David, Abigail, Conner and Charlotte

Update! Update!

2011-04-13T18:53:00.000-07:00

So I finally thought I should update our blog after about 2 1/2 years. A lot has happened in the

last 2 years. So here it is summarized.

1. Our son Conner David Delphenich was born November 2, 2008. (9 lbs 5 oz.)

2. My brother came home from his mission to meet his very first nephew.
3. December 2008 my mom was diagnosed with breast cancer, she has now been cancer free for about 1 1/2 years.
4. Conner's baby blessing.

5. Went on a cruise with my family to the Caribbean.

6. Went to Tahoe with David's family, the cousins had a blast playing together.

7. Conner's first birthday November 2, 2009.

8. December 2009 Christmas with the Delphenich's in Utah
9. March 2010 expecting baby #2
10. July 2010 found out we are having a girl!!

11. After several years of trying to work through their differences my parents have decided to get a divorce.
12. Thanksgiving 2010 David's family came to visit since I was very pregnant and could not travel.
13. It is a good thing David's family came to us for thanksgiving because just as we sat down for dinner I went into labor even though my c-section was scheduled for 2 days later.
14. Welcomed Charlotte Rae Delphenich on November 25, 2010 (7 lbs 12 oz.)

15. It is a good thing that I went into labor early, definitely a blessing from Heavenly Father. I had contracted a disease known as TTP it is a very rare blood disease ( 1 to 3 out of a million get it) and can be onset by pregnancy before the doctors could diagnose it ( I was at John Muir, a big hospital, and I was the first case they had ever had) my kidneys and liver had started shutting down. I had also started talking with completely random words and not knowing real from fake all those vampire novels came back to haunt me, literally. TTP caused my body not to be able to filter out blood clots which is why my kidney and liver started to fail because they started to fill up with blood clots and my brain was full of blood clots. They put me on plasma pheresus, kind of like dialysis, they had to take out all of my plasma and replace it with new donated plasma. I was in the hospital for 10 days while my husband did the single dad job with a toddler and a newborn, thank goodness for my parents and all their help

16. I am grateful for the hand of God in all the circumstances that put me at that hospital with those doctors and nurses that saved my life, this disease used to have and 80% mortality rate before before the plasma machine was invented.
17. Charlotte's Baby blessing.
18. I love being a mother to 2 beautiful children.

This has been a crazy, wonderful 2 1/2 years. I love my family and am so grateful for where we are and all that we have been through because we truly appreciate each other and the lives we have together. I hope you are having a good year and stay tuned for more updates, they will be coming more often.

Abigail

Baby Blessing

2009-02-18T13:47:00.000-08:00

On January 4, 2009 Conner was given a blessing by David, it was a really special day for our family.

Nursery

2009-01-06T19:23:00.000-08:00

Some people wanted to see our finished nursery. We had a lot of fun doing it, we didn't want a theme and we really wanted it to be a room that could transform from boy to girl if that is what we have next so the blue strip will become pink. Here it is:

Baby boy Conner is here!!!

2008-11-14T17:26:00.000-08:00

Conner David Delphenich joined us on November 2nd, one week earlier then his due date, good thing he was early, he came in weighing a whopping 9lbs. 5oz. and was 20 3/4 in. long.

So we would have posted sooner but the family needed a little time to recover, after 30 hours of labor and then in the end Abby had to have a cesarean and a blood transfusion it hasn't been to fun.

But Abby is recovering nicely and its been great to have this little bundle of joy around, he's absolutely amazing, and despite the lack of sleep, things have been going great. Don't you just love the chubby checks!

We're Still Here

2008-10-22T17:15:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone!!

If we still have readers out there you will soon find out why we have been such slackers at posting. So here is a quick update and what we have been up to. First, with about 2 months left to our due date David got offered a new job. We were not looking for a new job, especially with the baby coming so soon but it is an amazing opportunity for us and for career advancement for David. With David's old job he was designing the ads for web pages, but now he is designing how users interact with the website it is the direction he is really hoping to take his career in. It is also cool that he is working for Ancestry.com so he is helping with genealogy which is really cool. So we had a big family discussion if this was the right time for such a big change and that is what we did, he turned in his 2 week notice. During that 2 week notice we had already decided that we were redoing our kitchen because we didn't even have enough storage for us let alone baby items. So David got to work and this is what he did, my husband is amazing!!

Yup, that's right David ripped out all of the cabinets, mounted all the new cabinets, put the hardwood floor back in. The only thing he didn't do was the granite counter tops. Now what have I been up to while David has been so busy. First I went back to teaching when school started and yesterday was my last day, now making me available to post. I took the summer off which was amazing and spent it getting the house, baby's room, and getting all my sub plans ready so I could take enough time off with the baby. I have also been very, very busy going a very large baby who is due 15 days from tomorrow (everyone cross their fingers that it will be sooner than that). Also you have to excuse the pictures we always seem to take them right before bed when I am exhausted.

23 Weeks

32 Weeks

36 Weeks

My next post will be soon because we had some visitors this summer as well as the finished kitchen and nursery. I also hope to be posting soon about the birth of our son. Hope everyone is doing well.

IT'S A BOY!

