HAPPY BIRTHDAY ETHAN

TODAY MY ANGEL TURNED 7!!!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY ETHAN!!!!
Please come back this weekend and check out my blog, I will have Ethan and Braydens birthday post, it will take a little while, these kids mean the world to me and Im ready to share some sweet times...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Wonderful Wednesday

Today was an emotional but wonderful day.. Here is my hubby and his fellow soldiers leading our Veterans day Parade... Here they are doing a flag ceremony...You have no idea how proud I am!!!

And I am so proud that I live in a town that supports our men and women like they do.....

and another huge THANK YOU TO APPLEBEES. They had free dinners for all Veterans, it was a great lunch we had a wonderful time I was lucky to have my rock by my side, my mom and my step dad, with 4 soldiers and another wife, we had a fantastic time...

HAPPY VETERANS DAY

Lord, wrap your arms around me
In this hostile,brutal place;

Let me draw peace and comfort

From your restful, sweet embrace.
Help me do my duty
To uphold what is right;
Give me strength and courage
Each day and every night.

Lord, hear this soldiers prayer

To you in heaven above;

Protect me with your power

And sustain me with your love.....

We are so very proud on this Veteran's Day to have our soldier home...

As we know that this time next year, we will celebrate many miles away....

This year is a very hard Veterans Day for me. In less that 20 days I will be saying Good- Bye to my soldier... I will watch him pack, make sure he has all that he needs, sit around and watch as everyone tells him bye, and that everything is going to be ok. Hold back tears so that my kids don't think its the end of the world, despite what they have heard about war... I will get the strength to watch him walk away and sit and wait for every single phone call, check my mail 10 times a day just to see his hand writing and to smell the letters that he touched, some will even be sandy and dirty and those I secretly treasure more.. I will only get to look into his eyes through the web cam. Don't get me wrong, I'm grateful to see him in somewhat real time. I will start looking for fun things to send him in care packages. His birthday will be celebrated miles and miles away. We will send him lots of cards. pictures. and items from home, so that he feels like he hasn't missed a thing. Truth is as bad as all of this seems, I am so PROUD of him, I STAND by him, as he has made the choice to SERVE our country with HONOR. AND FOR THIS I'M SO PROUD TO CALL THIS VETERAN MY HUSBAND. I will always stand by his side and support him thru all of his journey as he serves and protects this amazing country.


**** This picture us not a great pic, but you have to see it, this is the picture of him in the hanger just moments before he deployed for his first tour. This day changed his life...

Just as this day changed his.My cousin Cody signed up for the United States Army and is getting ready to start his journey soon, he will be deployed at the beginning of the year.

And on this day another cousin of mine Cora Beth, changed her life. She also enlisted in the United States Army and has already began her journey in Korea. She will be returning in April..

The men and women in the military work hard, and give alot, make sure you thank a Veteran today and pray and support each and every one of them...

So this year on VETERANS DAY, we as a family have sooooo much to be proud of.. And we are!!!!

Thank you Cora Beth, Darin, and Cody for all that you do.....

HAPPY VETERANS DAY

Update!

Well today Khloe finally went to the Dr, she weighed 33 pounds, my sweet little girly. She does have fluid on her left ear, and she has strep throat fun times... Now we are at home with 2 meds, and a very fussy whinny child.

And Brayden went to the Dr today too, he weighed 43 pounds, and he was tested again for flu, although we have all had swine flu, thankfully he did not have flu and his throat and ears looked good, he does have a very active tummy and he has a tummy bug, so we will see how things are going tomorrow if he goes to school tomorrow. So to say the least we have had a very long day full of screaming mad whiny kids.

Thankfully Ethan is staying strong and not sick, he went to choir practice tonight and he is staying with Papa so that he stays clear from the germs.. Speaking of Ethan, remind me I owe him his own entire post and his teenager ways!

****Just for fun we weighed Kinlee tonight and she weighed 23 pounds funny we have one 23,33,43 pounds Ill have to weigh Ethan and see where he is at.

*Note to self- I owe Brayden his entire Birthday Post.Ethan's bday is next Thursday!! These kids are growing like crazy!

