Happy 10th Birthday, Zachariah

Zach celebrated his 10th birthday on March 31st. I made him a Mayonaise Cake, with half peanut butter, and half vanilla icing. Yummy! He was really excited to see the small pool we bought him. I'd say he made out this year! Happy Birthday, Zach!

Dora's hospital stay

Well, the hotel I mentioned in my previous post, was actually a hospital stay. Shawn jokingly referred to it as my hotel stay, but it was far from that! I started having more noticeable upper right quadrant stomach pains than I have been experiencing for the past 11 mos. with symptoms coming on as soon as I ate or drank, and lasting 3 or 4 hours, then fading some. Wednesday, March 2, after supper and while getting ready to go to meeting, the pain was a lot sharper and I decided the time had come to get checked out since it wasn't going away. Shawn and I took the children to Dad's, meeting was there, around 7:10, and Shawn took me to the ER. The ER Doc said he was 90 percent certain he saw gallstones, and I would have my gallbladder taken out in the morning. So, I was admitted. However, after another ultrasound in the morning revealed I did not have stones, no surgery. I was still in pain on Thursday, so they kept me Thursday night, and then did a CT scan on Friday, which was normal. Finally, I was dismissed on Sat at noon, with no explanation to the pain. It is much better, but still comes now and again. Anyway, that's where we are right now.

March 4,2011, Happy 3rd Birthday, Noah!

Happy Birthday to our baby! Unfortunately, Mommy wasn't at home for his birthday, she was away for a "Hotel" stay, at least according to Shawn. I could order meals anytime I wanted from 7:30 to 6:30, however, even having someone cooking for me with a phone call from me, still didn't make it any easier as I was lying there on the bed, knowing my family was at home without me. :(
Back to Noah, I won't compare him to a bad weed, but he sure is growing fast. He is learning his letters and how to count while I school Josh. We can see pretty clearly he has a personality a lot like his dad, poor thing. But then again, I did marry his dad, so that proves the good is far easier to see than the occasional temper. :) I love both my easy temper honeys. We ended up having cake and ice cream for him on Sat. the 5th, a day late, but I am very thankful to still be here to see it. After I was released from my hotel stay, Shawn took me to my cleaning job that I missed on Thursday night, then to the grocery store to buy cake mix, home and rush to bake the cake and decorate it before the party @ 7 p.m. I will post more pictures when I upload the pictures, and make a post regarding that marvelous,(NOT!) hotel stay.

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Shawn's accident= 4 stitches to the brow

Shawn had an accident at work on Monday, February 21, 2011, that left him with sore head bones, a black, purple, and yellow eye, and a painful back. He was doing a sprinkler inspection for work, and while standing on a ladder, he was attempting access to an attic. The door latch was broken which he was unaware of, and when he reached to open it, it fell down across his eye. The knob hit him right under the brow, and he said everything sorta got black. He didn't think much of it and was going to continue to the attic, when he said he felt some wet stuff on his head. He looked at his shirt and found it covered with blood and when he touched his head, his hand of course got covered too. Luckily his supervisor was on site with him to help him run the panels while Shawn did the leg work of the inspection. He went to the panel and asked Rick if it looked bad. The comment, "WHAT did you DO?" made Shawn realize it must be worse than just a scratch like he thought. Off to the hospital they go, and then Shawn calls me. I asked how his Monday was going, and he said, "Well,,, let me tell you how my Monday is going, I'm sitting in the ER waiting for some stitches." NOT what I was expecting to hear, I am glad it wasn't worse however, and glad he was able to stay on the ladder and not get knocked off. One of us with back surgery is enough I think! His back is sore but we think it was from the way he was knocked by the 10 lb steel door that hit him. I have been taking pictures, later I'll pick out a good one and post it!

Warm weather, school room started!

We had a beautiful day yesterday, with a high of 67 degrees! It was sunny in the morning, but cloudy the rest of the day. When Shawn got home, he fired up the chain saw, and got started on our new school room. He cut off all the railing on our back deck, where the new school room will go. I'll post pictures later, right now Josh has an online session with his class I need to log him into.

6 years

Sunday, February 13th, 2011, made it 6 years since Mom passed away. Some times it seems like forever ago, and others, still so new. I still find myself thinking I'd like to share that with Mom. Hannah just mentioned a dream she had with Grandma in it, and said very sadly, Grandma was starting to fade a little in her mind. Thankful for the invention of pictures, to help keep her little memories alive of Mom.

Party time, Thanks Ryan and Vanessa, and also Albin and Mary

We was invited to Ryan and Vanessa's house on Sunday afternoon 2-13-11 for a party. We really enjoyed fellowship with the friends. Besides Ryan and Vanessa and their boys, Albin and Mary and their 3 children, Rick and Tabi and their boys, and Arlen, Heather and the girls were there(and us 6 too!). We enjoyed visiting and supper. I had a serious brain lapse I suppose I should record. It was very funny. Josh was sword fighting with Paige, and Shawn said, "You're holding that the wrong way, Zach." I said, "That's not Zach, that's George." Shawn said, "George????"At least I got the right name of one of our kids!" I couldn't stop laughing, and have no idea where George came from. I guess Josh, George,, they both start with the J sound! That's my excuse anyway.
A few weeks before this party, Albin and Mary had a party at their house too. That was wonderful as well, and I enjoyed meeting Randy, or seeing again I should say. The last time I saw him, he was laboring in Florida, and I was 12. Wonderful to hear of stories of him spreading the gospel, so thankful for those still willing to go forth as Jesus sent them. Our next party might be here I think. More on that later!

Wonderful weekend away

Shawn and I enjoyed our first weekend away, in a hotel even, by ourselves, for the first time in 12 years! My sisters kept the children for us, and we headed out Saturday morning. We went to a book store, and then to window shop at Grossman's to get prices for our new school room. Then to the Hampton Inn for some R&R. We enjoyed the pool and hot tub, after a large group of rowdy kids(and 1 dad that behaved worse than the host of kids there!) finally left the pool. It was really strange Sunday morning to go to the breakfast buffet, and not have little ones to fix plates for! We left at 8:45 a.m. to make it back in time for our Sunday Meeting. Thanks for our break, Diana and Angie!

I'm melting!

That is the phrase Noah came up with after he fell on a toy in his room and scratched his arm. I couldn't figure out what he meant, then I saw a little line of blood and realized he thought he was melting because of the blood. Too cute, and I wanted this memory to be recorded!