Ella Boo

Again more excitment when I opened my email today to see these precious pictures of my sweet Ella boo and her beautiful sister Katie!! Thank you Sarah for the pics!! I can't wait to see the Christmas pictures!!

Don't you just love those long locks of Ellas, and Katies sweet freckles!! Just to cute!!!

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Picture of two of my Surrobabes!!

I was so excited to open my email this morning and to see a Christmas picture of Maslin, Pierre and Gabrielle. They are just to stinking cute!! Its hard to believe they will be 10 months old next Friday. Where has time gone??? I just wanted to pick them up and smooch those sweet cheeks!!! I will be going out there for their 1st birthday in February and it couldn't come fast enough!!! I will have our Christmas pictures up tomorrow, I just don't have time before work to load them up and get them on here! So check back tomorrow!

Thank you Kristina and Pierre for the picture!!! They are just beautiful!!!

After Surgery....and update on all the kids...

Brandy came out of surgery just fine yesterday. She has ALOT of hair shaved. I told a friend she had a BIG TIME mullett!! :-) All shaved from ear to ear about half way back then her long hair in the back. I didn't get a good look because I'm just not one that can handle "icky" hospital stuff very well.... its a big deal that I have even been able to handle going up there and seeing that drain hanging out of her head. ICK! She has several insisions a couple in her head and then one in her neck.

She was in alot of pain yesterday after the surgery. I left shortly after she got out of surgery to get back to work. Mom and Aunt Carol stayed and she slept for awhile. Today she slept most of the day. They talked about letting her go home today, but mom said she had something odd going on when she walked her to the bathroom tonight. She had some trembling in her arms. (that wasn't just being cold) And then she had some problems with her neruo testing tonight. Something with her legs weren't working right. Not sure what that was about but I'm sure we will hear more tomorrow.

The kids are doing well, they came over for awhile tonight to see Grandma before she goes home tomorrow. Kaitlyn was crabby mom said before I got there, but she seemed fine once I got home. Of course she ate 2 bowls of cereal and some of my supper. (she had already had McDonalds for dinner before I got home). She is suck a piggy! Dillon was having fun drawing whlie we ate dinner! He likes to spell words and write them out on paper. I think he feels older now that he can do that. He always asks how to spell something then if you help him sound it out he will do that and write it out. He's such a big boy!!

Kristopher made the Basketball team!!!!!!!!!!!!! YEAH!!!! He was very excited as were we all!!! I know he will do just great!!! He has been practicing hard every day and getting all his homework done as well. Its tough being a big Freshmen!! :-) He is doing great in school this year too. He got his report card a few weeks ago and had all B's!! Most of you know he struggles in Math and he got a B in Algebra so it was a great boost for him!! Then when we had parent/teacher conferences last week we he had a 99 in Algebra, I about fell off the chair, I said Kristopher Lewis right???? LOL The teacher laughed! They already had 8 or 10 grades in the grade book and he had a 99!! I was SHOCKED!! I of course had to take him to the mall to get him something special!! I told him whatever he wanted!! Of course he picked some new video game that he wanted.

Sorry I'm not updating very often these days, my new job is getting me home late and I am just exhausted when I get home. I do have Friday's off now so thats nice but it always seems that I save everything I need to do until my day off so I still don't get to rest! Oh well! Not complaining it could be worse!! I'm just glad I'm healthy and able to have a great job!

I will put some new christmas pictures on here soon. I need to go shopping for clothes for all the kids first!! (not clue when that will happen) :-)

Love to all!

Surgery...

Brandy has her final surgery tomorrow morning. I will let you know how things go. Thank you for keeping her in your prayers. I'm sure everything will be fine and she will be out of the hospital hopefully by the end of the week. She has been in the hospital over a month now so thank you all for your thoughts and prayers.

