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Saturday, September 13, 2008
Saturday, August 30, 2008
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.
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.
Sunday, August 24, 2008
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.


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.
Thursday, July 31, 2008
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!!
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!!
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
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!!
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!!
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
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!
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!
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.
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.
Fond Memories......
Yesterday I went to have my pre-testing done for my surgery next week. It just so happens the place that you go for your pre-testing is also the admissions office. This is where I came with the first set of twins that I had and Ella, when were checking in to be induced. The same small room with chairs lined up on every side and in the middle, the small table for children to play and the glass window that a nice lady sits behind to check you in..she can check you in to have what is only described as the miracle of birth, or she can check you in to have what can only be described as the taking of your insides, the insides that make those beautiful babies, the insides that will never be there again to make those beautiful babies, to make those happy families. It was a very sad day for me.
I sat there remembering the day we all came in to that small little waiting area, with the twins it was me and cotton, the twins mommy and daddy, my mom, Kari and Melissa my two good friends. We teased about me having my posse with me. We took pictures of me in a wheel chair before I was wheeled down to Labor and Deliver with the twins mommy and daddy. Big smiles all around!! There are pictures of myself and Paul and Sarah in that small waiting room huge smiles for all of us. We were getting ready to see beautiful babies on those days making families complete!! It all started those days in that small waiting room with the nice lady behind the glass.
I sat there thinking of those days and the day back in February when I had Maslin and Pierre and all the details those days had the smiles the tears the oohhhssss and aaaahhhhsss, the parents and the smiles on their faces the babies in their arms it all came back in a rush. If you know me you know what that brought on.....tears!!
I tried hard to keep them back, I didn't want the nurse to ask me once I was brought back what was wrong, if you know me again you know that wouldn't be good it would just make it worse. I was doing good just a little sniffle here and there a little quick wipe of the eye...i begged her not to ask me what was wrong......she didn't hear that begging in my head...she asked...I mumbled mmmhhhhmmmm she left the room they came full force!! I got up to get a tissue hopefully to clear it up before another nurse came in.
Another nurse came in, she wanted me to sign some paperwork. She said "this is so that you can be listed in the directory if someone comes looking for you while you are here" I wanted to say NO I don't want anyone to find me I want to crawl under the covers and never come out. I don't want anyone to know that I don't feel whole I don't feel....I don't know I don't know how I feel I just feel different. Even now and it hasn't happened yet, I can only guess I will feel the same then. I signed the papers while thinking all of this in my head.
I sent Kari a text telling her I wanted to run, of course she sent me a funny text back saying "don't do that you will pee yourself and everything will fall out" of course that's just what I needed at that time. She always seems to say just what I need her to at every minute that I need it. I guess that's why I love her so much!!
But that's what I wanted to do, I wanted to run and never look back! I don't know what my problem is, I don't let things effect me this bad normally. I usually just let things roll off my back. Sometimes I may be upset for a day or so but not like this. I thought I was doing ok after my one post about the initial feeling of it all hitting me. Then yesterday sitting in that waiting room it all rose up in me again. I hear that this is all normal but I just hate feeling this way. I don't like letting things effect me so much! That's my sister she is the drama queen she is the one that loves attention and dwells on everything. I'm the one that just says deal with it. I'm not overly sympathetic to people which is a HORRIBLE quality I have, I think again back to my sister who is always wanting people to feel sorry for her and poor poor her. That just makes me want to say suck it up and deal!! I normally think this is what I do. With this surgery for me I'm just not sucking it up as I normally do. I'm not dwelling on it I don't think its just effecting differently than what I had expected.
My uterus helped make three families. 6 children!! (including my own wonderful son) Its made so many miracles. Now they are going to suck her out of me (sorry TMI) and throw her in the trash! Just doesn't seem right!!
I came home yesterday with a migraine and laid on the couch from 12:30 - 6 in the dark with ice packs on my head. I don't know what the headache came from but during all three pregnancies I had HORRIBLE migraines I couldn't take what I usually take for them while I was pregnant, I was told yesterday I couldn't take it either until after the surgery because of the asprin in it. So the day ended as it began remembering my fond memories of the days I delivered beautiful children one to make my life happier and more complete and 5 to help other families happy and more complete!!
