Posted in children, family, Love of a Lifetime on November 10, 2008| 8 Comments »
Today we celebrate 18 AMAZING years of marriage!
Happy Anniversary Spike!
I LOVE YOU!
We also celebrate this little cutie who decided to come almost three weeks early and be born on our 12th anniversary… I can’t think of a better anniversary gift than a baby… Happy 6th Birthday Tanner!
Posted in children, family, Love of a Lifetime on November 6, 2008| 8 Comments »
So I am beginning to think my November nights will be spent at Kaiser… Remember last year ? Although I must say this time it wasn’t as scary, but none the less I was there after dark. Our son, Johnny played football during PE yesterday at school. Was collided into by about 4 others from both sides, hurt his wrist on the left hand, his thumb on the right hand, was bleeding from a tooth, his teacher told him to go to the bathroom and rinse his mouth out, on the way… he lost his vision, everything went white and blurry, he had ringing in his ears and fell onto the near by wall… When he regained his wits, he did as he was told, then went to 6th period…. ARE YOU KIDDING ME??? It wasn’t until he got home from school an hour later that I was informed of all of this! Needless to say I am NOT happy at how lightly this was taken. I called the advice nurse, and by 5:30 we were headed to after hour care….
Xrays
“wrapping room”
Thankfully nothing is broken, just badly sprained… We also had to keep him awake for 8 hours because of a minor concussion. Of course I think he has the same thing his dad has, and the pain caused the fainting?? Go figure…
On the way home….
Posted in family, Gifts, Love of a Lifetime on September 26, 2008| 5 Comments »
Remember back when I listed my randomness… I mentioned my hubby would fax these great pictures over for our sons to receive when he was at work… Here is some of the fax lovin’ we got….
Just so you know we called our oldest Fo Fo or Fo Fo Juice, and our second son is PollyWog or Beans
These treasures are about 11 1/2 years old…. I LOVE everyone of them!
Speaking of treasures…
My mom would get up early in the morning and sit at the bar-stools and doodle on my plain lunch bags. I loved those lunch bags, so much so that I would carefully fold them, tuck them safely away in my pocket and bring them home. I have kept them all these years {let’s just say they are over 20 years old}… still gives me warm fuzzies!
Posted in Gifts, Love of a Lifetime on July 28, 2008| 3 Comments »
Posted in Love of a Lifetime on July 18, 2008| 2 Comments »
Meet Uncle Sonny and Aunt Kathy… They are the most generous loving people you will ever meet. They have a great need however, it’s their turn to be on the receiving end. Uncle Sonny is going in for emergency surgery on July 25 to have 3 disks replaced in his spine along with a whole bunch of other risks and complications. This will leave him at best not being able to fully move his neck, at worst paralyzed. He works for the state and state employees don’t have the option of paying into state disability. The doctors have already informed him, he will never work again. Please pray for his healing, the surgery, their finances, aunt Kathy’s health, their three children, five grandchildren, and the mental, physical, and financial strain this is putting on them. I am also praying the Lord would provide us with an opportunity to bless them with funds. Any fund raising ideas would be greatly appreciated, we are going to try and do a garage sale with “treasures” others in the area no longer need or want.
Update: They have moved his surgery to July 30th.
Posted in Love of a Lifetime on June 29, 2008| 3 Comments »
On Wednesday my young, healthy, loving, Grandma Shirley fell while watering her yard. She broke her knee cap in two. Today, Sunday she is having surgery to put it back together. Please pray for a quick recovery. She has been staying with my mom and dad, and we have been able to wait on her, cook for her, and pamper her… What a pleasure. She is a wonderful woman, who NEVER complains, and always has a smile… We love Grandma Shirley… Happy Healing!
Posted in Love of a Lifetime on June 15, 2008| Leave a Comment »
Happy Father’s Day
Dad, just wanted to wish you a happy day! You are an amazing, loving, kind-hearted, compassionate dad. I love you very much!
Spike, I am so thankful the Lord created you as my perfect mate and the “Daddy” for our children! You are a wonderful man, our sons are truly blessed to have you as their earthly father. I love you with ALL my heart!
Posted in children, Love of a Lifetime on April 26, 2008| 7 Comments »
Just thought I’d share a typical Saturday morning with you all… I normally do not post pictures of my kids on the internet, for fearful reasons… Then in thinking about it my two teenagers have myspace pages anyway, with TONS of pictures… So I asked my hubby what he thought… He in all his infamous wisdom says, “no one’s going to take them… they’d have to feed ’em”…. so that being said I think I’ll give you a glimpse into life with 4 BOYS….
Chris laying in bed ESPN on the TV, playing his guitar
Johnny putting songs on his ipod {See Daisy bird watching from the window}
Jeffrey and Dolce snuggling on the couch.
Tanner took over the living room with trains!
{Like his laundry basket and blanket tunnel}?
