The Loving Kids

God Gave Us So Much

2011-11-14T14:12:00.000-06:00

By Lisa Tawn Bergren~
This little book is so awesome. Its a children's book and 3-book treasury. The first story is God Gave us the world...The first sentence in the little story is "what a beautiful world we live in!" I read it to my children and asked them to name the things about our world that they thought was beautiful. It was so thought provoking to see this come alive threw my childrens eyes. The art detail is just as beautiful as the story is..It draws in their attention and keeps til the end of the story.....It talks about how we are all different but yet God made us

The next story is God Gave us Love~ this story takes Little Cub fishing with his Gramps......When we were finished reading this story my step-dad had just passed away a few months before so at the time my children were grieving for their grandfather...It talks about sharing with others...How we should love others unconditionally, no matter what they do....and at this time we were having issues with our children being nice to each other (a bit of sibling rivarly going on) So they really related to how Little Cub could love something but yet not like them at the same time. Again we had a very long discussion about this......The way that these books are written are so easy for young children to understand and help them make better choices......

The 3rd and final story of this book is God Gave us Heaven.....the first sentence in this story is "Papa, what's heav'n?" a very thought provoking subject........Little cub's father goes on to explain that its God's home.....the most amazing place we'll ever get to see....It talks about how God has great plans for your time on earth as well as in his home......talks about how there is nothing bad going on in Heaven......How there will be no more tears, no more sadness, no more pain, only good....only smiles" We couldn't read this story right away because of us moving to another state and then me, their momma getting very sick and almost passed away.......but my little sister read this story to them and talked to them about it.......Its amazing how this book helps children understand God's plan for us....What happens once we go to heaven......My children then went on to have a very good conversation with my mother's pastor and he was amazed at how quizical they were of god and how much understanding that because of this book.......

Life is always full of ups and down and to see life threw a child's eye is like no other.....I will eventually be completing this set as there are more books in the series and my children and I will continue to read them and reread this one again and again as we have.......Thanks for such a heartwarming book...

"I received this book for free from WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group for this review"

Where has time gone??

2011-11-14T00:19:00.000-06:00

As I ask myself this question, I ponder on what has happened in the last 7 mths that I haven't posted about. Oh there are a bigillion things going on.

First off in May, I left oklahoma to go stay with my Mom for a couple of weeks. It was for the best of our family. Durning this time it became clear that we needed to move closer to family. I didn't care where as long as it included being closer to family. I know now the reason for this. June 11th, Joshua turned 7....Wow where has time gone that my baby boy "turkey" as dubbed by his older sister has turned 7.......Yikes.......by this time we had discovered a house about an hour from my mother's......It was ideal.....4 bedrooms with a half basement on 4 1/2 acres of land.........Perfect and in our price range.....We decided to let the house go in Oklahoma because Kent's health is failing and he isn't able to take care of the responsibilities of owning a home right now.......So we decided for the best of our family and decided to rent the house in Elmo, yes you read that right.......Elmo as in the red creature from Seasme street, lol.........So we packed up and moved our kids, horses, dog and cat to Elmo Kansas.......We were actually suppose to be out of the house on Saturday the 1st but couldn't do it.......Man you accumlate a lot of stuff living in one place for 5 yrs.....Yikes.........We arrived July 6th after having a few problems along the way including Kent pulling a muscle in his back......he could hardly walk.....thankfully my little brother Bobby and my cousin Jamie's husband, Charles and one of Bobby's friends came to my rescue and unloaded our Uhaul......It was suppose to be back the 8th but it didn't get back until the 9th.......I was exhausted by this time and had been having troubles with my blood sugar.......Kent and I both thought it was from the stress of the move and they did go down a bit but not enough.......I kept pluggin away and got boxes unpacked, got my house sit up.......Had my mom up (its so awesome to have her close enough that she will drive to see me now :D) convinced her to let me keep my nephew and my little sister (My little sister hadn't stayed with me since 2006 when she got 13 stitches on the 13th of July) She brought both Sarah and Wyatt up on the 25th of July........the 26th I woke up coughing.....I had slowed down due to the majority of the boxes being unpacked and Sarah was helping decorate my new house........btw I absolutely love my new house.......the kitchen is enourmous......We basically live in the kitchen around the table because well thats what I have always wanted......I do not want my kids in the living room all the time watching tv, its not good for them......I kept getting worse and on the night of the 27th, Kent told me it sounded like I had pneumonia again.........I had been hospitalized in december of 2008 for it so I took him at his word however with the move we were stuck and it was only days before his paycheck came in........So mom to the rescue again.....She wired me some money and Sarah and I took off to the ER in Abilene........This is now July 28th.........From here on out I have relied on things being told to me by Kent, my sister, and 2 close friends and my mother as well........I walked into Memorial hospital in Abilene on my own.....I got in and things started happening really quick.......Apparently my oxygen saturation levels were at 55%.......I should have not been able to walk into that ER on my own let alone talk to them.....My blood sugars were sky high again.......And sure enough Kent was right, I did have pneumonia........I was in one room and they had me walk to the trama room.......I hear them tell me that they needed to put a tube down my throat to help me breath and had me sign a piece of paper......I remember them talking to my baby sister in the hallway and I remember hearing her say please transfer her to Wichita, we have family down there and we know Wichita better than Topeka......After that I'm not sure what happened until I woke up on my Birthday 16 days later in Wesley Medical Center's CCU......they transferred me by ambulance to Wesley because that is where my mom wanted me to go......Mom had to leave work, drive and pick up Kent and the kids and drive on to Abilene because Sarah just has a learner's permit.......She was distraught to say the least......I don't blame her one bit for not being able to stay with me........Kent said once he got there, he had been in contact with the hospital the whole time and they held the ambulance for him to get there so he could see me one last time.......he rubbed my forehead and told me he would see me in Wichita......He took the kids home, got some clothes and my mom filled up the Suburban (Yikes, thats expensive) thanks mom.......My mom then took my kids to her house while Kent drove on to Wichita to be with me.....They had him on the phone with him and because he wasn't there he said he had to talk to 2 different people to give them consent to start a pic line.....From the time I was in the Trama Room at Abilene I don't remember anything......Kent called my bff, another very close friend of mine and yet another friend of mine.....He forgot to call my cousin so she spent days trying to figure out what was going on (Sorry Paulie)......Everyone rallied around me and prayed......For the first 72 to 96 hours they were not sure I was going to pull threw.........My blood pressure kept bottoming out, they couldn't figure out where the infection was coming from......they speculated that I had a heart attack or a pulmonary embolism.......they sedated and restrained me to keep me from pulling my tube out.....finally I begin to adjust to the tube but I still wasn't cooperating very much........I wonder why......The drs were unable to tell Kent or my mom anything....other than I was very sick....Kent stayed by my bedside, only leaving to go warm up (him complain its cold, never), get a bite to eat or smoke........My kids stayed with my mom.......During my coma I missed our 12th anniversary (hey at least we got to spend it togather alone, lol sorry honey I still love ya) and I also missed Alyssa's 11th birthday but my large family friends came threw with donations and Sheri (a friend of mine who has 10 kids and one on the way) was able to throw a birthday party for her.......While I have a lot of mommy guilt about it I'm glad she got to have fun.........Kent had a lot of time to think about things while I was in the coma....We are closer now then we have ever been......We had numerous plans and drs appts.......Alyssa missed her intake appt at the mental health place, yikes.......It meant that she didn't have her meds.......UH OH........by August 7th I was out of the woods but still needed the Vent to breath.......My lungs were not healing as fast as they needed or wanted them to but hey I was still alive, thats what matters...........Finally they told Kent on the 13th that they were going to take my tube out.....they had been weaning me off of the meds that they used to keep in the coma so they knew I was going to wake up because I had been showing signs and they had basically turned off the Vent and I was breathing on my own.......So they knew it was time.......The first thing I remember when I opened my eyes was seeing Kent's face and hearing him say, You just gave me the best birthday present I could have asked for" then he said I love you so much........I tried talking but couldn't (my throat was raw from the tube) he gave me a hug and said he had to go be with the kids but that he loved me and would be back......I looked at the calendar it was August 13th, my birthday........16 days is how long I slept.......the drs nor the nurses would tell me what was going on, why I was in there........I had to wait for Kent to come back the next day........I cried and told him I wanted to go home....I was going to leave AMA, btw I didn't.....He managed to explain a few things to me but things have been coming slowly from him......I was moved upstairs the next day..........When he was up there, he left to get a cup of Joe.......I got up out of bed and promptly fell right on my ass, hiting the cabinets that were in the room.......the nurse was mad at me, I couldn't get back up.......Finally security came in and had a brilliant idea and i was back in bed.......Ok so maybe I'm not ready to be at home........Which I cried some more.......I hated not being able to walk, how could I take care of my kids, my husband, my house.......The dr came in and talked to me.......She was really nice and finally told me what had happened, why I was at Wesley and what was going to happen now that I was awake........Later that night I was moved upstairs..........I couldn't hardly walk......It hurt to walk but the best thing that came of me being in a coma was that I lost 40+lbs while there.......Um hell of a way to loose it but it was great........The best thing yet is that even thou I didn't loose a lot of lbs I lost a lot of inches.........I'm smaller now then what I when I had Alyssa......Yea shocking I know......On the 14th when they moved me out of CCU into a regular room......they put me on a halter to monitor my vitals, that darn thing kept coming off......I had so much fun with it but I barely got any sleep that night because of it.......there was talk of me going into rehab at a nursing home......Yikes I'm to young to be in a Nursing home but I knew that if I went it was because I wasn't strong enough to go home but yet I was to strong for the hospital......So mentally I prepared myself for that......All the while Kent was at home with my kids.......I had one goal in mind and that was to go home to my kids and be home before the first day of school............I actually accomplished that.....I went home on the 17th........I had 4 days of physical therapy......I had a ton of muscle atrophy due to lack of pt while in the coma but no joint lock up.......thank god......I went home with a walker........I couldn't get up on my own, Kent had to help me........I had no strength to do anything........I fell twice after getting home......I seriously wondered why God allowed this to happen to me......I was not one to slow down.......I had 2 bed(pressure) sores that kent had to doctor.........I had to take a shower every night thankfully my grandma had a shower chair that I still have.....the sore on my back healed up within a few weeks.......but the one on my tailbone took more time.......I was sitting up a little bit more everyday but I was in bed by 8:30.......I couldn't help Kent with anything, just getting up and eating was a chore......Mom found me a dr up here and I went to see him about 2 wks after I got out of the hospital.......Dr. Davis was nice but I didn't have the connection there.......I have since seen his partner, Dr. Cook (she is so awesome, I love her plus she goes to my mom's church and my mom had told her about me while I was in the coma so she was privy to the inside history, lol) He said that it would take up to a year to get my strength completely back.......He was acutally suprised how things were going with me by then.....I am a fighter, I have 5 small children at home, there is no way I can slow down......Kent lost it one night and between Alyssa and I we managed to take care of the others.....Hey he has a right to loose it every once in awhile.......the stress finally just got to him.......He admitted he was afraid that I was going to die, that I would leave him......he was the one who was suppose to go first....Um yea that would make sense since he is older than me (muah honey) but we stood united when SRS showed up a couple days later......My house was a wreak due to me just getting home and not being to do anything and Kent was doing the best he could.......They acutally came out because I hadn't filled one of meds.........It was over $200 for a months supply and we just couldn't afford it.......We were in the process of contacting the company to see if they could help us but this was before we could get in to Dr. Davis.....Finally we got into Dr. Davis and he has since filed for the med assistance program and I still haven't heard from them.....but I hadn't needed it as my blood sugars have stayed relatively low.......They finally figured out that I apparently got sick durning the move (hence why my blood sugars were sky high) and when I slowed down it settled into my lungs......Which was just peachy.......I still couldn't get around on my own but I was doing better.....however by this time I constantly freezing......I would be sitting around with a blanket over me shivering and everyone else would be complaining it was hot......they discovered that my kidneys were trying to shut down......I had told them in the hospital that I felt like I was getting an UTI however I didn't have any pain..........I have always gotten an UTI after having a catheder in and this time was no different........I had been throwing up but thought it was just nerves about seeing a new dr........No it was a sign of the UTI.......it had moved into my kidneys and I was running an internal fever.......never a fever when I checked with a thermomoter.........they gave me a shot of rocephian (youch that hurts) and a script for Cipro but did not put me back in hopsital.........woohoo........Kids started school and momma was home.......I went to the school and enrolled them, filled out all my paperwork.........I have had a time getting around as my knees and muscles around my knees are giving me a hard time but hey I am just thankful to be alive.......To be a mom to my kids, to be a wife to my husband.........I survived........the morning after I got home, my mom called and said I needed to come see Grandma........you see this was the reason why I came hoem to begin with........We had been told that Grandma had 3-6 mths to live due to having lung cancer.......but the cancer wasn't going to kill her it was CHF that would......She had kidney cancer years ago and had had to have the one kidney removed........You can live with one kidney but it makes for her to retain fluid......And with her cancer they had to take her off of her lasix which kept her from retaining the fluid......We were devastated to say the least..........So we had expected her to go but I wasn't expecting this........ I knew for mom to call me when I was so sick that it was serious.........I got to spend a few hours with Grandma before I went home and to bed.......Mom had a wheelchair waiting on me at the door of the nursing home........Grandma passed away that same night.........August 18th...........My mother in law's birthday............I was happy that Grandma had gone home but I am still very sad that I couldn't spend more time with her........After all she was my last living Grandma.........yes J.D.'s mother is still alive but I don't know her that well......I was already grown and out of the house when mom married J.D...............So life has flown before us.......I'm moving around pretty good now........Jace has been horrible about sneaking out, we had to put pins in the sliding doors to keep him from escaping out........I still can't get up from my chair in the living room by myself or the couch for that matter........but I can stay up for longer periods of time.......My A1C is down to 6.1 which is basically normal.....Got Alyssa in for her appts on her meds.......finally got her back on her meds...........Have had to take her to Broken Arrow to the orthodontist about her braces as we can't find anyone up here to take over her care.........And even thou it has only been 5 months since her last treatment, She will get her braces off in Janurary and will have a retainer..........A full 6 mths ahead of schedule.......she was suppose to have them on til July.........woohoo......She is recieving pt for her knee from the fall durning the blizzards that hit oklahoma in feburary while she was chasing her chickens.......thats a whole nother story, LOL........We did flag football this year and Kent was coach......OMGosh that was so crazy.....Wrestling season starts tomorrow........Joshua has camp all this week and practice starts the 22nd...Jace and ChiAnne both have to have speech therapy.......ChiAnne also has to have physical therapy.......According to mom she walks like her hips are out of joint......we knew that this could be a problem as with preemies their legs flop open due to no muscle tone......we had hoped she would outgrow it.....but still hasn't......so she will have therapy,not sure when it will start but it better start soon, LOL........Its now the middle of November.......I'm making plans for thanksgiving and buying christmas gifts......I'm enjoying being the mom to my kids that they need........I am not taking one moment for granted as you never know how long we have on this earth....I promise to try to keep up with my blog more often and post more pics asap.......but for now.......love your families like there is no tomorrow.......oh and I still love my new house, LOL........