If you are following Mary's story I know the family appreciates all of your prayers. She has made WONDERFUL progress. Please also keep Mary and her family in your thoughts and prayers. http://marryberryman.blogspot.com/

Brandy

Some of you already know that my sister is in the hospital at Barnes Jewish in St. Louis. She went to the hospital over 2 weeks ago with pain in her abdomen. 2 weeks later nobody could really diagnois her with anything. They did say she had pancrititas. But they were treating that and the pain and vommitting was continuing....LONG story short she ended up at Barnes and within 12 hours of being there they knew she had spinal meningitis. Brandy has a shunt which is something that drains the fluid from her brain properly to her stomach, the infection had spread to her brain and she has had her shunt taken out (thursday morning) and a drain put in to drain all the fluid out into a bag externally. That evening she went to Radiology to have a shunt series done (CT Scan) and they accidently pulled this drain out of her head!! (don't ask I have no clue how that happened????) Anyway this mean emergency surgery thursday night, so they tried doing this in her ICU room by numbing her. They got it in but it was not in a really great place. When we got up there last night (friday) we were told she was being taken to surgery again right away because the drain was not properly draining. So again she went off to surgery. She is in ICU right now, doing well I'm assuming, my mom is up there with her. She flew in from FL last night.

In 7-10 days they will be going to surgery again to put in a NEW shunt! This time it will be on the left side. Right now its on the right which means her right side has been shaved, next week when they go in they will have to shave the right side of her head, they were teasing her she would have a nice mohawk when she gets to go home. :-) Dillon will be jealous! (I refuse to let him have a mohawk) :-) So hopefully once this infection is cleared up she will be having surgery for the new shunt maybe by early NEXT week. I will try and update when I can.

While waiting in the ICU waiting room Thursday I met a really great family they have been there since early monday morning. They are in great need of prayers so please please keep Mary in your prayers. Mary is the mother of Alex and Reagan and wife to Scott. She suffered a brain annurisum and is in ICU. Here is the blog they are going to keep on her recovery. Their family touched my heart and the dedication Scott has to Mary is beautiful. He hasn't left the hospital (I don't know if he has even left the ICU floor) since they arrived Monday morning. So please keep this whole family in your prayers!! Thank you!! http://maryberryman.blogspot.com/

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Halloween

Sorry this is a bit late but its been a little busy around here lately. I have the day off and a few minutes so I thought I would hop on here and get all these up. For some reason blogger is not posting some of the pics from previous posts. I am going to contact them and find out what the problem is. I hope these show up!!

The kids had a great time carving pumkins and then going trick or treating last week. Dillon was a football player. He was a SAINTS player because of course that is Kristopher's favorite team. Kaitlyn was a little frog. They got LOTS of candy. Even got hot dogs and hot chocolte at a couple different houses!!! We went to a great neighborhood in town (a friends) and I have never seen so many kids. It was great fun!!!

Homecoming.....

Well my young boy or I guess I should say man went to homecoming this last weekend. He didn't go with a girl, which I told him was fine, because as a freshmen he doesn't need to worry about hanging with a girl trying to make sure she has a good time. He just needed to go and have a good time himself with all his friends. Which is what they all did. There was 19 of them at the house where we took pictures. A few of his good friends were missing but for the most part they were all there. Out of that 19 there were only 2 couples. I really showed my age that night, I kept saying Ok you going stag come over here, all you staggers stand here for a picture ect.. finally some of them said "what is stag???" LOL I was cracking up. What an old lady I am!! :-)

They all had a great time and boy did they all look GREAT!!! They went back to the house where we took pictures (the girl in the pinkish flowerery dress) and had a bon fire until midnight. Boy did that night take me back to a few years back when I was getting all dressed up for my first homecoming. (yes i said a few years it wasn't ALL that LONG ago!! LOL). I'm glad he went and had a great time!!! Lots of memories!!! Here are a few.......ok alot of the picutres!! :-)

Kristopher is the one in black with the red tie. Yes him and his friend Reid have the same outfit, not intentional. I thought Reids pants were stripped for some reason, his mom told me but for some reason I was thinking the pants were pin stripped, Kristopher saw his shirt and grabbed it up right away. Oh well!!

