing home in LaSalle-Peru, and she has been there many years since her stroke. She can make you laugh really hard with the funny things she says, and the stories she tells. She is one of the strongest women I know, and has been through a lot. I love you lots Grandma! Happy Birthday!
Love,
Kimmy
Well I had some surprising news on Tuesday from my dr. I knew that my blood pressure had been starting to go a little wacky, because I was seeing sparkly floaters in my vision, my face, fingers, and ankles were swollen, and I had that familiar radiating abdominal pain I had with Luke. I went to the dr. last Friday, where they told me that I would have to take one of those fun 24 urine tests to check for protein. I never heard back from the dr. after taking the test, so I figured all was fine! Tuesday at 2:30 I went in for my dr.'s apt, where she started talking about my blood pressure, and how bad it got with Luke, and therefor she thought it would be good if I started bed rest since I am only 27 weeks, and we don't want it to get worse. That meant calling my work, and telling them I would be off for the remainder of my pregnancy, and going home and starting bed rest immediately. I am only able to to get up to shower, and sit up to eat meals, oh yeah of course to go to the bathroom. I can only leave the house once a week, for my weekly dr.'s apt. I was on bed rest for a little over a week at the end with Luke when they just decided the best thing was to deliver him at 36 weeks. We are hoping I can make it to at least 36 weeks this pregnancy. My family has already been great helping me, but I have a long road ahead. It will all be worth it to hold my precious little girl in my arms. Keep making posts to your blogs, so I have some fun stuff to read while lying on the couch! =)
Running from Daddy who is chasing him with leaves!
Mowing the lawn
Daddy set up his slide to end in a big pile of leaves
Leaf Fight!!
Gosh could he even see with his hat like that!
My beautiful niece made her arrival yesterday October 13th at 4:40 p.m. She weighed 7 lbs. 8 oz. and was 19 inches long. Her name is Lauryn Margaret. She is so adorable, she actually has a little bit of red in her hair, yeah for another red head in the family! Who knows what color it will actually turn out to be though! Her mommy is doing great! I couldn't believe how great she looked last night. ( I was a little jealous, haha!) Due to the very late hour I made it to the hospital last night, I didn't have a camera with me coming straight from work! You know I will post pics as soon as I have them though! Right now I am over the moon with my new niece here safe and sound. Now I will only have a few months until my daughter will join us, and I can't wait! =)
Luke went in for his 2 1/2 year check up today, and he did very well! Although he thought we were there for me, he told me to get up on the table, and show the nurse my tummy! The nurse and I both thought this was really funny. I then had to break it to him that we were there for him! I did tell a little white lie to him when I said there would be no shots, Dr. Luke recommended that he get his flu shot, so we did this year. So to make it up to him I took him to Dairy Queen to meet up with Daddy for lunch!
Stats-
Luke weighed in at 30 lbs. (not sure how many ounces) was 34 1/2 inches tall, and his head although I can't remember how big was in the 80th percentile. He is still our short and stout little boy with the chubby cheeks!
Happy 2nd birthday to my sweet niece Auttie (October 3rd)! I've had so much fun watching you grow these past two years, you are such a sweet natured little girl, and I love you! We had a great time at Autumn's party on Friday night, but I forgot my camera at the birthday girl's house, and it is still there today! I will post some pictures of the birthday when I get my camera back!
I want to wish a Happy Birthday to my mother in law Mindy! Thanks for being a great mom to all of us Mindy, and a great Mimi to Luke! We celebrated Mindy's birthday by heading to Oktoberfest at the German restaurant in Gibson City. It was a lot of fun, and Luke really enjoyed the German music that the group there played! We headed back to the Oakley's for cake and ice cream! We hope you had a great birthday Mindy! We love you!
Sock roses I made for a centerpieceI want to wish a very happy belated birthday (September 3rd) to my big sister Rebecca! The only family member with a birthday not within a month before or after Christmas! haha. I hope you had a very special day. This year we were actually able to celebrate Becky's birthday with her a few days early! Her and her husband Richard were on their way out to Colorado for vacation and stopped by my parents house on August 27th for dinner, cake, and presents! It was so nice to see her since I hadn't since last November! My mom took some pictures so maybe when my parents get back from Montana I will get some from her and post them! I love you Becky, you are a great sister, and friend to me!