I just love this blog I feel so much better once I right things out!! Sorry to bore anyone who has come here to read this, its my own personal (yet public) way of dealing with this. So thank you for bearing with me. I promise after my surgery no more hormonal posts about me being sad! Only happy posts about the beautiful children I have in my life!! Blood and Surrogate!! Thanks again!
I sat there remembering the day we all came in to that small little waiting area, with the twins it was me and cotton, the twins mommy and daddy, my mom, Kari and Melissa my two good friends. We teased about me having my posse with me. We took pictures of me in a wheel chair before I was wheeled down to Labor and Deliver with the twins mommy and daddy. Big smiles all around!! There are pictures of myself and Paul and Sarah in that small waiting room huge smiles for all of us. We were getting ready to see beautiful babies on those days making families complete!! It all started those days in that small waiting room with the nice lady behind the glass.
I sat there thinking of those days and the day back in February when I had Maslin and Pierre and all the details those days had the smiles the tears the oohhhssss and aaaahhhhsss, the parents and the smiles on their faces the babies in their arms it all came back in a rush. If you know me you know what that brought on.....tears!!
I tried hard to keep them back, I didn't want the nurse to ask me once I was brought back what was wrong, if you know me again you know that wouldn't be good it would just make it worse. I was doing good just a little sniffle here and there a little quick wipe of the eye...i begged her not to ask me what was wrong......she didn't hear that begging in my head...she asked...I mumbled mmmhhhhmmmm she left the room they came full force!! I got up to get a tissue hopefully to clear it up before another nurse came in.
Another nurse came in, she wanted me to sign some paperwork. She said "this is so that you can be listed in the directory if someone comes looking for you while you are here" I wanted to say NO I don't want anyone to find me I want to crawl under the covers and never come out. I don't want anyone to know that I don't feel whole I don't feel....I don't know I don't know how I feel I just feel different. Even now and it hasn't happened yet, I can only guess I will feel the same then. I signed the papers while thinking all of this in my head.
I sent Kari a text telling her I wanted to run, of course she sent me a funny text back saying "don't do that you will pee yourself and everything will fall out" of course that's just what I needed at that time. She always seems to say just what I need her to at every minute that I need it. I guess that's why I love her so much!!
But that's what I wanted to do, I wanted to run and never look back! I don't know what my problem is, I don't let things effect me this bad normally. I usually just let things roll off my back. Sometimes I may be upset for a day or so but not like this. I thought I was doing ok after my one post about the initial feeling of it all hitting me. Then yesterday sitting in that waiting room it all rose up in me again. I hear that this is all normal but I just hate feeling this way. I don't like letting things effect me so much! That's my sister she is the drama queen she is the one that loves attention and dwells on everything. I'm the one that just says deal with it. I'm not overly sympathetic to people which is a HORRIBLE quality I have, I think again back to my sister who is always wanting people to feel sorry for her and poor poor her. That just makes me want to say suck it up and deal!! I normally think this is what I do. With this surgery for me I'm just not sucking it up as I normally do. I'm not dwelling on it I don't think its just effecting differently than what I had expected.
My uterus helped make three families. 6 children!! (including my own wonderful son) Its made so many miracles. Now they are going to suck her out of me (sorry TMI) and throw her in the trash! Just doesn't seem right!!
I came home yesterday with a migraine and laid on the couch from 12:30 - 6 in the dark with ice packs on my head. I don't know what the headache came from but during all three pregnancies I had HORRIBLE migraines I couldn't take what I usually take for them while I was pregnant, I was told yesterday I couldn't take it either until after the surgery because of the asprin in it. So the day ended as it began remembering my fond memories of the days I delivered beautiful children one to make my life happier and more complete and 5 to help other families happy and more complete!!
I just love this blog I feel so much better once I right things out!! Sorry to bore anyone who has come here to read this, its my own personal (yet public) way of dealing with this. So thank you for bearing with me. I promise after my surgery no more hormonal posts about me being sad! Only happy posts about the beautiful children I have in my life!! Blood and Surrogate!! Thanks again!
Tuesday, July 08, 2008
4th of July
Our town has a big 4th of July celebration with all kinds of activities at the park. We took the kiddos up there for a few hours to ride the two rides they had and of course the games and poney rides!! Dillon couldn't wait to get up there and sister LOVED the poney rides! Kristopher was not overly thrilled with going up there with the family but he did have fun throwing the balls trying to knock the guy in the water at the dunk tank! Here are some pictures from the day!