2008-06-17T10:06:00.000-07:00

We just got back from having the ultrasound and we have some exciting news, its a BABY BOY, definitely a boy, the proof is in the first pic. Abby wasn't sure if we should have his bits and pieces out there for the world to see, but its to just to cool, so thats that. I guess the majority had it right on the poll, and we couldn't be happier. Now I guess it's time to start shopping, Abbys going to have a blast!

Here's the baby butt, among other things.

Our baby's boy profile.
Baby face.

Abby @ 12 & 18 weeks

2008-06-07T21:51:00.000-07:00

Here are some belly shots we thought you would enjoy.

Our due date is November 6. So far I have been feeling great and we are so excited to see our little one. We find out if we are having a boy or a girl on June 17 so don't forget to vote.

News

2008-04-16T16:47:00.000-07:00

Ok so I know I stink at posting. But I wanted you all to know that David and I are expecting a baby here is our first picture, I think it looks like a ghost.

Funny, Christmas!

2007-12-20T12:40:00.000-08:00

I swiped these from my friend Michelle's blog, but they were to funny not to share!! Hope you enjoy!

Alcatraz

2007-11-28T20:25:00.000-08:00

So for the week of Thanksgiving we went to Alcatraz, the prison in the sea. It was the clearest day I have ever seen in San Francisco. Enjoy!!!

Also, here is a really cool website that I found http://librivox.org/ you can download free audio books to your ipod. They are older books ones that weren't copy writed (? on spelling). So they have books like Emma, Pride and Prejudice and Sherlock Holmes. It is the coolest, it is free so there is some weird stuff there but it is FREE, my favorite word.

New Posts

2007-11-26T18:05:00.000-08:00

Hello everyone,

I have been neglecting my blog lately, so to make it up to you I will be trying to post something new everyday this week. We have been doing tons of fun things recently so it should be really good. So to start it off I thought I would post some fun things that David did, without me, it was the longest we had ever been apart since we were married I hated it. In October he went to visit his family in New Mexico. He went to help help his dad paint their house also the Ballon Festival was there. So here are some cool pictures from the festival.

All The Hard Work.

2007-09-24T18:29:00.000-07:00

So, "Pictures are worth a thousand words." I can't do justice to all the hard work that David and I have done, mostly David.

Here is the Kitchen before and after.

Here is the Living Room.

Here is me sitting on our cement subfloor until David finished laying the hard wood.

Here is the half bath.

Here is the upstairs bath.

We showered for about a week and a half with plastic hanging all around the shower as we were finishing the sheet rock, plumbing, and tiling. It was to protect the open beams from the water. Lets just say that one of our most exciting moments in all these projects was in the middle of a shower all the plastic fell off the wall, I still had shampoo in my hair, I spent the rest of my shower holding up the plastic and showering , it was insane.

and the bedrooms, Sorry they are messy we hadn't finished unpacking before we took pictures. David's parents also came to visit and they got to be the first people to use our guestroom. We were so excited to have them come and we got celebrate John's birthday with him.

This is our master bedroom it has 2 rooms in one we are going to make one a sitting room.

Here are some other random pics of our house.
This is our little yard the perfect size and our front door

We have a two car garage, all though we haven't tried to see if David's jeep fits yet.

We also have a balcony which I am so excited to use

And our Inspector said we should think about replacing our water heater and after seeing the bottom we are pretty sure that we made the right decision to replace it. David also did this with the help of a friend.

This is why we replaced the bath tub.

This is the progress David had made on the hardwood after only 2 evenings of work. He is Amazing!!!

This is me loving our new house and being on our own.

I hope that you have enjoyed this long awaited update.

New home

2007-08-25T19:39:00.000-07:00

Ok so if you read my email this is the same, pictures of our place should be up sometime this week.

Hello All-

Ok so we have been so busy so we haven't really been in contact with many people. David and I have been working hard, saving money to buy our first home. We have been living at my parents for the last year and a half, they have been letting us live there rent free to help us get a leg up in this crazy California market.

On top of buying a house here is what else we have been doing. David works for a company called Webshots it is an online photo sharing website, he designed their new logo and helps design the layout of their webpage. He has been doing really well there getting complements from the top levels of the company that owns Webshots, named CNET. I have been working at a brand new school in San Ramon, California they were a year old when I started there and I had to start my program from the ground up buying everything from spatulas to sewing machines it has been stressful and exciting.

We just bought our new townhouse about 3 weeks ago and spent about a week getting the place livable enough and then we moved in. Our place is 3 bedrooms 1.5 baths 1330 sqft 2 stories with a little yard and a two car garage, it is just perfect for our first place. We have learned many things about the home buying process but the best one was patience. We bought a house that had been a rental for years which means it needed some more work then normal. We also bought a short sale which is a step right before foreclosure and is the complete opposite of the name. We put our offer in at the begining of May and closed in the last week of July nearly 3 months of waiting, but we were able to buy at a great price in a great area, the town I grew up in Pleasanton and so far it has been awesome. Well once you live there you kind of find some more things that need to be worked on and David and I have been having tons of fun picking out paint and tons of other things and working hard unpacking, destroying bathrooms and rebuilding them. We are starting a blog and I am sure that the next several enteries will be pictures of all the hard work that we have been doing. But we hope that you will stay updated on our lives and the fun things we are doing and we love looking all of your blogs and get emails from all of you.