ANOTHER ROUND OF SICKNESS COMING THRU

As I'm attempting to adjust to my new meds and recovering from a horrible weekend Khloe and Brayden are sick. We have started trying to potty train Brayden, I know that he is 4 now, but potty training a child with developmental delays and sensory issues can be slightly challenging, so we have had a crazy week with him. So this morning Brayden wakes up grabbing his tummy and telling me that his tummy hurts so we blow it off thinking well, maybe he just needs to go potty, so we go on and send him to school I tell his teacher that he has woke up holding his tummy and she is like we will watch him. As he was getting out of the car I noticed his attitude was changed he didn't want to get out of the car and was really scared to "jump" out of the van, so it was odd but we took it as Brayden Behavior. *** Side note- it has been colder in the morning and with his Stiff Person Syndrome it makes his body hurt, so some of his delay this morning I was afraid maybe his muscles were hurting. Anyway, at around 8:45 I see Brayden school calling me, and I knew it was time for him to be leaving for Physical Therapy so I was curious maybe he had to many accidents, I didn't expect for them to tell me he was throwing up everywhere!!!! So I went immediately to get my baby, feeling horrible for sending him to school, had I known he was sick, I would never sent him, but with all going on, I didn't want to over react.As the day goes on he has played but then grabbed his tummy, his head, and then as he was laying down for a nap he started complain that his back and legs were hurting poor angel, I hope that his Stiff Person is not going to start up again. We will watch and see how things are going, we are aware that if he is going thru a growth spurt it can be painful so we will keep a close eye, tonight he started running a fever so we are staying home tomorrow. Mommy is glad! SO we are going to doctor him and Khloe up all day tomorrow and hope this is short lived.

WE HAVE BEEN ON THE HIDE OUT

I promise that as soon as I get a few things under control that I will start blogging and I will blog daily. I want Darin to be where he can read and see what all is going on in our lives while he is away and this is such a great thing for me to go back and relive some fun times. Many days I'm always in a hurry , always running 15 min late (and that's on a good day.) Always struggling to gather all of our things together , juggling the different bags the kids might need, scrambling around to meet different dead lines for this and that , and the hardest thing that we have found that we are doing is killing our selves. I think that we know that we have around 35 days and he leaves and he will be gone a few days between then, and we are trying to cram in as much time together as we can so if that means we are staying up until way past midnight just so that we get as much time together as we can, that is what we are doing.
So, although there are so many things going on, I just sometimes hate to sit down and waist time that I could be doing something else to blog. But, in all honesty this is something that I LOVE, i love to read other peoples blogs, I have blog friends that I read, and I can go back and read what happened on certain days, and FAMILY can read and know what all is going on, and that is something that i love. Now tonight, I'm not going to share any Halloween pics, but maybe tomorrow.
Tonight, for my own personal reason I'm going to blog about me. My health over the weekend, remind myself, how bad things got for me so that I start to take better care of myself so that I never feel this way again.
Saturday, Halloween day, I should have woke up all excited, after all the day before my husband sends me awesome fall flowers, I spent the day with my kids schools, we were all into the holiday spirit, but really I wasn't. To be honest I didn't even get out of bed until after 1. And at that time I had to talk myself into getting out of bed, I had the worse head ache i have had in a long time. And I have had major migraines alot, but this was one of the worse. I suffered through put on my happy face and off we went trick or treating. I poured caffeine down like I was going to die if I didn't have any, and then I started taking Motrin, Tylenol all the generic meds I could get my hands on. My our last stop I was so sick I had to lay down on my cousins floor. And poor Darin helped load the car up my kids stayed their all night and I was forever thankful. Bu this time I was so sick my vision was so screwed up we got home my heart was pounding, my head was throbbing we checked my blood pressure to find it was 206/115. This is high, and my husband immediately tells me that we are going to the ER. but stubborn me passes on that and decides it would be to busy and I'm to sick to go to the hospital... long story... i went for next 24 hours like this in bed popping tons of head ache pills, around the clock monitoring my bp, and begging to die. I couldn't get a good breath, at one point Darin sat down beside me and looked like he had tears in his eyes and was like honey I'm so worried lets go to the hospital, as I laid there thinking maybe I really should all the hours of meds finally hit me and I passed out until 5 that afternoon.
We have struggled with this over the weekend i went to the Dr today. My pressure was terrible there they gave me so much meds that I came home and passed out and now I'm getting a shower and going back to bed, they took alot of bled today they need to check out my kidneys and my heart and a few other things. We got my meds changed and I hope I start to feel like my old self soon.

KEEP AN EYE OUT IM GOING TO POST ALOT OF PICS AS SOON AS I FEEL LIKE LOOKING AT THIS COMPUTER FOR MORE THEN A FEW MIN.

Coming Soon!!!

STARTING OCTOBER 1ST IM GOING TO BE DOING BETTER ON MY BLOGGING, LIFE HAS BEEN SO MUCH HARDER THEN I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE LATELY, BUT TIME TO GET BACK INVOLVED. STAY TUNED, AND KEEP US IN YOUR PRAYERS WE NEED THEM MORE THEN EVER!!!!