and the worrying begins for my baby!!!

Papa Ashcom and Mark are both affected by this disease to varying degrees ... the big question now is "will my unborn son also suffer?"

Nesting ....Dinner Time!

Mark and I have enjoyed numerous meals around our first dining room table.  It was a good little table that served it's purpose, but couldn't serve many mouths. 

So when Gramma passed away I inherited her dining room table with several leaves and a few memories of good meals shared together.  My excitement level was low about the 1960's finish though and so the table sat in the garage for a little bit while we decided its destiny ....

A few coats of flat black paint, a set of new chairs and VOILA!  A star is born!!!!

Nesting ... in the Guest Room

The Guest Room.  The Purple Princess Room.  The Spare Room.  Erin's Room ..... we call it a lot of different things. 

I made my poor husband "spruce up" this extra bedroom before he could start any of the baby projects.  I don't know why.  Maybe because we've been in the house for eight years and it needed a face lift.  Or maybe because I acquired treasures I wanted to honor when Gramma passed away recently.  Or maybe because I was too overwhelmed to let him start a project with actual purpose and needed a practice-project to get warmed up. 

Whatever the reasoning, our Guest Room has been updated.  And it's full of things I love.  It's still delightfully purple.  And Erin has slept in it twice, giving it her approval!

One of these quilts came from my Great-Grandmother Cordia!

The large urn was my Gramma Jeanne Betsey's!

The chair came from my parents house!

The lamp is from Hong Kong, the hat box is full of vintage chapeaus and the mirrored tray was my Gramma's!



Mark's updated toy ...

Mark is in surgery right now getting a new Internal Defibrilator.  It's hard to believe that almost 6 years have passed since we started down this crazy road.  It was the morning of July 9th, 2005 when he went into cardiac arrest.  And then respiratory arrest.  And then died.  And then received three really GOOD hits from the EMT's External Defibrilator that brought him back to life and a two week stay at Overlake.  God bless the folks in the Bellevue Fire Department, Overlake Emergency Department, the ICU and the Cardiac Care Unit! 

We talked about many of those past events this morning as he was prepped for this latest round of surgery.  Thankfully Mark does not remember anything from the week leading up to it, his time at the hospital or even too much about the day he was released.  I wouldn't want him to remember any of that anyways .... I wish that I didn't remember any of it!  But today is a different story.  Today is a simple procedure to put in a new Defibrilator that will take up less room in his chest and should have a battery life of 10 years.  So we applaud technology and all of the medical staff here at Overlake. We thank the Lord for continuing to care for us and bless us.  And we are headed to Burger Master as soon as Mark is cleared for release .... no one deserves a milkshake more than that kid!!!!