Austin James Levi

2011-04-04T22:42:00.000-05:00

was born at 11:49 am 5 yrs ago today.......My 3rd son....I knew he was a boy by all the problems he was giving me...To describe Austin in a nutshell would be his Granny's words "I can see the devil dancing in his eyes" this is the boy who makes plans, who takes off without talking to mom first...This it the boy who acts like a girl when it comes to spider and snakes.....The kind hearted boy who asked to buy a rose for his foster grandmother (she is in his classroom as a volunteer) and then had to include his teacher and his assistant teacher to as he didn't want them to feel left out....This is the boy who asked for one thing this year and that was to talk to his Great Granny who isn't doing very well healthwise......He said "I want to tell I miss her, I love her" and that was arranged by his daddy....He is so kind hearted.....That tonight it broke his heart when Joshua told him that he broke his heart that he wouldn't let Joshua have his brand new hotwheels in the bathtub......But I am proud that my son also stood his ground and didn't allow his big brother to convince him to give them up.......This is the compasionite boy who kept asking my bff if she was ok as they were walking in walmart......This is the little boy that she picked up and put on her shoulders so I could eat at a resturant and he played in her hair...Quite funny if I do say so myselft, LOL.......I hope the rest of his life is as fun filled as his first 5 yrs have been....Happy Birthday Austin......I love you!!! (PICS are not going to be coming for awhile, can't upload any new ones)

I am a large family mom

2011-03-30T08:15:00.000-05:00

And darn proud of it...I'm sorry if the size of my family offends you or if it seems that I always have drama in my life....Well when you are a mom of 6 kids, married to a disabled military vet......there will always be drama.....Yes I only have 5 kids at home, hopefully soon that will change as he turns 18 in a matter of weeks....No my dh does not work, he would love to work but the drs have said NO way Jose so they put him on a military pension............Yes there are days we struggle to make ends meat but ya know thanks to my momma I do know how to make a dollar stretch and get what my kids need....And sometimes what they want.....My kids have never ever gone with out anything that they have needed......Now I will admit that they have done without things they want because well you don't always get what you want in life.........I have seen where a family of four spends close to a $1000 a month on groceries and it pisses them off when for a family of 7, I spend $400, sometimes a little less........sometimes more.....they can't see how I do it.......Its called planning and shopping sales......I'm sorry if our measly little pension isn't enough to satisfy you and your little clic......No we are not rich but we do own our own home, drive a 10 yr old suv (yes it is damaged thanks to dh's wreck) but does that change who I am....No it does not........And who are you to judge who I am, what I am......it is not your place, it is God's place.....I don't need your drama filled craptastic followers........Grow some cahonas and have the balls to tell a person that they have offended you in some way and move on about it.........Like the title to this post!!!! I am a large family mom and dam proud of it........

Excuse this house

2011-03-15T11:36:00.002-05:00

Some houses try to hide the fact

That children shelter there,

Ours boasts it quite openly,
...
The signs are everywhere.

For smears are on the windows,

Little smudges are on the doors

I should apologize, I guess

For toys strewn on the floor.

But I sat down with my child

And we played and laughed and read

And if the doorbell doesn’t shine,

His eyes will shine instead.

For when at times I’m forced to choose

The one job or the other,

I’d like to cook and clean and scrub,

But first I’ll be a mother.

~ Author Unknown

Please consider doing this class

2011-03-10T17:20:00.000-06:00

http://www.redcross.org/savealife

Last friday, I almost lost my 22 mth old son due to him choking on some food. He went limp and actually passed out........but thankfully due to my training that the NICU that that same son was in we were required to take a CPR class......Before that it had been almost 9 yrs since I had updated my cpr training.......As a mother that is not a face I want to see on my precious child's face again......Please take the time to take the class....You never know whose life you might need to help save!!

ChiAnne Renee Rose

2011-02-11T00:10:00.000-06:00

My 2nd daughter was born 1 yr ago this evening. I can not believe that one year has passed. How is that possible. She is one of the most quiet, patient children that I have ever met. She is so laid back and calm. She has finally discovered that she has a voice, she has to state her demands and boy can she. She is cutting molars so she is not a happy camper, not only that she is sick again.

This is Daddy holding his baby girl for the first time, she was about 12 hrs old

And this is my baby girl just a few days ago..........I love this pic, it shows her ornery side........Yes she is very very ornery......I promise I will get some updated pics soon of her and all the kids...

Jace Andrew Lane

2011-02-09T02:20:00.000-06:00

This is Jace today 2-8-11

This is Jace 2-7-11
My 5th born, my 4th son.......The child that God gave to test my patience and learn to listen to him. All in God's timing. God's way of saying wake up, I've giving you a special child and you will take care of him and teach him as he will teach you and that he has......My little boy is now fighting a deadly infection in his blood stream.....We have been fighting the flu......High fever, chills, coughing, body aches you name it Jace, ChiAnne and I had it.....We were miserable.........It started at the height of the blizzard (of which I will post pics later) and our drs were snowed in and couldn't get out.....Well ChiAnne had hers the week before so she was seen and of course the antibotics flowed.......along with steroids and cough meds again...well fast forward to saturday.....Jace is finally feeling somewhat better and goes to play with Joshua and Austin.....After about 20 mins he comes out of the hallway crying.....I pick him up, dry his tears, notice the skin around his eye is red (going up towards the nose) I made sure there was no opening, scratch......Ya know he is my allergy kid, the kid with a comprimised immune system..I so enjoy his cuddles as they are few and far between as he is a daddy's boy for the most part.....so he fell asleep and I had Daddy move him to his bed......He woke up a couple hours later and his eye was swollen half shut....We had Dee come over and babysit the other kids so we could take him to the ER......The ER is the Er....I would have much rather gone to the Urgent care but yeah they are not open 24/7 unfortnatly......The dr that we seen, I have never seen before is an egotistic arrogant, pompus man...Refused to listen to me when I told him he didn't need held down to look at his ears.....He wanted a strep test.....Um excuse me, he doesn't have strep......He has the flu, he is sick and now his eye is swollen shut.....GGGGGGGRRRRRRRR well the one thing that he did do right was tell us to follow up monday with our pcp or come back to the ER if he couldn't get us in........So monday morning Kent called and get him in to see Dr. Collier......Dr. Collier wasn't impressed with the ER's report and did blood work...It was then that my world was rocked to its core.....He has a bacterial infection and whats worse is it has spread to his blood stream.......It means hospitalization and it also means we have to go to Tulsa as our small town hospital is not equiped to handle Jace's infection...Whats worse is we have to be admitted threw the ER.....It takes over 4 hrs to get a room and repeating of all tests.....And fighting with them to get him something for the pain......Saturday they told us to chase his motrin.....basically he was getting a dose of motrin every 4 hrs and then a dose of tylenol every 4 hrs......but not togather and it figured out that he was getting a dose every 2 hrs......well the ER wouldn't do that.....He screamed in pain for almost 3 hrs straight........They finally gave him tylenol after letting him suffer like that about 5 mins before transport shows up to take him to his room......Oh geez finally!!!! We get upstairs and I'm impressed, there is a dr, a Cna, and a Nurse all waiting on him.....He should be admitted to the PICU but the PICU is full so he is on the floor in isolation but has all the PICU specialities...Which is great....Daddy is staying up there with him as I can not as I have the same eye infection he does as well as the flu......I'm getting over the flu but I still have that yucky cough.....the eye is finally clearing up and we are now getting pounded with another snow storm........Our 3rd in a week.......Seriously.......In the last week we are actually looking at breaking a snowfall record for the year......Being the snowiest on record.......A record that I could have easily let stand for all time to come......I will post about the 20 inches of snow that is still on the ground from last week or the 4.5 inches of snow that has snowed since then that did somewhat melt....or how about the 8+ inches that we might or might not get today.........Nope nope nope......My posts are focusing on my one and only Jace Andrew Lane.....The little man with the doe brown eyes who stole my heart......and who right now, his hug and kiss is the only thing that I can think of that will heal his momma's broken and turmoiled heart.......

Tandem by Tracey Bateman

2011-01-24T00:46:00.000-06:00

I received this book to write a review

The first couple of chapters are confusing. It changes from one person's point of view to another and then again to yet another. But as I persevered and kept reading I realized that the 3 story lines were linked togather. The small town in the ozarks is rocked by murders and animal killings. Its crime, passion, Daddy's little girls, and vampires all in one. It is billed as a christian book however God is not the forefront of this book. I did like this book and will be trying to find the first book in this series "Thirsty".

"I received this book for free from WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group for this review"

Long overdue update

2011-01-03T23:05:00.000-06:00

December was a very hard month for us....First it was the first December without J.D. I've lost all my pics on my computer but they are recoverable just have to put the hard drive in another computer (thank you Jace).......then in a span of 8 hours my world fell apart......We have a new member to our family.....her name is Bella......She was 7mths old and as ornery as can be.......She is quarter horse mix.....the girl is bigger than Shadow......I will post pics of her later......She had never been off the farm where she was born, hardly ever been worked with.....She didn't have a halter on (she had had one at one time but they left it on her to long and she refused to have another one on) yep now she has one on....She also hadn't been lead rope trained......within several hours that friday night she was trained....but still not loaded in a trailer.......then my phone rang....it was my mom.......She had horrible news....My grandmother had been given 3-6 mths to live.....back in May she had been diagnosed with Lung cancer that we were told was slow growing and that could be treated with gamma knife radation and something else and it would be fine.....Well she couldn't shake a cough so mom finally got her to go to her pcp and this is what the pcp stated upon an xray.....(more to this story later)....I get home and called my little sister.....well she is my little sister by 6 mths, LOL.......Long story about how she is related but don't ask....she proceeds to tell me that my nephew Tyler is having a biospy done on a lymph node because it is severly swollen and they are suspecting lymphoma......(more to this story later as well, lol) and then I said forget it and went to bed at midnight.....A friend needed Kent's help and come by shortly thereafter and it was then discovered that stuff was missing off the patio......Mainly tools, the chainsaw that my brother gave to kent and about $300 worth of food, tp, and pt.....UGH.....And the propane tanks that go to my cookstove and my grill.........Now I'm pissed......The tools wouldn't be so bad but they took the food that I bought for my children......GGGGRRRR.....I had just been to sam's club.....now fast forward to tuesday......Tyler is having his biospy done...Come to find out he has "cat scratch fever" which is what the dr thought to begin with but the antibotics were not helping it.....Switched antibotics and cleaned out all the infection then I get a phone call later that evening that Tyler is fine but my sister's house burnt down.....No one is hurt, crap no one is even home....but still right before christmas......Then I also get a phone call from my mom about my grandma.....They took my grandma to the oncologist and the oncologist is mad because well the pcp didn't do the right test and should have never opened his mouth......His mouth overloaded his ass...(sorry guys for the french) but its the truth :d so the oncologist orders the PET scan for the 16th and sent them home...the 16th rolls around and well nothing major is happening.....We were told that we would have results on the 21st. So the whole entire family is praying for a christmas miracle for Grandma and one for my cousin Michael.....drum roll the 21st is here and the oncologist gives us the news that it is NOT a tumor that it is scar tissue and grandma is fine, the cancer has not returned....so now we only have one christmas miracle to wish for and that is Michael's test results to show that his cancer has either gone into remission or that it is stable.......And we get blessed with that miracle as well....Michael is stable.....I'm estatic!!!

Ok, so we are moosing along December, have an ok christmas, was suppose to go to mom's but with all that happened well I didn't have the money to go.....Then on the 30th, I had scheduled Austin for tubes in his ears.....That trip went as scheduled, I was going to leave for mom's the next day.....yea that plan was cancelled as well.....because well Pictures are worth a thousand words

yea that is my suburban.......40+ mph winds and a top heavy vehicle doesn't mix.......kent lost control due to the wind causing him to fishtail and he hit the curb and rolled it......Austin was strapped in his carseat......I pushed for extended 5 pt harnessing and I am very thankful that I did....He was on the passenger side (this is the drivers side) he would have been thrown around........He did end up with a black eye from something flying but he is fine.......Kent is fine, his ego on the other hand isn't......Mommy on the other hand is just thankful that her boys are ok......Material things can be replaced, they can not..........

Then new years eve rolls around and there is a tornado touched down just south of us.......Seriously can this month get any worse........Nope because thank you lord it is over.......Janurary rolls in with a bang, my parts came in today and my suburban is on its way of getting fixed.........that is until the escape artist goes threw the fence and broke it again........Guess he decided that the grass was greener on the other side of the fence........

Oklahoma fun facts

2010-11-30T20:33:00.000-06:00

Oklahoma fun, I found this in "The Paper" published November 29th, 2010

Love the summer?

Poolville, Oklahoma

Sunray, Oklahoma

Want something to eat?

Corn

Grainola

Hominy

Olive

South Coffeeville (it is not spelled the way but is pronounced this way)

Sweetwater

Cookietown

Why travel to another state

Cleveland

Orlando

Miami

Pittsburg

Santa Fe

St. Louis

Chattanooga

Peoria

Burbank

Fargo

Don’t forget the wildlife

Wolfe

Eagle

Buffalo

Fox

Bison

Deer Creek

Elk City

Feeling a bit chilly?

Snow

Slick

Cold springs

Cloudy

Like the president?

Adams

Taylor

Fillmore

Grant

Taft

Johnson

Lincoln

Jefferson

Reagan

Wilson

Roosevelt

Carter

Clinton

Washington

Names to make you smile………….

Frogville

Loco

Bushyhead

Bugtussle

Hooker

Slaughterville

Bowlegs

Slapout

And regardless of percussion……….

Gay

Straight

Little know facts about Oklahoma

1. The bread twist tie was invented in Maysville

2. The shopping cart was invented in Ardmore in 1936

3. The nation’s first parking meter was installed in Oklahoma City in 1935.

4. The first Girl Scout Cookie was sold in Muskogee in 1917.

5. The Oklahoma State capital is the only capital in the U.S. with a working oil wells on its ground

6. Boise City, Oklahoma was the only city in the U.S. to be bombed during World War II. On Monday night, July 5, 1943 at 12:30 a.m., A B-17 bomber based at Dalhart Army Air Base, Tx dropped six practice bombs on the sleeping town, mistaking the city lights as target lights. As target lights.

7. WKY Radio in Oklahoma City was the first radio station transmitting west of the Mississippi River.

8. The nation’s first “Tornado Warning” was issued on March 25, 1948 in Oklahoma City minutes before a devastating tornado. Because of the warning, no lives were lost.

9. Oklahoma has the largest Native America population of any state in the U.S.

10. The name “Oklahoma” comes from two Choctaw words……..okla meaning “people” and humma meaning “red”. So the name means “Red People” the name was approved in 1890.

11. Oklahoma has more man made lakes than any other state.

12. During the “land rush”, Oklahoma City went from a prairie to a city of over 10,000 in a single day.

13. The nation’s first traffic “Yeild” sign was erected in Tulsa on a trial basis.

14. Pensacola Dam~ between the Mayes county towns of Langley and Disney~ is the longest multi-arched dam in the world at 6,565.

15. The “Port of Catoosa” is the largest inland port in America

16. Per square mile, Oklahoma has more tornados than any other place in the world.

ChiAnne

2010-11-16T21:38:00.000-06:00

this is Chi's body as of today.......is it an allergic rxn to Pcn which she is on now for bronchitis or is it viral or could it even be measles.......who knows but I do know it doesn't seem to bother her, more it bothers mommy......these were taken this morning, she was covered from diaper area to her head with this fine red dot rash......I gave her benedryl to see if it helped in case she is having an allergic rxn to the antibotics........I will get new pics in the morning......

OK, lets see which one of these babies is which

2010-10-09T22:41:00.000-05:00

Can you tell?? I love playing this game as my kids all look alike.......I can catch one them looking like the other out of the corner of my eye....Or I will catch one of the boys doing what my brothers would do.......(JOSHUA)

Ok, you can tell that this is one of the girls, only because she is wearing pink but can you tell which one she is, LOL

So shoot your best guess at which boy is which and which girl is which.........Do you know these kiddos that well, LOL........1,2,3,4., 5..........

Sept 7th

2010-09-07T15:54:00.000-05:00

It is really quiet here. You ask why it is quiet. Well it is because I have 3 out of 5 kids in school. I only have the babies at home. Holy cow did it become quiet. Who knew without Austin being home and Joshua as well that it would become so quiet. Whats a momma to do. In the coming weeks we shall see, LOL. ChiAnne is so close to crawling. She is up on her hands and knees and rocking but hasn't figured out how to work the neck muscles to lift her head up as well. It won't be long. She is following Joshua's footsteps and Daddy thinks she will be walking by christmas. Joshua walked at 10 mths old so I can see it. Jace and his food allergies are coming along. We have found another one....Cheetos :( but he will live without cheetos. Right now he thinks my living room is his jungle gym. He is moving stuff around to use it to climb up on. He is climbing up and down off of daddy's chair right now, LOL. OK, my quiet is about to end. Let the homework begin, LOL

Back to school

2010-08-28T16:01:00.000-05:00

Its that time of year when all the kids head back to school. We started late this year due to the budget crush that everyone is feeling......It made for a very long summer for the kids..........They do not get out til May 20th now....I'm ok with it but they were not........Austin doesn't get to start school until monday so you know there will be another post with pics....LOL.......

