Santa is coming in 35 days!

I was going to wait till after Thanksgiving to post this pic but I couldnt wait it is too cute!
35 days till Christmas!

Home Again!

Home!

Braden is doing so good. Still a little broke out from a reaction to the tape over the site on the neck. But we are home!

Matt is off work all next week because we didn't know how long we would be there.

Now 9 loads of laundry to do but it is still so good to be home.

Bounce Back Boy

Did something happen to Braden yesterday? Was he not so sick we thought we might could lose him?....well if he was no signs of it this morning.

Up and ready to go to you guessed it Toys R Us.

Dont know yet if that will happen but so good to see him up and jumping around like a happy boy! No fever, no lingering anything he is just raring to go.

Now if I could just cover those gray hairs this whole experience has caused!

Very Thankful and a few gray hairs

Braden's procedure started out fine they came out and told me everything was going as scheduled. 20 minutes later there was a code on my pressure boy. His heart and blood pressure had bottomed due to crossing over a pathway in the brain that controls the heart when they were removing the mass. He recovered (he is a fighter) and now I just want to hug him and hold him FOREVER. His EKG afterwards and MRI both looked good. I just want to crawl in bed and hold him but I think I have been smothering him since he woke up. He has no clue how close we came and I am glad for that. His first coherent words were "I want to go to Toys R Us for my prize". So we have yet another wonderful blessing to celebrate....and I also think I have a few gray hairs from the not so good parts of this.

A little fun in the water before tommorow

We made it to Texas, we are right across from the hospital. We decided to sneak in some fun before our early morning call to surgery with Braden. I will update when I can!

I should be...

Packing that is what needs done along with about 15 other things on the to do list.

But I dont want to!

I am avoiding!

We leave tommorow at noon for Braden's procedure. Will also get to visit with some family so that is good.

Now if I could just get motivated to get things done....but its not happening. I am usually such an organized person but I tell you here lately it is just not happening.

I am thinking of chunking it all for tonight and waiting till tommorow morning and throwing it all together.

Up Up and Away

Little History...Braden is having a procedure done next Thursday on his brain. I had mentioned to my friend Laurie (she just got out of the air force reserves) that Braden loves airplanes. She set up two special treats for us and we did the first one today. Brittney, Braden and I (Matt had a meeting he couldn't get out of) got to go up in an airplane for a city tour. Braden even got to take the controls which Brittney sweats is what made her stomach upset! Here are some pics from our adventures. Monday night is the next treat where Braden will be VIP at the airforce base for night flights, get to sit in the simulator and much more.

Braden and our pilot Laurie's friend Stephen whose call name is "Cletus"
Arieal view of the kids school
Arieal virew of our housing district we are in the top row thrid house from the left.
Brittney ready to take off
Braden in the co pilot seat
Braden ready to go.
Brittney and Braden before take off
Braden ready to go!

10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1

I got this from http://whatssonmymind.blogspot.com/ "Anne's Blog". I have been in a blogging funk so I needed something to do.

10 Favorites…
Favorite Color: Purple
Favorite Food: Italian
Favorite Band/Singer: Faith Hill/Tim McGraw
Favorite Hobby: Reading
Favorite Movie: Pretty Woman
Favorite Sport: Basketball
Favorite Season: Summer
Favorite Day of the Week: Sunday
Favorite Ice Cream Flavor: Rocky Road
Favorite Time of Day: Morning

9 Currents…
Current Mood: Tired
Current Clothes: Jeans and a gray disney tshirt
Current Underwear Color: Pink
Current Desktop Picture: Island Scene
Current Nail Color: None
Current Time: 6:38 p.m.
Current Surroundings: my bedroom
Current Annoyances: Finally got cable back on about 10 minutes ago because more houses are being built behind us and once again they cut the cable with their digging!
Current Thoughts: I have to get to WalMart tommorow

8 Firsts…
First Best Friend: DeeDee
First Screen Name: kelcole
First Pet: Daisy an Australlian Sheppard
First Tattoo: No tattoos
First Crush: Jose in 2nd grade
First Music Group: I think it was Kool and the Gang WAY BACK
First Car: 1990 Grand Am Blue

7 lasts
Last Cigerette: Never smoked
Last Drink: Don't drink
Last Time on Drugs: Never
Last Kiss: About 3 hours ago
Last Movie Watched: Herbie
Last CD Played: Gretchen Wilson's new one
Last thing bought: Marshmellows

