infected ears

so ya i had to take my ear spacers out today cause they were infected. But hopefully with antibiotics and regular cleaning theyll be back to normal in a few days and i can resume the tormenting of them.
Im at the library right now checking all my stuff and im pretty much in an amazing mood. I just got a paper and a test back in my psych class last night and I got an A on one of them and a 88 on the other so i was stoked about that. Ive already worked 24 hrs this week and I still have 2 days left. We bought our plane tickets for christmas yesterday so we will be home the 20-26 of december.

Update on my little buddy dominic, the tumor was cancerous and growing at an alarming rate and so they opted for emergency surgery to remove it. they got out as much fo it as they could but they dont know its a level 2,3 or 4 so they dont know if he needs radiation or chemo or both but theyll find out in a few days. The mom is obviously broken up over it, her name is Nicole and Dominic is only 5 so keep them in your prayers for sure.

Anywho my buddies up at Sandy cove are going to be setting up a weekly guys night to hang and stuff so im stoked about that, still not a wlot of guys around here for me to hang with.

Other than that things are pretty much the same. This weekend Jordan and I are going to go to Traget and do our baby registry I think. Pray for me, haha

Weekend Update

So its been a few days since I last updated and not a lot has happened. For those of you who dont know, I got my first tattoos this last week and there pretty awesome. I got "Man of God" on one wrist and "Integrity on the other- both in hebrew. I like them alot and am contemplating getting anther, maybe the lions family crest or a lion eating an antelope or something.

Last week was a long one, lots of school and worked a ton, but managed to survive. On friday night at Bowling league I bought the cheapest bag and the cheapest shoes they had at the pro shop and let me tell you, there pretty awesome. The bag is blue and red and says "Action Hero" on it, im pretty sure its for little kids but it works fine for me. I bowled terribly, got a 102,140,105. The middle game was good but the other two were terrible. After bowling Jordan and I went home and watched Charlie and the Chocolate Factory with Johnny Depp, Man I love that movie!

On Saturday we didnt have anything to do so we just chilled at the house all day. Its been raining a ton here so I took Daisy out on her first walk all the way around our block and she was spalshing in the puddles and all, having a good time. That afternoon/night we watched Caroline, our niece and here and jordan made cookies and jello and played with American Dolls and then we ordered pizza for dinner. After that jordan and I went to Macys because we still had a 30 dollar gift card to there from our wedding. I got a sweater thing and a short sleeve shirt and 2 pairs of jeans. The jeans were originally 43 dollars and I got them for 3.99 a piece!! And they were Levi Strauss Jeans!! How awesome is that? I was pretty stoked cause i never get good deals like that.

On sunday we went to church and then came home and took the dogs out before heading to lunch at Ruby tuesdays. Then we went shopping and came home and chilled for the rest of the evening.
This week Im supposed to work at 7:30 4 of the 5 mornings because a girl who works here was supposed to be going to the bahamas but I guess now shes not going so I only had to work that early today, which is nice.
In the next few weeks of classes I have a speech, a 5 page paper and 3 tests so i need to get cracking on all of that.
This weekend I think we are going to go hang out with my buddy Matt and his wife at sandy cove for a while.

Baby Update
Jordan is doing really well, shes feeling better and better everyday, sometimes not getting sick at all which is always nice. We decided once and for all on the name of the baby
If its a girl- Charley Elizabeth Lyons
If its a boy- McCarthy Isaiah Lyons

We both really liked those names and neither of them are very common so we were excited about that.

Anyway I think thats about it, oh wait no. My buddy from Olivet, TyTy is getting married at the beginning of May, right after graduation and me made me his best man so assuming we dont have a late pregnancy and that Jordan is in good health i wil be flying home for 3 days for that and graduation. So thatll be a lot of fun.

Ok now here are some pics, a few of jordans belly, one of the dog and a few of my tattoos.


This is McCarthy



This is McCarthy from the front



This one means Integrity



This one means Man of God, its not completely healed yet



This is Daisy, shes getting huge

BTW

Heres this, in case any of yall were wondering

My Christmas List
1) Dvd’s-
Good Will Hunting
Bourne Identity
Rain Man
Fight Club
Shooter
Disturbia
The Holiday
2) Long sleeve Button down shirts
3) Cd’s-
Queen Greatest Hits
Elton John
Nat King Cole- Gold CD
4) Head Phones
5) Tri Fold brown wallet with lots of pockets
6) Books-
Redeeming Love
Sex God by Rob Bell (not anything gross, look it up it looks good)
Dean Koonts
Wild at Heart
Every Mans Talmud
7) Brown and Black dress shoes
8) Nice Yoyo
9) Hoodie sweaters Medium or Large

