Please consider doing this class

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

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

 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

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

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

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

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......