Softball Games

Wayne LOVES Softball!!! He is currently playing two nights a week, two games per night. Occasionally -- I will go and drag the kids with me. This is how interested Ky is ..........................

AJ acts like the well behaved child that he is -------- NOT!!!!
The HILITE of the game was when said well behave child apparently needs to go to the bathroom. He drops his drawers and whips it out and sends out a pretty good stream right out there in the wide open public park area!!!! Makes a mom so proud!!! Apparently the weed was thirsty! :p~~~

I thought that the 6-8 players that were walking with Wayne and I were going to wet themselves also because there were laughin so hard. What a site that would have been. :D lol

Family Craziness

We just had our county fair. I help, volunteer with the horse shows. One of the shows is an Open Invitation for the more MATURE people! I can't believe Janet's horses let her do this to them.

Our resident Rodeo Bull Clown.

The Back side was pretty dang Great!

They both won 1ST overall!!!! However, she is starting to get a reputation on her costumes.... What will she come up with next year????

First Week of School

I can't believe that it's school time already -- And I have a Jr. High student.?.?.? AGAIN! There was some major nerves going on, both with her and me. She is still petite and different personality that I have different worries for her. My older children I didn't worry as badly with them going to Jr High as I did with Ky. She was struggling pretty badly with the combo on her locker. It was almost comical. She is 12 and still has issues with rights and lefts???? Whats up with that? There ended up being a bus stop issue on the first day, but that has since been taken care of. It would have been nice to know that the stop had been moved!!!

Here is Ky on her First day of 7th grade. So CUTE! At her school, they have the 7th graders go a day earlier for half a day so that they can get a grip on how it is all going to go. Finding classes, going to their lockers, making it to their next class and going to their locker and so on. There were older kids there throughout the halls to help out in any way -- which was great! She even got on the RIGHT bus ok and made it home!!!! Life is Good!


















She had the next day off. Here she is on her First FULL day of school with ALL of the 8th and 9th graders! SCARY! We both survived though! WHEW! Her with her 3 loves : Horses, Pink and Cupcakes! Who else do you know that could pull that off? :)

Children

Finally after the doc gets back from vacation, we have news!!

Kylee is semi-good news. It's a hurry up wait and see what happens routine. Her curve is only a 7% curve, so technically it isn't scoliosis. Just take another xray in a year and see what has developed. YIPEE!!

Austin, well, the doc still feels like he will grow out of this seizure stage within the next couple of years. However, if he keeps having them, to let him know. If by chance he has any WITHOUT a fever, then that is something entirely different.

I love living on pins and needles like this.

In the meantime, I have ALOT of sewing to get caught up on. Unfortunately, my little photographer has put my camera in a really safe place and I haven't been able to find it yet. So you all will just have to trust me on all that I talk about. Hopefully the camera will be found soon and I can take pics to show you.

I have done another quilt top for Konda Luckau for her new book. It is soooo cute!!! It is made with charm squares - of course - and it is FISH! of all things -- done in batiks! WOW! comes to mind. Konda hurried and quilted it so now I have to trim and bind it. I have a week while she is on vacation.

I have been talking with another designer about sewing up some samples for her, but she lives 3 towns away...............We will see. Hopefully. Eventually.......

In the meantime, I have been sewing up a large amount of blocks for a round robin (block exchange) that need to be done in the next couple of days, getting kits and directions ready for my Holy Stitches group, working on Marie Antoinette and Thimbleberries for the store and having a couple (or 4) of 4H horse shows in the middle of all of my madness. OH and one of the most important things that happened -- KY had a birthday! WOW! she is 12 and going to be in JrHi! She is just to little to be that old!

Fabulous Summer continues

I take the kids in for a routine checkup. They haven't been for awhile. Hindsight, I should have canceled their appointments!

Kylee goes first. Everything is fine UNTIL she bends over and the doc checks out her back. The spine in doing a unique thing -- it's curving! We talk discuss and off to the hospital to get an xray to see how bad it really is. Then we will talk and discuss some more.

Austins turn. Everything is fine with him, just a little under developed mentally is all. No big deal. We talked about his partial seizure last August and how we were recently out in the sun a week ago and he has been acting a little different. The Doc has this look on his face that says "Well let me see, Where's my crystal ball to look back in time to see what you are talking about so I know how to help you out." Obviously, no real satisfying results came to mind, other than keep a journal and he will more than likely grow out of them -- unless they happen again and frequently. DUH! In comes the nurse after he leaves both kids get shot and home we go.