2010-08-16T03:53:00.000-05:00

My mom Tammy

LaTonia, Draven and Wyatt

Billy and Michelle

Billy

The whole gang

Sarah and her neices and nephews (any wonder why she don't want to have kids, LOL)

The 6 of us

Jesse and Sarah

Aunt Kathie and Uncle Ricky

Grandma and Jace

The emboridery that was done inside J.D. casket

Billy, Michelle and kids

Uncle Joey and ChiAnne

The Loving kids

Our new family pics

Mom and the grandkids minus 6

Joey, Hope and Dallas

Jonathan, Michele, Angel, Jasper and James

My handsome hubby, Kent

Aunt Kathie and Uncle Jake

Grandma and 5 of her kids

My mom and the 6 of us

Uncle Ricky and his dog

Aunt Sarah and ChiAnne

Grandma and Jace

the newest member of our zoo is

2010-08-12T00:16:00.000-05:00

His name is Buddy, he is a 4 yr old gelding who we adopted from a rescue........He has not lived up to his name however........He has broken down our fence and escaped to many times to count and had put Kent in the ER.......Alyssa came home on the 2nd, on the 4th they decided that they were going to take the horses on a ride........They rode them down to the creek, when they got down to the creek, he decided that the horses needed a drink and tried to ride him down to the water (bad idea, he doesn't see it but I do, lol) he threw him off and landed on top of him............Then he finally got back up on him and took off riding down the road when he found a wallet in the middle of the road........It turned out ot the be the neighbors.......when he got off of him to get it and went to get back on him, he threw him into a house..........So the next day being our 11th anniversary, he went into the ER and sit all day long........I mean all day long.........to find out that he has a broken rib in his back.........Needless to say Buddy is going to the trainers and my darling old man will not be riding him til he does.........

Jace Andrew Lane

2010-08-12T00:09:00.000-05:00

My trouble maker.......My monkey, my climber.......the nicknames could go on and on..........He has horrible times with food....He is finally up to 19lbs 5.4oz, which is awesome for him being almost 16mths old.....He is highly allergic to alot of foods......Including milk and soy......Squash has been the biggest reaction by far......He finally had allergy tests........The test backed up the allergy to milk and soy but also to peanuts and dog......The dog of all things...Then last week we had blood work done......He is still reacting to a number of things so the dr thought maybe he had an immune disorder........While some of the numbers came back high, others did not so it only shows a weakened immune system (awesome news) and a few other things but nothing major........I went in armed with those results to his neonatalogist and he said that other than a weakened immune system we really had nothing to worry about, just keep doing what we were doing because he was gaining weight (slowly but surely) he is finally walking and his skin looks great (besides the two places that are healing now) he asked that we try a few foods on him because they will help boost his immune system.......Avacados which are high in vit C, non dairy yogurt (this is the first I have heard of it but he said we could get it at whole foods) and poi (something from hawaii) so we are going to add that to his diet and see if he can handle.......Oh and he wants him to have lamb (its high in fats, easier on their system and has a vit that he is low in (forget the name of it)

August 7th, 2010

2010-08-11T23:58:00.000-05:00

Our baby girl turned 10.........A whole decade old.....I can hardly believe that she went from being 6lbs 9oz to an almost 70lb girl....She has finally started growing, they figured out what meds were causing the stunt in weight gain........she has gained almost 20 lbs in 2 mths.....hum that sounds like to much, guess I will talk to her dr when she goes in........

We celebrated her birthday all day long......First we got up and I did her nails with the polish that I bought for her for her birthday........Then she ran to the mailbox and brought home a magazine from our electric company and it had an awesome recipe in it for an ice cream cake......OH MY word it was awesome.......So we ran to walmart and bought all the ingrediants for it......Was almost home when Dee called, she had a blowout.......took the kids to the trailer to stay with bradlee and then head back to get her........Get her tire changed and the darn thing overheated.......So her and I took her friend home and headed back to the house for Alyssa's birthday party.......A friend of mine, Shonda was coming down and bringing fireworks........We timed it just right as she was coming in to Locust as we were arriving......Kent had to wait 2 hrs in the heat for a tow truck to get there to bring Dee's suv here......finally everything came togather......We set off a few fireworks, Alyssa opened presents and then Shonda took them all swimming........I made her cake and by 8 we were celebrating the birthday girl's dinner.......Had an awesome time.......Sit off a whole bunch of fireworks afterwards........So overall I think Alyssa had a great birthday.........

2010-07-19T00:33:00.000-05:00

J.D and Sarah Sue

The Loving crew

Finally a family pic of all of us

My mom with some of her grandchildren

My little brother Joey, his significant other Hope and their son Dallas

Norma and Billy Love, Billy Rose, friend of my Bobby and Michelle

More of my mom with her grandkids

Wow its been a very long, long time since all 6 of us kids have been togather and needless to say we took advantage of it.......Wish J.D. was there, it would have made the family complete.

Michele Green, my brother Jonathan, Jasper, Angel and James

I love this picture of Billy and Michelle

Sheri and I, the first time we met irl.....I met her from a private board that we are both on......Love her house and her kids are totally adorable........

Sheri and Miss Davynn....

Alyssa and Davynn

sisters......Sarah and I

My nutty little sister

I woke up to this one morning while I was up at mom's.......Just wish they didn't fight so much......I love it.

Jace~My little tigger....he is always so happy

Hi Aunt Kathie~Nope I didn't delete it, I love pics like this....sorry:D

My handsome little brother Jonathan, noticed the mark on his forehead....Watch out for the scopes on those guns silly boy.....

My grandma and 5 of her kids.....Kathie Jayko, Norma Love, Judi Lindgren, Richard "Ricky" Cramer, Grandma Dorothy McClenning, and my mom Tammy Ann Solomon

my brother Bobby Rose, Billy Rose, Alyssa, my Aunt Norma and ChiAnne

Bobby, Alyssa, Norma and ChiAnne (there happened to be no shortage of hands to hold Ms. ChiAnne, lol)

The crazy girls, Sarah and Angel

My mom, Tammy and my Aunt Norma

Uncle Ricky, I love his smile...he has a sparkle in his eye always....

Aunt Judi~doing what she does best, taking pics......I loved it.......

I love this pic of Jace and Aunt Judi.......Jace loved all the attention that he got while he was up at mom's.....

This is the entire crew that mom was related to that showed up to the funeral.....

I had to include these 2 beautiful girls.......Jackie and Jessica Kirkpatrick........They are Norma's girls....At her wedding May 22nd.....Man how they have grown......

2010-06-24T07:43:00.001-05:00

J.D and Joshua

J.D. has been a part of family for the last 17 years.......He welcomed us with open arms when he met and married my mom.........My mom already had 5 kids and a grandson at this time.......Plus she had just graduated nursing school..........Mom only had Billy, Joey and Johnnie at home at that time.....I was already 18 and moved out, Bobby was in trouble and placed out of the home.........Mom was living in south Wichita when she placed a singles ad in the penny power........He was living in Peabody (who the heck names a town Peabody, LOL) he had never had kids, never met the right lady to have them with........And he was ready to take on a ready made family with all the problems that go with a family with 5 kids.......He married mom Sept 1994.....And was blessed with Sarah Suezann October 21, 1996 and sadly he was welcomed home by his heavenly father last night.....While he wouldn't want us to be sad, our hearts are broken..........Not for him but for ourselves and how much we will miss him and how much he will miss in our lives.....

Rest in Peace J.D

We love you

Father's day

2010-06-20T23:56:00.000-05:00

Fathers come in all shapes, sizes, characters.......This article mentions my little brother Bobby Rose.......Dennis Finch was more of a father to him then our ex stepfather. This man was an outstanding example of what a father should be like........

http://www.saljournal.com/news/story/Foster-Finches-for-Father-s-Day-6-20

Fostering family life

6/20/2010

By GARY DEMUTH
Salina Journal

BELOIT -- As a young boy, Bobby Rose was used to being a human punching bag.

Whenever he did something wrong, Rose could expect to be yelled at, slapped, punched or worse.

One day he went to school with a deep rug burn on his nose, the result of being thrown across the room by his then-stepfather.

So when Rose was put into foster care at age 15 and sent to the Beloit home of Dennis and Carol Finch, he was shocked to be treated with respect and consideration.

"Dennis and Carol believed in me when I didn't believe in myself," said Rose, now 32 and living in Walton, just northeast of Newton.

In their 20-year career as foster parents, the Finches have taken in more than 100 children from birth to 18, first in Wichita and now in Beloit -- as well as raising four children of their own.

The couple provide therapeutic foster care and treatment, specifically for children and adolescents who require the highest level of structure and close supervision as a result of serious emotional and behavioral difficulties.

Often, the Finches are a last chance stop for these displaced children, many of whom like Rose who have been severely mentally and physically abused.

"By the time they come to us, they've been through the system for a long time," said Carol, 61, who also works as a paraeducator at Beloit Elementary School. "The chances of them being adopted are slim to none."

Dennis, 60, who also is a Baptist minister, said there are more than 850 kids in Kansas currently available for adoption.

"There's an awful lot of kids, especially teenagers, who need help," he said. "Many are frightened children that have been thrown away by their parents, and they're emotionally destroyed."

Steal, come home drunk

Rose was one of those severely abused teens who needed help, but he said at the time he didn't appreciate the kindness and concern the Finches showed him.

"I used to sneak out, take their car, steal stuff and come home drunk," Rose said. "On my 16th birthday, they said I couldn't live there anymore because I couldn't follow the rules."

It took another 10 years for Rose to turn his life around after multiple arrests and drug and alcohol abuse. He became clean and sober after becoming a father to his own son, Jesse.

"I decided I was going to either be in jail or raise my son," Rose said. "I chose to be a dad."

Rose gives a lot of credit for turning around his life to the example set by the Finches, especially Dennis, who showed him how to be a good father.

"It was new to have someone who really cared about me," Rose said. "(Dennis) would sit down and talk with me and make me understand things without yelling or hitting me."

Rose not only has stayed in contact with the Finches through the years, but in 2006 Dennis performed the marriage ceremony for Rose and his wife, Jennifer. The couple now have two other children, and Rose owns his own business, J.D. & Sons Tree Service.

"I owe it all to Dennis and Carol," Rose said.

3- to 4-year stay

For the last 10 years, the Finches have been foster parents through Youthville, a Wichita-based organization that is one of the largest nonprofit foster care programs in Kansas. Youthville specializes in foster care, adoption, psychiatric residential treatment, counseling and therapy.

"They're a faith-based organization, and I think a different attitude goes with that," Dennis said.

Children in foster care stay with the Finches an average of three to four years or until they can be reintegrated with their birth families, are permanently adopted or turn 18.

Currently, the Finches are licensed to have up to four foster children in their house. For some of these kids, the Finches will be the closest thing to parents they'll ever have.

"We're temporary guardians, not the child's parents, but there are some we stay in touch with," Dennis said. "One of the kids we took in is now our mechanic in Beloit. He made me the godfather of his baby."

Hidden behind the sofa

When Dennis and Carol married 21 years ago, it was the second marriage for both. Each had two children, all teenagers.

When friends invited the couple to an informational meeting about foster care, the Finches decided to become licensed foster care parents. They began their career with the Caring Connection, a division of the Wichita Child Guidance Center.

The Finches' first foster child was a physically and sexually abused 14-year-old boy who had spent years at the Topeka State Mental Hospital because no one wanted to adopt him.

When the Finches took the boy grocery shopping, the boy took several bags of snacks and hid them behind the couple's couch.

"We thought we'd left the snacks at the store, but he had hoarded them behind the couch," Dennis said. "We found out that his mother would abandon him and go off for four or five days. So this was his survival skill -- he'd hide food because there was no promise that he'd get fed."

One foster child had been placed in 32 different foster homes before coming to the Finch's home. Another child didn't spend a single night there.

"We took this kid to dinner, and when we came back his mother had called saying she had gotten custody and was coming to pick him up," Dennis said. "So we only had him long enough to take him to dinner."

Learning from Finches

Children are fortunate if they can find a foster family as skilled and empathetic as the Finches, said Shelby Bressel, a social worker at Youthville who helps place children with the Finches.

The Finches were Bressel's first foster parents at Youthville 10 years ago, and she said she continues to learn from them every day.

"It's remarkable to see the sacrifices they make to give these kids a safe home," Bressel said.

Many people think they're not qualified to be foster parents, Bressel said, but it takes no special skills or knowledge -- just a willingness to provide a safe, secure and consistent home for children in need.

"That's what these kids are looking for," she said.

Bressel admitted that not all foster families have the skills and dedication of the Finches.

"The foster care system can be difficult, but the Finches are very proactive -- they keep updated and informed about new medications and intervention programs, and they help empower other foster parents," she said.

So many in need

Now that both Dennis and Carol are in their 60s, they've thought about retiring. But Dennis said they'll probably continue to be foster parents as long as the need is out there -- and the need, unfortunately, is always there.

Several years ago, Dennis started the Kansas Foster & Adoptive Parent Association, a grassroots organization designed to support foster and adoptive families by promoting safety, permanency and the well-being of children.

"We talk about foster parenting issues," Dennis said. "We're a little closed society, and sometimes we're the best people to train each other. There's a lot of good young foster parents out there, but they need to work together. I know I couldn't have done any of this without Carol."

We owe it all to you

Foster parenting is difficult and stressful because it's a temporary custodial situation at best, Carol said, and foster parents can't afford to get too attached to children under their supervision.

"You have to have a professional attitude about it," she said.

Yet the most satisfying thing about being foster parents, Carol said, is when a former foster kid, like Bobby, turn their lives around and come back to thank them.

"We've been told by (former foster) kids that they wouldn't have made it if it wasn't for us," she said. "That makes it all worth it."

nReporter Gary Demuth can be reached at 822-1405 or by e-mail at gdemuth@salina.com.

Joshua turned 6

2010-06-13T21:14:00.001-05:00

Its hard to believe that my baby boy turned 6 on the 11th of June let alone going into the 1st grade......he got a bike, a couple of handheld games (he wants a gameboy or a cell phone, mom vetod both) a pair of flipflops.......I think thats it.......He also got to talk his Great Granny for his birthday.......He is so attached to her......He said that talking to her was the best present he could have gotten.......Oh how I love this boy..........

Here are some pics of ChiAnne and the others just goofing off....

Summer fun, memorial day weekend.......

2010-06-01T01:36:00.000-05:00

Easter and actually one of all 5 of them togather

2010-04-23T00:17:00.000-05:00

birthday party

2010-04-23T00:00:00.000-05:00

We celebrated 2 birthdays this month. Jace who turned 1 (wow how time has flown) and Austin who turned 4.......

We are alive

2010-04-22T23:36:00.000-05:00

These days life with 5 kids, two of them being infants........its crazy........but I'm about to upload a picture overload of what has been going on over the last months since ChiAnne came home from the NICU..........She came home after 22 days.....And has everyone wrapped around her little pinky...Joshua cracks me up.......He will be playing and she will start crying, he comes running........"momma, ChiAnne is crying" yes Joshua momma can hear her.........He tries to comfort her and pick her up.....he loves holding her if she is quiet but forget it if she starts crying........Jace is still not walking but I seriously do not expect him to.....He was a 6 wk preemie, he shouldn't be walking plus he is the baby of the family, sort of speak.......His brothers and sister carry him.........I figure he will be a late walker like Austin was...........Joshua is a handful......He got suspended from school for 2 days, could have actually been 3 but his principal didn't want him missing the end of the year field trip so he is allowing him to come back after 2..........the cause of the suspension was him throwing rocks.........apparently this is not the first time but this time some little boy got hurt who was an innocent bystander and ended up having to have stitches in his head.......I agree with the statement that the punishment fits the crime.........Joshua was very upset that it had happened and was actually crying when I got there, not because he was in trouble but because the little boy got hurt.......he says "I told him I was sorry, I didn't mean to do it".......Turns out he wasn't the only one throwing rocks and the other little boy got in trouble as well......Austin.........Austin is going to be the death of me one day, I swear........My darling son who just turned 4 yrs old decided he was going to drive........I had to take Alyssa to the dr one morning and I had taken Austin with us because I had an appt for him to enroll him in school.....But I had gotten done early and Darling Alyssa had forgotten her books so back to the house we went..........I shut off the suburban, took the keys out of the ignition and threw on the passenger seat.........Ran in the house.......Austin and Alyssa both getting out with me.........I didn't think anything of it........I had to take ChiAnne with me for some reason, anyways I come outside to put ChiAnne in the suburban and its at the end of the driveway.........I busted his butt, told him he can't drive til he is 30 and went to get the suburban.......Kent yelled at me and said why did you park out there........I didn't park out there silly, Austin moved it...........Holy cow........He knew how to start the burban, knew that he had to apply the brake to shift the shifter in reverse and then he managed some how by the grace of God to apply the brake, put it back in park, shut it off and throw the keys back in the seat..........and come back in the house as if nothing happened.......Alyssa is Alyssa.........