The kids had to have ties like Kristopher so we had to get two of my hubbys and tie them so they could wear them around the house. Dilly had to wear his to church the next day! LOL

The gal in the green dress is one of the girls I have picked out for him to marry! LOL The other girl was not there for pics she ended up having people show up at her house so we didn't get any of her. Kristopher says Liz (the one in the green) is pretty but she is to tall so thats not going to happen. They stood together for the picture and I told them "oh not much longer you will be as tall as her and you can go out" LOL he was so embarrassed. But he is use to me so he just laughed it off!! HA HA

DAWN LOOK AT THIS ONE REID IS SMILING!!!!!! PROOF HE CAN DO IT!! LOL

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My nephew Dillon's first day of school....

I just posted about Kristopher's first day of HS and in that same week, my adorable sweet precious little nephew has started KINDERGARDEN!!! People that don't know us may have thought that the two little ones pictured in this blog are my children. They are not they are my niece and nephew, my sisters kids. I have taken care of Dillon since he was a baby. He doesn't live with me but is with me every day all day long. We love them just like our own children. They are a big part of our family. So Dillon's first day of school came so fast!! He has been so excited about it all summer long. He wants me to ask his teacher to give him homework like "fufu" has (he started calling Kristopher fufu when he was first trying to say his name and so that's just what we call him now!) He said he doesn't just want worksheets he wants real homework!! He's so funny! Here are a few pictures of his first day. His parent's took him but stopped by so I could get some pictures before they headed to the school. Then they took my camera for me to take pics!

Before they left for school


Walking into school

He was so excited to eat breakfast at school that morning so they had to go early so they could be sure to get him breakfast! :-) Can you tell by the smile how excited he is!!

Putting his book bag and lunch box into his locker!! He loves that he has a locker like 'fufu'

Please keep the kids in your prayers this week, they will be moving in with us for the next two months. Their dad is going to be away for about two months and its going to be very very
difficult for them. Dillon especially is going to have a VERY hard time with this, him and Jake are VERY attached. He is already showing some signs of anxiety from it so please ask God to be with them at this time.

1st day of school

Well the day came......my baby my sweet chubby cheeked little bowl cut haired boy went to his first day of HIGH SCHOOL!!! How did that happen??
1st day of Kindergarden 1999


1st day of High school 2008

I did much better than what I thought I would but it was still so sad to send my baby off to the big world of High school. I knew what would happen once he opened those doors and walked in. I remember my days of high school. I remember what kinds of things went on. I knew the things I did and what others did (kari LOL) . I hated to turn my son loose on all of that. But it had to happen sooner or later. I'm sure he will do fine! He's a good kid!

He wasn't overly thrilled with his first day. He was nervous when I dropped him off but came out fine and said it was pretty boring. So we will see how the year progresses! I just pray he does well in his classes and can keep up his GPA the next four years!!

He LOVES football and is doing well. He had his first game Friday night. It was a scrimmage between other team members. Its an annual game they play called the Purple/White game. I was a nervous wreck I squeezed my friends Dawn's hand I'm sure she had marks, and pulled on the back of my other friend Lori's shirt. Good thing it wasn't high collared or she would have chocked to death! (sorry ladies) Kristopher is playing WR and he was thrown the ball, caught it I screamed with excitement in the same breath he was tackled and I screamed with fear. He hopped right up (from what I was told I had my head down) and did just fine. (he held on to the ball when he was tackled!! Good job Son!!) I was so stinking nervous I totally forgot to take out my camera to get pictures. So all I have is a group huddle of them after the game. I will be sure to get more as the games progress hopefully I will relax a little. I love that he is having so much fun I want to enjoy it with him, its just a tad nerve wracking seeing these big boys running after your child wanting to take him down! :-) I'm sure other football moms know what I am talking about.

He had to get his hair cut for football so that's why its so short. He liked it better longer.

Update on Pierre and Maslin

As many of you know I have several surrogate children and I love to give updates whenever I can. I talked Kristina several times this week and she informed me that the little tiny babies that we delivered on February 14th, 2008 at 5.9 lbs and 5.6lbs are now Pierre 18.10 lbs and Little Twin Maslin at 18.1 I am SOOO in shock!! How it that possible?? Its only been 5 months!! They are just so huge! AND she said Pierre is rolling completely over from his back to his belly and getting up on all fours and crawling. Granted he doesn't go to far but at FIVE months?? That is just so early!! But she did say they still love to cuddle so they aren't all grown up yet!! :-) Here are a few pictures for you to see just how big they are!!