Posted in inspiration, Love of a Lifetime, thoughts on March 19, 2008| 6 Comments »
It is with a sad and heavy heart I write, today my beautiful cat Binky had to be put down as she was suffering kidney failure. Binky would have been 18 years old on June 25th… At almost 18 years old she has lived a full and wonderful life. She will be greatly missed. I thought I’d share a tribute to my Binky and Spike…
On Wed April 18, 2007 my mom took her dog “Auggie” to the vet, her and my dad were going to Jackson and Sutters Fort for the day (it was their anniversary) and “Auggie” gets mad at them if he has to stay in his kennel. So he needed some puppy teeth pulled and to be groomed, so she took him to her work for the day to get his “work” done. They hadn’t seen Binky come in from the garage, but thought she was just hiding, because on Tuesday night my sister brought both of her cats to my parents, Binky doesn’t like house guests… Anyway they ended up searching for her for three hours, my mom never saw her get out of the garage, and on the few times she has, she runs to the front door and howls (this is because she is an indoor ONLY cat)…. Anyway they were fairly certain she was just mad and hiding in the house, they called me and asked if I would come over and look because they hated to not go out for their anniversary because of a mad cat… Tanner and I searched for an hour and came up with nothing. I called Wed night thinking she would have come out by then, at least to eat… But no… Then I thought maybe (given that she will be 17 in June) she hid somewhere and died?? Again I called on Thursday, no Binky…. By then she had missed a day and a half of her medication, she takes thyroid meds and pain med for arthritis… So I was worried and upset, actually depressed about it, Spike wanted to go look for her and I just couldn’t do it… So Friday rolls around and rain is supposed to come, my dad is out mowing the lawn and asks his neighbor across the street if she has seen Binky, her grandson says YES she was in their bushes the day before howling! (they live right across the street)… SO he calls my mom, she leaves work and they search the neighborhood, bushes, and backyards…. When the neighbors husband comes home my mom talks to him and tells him she has been in their backyard and what his grandson Robert said, he then said well he couldn’t have seen her yesterday because he wasn’t here, he was here on Wed… Anyway, my dad went and placed an ad and my sister and mom went door to door again (Becky feeling horribly guilty)…So when I called Friday afternoon and heard she was seen and outside on Wed… I lost it, I mean I can’t even tell you the last time I cried that violently and I say that because I was so upset I was throwing up and it had nothing to do with a flu bug, I was just that upset… Spike came home from work and found me that way in the bathroom, he and Johnny then left and went to look for her, while I was home praying “Dear Lord Puuuuullllllllleeeeeeeeeeaz, you promise to take care of the birds and small creatures, take care of Binky, If anyone can find her it will be Spike, he is my KNIGHT IN SHINING ARMOR, he has always done exactly as he says, and he said he was going to find her”…. I mean heart wrenching begging prayers…. Spike, Johnny, and my dad searched through bushes and yards for two hours, and found nothing, Spike told Johnny they would come back at 11pm and look in the dark and when it was quieter from street noise to maybe hear her…. In the mean time I guess while they had been looking Johnny said he was praying “God if we don’t find her now, let us find her when we leave to go home”… It was 8:30ish and Spike gets up and tells Johnny, “OK John we are going to go FIND Binky, not look but FIND… Do you know what the difference is?” Johnny said, “no”, Spike said, “The difference is we will be bringing her home, we will FIND her we aren’t going to just look!” They get in the car and Spike tells my mom set food and water out on the front porch for her in-case that might lure her back…. They pull out of the driveway, heading towards Longs, driving super slow, about the 4th house in from Longs on the opposite side of the street Spike says, “John what’s that?” Johnny says, “IT’S BINKY”… Johnny got out of the car goes into the driveway where she is walking around the tire of a parked car, he calls her name, she stops lets him pick her up, and Spike turns the car around, pulls into my parents driveway rolls down the window, and asks my mom “Are you looking for this?” as he holds her up. He calls me and says, “DONE” and my mom grabs the cell phone SCREAMING and says “he did it, he found her, he is a knight in shining armor” (my exact words to the Lord)… He told me for like two seconds he thought about driving her to me, but then decided he didn’t want to stress or traumatize her any further, so he went to my parents… He came and picked me up and took to my “bones” (her nickname) and I held that cat for 10 minutes (it felt like hours) crying while she purred and purred….. Offering such Thanksgiving to the Lord, honestly I could handle her passing away and finding her, far better than the thought of her suffering, lost, confused, and in pain…. That’s the story…. I have officially told my husband, he is no longer “Spike” to me, he is my “Knight” That man has given me more than life can offer (I am not just talking about my cat) he is my EVERYTHING and constantly does something to prove that point, as if I needed reminding!
So that is last years Binky story, sadly almost a year later her little body had, had enough. I will always LOVE my “Bonesie Girl”!
Posted in Love of a Lifetime on March 5, 2008| 4 Comments »
Lipstick and Laundry 
