Kary & Andreina

NaBloPoMo is getting out of hand, oh well. But you, sometimes stuff comes up. You know, like... Viral Stuff. Oh yeah! Oceana was a precious and generous little girl and passed on her sickness to me. Oh yay! I've been flat on my back for about 48 hours now. I'm really hoping that this is the last of it.

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Until I'm able to get back to blogging like normal, here's what you've reallllly been waiting for. :) The bride and groom have seen their photos now, so you can see them too.

Day 56

Anybody want a slurpee?


Because Joshua Matthew Sams is...

That's right ladies and gentlemen! Joshua's 7lbs, 11oz. Another 7 ounces in 6 days. So that's 14 ounces in less than two weeks. Yay for him! Woohoo! That's actually over a pound in 3 weeks. He's growing!

He's doing well this morning. Eating again already. Pretty average day here, working on some office stuff, doing some newsletter stuff, figuring out what's ACTUALLY wrong with the camera, etc. Our friends Bryce, Christina, and Miles are (or should be) at the airport getting ready to fly to New Zealand this evening. Yay! They'll be here Wednesday (Tuesday for you). We're getting excited about their arrival. And I'm getting panicky about cleaning. Haha. Only because my mom packed all weekend, so the house is in shambles now. It WAS clean on Friday. But that was 3 days ago. Haha.

Hope all is well for you. Please pray for "prompt response" from a Dr. Schullinger we've contacted. I won't divulge the information and what we've asked him. But we'd like you pray with us for the quick reply. Thank you!

Day 55

What's the best way to tell if your camera is dying a slow and agonizing death? See if the pictures look like this. Good grief. Haha. We're going to get it checked out by someone, just to be sure it'd dead. Otherwise I think we're gonna make the leap and get a Canon Rebel XT (I know there's more letters and numbers to it, but darned if I can remember them).

The good news is that the video still works, so I took a short video of Joshua this afternoon and I'm gonna tryyyyy and get it loaded onto this post. If it's not on the bottom, you'll know it didn't work. Or else I've lost patience.

There's no Joshua news for today - except that we're doing a few days of cloth diapers. The diaper we like to buy (the cheap, but not useless) are in Tauranga only, and we go down again Tuesday. So I can handle a two days of cloth diapers. Haha. But like the champ he is, he pooped all over the only small cover I have. So we're trying the homemade cover and a too-big vinyl cover. I'm really cheap aren't I? Haha. You betcha!

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Like I wrote a month or so ago - our internet download limit goes by month. We get 10 gigs upload/download and then when it runs over we have to purchase additional gigs. So we try out best to stay below 10. We've only gone over once. And I was delighted to get online tonight and find that we have 3.5 gigs to use in 2 days (when it rolls over, the gigs don't accumulate...darn it). So I'm gonna use them up by loading up pictures and videos and whatever else I can do. I'll be watching YouTube (the no-no for download limit...ik).One of Mom Sams' pictures when she came to meet Joshua. Anyone wanna know the major difference between this picture and the ones below? 35 or 40 pounds. Yeah. My husband decided to be healthy (Yeah, Mr Pizza and Wings got healthy! Figure that!) last April. And he's still losing weight. Darn him. I thought I'd be "safe" once I had Joshua (since his weight was getting dangerously close to my number...) and then he went and kept on losing... so that him number is creeping in on mine again. One of my reasons for forcing myself to run the other. One of the reasons I'm now dreading tomorrow (running again) because my legs haven't hurt this much since... well since the last time I ran!

Difficult to see - but oh well. The left photo is from December 04 at Hershey Park. We went to Chocolate World (the free part) with Adam L and Beki G (who are now Mr and Mrs L). Matt's wearing his signature color - baby blue. His nickname in college was Baby Blue because it appeared he owned nothing but. The right picture is from our school's yearly banquet. We were juniors and about one week into our engagement. I was the head of the decorating committee and the finance committee. Remind me to never be that involved again! Ak! Who knows why Matt asked me to marry him that month - I was totally stressed and probably a completely pain in the butt. Ha. And I bought that dress for $15 off a clearance rack the year before (knowing I'd need a dress the next year). Little did I know that I'd be engaged when I wore it - sparking all sorts of jokes about my white (gold and ivory really) dress.

This is taken in the EBI chapel during the 2004 Christmas Talent Show. My hair looks wet because I had just finished washing it. Why you ask? Because earlier in the Talent Show I was in a Brady Bunch knock-off called "Fro-y Bunch". A bunch of us "blessed" curly-haired people did a version of the BB song about Afros. We teased our hair up and looked horrendous. I couldn't stand it any longer. So after our number I ran back to my room and slicked it down for the rest of the show. Haha. I went nuts to do the afro though - hairdryer, comb, and hairspray. Matt sat and watched me. And laughed.

Matt and I before we were dating. You wouldn't believe it would you? See my hands keeping his hands company? Ha. I bought him that sweatshirt the first Christmas we were friends/dating - what else do you get a guy that you sorta-kinda-like? Ugh. I degrated myself and bought him a Philadelphia Eagles sweatshirt. I'm a born-and-raised Patriots fan. And no, I'm not on the Patriots bandwagon. We (the Mears) were fans LOOONG before they were any good. And I do underline ANY. That picture's from January 2005 (I was 20, Matt was 22) - in the Springfield Mass mall. I had just picked up those glasses - my first full day in glasses. I never had eye problems until I got to college and started reading all the time. Suddenly I couldn't figure out who people were from across the cafeteria. Then I started noticing I had trouble driving at night. <---- if this ever happens to you and you DON'T want to land in the eye doc's office - don't tell your mother. Ha. She refused to let me have my car back. Matt had to drive me home from Thanksgiving break. I had leave my car in Vermont until I got glasses. Blah.

One of our wedding pictures. That's my bridesmaid/junior year roommate Lindsey on the left. And my sister Melody's arm. Haha. Tyffani and Katrina are the cutie-pie flower girls. And Christopher the ringerbearer (turned bathroom-door-locker-and-hider 5 minutes before the ceremony). Best man Roy is on Matt's right. All my wedding pictures are backed up on the external hard drive. I find it easier to take pictures of the paper photos I have, than getting out the US plug external and converter box. I'm a moron, I know.

Oceana and Eli in the MM playhouse. Eli's dad works for a company that needs big equiptment. It comes in ENORMOUS boxes that Margo and Tim commandeer and make big playhouses out of. That lid comes off and the house folds up - a collapsable playhouse. Sign me up!

Fiddling with a bad photo. Still bad. Oh well.

She looks like she's singing opera. She was probably yelling at Eli.

Laxing out in his chair.