Thank you so much Kristina for the pictures and all the calls!! I hope you're recovery from surgery keeps going well!! I know you hate not being able to care for the boys by yourself!
Love ya!


Pierre with his sweet chubby cheeks


Maslin with his beautiful big eyes!! Now known as Baby McDreamy because you just get lost in his dreamy eyes!!


Maslin


Pierre in the diaper and Maslin chewing his hand


Maslin


Pierre up top Maslin below

I just adore them so much!! They have grown and changed more than I would have ever thought in just 4 months since I have seen them. I can't wait to see them again. I miss them tuns and wish I could be there to help mom out after her shoulder surgery!! But she has beefed them up so much they are over my weight limit since my surgery!! HA HA!!

Surgery and Recovery

Hi all sorry it took so long to update after my surgery, but I am doing just fine. I am still pretty sore, but otherwise ok.

The surgery its self went well they took me back right on time, the last thing I remembered was someone telling me that this mask will help you breathe easy during the surgery so take a few deep breathes, the next thing I remember was waking up and not knowing for sure where I was but my throat hurt horribly. I couldn't feel anything else painful but my throat. The surgery took around 2 hours and everything went smoothly from what Dr. Chadwick said.

That afternoon in my room I got sick I thought no biggie. Well I went to adjust my sheet that I had covering me up and I noticed my gown had blood all over it along with the padding on my bed. Cotton panicked (never seen him panic before in 11 years) and pushed the button to call the nurse and said "she's bleeding all over in here" and they came RUNNING in. We assume when I threw up the "glue" they use must not have held together real well. The nurse put some steri strips on and we were all better.

Not sure I told you what all the procedure would entail other than the hyst but I did have a sling for my bladder and some pretty good repair work in there. So because of the sling I had to go home with a cath bag. FUN FUN!!! NOT!! I had some bleeding still from my incision so I went in to see the dr. (mine was off Thursday so saw a partner) and he said that the incision was fine but was nice enough to take the cath out so I didn't have to come back up Friday morning and have it done. So that was nice.

I took the steri strips off my incision and cleaned all the dry blood up on Friday or Saturday and realized I had a disgusting protruding blood clot coming from my belly button. I knew it would be fine but everyone that saw it insisted I go to the dr so I did today and he said exactly what I knew he would its just a blood clot or hematoma and it will eventually fall off. He said after seeing it though that he thinks he will go back to stitches instead of the clue he had never seen anything like that before. My Aunt is always telling me I need to cut the chord with Kristopher (insuating that I am over protective....ME??? NEVER!!!) so I told everyone that they found the umbilical chord during surgery and cut it so now I just have to wait for it to dry up and fall off!! HA HA

So anyway that's my surgery story!! I am healing every day and getting back to normal. My SWEET DEAREST FRIENDS have taken such good care of me. A girl couldn't ask for better Friends/family!!! I have had a meal brought to me everyday since I got home from the hospital, a call from a handful of people everyday and or an email/text. I am so thankful for all of them!! I am truly blessed that God brought all of them into my life I don't know what I would do with out them all so here is a special
THANK YOU TO ALL OF YOU!!

TOM AND LORI for visiting the flowers and calling to check on me and for the wonderful meal you brought to us!!

CECIL AND JEANNETTE and BRITTNEY AND NIKOLE for visiting and the flowers and the 2 wonderful meals you provided, and most of all for praying with me and calming my nerves (even if you did wake me up at 6am HA!!) and to the girls for coming over and helping out and knowing I can call anytime and one of you will be here!

MELISSA AND KEN thank you Melissa for getting up so early to be there with us the day of my surgery and for being with Cotton while I was in surgery (even if you two did go on a date HA!!) for staying with me that afternoon, for the yummy meal and everything else you have done!

MELISSA C thank you for being there to take me to dr appts, for the meal of yummy pork chops, for checking on me and so much more!

JANNA thank you so much for the yummy chicken meal and the beautiful Daisy's!! The thoughtfulness meant so much!