Day 2 of our Nicu stay

2010-02-13T20:41:00.000-06:00

And ChiAnne is doing awesome. She is still on the nasal canula but is down to room air, which is 21% and only at 2 liters, there is talk of taking her off the high pressured canula and moving her down. She also nippled 2 of her feeds. Its only 10 mls each feeding but they will slowly increase it. She will get to come home when she is constantly eating 60 mls each feeding.

Kent and the kids came up and seen me today, they brought along her headbands that I bought for her. One of them is enormous on her the others fit her just perfect. Tomorrow is her first valentines day. I have a onesies that has hearts all over it and a headband to match that has hearts on it. I have pictures of her headbands but forgot to get Kent to send them to me off of his phone.

We also met with the dr today, he was who admitted her. He said to take my due date and minus about 2 wks. Um not that I don't believe him but that would put her here longer than Jace was. And she is doing so much better than Jace did. I think she will be home next week sometime. However momma could always be wrong. And as we well learned with Jace this is a rollar coaster ride that we can't always get off of.

Welcome ChiAnne Renee Rose

2010-02-12T15:37:00.000-06:00

Introducing ChiAnne Renee Rose Loving..........She was born Feburary 11th at 9:39 pm weighing in at 6lbs 4oz and is 18 1/2 inches long.........She was delivered early because I went into labor on my own *yikes*.......She is just beautiful and has a head full of dark, curly hair........that is longer than Jace's.........She is in the NICU as she was having issues with breathing and is on O2 but has been weaned down considerably......Hopefully she won't be in there very long as she is doing awesome.......

Life gets hectic

2010-02-07T23:31:00.000-06:00

I promise we are all still alive and kicking around here.........lets see where do I begin.......

We had another ice storm/snow storm a couple of weeks ago and it turned out to be a dud...........We got more on christmas eve then we did then......

Alyssa is being Alyssa, behavior issues and all but we haven't had any phone calls rectly from the school....Her principal even offered to help me argue with her dr to get her treated right....

Joshua has lost his second tooth..........he only tripped when he lost the tooth and it bled a little, ok so a whole lot........but once it settled down he was actually quite excited that it came out........

Austin is still trying patients and trying to get away with everything........Seriously thou the term horrific threes fit him to a "t".......Momma is counting down the days until he can go to school and give me a minute or two to recharge my batteries........

Jace will have surgery on thursday the 11th, not sure what time yet but he needs tubes.........As of right now he has no hearing in either ear but they are hoping that it is fixable with the tubes to help drain the fluid that is behind his ear drums.........He is really getting up and going now.......He has figured out how to pull up on the side of the pac n play.......and today he pulled up on the couch......he hasn't done any cruising that I know of but it is only a matter of time.....its hard to believe that in just a few days he will be 10 mths old..........

ChiAnne will be here in as little as 9 days unless something changes, I have my next appt on tuesday....So yea it can be crazy around here...........

Kent is doing ok, they did diagnose him with COPD, thankfully its mild right now...........they also completed all the testing that they were asking for as far as sleep apnea and it came back as he needed a cpap so now we are waiting on that to come in, for some reason they mailed it.......

Ok, I think I have caught everything up, now I need to post pics but that will have to wait until I catch my breath sometime this week, LOL.........

Pic overload

2010-01-05T09:38:00.000-06:00

Meet Tera, she is 3mths old and is a wolf/shepard mix.......Also the snow man that the kids built out of our foot of snow of course most of the snow is gone now but they enjoyed it while it was here......And Jace's first taste of cherrios, he loves them....

A visit with Santa

2009-12-29T21:36:00.000-06:00

I know I already posted pics of Jace with Santa but I got the ones that the store took.......I'm not sure why the scanner put the line in them, I will have Kent look at it when he gets home......but for now.......

12-23-09

Alyssa and Santa 12-23-09

Why couldn't he give a perfect smile like the first pic 12-23-09

Jace smiling on Santa's lap 12-23-09

Joshua and his ever present smurk 12-23-09

And we are getting more snow tonight........At least it is not a blizzard.......but we are still suppose to get up to 3" but I have to say I'm glad I'm not in texas, I heard that they are getting ice/snow mix.......(Sorry E you know you who you are)

Christmas 2009 pics warning overload

2009-12-25T22:26:00.000-06:00

He still can't set up on his own, he will for a few mins at a time but I have a feeling we need to get some extra assistance here soon.........He is 8 mths but his adjusted age would just be 7 mths......I can't remember when the others set up.......I really try hard not to compare him to the others as they were not preemies.......

before you say anything, its only a bb gun

Jace's first visit with Santa, he actually smiled.....He didn't scream, woohoo

My tree before the kids got up, thats for 5 kids.......

Austin when he got woke up to wake up presents, he is not a morning kid......wonder how this is going to work with school coming up.......Oh and see his nice yellow black eye........its because him and Tayler were bouncing on the bed and colladed heads doing what they shouldn't have been doing..........UGH he is definantly my strong willed child.....

Sissy trying to make waking him up all better........Oh mom I got a spider man blanket.........OOOOOOOO

Mom can I have it, I'm cold

Looking what daddy did.........OH its so nice and warm and roasty toasty in here.....

Joshua opening up one of his hot wheels........Note to self, always buy hotwheels, they were the most played with toy today.........Oh that is besides the transformer

Sissy opening her "my little pony" you would think she would have outgrown them yet but no she hasn't......I think it has to do with the fact that it is horses/ponies that she is so attached to them....

Look mom I got a hotwheels to...

Hannah Montana hair set.........All in purple one of her favorite colors

I got a new ball glove

I got new pj's....And they have dinosaurs on them.....

See they fit, I love them.......Oh looky more hotwheels......

OH I got pjs to......they are transformers.....We love that movie, LOL.......both are great

Jace woke up in the middle of opening presents.......So of course he had to join in on the fun however he would rather eat the paper and the cardboard rather than play with the toy........

didn't take very long for my boys to get clothes on......I would take it the pj's are a hit...

I got more hotwheels.......woohoo

Look mom.........

OOOOOOOOOOO its a transformers, its a plane......OH MOM I LOVE IT........

Mommy I like my new shirt, look

Oh wait I have another one to...

Jace says I'm done, I need a break in my swing........Tayler don't look so enthrilled....Jace looks so handsome in the outfit I bought him.......I absolutely love it

Oh thats a cool car "limo"

I kind of like this sweater....its not my taste but ok......Of course momma didn't buy it either, LOL

Look mom its my "limo"

OOOOOOO, I likey (mom can't remember what was in it though, LOL

Look mom I got a race track (this is something Joshua has asked for, since his birthday) hence all the hotwheels the boys got, they can use any of them on it...woohoo

it needs batteries mom.......Mom has them, just didn't put them in it

This quilt is so pretty, I absolutely love it......Apparently Austin does it.......the trim around the edges is in horses.......Horses happen to have a special place in our home........Wonder if it is because we have Shadow and John.......

Daddy threw the package at Alyssa, the way she caught it, her hand went through the packaging, it was to funny

Its ICarly, ok we don't have cable/satellite so how in the world does my daughter know about Icarly..........

This is Joshua's big present from mom and dad....Yes it is a bb gun/pellet gun....He loves going out with Kent and target practicing......BBs are a heck of a lot cheaper than bullets, LOL......

OH wow

boy his scar from his fall durning the summer shows out....its on his cheak under his eye......but look mom.....I got a gun...........I love this one.......its a crossman and it came with a trigger guard with a special kind of key to open it.........Daddy will keep it put up with his guns and there will be no unsuppervised use of this gun.....I don't trust my kiddos enough not to try to shoot something that they shouldn't, LOL.......

Ok, thats the end of the picture overload.......Enjoy

The blizzard of 2009 aka the Christmas eve storm

2009-12-25T15:05:00.000-06:00

Yesterday and last night we were hit by a blizzard......Ice came before that.....

Look at the chair

Ooops forgot to rotate it....

This is last night before it stopped

and now here is the end results.

Glad I'm not going anywhere, doubt if I could make it anyways

Looking out my back door

Same chair from the night before, see there is no grass left showing through the snow

Looking at the kids' playyard......MMMMM I would let them out but that trampolene is to dangerous right now......

Merry Christmas

2009-12-24T23:21:00.000-06:00

I will be back later to post pics of Jace's first christmas.........We got him the cutest little outfit to dress him up in on christmas day....I can't wait......

We also got snow/sleet/rain/ice today.........We are currently under a blizzard warning.......YIKES...........suppose to end tonight or in the morning sometime and of course I will post pics when it calms down some.......

Dee's blog

2009-12-19T01:22:00.000-06:00

Check out this blog, I have been working on it for a friend...........thoughts and prayers are greatly appricated as the further we dig the more we find wrong..........UGH

This is what has been keeping Kent and I busy..........No I am not over there working on it, I'm keeping 3 of her 4 kids.......So now that school is out for christmas break, I have a 9 yr old, 5 yr old, 4 yr old, 3 yr old, 1 yr old, 8mth old and a 4 mth old......
http://tygeryze.blogspot.com/

Annoucement

2009-12-18T18:17:00.000-06:00

Ok, some of you have emailed me about my ticker, LOL...........

Yes I am pg again........No it was not planned.....Yes this will be our last baby........Yes we know what causes it but its darn fun to.......Ok now for the particulars.........

I'm due March 13th (my date) or by u/s March 22nd........So that puts my c/s either Feburary 22nd which is what my ticker is set for or March 2nd which I am leaning seriously towards after giving it much thought and given my history with baking babies.........Alyssa was born at 36 wks 5 days and had numerous problems, not really related to prematurity but who knows..........Jace was born at 34 wks 5 days and had numerous problems but that was because he was 6 wks early and we didn't have time to prepare for him.........Another thing is that girls mature faster than boys..........OK this is a girl so she should mature faster but with Alyssa's history weither or not it is related to her prematurity is unknown which is why I am now having second thoughts..........If we go by my dates I will be 37 wks, if I go by dr's dates I will just have turned 36 wks..........So if I wait til March 2nd I will be 37-38wks.....And the baby will have had plenty of time to bake and will come in the time frame of Joshua and Austin.......Who neither one had much problems...........Austin had troubles stablizing his blood sugar but they were right on top and he got to come home with me but it was because he was so big (9lbs 0.6oz) and Joshua had the same problems but one bottle took care of it (9lbs 12oz) the products of a having a bigger than average baby.............ChiAnne has finally caught up on weight size at weighing in just over 2 lbs........So I think she will be about 9lbs to........My dr was kidding with me and saying she was going to be one of my slender babies..........hahahaha.......I just grow them big......Jace was lucky he came out so little but ya know if I would have carried him to term he would have been closer to 10lbs maybe over it........

So thats what is going on with our family.........I can honestly say that I am looking forward to moving on to the next stage in life of no diapers, no bottles, no baby equipment..........but at the same time I am sad to see my babies grow up......

2009-12-10T17:49:00.000-06:00

Christmas parade 2009

Jace 7mths

Austin 3 1/2

Joshua 5 1/2

Alyssa 9 (wow look how grown up she is)

I couldn't resist but I love the face

The Loving boys 12/10/09

2009-11-29T11:19:00.000-06:00

Look mom what I can do, LOL........As I have said before someone forgot to tell that kid he is not suppose to be pulling up and trying to walk already...........There is definantly no keeping that kid down..........The collages are for the grandparents for christmas...............And of course mommy had to have one to....And I didn't have hardly any pics printed out of Jace so I made one of him to.....I got them at walgreen's.com when they were having a freebie sale........

Daddy and Jace

2009-11-09T11:05:00.000-06:00

Daddy and Jace on the couch.......Jace has this thing about playing in daddy's beard, its hard to believe that he will be 7 mths old in a couple of days.

2009-11-08T19:16:00.000-06:00

yummy peas

Kid jokes

2009-11-08T08:23:00.001-06:00

OH my word some of these jokes are crazy.......

What is green and sings?? Elvis Parsley

What is 10 letters and starts with gas?? An Automobile

How did the bones cross the street?? They didn't, the dogs ate them

Where do you find prehistoric cows?? In a mooseum

What did the tree say to the wind?? Leaf me alone

How can you tell the ocean is friendly?? Because it waves

What has a bottom on its top?? Your legs

What is an owl's favorite subject?? Owlgebra

In what month do the people talk the least?? Feburary, because it is the shortest month of the year.

Why do mother kangaroos hate the rain? Because the kids have to play inside.

Why did the man take a hammer to bed?? He wanted to hit the sack

Seriously where do they come up with these jokes.....I found them on the backs of laffy taffy which happens to be Alyssa's favorite candy........thanks to my dad who used to take her to the store and buy it for her...At least it wasn't gum, LOL

Alyssa

2009-11-07T22:33:00.001-06:00

Just a quick brag about Alyssa............She got student of the month..........I didn't get to go to the assembly because I didn't know about it but she brought home an award and her picture will be in the paper sometime this week and I or her daddy will scan it and post it on here......I'm so excited for her..........She has come a long way in the last month.......

Michael Lindgren

2009-11-07T13:58:00.000-06:00

My cousin Micheal has been recently diagnosed with Stage 4 lung cancer in which it has spread to his spine and has several lesions on his brain......He is the father of 2 beautiful kids........His mom and sister, my aunt and cousin have launched a website to raise funds to help grant Micheal's wish to take his children who are 1 and 3 to disney world......Please if you can click on this link and it will lead you to his website.....

http://www.superhumanhero.com/ (I also tried making a blinkie for this but can't get it up here, if one of ya'll knows how to do it can you please help me, thanks)

Here is a link to his carepage as well
https://www.carepages.com/carepages/MichaelLindgren

Increasing our family

2009-10-27T14:50:00.000-05:00

Yep you read right, we are increasing our family, LOL..........We have 2 more boys right now...........A friend of mine's little girl who was born 10 wks premature is back in the hospital really, really sick.........They say she has a cold but with the H1N1 it really makes you wonder.........So I have 2 of her boys......They are 4 and 22 mths........So that makes me have 6 kids at home right now......they are 9, 5, 4, 3, 22 mths and 6 mths......Oh boy they are keeping me on my toes.........Right now they are all chilling, Tanner and Tayler are laying on the floor with their blankies almost asleep and its almost 3 pm.........UGH.......Austin is asleep on the couch and Jace is asleep in the pack n play....I will take pics later and post them but my camera is in the suburban so I can't get to it right now because Kent isn't home and that means I have no keys........that butt head..............

6 mths 1 wk

2009-10-22T00:03:00.000-05:00

(Jace turned completely around in his swing to kiss the fish on the back of the seat, YIKES)

(this is how Jace holds his bottle, just like a little monkey, lol)

Thats how old Jace is........According to the dr's developmental or adjusted age is 4 1/2 mths old..........So you tell this to him.........He is up on his hands and knees rocking back and forth (it won't be long before he is crawling) he has also cut his first tooth 2 days ago and is working on his second tooth.......however apparently this one is not bothering him as bad......he is also holding his own bottle now for the most part and its to funny how he does it..........he is seriously going to keep up with all the other kids......the only thing he isn't doing that a 6 mth old will is eat food.........His little tummy can not handle it and 2. he just can't handle the texture.......I will try again in a few weeks.........he didn't choke the last time but the gassiness that came along with it is not worth making my baby suffer.........so here are some pics that I have taken recently of him........ornery little stinker who is going to keep his momma on her toes.......

