The View from our Patio Just Now

I've Had the Stomach Flu...

... so I'm behind on here but I'll catch up.

What a tiny, tiny little sweetheart Hailey is! Poor baby. Do you know how much she weighs now Robyn? I saw a teeny little bathing suit that might have fit her but I didn't buy it because she probably wouldn't have worn it. Gina goes to the lake and she doesn't wear one. Baby swimsuits are like baby shoes: really cute but useless. Dont' worry Rob, posting pictures gets really easy after a couple times.

Sam, are you still alive after the wild birthday bash that you probably had?

Here are some pictures of life up here at the Star:


Lately our back yard has been filled with cows. There have also been lots of coyotes howling at night.

Last week Melissa and the babies and I had our third encounter with a bear. I would have got a closer shot but he was on the move and I couldn't get my camera fast enough. He's that black blob in the exact centre of the picure.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SAMANTHA

Happy Birthday to you...Happy Birthday to you....Happy Birthday Dear Samantha...Happy Birthday To you......

Have Great one!

Erin

Hailey Anne Olney

So here are some pics of Hailey. I will post from the very beginning (which I'm sorry is pretty pitiful) to the newest ones. I will just post a few because I'm not sure if I know how to work this. I'll give it a try though. Hope you like them :)


Look at me - this is the first day I was born all hooked up to tubes



Here is me at 4 days old. I like to suck my thumb and sleep with my arm behind my head













Here is my at 5 days old. You guys are boring, seriously.










I'm a little bit older now. And I want to pull out this feeding tube. I have pulled out the IVs and the breathing tube a few times, they just get in the way and I definitely don't need them.

Isn't she SO adorable in this picture?










Here I am a few days ago, I am just getting more and more adorable now that I don't look like an alien. (PS. I didn't put any of the real alien looking pics on, but I will if you want me to)












Here is my beautiful family. My mom is Susan and my daddy (who I smile at more) is Adryan














Well there you guys have it... phew, that takes a long time and a lot of hard work. So now I'm going to bed. I hope you just love her. She's so adorable. Hehe, I'm such a geeky and proud auntie! :)

Storytime for Sickos

Sitting up like a big girl

Roughhousing with my cuz

I dunno, this one's just funny

I was trying to tell Gina some classic stories the other day, like Goldilocks and Little Red Riding Hood, and I realized that I don't even remember them. Plus, aren't they all pretty gross? The wolf eats Goldilocks and her grandma and then a woodcutter cuts them out of his stomach, right? Do the bears eat Goldilocks? Hansel and Gretel burn the witch in an oven, I remember. All of our stories were so miserable when we were kids. Like Dumbo and Bambi and the Land Before Time; the mothers die in all those movies!

Summertime... and the Living is Easy

I'm the only one who makes Gina laugh, and I have to work like a motherfucker! It's so cool though, and it will only get easier.

It was Matt's Magic card collection that we sold on ebay, and got three times what he expected for it. You don't have to trust anyone when you sell stuff, becuase you wait for them to pay you before you ship their package. And if you haven't bought anything from ebay you are missing out! You save a buttload of money even on brand new stuff. And you can trust people based on their number and their feedback. Do it, Robyn, buy from ebay!

Here are some pictures of Gina with Aunty Sam last weekend. I have a bunch more pics on my camera and if Gina keeps napping I will get them on today.

Some more pics!!!

Hey everyone just a quick note, and a few pics of Kaidyn and a friends baby....hope everyone is well and enjoying what is left of our summer! gawd...its flown by! well keep on posting and i'm sure everyone agrees....WE LOVE new and updated pics! Have a good one! ~Erin~

I love it when Aunty Plays the BLANKET GAME with me!!!
As If Daddy......i'm Mommy's little Princess.....
Mmmm...my daddy LOVES pepsi!!! shhhh so do I
Kaidyn smiling pretty with aunty erin!!!
This is mine and rob's friend Jana's little son...the pic was taken yesterday, he is 1 month old!!!

ha ha ha - laughing is contagious

I LOVE those pics that you just posted. Gina is SO adorable, I just love her. I still haven't posted pictures of Hailey. The pictures got saved in a weird way on my computer, and their names are all screwed up, so when I try to post one picture, another does, it's kinda messed up. So I'm trying to fix that before I do.

Aww, I would've LOVED to have heard her laugh. That is so adorable. What makes her laugh the most?

And ooh, posting on ebay always looks so interesting to me! I would love to do that one day, but I don't really trust people enough to do something like that. I haven't really boughten anything from there either. What do you have posted, Keira?

What is everyone else up to?

:) Robyn

Good Morning Sunshine

And the baby bear said, "My bed is juuuust right".



Big stretch...



Aaaahhhh, the whole bed to myself!



I just can't live without my coffee in the morning.

Bits of Stuff

Thanks Robyn, we had lots of fun too!

On Sunday Gina turned 3 months old, and on Monday she started laughing! My heart bursts with joy every time she does it. Being a mom is so awesome.

We listed our first item on ebay and it is getting lots of bids!

All of us except my Matt have seen a bear up here.

Story Time

Mama reads me Lord of the Rings 'cause Pooh Bear is boring.

