Friday, September 19, 2008

Catchin up again

School is in full swing and although it nearly broke my heart to see him walk up the steps and be one of the smallest kids in the building, Trevor is in Kindergarten and LOVING every minute of it. He is so cheerful and ready each morning to get up and get ready for school. He has made so many friends already and talks about several of them all the time. It must be me wanting to hold on to tight that led me to fear the worst out of this big step in his life. I was afraid he wouldn't make friends easily and that his sometimes aggressive behavior would rear it's ugly head immediately. Thank goodness it was just a fear in my mind and it hasn't come to light.



It was adorable yesterday morning when I dropped him off at school, we were walking up the front steps when Abby, a little girl in his class was getting out of her car, she called out "Trevor, Wait, I want to walk in with you" he waited for her and took her hand in his and they walked into the school holding hands...ohhh my heart! It was so very sweet!

Kaylee is loving her second year of preschool as well and I am so very happy that I chose to send her both years. She has made so many friends and has grown such a personality. She, just like Trevor, has such a thurst for knowledge and they retain like a sponge. They both are such intelligient little ones. Without preschool I fear they would have been bored beyond words.



Kaylee is also playing soccer this fall along with several kids from her class. She loves it. Her first game will be this Saturday, we shall see how it goes..lol.

Things continue to be extremely busy around here. It seems that with school starting, it has gotten even more chaotic. I joined Cub-backers, which is a parent group for the grade school and there is so much to do with it. I also was nominated to sit on the Policy Council of Kaylee's preschool for a second year. Getting busy with that as well. Along with soccer and the normal appt's they all have, along with home and Isaiah, it doesn't leave a lot of time for things I would like to do. Even through all the busyness and the constant checking of the schedule, I wouldn't trade a minute of it for the world. My life is truly blessed!

I finally got a diagnosis for my leg, after seeing several specialists and going through tons of treatments and countless tests. It is Chronic Venous Stasis. The valves in some of my veins in my lower right leg have malfunctioned, allowing blood to flow into the leg, but the valve closes and does not allow it to flow back up the leg, causing it to pool in the leg and causing pain and swelling. There isn't anything they can really do for it, other than surgically taking the veins out. But they said mine aren't severe enough to take out right now. I have an appointment next week with a dermatologist who is going to biopsy the spot and make sure there aren't any cancer cells in it and then do some treatment with creams for the itching it causes and I will probably have to wear a TED(compression) hose on that leg for a while, maybe forever, depending on how it goes! It will push the blood out of my leg to keep it from pooling. It's a pretty common thing, although I had never heard of it. I must have injured my leg sometime and didn't realize it to cause the damage to the veins. Or else it is from varicose veins, although it really doesn't appear that I have them. Who knows.

Fall is showing up all around us, the weather has been delightfully cool for almost a month now and the trees are starting to turn orange and red. I am so in love with fall!!! What a beautiful time of the year.


Whewww..that was a long post. Sorry for the length.

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Is this really August?

Wow...time has completely gotten away from me this last month. With school coming up quickly and so many other things going on in life, I haven't been able to keep up with my posting. I am not liking it either..lol.

School should have been starting next week here, but they are renovating and adding on to both the grade school and Jr/Sr. high school. The work has taken longer than expected, so they have pushed school starting back to Sept. 2. It is totally fine with me also, as I am so not ready for Trevor to be in Grade school, is he ready? Yes. Is he excited? Yes. Is mom being anxious over nothing? Probably, but heck, he is my first one to start grade school and the fact that he is already five and I have been a parent for over five years, is amazing to me. Where has the time gone?



We had our county fair late last month and I entered Isaiah in the baby contest, while we were waiting for our age bracket, Trevor found a mud puddle and as I was telling him to stay away from it, he dove in. Since he was already soaking wet and messy, I decided it wasn't going to kill him to splash in the icky water and have a grand old time. He did just that. I got about a million dirty looks, but he wasn't hurting or bothering anyone. He splashed and ran and stayed in the mud. Needless to say he got a really good scrub down in the shower.

I lived through the dirty looks and evil glares, so no harm done!

Other than staying really busy with the kids, we have had some issues with my mom and her health, so I have been doing a lot of traveling and helping out where I can. She lives an hour and half away, so it has been kinda been crazy on the family with me gone so much and them spending more time with daddy and away from home when I take them down there with me.

Life seems to just be clipping right along. I know I am going to miss this crazy chaos one day, but for now, I could use a little slow down.

Thursday, July 10, 2008

Oh My Heart


I love this boy so dearly. Even through our daily challenges, him with his ADHD and Sensory Integration Disorder and me having to find new ways to be a patient Mom and help him become a little man, He is the most loving, caring boy I know.

I was drying him off after bath tonight and he looked up at me with his vibrant loving brown eyes and said, "Mommy, I want to live in your heart forever" I replied, "Buddy, you will forever live in my heart", he then gave me a hug and said, "Thanks Mom". Moments like these make it all worth the challenges we face each day. I am so in love with my brown eyed boy!

Where do they get this stuff?

Monday, July 7, 2008

Princess Birthday Fun!


I am a little behind here seeing as Kaylee's fourth Birthday was a week ago Saturday! We have been very busy lately with Wheat harvest and birthdays and other family stuff..but on with the birthday fun!

Kaylee chose a princess birthday party this year. We had chocolate cupcakes with butter creme frosting and chunky chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream..yum! We invited a couple of her friends from preschool and my best friend from Hutch came with her little girl Carlee who is 3. We had so much fun. We made princess tiara's and sand bracelets and the girls had a blast playing dress up. It was fun for all! Even Christel and I had a blast making our Tiara's and spending girlie time with our little princess's. We then had a girls afternoon and went shopping and to eat at Los Potrillos a favorite Mexican restaurant of ours. We then had ice cream at Baskin Robins, as Christel was craving Chocolate Peanut butter on a sugar cone, she hasn't had one in years since they closed their Baskin Robins at home. It was a fun day! I will forever remember the fun I had with my girlie girl! Hope that being four will be the best so far! Love you baby!

Monday, June 30, 2008

Tote Giveaway

Go on over to Just Another Hang Up and sign up for this beautiful awesome tote bag she is giving away. There are also several for sale, what pretty bags she makes! Thanks Mia for the heads up!



Hurry, you have until July 6th to get a chance to win!

Sunday, June 29, 2008

Help Please!

Do any of you fabulous ladies out there know where I can find a great online course about digital photography? I want to learn more about all the special features my SLR can do, but I need some help to understand it all.

Any suggestions? I would appreciate any input.

Thank you!