Josh Passes Out, Pumpkin Carving, and an AM trip to the VET

I don't even know where to begin with this entry! I guess from the beginning.... last night after work Josh and I planned on carving pumpkins, however we had a bit of a detour.

Josh sat down and began drawing out his Denver Broncos horse design. Once he drew it he decided the drawing was a little too large for the pumpkin so he used finger nail polish remover to take off the permanent marker. When the finger nail polish remover didn't remove all of it he went to the sink and started scrubbing down his pumpkin with soap and water. This is a good thing and you will see why in a short second.


Once he had a clean pallet to work on, he once again drew out his Denver Bronco horse head. This time it was perfect! So he got one of our knives and started to cut out the top of the pumpkin. At this time I am also working on my pumpkin. Next thing I know I hear Josh moan and grunt. I look over and the knife is dropped on the table. Here is how the next 15 minutes go:

Me: Josh what happened? Are you ok?
Josh: I am fine. Just cut myself. (as he is walking over to get a paper towel)
Me: Let me see.
Josh: No Melissa. It is fine. Just scrapped me.
Me: I will go get a band-aid.

I go grab a band-aid and when I come back Josh is sitting in front of the sink on the kitchen floor white as a ghost. No color at all.

Me: What happened? Josh you are white!
Josh: I feel dizzy.

Josh moves over to the kitchen table and lays on the floor, puts his feet up in a chair, and lifts his had above his head. By the way he is still very white!

Me: Josh what do you want me to do? Do we need to go to the ER?
Josh: I looked at it. I thought I could pull the lose skin off, but when I pulled it back I was looking into a hole. A hole that is in my wrist!
Me: Do you want me to call your mom? (I say this because she works for KCK Fire Dept. on the Ambulance)
Josh: Is she on shift?
Me: I don't know I will call.

I get on the phone with Coleen (Josh's Mom) and tell her what happened. She says she can meet us at Providence Medical Center if she needs to.

Me: Josh your mom says she can meet you at Providence.

At this time Josh decides to get up off the floor and sit in the chair. As soon as he sits down he tells me to get a trash can because he is going to be sick. I run over and grab the trash can (still talking to Coleen) and as soon as I sit it down Josh passes out. I grab him by the neck and tell Coleen that he has passed out. She tells me to call 911. I seriously have Josh in a choke hold as I am dialing 911. I yell "Josh! Josh!". He starts making this weird noise. I think, Oh, God he is puking. So I try to open his mouth up, but I can't! Then I realize he is making this noise, because I am choking him. The 911 operator comes on the line and I say I need an ambulance at my house and yell our address. As soon as I get our address out Josh comes to.

Josh: What happened! I am not riding in an ambulance!
Me: You passed out! Are you ok!

I tell the 911 operator never mind I am driving him myself. The operator asks if I am sure and I tell him yes and thank you. I am shaking so bad and my heart is racing out of control.

Josh: You know they are going to come anyways.
Me: Well we are not going to be here. Oh, and you better not do that to me again! You scared the crap out of me!
Josh: Sorry honey. It is ok.

Coleen calls and says she is on her way to station 9 (fire station just past the speedway and 435) and to meet her there so she can look at Josh. We load up and took off. When we got to the fire station. Coleen cleaned out Josh's puncture wound and bandaged him up. No stitches were need, but a tetanus shot would be needed. So we went to Urgent Care and he got stuck with a needle!

Battle Scar!

And so we picked up where we left off when we got home from Urgent Care. Needless to say we were both extremely careful with the knife. Josh was fine the rest of the evening. Next year we might invest in those kid friendly carving kits or hell, paint pumpkins instead of carve them.

It is like surgery!

Finished Product!

Taaa- Dahhh..

All lite up!

Oh, and that evening after Josh got out of the shower we had to bandage him up. He was worried about getting blood on the bed so we wrapped his wrist in gauze and tape. The bandages made it look like he tried to commit suicide and failed. Oh, my husband!

It was a crazy evening that spilled over into the morning. I woke up this morning and started getting ready for work. Josh woke up feeling sick so he was going to stay home and in bed. I noticed Harlie, our doggie, was rubbing her nose with her paws a lot. So I turned on the bedroom light to check her out. The poor puppy had one eye swollen shut and her entire face was puffy. I told Josh that it looks like she is having an allergic reaction to something, but we are going to have to take her to the Vet to make sure. So he rolled out of bed and started getting ready. The Vet said Harlie did have an allergic reaction to something and gave her a few shots. Our guess is the pumpkin I feed her and Ella last night. Lesson learned. Harlie is allergic to pumpkin.

So in the past 24 hours we have manged to incur a medical bill and a vet bill all from those damn pumpkins! Hopefully next year's pumpkin carving session goes a lot smoother!

A funeral, A birthday party, and A photo booth....

