our room...and some other crafts i've been up to!

here is what i did above our bed...i dont' know if you remember when i showed you what our room looks like, but i've added the 'hawaiian' theme to the walls to match our comforter. so i added the branches and the hibiscus to the ribbons holding the picture frames.

this is to the left of our bed...added the flowers and the branches and the little gecko...

and here is to the left 0f that window...basically added the same thing!

here is a close up of one of our little friends in our room...

and above our closets...

and another little tropic friend, a turtle by the light switch...

here is some writing i did in our bathroom. i've always wanted to do something in the big empty space above the shower, but everything i had was too short or too tall.

and i did a few lil things in malia's room. i added the pic and her headband holders to this wall that was very empty...

and on the wall i made the plaque, i finally got some frames up and a few pictures. she turns six, yes, six months in october, so i hate to say it but the two empy frames will probably stay that way until i get those pictures taken and fill up the two frames...

and in gage's room, if you remember, he has the jungle/giraffe theme going on the walls, so on the ceiling we put the glow in the dark stars up for the sky, which gage just loves to look at the stars in real life and now in his room! then on his ceiling fan, i added the clouds for the day time up in the sky...

and there was a couple on our block who just had a little boy with a big brother, so i made some name signs for their room as well. it worked out good. the week before she had her baby boy, she showed me the boys room!

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so, besides being super busy being a mommy, doing tons of cleaning and gardening, yes, we ended up doing another big project before the summer was over! lord willing, we are DONE, and next summer we are JUST enjoying it, you know, between pulling weeds...anyway, my daughters dedication, and church, that's what i've been up to!

gage's caringbridge site

opps...this is a week late! i saved it instead of publishing it and just noticed! oh well! either way, last week or this week, please pray for my little guy! thanks! This is the update on my sons caringbridge site (www.caringbridge.org/visit/mittelstaedt) :

When I left off with my last post, Gage needed to start having blood pressure checks and Malia was about to turn 4 months old! Before I give the update on the kids, I wanted to share a ‘post that has been running through my head’ that I never got out.

Two weeks ago, shortly after finding out about Gage’s blood pressure, our pastors wife got up at the end of church and spoke about how God had put ‘complaining…or not complaining really’ on her heart. Many topics bring me to Gage even if it’s not exactly what we are talking about. Like songs about healing, two years later, I still can’t get through them at church. Not totally because Gage was not healed the way I had hoped, but for All God has done for Gage. Well this one brought me to Gage as well. Now, I know this goes for a lot more than just Gage’s blood pressure, but the message was clear and really spoke to me this week! It got me thinking that if Gage’s blood pressure checks are good, then, he is doing good, we are medicine free and totally praise God! It also got me thinking that if these checks show that Gage does have some high blood pressure issues, then I should not complain, but be thankful that it’s being caught right away, God is still watching out for him, that there ‘is’ medicine for him to take and not just complain he has to take it. Gods word tells us, ‘in All things give God the glory, not just when it turns out how ‘we’ want’. All week, this just ran through my head how, I need to give it to God…the worry of the blood pressure checks to all the glory no matter what plan God has! What great peace this also brought me all week!

With that being said, I am happy to report that Gage has had two blood pressure checks, 100/60 and 102/58! Praise the Lord!!! These are just fine numbers for him! His cardiologist would like him to be at about 100, little lower would be great, but she’ll take a little higher as well! It felt so good to go in for his check yesterday and have peace about it either way. Sure my heart would have been saddened, but I still would have more to praise God about than to complain about!

Malia is now 4 months old already and getting closer to 5! She had her 4 month check up and weighed in at 14lbs 8 oz(71%), 23.5 in for height(23%), and 40.5 cm(37%) head circumference. I’m always looking back to see where her and Gage were at – at the same age. I don’t know if it makes the difference that ones a boy and ones a girl or if small differences really make that big of a difference. Gage was 13lbs 9oz, only a pound less, but took him down to the 14th percentile, he was 24 inches tall(18%), and his head measured at 40cm(6%).Not big differences in numbers, but it sure changes the percentiles. My conclusion though, it looks like my kids will just always be short!

Well, I just got my husband off to work, so, I should try to go get a few more hours of sleep before my children are up!

Thanks for praying and praising God with us! We will continue to monitor Gage’s blood pressure in the next month or two just to make sure we find a good average range to go by. I will update after the checks, so please keep them in prayer!

Thanks!

Nathan, Chantae, Gage, and Malia

my 4 year anniversary!

worshiping
reception...cake area
i loved my bridesmaids flowers

our programs
nathan and i at the reception
my mom and dad walking me down the aisle

our vows

four years ago today, nathan and i were up and getting ready for our beautiful wedding day by this time! god has truly blessed me with a wonderful husband! i am forever thankful! but i'm short on time, so, i will just add a few pictures of our special day! my mom is watching our two kiddos for us tonight and then as a surprise i booked us a couples message! i'm excited and i think nathan will love it! his back is always sore from bending over at work welding.

in other news, i have our bedroom almost done! as soon as i get the tree done i will take pictures and post them on here. we have been busy doing more yard work, yes, i know, i said we were done for this year, but then another big idea popped in my head so poor nathan is landscaping again see, isn't he wonderful?
ok. like always i add my pics last and ever since we had to start using different browsers something is always not working right! very annoying! i got it last time so i could add the pictures again and now it won't let me move the pictures where i want them or in any type of order. so i guess they will just have to stay above the writing and all mixed up! and i don't have any good pictures of nathan and i on the computer...they are all on cds. just what i needed to print where on the computer. so there isn't a good/cute one of us either! oh well. enjoy and have a great day!