I tried getting them to smile cute with their cute outfits on but Kaitlyn kept giving me these big silly grins!! Shes so funny!!
Here they are going down the big slide, Dillons favorite thing!! Balloons and Clowns can this day get any better???

Here are the kids trying their arm at the dunk tank! Nobody was able to dunk the guy! Kristopher came so close, but no luck! He did hold the record at the fast pitch for awhile!
Here are the kids trying their arm at the dunk tank! Nobody was able to dunk the guy! Kristopher came so close, but no luck! He did hold the record at the fast pitch for awhile!
Here are the kids trying to find gold chocolate coins when you find one you get to pick out a prize from the box!! Kristoper jumped in there to help them! What a good kid!
She kept saying "horsey horsey horsey horsey" the whole entire time she was on it with a huge smile!!


Here they are playing in the caboose of a train that is located in the park. Its usually locked and you can only climb on the outside, but that day they had it opened and Dillon couldn't wait to get in and play!! He could have spent all day here!! They had a blast! Can you tell how thrilled Kristopher is?? ha!!
Ok another couple of pictures! Kaitlyn was having fun!

Kristopher's favorite part of the day had to take a picture of the coolmustang on the walk home.
Kristopher's favorite part of the day had to take a picture of the coolmustang on the walk home.
We had a great day!
Saturday, July 05, 2008
Our trip to 6 flags
****I have tried for a week to get this post done as long as the power doesn't go out with the storm tonight I am hoping to get this up tonight****


He loved the big raft water ride! He laughed the whole time of course we sat in the two seats that got the most wet!! We were SOAKED at the end of the ride!! So thats why there aren't any pictures of us together on here, because as you can imagine, I was not looking so hot after being soaked from head to toe and no hair dryer or flat iron handy!! LOL

Ok I lied I found this one picture, then went to the bathroom after the ride and saw what I looked like! AAAAAAHHHHHHHH






Can you say BORING!! Towards the end of the ride on the swings he was so bored he started trying to shake the swing back and forth to make it a tad more fun!!

We had a great day at 6 flags, the weather wasn't suppose to be very good so I think it scared most people away the lines were great! No wait in most!! So just my kinda day at Six Flags! :-) It wasn't tooooo hot either! It got warm in the sun, but when we went to the water park I got a little cool!!
The trip included me, Kristopher, Dillon, and two of Kristopher's friends, Michael and Craig. Of course the older boys went off on their own and what do you know it just so happens two of the girls they hang out with were going to be that day!! HHHHMMM wonder if that was a co incky dink or not?? :-) Then they saw another friend there with a cousin of his and a friend so it ended up being a big bunch!! They had a great time! Of course I only have a couple of pics of them because they went off on their own, but we did meet up with them. They took Dillon on the BIG HUGE ferris wheel that I am way to chicken to ride. So here are some picture of that. Dillon hodling the thums up sign and Kristopher posing for himself!
He loved the big raft water ride! He laughed the whole time of course we sat in the two seats that got the most wet!! We were SOAKED at the end of the ride!! So thats why there aren't any pictures of us together on here, because as you can imagine, I was not looking so hot after being soaked from head to toe and no hair dryer or flat iron handy!! LOL
Ok I lied I found this one picture, then went to the bathroom after the ride and saw what I looked like! AAAAAAHHHHHHHH

After they took Dil on the ferris wheel the other kids were going to go ride the Super Man you couldn't pay me enough money to ride that and Kristopher really didn't want to and it just so happen to be right close to the mine train coaster so Dillon asked him to go on that with him so he got out of going on the Super Man!! :-) (thanks dil) Look at this big smile!!

I met them over at the Mr. Freeze. I called Kristopher and he said he was in line to go on it and he had never been on that one before and was scared so I had to go see him afterwards and was able to coarse my way into getting them to pose for me!! :-) (he loved the coaster by the way, he went on it a few times)
So those are the pics I have of the older ones! Except when we left a little after 9PM!!! (we got there before it even opened at 10:30am) can you say LONG DAY!!! Anyway here are a variety of pictures of Dillon through out the park!! He was so cute!! He would jump up and down and giggle he was so excited!! I wish I had a video camera at the water park he had so much fun going down the big red slide. He couldn't wait to get up to the top and go down again!! I loved watching his face experiencing so many new things!! Such a great memory!! I love making memories and I think him in Six Flags will for sure be one of the best with him!! He wanted so bad to ride all the big coasters with "fufu" but he wasn't tall enough. I told him in a few years he could!! He has no fear that's for sure!!
He wasn't to thrilled with the kiddy rides. I had to tell him to smile and so there fore I get a tad bit of a fake smile!! He would have much rather been on the big ride kid rides!! We tried to get him on one of the new rides Tony Hawk something or other but that one was 42' and he is about 2 inches short!! I told him maybe we would be able to sneak him on, next year if he was just a tad to short. The mine train was 42 as well but they weren't measuring so we rode that over and over! He LOVED that one!
He loved getting to drive the old time cars. He was driving and wanted me to steer it after a little bit because he thought he kept driving off the "road" so he said "mimi you do drive and I'll push the gas" well i got a text right then and I went to open the phone and he freaked out because he thought we were going to crash because I wasn't holding the wheel so he stopped suddenly and we flew forward, he had a fit!! It was so funny! This was when we first started and he was so excited to get to drive!

He loved all the characters that were walking around and every one that we saw we had to stop and say hi and of course get a picture, so here are a few of those!!




At the end of the day they had a cute dance team come out to sing and dance, he was having fun as they tossed out beads!!
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