sooo

so the last few days have been pretty great. Ive been trying better to keep up with my day to day devos which has been helping tremendously and also ive been working alot which keeps me busy. Over the weekend we went to outback steakhouse on Sunday night because Julie had a gift card from one of her students so that was pretty awesome. Also we ended up not going to my buddies wedding, we both felt terrible friday after work and still didnt feel great on saturday and werent up to a 4 1/2 hr drive. So that was a bummer that we missed that.
I took my speech midterm last week and will hopefully get that back today, Im pretty sure i smoked it so im not too worried about it. Im getting a B or higher in all of my classes luckily so thats awesome.
Im currently int he process of stretching my ears to put in those stud things and man do they hurt. Dont worry family, im not stretching them out to big, just big enough to get the smallest studs in and if i take them out itll take like half a year and theyll go back to normal, so nothing permanent!

Anywho im feeling good today, Jordan woke up feeling great, and things with the dog are going well, aside from her wanting to chew up everything we have. Tonight after work we are going to a restaurant called the olive tree for a co worker who is leaving after this week. So thatll be fun, to go eat out with all of our coworkers.

Uhh I think thats it. Hope everyone is doing well.

Update on Dominique the little boy I asked you all to pray for, the lump they found in his brain does not appear to be cancerous. They rerouted the flow of fluid so it doesnt get backed up behind it and he came home today. That is all I know so far.

Oh ya and this is for dad, I made no bake chocolate cookies the other night and everyone loved them, they turned out freaking awesome!

quick update

so il; update later but i just wanted to say right quick that its my dads birthday! it was my moms on the 12th and i meant to do this for her but i forgot and so i vowed i wouldnt forget with my dad too!

hes 45 and our home number is 1-309-747-2975! call him and wish him happy birthday!

ahhh boy

soo im sitting in my american women writers class and although it is entertaining, I find myself quickly losing any patience with my far left wing, liberal, feminist, man bashing classmates. At first it was funny, but its getting ridiculous. Lats week our teacher told us to never let our husbands call us pet names like "babe" "sweetie" "honey" or the like, because pet names are an attempt at belittling us and taking away our identity, and if we let our husbands take away our identity by calling us honey we may as well just quit our jobs and become a housewife (the ultimate sin as a woman). Then this week she started class by saying that a study showed that if barbie were a real life person her measurements would be 38-18-28 and the average woman's measurements are 37-29-40 and this is another attempt by Male-America to shame us into losing weight and becoming timid submissive wives. I wanted to reais my hand and say that if the ken doll was lifesize it would still have no penis and does that mean its a way to get men to cut off their junk in order to get a girl who looks like barbie?? Because in my head that makes as much sense as what she said.

Anywho they also argues today about how ignorant and outdated abstinence-based sex education is and how its not practical or ever gonna work or whatever. Ahhh I dont even know what to say, but i think i should say something....

Anyway this week has gone by very fast, tonight i have class and work and then tomorrow work all day (8-6) and then bowling at night and then Jordan and I take off for Virginia for my buddy Matt's wedding. Were helping tape it all and im the announcer at the reception. It should be fun, although im kinda nervous.

Jordan is doing well, and we have an appointment at the beginning of November so I cant wait. It will be nice to see the update, although we got our last bill for the sonogram (200 dollars!!!!!!) and it makes me not wanna do another one! haha not really, but i was surprised that it cost so much.

Prayer requests:
Mike, hes doing better and will maybe be starting out patient therapy within the next month
Julie, lot to do right now and she is getting kinda hectic i think
Jordan and the baby- Pray for continued good health for jordan and for Gods hand in developing our baby
Dominic- A kid in our class at the center who si 5 and they just found a tumor in his brain, they are unsure as of yet what it is or what it means, il keep you updated
Me- Pray that I will be convicted of the areas in my life that are keeping me from God

