Monday, September 28, 2009
Introducing....
For those of you who don't know...we are having a BABY! If that is not exciting enough it is a BOY! Here is the 1st picture of the new baby's sweet face. He is so cute. As of now his name will be Jacob Paul we will probably call him Jake. He will have the same initials as my late grandpa as well as my dad. We are so excited about his joining our family. Enjoy his picture.
Friday, September 25, 2009
Welcome to the Future
SOOOOOOO I entered Samantha in a local radio station contest. They rules..... children under 11 talking about what they wanted to be when they grow up. PRIZE you might ask???? Going back stage and meeting BRAD PAISLEY, MY favorite artist. I took this video of Sam and sent it in, and just heard today, she WON. She is one in 5 kid picked to meet him and have her picture taken with him. Here is her winning video enjoy it.
Friday, August 21, 2009
Summer 2009
Well I am trying to figure out where this summer went. As I think back I am guess it was at the hosptials. First Sam and her appendix and if you can believe this 2 weeks later I had mine taken out during an emergency surgery. So I am actually glad this summer is almost over, looking forward to a much less eventful fall. Here our some pictures from our summer. We enjoyed a week in Palm Springs and we had a great time seeing my family at a family reunion at the beach. We also took lots of trips down to our local beaches, so all in all a good summer, still looking forward to fall :)
PALM SPRINGS WITH GIGI AND PAPA!
Family Reunion Pictures
Some Beach Fun
PALM SPRINGS WITH GIGI AND PAPA!
Family Reunion Pictures
Some Beach Fun
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Sam's 1st Surgery
Well last Monday June 29Th I got up and got ready to go into the office for work. As usual Sam was very tired and said she didn't want to go to school, not unusual, however she said she didn't feel good and her "hip" hurt. I had no idea what that meant I just figured she was really tired from a long weekend of being at the beach. I took her to summer daycare and I went into work, luckily my mom works at the school Samantha goes to so she was there to keep a eye on her. Well about a hour, if that, later my mom called from the school letting me know Sam threw-up and she was not feeling well. I finished what I was doing and went to pick her up. I figured with her fever and nausea she had the flu so I put her into bed and turned the TV on.
I kept going into the bedroom to check on her and she had continued to throw-up and her fever was still rising. I was in feeling her head and I went to move her by rolling her over and I touched and right side and she was in a lot of pain, again complaining about her "hip". I pushed and pushed on the left side of her stomach and NO pain, barley touching on the right side and LOTS of pain. I called her DR and they told us to go to the ER.
They got us right into a room in the ER around noon and they just monitored her thinking she had the flu, however I wanted them to do more. Mark's family has a history of bad appendix' and I was going with my "mom's intuition" on this one. They hooked her up to her first IV and gave her fluids and took blood.
They did a ultrasound and said everything was in-conclusive yet her fever continued to rise. By the time they were discharging us it was at 103. I was VERY unhappy. The ER Dr told us to come back 1st thing in the morning or go and see her pediatrician. We went home but our journey was far from over.
The next morning we woke up and she was SO happy, she felt so good. But when I asked her to tell me the truth she said her "hip" still hurt. After many questions I figured out to her the pain she was feeling was just near her hip. I called her DR and she saw us she felt like it was 50-50 if it was her appendix, but she called in a favor to a surgeon down at children's hospital and he told her "send them down I will take a look". We drove very quickly down to children's where he was waiting for us and sent us down to radiology for a CAT-Scan. We arrived and they had to start another IV in order to put the contrast into her for the scan. Needless to say she was NOT thrilled with having a second IV.
She did great with her scan, held still and did really good. They were so good down there they gave her a barbie and LOTS of stickers for being such a good girl and we sat and waited in a back room while they sent the results to the DR.
After what seemed like FOREVER a phone rang in our room and the nurse asked me to pick it up, she DR said "your daughter" and I really thought he would say is fine, but he said "needs her appendix out tonight, and I will see you in the operating room in a few minutes". WOW REALLY! I started to FREAK out, I was so nervous, I was most nervous to tell her. I started making phone calls and working things out, but Sam was wondering when we were going home. :) Finally they took us to a room and had her read a book about operations, which she refused to hear :). They wheeled her down the hall and we were getting ready for surgery. Her DR was SO nice and SO sweet, and really made us feel better, but all of a sudden it was time for her to walk away. And off she went into surgery. Mark and I walked the other way :(
About a hour later they let us know she was done and she did GREAT. We went into recovery to see her.
She was very sleepy but really good, not in too much pain. They wheeled her back into her room and stayed asleep all night.
After a long night she woke up and felt much better, she walked the hallways,
played in the game room, and had LOTS of visitors. She LOVED the hospital, she loved having room service, Popsicles in the middle of the night and of course all her adoring fans.
2 days later we went home where her adoring friends continued to visit and send gifts. All in all it was a great experience and I am very VERY proud of my little trooper, and now I PRAY we NEVER EVER EVER have to go back to a Children's Hospital.
I kept going into the bedroom to check on her and she had continued to throw-up and her fever was still rising. I was in feeling her head and I went to move her by rolling her over and I touched and right side and she was in a lot of pain, again complaining about her "hip". I pushed and pushed on the left side of her stomach and NO pain, barley touching on the right side and LOTS of pain. I called her DR and they told us to go to the ER.
They got us right into a room in the ER around noon and they just monitored her thinking she had the flu, however I wanted them to do more. Mark's family has a history of bad appendix' and I was going with my "mom's intuition" on this one. They hooked her up to her first IV and gave her fluids and took blood.
