The Dentist

Let me start out this post by saying the worst thing I can ever imagine happening to me while I am pregnant is visiting the dentist. Who wants to be seven months pregnant and have their mouth poked in? Well apparently my dentist thought I was the perfect pregnant person to undergo this.
Let me take you back to last week. My wonderful friend Leslie and I were talking on Tuesday evening about the dentist and how we hate going until we are in pain. Well, you guessed it at 3:00 in the morning I was awoken by a horrible tooth ache. The next morning I went into the dentist and he said you really need a root canal and I just happen to have a cancellation how about we do it now. SURE, why not!!!!!! 2 1/2 hours later I thought the story had ended. I left the dentist office with the idea of returning after the baby is born to get the permanent crown put in. In fact I even said to the dentist have a great Christmas because I won't be seeing you till January. Well the joke was on me. Two days later my filling fell out so I scheduled an appointment to go back in and have it fixed. Let me make this story clear as far as I knew the root canal was done and I had a perfect tooth again.
When I scheduled my appointment the women said plan about two hours. For some reason I didn't seem to question that.
When I arrived today at 9:30 the dentist said ok lets finish up that root canal. WHAT!!!!!!!!!!! I am done with it, we finished it last week. Well, apparently we didn't. I learned alot today about a root canal. There are four roots and two of mine were really stuck so he wasn't able to get them last week. I wish he would of told me. He said lets try again and if I can't get them then I will send you out to a specialist. I am so happy to report that 4 1/2 hours later he was able to clean all four out. Yes, I said 4 1/2 hours!!!!!!!!! Upside down in major pain for 4 1/2 hours. At the moment all I have is tylenol to cut the pain. Let me tell you it barely even touches the pain.
Well, I just really wanted to write this down so you all can feel sorry for me. I also want to put it in Logan's baby book so he can see what a hero I am.

thank you

Thank you all so much for the thoughts on our final names. You guys are so awesome. At the moment it looks as though Logan Joshua has won. If you know me very well you know that the name can still change but for the moment we are calling the baby Logan. I will be sure and let Logan know that I had many friends help me with his name. You guys are the best.

The Name

It's just not coming to us. It is not like us to have a hard time making a decision, but this time is different. For the life of us we can't decide on the babies name. We need your help. Here are the three names we have narrowed it down to:
1. Dylan Joshua McNally
2. Logan Joshua McNally
2. Nolan Joshua Mcnally (thank you Sharon)

Please I am desperate anyone who reads my blog vote. This is a major decision in our household and your vote can make all the difference.

3 blind mice

3 Blind Mice
3 Blind Mice
See how they run
See how they run
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! Not in my garage. Any suggestions on how to get rid of these very gross things in my garage. My kids think it is the coolest thing ever. While I am trying not to panic and just put my house up for sale, or burn it down. Neither of these two options seem like good choices to my husband so I am left asking if any of you have experience with these little things.

First Grade

Home school mom, this is a word that I would of never used to describe myself. There are many things I am, but I never thought home school mom was one of them. There are many reasons why I never thought I was cut out for such a HUGE job. Now that we have a few weeks behind us I am finding the reasons that I didn't think I could do it simply came down to my own insecurities.
We are loving it!!!!!!!!! I love getting up in the morning dare I say around 8:30 and starting our day on our own schedule. It has been so neat for the four of us to grow even closer during this change. On Ryan's days off we aren't rushing around to get to school, we can just use the day for our family.
The school work itself has been great. Morgan loves to learn, so it makes it really easy.
I feel so blessed to have this opportunity to teach her for this year. Thank you Lord for speaking to me so clearly.

Birthday Boy

My big boy is three now. He has told us that he had the best birthday ever!!!!!!!!!!! All he wanted this year was tools, tools, and more tools. That was what he got. In the top pictures he is with Morgan posing by his new table bench with tools in hand. Happy Birthday my big guy.

SCHOOL, SCHOOL, SCHOOL

Some of you know my craziness in the last year as what to do for school this year. For a few months I knew for sure we were going to home school, then I got pregnant. The idea of being pregnant, dealing with a crazy three year old and focusing on Morgan was WAY to overwhelming. These feelings led me to decide to send Morgan to our local school. I never felt peace about this decision, but felt that I just couldn't handle the idea of teaching at this time in my life. After we got back from vacation we went to the school to register her and as we took a tour of the school I just got the overwhelming feeling that this wasn't right. There are very few times in my life where I really feel God speaking to me, but this was one of them. I came home and told Ryan and he said well lets pray about it and decide in the next week what we are going to do. God kept me up most of the night with school very heavy on my heart. I really feel as though keeping her at home for this year is the way to go. I am only committing to one year at a time. Once I made the decision an overwhelming peace came over me and I knew that this was the right decision.
Here's to two days down and many more to go!!!!!!!!!!!