6 Have You Evers…
Have you ever dated one of your best friends? Yes
Have you ever broken the law? Yes (speeding in case you were wondering which law...I know bad me)
Have you ever been arrested? No
Have you ever skinny dipped? Yes
Have you ever been on television? Yes
Have you ever kissed someone you didn’t know? No

5 Places You’ve Been…
Pheonix, AZ
San Antonio, TX
Bindloch, Germany
Fort Riley, Kansas
Philadelphia, PA

4 People You Can Tell Anything To…
Matt
Adria
Christy
Anne

3 things you can hear right now:
Hubby and son making sword fighting noises
clicking of my keyboard
TV

3 things you can’t live without:
Family,
Friends
Love

3 things you do when you’re bored:
Read
Computer
Clean

2 Choices…
Black or white: black
Hot or cold: hot

1 Thing You Want To Do Before You Die…
Go on a cruise!

Tank tops for Thanksgiving?

It is 84 degrees. We have been out working in the yard in shorts!

It is NOVEMBER! What is with this weather?

I have a really cute Thanksgiving sweater but if this keeps up I may have to check into festive Thanksgiving tank tops!

Do Si Do

Hold hands, bow to your partner, to the left.......

Square dancing....Never have we done this before.

Today our daugther's friend turned 8 and the mom planned a ho down in a barn. They taught the kids square dances. After the kids attention span had been stretched the guy decided to grab some parents and teach some square dancing. It was actually quite fun.

Of course both hubby and I kept getting our right and left hands mixed up and that is quite important in square dancing.

Luckily the video cameras had been put up, there are a few pics of the teaching but all in all it was fun for the kids and adults and hey we tried something new so that is always a plus!

Below is a pic of the kids in their party garb.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

Getting Flak

I am getting flak from dear hubby for not updating my blog. Apparently he has FAR more time than I have had lately!

It was an extremely busy week, which is what I get for not being able to say no when people ask me to do something. Too many things to do and not enough hours to do them.

This weekend we have gotten several little house projects done so that makes me feel better.

I am looking forward to tommorow though, am going to take the kids to school, then run some errands and do some Christmas shopping (Toys R Us sales ad came out today), then back to the school for parties with both kids classes. I will have my Knight and my Rock Star tommorow (pics will be posted!). Rain is suppose to be here for Halloween so we will be indoors at the Hallelujiah night that the area churches put on in the elementary cafeteria.

So now hubby can quit giving me a hard time because blog is updated! Hopefully something blogworthy will happen soon and I can be more entertaining but this blog was simply to shut up dear hubby (love you sweetie!)!

She's 8!

Brittney is now 8 years old. As you can tell from the above she LOVES to pose for pics. Here are some more pics from various times of our celebration of 8 years old!!
Braden and his big sister!!!!!
Saturday morning birthday girl wanted to go get pumpkins from the pumpkin patch before decending on Toys R Us to spend birthday money.
Party Friday night the boys joining in on the Karoke fun (Tyler, Braden and Noah)
Birthday girl Brittney with her good friends Morgan and Kelsey (far right) we had a joint party with Kelsey (her birthday is the 23rd and Brittney's the 22nd so we combined the fun for a party Friday night.
Brittney showing off for her Luau Birthday Party!

Computer junkie

I am computer junkie I totally admit it. I will check my email sometimes 4 or 5 times a day take a quick peak at blogs, ect. I may just take 5 or 10 minutes to check but I just have to do it. A friend of mine takes her smoke breaks at work, for me when I take a break it is a computer break.

Well this week has been busier than usual yesterday I didnt get to check my email or even turn the computer on until 8pm...this is not good. Today same thing. I sure dont like this. Life can be busy but I have to have my email breaks!

Hopefully tommorow I can get on the computer before late evening.

2 totally different kids

I asked the kids what they wanted for Christmas.

Brittney: Mom I want to buy something for kids that are poor and wont get a Chirstmas.

I told her that was very nice.

Brittney: Mom you dont even have to buy me very much I just want to help some kids. I dont need anything.

Braden: (who has been sitting quietly) WHAT ARE YOU CRAZY? (to his sister), I will just give you a list mom.

Oh boy my kids, Braden isnt as selfish as it sounds but he is definetly not my charity driven child either. 2 different spectrums with these two.