Austin

2009-10-19T16:38:00.000-05:00

Austin got in trouble this afternoon, he is my comedian, smart butt child...........

So after his time out in his room............

He comes up to me and ask me to help button his pants........

He says "my friend is coming over" I said who is your friend (now mind you this is my 3 yr old and doesn't get out very much) he tells me Tracy.......I said ok (the only Tracy he knows of, lives in Colo and is not on her way here, though I think she might like a vacation right now) He goes on to say "Tracy's my friend".....I said she is, he says yep she has a boy, I said no she has 4 boys, he says yep and 1 girl..........Roflmbo...........Apparently momma's friend Tracy is coming to visit Austin because she has a little boy that needs a friend..........

Now for the smart allic child that I have..............

Yesterday he comes in the house........apparently someone stepped in the dog poo..........cause I asked him if he was poopy......He proceeds to turn around pull down his pants and underware..........And says "see"...........I got on to him for doing that but it was so hard not to laugh at him...............

Joshua and Alyssa's parent teacher conferences

2009-10-15T13:54:00.000-05:00

Considering how she was just a few weeks ago at school........I was expecting the worst.........However I got the complete opposite......She has 1 A, 2 B's and 3 C's.........but the thing about these grades is she is getting absolutely no help from the special ed department, she is doing it all on her own, I am extremely proud of her.........She was excited knowing she can do it..........She is still having issues in math but if she would take the time to slow down she would do even better........I got her homework from her missing monday and tuesday and they didn't have school wednesday threw friday so she only had to miss 2 days.....but hey she has it almost done, all thats left is to clue the papers on her posterboard for her research project which is totally awesome..........

Joshua~He is doing very well.........He has mastered his math skills, he has mastered his phonological sounds only working on the short vowel sounds.......now his phonological awearness is lacking just a bit but he is doing awesome otherwise.........His teacher says that he will be reading in about 3 wks......I was shocked.......Ya know how much problems we had with Alyssa and now to have a child who is doing so well...........He is also doing first grade work.......They are working on sight words.........they do not get this until 1st grade.......We worked with Alyssa consistantly to get her on the sight words and needless to say she can see that Joshua has mastered the majority of them........WOOHOO........I knew he was smart.........but he hasn't showed his teacher his ornery side.........Just that he has very good selective hearing.........LOL

The flu

2009-10-15T13:30:00.000-05:00

Has made its way into our home........YUCK!!!! It is more than likely the swine flu but they won't test as they are having to many false negatives.........they just treat.........So all of us except Jace is on tamiflu............

Jace had an appt with the Nicu dr in the follow up clinic.........He still only weighs 13lbs 7oz..and is 25" long............They checked his developement and the only thing that he is not measuring on track for is his eating.......He chokes when I feed him something like cereal.......So his Neonatologist said try peas.......I want to laugh about that seriously.......that is to funny but this man has been a neonatalogist for 30+ years.........So I tend to think he knows what he is talking about.........So I tried Jace on baby food againist my better judgement, I didn't make it because a friend said that it could be that I am not getting the texture right for Jace........Guess what it worked.........Woohoo, he ate some sweet potatos and some pears last night and loved it......and didn't choke once......He is also getting up on his knees and trying to crawl...........Whoa nelly slow down...........you are not suppose to be doing this yet........His adjusted age is 4 and half months.........but you tell this kid he is suppose to not be doing stuff that a 6 mth old is...........Yea right...........

So anyways I mentioned to the dr that Jace had croup a couple of weeks ago and that 2 of my kids had the flu now.......He says nope, he had the flu and it just effected him like the croup.......which makes a whole lot of sense to me...........Anyways the next week which was last week, Kent got diagnosed with pneumonia.........OH JOY, this man has never had pneumonia but he has it know........and right after that Joshua starts complaining of a headache..........I didn't think anything of it, just thought he might be over stimulated from school/had a hard day.........and let it go cause he never said anything else after we got home.........Then on thursday he began to cough, nothing significant but enough that I just watched him closer.........And then on friday evening he tells me he has a sore throat.........OK.......thats just peachy, he just had his tonsils out........so I blew it off........Saturday he gets up, gets fully dressed including socks and shoes and puts on his pleather coat which is not exactly a light coat...........I asked him what he was doing, he says momma I'm freezing.............checked him for a temp and he didn't have one......so left him be........5 am the next morning he came into my bed around 5 am and he says momma I have headache and my throat hurts and he is crying.......I set up to give him some lovings and he is burning up..........Yep the fever hit............I treated him all day long for the fever and then Alyssa woke up the next day with the sore throat and headache, so I kept her home from school.........Jace had an appt for his 6 mth check up and shots.........I talked to the dr about them and because Joshua is running a fever they start the tamiflu and by the time I get home Alyssa is running a fever.........So another call to the dr and a trip to the pharmacy the following afternoon and by the time I get there Austin is sick with the fever, so now all 3 have it...........All of us are on tamiflu..........

When it rains it pours

2009-10-11T22:17:00.000-05:00

Kent is finally getting over the pneumonia........Still has a lingering cough but at least it doesn't sound so wet now........We actually caught it as it started so we were lucky in that aspect..........So why can't the luck be passed on to our children..........The beginning of last week, I would say around tuesday, Joshua starts complaining of a headache......didn't think nothing about it but the next day he did the same thing.........I noted it but again nothing else was apparent......Same thing followed so I figured it was having something to do with school.......Nope the next day which was friday he did the same thing.......So about 4 days now of no fever just a headache, however he feels really really warm but the thermomoter shows no fever.........So I shrug it off as my hands must be cold....The next morning which was saturday, he laid around all day......He did get dressed.....He even put on his coat........He told me he was freezing........ok, it was chilly yesterday barely in the 50s.....but now he is complaining of a sore throat.........he wakes up this morning around 5 am comes crawling into my bed crying...........He says momma my head hurts......I went to give him a hug when I noticed he is burning up........I took his temp and its a 101...........So now he is running a fever, no energy when the fever is spiked, sore throat, and a headache........What now........Seriously what now.........the only thing that comes to mind is the flu..........This is not good........Jace has an appt tomorrow with the dr so I will call first thing in the morning and see if I can't get Joshua in to..................Life as a mom never slows down does it??? And when you have a semi-large family does every one get well and stay well???

Jace is teething, he almost has the tooth on the bottom in.....Amazing that he was born 6 wks early and he turns 6 mths old on tuesday which would make him 4 1/2 mths adjusted age and this kid is already trying to cut his teeth.......He scoots everywhere........Sissy and I are trying to help him with sitting up as he loves to do it......He is also trying to hold his bottle........He is doing a pretty good job at it to, LOL........I think he is going to be like Joshua.....Joshua was walking by 10 mths......He always had to keep up with his sissy.......He worshiped the ground she walked on and still does to a certain extent......Well Jace has his personality other than being as laid back as Joshua was...........I think Jace has decided he has all his brothers and sister to keep up with that he needs to get busy........Now if I can just get some weight on this kid...........He weighed the last time we were at the dr's office when he had croup 12 lbs 7 oz........he was just over 5 mths old then........here it is a couple of wks later I am willing to be he is only about 13 lbs.....he may surprise me.....He is wearing 0-3 mths pants and even some of them fall off of him........His shirts and oneies however are 3-6 mths because he needs the length.......He is littler then Alyssa was and I thought Alyssa was tiny.....

Ok now I am waiting on the other 2 to get sick.....I can seriously see it happening.......

Jace

2009-10-10T11:45:00.000-05:00

Finally I get Jace smiling on camera......We were outside the other day while the horses were grazing in the yard.....He loved watching them and talking to everyone who would set there and listen to him.....He loves growling at everyone and everything.....

2009-09-29T09:04:00.000-05:00

my son the hillbilly (mom, remind you of someone, lol)

Baby Jace

2009-09-22T22:38:00.000-05:00

I spoke to soon about Jace being a happy go lucky self.......He is sick....He has croup.....And now he is on breathing treatments every 4 hrs, antibotics, and steroids....Hopefully this is a short lived illness....

Baby Jace

2009-09-19T15:26:00.000-05:00

Jace is getting big..........Such a little sweetie pie.........He loves to give hugs and kisses now.........those slobbery, drool filled kisses are the best!! He is really starting to smile more and more..........His whole face lights up when he smiles including his eyes.....he has this sparkle in them that I can't put my finger on.........(Austin has a sparkle to but his is different, not sure how to explain it) Still no teeth but today he decided that he was going to chew on the nipple of his bottle......Yikes, time to change him to the cheap bottles/nipples...........We will have to see how that goes.............I love my playtex nursers but I can't afford to replace the nipples everytime I turn around (4.49 for 2 nipples) So I believe he is teething......He still isn't sleeping through the night but is doing much better about sleeping.............

He will have to have the RSV shot in a couple of weeks due to his prematurity and him being on the vent for 8 days........he will also be 6 mths old when the flu shot becomes available to he will be getting that as well........Plus we were informed yesterday that it is highly recommended that we get the H1N1 vaccine.........She explained that babies who spent time on the vents can have weaker lungs then other babies............So she highly recommends it for our family..........God forbide if someone else were to get sick in this family..........I think momma might loose it................

Update on Austin

2009-09-19T15:23:00.001-05:00

Yesterday was the appt for Austin for a followup on his mushroom poisoning...........He has to have one more set of labs but we won't do them until the 5th of April when they will do his labs for school anyways (iron levels) but she honestly thinks everything will turn out fine and I do to............

Austin will not touch the mushrooms, he comes running for daddy, mommy or sissy to come kill them..........so I don't think we will have to worry about them anymore..........but sure as I let my guard down something else will happen..........

Accountibility

2009-09-19T15:08:00.002-05:00

I never slowed down yesterday to land at home to work on my list.......So my list is as follows

Living Room~complete deep clean (I do this once a week but it seems like I have to do it because boys' little hotwheels end up under the couch, the chairs everywhere, so we pull them out and sweep under them.....We are in the middle of this now.........Half done...........I will sweep and mop this floor today....... Done

Hallway~needs swept and mopped

Laundry~its a never ending battle!! in progress

Kitchen~finish the dishes, get them all put away. The counters wiped off, get dh to get the broken microwave down and the shelf moved down so we can put the new one on it and get it off my counter (I have very little counter space, this will help) in progress

If I can get this accomplished this weekend it will be awesome...........My kids will definantly deserve a treat............

Accountibility

2009-09-18T02:25:00.002-05:00

Ok, this is my first post dedicated to accountibility.........on my list today

~~7:45 have to be at Alyssa's mental health appt with the dr, we are going to see if there is just something else we can do to manage her behavior. done~~

~~I will meet with her principal after that Done~~

~~come home, do a load of laundry that is calling my name, I started it last night in the middle of the night when the boys were throwing up~~

Do at least one load of dishes

sweep the hallway, kitchen and ~~living room~~

~~Pick up Joshua and Alyssa from school and head to appt number 2 for Alyssa and follow up for Austin, talk to the dr about the swine flu vaccine and Jace getting the RSV shot Done~~

~~Home to have a hot meal....... Done~~

I think that is enough for friday...........

Now hopefully this will be a start of good things to come.

Mushrooms

2009-09-18T02:20:00.000-05:00

well all of you know about Austin eating the mushrooms by now.........I have posted the pics of them...........Since then we have been very diligent about keeping them picked out of the yard........NOw they are growing in the pasture with the horse.......YIKES!!! then this afternoon having to go into town for feed for our chickens, I backed up in the yard because Kent asked me to and he found 4 more huge ones.............in the kids' play yard no less..........

Last night on the weather, the weather meterologist figured up in the 1st 18 days of Sept we have now had 14 days of rain, no wonder I am complaining.......Really I love the rain but seriously we do not need any for a couple of days.........There comes a point and time that it becomes to much of a good thing.........we can not get the grass cut in the kids' play yard so Kent is going to tie the horses out there and let them have some of that good ole' grass........its almost as tall as the trampolene...........they will have it mowed down in no time........

Searching

2009-09-18T02:08:00.000-05:00

for what is missing in our lives.......Part of me just thinks that I am still dealing with PPD, those of you who know me well know how bad it can effect me............This time I think I was just to busy to deal with it........Jace spending 23 days in the NICU, having 3 kids at home, Kent's health problems, Alyssa's behavior problems......I didn't have time to really set and cry it out......I was to busy dealing with everyone else's problems.........But there really feels like there is something missing in my life.........I have no motivation to do much of anything, Jace is not sleeping through the night and laundry has doubled............I don't feel like cooking much anymore.......I think I just got to the point where I need to do something rather it is right or wrong...........My family is not being neglected but my house is........I think I am going to try something new..........Its called an accountability partner........I have asked a very dear friend of mine who is actually going through hell right now (love ya, she knows who she is) maybe it will help both of us.......I am also going to start a housework thread on bbc and see if I can get the lg family mommas to join in........I didn't realize I had lost motivation til just here recently..........I have got to do something to make my family happier, my home less cluttered and more baby friendly.......I can not believe my baby is 5 mths old now.......He is showing his own personality more and more everyday...........He will be moving soon, I need to get a baby gate for the hallway, I need to get busy on finishing cleaning out the kids' rooms..........but all one step at a time, one foot in front of the other..........Wish me luck on this endevour.......Oh and I really need to start sleeping in my bed again, I started sleeping on the couch cause Jace couldn't sleep in the bassinet and then when we went to texas, he slept so much better in his pack n play..........I have asked Kent for help to clean out our room so we can set the pack n play up in there..........I'm not ready for him to be out of my reach just yet.........Maybe by thanksgiving or christmas I will be but he is my baby.........No he is not my last........but for right this minute he is my baby........

In honor of Jace turning 5 mths old

2009-09-13T12:38:00.000-05:00

As you can tell Joshua loves his little brother........and any time I have the camera out he has to be in the pics........

The dangers lurking in your yard

2009-09-12T02:09:00.000-05:00

On monday Austin decided to give his momma and daddy a really bad scare..........I have beat myself up about this but know there isn't much I could do about it..........but it sure don't help the mommy guilt I feel...........OK now the story and the reason for the mushroom pics..........

Here in oklahoma we have been having a very wet summer........Kent nor I thought anything about the mushrooms growing in the yard..........I actually thought they were kind of cool, they grow after a heavy rain and are feeding off of something decomposing in the ground..........Never in a million years did I ever think that one of them could kill one of my kids...........

