Labor Day

This was such a special trip for me. I got to see my Grandmother who will be turning 87 in October. She is not doing great so I was blessed to be able to make that trip. I am hoping to go up and see her again in a few months, don't know how possible that will be with school going full swing. David is in High School playing football, Peyton is still in elementary along with Kyle. Peyton is playing football also. We had a pretty busy weekend, I recommend if anyone gets to go to the Bull Shores area to take the Dam tour. It was a neat experience for us all. We got to go inside and see the machines and how electricity is made. We were so below the water level it was kinda intimidating, but I managed to make it. After that we picnic and got to see some of the cousins. They next day we went bowling saw Grandma, Jason went golfing, played games and made the most of our day together. All in all this was a great weekend for my family.

1 week ago

WHEW!! What a memory. I am much better, food is still hit and miss. The doctor said everyone is different. So I don't know if food is going to stay down or not. This morning was not good, but lunch is staying down. This is so weird to me. I have never experienced something like this. So I just have to be close to something while eating cause I sure don't have the get up and go. Though my boys say I am moving a bit quicker than a snail. They are so funny. Kyle is the most observant in the healing process of me. He will say you moving quicker or you look better today. Sweet Kyle. My mom has been me this week. Thank you mom. She has been getting the boys up and getting them ready for school. Every morning they would come in my room and kiss me. This morning Peyton and Kyle wanted to see the hole that is in me. So I took the bandage off and they got to see it. I showed them the other ones, but they were glued up. When they took the drain out Tuesday they left it open for it to still drain. It looks very good. I am still real swollen, I can't see my ankles still, and I am hoping soon that will change. Tomorrow my mom and dad are leaving. I am ready to try to get back to as much order as possible, my boys have been spoiled, as they should to keep there mind off of me. My mom has taken them bowling and has been doing there chores, reading to them, etc... I cannot workout or play softball for 3 weeks to a month. I really don't know about the lifting, but driving they said a week or so. I am not ready for the driving yet, I am still having sharp sudden pains every once in a while and the nausea is still around, so I am hoping by Monday everything will be better. I am going stir crazy in the house so I am going to try to go to the boys ball games this weekend.

What a week

while i am up and with the living right know(LOL). Tues may 19 a co worker and i went to hot springs for a business trip. the company paid for us a night and the convention was the 20th. well that night midnight i started getting sick. and sick and sick, ok you get the point. i was apologizing for being so sick that we couldn't go to the convention, so what i did was let her go for a bet and i stayed at a table with a trash can. again still really sick and i kept telling her this is different. ok i traveled home from hot springs sick (not fun let me remind you). got home and jason said maybe it is gas, i was like no this is different. told him that i will have to go to a doctor if i am not better. so thursday the 21st came and i went to the dr. he ran some tests and told me my urine showed a kidney stone and my blood showed the apendix. so he made me go to springhill er where they were waiting on me. got me back and started and iv drank some nasty stuff did a cat scan, and off to surgery.

got done with surgery and the doctor said i am one of the 10% that wasn't normal. (go figure that). my appendix attached to my colon wrapped around it and had a stone in and had gangreen on it. i am not a text book case. that is why i still have the drain in me and i am struggling so much they had a time getting it away from my colon without missing up the colon.

update

It has been a while, Peyton has got his hair cut off. Not that he wanted to do it, but he let his grades slip. I had to do it, that is what he was warned would happen if he let them go. He did and I followed through. WOW!! He looks so good :).

We have had so much rain, that my oldest son has only played 2 games, Peyton and Kyle have played 5. We have 6 to make up and they are calling for more rain Saturday. I wanted to take pictures of them, but so far I have failed to do that. I will get to that once they start back up. One reason I have not started is that Peyton still has not got his uniform yet. Both kids are on the Mets. David is on the Rangers.

Kyle got a speaking part in his performance at school. He did so well. He is growing up. The picture with Kyle and the girl is the one he likes. This is cute.

And last but not least I bite the bullet and got an Allergy test today. Yes I am hoping this will help all my suffering.

Ladies Retreat

The group of women, and of course they were not all at there yet :) WOW!