TIM AND DAWN for the yummy pizza I think that was probably Kristopher's favorite meal!

CARLA AND BOYS thank you so much for taking care of Dillon for me, it was comforting knowing he was in good hands those days while I was in the hospital, I know he loves being there so thank you very much!

KRISTINA, PIERRE, GABRIELLE, PIERRE AND MASLIN thank you so much for the comfy jamies you sent. I LOVE them!! I love you all!!!

CONNIE thank you for the kind card and gifts it was so much appreciated. Dillon and I have been playing with all of them this week!

MIKE AND SANDY for taking time out of your busy days to come pray with me at home before the surgery and then again at the hospital after the surgery. Your thoughtfulness meant allot and I greatly appreciate it. Thank you for checking on me this week even after your new grandson was born! :-)

I want to give a very special thank you to all my small group ladies and Melissa C. you are all my BIG ( HA HA) sisters my family and I'm so thankful for all of you. Its so comforting to know that I have you all with in reach anytime. I never had a big sister and now I have to many to even count. So thank you so much, you all know how much trouble I have accepting any sort of help so thank you for not giving me the option of saying no thank you and just doing it because you know I'm stubborn! I love you all from the bottom of my heart and thank God each and everyday for each one of you!! I pray that I can bless you all one day as you have all so richly blessed me.

There are so many others that have called to check on me sent emails and prayers my way I want to thank you all even if you haven't been mentioned here your love and prayers have been felt. Thank you so much!!

Anyone want a camper....

Not really...well if I had my way we would sell it but that and the boat are my husbands other loves. We went camping this weekend and it was miserable!! It POURED down rain the first night, the tent was SOAKING when we the girls got the the camp ground. (we went after the guys, we planned it that way so everything was done when we got there ha ha) anway we had to go to the next town to walmart and get a new camper. ALL they bed clothes were SOAKED! We had to get a few new blankets and dig for more in the camper. Here is our camper so its not like we have it rough and here is my nice comfy bed!

We went on the boat Saturday and had a great time! It was Dillon's first time with us camping and he was SOOOOO good and had so much fun!! I of course don't have any pictures of him on the boat because I forgot the camera the time I was on the boat with him, and then when I gave it to dear ole hubby when he went back out he forgot to take pics so I just have Kristopher on and his friends and then some of all of us at the site!! I did remember I have two on my phone so they wont' be great but here those are of Dillon, he was so excited he got to drive the boat!!! Of course he had a grin the whole time expect when I snapped the picture! Here is one of him tubbing you can just barely see his head sticking out the top of the tube. He is with Kristophers friend Craig.

Saturday night it POURED even HARDER than Friday night and the tent got wet again. This time not as bad but we did have to bring in all their stuff to the camper to dry out a little the did end up sleeping in the tent this time but I think it still had some wet spots!!

Melissa and I left early Sunday morning before they went on the boat. She had a sunburn and I was looking for anyway to get out of there!! Camping, clean up, wet, mess, mud etc... I don't like any of it and all of it togther is even worse!! So her and I and one of her boys and Dillon left and the other guys stayed and played on the boat for a few hours before heading home. They had a great time and everyone was pretty red by the end of the weekend!!

Here are some pictures of my last camping trip!! I swore after all that rain I was never going camping again!! Although we do have a wonderful 5th wheel so its really not like we are roughing it, its just not any fun to me. I could stay on the boat all day, but the camping thing just isn't for

me!

Our new members of the family...

Ok I know allot of you are thinking (those that know me) good heavens Misty ANOTHER DOG?? I know we have had a lot BUT when I was growing up I had a dog, annie. She was so sweet and so good! We got here when I was in 8th grade and she didn't die until my son who is 14 now was 10. She lived a LONG wonderful life and we all loved her so much. Here is our sweet Annie! These are scanned so not great quality!

I wanted a dog that I could LOVE and until now I haven't been able to find that "connection". So since she died we have gone through a LOT of dogs. My husband says I have a nack for picking out the most RETARDED of all dogs.

