The Mead Family

Kylie Shannon

2010-04-01T18:24:00.000-07:00

KYLIE

I realized that I have not shared any cute

pictures of my cute little girl. Kylie is nine months old and absolutely adorable. She keeps me VERY busy because she does not like to be put down and because she may be our last I spoil her rotten. She is a very busy baby and is always laughing or crying.

Politics What are you doing?

2010-04-01T18:01:00.000-07:00

As anyone who reads my blog knows. I am not a big blogger. I never have anything to say, but finally I do. I am so sick of what is happening in this country. It makes me sick (literally) to my stomach every time I turn on a news program and hear about what some politician is doing to this great country.

First it is obama care, and now the Republican party is taking money donated by hard working people and spends it on a strip club. And has there been any resignation or even a call for it No.
Bank bailout, Mortgage bailouts, increases for everything and everyone that can scream "NO Fair" they have more.

I guess what I want to know is how my friends feel about what is going on and more importantly what are they doing about it. Lately I feel so helpless like I am just watching a horror movie yelling "stop don't open that door" and the government and our politicians keep opening the door. So I am asking what are you doing? How are you getting involved and what can we do to stop the government from opening the stupid door!

The little monster

2009-09-19T11:00:00.000-07:00

Have you ever wanted to beat up a neighbor kid? I was walking my little sweet boy to school yesterday, and a little boy came up to Camden and said " Hey I want to talk to you" and then camden turned around and the little boy punched him in the face. I was standing right there Camden did nothing, he just came up and punched him in the face. I was so mad, It took all of me not to box his little ears. It turned out that this little boy is in Camdens class and he is the little bully of the school. Even before I told the principal his name she knew who is was. As I was "talking' in my naughty mommy voice to this little boy he kept on saying but I get hit and kicked all the time, I kept saying has Camden done this. And he said NO but I get hit and kicked all the time. This poor little boy probably has a horrible home life and I feel really bad for him, NOW but in the moment I was about to go beat up a six year old. But he was a really tall for his age.

Kylie Shannon

2009-09-07T06:41:00.000-07:00

Kylie Shannon has finally arrived, well almost 2 months ago. She was born on June 17th. She was 6lbs 13oz and 18 inches long. Now she has filled in her rolls adn she is over 12 lbs.

Camden and Cambria are both doing great with her. Cambria just thinks that it is her baby and she decided for a couple of weeks that she was not going to play with baby dolls because they were not real. Camden helps translate for her and tells us everything she wants.

Does anyone have a copy...

2009-03-06T12:24:00.000-08:00

I have to give talk and I am looking for the poem about the lady who can do everything but then at the end she drops dead. If anyone has it or even knows the name of it. I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks

No I don't beat my Child

2009-02-28T16:17:00.000-08:00

It has been a crazy month at our house. It all started when Camden said that his feet hurt and he couldn't walk. Being the nice mom that I am I said oh "your feet are just asleep, go play". About an hour later I asked him to put away his cloths and he said he couldn't because it hurt to much to walk.

So I go over and look at his foot and it was swollen like a dead man. I called the doctor and made an appointment for that night. Within 15 min both of his feet had swollen 3 times there size and the swelling started to go up his legs. Me being the rational person that I am started freaking out and crying. To make it worse Brian was at a meeting and he didn't have a phone. So I was trying to call all the people I knew that were at this meeting. I am sure they thought I was a basket case, so anyway, after an eternity (10 minutes) I finally got hold of him. In the meantime I called my doctor and told them I was taking him to the emergency room, they told me that was probably not necessary and made me an appointment immediately.

Within 25 minutes of me noticing the swelling he had gotten so tender on his hands, elbows, knees, and feet that he would cry every time you touched him. So when we finally arrived at the doctor, they started doing all these tests. One was a strep test and he threw up all over everything when they swapped him. Lucky for him they had clothes he could change into but unlucky for me I couldn't. I had puke everywhere in my hair all over my clothes, it was great. Well he tested positive for strep but that didn't really explain all the swelling. So they took his blood pressure and it was so low that it didn't even register. So we were there for almost 3 hours while they were determining if he should go to the hospital. They finally told us to take him home but just "watch him really close". Now that is a comforting phrase that parents just love to here " watch him" ... That night he slept with me and Brian was on the couch, Brian woke up every hour to check on him and make sure he was still breathing. It was not a peaceful night to say the least. Well the next day things did not improve, he couldn't even stand up to go to the bathroom. He also developed this weird rash all over his body (the pictures are after he had it for a couple of days). It first was a red pin prick rash and then it developed into these blood patches. After a couple of days they would turn to bruises. For the next week and a half we were at the doctors office and the hospital (getting blood drawn) at least every other day. Camden was in heaven because he was able to play video games and watch movies, but the rest of us were flipping out. The doctors had no idea what was going on, so that made it even more exciting. Some days his swelling would go away and then out of the clear blue it would come back with this weird bumps and a rash. But the good thing is after about two weeks it just went away. Weird huh.