They did a ultrasound and said everything was in-conclusive yet her fever continued to rise. By the time they were discharging us it was at 103. I was VERY unhappy. The ER Dr told us to come back 1st thing in the morning or go and see her pediatrician. We went home but our journey was far from over.
The next morning we woke up and she was SO happy, she felt so good. But when I asked her to tell me the truth she said her "hip" still hurt. After many questions I figured out to her the pain she was feeling was just near her hip. I called her DR and she saw us she felt like it was 50-50 if it was her appendix, but she called in a favor to a surgeon down at children's hospital and he told her "send them down I will take a look". We drove very quickly down to children's where he was waiting for us and sent us down to radiology for a CAT-Scan. We arrived and they had to start another IV in order to put the contrast into her for the scan. Needless to say she was NOT thrilled with having a second IV.
She did great with her scan, held still and did really good. They were so good down there they gave her a barbie and LOTS of stickers for being such a good girl and we sat and waited in a back room while they sent the results to the DR.
After what seemed like FOREVER a phone rang in our room and the nurse asked me to pick it up, she DR said "your daughter" and I really thought he would say is fine, but he said "needs her appendix out tonight, and I will see you in the operating room in a few minutes". WOW REALLY! I started to FREAK out, I was so nervous, I was most nervous to tell her. I started making phone calls and working things out, but Sam was wondering when we were going home. :) Finally they took us to a room and had her read a book about operations, which she refused to hear :). They wheeled her down the hall and we were getting ready for surgery. Her DR was SO nice and SO sweet, and really made us feel better, but all of a sudden it was time for her to walk away. And off she went into surgery. Mark and I walked the other way :(
About a hour later they let us know she was done and she did GREAT. We went into recovery to see her.
She was very sleepy but really good, not in too much pain. They wheeled her back into her room and stayed asleep all night.
After a long night she woke up and felt much better, she walked the hallways,
played in the game room, and had LOTS of visitors. She LOVED the hospital, she loved having room service, Popsicles in the middle of the night and of course all her adoring fans.
2 days later we went home where her adoring friends continued to visit and send gifts. All in all it was a great experience and I am very VERY proud of my little trooper, and now I PRAY we NEVER EVER EVER have to go back to a Children's Hospital.
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Samantha
1ST DAY OF KINDERGARTEN
So today was my baby's final day of kindergarten. I cannot even believe it. She has grown SO much. She has made such wonderful friends, learned to read, learned about money, telling time, adding and subtraction and so much more. I could not be more proud of her. This summer she will be 6 years old and is turning into such a lovely young lady. She has a full summer planned, a couple of summer camps through church, summer day camp through school, lots of cheer leading, and she is mostly looking forward to our vacation to Palm Springs, she loves laying poolside and ordering "Oreo shakes" from the pool boys :)I love my girl and cannot wait to see what she has in store for me! Enjoy some pictures of her from this school year!
FUN AT THE PUMPKIN PATCH
SCHOOL PICTURE
FRANKLIN SCHOOL PLAY
STAR OF HER CHRISTMAS PLAY
EASTER PROGRAM
TAYLOR SWIFT CONCERT
So today was my baby's final day of kindergarten. I cannot even believe it. She has grown SO much. She has made such wonderful friends, learned to read, learned about money, telling time, adding and subtraction and so much more. I could not be more proud of her. This summer she will be 6 years old and is turning into such a lovely young lady. She has a full summer planned, a couple of summer camps through church, summer day camp through school, lots of cheer leading, and she is mostly looking forward to our vacation to Palm Springs, she loves laying poolside and ordering "Oreo shakes" from the pool boys :)I love my girl and cannot wait to see what she has in store for me! Enjoy some pictures of her from this school year!
FUN AT THE PUMPKIN PATCH
SCHOOL PICTURE 
FRANKLIN SCHOOL PLAY
STAR OF HER CHRISTMAS PLAY
EASTER PROGRAM
TAYLOR SWIFT CONCERT
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Sea World Time.....
So for Samantha's last field trip of the year her class went to Sea World. Mark and I went with her as well and Miss Kylie. We were also lucky enough to be able to have a couple of her friends hang out with us all day. We took her friends, Jeremy and Gracie. We also spent most of the day with our friends Dawn and Greg, and their kiddos Brandon and Jenna. We had SO much fun. We started the day at the Dolphin show, saw the Shamu show, which Kylie calls the "Shampoo Show", played in the "Bay of Play" which is where all the Sesame Street gang hangs out, and we ended the day at the Starfish pools where the kids LOVED picking up and holding the starfish and other animals. We had an amazing day with a wonderful group of kiddos.
Monday, April 27, 2009
Stagecoach 2009.....
So my best friend Amy and her husband invited Mark and I to go with them to "Stagecoach" with them this year. Stagecoach is a HUGE country music concert in the desert near Palm Springs. It was at the Indio Polo fields. We went this past weekend and had a BLAST! One of the best times of our lives. Great music, Kenny Chesney, Kid Rock, Brad Paisley, Miranda Lambert, Darius Rucker, Little Big Town, Reba, Zac Brown Band, just to name a VERY few, there were so many bands and people it was unbelievable! We stayed up TOO late, drank TOO much, and had TOO much fun if that is possible. I can honestly say it was a once in a life time experience, well until next year :) Great times had by all. Enjoy some of the PG rated pics from the weekend!!!We are so grateful to have such amazing friends! Love you Keithy and Amy!
I also forgot to mention that some of my FAVORITE soap stars were there this weekend, we got to hang with them and get some pics with them, that was a HUGE highlight of the weekend also!
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