First Day of School....

Today all the kiddos went back to school! It was a bitter sweet thing for momma. I enjoy the little bit of quite but I do miss them too. Hailey went off to Junior High today. :( That was kind of sad. Exciting too but more sad. I can't believe she's growing up so fast. It's not fair. Before I know it she'll be in High School. Another big one was Allen. This was his first day of Kindergarten. Yipes! He was so stinkin excited it was just contagious. And yes, we did warn his poor teache profusely! he he he... I can't wait for them to get home and hear all about their day. Lauren started 3rd and Bryan started 2nd grade. Don't expect much trouble out of them. Wow! They are all growing up. Poor little Landon is all by himself. He's called for his sissy a couple of times and put his hands up, like he just can't find her. He'll have to adjust to just mommy. I'm sure he's up to something now! Ha! Just wanted to share the photo's of the first day all in their new clothes. They were equally excited about the new clothes as going to school. Ha! Hope you all have a great day!

20 Months....

Oh my, how time flies. I can't hardly believe my little man is 20 months old today. He's growing and changing so fast. He's a little stink, I must admit. I really thought that he being the fifth, he would be laid back and let everyone do for him. Well not so for him! He wants to be right in the mix of things and doesn't want anyone to leave him out. He's developing his own personality and it's so stinkin cute. The big kids are always playing like animals, mainly dogs. So the other day I could hear this tiny voice barking. I hadn't heard that one before so I went up to see what was going on and it was Landon, on all fours crawling around barking, right along with the rest. It was so cute. He's just talking like crazy. He's pretty smart too, I must say. He wants things to be just so. If he spills something, he must go get a towel and clean it up and he doesn't want you help. He's even tells me most of the time when he's pooping or peeing. My others didn't tell me this early but he defiantly does and he wants it cleaned up too. I think I will get him a potty pretty soon, since he knows what he's doing. He also insist that he be the one to put his diapers in the trash, he gets highly upset if I won't let him. Any kind of trash he comes across he must put it in the trash can. If he the door to the trash is closed he pushes under the door. Pretty smart, huh? Funny how you forget how much fun and cute they are at this age. Well, for the most part that is. We are starting into the terrible two, I think. But not too bad so far. Fingers crossed! he he he... He's growing like crazy. He's at 25lbs. He's eating me out of house and home. His favorite thing is cheese. The boy is now eating a whole sandwich by himself and then what ever else I give him to go with. He just age a whole pb&j sandwich, cheese, half a bag of Cheetos, an 6-7 grapes. The other night I grilled chicken breast and he ate 3/4 of one by himself plus his veggies. The boys a human garbage disposal. He likes to eat. Guess he got that honestly. He was going through a real picky stage but in the last few days, he's started trying and eating alot more different things. I'm gonna have to get a job before too long though to feed this bunch. I wish I were joking! :) Anyways! I just thought I'd share a little bit about him. It's been awhile. Here's some pictures of my little brown eyed boy!

Little Updating...

Hey All! I just thought I'd update you guys a little bit. I finished up all my tests and went in for the results yesterday. At this point we still don't have any ideas as to what's going on. So he's ordered another battery of tests. Whoo hooo..... I still have the "Vertigo." Tomorrow with be two weeks. It's no fun! So he's sending me to a specialist for that and an eye specialist as well. I have to do another 72 hour EEG and a spinal tap. I'm so freaking out about that. I hate hate HATE the spinal tap. It's horrible!!!! But he feels it's very necessary to figure out what's going on. He's also going to be testing me for Autoimmune diseases like Lupus, MS and several others. Sooooo I'm still just in limbo not knowing what's going on. My in-laws are going to try to come in next week to help us out. We are just desperate for some help. I still can't drive and William keeps having to take off work because we just don't have anyone that can help. Soooo they are going to try and come in next week so I can have the next round of test. I have to stay in bed for 48 hours after the spinal tap. So we really need their help. Anyways! We are frantically trying to get ready for school too. They start Monday. They are all pretty excited. Hailey's nervous but excited. It's been really hard to try and get them ready with me not able to drive. I still have a few more things left to get like school supplies but we're almost done. I just have to wait for days that William can take me. Thanks to all of you that are praying for me. We were grateful for the good news of the MRI and CT coming back clean. I think both of us were a little bit nervous. But they were good as far as no bad stuff. Oh yea, and another good thing was that he found no seizure activity so at this time he's not putting me on medication. Yeah!!! I was sure he would and I so did not want to do that. So that was a great thing. Anyways! I guess I'll get. Back to doing nothing... Sleeping an ungodly amount... The medicine for the "Vertigo" knocks me out. So I'm sleeping all the time. It's crazy! I was grateful for the sleep the first few days but now it's miserable. I feel worthless. I can't do too much because then I get nausea's and start throwing up. So it's just been crazy. Thank goodness for the Olympics, which I love! :) Okay, I'm really going now! Talk to ya later! I'll try to post some pictures later!