This past weekend was very rough for Josh and I. Last week one of our groomsmen's mom passed away. The visitation was Friday evening and the funeral was Saturday morning. I just want to take a moment, which will never be enough, to say what a great lady Nyra Moore was. She truly was a mom to all and helped more kids out than she will ever know. She had this great spirit about her. Nyra's smile and personality would light up a room. She not only loved her family and friends, but her dogs also. She will never be forgotten by all those she loved and cared for. Nyra Moore we love you! Our thoughts and prayers go out to Jason and Stacy.

Saturday evening was my uncle Vince's 50th surprise birthday party! I figured this would be a great time to try out our new camera. A week ago Josh and I purchased a Nikon D5000 and we are still trying to figure all the different settings out. Below are some pictures of the big birthday bash! Unfortunately I had to leave the party at 7pm to go to work. Yep, I have been doing side work for our wedding photographer. This past weekend I worked a photo booth at the Union Station for a wedding. The weekend before I was her second photographer at a wedding. She pays $100.00 cash so hey why not! This past weekend at the photo booth I got to meet Bobby Bell and see his super bowl ring he won with the KC Chiefs ! My dad thought it was cool!

He was surprised!

Before....

After 50 candles....

Ummm... 50 trick candles! Fire! Fire!

My uncle Vince received a lot of tequila!

Our family not only gathers around the table, but the keg too!

Jeremy cutting up the smoked pig!

Dinner time!

Pre-pregnancy blogs!

Title: Shhh.... It's A Secret!

Monday, October 19, 2009

Melissa + Josh = Baby Bosley! Well.... not quite pregnant yet, but we are going to start trying! No it is not August 2010, but we are changing the "master plan" from August 2010 to now! As everyone knows Josh has been ready since he said "I do", but I wasn't ready to be on that band wagon just yet. It wasn't until this past September when it just hit me. Summer was finally whining down, we had been settled into our home for a month, and life is GREAT! Baby fever hit me.... hard! So one evening Josh and I started talking about having a baby sooner rather than later. I truly wish I could have captured his face when I brought this up. He was ecstatic with the thought of us trying to get pregnant in a month! Thrilled beyond control! The biggest smile ever! It was a great husband and wife moment.

Well it has been a month and as Josh says "it's time to make a baby!" We are so excited about starting a family. I have known for a month that we were going to start trying and it has been killing me to keep it a secret. We like the idea of everyone to be VERY surprised especially our parents. People ask us all the time when we are going to start a family and I keep telling them not until August 2010 when we have been married for two years so the idea of us, more me, straying from the the plan will be a huge surprise for all! Currently the Bosley home is full of pregnant wishes and talk.

Though I can't share this or any other pre-pregnant blog just yet. I still think it is important to write about our experience because this is an important milestone and exciting time in our lives!

Title: We Really Don't Mean to Lie.....

Monday, October 26, 2009

Yes, right now we have started trying to get pregnant, but no we are not telling anyone. So when people ask us "when are you guys going to have kids", we simply tell them next fall! Or our favorite line is "We will have them if you are willing to pay for them". It sucks fibbing to everyone, but we really do want to surprise everyone and we really don't want the questions of "are you pregnant yet?" So until we are officially preggos we will be telling white lies!

Josh is too cute about this whole thing! When we talk about being pregnant or a baby he just smiles so big and sweet! He truly is thrilled to become a dad. This may be too much information, but it is funny. When we decided to start the process of getting pregnant I told Josh we need a calendar to keep track of the "details". What did we end up with? His John Deere Tractor calendar from down in the garage! Every time we "try making a baby" Josh goes over to the calendar on my dresser and puts a gold star on the date. Yep, you read that right, a gold star! So you are probably wondering where the gold star comes from. Well Josh was looking at the calendar one evening and made the comment we needed gold star stickers to mark the "baby making dates" instead of using a pen to make a star. I just happened to have gold stars in my crafting supplies and it now we have gold star nights! Ummm... yes he does go over and put the gold star on the calendar as soon as the deed is done. I am so glad and thankful that he is very involved in the process (obviously), but aside from that he is knowledgeable about the whole thing. He knew that at day 14 to day 20 is when I am most fertile. Where does all this knowledge stem from? Well his AI (artificial insemination) class from college. He took an agriculture class where they artificially inseminated the dairy cows (he worked at the diary in college). So he compares me to a heifer! ;)

So last night we went to Wal-Mart to do our grocery shopping and I asked Josh should we get a home pregnancy test. He agreed it would be a good idea and we would go back over to that section once we finished getting groceries. Ok so this is Bonner Wal-Mart where everyone knows everyone! I was so scared of running into someone and them seeing the pregnancy test in our cart. I made Josh hide it in our cart under a bunch of groceries and then when we checked out I made sure we didn't know the cashier. Yep I was that paranoid and worried.

The hardest part about this is keeping a secret from my mom. My mom is my best friend and it is hard to not tell her we are trying to give her and my dad a grandchild. I just keep thinking about there faces when we do tell them and how VERY surprised they will be, especially my dad. He is always making comments and suggestions about grandbabies!