ICE

I just love tidbits o finformation that I didnt know before...and wow having a way to share my tidbits even better..LOL.

Most probably have heard of this but I hadnt.

ICE

If you have a cell phone you are suppose to put in your directory ICE (In Case of Emergency) then the phone number you put there is who you want contacted if something happens in an accident and you are unconcious, ect.

Apparently medics, police and hospital personnel are being trained to automatically look for this on your cell phone.

I thought this was interesting and actually a good idea. I knew to have an ID card taped under the kids car seats but I didnt know about the ICE.

Apparently there are even places on the internet where you can buy stickers that say ICE to put on the back of your phone.

So I guess I will have hubby (have I mentioned I am technology impaired) add that to my cell phone directory.

Going back to 25th Post!

The Rules:
1. Go into your archive.
2. Find your 25th post.
3. Find the third sentence (or closest to).
4. Post the text of the sentence in your blog along with these instructions.
5. Encourage other people to do the same.

Mine was............

The doctors "think" it may be seizures coming from deep in the brain, but as one looked me in the eye and said, "We dont know what it is but we know something is causing a problem".

That pretty much sums up our medical experience with Braden, the docs knowing that something is wrong but not knowing what that is. Things have gotten better but it still gets very frustrating at times.

What was yours???

No more baby room

I was going to post before pics of Britt's room but that would require digging through the ever growing unorganized picture box and frankly I was afraid so instead you get the after pics only.

No more baby room. Now we have a "Cool" room.


Now Brittney's trophies are proudly shown on her purple wall, you can also see the jewels I used as a border around the room.

A view from the halldoor you can see her toybox that I put a rug on so that she can use as a window bench too. You can also see the beaded curtains.
A view of her bedding, her cool lamp, and retro rainbow colored alarm clock.
This is one of my favorite parts it is a white wipe on wipe off board as well as cork board in purple and pink for pics, ribbons, etc.
A view of Brittney's room showing the headboard, some of her porcelin dolls, her collection of snow globes.

Another view of the beaded curtains.
The Bratz poster and showing the jewels around top.

Not as tough as I wanted to be

I had laproscopic surgery this morning outpatient. I had to be there at 5:30 we were out by 10:00, which was good. I did indeed have endometriosis which is why I was having so much pain. They removed the pockets is how they referred to it from both ovaries. I go in Friday to talk about meds, if it comes back then no choice but to have a hysterectomy.

Anyway I have planned this for about 6 weeks. thinking I would be up and going directly after. Not so. I did do good, but I have slept all day, then got up when the kids came in then slept some more.

I had this idea that I was going to be supertough about all this and be able to clean house, not true a little slower than I thought I would be. But I am planning on doing stuff tommorow...well see...but I am just not a whiner and I thought I would just breeze through it but I have to admit I have whined a little today.

My sweet hubby took off today, I was like I dont need you too, but oh I am so glad he did. I hate admitting I dont have super powers and that I am human darn it.

Done once again

Brittney's room is clean...again.

Not only is it clean it is now redecorated as well.

No more little babish girl room. Brittney said "that pink baby room makes me feel like I am five". Keep in mind she is only 7 (will be 8 on 3 weeks).

We went from pink sponge painted walls with a heart border, pink bedspread all pale and sweet looking...that look is no more.

Now we have...

One hot pink wall, one green wall, one yellow wall, and one purple wall. I used colored gems in a random pattern at the top of the wall for a border. She has a bratz poster framed in a silver frame, one wall has a puzzle board on it with pink and purple cork board and white wipe on wipe off board pieces. We have bright beaded curtains on the windows.

We picked Brittney up from my parents and didn't tell her about the room. When she walked in she let out an excited little yell. She said it is awesome and so cool and had declared that it is not a baby room. My hubby thinks it looks like a teenager room. Definetly a change. Our baby girl is growing up way too fast.

I tried to take some pics but the sun was glaring at the wrong angle so will have to do that later.

Everything looks really good and it is all clean and organized! I had gotten some stuff out for a yard sale and then today I went in with the black trash bag....now it is clean! It wont stay that way long but today with the redecorating done and it all clean it sure is nice to savor.

Next on the home list is painting the living room, entry way and hallway. Braden's room will be done closer to Christmas time and he has requested camaflouge (misspelled?) and I am already getting lots of fun ideas.