During those two weeks Cambria also had strep, then she got the flu and was throwing up and having major bathroom issues for 3 days, and then to top it all off Brian got strep and has this persistant cough that won't go away (for over a month now). Add all those things to me being pregnant and sick and life has just been CRAZY.. But the good news is, that everyone is almost better. Camden got Strep again on Friday but no wierd other stuff, brian had chest x-rays, and they found nothing, Chubba is all better, and I am no longer throwing up. Yeah

Thank heavens for prayer. I don't know how we would of made it threw. Oh a side note we found out last month that we are having a girl and we are very excited, except Camden who really wanted a little brother.

Let it Snow, Let it Snow

2008-12-26T07:48:00.000-08:00

We went sledding up at Brian's parents house. The kids had a lot of fun. Uncle Brandon took Camden up and down the hill, while Brian took Cambria. She is a little independent and decided that she wanted to go all by herself. Well, if I was better at this blogging this I could put the pictures in order, but I am sure you all can figure out what happened. Brian let her go and was running right beside her,when she was about to stop he let go and then she hit a bump and had a great fall. But no worries after a very dramatic cry she was all smiles again

But decided that she didn't like going by herself anymore.

Here Comes Santa

2008-12-22T08:44:00.000-08:00

Bah HUMBUG..... I mean

Merry Christmas

This year Christmas has really snuck up on me and I have not been in the Christmas mood at all. Actually I have been counting down the days until it is over. Because in approx. 4-6 weeks I should be done puking my guts out. Yes this is the announcement we are expecting another mini mead in June. Yeah we are really excited, let me rephrase I will be really excited in just a little while. I am just sick of lying in my bed all day and night long. My wonderful husband has been playing Mr. Mom, dad and everything else. He is amazing! I don't know how we would survive without him.

Just to let you all know none of you received Christmas cards, consider this it and I have not done anything else Christmas oriented. My sweet husband has been trying to bring the holiday season in our house, he invited all Camden's friends over to decorate cookies and he made sure our neighbors had some Christmas goodies. Yeah he is wonderful.

But sense this is every one's Christmas card. I just want to let you know how grateful I am for good friends and family. I don't know what I would do without wonderful neighbors who invite us over for dinner and take my kids so I can lay in bed. We are so blessed to have each of you in our lives. Thank you for your cards and gifts!

love

The Mead's

Cambria Anne

2008-11-21T08:47:00.000-08:00

Cambria Anne

My sweet little Girl. I just love this picture it reminds me how lucky I am to have a little girl. There are so many things I love about her. Her little fat cheeks, her cute little smile. She is so full of life, always is dancing or singing. How blessed I am to have a little girl.

Never use a spoon , , ,

2008-10-16T08:49:00.000-07:00

Notice the 2 bosches, yes she is that good of a cook to have two. We decided to make sugar cookies and out came the bosches. My butter was sticking to the beaters so I put a spoon in the machine to try to get it off the beaters (bad idea), the spoon gets stuck and then flies out and hits tynelle in the head and gets butter and egg all over her. Who knew that if you put a spoon in the machine it would get stuck and hit some one in the head.
But notice the Smile!! She is still happy, you have to love her. She is so cute.

Cambria, isn't she so cute, most would say angelic, but wait she has another side. After this picture was taken we went home and then guess what my angel did. She was mad that I made her get out of my room (she still wanted to put on makeup) So she starts crying and then she holds her breath until she passed out. Nothing new she does that all the time, but now she has a new weapon after she wakes up she looks at you and pukes all over you. How cute is that!