Title: We ARE in THAT TIME FRAME.....
Friday, October 30, 2009

This past Tuesday was day 14! Yep, that means it is time to try to conceive. I must admit we both will be crushed if we are not preggos the first time around. We have built up so much excitement and nerves about getting pregnant that it will be a punch in the gut to find out we have to try another month. But we also understand not everything works out as planned so all we can do is pray and hope! The pregnancy test we bought will tell you if you are pregnant 4 days before you start your period. So the other day I was doing the math on our good ol' trusty John Deere calendar and figured out our test date falls when Josh goes out of town to go hunting. I told him he would have to make a decision between finding out if we are pregnant the same time I do or going hunting. He just smiled and said "You can't wait till I get back Sunday evening?" I told him "Nope, you know me. It will be driving me crazy." It will drive me nuts, but later I told him I would wait until Sunday evening and I was just giving him a hard time. I hate waiting games! I really do suck at them! I will leave you with Josh's most recent phrase "Swim little swimmers swim!" You can just imagine where this phrase comes into play in our evening! ;)
So if the Bosley house is a rockin' don't come a knockin'.... we are trying to make a baby :)

Friday, November 6, 2009

I am so excited and anxious to find out if we are pregnant. We could have done the test this morning, but I didn't want to be rushing around getting ready for work. I want this to be a special moment for us and this morning would have been like... Yay! We are pregnant... I love you....Have good day at work.... Hug and Kiss.... Out the door.... all in on breathe. I want us to either be able to enjoy the moment or comfort each other. So we are waiting until Sunday when Josh gets back from Fort Scott. My other concern about taking the test this morning is that I have plans to go shopping for Christmas decorations with my mom Saturday morning and I will be itching to tell her and I am not sure I could keep it in if we were pregnant. All this week I have told Josh he HAS to come back early Sunday! I will be dieing to take the pregnancy test. In order to keep my mind off finding out if we are preggos or no preggos, I am trying to keep busy. Shopping Saturday morning/afternoon with my mom and that evening I am doing a photo shot with my cousins. Jeremy and Chrisie is letting me borrow Kathryn, Austyn, and Aaron for the evening so I can play around with my camera. Then before I know it.... it will be Sunday! Yay! As you can tell I am so excited about having a baby and I truly hope that we are pregnant after one round! I am keeping my fingers crossed for two pink lines on Sunday!

Finally a Finished Guest Bedroom! Come visit us!

Wow... almost a month since I have blogged! So what has been going on.... well The Mader's Open House, little Nascar, the Jared Coones 5K, and a COMPLETED GUEST BEDROOM! Well for the most part it is done.

Let me first begin this story by saying I love my husband! With that said.... I could have absolutely knocked him out while we were painting the guest bedroom a couple of Saturdays ago! We began painting Friday night. Josh painted the accent wall while I painted the closet white. Josh put two coats on the wall and hit the recliner for some ESPN time (imagine that). He fell asleep in the recliner while I completed the closet. Then Saturday morning roles around..... Josh gets up in the grumpiest mood! Painting does this to him EVERY time, but this time was worst! My theory is that he did so much painting when he was growing up that he now despises it with a passion. So he began putting the first coat on the remaining three walls. And let me tell you he was a bear! Now wives you can relate to this. You know those times when your husband is in one of those moods that you just can't get him out of! Nothing you say or do helps. Well after about an hour of this I was ready to KO my husband! Thank god we only put one coat of paint on that day. After the first coat was on we took the rest of the afternoon off. As we were getting ready to head to Topeka for The Maders Open House I told him that if he was going to be in a crappy mood that he could stay home and I would go without him. From that moment forward he was fine! I guess husbands are also allowed grumpy moods every once in a while. Sunday... we got up and throw a second coat on and headed out the door to the Nascar races! Josh was in heaven! He loved it! Me... well I loved it because Josh was LOVING it! Cars going in circles 246 times... not really that exciting to me, but Josh was thrilled to be there and to have such awesome seats! After the races and dinner we put another coat on the the walls. Three coats later we were finally done painting the guest bedroom around 9:00 pm Sunday evening. By this time we hated that room! Well... we hated painting that room.

I have finally finished the "details" of the guest bedroom. Finding the "perfect" bedding was a nightmare. At one time I had 5 different shams, two bed skirts, two quilts, and two curtains. In the end I ended up with a great look! The room still needs to be decorated, but a least there is a bed, covers, and a homemade headboard!
Now for the fun part! Pictures!


The week prior to painting, Josh had went out of town for work. When he returned the room went from having two paint samples on the wall to FIVE! I hate picking out paint. I really did stress over this whole thing.

So because I went to town on the paint samples, Josh had to prime over them before painting the accent wall.

This was Friday evening before the pissy pants were pulled on!


Doing my part!

The room is painted and now it is time to attached the headboard!

Taaa-Dahh... !


The finished product! I love this room and can't wait to start decorating it!

Notice the picture seating on the floor. Still not sure where I am going to put it.