Oooh, orcs are scary!

great visit

To Keira and Gina, and Melissa and Kaidyn :P
Thanks SO much for the visit today! It was so nice hanging out with the 4 of you! I loved holding little Gina in my arms after meeting her. Plus, I love how much she poops :P And Kaidyn looks so old and we learned that she loves scary looking dogs named Titan... thanks for the fun :)

I hope you guys had a blast too.
Robyn

A visit with you

Yes Keira, my g-mail account is broken for some reason. I haven't been able to use it forever. I am still using robyngordon83@hotmail.com now though. You can email me there... thanks :)
Wednesday sounds great :) what time are you thinking about coming over?

"Yo Yo Yo!"

Robyn, I keep trying to email you but I get a failure message. Did you close your gmail account? Anyway is Wednesday an okay visit-day? My sister wants me to come into town and see her too, so let me know. Also I would really like to get our Sopranos seasons 1&2 back from you. And you can finally meet Gina! Yay! How are Susan and Adryan and Hailey?

Sammi did you get the kind of eye surgery where you don't need glasses anymore? Was it scary??

We'll get out to the lake one of these days, not sure which one.

Come to the cabin!

Hellooo everyone....well just a quick post to let u know that samantha is on her holidays out at the cabin aned i'll be out there tonight and all day tomorrow so Keira and Matt and Angelina you should come out...i believe matt and melissa will be out there so make ur way out! hope to see ya there...
Erin

From me too

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MELISSA!
Hope you had a great time today.

Happy Birthday Melissa!

I AM AN AUNT :) YAY!

Hiya again
Thanks Keira for the post on how to send pics. It seems so easy. I will try it next time, after I upload the pics from my camera and laptop to this computer.

Keira, after this week I have a week off work (starting on Sunday) so anytime will be good for me that I'm not with my family. We have some family from Ontario down, but other than that, I'm definitely up for hanging out. Sometimes the nights are better for me though. I am staying at my sister's house, we can definitely visit here... do you remember where that is?

Just to remind you, my phone number is 308-4828 :) and my sister's number, where I'll be for a while is 558-3826

Hope to see you soon

Aunty Rob

Wow, that must have been incredibly painful. They certainly have our prayers and positive thoughts. And what a shock, the baby wasn't supposed to come for another 2 months!

Rob, every weekend when we come into town I mean to give you a call but I forget the phone number, or the baby is crying, or something else happens and I say, "crap, I'll have to try again next week!" Anyway we'll be in town a couple of times this weekend. Or, I can drive Matt to work on a weekday or Saturday and visit during the day. What is your schedule like?

To post a picture, you just go to make a post as usual. Along the top of where you are writing, there are a few icons like a b, an i, and a checkmark. The one on the right looks like a picture of a mountain. Just click on that. A popup window will come up and you hit the button that says "browse". Clear as mud? Haha, that's what people used to say when I worked in an office. Anyway I can't wait to see the pictures of tiny Hailey!

HAILEY ANNE OLNEY

Hey guys. Things have been hectic and weird for me. My sister (who was only 31 weeks pregnant) had to give birth on the 20th. Has anyone ever heard of "HELLP syndrome"? Well anyway, it's really friggin scary. Wednesday around 2:00pm my sister was having pains at work and kinda got weird chills and cold sweats. Then Adryan came and picked her up and they went to her doctor's office. They took one blood test and rushed her to the ER in Vernon. It was friggin scary. They told her it could either be her gall bladder (in which case they were going to remove it that night) or this syndrome. This syndrome is REALLY rare, but REALLY serious and only occurs in pregnant people. It is very life-threatening, and the only treatment/cure for it is the delivery of the baby. So they did a lot of tests on her and found that it was this syndrome. So they rushed airlifted her to Vancouver and at 1:45 the next day, Hailey was born caesarian. This syndrome made her liver enflamed to a huge degree, made her blood platelet count down to 80 million per litre (supposed to be around 500) and she was bleeding internally. They wanted to wait 48 hours until they delivered the baby because they wanted to give her steriods to make her lungs more developed, but my sister would've died if they waited due to brain hemorraghing... so they delivered her less than 24 hours after my sister started feeling pain.
At first they were really worried about Susan's (my sister) prognosis and we were sorta mourning and praying for her. Then they made the decision to take out Hailey and when they did, they weighed her quickly, just focusing on keeping her alive, and she weighed in at 1 lb. So the doctor's told us her prognosis was pretty bad too. So we basically mourned again. It was really brutal. Then it turns out that they weighed her wrong, she actually weighed 2 lbs 6 oz which is still pretty small, but she is making excellent progress already. She even breathes by herself! She is going to be in an incubator probably for 2 months, and my sister is stuck in bed for like 6 more weeks in the Vancouver Women and Children's hospital.

So in the end it was pretty good, but it was a VERY emotional and brutal weekend. We are still praying and believing and thinking positive thoughts for Hailey and Susan, so please help, in whatever you believe in. Cause they are still not completely out of risk yet. I AM A NEW AUNT ALREADY!!!

I am staying at their house now because my sister and Adryan (her husband) will be in Vancouver for a long time. They have decided to both stay down there the whole time. My sister isn't well enough to make the trip back anyway, so the doctors won't let her. But I just want you guys to know, if you want to hang out, please phone me at 558-3826. That is where I'll be for the next long while. I miss you all!

So I really want to post some pictures of her, but have no idea how. So if someone could please help me, you could see her!