Alright im out, thanks guys, love you all

Oh ya i know 18 weeks, haha very funny

updation

so its been a while since my last update, youll have to excuse me of that, its been a hectic week. My new schedule for week nights are class tuesday night, bible sudy wednesday night, class thursday night and bowling league friday night.
haha yep im in a bowling league. I went last week for the first time and its "sponsored" or whatever by Mountain Christian Church which is a church in Baltimore. I thoguht that it would be a group of terrible bowlers just having fun but I showed up and I was the ONLY one that didnt have my own ball/shoes/cool wrist guard thingie. So right away I realized I might be the low score on the board. Well I was, I bowled a 135 the first game and the closest score to me was a 185!!! So ya i felt like an idiot.
Awesomely though this guy in the next lane to me saw that I didnt have my own ball and GAVE me one of his. He said he won it in a tournament and didnt need it!! So i took it into the pro shop and got the fingers fitted to me and it cost $8.50!!! Hahaha i was pretty excited to say the least. So anyway that was good, and at the end of the night i found out that everyone had handicaps already programmed in, (one of the girls on my team had a 68!) And that my handicap would go into effect the next week, so i was excited about that because it meant i wasnt as much worse than everyone else as I thought I was.
The weekend was pretty low key, jordan and her mom went shopping and i stayed home and tried to teach myself guitar. Im actually getting pretty good and can already play like 13 songs!! So thats been awesome, ive been playing non stop for the last 4 days and i think I may be rekindling Jordans passion for guitar which is awesome cause shes pretty great.
Anyway school is going well, midterm already and im doing alright in my classes. I have a psych test tonight that is should do alright on hopefully.

Jordan is doing great, I think shes totally through the worst of it which is nice. She is getting her appetite and her sense of humor back and shes also started going to a water aerobics class with her mom and shes loving that which is good.
We decided we are going to find out the sex of the baby as soon as we can, but it doesnt look like we will be able to find out until about 18 months but we do find out we will let everyone know.
Anyway im in clss now and im gonna go i think, il update agin later
also anyone who reads this please get an account (there free) and comment on my blog, its hard writing to in invisible audience and stay motivated!
Anyway im out!

speech!!!!

ahhh so i just got out of my first class and i had an in class writing assignment about Sojourner Truth and why she was traditional and non-traditional for her time period. It was pretty cake but Im not really thinking about that as I am about to give a speech in my public speaking class in about 45 minutes. Its a demonstrative speech on how to make dutch oven peach cobbler and im more than prepared for it, ive given the speech like 10 times at home, but I am still nervous out of my mind. I cant wait for it to be finished because then im basically done with the week. Im only scheduled for about 15 hrs this week because their training someone else and because i asked julie for fewer hrs for this week as I had such a hard school load. I originally had a test planned for thursday in my american women writers class but it just got bumped to next week which is fine by me. So I work today from 4-6, then class til 8:30, then tomorrow I have work from 12:30-2 and then guys movie night at my buddy Nathans house, and then thursday I have class from 8:30-12:30 and then work from 4-6 and then I have nothing on Friday because my sister and mom and best friend Kenny will be here!!!!!!
There flying in thursday night and then mom leaves sunday and kenny and whitney leave tuesday!! Im pretty stoked to say the least, I miss all my family and friends so much!

Anywho this last weekend was pretty cool. On Friday night we hung out with our friends Matt and Katie from camp. We went to Golden Szechuan which is one of the best chinese restaurants Ive ever eaten at, and then we went back home and watched a few episodes of the office. Then Jordan went to bed and Katie left cause she had work early the next morning and Matt and I talked for an hr or so about life and all that stuff. We plan to open a camp one day (Jordan and I) and Matt and katie want to do something like that as well so were hoping to pool our resources and maybe team up for that which would be awesome as they are both really cool people. Matt and Katie are actually getting married this 28th I think and Matt wants me to be the announcer at the reception and mc it or something. so thatll be awesome.
Then on Saturday Jordan and I got up early and went and saw 3 of our kids from the 5 yr old class at the daycare play soccer. It was hilarious and we took Daisy and they were so excited to see us. Kids from other soccer fields would come running off to pet daisy while their games were going on and there coaches would have to yell at them to get back in the game. It was hilarious.
Then we went to our churches Fall Festival which was going on all day saturday and hung around there for a while. Then that night we came home and just chilled out as we were all pretty exhausted.
On sunday after church we went to Ruby Tuesdays with friends of Julie's, Mrs. Phyllis and Mr. Kermit who are freakin hillarious and that was a good time.
Yesterday we had another checkup for Jordan in baltimore and it turns out shes just about 10 and 1/2 weeks along and doing great. She has like a bicarnate uterus which means its split into two and could cause complications but our doctor yesterday told us she wasnt worried about it at all. She said most people dont even know they have that and have many kids just fine. She said if you had to pick a complication to have with anything that was the best one as it usually doesnt make a difference. So that was a huge relief. She also said Jordans weight loss was ok and that shed make up for it in her 2nd trimester, and she gave us the go ahead to fly, saying that flying is totally fine even up intil like the 8th month. Jordan will only be in her 4th or 5th month at christmas so we should hopefully have a go for that. Anyway thats about it I think, they didnt really have any more news. Were scheduled back in about 5 weeks for another checkup and Jordan is feeling really great lately.
Anyway im gonna go over my speech one more time so im out, il update again in a few