New pictures!

Here are two links where you can see pictures of us:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=23908&l=2028e&id=503538528

http://picasaweb.google.com/arnoldrkelly

So, we're pregnant!

About 2 1/2 months along, due at the end of June.

Here are some 7 week ultrasound pictures:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=13907&l=42c17&id=503538528

This is a link to an online photo album that has pictures of Josh from this fall, including him in his Halloween costume. He had a great time, and was so cute, I'm already excited for next year!

Hope you enjoy the pictures.

So we just got a call from Chris's doctor, who called to let us know that he got the test results back. (Drumroll please), he is cancer free! Woot woot!

Things are already looking up. No more cancer, and our car is all better and safely in our driveway.

It is a good day.

Our car was stolen, and yes we have had a pretty crazy month.

We had gone down to NYC for the weekend, having a bunch of people come in from Chris's old STINT (short term international) team. It was a fabulous time. We drove back up to our house and thought we were losing our minds when we didn't see the Honda. Chris asked "I drove home right?"

So we called the cops, and to make a long story short they actually found our car like 3 blocks away, with the key hole stripped, and the stereo ripped out, but laying on the front seat. The cops said they think the people must of gotten spooked or something to leave it all there and that close. Well we're sure thankful that they did. So now we just have to have the ignition fixed and the stereo reinstalled, thankfully there are no other damages.

Scary things is, we actually live in a really nice area of town, all the neighbors are kind of freaked out.

I realize that STL is supposedly the most dangerous city in America, but all I have to say is that in STL, our car never got stolen.

A quick update for those who are wondering, but today was the day Chris got like half his arm cut off.

I'll do more of an update later, we're getting ready to leave out of town for a long weekend, but here's the gist of it.

There was a lot of pain, the numbing didn't take all the way. There are two layers of stitches on each spot. The top layer on his arm has about 30 stitches in it, and the one on his back has about 15 on it's top layer. It's not pretty. If they didn't get all the cancer out with that, well, we won't go there...

So please keep praying for him, as I am sure he is still in pain. He also can't really stretch his arm all the way out or do too much with his shoulder. Also they are on opposite sides so it makes sleeping somewhat challenging. So please keep praying for my husband!

Just to let everyone know:

Chris had gone in a couple of weeks ago to the dermatologist and ended up having to have 3 spots biopsied.

He went back yesterday to get the stitches removed and to find out the results. One spot was fine, the other has a form of dysplasia (pre-cancerous cells) and has to have a larger section removed and in the last one the found Melanoma.

He goes back in on Wednesday to have them cut a pretty large chunk out of his arm and only a medium sized one off his left shoulder blade. If the outer tissue that they cut for the one on his arm (the cancer spot) is clean than treatment will be through. If not, well, we're hoping not to have to deal with that until we find it necessary. The doctor think it's very early on and is expecting to find clean tissue though.

So if you would please be praying for us and him as we go through this process, that it would be a smooth procedure, as painless as possible, would heal quickly, and that the tissue results would be clean.

Thanks for the prayers!

Josh

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=19068093528

A couple of new pictures of Josh.

The first one is him trying to "shoot" people.

The last one if of him sporting his new haircut, looking very much like his daddy.

I am horrible about posting on this site, sorry.

I am working on uploading some video of Josh I hope to get up within the next week or two.

Quick update for those who have not heard: We have decided (or rather God has directed) us to stay in Hartford for the time being. GMAC has told Chris that they hope to move him by early spring, so that is encouraging.

Josh is doing well. His new favorite phrase is "Holy (pronounced howey) cow!". He says it for everything. We were watching the British Open this weekend and Chris was cheering on one of the players, and Josh corrected him saying "No daddy, I like Tiger Woods." Apparently we have a PGA hopefuly on our hands.

Too tired to post on this site, all the updates of our drama has been posted on my xanga site. Check it out:

xanga.com/ktsue510

Sold!

Our house has been on the market less than a week, and it has sold! We just finished signing the papers this morning.

After a couple rounds of negotiation we accepted an offer for just a little less than our asking price!

At the latest we will be out of the house at the end of June and STL bound!

It's Official!!!

The papers are signed, the pictures are taken, the signs have been put out. Our house is officially on the market!!!! Woo hoo! Now if we can just find a job...

Here are some of the pictures (although they really do not begin to do justice) of the hard work that has gone into the house. There has been spackiling, and painting of walls, ceilings, and all of the trim, caulking restoring, sewing, planting, and so much more!!!

For all of our friends and family that will never see our first home (that would be all of you) here is your tour.

We have a baby!

Well not "we" persay. Matt and Christy do, which makes us the proud uncle, aunt and cousin to the beautiful Madeline Faye Kelly. She was born April 24, around 8:15, was 7lb.4oz. and 20 inches long. She has beautiful red hair and blue eyes. We are counting down the days until we get to hold her (15). After seeing the pictures Josh looked at me and said "Go, airplane, baby Maddy?" When I asked him if he wanted to go on an airplane to see baby Maddy he said yes. How he knew we needed to get on an airplane to see her, I'll never know!

Christy ended up having to have a c-section so please be praying for her smooth recovery.



Well here are some pictures of my darling niece:

Well, we finally had to make our first trip to the emergency room. I must say, I'm a little surprised it took this long. Josh loves running around, which is great, he just has a small problem of sometimes paying attention to his feet, or other people, instead of where he is going. That is how we ended up in the ER. He ran full speed into a corner. We didn't just have to have stitches, no, when Josh does something he does it right. They had to call in a plastic surgeon to give him three layers of stitches, the top layer having 10. Here are some pictures of the damage. Please pray our child doesn't look like a pirate for the rest of his life!

A quick update: We are in the midst of preparations for a move back to St. Louis. Yeah! The ideal goal right now is to be back in STL before late June. Of course there is a lot up in the air, like selling our house, buying another house, and Chris getting a job, all of which could greatly change our plan, but that is the goal.

We are working a lot to fix up our house to get it ready to sell. I hope to put some before and after pictures up soon of all our hard work. We have to finish first though!

We plan to be in STL at the beginning of May (no set dates yet, other than the weekend of the 12th). During that time we hope to spend plenty of time with our new niece, find a new house, see Arnold graduate with his MBA and spend time with friends and family.

Please be praying for us as this is proving to be a fairly stressful process. Also if anyone knows of any commercial lending or credit analyst type jobs, we would be very appreciative of the help!

I don't know if you all watch the news or not, but if you do, I am sure that you have heard of the shooting in Salt Lake City, Utah.

As some of you know, we went out to Utah to celebrate Chris' grandparents 50th wedding anniversary.

To make a long story short, we were in Trolley Square (where the shooting happened) in the exact places where people were killed, only 2 1/2 hours prior to the incident.

Pretty crazy to think just how closely God holds you in His hands sometimes...

We finally got our first sprinkling of snow yesterday! Here are a couple pics of Josh playing in it.

We have video! Here's the link for a video of Josh I posted, sorry I can't post it on here, blogger needs to update!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=eUBjU5MtTwc

This is Josh watching the GM commecials for their new trucks with the John Cougar Mellencamp song. Enjoy!