I break the wonderful news to dear ole dad, leave Austin Man home and Ky and myself head up to the hospital that is a half an hour away to go get her xray. We can't go the the hospital that is just down the street --- blooming insurance, but atleast we have insurance, so who am I to be complaining???? The day wears on, mundane things happened and the children are feeling the pain. We eat dinner, dope them up with drugs and off to a nice warm sho-bath for them before bed. Austin is still a little warm when he goes to bed -- keep this in mind.

Sometime during the weeee hours of the morning, Austin comes into our bed and lays down with us. We were both to tired to kick him out and send him back to his own bed. At about 5:30 am Austin screams (like he is having a nightmare), we both try and comfort him and to wake him up because he is groaning and shaking. Lo-n-behold it wasn't just a really bad dream. It was a living nightmare. He went into full seizure mode. Shaking, locked jaw, turning blue -- the whole bit. YUP! Both us panicked just a wee bit. OK ALOT! It lasted a couple of minutes (a life time for us) and then he was unresponsive and dripping wet, both in sweat and urine. I quickly changed him and threw some more appropriate clothes on, other than my summer nightie and off to the hospital we go. Yeah remember that our covered hospital is 30 minutes away and the freeway was closed in two different spots before the exit that we needed to get off at. We went to the one just down the road. Can't wait for that bill!

It took a good 30-40 minutes before he finally responded to any one about any thing. That in itself is just as bad. After a couple of hours, several tests some good drugs we are sent home with the outcome, he has "febrile" seizures and should out grow them by the age of six. It's gonna be a long year and half! For those that don't know, they are seizures brought on by a rapid rise in temperature; however, a seizure can be the first sign of a high temp. The next 24 - 48 hours are the most critical. Can you say OVER PROTECTIVE MOM alert?!?!?! I can honestly say, I hope and pray that I never have to go through that again with my child! I have since talked, actually both Wayne and I have talked with other people that have/had live/d with one of their children and seizures. I don't know about Wayne, but I think I will be able to handle the situation much better. WHEW~! Oh and Praying hasn't hurt either.

We let Austin sleep with us the following night -- just in case. I had gotten out of bed before either boy woke up. Austin wakes up and screams! Wayne instantly wakes up looks over at Austin and there he lays with a big smile on his face telling Wayne "Gotcha"!! Yes they are both still alive! ;-p lol Guess he is on the slow road to feeling better.

Stay tuned for the continuing saga of Ky and her curvy back.

Teach an old dog......

So I have known about the grocery smarts list for a long time now but really haven't done anything with it. Well those that know me, know that I am so below dirt rotten poor it's redickulous!!! I also have a peev with newspapers!!! AGH!! So what did I do??? I went to a "Grocery Smart" class where they teach you how to use their website and heaven forbid -- COUPONS! And what is one of their little tricks? OH YEAH! NEWSPAPERS!!! And not just one copy, they order several copies on sunday to get many coupons! HOLY COW!

After hearing the spiel and talking to several different people that have nothing in common, I guess I will have to try this out. It cant hurt. For those that are interested and haven't started yet go to www.grocerysmarts.com and your passport # is g84cjk.

There is also a blogspot that will help out too. sheshopssmart.blogspot.com I think that I might be able to do this... Did I just say that out loud and in print?????

Wish me LUCK!!!

The Beginning to a BEAUTIFUL Summer!!!!

The summer started out pretty good for my little Ky -- while it lasted!

She is now in a cast.

What??

How???

She was going down an enclosed spiral tube slide and where the pieces get put together, there is a place big enough to catch toes. Yeah OWWW!!! Well I wasn't too worried for several days -- broken toes, no big deal. Tape them up and wrap the foot to help protect it for a few days. Swollen and some beautiful color and keep the foot up and ice occasionally, I really am good with this. There isn't alot else that can be done differently for broken toes. It's shower time so I take the tape off, the swelling has gone down some and the color is up into her foot. hmmmm does it hurt here???? When she comes down off of the ceiling and can breathe again, I guess its off to the doctors office for an xray for her.
Ok the bad news is, we/the kids, ride horses ALOT during the summer - 4h don't cha know --
The doc comes back in the room and looks at the xray and says "well there's good news bad news. Hope you like boots?.?."
Can you make it in the shape of a cowboy boot??
The good news is that there is no obvious break or fracture. However, there are some lines that he isn't too sure about by the growth plates, and there is alot of fluid around the couple of toes that shouldn't be there. That means that something is not quite right and that it is more than just a sprain. So that means a Walking Cast! for a MONTH! The even better news is, she can take off her walking cast and put on her cowboy boots for riding only, well and showers. That news made her smile. If she couldn't ride her horse (aunt janets horse) I would probably have to have her medicated!!!!!!