Stones

Well there has been a longer than usual delay in my postings and for that I apologize. Monday afternoon I was out of nowhere overcome with a horrible pain in my side. I lay curled in my bed for more than an hour determined I would not go to the emergency room only to be embarrassed and told it was "only gas pains." However, after over an hour and many pleadings from family to "go to the ER," I could not take the pain any longer. It hurt so bad I was willing to risk the embarrassment of the possible "its a gas pain."
Instead, I heard "not only do you have a kidney stone but you have another kidney stone on the other side." I was ok with this news because I had been given some amazing medicine that made me feel amazing-the pain was gone. They even sent some of this amazing medicine home with me! It caused me to sleep ALOT! But, it helped me through the next day and a half until I passed the stone that was giving me so much pain. I have yet to feel the kidney stone that is supposedly on my right side!
I will spare you all the picture. But WOW! I know why they call it a stone! It is really a rock! And as you can image.... a rock passing through your insides---HURTS! Best way I can describe it is like having birth pains on half of your stomach.
My sweet husband took great care of me and kept the house cleaner than I do! My children were very patient with being house bound. I had some great friends help me with the kids during my ER stay and even bring a meal. Thank you all SOOOO much!

Owen's Birthday!

Owen turned eight yesterday! When we asked Owen what he wanted to do for his birthday, he told us that he wanted to play soccer (imagine that!). So that is what we did. He had some boys over to the church fields to play soccer and have a small party.

When he woke up on his birthday he had his favorite breakfast of bisuits and eggs. Then he opened his presents from his sisters and from me and Jason. Lettie got him Mancala and Ella picked out flag football flags. Jason and I gave him a Kodak video camera that also takes still shots....kida like a FLIP but the Kodak version. It can even go under water! After many birthday calls, Owen and Jason headed out to shoot guns at the shooting range. They had a great time!

We waited and had his party in the evening so that all the boys would not die of a heat stroke. Everyone played soccer on the soccer fields at our church and then we had pizza. Owen chose to have brownies with whipped topping instead of traditional birthday cake. He got some great gifts and gift cards! After eating it was back outside so that they could play flag football.

Dance Recital

Well, I am a little behind with this post but here goes...The girls had their dance recital last month. It was great! Lots of friends and family came to watch. We are so thankful that they made the trip.

This was Ella's first recital and she loved all of the attention. She did a great job! Lettie also did a wonderful job. She loves to dance and looks so beautiful when she dances. They loved getting candy and flowers from so many of you who came...."thank you." You made them feel so special on this fun night!

Upward Soccer

Just wanted to post a few pictures of our soccer players. Ella and Owen are doing a great job and having a great time too! They are both scoring lots of goals. Lettie doesn't play soccer but she does a great job cheering on her brother and sister!

Lettie Bug is NINE!

On Monday, my Lettie turned nine years old! Wow. I cannot believe nine years have gone by so quickly. We are half way to 18! Oh! I cannot think about that! Am I old enough to have a nine year old? I guess so....cause she is!

My sweet Lettie is so grown up to be but nine years old. Lettie loves Jesus and accepted Him as her Savior almost 2 years ago (what an awesome blessing).What would I do without her help? She is so helpful with Ella and patient with her too, most of the time. She is a great student. Typical of a first child, she is neat and everything has to be just so...which is a delight most of the time. Give her a craft and she couldn't be happier. She is such a blessing (as are Owen and Ella)!

I know that in these next few years life will hold new challenges for our relationship...I pray God will keep her close to Him.

For her birthday she asked for clothes...see I told you -growing up! So we went shopping together on a couple of different outings. I so enjoyed our time together. Girl has style. She knows what she likes. She also had a few friends to go to the nail salon with her and get pedicures. It was a big hit! We had lots of fun! Jodie Turner made us an awesome cookie cake too. It was delicious!

Funny How God Can Remind Us to Be Thankful!

"Why are my undies on the door knob?" Lettie said to me as she came up the stairs a little bit ago. Well, the dryer finally, really this time, died this morning while I had a load of wet clothes waiting in the washer.... Yes, most of you know that it is no longer MURPHY'S LAW it is BARBER'S LAW.

So I have to go and get a new dryer today. I am drowning in dirty clothes because for the last day or two the dryer has worked and then decided to stop and then worked again and then stopped again! Now not only are there piles of dirty clothes everywhere but I also had to figure out some way to dry the wet clothes that were in my washer! Here is what I came up with----I'll do it the old fashion way! The only problem is that I don't have a clothes line! Anything that could be one, became one today. I hope no new neighbors drop by today!

Pappa's Birthday!

We went to Mississippi this weekend to celebrate my Dad's 60th birthday. We had a lot of fun. We all surprised him at a Mexican restaurant for lunch on Saturday. Lots of friends and family were there. My brother and his wife even flew in from Houston to surprise him. I think we really pulled it off... at least he said he was surprised. I have included a few pictures of Pappa's party. You will notice all of the beautiful hats he was able to wear on his special day.

My sister-n-law also had a birthday yesterday so we celebrated with her on Sunday before she got on a plane and flew back to Houston. It was a busy but great weekend!