Michelle, Amy, and I being silly before the devotional

My second mom that helped raised me, love you !!! Amy (what can I say, you are the best and most wonderful person in the world) and me. Below is Andrea and I (she is the best teacher in the world) So encouraging :)

What a wonderful weekend this has been. I went on a ladies retreat with the women from the church. I had a great time. I met some really wonderful and blessed women. Our retreat was at the Red Apple Inn in Heber Springs. It was a really neat place, I am wanting to go on a weekend trip there with my husband. They have a golf course and massages.
I was thinking Friday that I shouldn't go. Things were hectic and I thought of just canceling my weekend. I am so glad I didn't. I was uplifted by so many things. I am just reminded by why we are here.
I am wore out from this. We stayed up until the morning and only got about 5 hours of sleep before we had to get up and have our devotional. Here are some of the photos I have. I will be able to get more. Everyone is going to put there's onto a disk. Someone is going to make us a disk with all of them on there.

A fun day with the family

This past Sunday was a great day. We went to meet with family we have not seen in about 10 years. It was my Aunt's birthday so it was special for all of us. Peyton of course was giving us a hard time not wanting to go. Saying he is going to just stay in the bedroom and I thought fine if that is what you want. Well it turned out he had a blast. He met his Aunt for the first time and they hit it off. Every time I turned around he was with her, outside swinging. I am so blessed that someone in the family can get through to him. He is wanting to stay a weekend with her. That is amazing to me. I have to pull teeth just to get him to go stay with the Grandparents. WOW!!! She is a retired school teacher specializing in special needs. She has the magic touch. I had a wonderful weekend. I look forward to spending more time with them.

One Eye Kyle :(

Well I have been battling something with my baby Kyle. I had no idea that he was not seeing anything out of one eye. He got new glasses 3 months ago and at that point I was blinded about how bad this situation was. We are going through a patch therapy for 9 months and we are going to revisit to see if his sight is any better. What the eye doctor has told us is that the vision part of the brain did not develop on the left side. The muscles though did develop and that is a great sign. We are trying to trigger the brain to get that vision working. If it does not work, he outcome is grim. He just won't ever be able to see out of it. What has happened is the senses of the right eye has done all the work. I am so upset with this and feel so bad because when his eye is patched, his punishment is trying to play the game boy for 2 hours a night. Who wouldn't like that punishment?? Well when you can't see it is frustrating. He is struggling for the whole two hours. I want to just cry every night for him. We have been doing this for 4 days now, so we have a long road ahead of us. I will post pictures once his patch comes in. He chose a glow in the dark ghost. Right know we are putting band aids on him every night.

The Spelling Bee

Before the big event. Can't you tell he was nervous.


Him hiding in his seat :)


Him spelling the word, look at the already emptied seats.


Him leaving the stage :(


The group with there certificate

Today was the big day for Peyton. He was one of 36 kiddos that made it to the spelling bee in his school. YEA! He drew number 33 so he was happy to be in the back row. He was pretty nervous to go up in front of the whole school and parents and do this. I tried to calm him down, but this was a big thing for him. He was up against 4th and 5th graders. One by one the kids was failing to spell the words right so I knew this event was going to go fast. Ok it was Peyton's turn and the word is PRAGMATIC. He asks for the definition and they gave it to him. He then asks for the word again, and he says PRADMATIC. The next thing he here's is, this is incorrect so he is out, just like that it was over. Six kids made it to round 2 and then was left with 2. It took 22 minutes for the whole thing. He was pretty moody the rest of the day. I was so proud of him, one he made it and two he was a young chicken. He will have next year and the year after that.

The NEW YEAR

The new year has began. Nothing new for our family, we tend not to make resolutions because let's face it, who can keep them. My husband and I did make a few, be a more patient with the boys and make more time for us. I want a new hair do and that is one of my resolutions. When I reflect on the past year (2008). It has been good to us in the long hall. We had some ups and some downs, but all and all we are blessed. Our family is healthy. Something great that made the end of the year special was that Malynda found me and we are going to start meeting every month or at least every other month and keep in touch. Our first outing will happen on Jan. 10th. My boys are so excited for this. The two youngest have never met her or Nick. I can't believe how much Nick has grown up. He is such a handsome young man. He is happy! I get to also meet his future wife. This year I do want to keep in touch with family better that is further away and we can't see often. I am going to make a point to go to Mt. Home when my cousin from Iowa comes down. (Give me as much notice as possible please). This summer is also when a good friend is coming for a visit from Germany. I can't wait for that either. Her boys are getting so big and my boys (especially Kyle) can't wait to see them. So I am hoping that 2009 will be a great year for our family.