Love,
Kimmy
We are having a baby girl! Of course Rob and Luke told me it was a girl all along, but for some reason I thought it was a boy! We are very excited to welcome a little girl to our family!! The funniest part is Luke has been telling me that the baby's name is Julia the whole pregnancy, I don't think we are going with that name, but if we did it would be funny to tell her that her big brother named her someday. He got the name from an Elmo DVD he always watches that Julia Roberts is in! haha.
Tomorrow is the day we find out if the baby is a boy or girl! Hopefully that can of soda I drink before hand will have the baby showing off for us! We are going to bring Luke, and after we find out the sex we will take Luke to go pick out a new outfit for the baby! I'm excited to find out, although I really don't mind either way what the baby is, a boy would be great fun for Luke since he would have a little bro to go through life with, and it would save money! A little girl would be awesome as well to have, and experience having a girl, Luke could look out for her growing up! Well hopefully they will be able to tell the gender, and I will let everyone know!
-Kimberly
p.s. Rob's guess Girl, Kimmy's guess Boy!
Grandma Kay- Guesses Boy / Aunt Melissa, Grandpa Steve, Grandma Mindy, most of my co-workers, guess girl!
All others have no idea! haha
Luke finally got a big boy bed! A couple of Saturday's ago we went to the sale at Lebeda and purchased Luke a new big boy bed! He is so excited, because now he is just like his cousin Coco! We took him to Walmart to pick out his sheets and comforter and he picked out a Handy Manny bed set! He was so excited! He napped in it right away and two nights later he slept all night, now he has been sleeping every night in his big boy bed! He loves his bed, and now that he is potty trained and out of his crib, he is all set to become a big brother! Here are some pics of him enjoying his new bed!
Just wanted to post an entry about some of the stuff going on here lately. I had a Dr.'s apt on Thursday where they told me that I will come back on September 1st to have my ultrasound to find out if Baby Oakley is a boy or a girl! I can't wait to find out! I thought it might be fun if I had a poll on here for people to guess what they think it is! Yesterday we finally took Luke to the Children's Discovery Museum! He loved it so much he didn't want to leave! It was a nice activity to do while it was so hot outside! We are not much for hot weather in this family! Of course I forgot to bring my camera to the museum! Hopefully I will have photos to post next time!
-Kimberly
A big thank you to the guys around the truck! Jeff Oakley, Jeff Miller, Grandpa Bob, and of course my hubby! These were some tired men!
Rob, John, and Adam ripping off the roof! Thanks guys!
Luke caught liking the beater after I made my famous party potatoes!
Me and the beautiful bride Jamie!!! Who married Dave in May!
Awesome friends from State Farm days Becky, Michele, Jamie, me, Lynn, and Amye!
Luke,Mommy, Coco (ellen), and Aunt Mo at Dora Live!
Luke after buzz cut!
Luke in his pool!
Ice cream boy before buzz cut!
Group picture of all the family that came to see Elaine and Brandon!
Hey all!
I realize my blog has been sorely lacking lately! I haven't had very much to post about for some reason! We have just been enjoying summer, relaxing, taking walks, going to the park, and playing in Luke's little pool! Luke has been changing so much! He has gone from a curly headed baby to a buzz cut little boy! We took him to Lee's barber shop at the end of June for a buzz cut just like daddy's! He cried during the whole thing, but was sure a proud boy after. He felt his hair all day long and would say "Hair cut, just like daddy's!". It was so cute! He is talking more than ever saying some of the funniest things ever. He is getting really geared up to be a big brother in January! If we want to go waaay back this summer, we put a new roof on the house at the end of May, early June. Boy, that project took on a life of it's own! After tearing up about 4 layers of roof, and laying down all those shingles all of the men were sure tired! I want to give a big thanks to all that helped! Rob's sister Elaine and brother in law Brandon also visited in late May, we had a lot of fun seeing them, so did Luke! Last weekend we took Luke to the Zoo for the first time, finally! Which he loved! I will post pictures of that sometime soon! I hope I will be able to keep up on the blog better in the future!!