We were all outside taking care of the horses, checking on the hen that is sitting......Just doing things as a family......Jace was in the house asleep (we still don't have a monitor) Alyssa came bringing me up this huge mushroom.........I've always been told to treat mushrooms that grow in the wild as poisonous, so I told Alyssa to throw it down and destroy it........She tells me "Momma, there are more over there growing" so I told her to go destroy them and I went to check on Jace..........About 5 mins later she comes in and says that Austin ate a mushroom, I didn't put 2 and 2 togather at all........Austin comes up to me and says "momma, my belly hurts" I didn't think anything of it until about 5 mins later when he comes up to me and says "Momma my belly really hurts" It couldn't have been no more than 15 mins from the time he ate it to the time that I figured out what was going on...............Kent called poison control while I got him ready to go........this boy is a dirt magnet........Turns out that he ate one of the most deadliest mushrooms in the state..........We rushed him to the ER..........They met us at the door........The ER was completely packed, standing room only and they met us at the door (I'm impressed) Took us back started accessing him.........And he acted like nothing was wrong however that was an understatement..........Within 15 mins of us getting there they had to give him charcoal........he took maybe a tablespoon of it and started throwing up.........They dont' believe he had enough charcoal to begin vomitting that way........They wanted me to get more of the charcoal down him.......ya right..........this poor baby was throwing up so much that he had the dry heaves......Poor baby.....AFter throwing up almost continueously for about 30 mins they came in and says well we are admitting him, we have to watch his liver and kidney levels for 48 hrs.........One of the adverse effects is liver and kidney failure with mushroom poisoning..........So we had 4 sets of labs done........After he was done throwing up or so we thought, he developed diareaha........oh it was bad.........again this is an effect of eating the mushroom......he was up all night long, flipping from one end of the bed to the other end......I would try to doze with him and that wasn't happening..........6 am rolls around and we have to change the bed for the 4th time.......he finally just lays there, you can tell he just don't feel good..........But at least we are done with the vomitting and throwing up........I can't get him to drink or eat.........by the time Dee gets there around 10:30 his eyes are sunken in and they are black.........he just lays there........He finally passes out around 12:30..........Dee goes and gets Kent and kent is staying up at the hospital with him now............As we all know Kent may love his kids but he can't deal being stuck at home when one of his babies are in the hospital............So we traded places.......Of course I dealt with the worst of it..........Well I have to leave around 3:30 to get home intime for Alyssa and Joshua to get off the school bus..........I try waking him up........Nope but ok didn't think anything about it......checked the diaper that he had on it was still try............He hasn't gone to the bathroom since 6 am.......Told kent to keep an eye on it and went home..........Around 6 pm he saidd that he couldn't get him to wake up........And he was still dry...........So I had him get the nurse in there............She got him to take a drink in his sleep........but couldn't get him to wake up........this was another thing they were watching for...........Around 7:30 I started calling on the prayer warriors to say a prayer for my son.........Around 8 pm I got a phone call that made me cry.........It was my baby, he had woke up.........They don't think it had anything to do with the mushroom poisoning just to do with the fact of what his body had been through in the last 5 days (he had his tonsils removed on friday) and the vomitting just took it all out of him............He still hadn't peed at that time but hey we were still awake.......So I informed the prayer warriors and about a half hour later dh calls me and says we are peeing..........I have never been so happy to hear bodily functions as I was then............I knew then that he was going to be ok...........It was a scary 2 days..........The labs always came back normal.......which is awesome however we still have to monitor them for about 6 mths to make sure nothing sneaks up on us............but my baby is fine............Thank you Lord.........

He has been asked by several people if he is going to eat mushrooms again, he growls at us........I don't think he will even eat the ones out of the can now.............I did get a direct answer out of him yesterday and its a "no" He actually has been put to the test............They found another mushroom growing in the yard.........he went running to his daddy to have daddy get rid of it........

Moral of my story, get rid of the mushrooms before they cause problems and watch your kids......In the blink of an eye it can all change.........

A Quote

2009-09-05T11:59:00.000-05:00

I found in Woman's Day magazine that came in yesterday........

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle, I just wish he wouldn't trust me so much~Mother Teresa

Isn't that the truth.......

The beginning of school

2009-08-29T00:25:00.000-05:00

Gotta give credit where credit is due, Daddy got ahold of the camera and took pics for the first day of school......Yep he went a little camera happy......(can ya tell he loves my new camera)

Wow time has flown by me once again........The kids started school on the 12th and here it is oh 2 wks later......Yep I am having a great time again this year..........

Joshua loves his teacher...........To me she is awesome........

Alyssa thinks her teachers and yes I used plural are awesome.......She absolutely loves them...........She has a home room teacher in the morning and a different teacher in the afternoon for social studies, math and science..........I'm still reserving my opinion but so far it is ok.........I know that Mrs. Wolf stopped a meltdown in progress which is really an awesome thing........Mrs. Morton discovered that Alyssa is having issues with reading cursive (yep knew this but somehow it was forgotten) and has taken steps to impliment "handwriting without tears" its suppose to be a great program........She is having some issues completely her school work so she ends up having to bring it home......Man oh man have I been out of school to long......Send me a teachers manual I might be able to figure it out sometime this year...........

My new baby

2009-08-21T20:09:00.000-05:00

He doesn't have a name yet........I'm open for suggestions..........the only names that are out are Jack, Maverick, and Shadow.......He is what you called a tricolored paint......

in reference to my last post

2009-08-17T04:42:00.000-05:00

.........Austin is our 3 yr old, so its not like him to be so quiet...........Trust me when his brother and sister are around he is very loud.........But last week when school started he became very quiet and had momma and daddy checking on him several times....he was always playing quietly in his room........

My new nightmare

2009-08-17T04:08:00.001-05:00

As a parent, you have a variety of nightmares that at anytime can come true........Worries never end........

We have all heard about kids being left in hot cars and dying.......Normally they are babies........Today this is what happened to our family.......

Kent took Alyssa, Joshua and Austin up the road to the little convinence store to get them a pickle and to get the paper........Normally he doesn't take them.......So this was a nice treat for them as well as for momma......It gave me a couple of minutes alone with Jace..........They were gone for no more then 10 mins........Seriously that is how close this store is........Well they come back to the house and in comes Joshua, Alyssa carrying the paper and Kent carrying the jar of pickles..........No Austin.........I didn't think anything about it because Austin will stay outside and play with the dogs or the cat.......I mean we do live in the country for crying out loud........But normally my baby will come in the house shortly there after...........Well about 10 mins passes and I hollar at them "Where's Austin" at first they didn't answer me so I hollared again "Where's Austin".........Kent tells Alyssa to go get Austin then I hear him say "Oh shit" he is still buckled up in the suburban.........Its a 100 degrees outside...........I flipped however Kent continues to stand in front if the fridge.........I lost it!!!! He went out and got him............Austin was tramatized to say the least...........He had tears rolling down his little cheeks, he was sweating but was ok..........He is upset with his daddy that his daddy forgot him...........I made him stay in the house, set in front of the fan and drink a bottle of water........He was still upset with his daddy when he went to bed..........

Now for those of you who know Kent, knows about his heart condition..........Since it started he has had issues with short term memory loss..........If you know him well enough you also know he denys it, LOL.............I have noticed lately the memory laspes are getting worse but of course you can't tell that to him.........Well as of yesterday, he now sees what I was seeing..........It also bringsthe thought that his heart is not pumping right........The pump side of the heart is what was effected, they told us that even if the meds worked that eventually there could come a time that they just wouldn't anymore.........If this is the case and the pump side is wearing out and it means that not enough oxygen rich blood is being pumped threw his body........Luckily we have an echocardiogram scheduled for tuesday.........He hasn't had one in over a year..........Its time to see what its doing...........When this all started, he doesn't remember hardly anything about the 8 days he spent on death's door.........I took him to the local ER who later told us that if I had decided to drive him to the nearest VA like I had orginally planned on doing that he wouldn't have made it............He was that close to dying then........So for us to be going threw this now is like he is living on borrowed time anyways........I know God has a plan for us, I really would like to know what it is now and not later before it cost me one of my children.........We will be calling the dr here in a bit to leave them a message about what is going on........and hopefully she can give us some insight............

overload of pics

2009-08-08T19:10:00.000-05:00

Just random pics plus some of Alyssa's birthday cake that she asked me to make.......

Silly mysteries

2009-08-07T22:15:00.000-05:00

solved...........Here is a link to a very funny article........ http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/08/07/2022164.aspx you may wonder why I am posting this........Because most moms will agree that somewhere out there, there is a sock monster that eats at least one sock per load of white laundry/dark laundry.........But in all seriousness where does the socks go that come up missing never to be found again..........I know for a fact that they are not in Alyssa's room/Joshua's room/my room/the junk room they disappear forever.......most of the time just one sock but there have been times where a whole pair come up missing........UGH..........

2009-08-07T19:46:00.000-05:00

This pic was taken when she was just 6 days old and we were getting ready to go home from the hospital

Here she is just a few months ago at the end of May

August 7th, 2000

2009-08-07T19:14:00.000-05:00

@ 5:24 pm I gave birth to my first and only girl........Because of my blood pressure climbing they decided it would be best if I delivered her early......So on the night of August 6th-morning of August 7th, I went in to be induced I wasn't due until August 27th and my dr had the nerve to tell me that I could go into september before delivering.........I was induced with my first son so I expected something like what I went threw the first time 7 yrs prior.........I made sure my apartment was clean before I left.....Knowing that I woudln't feel like cleaning it when I got home....Remember Vision ware cookware......Well I had one of their sauce pans.......I ended up breaking it right before I left for the hospital.......I should have known then that nothing was going to go as planned.......

I had had a lot of issues when I was pg with her......I was having contractions from the time I was 16 wks pg.....She had her head on my left hip the entire pregnancy......So why should my labor be any different.......On the thursday before that sunday, Kent was taking an a/c out of window and sliced his arm wide open so off to the ER we went......The PA that we had to do the stitches was betting that I would go in before monday and they wanted to argue with me that it was a girl......I didn't believe that she was a girl until she was born........I also had an u/s that day that showed she was still on my hip......So sunday night rolls around and I go in for my first cervadil........I was tightly closed and thick (I wasn't ready to be induced) but the pill did start the contractions.......They were doing somethign but not enough so they added in the pit........I labored threw it all with only staydol......I wasn't giving in to the epidural at all......7:30 the dr comes in and breaks my water.......I told him then that I thought she was still turned wrong.......He says no she is head down.......but I was only dialated to a 2.......I dont' remember what station........he comes back in at noon and I'm still at a 2, I told him again that she was turned wrong......he said no, no she is just fine.....I continued to labor until about 5:00 when he came in to check me again........I was still at a 2 but now my blood pressure was going up and her heart rate was decelling and not picking back up the way that they would have liked........So they said its time for a c/s.......By this time I had been in labor for over 17 hrs and I was just plain tired.........So off to the OR we go.........Man once they made up their mind that she had to come out it was no time and she was here.....They got me in the OR and a spinal done and her out at 5:24pm.......Just that fast.....She scored 8/9 on her apgars.......Daddy got to carry her to the Nursery and give her her first bath.....All while they sewed me up and sent me to the PP floor.......They also gave me an morphine pump......Wow that thing works......anyways........My baby girl arrived into this world weighing in at 6lbs 9oz and was 19.5 inches long....The funny thing is when she was born she had a cone on the side of her head........Just like I said she was turned wrong and wasn't exactly pressing on my cervix.......She had a headful of reddish blonde hair........And became the center of our world.......We stayed in the hospital til sunday which was my birthday.........She had problems gaining weight and at 9 days old we were back in the hospital because she quite breathing......Here she is today a happy, healthly 9 yr old........Happy Birthday Baby Girl.......

Update on the

2009-08-04T02:17:00.000-05:00

Laundry mountain.........I am conquering it slowly but surely......Having a sick baby is no fun........Plus Kent developed a miagraine yesterday and I had to take him to the dr to get a shot......Toradol is a wonderful drug......heheehe..........

School is starting in 8 days.......(I think thats the offical word from Alyssa, LOL) they start the 12th..........HOLY COW school supplies are expensive this year..........I have spent over $40 on buying just Alyssa's alone and hers are not completely bought yet.........I only spent about $30 on Joshua's and thats all togather.........

Let me start off by saying Walmart is ridiculous on their prices........(glad my momma taught me a thing or two about saving money, LOL) I love the fact that they will price match..........Well this past week I got their sale ad in the mail........In it it said crayola crayons 24 ct were a $1.20, I just seen the exact same thing in Corsicana, TX walmart for 30 cents when we were in texas.........Homeland and Marvins has their sale ads as well but I only get homelands in the mail........Homeland has the exact same crayola crayons for 4 for a $1.......However they were sold out so I took my sale ad to walmart and had them price match...........The lady who checked me out was very surprised at the markup that they had on their stuff compared to the local small town grocery stores........I then picked up marvins sale ad and found out that they had their crayola crayons on sale for 5 for a $1......I got walmart to price match them as well and I bought 10 boxes........I had to buy Joshua 2 boxes and Alyssa 3 boxes for school, so come Janurary when it is time to send more, I really only have enough for 2 times for both kids...........Walmart has single subject spiral notebooks for almost a $1 where as marvins has them for 10 cents a piece.......have to get them at marvins because of brand.........but thats ok, I prefer to get my meats there anyways..........I bought $2 worth and am stocked for the kids for the school year.......Along with loose leaf paper for Alyssa.......Or at least I think I am stocked........I stocked up on glue as well..........Joshua has to have glue bottles while Alyssa has to have glue sticks........The price difference between them is not that great.........Walmart's was 55 cents while both homeland and marvins was 5 for a $1............I bought $4 worth.........half and half.......sticks and bottles......I'm dreading my kids school bill for next year............Lord have mercy I will have 3 kids in school then............

My cravings, LOL

2009-08-04T02:09:00.000-05:00

While I was pg with Jace, I fell in love with the 7 layer nachos at Taco Bell.........It has guacomole on it.......Well now that I have had Jace, I don't really care of the 7 layer nachos anymore, LOL........But the guacomole on the other hand I absolutely love.......So tonight I decided to try pioneerwoman's recipe and try out Rick Bayless's way of preparing the avacados for making it.......Yep it is as easy as he makes it look, LOL........

First you cut your avacados in half.....Twist just a bit and one half will come off.......The other half will have your pit in it......Take a knife and hit the pit with it.....basically it will inbed it....Twist slightly to loosen and out it comes.........Then you take a knife and score the avacado......Use a spoon to spoon it out into a bowl.......and wallah you have the avacado pealed..........smash up your avacado and add salt to taste............OM gosh I now have a new addiction.........seriously it so good.......now for the problem........I need an avacado tree........But I don't think they will grow in oklahoma.......

The laundry mountain

2009-07-28T13:57:00.000-05:00

I am embarrassed to say the least but here is my laundry nightmare.........This is from cleaning the boys room and Alyssa's and hers is not even done yet.......UGH.........Its a moutain that I intend on conquering.........And while I am at it I am putting stuff in the giveaway, putting up stuff that Joshua has outgrown for Austin to wear........Putting up stuff that Austin hasn't ruined for Jace.....

All the while on cold meds.......I woke up with hardly any voice, a sore throat, a stuffed up head.......Allergies plus I got Joshua's eye infection..................It hurts......

A quote from the Rosanne show

2009-07-28T13:13:00.000-05:00

I love her, she cracks me up

"an accident is something that you didn't plan for and wouldn't go through if you could do it over, but a surprise is something you didn't even know you wanted until you got it and then you couldn't imagine not having it"

This is so true...........

A beautiful saying

2009-07-22T22:14:00.000-05:00

I Don't Regret The Things I Have Done Or The Things I Have Chosen Not To Do Because Whatever I've Done, I Must Have Done Something Right Because I Ended Up With You.

I found this on bbc.......But it is so true........Its exactly how I feel about my family.........

Jace's followup

2009-07-21T22:32:00.001-05:00

With the neonatal clinic...........It went so-so.......They are concerned that he isn't gaining weight properly.........Um seriously I have been mentioning this to his dr and she hasn't seemed the least bit concerned...........And really, its not an issue because he is gaining weight, just not as fast as he should...........He weighs 10lbs 7.7oz and is 22 1/2" long........He has gained 4lbs 4.2oz and grown 4 1/2" since he was born 14 wks ago.............So they increased his caloric intake.......Even more so if I went to get the 22 cal a fluid oz formula.......We mix 5oz of water with 3 scoops of formula which makes it 24 cal per fluid oz now..........Its also suppose to help with his spitting/throwing up..........for now we are sticking with the zantac to help with his reflux as well..........Micah came in and evaluated him to see how his muscle tone is and how he is progressing.........This woman became my sanity saver while Jace was in the NICU...........She helped me make sense of everything and explained it in layman's terms........She is concerned that he is starting torticollis......Its where his head constantly favors one side (which it does) so she gave me some exercises to do with him on top of the other ones we do..........She also said it is not uncommon for him to still be overwhelmed......Just keep doing what I am doing........Lord have mercy he is a very demanding baby........He will not keep his head midline so we have to work on that to........I told them he is already rolling from his belly to his back and they said he shouldn't be doing that..........My darling son proved to them that momma is right........He rolled over for her..........I also told them that if he could figure out how to get his arms under him right he would be crawling........So she put his arms under him the way he would if he was crawling and let him set there.........He got his feet positioned just right and needless to say he came flying off the table at her........It was funny.......She was right there watching him with her hands beside him in case something like that happened......So in some areas he is advanced and in other areas he is delayed.........but nothing major.........Just normal preemie issues.......We go back in 3 mths.........Oh and they also checked his hearing but he woudln't be quiet, LOL..........so the test isn't conclusive.....she did check his ears for fluid behind the ear drums and of course there is none.......He adjusted age is only 8 wks.........so he is great........

