Visted By MY Auntie M

I am known to my nieces as Auntie M, but I also have an Auntie M of my own! Mariann came and spent four days with me this past weekend. She came bearing gifts, it was like Christmas! She made me this sweet button flower bouquet, I'm one of the luckiest girls ever, I just LoVe it!

Thursday night we went to dinner with Troy & Tanya (Troy's sister who also happened to be in town) to RA, a sushi bar downtown. It was Mariann's first time to eat sushi & she loved all of it expect the eel.

Friday we went to see Karen, The Button Lady, we got to dig through her bins & bins of buttons! This is Mariann going through her favorite, shell buttons! We had a great time.




Later that night we got to go see Dat Phan at The Improv Comedy Club, another first for Mariann, it was a great show!


Saturday we went to see Carole, aka, The Ribbon Lady, we got some yummy treats & learned how to make ribbon roses!!!

We went to Bellagio for dinner and walked through the atrium, they've got it decorated for fall, it was beautiful. They had a miniature display of the Bellagio complete with the fountains, huge 800+ pound pumpkins, a giant scarecrow with crying tress, a giant leaf fountain, a talking tree & a giant tree gnome. The glass leaves were beautiful, when looking up at them they gave the illusion that they were falling.

On Sunday we decided to make something, I made the creepy pumpkin guy and Mariann made the cute stacked pumpkins, they are really small, only about 2" tall & 1.25" wide. Mariann also made a broach & then tied a ribbon around the bottle and pined it on ~ two for one ~ Broach & Fall Decor! How cleaver!


I had a super fun weekend and can't wait till our next visit!
Love you Mariann!
Mwah!!!

1 Week 2 Babies

Preeclampsia - a disorder that occurs only during pregnancy and affects both the mother and the unborn baby. Affecting only 5-8% of all pregnancies, it is a rapidly progressive condition characterized by high blood pressure and the presence of protein in the urine, swelling, sudden weight gain, headaches and changes in vision. It can cause blood pressure to rise and puts the mother at risk of stroke, impaired kidney function, impaired liver function, blood clotting problems, pulmonary edema, seizures and, in severe forms, maternal and infant death. The standard course of treatment is magnesium sulfate. This simple salt saves mothers lives.
The only cure is delivery of the baby.

With only 5-8% of pregnancies being affected by preeclampsia, it's beyond my comprehension to learn that not only did my sister, Corinne, develop preeclampsia and have to deliver her baby 3 weeks early,
but today my sister-in-law, Tara, was life flighted from Bullhead City, AZ to Sunrise Children's Hospital here in Las Vegas
to deliver her baby 10 weeks early due to preeclampsia.

Corinne delivered Lily Ann on December 27, 2008 at 6:44 pm,
weighing 5lbs 13oz & 18 1/2" long.


Both Corinne & Lily are home from the hospital now,
Lily is beautiful and doing fantastic, Corinne is still on bed rest;
Christopher is taking great care of both of them.


Tara delivered her baby today, January 3, 2009 at around 5:30pm,
weighing 2lbs 9 oz & 13 1/2" long.


Tonight Tara is doing better and her beautiful baby is doing well.

Will keep everyone updated, thank you for all your love.

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It's A Girl!

Make that two girls! Corinne & Stephanie are both having girls!

Yeah! I have to get busy making Baby Bling!

An Epidemic

An epidemic is spreading like wild fire in the McDonald & Green families. You might want to stay away for a while so you don't catch it! Symptoms include nausea, extreme emotions & your stomach starts to swell and keeps growing for about nine months, then one of these beautiful little creatures will emerge. The symptoms only seem to be showing up in the women, however at the end of the nine months the men start showing symptoms too.......extreme emotions, sleepless nights & an empty wallet! If you don't want one of these running around your house I'd stay far, far away!



In one of my last couple of posts I mentioned that we are going to have a total of 3 new babies in our families.........make that four!
Troy's other sister is pregnant now too!



Auntie M is so excited, 4 little babies in less than 11 months.....I have to go shopping............

Congratulations Tara & Jim!!!
Mwah!

Sienna Michelle

My niece
Sienna Michelle
arrived on Friday, June 20th @ 10:01 pm.
She weighed 7lbs 2 oz & was 19.5" long.

I think she is one of the most beautiful babies I have ever seen & I know everyone is going to say that it's because she's family & my first niece, but I had to say it anyway, I think she's beautiful!

So I've really gotten into the digital scrapbooking in the last week, now that I have such a great subject, it makes it that much more fun! I put together a little slide show for you all to view of some scrapbook pages I put together with photos I took, some sent by the proud parents & others from the grandparents!

Enjoy!

Auntie M

I've loved the Wizard of OZ every since I was little and it would be quite fitting for BlingGirl to wear a pair of Ruby Slippers, however instead of playing the role of Dorthy I am going to be playing the role of
Auntie M!

Yes boys & girls you heard that right,
I AM GOING TO BE AN AUNT!!!

About a month ago I got a call from my sister I don't remember how the conversation went but for some reason I kept asking her if she was pregnant and she promised she wasn't and the next day I got the call, well, actually it was a text:
EPT +

For those of you who don't know, I have one brother & one sister. At the time I found out my sister was pregnant I knew that my sister-in-law had stopped taking her birth control. I predicted to Corinne that her & Stephanie would be pregnant and the same time...

Yesterday morning my brother called me, he said that he is excited to be an Uncle but not as excited as he is that is he going to be a Dad!!!!

In the next 8 months I'm going to become
Auntie M x3!!!
My sister, my brother's wife & my husband's sister

are all 3 pregnant right now!

Troy's sister, Tanya is going to give birth any day now. She has gone through a lot this last week, she was induced and was supposed to have her baby last Thursday, but her little girl is just not ready yet.

I have to tell of her ordeal, she's an amazing woman.

Wednesday night she was induced & started her contractions immediately, 1-2 minutes apart. They told her she wasn't dilated enough for the epidural and tried giving her pain medication through and IV which made her throw up so they had to stop the IV medication. After that they told her that she could have the epidural, but Tanya has problems with her blood clotting & has to take blood thinner medication, so when her body was finally ready for it her blood was too thin and they couldn't give it to her, 16 hours later she got the epidural.

She started the pitocyn & the contractions were even stronger, but the epidural had kicked in and she couldn't feel them.

28 hours later she was still only dilated just barely above 1cm; still having contractions 5 minutes apart she was released from the hospital and sent home to rest & recover for her next go round. If their little girl doesn't decide to come earlier she'll be back again next Wednesday.

We can't wait to see you and we are sending you all our love and energy!
xoxox
Mwah!