The Strasser's

So Cory and I went up to the temple last night. We have been lacking some on going up there with our hectic schedules. But we needed it last night, with my pregnancy now and his job interviews coming up.  He has been pretty nervous about them, I am nervous about them to. I am hoping everything goes well. He has filled out over 40 applications and they are take a long time to fill out. He has gotten discouraged. But something has got to give. I have been taking my asprin like the doctor has told me to and taking my blood pressure 3 times a day. I think I almost have Alyssa's birthday planned. I guess I need to think of easter and what we are going to do. If everyone that reads this, if you could keep us in your thought's and prayer's we really would appericate it. Thanks for those that are right now. We could really use it.

I got a call from the doctor's office. And it was about how they passed my information up to the High Risk doctor's in portland. And the doctor said that I have a 40% chance of having preclampsia again. I also am having to check my blood pressure about three times a day, and I have been put on kids asprin once a day. Well I have been nervous about having another one. I have been trying to keep my blood pressure lower and just trying to take it more easy this time. Cory has a job interview thursday, and he could really use the job. So if everyone could keep Cory and I in your prayer's we would really appericate it.

Well it was bound to come out sooner of later. I was waiting for a little bit later. But here is our announcement......I am Pregnant. I am due on October 1st. This was a surprise. I have been nervous every since I found out I was pregnant. Because of the last pregnancy, I was having a little bit of spotting towards the begining, So I had to cut off the running, doctor's order's. So hopefully next appointment I can start at least doing some pregnancey workouts. I was actually in the process of losing weight when I found out I was pregnant.  I am almost a full 12 weeks. We have been keeping this secret for quite some time. And have been waiting until basically the 2nd appointment. I am extremely nervous about this pregnancy. But the nausea has subsided, which is nice. I get it every so often. But I have been tired. I have more energy than last time. And I don't think it helps with three kids either. The doctor said everything is looking good. Here...

Well to follow up about Evan's catheter. He didn't pull some of it out which was good. But I think he tugged enough where it pulled on his stitches. So we didn't need to go to the doctor's. which I am kind of glad. Just another week with it in. It has been hard changing his diaper's. I am glad that all of his surgeries are done.

Oh to add to the madness of our day. From some not happy children. But something that made me laugh. Cory my loving husband taught Owen something new to do.  We have 1 bathroom in our house. It can be really hard sometimes. I am hoping the next house we live in is 3 or 4 bedroom with 2 bathrooms. I probably should not be posting this but, it was funny.  Owen came out to the garage and told us he needed help so I went in to see what he needed. I came in the house and said what do you need help with, and Alyssa said "Mom,  Owen is peeing in the tub". Alyssa tends to be on the toliet sometime's longer than needed. That's why he went for the tub.  I was little shocked, but it was kind of funny. I guess at least he didn't pee on the floor. Now I need to go clean the tub some. 

I think the kids signed a contract this morning. They have all been pretty grouchy. The weekend was pretty good, until this morning. Evan hasn't been feeling great. This morning I put a shirt and pants on him seeing how that would work. It didn't work out so great. He pulled on his catheter which happened to pull one of the stitches out and loosed the other. I ended up calling the doctor's office talked to a nurse and she was suppose to talk to the doctor and get back to me. So footie pj's or onesies are the only option at this point and time for him. I have really been trying to keep up on the meds so he isn't in pain. It has been hard this time to change his diaper because he has just been wanting to grab down there, It takes Cory and I really to get his diaper changed. Unless he is out of it some. I guess that is all for now.

Well we are home, yay! now for a long night. I am hoping not because of the meds he is taking. So in recovery he was pretty groggy, not as happy as he was when he went in. Very cuddly boy now. All is good right now. He is taking 3 meds, bladder spasms, antiboctics (so he doesn't get a UTI), and pain meds.

