my poor baby.

So monday we got some bad news. our precious baby will need another surgery.

I cant begin to express how upset about this we are. When we found out, it literally felt like someone punched me in the stomach. I couldnt breathe, I couldnt speak. nothing. my worst fear was coming true.

last summer was pure hell for us. Georgia had two different surgeries. One on her feet (nothing big) and then the big one on her lip. I thought that was far behind us and we were done with this crap. I can not tell you the empty feeling you get when you watch your tiny baby being walked down a hallway to surgery with someone you dont even know. as a mom you want to protect them from everything from someone hurting their feelings to pain. I felt like I had no control. i couldnt protect her from what was about to happen to her.
and now we have to go through that again. Im literally spent. I feel like I have no fight left in me. I know we will get through this. and I know it will make us stronger. but it still really sucks. why us, why my little baby, why? will it ever end for her? will we ever be done with surgeries?
sorry if this is such a debbie downer posting. caught me on a bad day. Im not always this, whoa is me. We will get through this. we will deal with it. She wont remember it and hopefully this surgery will be the best thing for her.
I'm not a very religious person, I obviously believe in God, but as for the church thing, not so much. I know God will protect my baby and will give Tom and I the strength to get her through this. Please say a little prayer for our precious baby. Our gift from God.

running...

I LOATH running. it HAS to be the worst EVER. why would you want to run anywhere. blah. i hate hate hate it. but i do like what it does for my body. haha walking is great but doesnt give you fast results. so i run. boooooooooo
I ran last weekend with gigi in her jogging stroller. she loved it. i hated it. but whatever. so during the week i did my workout video. i hate that too. hahaha I HATE working out. so today i went running alone since tom had his workout at 930 i went out early. lets not discuss the fact that i forgot SUNSCREEN ahhhhhhhhh. my face is bright red. ew. but i ran for abotu 41 min. (not straight through mind you but im getting there). so i feel pretty good about myself. i obviously would like to go longer and actually RUN the entire thing but that will take some time i believe. i feel like i pushed myself today so isnt that all that matters.
i HAVE to do something cause the scale keeps going up up up. i dont get it. :(
well more on my workout is to come.
PS. i HATE runningggggggggggggggggggggggg

busy weekend!

Wow we had such a great weekend. Sat, gigi and I went to The Mooney household for their Big Ass Summer Bash! it was a lot of fun. Jen, of course, always the party planner, had an awesome set up. Many water toys for the babies. A baby pool, a slip-n-silde, a skim bored thing, and we brought gigi's sprinkler fish water toy. the water was a little cold for gigi's liking (always the princess) so she didnt stay in it long. she was also working on NO second nap for the day so it was only a matter of time before melt down. so we left around 5ish. but it was really good to see everyone and catching up with people. If tom didnt have to work we would have gotten a sitter and stayed much longer cause im sure we missed out on the "party" aspect of the party. Oh well, thats what happens when you have little beans. :)
Then today gigi and i went on a morning run. FINALLY! after i got off the scale this morning, noticing that i have continued to gain weight even with a modified diet. i almost choked when i saw the scale this morning. i mean i understand not LOSING weight cause i havent been working out but im GAINING it. what the heck is going on? so we went for a run/walk. i need to get back in shape since i havent been working out for a long time. i hope to start losing weight before baby number 2 is on the way and before VEGAS. so wish me luck.
then after gigis nap we went to the pool for an hour. with a baby it only lasts that long. she enjoyed it though. then we went over to my friend Christine's house for a play date. she has 3 kids under 3 years old! shes a freaking saint! not sure how she does it. but she does. haha her girls were very sweet to gigi and allowed her to play with all their toys. it was alot of fun for her and for me. christine and i havent seen or even talked to each other since freshman year in college. it was sooo good catching up with her. we are planning another get together soon and maybe a get together without kids. haha
so gigi is in bed for the night, thanks to a busy weekend. :)

Daddy Day!

Again its been awhile since my last post. sorry guys.

This past weekend was Father's day and since last year, thanks to just having a baby and Karens wedding, I failed Tom I had to step it up this year. So other then his gym membership that he REALLY wanted, Gigi and I (obviously more me then her) made him breakfast in bed. Gigi woke up at 6 AM. and then we went downstairs to make him breakfast. I made waffles in our waffle maker, I cut up strawberries and added some sugar to them for an awesome topping. I then added some powdered sugar to the top. Then we made some turkey bacon (HEY he got a GYM membership, i didnt want to ruin that) haha then I made MIMOSAS! and then cut a flower from my potted plants outside and the breakfast for daddy was complete! how awesome of a wife am I?! haha yeah i thought so. So after that we went to the mall to let gigi run wild. I actually let tom take her in the little playground they have there for kids. I could not go in, it gives me severe anxitey. the germs and all the freaking bad ass kids running around. blah i hate it. so tom took her in there and i went shopping. :)

after that we went to the pool and then had toms family over for a cookout. more people showed up then i expected but the more the merrier. :) gigi had a great time playing with all the kids.

Sat- we took gigi to the zoo for the first time. i honestly can not remember the last time i went to the zoo. it had to be with a school group or something. I didnt think she would really "get" the zoo and thought we would just roll her by all the animals and be on our way. I was soooo wrong. she LOVED it. we took her to all the animals that she knew. Lions, monkeys, elephants (she didnt know them before the zoo but does now!) hippos and pandas. she CRIED everytime we walked away from an animal. she Rar'd at the lions. it was so cute. here is a picture of her doing just that.

So that was our weekend. hectic as always but oh so fun. :)

Above is gigi after "sketi" and then at Mary and Kristins Graduation party chillin.

Grad parties and baseball.

God! Im seriously terrible at keeping this thing updated. Sorry ya'll. So thursday both tom and i took off work to go to Mary's graduation at the Basillica. What and amazing and beautiful place that is. you walk in and it almost takes your breath away its so beautiful. We didnt get seats cause there were a million people there. apparently they were supposed to be checking tickets but that didnt happen so there were more people there then the place could hold. people were sitting in folding chairs and most of us had to stand. which was fine cause Gigi lasted about 3 min in her stroller, and that was only cause i was shovling blueberries (which she eats like candy) into her mouth. But that got old after awhile so she wanted up. we let her roam for awhile but once she realized her voice made echos we were dunzo! oh and the fact that she thought the holy water looked like the baby pool at our pool. yes, she splashed in it and almost climbed in! opps. we left early needless to say.
Friday my aunt came to babysit for us and Tom and I went to an O's game with some of our friends and some of my co-workers. Lets just say, I think some people should learn better manners. Let me clarify... one of my co-workers got everyone together and got us group seats. well that means they brought their husbands/wives. one of the wives was cheering for the other team, which is FINE. in fact my best friend and her hubby are huge Sox fans. but she actually had the near to say that something we did, as O's fans was "so Dumb". Im sorry, but didnt you JUST meet us? Why would you do that?! I just dont understand some people. But regardless of that moment everything else was so much fun. it was a late night but it was a good night. :)
then sat we had the girls (kristin and Marys) graduation party. It was a lot of fun and good to see everyone. We all prob wont see each other again until Ashleigh and Mikes wedding in Aug, which we are very excited about.
I also got a little cleaning/organizing done. I put away all of Gigi's "baby" toys. you know the rattles and the teething stuff. that felt good to put it all away. her toys were taking over the house. I really want to get her a little wagon. i think she would just love it. then again considering she is a little monkey she would prob stand up and climb out of it. hmmm

ok pics to follow soon, im just too tired.