July 13th

2009-07-21T21:45:00.000-05:00

We headed home..........We had decided while we were there that we were going to visit granddad's grave and see where some other family members were buried.......Kent's gps on his cell phone absolutely sucks........So my friend Tracy comes back into play.......I called her to help me find the cemetary..........This is after we called Granny who said it was between Willis and New Waverly........of course the exit for Willis is the one I just passed.........so I get off at this other exit, not sure where it lead to but I turned and followed the road towards New Waverly...........We get into town and stop at the gas station to ask directions.......The girl in there was rude to Kent and said "I'm not from here" I dont' know where it is..........So because my batteries in my camera are dead and we forgot the charger for the rechargables.........I stopped at dollar general.........I asked the lady in there and she said........"Honey, I'm not from here, I'm from Huntsville (its about 10 miles from where we are at)..........so she asked the customer that was in front of me when I came to check out.......He says I don't live here I"m from Dallas......But at least both of them were really nice.......As I am finishing up my purchases another couple comes in, I asked them......They said they know where Black Jack road is but not the cemetary......The other couple that also had come in to buy their baby a binkie because he lost all of his and was throwing a fit (I so know how that is) and said its up that road towards Phelps.........Well I get to the road......No problem, I'm driving and driving and not seeing any cemetary, no signs for one either.........I get to the road that turns to go to Huntsville or Livingston and know that I am lost.......So here is where Tracy comes in, LOL.......I called her and said I need my gps again, she laughs..........She can not find it either...........No where she looks can she find anything about it..........So I asked her to find me a morturary or funeral home.........She gets me Huntsville funeral home...........They get me back to where I need to be........I find the road (gotta turn off the main road onto a dirt road)............Well silly me follows the road instead of staying straight.......I ended up in a pasture.........Granny had to laugh about it.........She says I know that pasture you ended up in............So we go back and now Kent's GPS starts working.......LOL...........and low and behold if I would have taken the straight and narrow path I would have ran into the cemetary..........I didn't have any issues finding the graves either.........Its a very small country cemetary.......With a lot of history.........Alyssa is the one who found the headstones for Granddaddy........But we also discovered a mess while we were there...........One of the tombstones was knocked over and at first we didn't realize that it was Great Granddad's and Grandma Loving's............Until after we called Granny and it dawned on me that the initals on the footstones stood for that.........Duh I can say I come by my blonde moments naturally...........I also took pictures of the headstones so that I continue on my quest of cracking the family tree........So in a nutshell that was a vacation..........There is never a dull moment........hehehe but then again I wouldn't have it any other way.............

Sunday July 12th

2009-07-21T03:17:00.001-05:00

Sunday we just kind of set around and watched movies.......Played with the kids......Looked at pics.........So here are some random pics of from our trip...

July 11th

2009-07-21T02:24:00.000-05:00

Lets try this again since my laptop is back up and working............I have a bigger harddrive now and a different operating system.....haven't explored the os yet but soon will......I'm still trying to get everything installed and reloaded.......I have to take the other hard drive to a computer tech to have him get my pics off of it.....I thought I had saved my pics on a disk but when I tried to put the disk in another computer I couldn't open it.......I do have the pics on the desktop but I'm not sure what I did wrong so I haven't tried to save them again.......anyways back to the vacation update.....

On saturday Uncle John and Aunt Chris came in from Katy to see us........Ya know it is pretty bad when your own dad and brothers won't take the time to come see ya but your uncle will.......we had an awesome time and then I allowed the kids to play in the pool........I dind't get in but they sure begged me to, LOL.........

AS you can see the kids absolutely loved Uncle John......He is a riot.......

This is a four generation picture........
Granny, Uncle John, Kent and Jace (Granny and Jace share their birthdays)

after they were there for awhile, the kids got bored playing with uncle John so I took them to the pool........It was late afternoon, the sun had gone down behind the buildings so we wouldn't get sunburnt......And the kids had a blast.........

7/10/09

2009-07-17T21:12:00.000-05:00

I am finishing up the vacation summory, LOL

So on friday, Daddy took the kids swimming in Granny's apt complex's pool........They had a blast.......And of course they stayed out to long........they were out there from about 12:30 til after 5.......Daddy who never burns, looked like this......

I am having troubles getting blogger to work right, ugh....

7-9-09

2009-07-15T18:50:00.000-05:00

I took the kids to the beach/bay at Galvaston........The damage from Hurricane Ike is still very prominant.......Check out this hotel and McDonald's........Kent was trying to get pics of the Mcdonalds that they were rebuilding but didn't do it........Hey at least he managed to get the sign, LOL......

According to Aunt Chris they are demoloshing the Hotel Flagship.........Now for the real reason we went to Galvaston..........

The night before we left I told Kent to get the kids' pool toys out of the shed.........He of course didn't do it and says he forgot..........So while we were on I-45 South I seen alot of Dollar Trees.........So I called Tracy (love ya) and asked her to help me find a dollar tree......hehehehe, she goes to their website and finds one in Galvaston..........This Dollar Tree (I wish I would have thought to take a pic of it) but it is the biggest Dollar Tree I have ever seen........Got the kids' pool toys and toothbrushes and toothpaste (that I left on the washer) and then we head to the beach.......The kids were not impressed with it at all because #1 it was really windy and so the waves were rough and knocking them down and #2 they kept getting the salt water in their mouthes..........LOL but we had a blast looking for seashells.......

Granny kept Jace, it was so nice to be able to consentrate on just Alyssa, Joshua and Austin.......

Our texas vacation 7-8-09

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We had an awesome time, LOL..........Of course who wouldn't when they go on vacation..........

We left the 8th around 7:30, only an hour and a half late.........Finish topping off the tank and get Kent a cup of cappicino and me a pop (I so needed the caffeine)........Start heading south, get a phone call from Carie asking where we were (she knows me all to well and knew I wouldn't be leaving on time, however I think I did surprise her because we were gone and on the road) She informs us that its raining in Sapulpa or was it Tulsa (who cares) anyways it was moving towards McAlster which happens to be the way we are heading, LOL........Wouldn't you know it, we get there around 9:30 and it is pouring rain..........Now when we bought the suburban, I bought new windsheild wipers..........They were not the cheapest by any means but not the most expensive either.......They were Michelin (spl)..........So Kent tries to bend it to see if it would help..........Nope but then the rain stopped.........I should have went to walmart right then but of course I didn't.........Lesson learned, I think...........So anyways we continue on our trip heading south........The kids finally fall asleep and somewhere down south before we got to Durant we changed drivers..........The next thing I know is that Kent is saying kids welcome to Texas, we had crossed the Red River.......Its not really Red or at least not where we crossed at.........We arrive in Dallas around noon..........OMG, Traffic was horrible.......

This is my first experiance with Dallas traffic and it gets worse.........the lane next to us is going north on I-45..........I seriously am questioning taking this route again when we go back down........If we have to take the route through Dallas I am going to visit my dr and ask for aniexty pills before we leave........Give me some xanax or valium or something cause I absolutely lost it when Kent was driving..........After Dallas we continued on and somewhere on the South side we changed drivers back...........Outside of Huntsville what do we find again but rain.........This time the rain is so bad that I can't see to drive, drivers are goin 20-25mphs............At first I was just going to pull of and wait it out..........but then I decided I am going to go ahead and follow the traffic as the rain let up a bit and I could finally see..........Then wouldn't you know it, it starts raining harder..............So I pull off the next exit which happens to be Willis, Tx and I found an autozone and bought me a rainx wiperblade to the tune of $14 and some change..........I could have gotten it cheaper at home......UGH but I was tired of not being able to see.............I'm not sure where but somewhere before we got to Houston we changed drivers again.............

The kids really wanted to stop and check out the ferris wheel but mom veto'd them.........We were on a mission, and we were going to get there.........It took us 2 hrs to get 30 miles in Houston traffic (Uncle Ricky, I love ya but I hate where ya live, lol) So we get to Granny's and have supper.....and then the kids went to bed......

A follow up

2009-06-29T23:18:00.003-05:00

To Joshua's little accident..........This pic was taken the morning after.........It looks horrible and he is still complaining that it hurts..........Seriously this kid never complains so it must really hurt......Today the swelling is down more........

I can't believe

2009-06-27T21:00:00.000-05:00

the nerve of some people........I don't care how many grandkids you have.........You don't go over and pick up a stranger's baby..........

Yesterday while at US cellular getting my new cell phone.........Montana has been attached to Jace whenever he isn't throwing up or crying........hehehe.........Like any other child.........Well while we were in there getting my new phone she asked if she could hold Jace.........Of course you can..........Just go sit down over there in the chair.....Hollar if you need help..........She was minding her own business, keeping Jace occupied.........When this old lady probably in her 70s, walked over to Montana and said her let me have him and took him from her...........I'm proud of Montana because she respected her elders..........but what the hell do you think you are doing taking a stranger's baby...........I dont' care who you are............If you are not invited to touch the baby then don't do so.......It does not matter if you have 1 grandchild or 30..........If it is not your grandchild or someone you know do NOT TOUCH THE BABY!!!!!

I might as well make.........

2009-06-27T20:50:00.000-05:00

this a picture blog..................This afternoon after going to get feed for our chickens and the horse, Kent went out to get eggs from the hen house.........Low and behold what does he find but another darn snake..........This is a different one.....This one was over 6 ft long........And to add to that, this one had lost part of its tail

now as I posted the other day about Kent and the kids going to the baseball...........It got rained out........Well they said that they would honor their tickets for tonight's game.........So of course we decided that they would go..........And this is what happens when momma isn't around..........

All I got to say is that looks like it hurts!! He was running to the bathroom at Driller's stadium and got tangled up in his own feet.........He hit the concrete.......After that happened he was ready to go home..........hehehehe

More pics from the past couple of days

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My big boy..........

Look at how much he has changed..........Wow time flies........

The snake that has been in my hen house not once, not twice but 3 times..........Holy cow this is one persistant snake.....Of course we don't knwo if it is the same one or not but still that is one big BLAKE SNAKE!!!!!

Montana is my bff's daughter.......She is here staying with us for awhile and she stands 5ft 2 inches...........That snake is every bit of that long..........

Austin and the barber shop

2009-06-27T01:26:00.000-05:00

Today was a big day........We took austin to get his very first haircut.........I mean I kept it trimmed......but nothing like what we had done today.........My poor baby no longer looks babyish........He looks so grown up......:(( Ok I'm seriously going to have issues.........They can't grow up.........I was seriously contiplating taking him back home to Stormin Norman's but Kent said he didn't know if he was still there or not.........Well today while we were in Pryor and we found a little hole in the wall barber, he was awesome with Austin..........I was amazed at how well Austin behaved for him........He was an elderly gentleman and took the time to talk to Austin like he was a grown up.......I will be taking him back again when he needs his next hair cut and the best thing is it only cost me $8.......Oh and the reason for doing it now was because he got ahold of the sissors yesterday.........Now for pic

Country living

2009-06-25T01:53:00.000-05:00

I love living in the country, do not get me wrong when I write the rest of this............There are just some things that need to stay in their own space.......

Kent goes out durning the sprinkles after we got home from running errands and was doing chores.........He is getting ready to gather eggs when low and behold he finds a snake in the hen house............Lets just say I have a love/hate relationship with snakes.........Some really do have a purpose on this earth.........And the one that is in my hen house does have a purpose which is why she didn't end up dead last year when I caught her in there then.........Do I know she is a female nope, just a feeling.........However her purpose on this earth is not to be in my henhouse eating my eggs.......I know she got at least one.........There was 14 when they gathered the eggs after getting her out of there...........Kent gets her out of there and brings her up to the house so I could take pics........haven't gotten them downloaded yet but will post them as soon as I do........He stretched the darn thing out and she is 5 ft long, I kid you not........I have a pic that I took of him holding her up next to montana who is 5ft 2 (so she says) and the darn thing is as long as she is tall............I have never in my life seen such a long black snake...........After the kids are done playing with her, Kent takes and throws her over the fence into the field..............

what is the purpose of keeping a black snake around........Well the mice population (that I have no clue why they are on this earth, what is their purpose other than to feed the snakes) is almost non-exsistant...........So this is the 3rd year we have seen a black snake, the 2nd year for my hen house.........Ya know how many mice I have seen this year.............NONE, notta, zilch, zero.........She must be doing her job...........When we moved out here there were so many mice, it was awful........after we started cleaning up the yard and hauling off or burning trash they seemed to thin out but I still found one or two occasionally...........then at the end of that summer (06) Kent found a black snake sunning itself in the honeysuckle when he was cleaning and trimming it up.........And ever since then we haven't seen a mouse again..........But then again we have seen the snake again.........Now how do I keep her from getting in my hen house again............

baseball game

2009-06-25T01:39:00.000-05:00

The kids first baseball game............

First~We went in to town today to do some errands and stop by the grocery store.......While in town we noticed that it was getting dark very quickly.........Looking like it could rain at any minute.......When we get to the gas station to clean my windshield it started thundering and lightening..........We had to stop at the fish barn to pick up tackle and new line for the poles..........I come out side and it is beginning to sprinkle........While driving down mainstreet, it was like it was coming in sheets........Only it was dust, the wind picked up hadn't had much all day and we were under an ozone alert because of it......I am driving home and the sky proceeds to let loose............In the hour that we were gone to town our driveway chug holes are flooded.........Now mind you that they are not small ones.....Kent has to get out of the suburban to move branches that had fallen onto the drive and throw them across the fence.........And when we get home, my clothes line has broken......I had a comforter hanging on it.........Kent had just tightened it up again........UGH.........The wind is that bad........So I get online to check out the weather before the kids and Kent leave for the baseball game.......it shows no sign of moving towards tulsa..........So much for that thought........They leave and head into tulsa........Get their seats which happen to be very good seats according to Kent (right behind the drillers dugout on first base line) They are enjoying the game when people started moving........The kids ask daddy if they were going to move to..........He says no not unless it starts really raining...........About that time he looks across the field at the scoreboard and he said he could litterally see it move across the field..........He told the kids to run up to the covered seats and they barely got there before it let go..........And then the game gets cancelled due to the wet field...........My kiddos are broken hearted because they don't get to finish the game but the box office is going to honor their tickets for saturday night's game........Austin got an Arby's drawstring backpack and water bottle, Alyssa got 2 free tickets for waffle fries from Arby's and those noise makers, Montana got a drawstring backpack and a water bottle, and Joshua got arby's paper clips.......Daddy has pics on his cell phone, just need to have him send them to me............I will post them later........

And Life goes on

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After posting my last post I felt better about everything......haha am I lying to myself or everyone else.........It has just completely gotten worse......However we have decided that Kent does not need inpatient but it scares me to change his meds in an uncontrolled setting.....I will call the dr again tomorrow........

When it rains it pours.......Have I mentioned how much I hate having sick kids.......Alyssa has strep throat.........she is completely miserable........So Daddy took her to the ER......I wouldn't be so concerned and would have tried to get in to the dr's tomorrow but we have Jace to worry about and at 10 wks I'm not sure its a good thing to wait......

I have never said my middle name was Grace.........Because it sure wouldn't be.......A couple of days ago I fell in the bathroom.....One of the girls left their skirt in the floor.......its one of those will silky/flimsy things......very pretty but very dangerous for momma.......When I landed.......My right foot was folded under me with the top of my foot laying on the floor.........I thought sure I had broke it but no just pulled all the tendons and ligaments loose.........It now feels very loose in there......Well fastforward to today........I actually got up before the kids and decided I was going to take a shower........Well shortly after I got in there I heard Joshua start screaming right outside the shower.........So I turned around very quickly and when I did, I slid and my pinkie toe went under the drain plug...........I took a nice chunk out of it.............Can ya say OWIE.......thats right my pinkie toe still hurts and whats worse is it is the opposite foot.......I get out and get it dried off and low and behold my darling kids have used up all the bandaids...............ARGH

I won tickets to the baseball game at driller's stadium tomorrow..........Kent is willing to take Alyssa, Montana, Joshua and Austin with him..........hehehehe........Alyssa and Montana are not sure if they want to go, they have been going to VBS this week and are loving it.......They are torn on what to do.........Either way the girls will have fun.............Joshua however has said "I'm going to the baseball game with my daddy" LOL..........Ya don't have to tell him twice........