Just got a phone call from the nurse in the operating room, they are almost done. He should be out in a little bit. Everything went well and looks good. He will have a catheter in for 2 weeks. So I he will be double diapered. That is all for now.

So they started the surgery at about 12:20. They usually like to put iv things in when they are back in operating room. Everything is going good so far.

Well Evan has been back there for about maybe 15 minutes. I took this picture before they took him back and he took his happy drink. All the nurses think he is pretty cute! Everything has gone good so far. Especially him not being to grouchy. He has been a pretty happy boy for not eating since 4:30 this morning. He did get to drink clear liquids until 8:30.

Look at those mossy trees! Cory and I don't get many pictures together. What a happy boy!

Alyssa has been asking lots of questions lately. There was one story I had to explain to her because we were talking about, it had been 6 years since my aunt had last seen the waterfalls. Well we were hoping nothing would happen on this trip, oh but something did happen, but I will talk about that a little bit later. We went to Silver Falls on Monday. While we were there we were talking about when Alyssa was a baby. And it was the day before Alyssa was going to be blessed, and I had some family from Utah that came for the baby blessing. Well my dad since my dad has brain damage, he can be stuborn about some things, and when we got there we were walking over to the waterfall and he decided since he had already been there before that he didn't want to go all the way around. So we thought well maybe he went back up to the parking lot. After walking around for a little bit we headed back to the cars to have lunch. But my dad was not there. So we waited had some lunch and walked aro...

Well I can't believe February is almost over with. March 2nd Evan is having is final surgery. I am nervous about it. But I trust that his doctor well do a very good job. I think this one might be a 5 hour surgery. Well I will found out more information next week at his pre-op appointment. I will have to find some things that I can keep busy with while I sit up at the hospital.

Well today I went back to Portland to get my aunt again, because she is going to be heading back to Utah. While we were in Portland we went to Voodoo Doughnuts and got a dozen doughnuts.

Valentine's Day was a lot of fun. I volunteered at Alyssa's school in the morning. That Cory and I went to the ward activity for the adults. Below are some pictures of the present that I made for Cory. Cory bought me some daises and some chocolates.

As mentioned in the previous post. My aunt was visiting her daughter in Portland, we went and got her and went to the zoo. But after the zoo we took her home with us to spend a few days together, we really haven't seen or spent a lot of time with her in a long time.  Since  Alyssa didn't have school one of the days she was visiting us we headed to the coast. It was COLD! But we tried to stay warm. I know lots of pictures of the ocean, I love seeing the ocean.

Well it has been a week since I have blogged something. But we are doing good. Nothing new has been going on. Alyssa is enjoying school. She is taking ballet. I still need to take a picture of our little ballerina. She loves being a ballerina. Owen is our funny boy, and very loving. Evan is finally crawling pretty good, and is feeding himself. I can't wait until he can use a sippy cup all by himself. He is going to have surgery on March 2nd. I guess that is all for now.

My aunt was visiting her daughter that lives in Portland. We thought it would be fun to go to the Zoo, last Friday, so we invited her to go with us. It was a lot of fun, cold and sunny, but a lot of fun. Here's some pictures!

So my final class in course one was this week. We learned how to make roses, and did a final cake. 3rd Rose 2nd Rose 1st Rose Here is my final cake, I wasn't sure what to put on the cake, so Alyssa suggested Hello Kitty. Here is kind of a side of view, I made the flower's that are on the side and let them dry for a few days. Alyssa was happy about the cake.

So this week we decorated cupcakes. Some of the pictures are a blurry because I got frosting on my phone. Next week I get to design my own cake. Not sure what I am going to do yet. Here are some pictures of the mum cupcakes. She said you could use this technique for making like monsters. Maybe for Evan's birthday I could do like cookie monster.   Practicing the shell technique Praciticing my Star Drop Flowers, Swirl Drop Flowers. I think my favorite are the swirl drop!! I think I will make some swirl drop flowers and dry thm and stick them on the cake that I make next week.