Vertigo...

Well, as if I needed something else to mess with... I have somehow managed to get something called Vertigo. Oh... Let me tell ya how much fun this is. Ya know that feeling you have directly after you get off of a merry-go-round, like your head is still spinning but your body is standing still. Well, that's Vertigo. Somehow or another my equilibrium is out of sorts, I guess. Well, that's what they are treating me for at this point anyways. Last Saturday day I woke up with this feeling of dizziness and spinning and it has progressively gotten worse. It's a horrible feeling. I can't drive and I feel like an absolute drunk person. I told William this morning that I just want to hold my head still. Even when I close my eyes, I'm spinning. It never stops! It's maddening!!!!! I feel like I seriously am losing my mind. Seriously!!!! I wish I were kidding. My perception is way off so just doing simple things is insane. Like taking a shower this morning was brutal. Anyways! They have put me on medication but so far I've seen no difference. And of all weeks to get this, being the week before school starts. Ahhhhh!!!! Oh well, I will survive or at least I hope so.. he he he.... I had my sleep deprived EEG done last night. I made it though. It wasn't as bad as I thought. The medicine that they put me on knocks me out. So I took one of those and slept almost four hours yesterday afternoon and then another hour or so last night and so I was pretty good. I got pretty sleepy about 5:30 this morning but I made it. I watched 27 Dresses. It was a cute movie. William rented a bunch of movies so that's what I did to stay awake. If I'm watching a movie, I won't go to sleep. I don't want to miss it. So that was a big help. Of all things we had a storm blow up and our electricity went out for about an hour at 3:00 am. So that was a little tough. I can't really read because I can't really focus and it was too dark to read by candle light anyways. So I had to just pace the house for awhile. It ended up being some good prayer time though. :) Anyways! I best go. If I focus too long on one thing it makes me a nausea's. I wish you guys could see me. I'm typing this with one eye open. Please, forgive me if it doesn't make sense or if I have lots of errors. It's the dang craziness. :) I'll try to get with ya later in the week. Hope you all have a great weekend!

My Baby....

My goodness... where has the time gone? My baby is growing up guys. Yesterday I had to take Hailey to the Junior high for her orientation thing. She got her schedule, lockers, etc. I have so many different emotions with this new part in our lives. I'm excited for her but at the same time nervous and scared for her. As we walked her schedule yesterday and practiced her locker combinations it made me sad and yet very excited for her too. This is a whole new chapter in her life. She was dreading going back, I think she was just nervous. But since she got to see how it will work yesterday, she's now more excited. I'm probably more nervous than she is. It's just all part of it I guess,huh? I know I can't keep her a baby but man do I want to. She's certainly not a baby anymore being that she's almost as tall as me at 5'4, size ten shoes and only 12 years old. I think she's going to be very tall like her dad. But that's great. I always wanted to be taller, like 5'7. Anyways! Back to the subject. She's in athletics and hopes to get on the Volleyball, Basketball, and track teams. If not this year then hopefully next year. She got in Theater Arts and Photography. She's really excited to take those classes. She still loves animals and has always wanted to work with them in some way. So she started volunteering at our local Animal Shelter. She loves it! I can totally see her running one herself one day. She's totally into that sort of thing. She has a very tender heart with animals. She's just as happy caring for them as she is playing with them. And she doesn't mind the nasty part of it. I don't think I could. It grosses me out. Yuck! She's just growing up and I guess there's nothing I can do about it. Just pray and pray hard! I can't believe how fast this time has gone. Seems like just yesterday she was a baby. Where did the time go???? I pray these are great years for her.