ODDS AND ENDS....

Just wanted to share a few pictures of our ending days of summer and some other odds and ends of my wonderful kiddo's...

Nickolas and Emma taking a ride in the jeep (Yes he is driving a pick Jeep)...


Emma showing us her ballet moves....

Trying to hold her leg up, like the big girls do...

I just love this picture (don't know why)...

Nickolas and Emma ready for Kick off of the Texans game....

Wordless, she is just too cute...

Katelyn and Nickolas at Chuck E. Cheese...

All of my wonderful kids playing on the swing set...

We have had an amazing summer, I just wish we could have a few more summer days (but I am totally loving the cooler days and nights). I think we are all finally over all the little bugs and stuff that have been going around our home (thank God). Joshua has finally got back on his original work schedule (6pm- 6am), it is a big adjustment but all in all it is for the best, the kids get to see him a little more during week and he is also getting a little more over time which is really helpful, I just thank God that he has a job and that we are able to provide for our family, he always takes care of us... Any how, I have a few more pictures that I want to share with everyone I just have to find what I did with the disk, I have been a Little scatter brained lately. We love everyone and only hope that you are as blessed as our little family has been during these last five years of our marriage...

Bad Blogger...

OK so I am a really bad blogger lately, but I guess I can use the excuse that we have had ALOT going on lately... Well first, we took Nickolas to the Ortho dr. for his feet and found out that he might have some other issue going on developmentally and mentally. He was suppose to go to the Neurologist on the 11th but everyone was sick so we did not make it and as always we are waiting for a call and and a new opening for an appt. I have been really stressed and worried about what the dr might tell us, but then someone asked me if it would change anything and I had to say no... He will still be out sweet little boy no matter what some dr might say, he will always be our Nickolas, just as Emma has always been our Emma. I think God has given me some really special gifts, not only my husband and children, but he has taught be strong and patient. I have also learned to give my problems and worries to him, we are taught to let God do the warring for you. I think that is the hardest thing for me, just giving everything over to him, but I know that he will guide and help us through all our difficult times, he is always the light at the end of the tunnel... Sorry, didn't mean to get off subject... As for the rest of us, we have all been sick... Nickolas and I had a horrible stomach bug and them Emma got it, after we where all past that, we got another round of another bug. Last week I got sick again and found out that I had Pneumonia and now Josh has our stomach bug, God only hopes we don't get it back. We are all on the mend now and other than that there is not much to report... Emma is still loving ballet and is doing really well, pictures to come soon I hope. I will let you know more on Nickolas as soon as we go back to the doctor. I promise I will be a better blogger from now on, never mind I know I have said that before and as always my world gets a little crazy sometimes.... Love to all and may God bless your life as he has mine...

Getting to be a big girl...

We had Emma's 2 year check-up a few days ago and everything went really well. She weighed 27.6lbs and was 35in tall. I was so excited to hear her weight, she has gained 2lbs since we where at the cardiologist a few months ago. She didn't need any shots this time, thank god, It always worries me when she gets so upset and raises her heart rate...
Nickolas also when for his check-up and is 37lbs, he is getting to be such a big boy. They are both in the 90% in their height, Nickolas is also in the 90% for his weight, which the dr. said was really good. Emma is only in 50% for her weight which is really good for kids her age if she was a little shorter, I will take 50% (she has been in 25%), I am so proud of her, she just keeps fighting and getting bigger, everything she is suppose to do...

Emma also started to school with Nickolas two days a week. She did really well on her first day, she kissed me by and went off and played. When I got there to pick her and Nickolas up she was so excited, she had to show me the frog hat she made at school... She told me all about her numbers and letters and said that she had lots of fun playing at bubbas school today...

I have to share another cute Nickolas story with y'all... We where on our way home and it had started to rain...

Nickolas: "Mommy, it's raining"

Mommy: "Yep, it sure is"

Nickolas: "Mommy, where we get rain?"

Mommy: "Well, God makes the rain"

Nickolas: "Why?"