Here it is 11 pm at night and I am fighting with my boys to go to bed..........Why now that it is summer and Montana is here do I have so many problems with my children behaving.....Guess I had better go be a good mommy and get them back to bed for the 100th time.........

I wonder why

2009-06-22T01:25:00.000-05:00

I am feeling so overwhelmed........

In the last 6 mths.....Kent has had 3 surgeries, 1. to repair a hernia which he also developed cellulitis 2. tonsils~man he is a baby when it came to that, 3. corpal tunnel~now this surgery wasn't so bad.........And they were finishing up the surgery that they had started last year....He had the other wrist done last year........To top that all off, his meds are not working again and he is in a manic state......Very little sleep, the mood swings.........He needs inpatient.......However if I try to admit him, he will be admitted clear across the state from us..........If he admits himself, he will be 45 mins from home.......I am going to try to make a phone call tomorrow to his physc dr but I can't let Kent know.......But then again I feel as if I am hiding something from him and I feel it is wrong..........but I also know it is the best for our family.........

We had baby Jace 6 wks early, he spent 7 days on the vent and then came home when he was 23 days old..........Now he has severe reflux and colic.....Plus he will only sleep with us at night so now I don't sleep very well because I am so worried that someone will roll over on top of him........

Joshua and Austin both have to go visit the ENT to schedule to get their tonsils out........I was seriously considering doing them both on the same day, however I think I must have been insane to think that........

I am fighting with the drs about Alyssa, she is having some serious meltdowns.......Ok so it may just be spoiled.......but seriously there is something wrong and I don't think they have her diagnosed right.......

In feburary, my bff almost got killed by her ex-boyfriend........he pulled a gun on her and it went off......Luckily it didn't hit her but still........They shut down the town of Prue because of the man hunt.........Since then she has basically fallen off of her rocker..........She needs some serious mental help and refuses...........She told me the last time I seen her (I think it was the 10th) that she doesn't want to be a mom anymore..........She has 5 kids........ages 16 (lives with her mom) 11, 10, 7 and 4 (lives with her dad).........So the 11 yr old has been shipped off to his dad's, her 7 yr old has been shipped off to me and then to her bio dad's mother's..........and I have her 10 yr old.......Her 10 yr old is great but also has bipolar which is not medicated.......This child does not sleep.........her and Alyssa are constintly getting into it........They feed off of each other.......its bad.......but I am counting down the days until she can go home.........only problem is I can't get ahold of her mom so I am not sure if she is going home or not.......she won't answer my phone calls, she won't answer my texts.......What am I to do..........I took all the kids to the driller's stadium yesterday because our cell phone company was having a party there.........everything was free and we thought the kids would enjoy it......While we were there we ran into one of her dad's sister's........I didn't want her momma hearing it second hand that I had her out there and that she ran into them........

2 wks ago the horse was attacked by a dog........We had to have the vet out to the tune of a $135 plus buy bandages and wound spray and he is still not healed.....Plus this same dog was very agressive with my kids and bruised 2 of them........

To add to all of that, the last 2 days Kent's ex has come over.........No phone calls no nothing.........Granted I know she is bringing Bradlee over to see Kent but she could at least called and let us know she is on her way........make sure we don't have nothing we are doing.......Bradlee is not Kent's but Kent has been in Bradlee's life since he was 18mths old.....he is now 12 (I think).......Bradlee's dad died a couple of years ago so the only positive male figure in his life is Kent.....To top that all off, she is pg again......the baby will probably be here in sept.......

And I seriously wondered until this evening why I was feeling so overwhelmed here lately.......I mean I just had a baby is all...........It feels so much better now that I wrote it all out........Gotta run and feed the baby so I can head to bed.........

This was to funny not to pass along

2009-06-16T00:49:00.001-05:00

Dear Non-Pregnant Person,

I hope you find these guidelines helpful in your interactions with pregnant women as failing to follow them may result in serious physical harm. If you are thinking, surely she doesn't mean me- then you should probably read this twice.

1) The appropriate response to a couple telling you they are having a baby is "Congratulations!" with enthusiasm. Any other response makes you an ass (including, “Did you plan this?”)

2) Through the wonders of science, we now know that babies are made ONLY by the mother and father- not grandparents. Unless the baby is in your uterus or you are the man that helped put it there, you may not ever use the phrase "my baby".

3) On the same note, unless you made the baby as defined in 2, the pregnancy, birth and raising of the child are not about you. You do not have input. No one wants to hear your opinion unless they ask for it. The same goes for the name of the baby.

4) The body of a pregnant woman should be treated the same as any other body. You would not randomly touch someone's stomach if they were not pregnant, nor would you inquire into the condition of their uterus, cervix or how they plan to use their breasts. Pregnancy does not remove all traces of privacy from a woman.

5) Likewise, no woman wants to hear comments on her weight- ever. A pregnant woman does not find it flattering that you think she is about is pop, must be having twins, looks swollen or has gained weight in her face. Telling her she looks too small only makes her worry that she is somehow starving her baby. Making such comments invite her to critique your physical appearance, and you may not act offended. The only acceptable comment on appearance is "You look fabulous!".

6) By the time we are 20-30 years old, most of us have picked up on the fact that the summer is hot. We are hot every summer when we are not pregnant. We don't need you to point out that we will be miserably hot before the baby comes.

7) There is a reason that tickets to L&D are not yet sold on Ticketmaster. Childbirth is actually not a public event. It may sound crazy, but some women really do not relish the idea of their mother, MIL or a host of other family members seeing their bare butt and genitals. Also, some people simply feel like the birth of their child is a private and emotional moment to be shared only by the parents. Like everything else in life, unless you receive an invitation, you are NOT invited. This includes doctor appointments, ultrasounds, labor, delivery, the hospital and the parents home. You do not decide if you will be there for the birth or if you will move in with the new parents to "help out". If your assistance is desired, rest assured that you will be asked for it.

8) If you are asked to help after the birth, this means you should clean up the house, help with cooking meals, and generally stay out of the way. Holding the baby more than the parents, interfering with breastfeeding and sleeping schedules and making a woman who is still leaking fluid from multiple locations lift a finger in housework is not helping.

9) The only people entitled to time with the baby are the parents. Whether they choose to have you at the hospital for the birth or ask for you to wait three weeks to visit, appreciate that you are being given the privilege of seeing their child. Complaining or showing disappointment only encourages the parents to include you less.

I hope this helps- it sure makes us feel better.
Signed,
All Pregnant Women

Dr updates

2009-06-15T21:52:00.000-05:00

Well lets see who do we start with, LOL

Joshua had his yearly physical this afternoon.........He woke up this morning with a sore throat and coughing his head off........He weighs 42.5lbs and is about 47" tall.......he is definantly my big boy.......His tonsils are very swollen so off to the ENT we go with him.......I'm hoping that they will manage to get him in with Austin in July.......Of course I will schedule both of their surgeries for the same day..........

Jace on the other hand............He weighs 9lbs even which could be a difference of scales........he is 21 1/2" long...........He is doing great in some areas.........I did get them to start the zantac but we won't know if it is working until about the end of the week.........he is only in the 5th% for weight and height but he is following his own growth curve so thats good........Right now he is swinging in the swing and enjoying it.......I have given him 2 doses of zantac and I seriously dont' think that he is feeling the effects from it yet but who knows as long as he is happy and not screaming at the top of his lungs...........I really think the saying needs to change from "if momma ain't happy no body's happy" to "If baby ain't happy, NO ONE IS HAPPY" or at least in my house that is the way it is........

More pics

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My sister Sarah and I

My sister Sarah holding her nephew Jace for the first time

Bryan 7 and Wyatt 3 (brothers)

Great Grandma with all her Great Grandkids from my mom

Bryan 7, Dallas 8, Alyssa 8, Jesse 8, and Lyndon 9 (our 2000 babies)

I am having issues with blogger today along with my computer and things are not wanting to post.........ugh.......

June 13th

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These 4 kiddos were all born within 5 mths of each oth

er in 2000.......going left to right Dallas (Nov 2000), Alyssa (August 2000, Jesse (July 2000) and Lyndon who is already 9 (May 2000)

My mom and step with 11 of the
grandkids.

My grandma with with her newest Great grandson Jace

All the grandkids, whats funny is we have one of these pics with just th

e 5 oldest and they are not looking at the camera either......hehehehehehehe

Today we spent the day with family at the park.......I went home for the first time in a long time......I grew up in the town that we went to..........The park was a place that my mom and I spent a lot of time at along with my brothers........This was also the first time my sister had been to it.........of course we took lots of pics........There were 3 generations present......Strange to say the least.........We have pics somewhere of 4 generations..........My great grandma, grandma, mom and me..........Excuse the pic overload, LOL........There were 11 out of 12 grandkids there...........The 12th one is my oldest son who could not be there...........

Joshua Aaron Lee

2009-06-11T00:28:00.000-05:00

Happy Birthday my big boy.......Litterally he was my biggest baby by far.........9lbs 12oz.........He looked like a sumo wrestler or a football player when he was born......Joshua was also my easiest pregnancy thou the drs didn't think so................And ya know at the time I didn't think so either..........About every 6 wks I would get the stomach flu............Durning wk 11 of my pregnancy......I developed a high fever, I had the flu, then the upper respirtory crap, the stomach flu and then the upper resp crap again..........I was miserable for 3 wks straight........not good when you have a 3 yr old at home.....Kent and I both agreed on the middle name.......Aaron is after my great-grandfather and little brother.........Lee is after Kent's Dad and my Dad............Joshua was what Alyssa picked out.........We gave her the choice between Nathanial(spl) and Joshua..........She said his name was Joshua Aaron "Turkey" Lee.........And at wk 15 we had u/s in which they said that if they had to guess right then and there what the baby was they would say boy...........He is all boy........Then again at wk 27, the dr couldn't find his heart beat.........Have I mentioned how stubburn this boy is........So off the hospital the next morning with a case of the stomach flu again for an u/s........I told the dr he was fine I could feel him moving, she could even hear him moving but having no hb worried her...........Anyways we get in there and they plop that wand on my belly and right there he is...........Only thing was he had his back to us............Ignoring the world like he does now, LOL........Around wk 36 or so I was told to become a couch potato..........hehehehe, ya right..........But I did try............

June 11th dawned and of course we were running late......Got stuck behind the coal train in Pryor.......Mom actually came down........I was having a c section and had to be at the hospital by 5:30 for an 8:00 section.............The coal train was a half hour long.........ugh...........I arrived at the hospital at 6:15........Around 7:30 they came and got me to go to the OR........It took the anthesiologist almost an hour to get the spinal in.........And at 8:35 am Joshua Aaron Lee arrived surprising everyone when he was born at how big he was...........Weighing at a whopping 9lbs 12oz..........No I didn't have diabeties though they think I went gestional diabetic at the end........He had a little issue with low blood sugar and had to have a bottle of formula but it corrected itself...........He was born on friday, we left the hospital on sunday.....Only to return 10 days later for an infection in momma......

Happy birthday baby...........Its hard to believe you are 5.............

Learning to live

2009-06-11T00:20:00.000-05:00

Baby Jace has by far been my most difficult baby to date..........When he isn't sleeping he is screaming and holding doesn't always help..........Its hard to believe he is already 8 wks old......We had a weight appt today and he weighed 9lbs 2.5oz..........HOLY COW this boy is growing like a weed.........He is still only drinking 4 oz of formula at a time but only keeps about 3 oz down.......he has severe reflux.........You can tell by the way he grimaces when he is spitting up........he also does the chewing thing which is also a sign..........I'm really glad he is going to the dr monday........The reflux does not seem to effect him gaining weight like it did with Alyssa so I am hoping that zantac will do the trick..........

The other day I was so frustrated I was ready to cry myself..........He screams straight for 3 hrs.........Plus having the other kids home...........OH MAN..........I swaddled him, unswaddled him.......burped him, tried to feed him, gave him mylicon drops, bounced, walked, car seat, swing (absolutely dispises that thing right now) binkie, outside............Giving him to daddy..........Nothing, not one darn thing would make this kid happy........I ended up having to put him in the bassinet and let him cry it out............I left to go to the pharmacy for Alyssa and Daddy said it took him about 20 mins to finally cry it out and go to sleep.........However after that crying fit he slept 4 1/2 hrs.........

The kids are awesome with him crying all the time.........They will come running........."mommy, Jace is crying" or Austin will try to crawl in the pack n play with him and feed him........No one this kid is turning into a butterball turkey, LOL.........

Week 2

2009-06-03T23:29:00.000-05:00

of the kids being out of school and so far it has rained at least once a week...........Joshua's birthday is coming up next week (the 11th) and we had planned a party for him this weekend.......Hum we will have to see if it will happen as no one RSVP'd at all........But I am still planning as if they are coming.......We will do water balloons and have cake............I think I have enough for everyone to do and keep plenty busy..........Then the 13th we are planning on meeting my mom in Independance at the zoo if she will ever answer me about it, lol........Its hard to believe my baby is turning 5........Time has flown my so fast.......It seems like just yesterday that he was born

Kent had his last surgery done today........Its been a crazy year and a half for him but hey its fixed and thats all that matters............They had to repair his shoulder (torn rotatar cup), tonsils, hernia and both hands for corpal tunnel syndrome........Next to have surgery is Austin, he will have his adnoids out at least and I'm hoping to have him take the tonsils out while he is in there.........And would you believe he is the only one of the kids who is able to take pencillian........He is on a round now for strep throat........

Photo overload

2009-05-28T22:46:00.000-05:00

16 yrs ago today

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I was 17 and a mommy for the very first time....My son Clayton Matthew was born at 8:08am weighing in at 8lbs 9oz and was 20 1/2" long..........Today he can drive a car with a license.......Also today (16 yrs ago) my mom graduated from nursing school after staying up all night with me in labor........................................Time flies, WOW!!!!

The Loving Kids

God Gave Us So Much

Where has time gone??

Austin James Levi

I am a large family mom

Excuse this house

Please consider doing this class

ChiAnne Renee Rose

Jace Andrew Lane

Tandem by Tracey Bateman

Long overdue update

Oklahoma fun facts

ChiAnne

OK, lets see which one of these babies is which

Sept 7th

Back to school

the newest member of our zoo is

Jace Andrew Lane

August 7th, 2010

Father's day

Joshua turned 6

Summer fun, memorial day weekend.......

Easter and actually one of all 5 of them togather

birthday party

We are alive

Day 2 of our Nicu stay

Welcome ChiAnne Renee Rose

Life gets hectic

Pic overload

A visit with Santa

Christmas 2009 pics *warning overload*

The blizzard of 2009 aka the Christmas eve storm

Merry Christmas

Dee's blog

Annoucement

Daddy and Jace

Kid jokes

Alyssa

Michael Lindgren

Increasing our family

6 mths 1 wk

Austin

Joshua and Alyssa's parent teacher conferences

The flu

When it rains it pours

Jace

Baby Jace

Baby Jace

Update on Austin

Accountibility

Accountibility

Mushrooms

Searching

In honor of Jace turning 5 mths old

The dangers lurking in your yard

A Quote

The beginning of school

My new baby

in reference to my last post

My new nightmare

overload of pics

Silly mysteries

August 7th, 2000

Update on the

My cravings, LOL

The laundry mountain

A quote from the Rosanne show

A beautiful saying

Jace's followup

July 13th

Sunday July 12th

July 11th

7/10/09

7-9-09

Our texas vacation 7-8-09

A follow up

I can't believe

I might as well make.........

More pics from the past couple of days

Austin and the barber shop

Christmas 2009 pics warning overload