Well this time we went to Spencer Kennel http://www.spencerkennel.com/ a great no kill shelter not to far from here. I went just to LOOK. A few months back you may remember that my friend Kari and I went to an Oprah Show and it was about doggy mills and how you should always adopt dogs from kennels/shelters. It showed video of these horrible places called Doggy Mills, they are treated so poorly and over bread!! They never get to leave their kennel and walk on sharp wires all their lives! Ever since that show I have wanted even more to have that connection with my pet. I didn't have it with the dog that we had. So I went to Spencers just to see what they had.

I walked down the long dog runs with Dillon and one of their volunteers looking at all the very loud barking dogs. I came to a run with 4 or 5 dogs in it. They were all just laying there not doing much one had her tounge hanging out and barely gave me a glance when I walked by, when I went in to the runs I knew I was going to look for a dog that was not barking and jumping on the gate. I know they calm down when they aren't in there but for me that was what I was looking for. I asked about all the small dogs in that run and she told me they had just picked them up that week from a DOGGY MILL!!! Ok so my heart melted right then when I heard that knowing how these poor dogs are treated!! I kept looking because I wanted to look at ALL the dogs. She took us to Willow a beautiful all white terrier of some kind. She told us what a great dog she was. The owner dropped her off because she traveled allot with her job and just couldn't care for her anymore. She took her out of the run and took her out front and played with her. She put her head right up underneath my arm right away she didn't lick YEAH!! another thing I can't stand but she would up her nose up to you to let you know she liked ya. She was so sweet!!

The whole time I'm thinking about the little dog with her tounge hanging out. I asked if I could see her as well. I took her in my arms and she just nuzzled up to my neck and stayed there. Ok can you say IN LOVE!!!! I couldn't decide what to do, I knew Cotton would NOT be thrilled with any dogs much less TWO! I asked Dillon what he thought we should do. He wanted them both!! I told him I didn't think Cotton would like that. So we went and picked up Kristopher and brought him back to the kennel. He fell in love with them both. He has a HUGE heart and loves animals and when i told him all that was wrong with the little puppy mill dog (which I will explain in a bit) his poor little heart broke for her.

So long story short we asked if we could do foster care for the little puppy mill dog and adopt Willow. They gave us an even better deal, they let us take Willow home for the weekend to see how things went. That was a GREAT idea!! I wish I would have done that with all the other dogs we bought. Willow worked out great with our family! She has just fit right in. Except for a minor snip at a friend for some strange reason she has been great. She didn't snip or anything at the groomer so I'm not sure what the deal was that night. It was our first full day with her so I don't know if she was just skiddish or what. But anyway we love her and shes just great!

The little foster dog named Bailey came home with us that day as well. (the day we went back to adopt Willow). I just couldn't get her out of my mind I had to bring her home so after we had some time alone with Willow we went back to the Kennel and adopted Willow and took Bailey home! A couple of nights ago my neighbor thought about adopting and Cotton told her they could just have our foster dog. I couldn't believe he said that I was shocked. He has been loving on both the dogs, which if you had seen cotton with our other dogs you would know thats a shocker! So I asked him why he said that and he said "well she is just a foster dog right" and I just kinda smiled at him while cuddling with Bailey and he said "you're going to keep her aren't you"? I replied "well I had kinda hoped she would grow on you" and I was right!! His response was "well she kinda has I feel so bad for the poor thing, you can keep her if you want" :) SO YEAH!!! I called the kennel today and set it up!! She may even give me a deal she was going to figure out how much money she has into her and let me know a price!! I'm so excited!! She is so sweet!!

Bailey has a few things wrong with her she has had an injury to her left eye so instead of it protruding like its suppose to its shrunk and sunk in the vet says she has poor vision in that eye and she can't track me at all from that side. Her other eye doesn't have great vision either. Her legs are VERY bowed and she has a hard time walking. She can only go a little bit before she has to sit or she stumbles. She has only four teeth one on each side on the top and bottom. Her tounge hangs out because she has no teeth and her jaw is/was broken. Everyone (other than Tom and Cecil) who sees her just loves her and thinks she is just the sweetest thing. Some say she has a face only a mother can love!! And boy do I!!!

So here are our new babies! Bailey is 6 ro 7 and Willow is about 1.