Mommy: "To make our flowers and trees grow pretty"

Nickolas: "Oh, Mommy, he is a good God"

I could not have said it better myself, sometimes it takes a three year old to remind us when we are having a bad day, that "He is a good God"...

Sorry this is such a long post, but was wondering if I could ask you to pray for a heart family... Their son Connie has the same problems as Emma and just got the news that he needs to have a heart transplant. Doing another surgery would put him to much at risk... They are praying for a better second opinion and that no transplant will be necessary...

Thank you so much for checking in on us, we love you and in the words of Nickolas, always remember, "He is a good God"...

Sick...

Yesterday Emma started to run a fever of 103 and never acted like she felt bad. She continued to run a fever through out the day and night, but by morning no fever, so I just though it was a little bug and we where all done, (I could only wish). We went to lunch today with Non, Ms. Angie and all the kiddos, by the time we where half way through lunch the fever was back, I decide to take her to the doctor and after getting very angry with the doctors office (that is another topic all together) I finally decided to just take her to the emergency clinic by the house. The Dr checked everything out and did a strep test on her and come to find out she has strep...

My poor baby, she is never sick and is so sad now. I think it all finally caught up with her and her throat is finally hurting. As I was trying to give her her "yummy pink meds" she spit it all over me, along with the Tylenol and anything else I tried to give her. She just kept begging me not to and to stop. It just broke my heart, I almost said fine no meds, but I new she had to have them and we did finally get them down after calling her Maw Maw over to help me hold her down :( .

I am just hoping and praying that after a couple of doses of meds she will feel better and not be to mad at Mommy for holding her down... I also hope that the rest of us don't get it, but I am afraid I will be taking Nickolas to the Dr next and just to be sure I am going to call me and Josh's Dr and see if he will send us an antibiotic just in case we need it as well...

Back Home...

Well, I am back home and everything went really well. The surgery took about 2 hours and the Dr said that everything looked good and I should start to feel better in the next couple of days. I am really bruised up, but I will take it, at least it is all over. The pain is OK, I am hurting but nothing that rest and medication won't help. I am going to lay low for the next couple of days and not do anything and as the Dr put it, just be the queen for a few days... I think I can handle that, it doesn't happen very often... Love to everyone that has been praying and thinking of me these last few days and weeks it is very much appreciated... Once again God has blessed our family, he has always taken care of us and always will...

Off to the hospital I go...

Well today is the day, I have been waiting for it for a long time and now that it is here, I am not sure I am as excited as I once was. I just realized yesterday that this will be the first time I will have surgery done and have my kids. It kind of changes everything, I am worried more about what could happen to me. I mean, I am the one that takes care of everything around the house and the kids, they are my heart and the thought of something happening to me and not being there for them is to heard to think about. Let me also say that Josh also does his things around here that keep us going and is sooooo important in the completion of our family, but I am the Mommy. I am the one that tries and hold everything together and today everything is out of my control and I hate that.
I know I am over reacting and women have this done every day, but I guess once you have a family, you are in charge of someone other than yourself and you have to put everyone else first.
I know everything will be ok, I have prayed and prayed that God gives me the strength to leave my family for a few days and brings me through this with flying colors. He has blessed me thus for in my life, marriage and family, that I know that he will get me past this.
Now I will be positive again... I thank God that I live in a country that I can get medical care when needed, which means no more pain, other than the recovery and I am sooooo grateful for that. It has been a much needed and wanted operation.
I will post in a few days when I get home, I am suppose to have surgery at noon, but that could mean 11 or 2 in the afternoon.
Please pray for me to keep the strength and courage to keep going through with this, I would be lying if I said I was not just a little scared, but I have the faith that everything is going to be great...
Talk to everyone in a few days....

Sooo Excited....

Well we just finished at the cardiologist with Emma and I could not be more relieved and excited. Dr. Kim said that she looked good and nothing has changed since February. Her heart function and size has stayed the same, which means that her heart failure has not progressed any further so far. She has also gained 2 pounds, (whooo hooo), I was ecstatic when I saw 26lbs on the scale. I am so relieved and thank God for all the thoughts and prayers for her. She is such a fighter and just keeps on fighting. She is just so amazing to me....