Dumb Dumb Dumb

2008-10-04T12:51:00.000-07:00

I am taking Camden's new vocabulary word DUMB: Anything that you don't like or that might be annoying you at the moment.

I have decided that I am absolutely dumb when it comes to this blogging stuff. First I will have to admit that I didn't update my blog for over a year because I always forgot how to log on to it. I couldn't find the dumb thing unless a friend emailed me a link to their blog and then I would find a link to mine. Yeah, I know pathetic. So once I find my blog, I would spend twenty minutes trying to find where my pictures are kept on my computer and then the next half hour trying to figure how to rotate my picture to the right direction.

I have never considered myself a stupid person but man this is really knocking the self-esteem. So after I finally post a Dumb post thing. I then venture off to look at everyone else's way too cute blogs, and then go back to mine. Then I realize once again why I stopped doing this because the posting that I. just spent 1 hour on making got erased. Dumb Dumb Dumb.

So today I thought I would start making a list of all the blogs I visit. And then I realize why I have never done it before, because this DUMB blogging thing is a little advanced for us simple minded people. So then I went to the Help button and then I found a little video that explains to us simple minded people how to do stuff. Awesome. So I now have 2 people on my little list. Because after 2 hours I am really sick of this blogging stuff. But I would like to add everyone else but the little video thing didn't tell me how to find every ones address, so the point of this whole rambling is that I would like to have a little link to all my friends blogs, So if you could be so kind and leave it on a post a comment page. Because that is the only way I know how to find the DUMB addresses.

Yeah I hate the word Dumb to. Camden uses it way to much.

Mexico

2008-09-23T13:07:00.000-07:00

Our First Vacation

OK so after a long seven years of school, and two kids we decided we could finally take a vacation. So after a long process of deciding what to do and where to go we decided to take a cruise to the Mexican Rivera. So much fun! We had a blast. We went snorkeling and kayaking in the ocean. Brian tipped us over, twice. We were the only ones who had a hard time staying in our canoes (I think he did it on purpose) then we went to Mazatlan and we rented jet skis and took them out in the ocean . OK I am such a wimp it was really cool when we were going like 5 miles an hour. But for some reason Brian didn't think that was fun, so we and to go like 50 miles an hour over waves and well Lets just say I like going A LOT slower. The best part was when we went to port a vi. . something or another and we went repelling down waterfalls, and doing these zip line things over 500 foot ravines. It was so much fun and after about the fifth zip line I finally opened my eyes. If you ever have a chance to go to Porta vi whatever you have to do the outdoor adventure thing. SO worth the money.

So that was our little vacation.

First Day of School

2008-09-23T12:53:00.001-07:00

Camden

I can't believe he is going to school. I am so old. Our school just had our 10 year reunion. That is so crazy. (Back to Camden)

He loves school and is doing great. His vocabulary has already grown. "Mom can you get the dumb door" "Dumb this and dumb that. I love it.

As you can see Cambria is not to happy about Camden leaving her to go to school. She cried all the way home.

DR. Brian Mead

2008-08-27T07:29:00.001-07:00

He Did it and we are finally DONE with school. After 7 Years, yes 7 long painful years he had finished with his PHD in Psychology.

We are so proud of him. For a reward for me, I mean him we went on a cruise to the Mexican Riviera for 7 days without the kids.

Here We go Again

2008-08-27T07:10:00.000-07:00

OK So I decided to try this again . I really stink, but with the of nagging of some friends I decided to give it a try. Here is a more recent picture of the family. Camden is now 5 and Cambria is almost 2. Yeah I told you I stink at this. Anyway today is Camden's first day of Kindergarten and we are so excited. I am going to take pictures and I will try to post them soon!

2007-09-14T07:41:00.000-07:00

Mom and Dad

2007-06-10T19:31:00.000-07:00

2007-06-10T19:26:00.000-07:00

CAMDEN

He is getting way to big. He still loves sticks and guns, and can play for hours make believe. He loves being a big brother and hates when people laughs at him.

2007-06-10T19:22:00.000-07:00

Princess FOO-FOO

Isn't she so cute. Brian calls her princess foo-foo and refuses to make her wear the dress. I think it is absolutely adorable.

2007-06-10T19:16:00.000-07:00

Chubba- Bubba

Our cute little girl. She is so chubby, that her cheeks won't stay closed to she drools everywhere. She is so much fun