THANK YOU FOR ALL OF YOUR PRAYERS....

I just wanted to take a second & thank everyone for all of your prayers & well wishes in regards to Kayla. She is now home & out of the hospital... which we are so grateful for. TODDLERS + hospitals, LETS JUST SAY not a good combo. This morning she finally ate a WHOLE bowl of oatmeal which was her first REAL meal since last Thursday night; so YEA hopefully we are on the uppity-up!

For those who don't know what happened Kayla started getting sick last Friday morning & by Saturday was so bad off that we had to take her to the local Cooks hospital & then she was transferred to the big Cooks in downtown Ft. Worth. J took a flight home first thing Sunday AM (we didn't get transferred till 10pm Sat. night...) After lots of pokes, IV's, blood work, x-rays, CT's... turns out she had a VERY BAD case of the rotavirus. On Monday she still wasn't eaten much at all & was drinking a little more then the previous days so they decided to take her IV out & send us home being they thought she would get better quicker at home. The first couple days home she still wouldn't eat much but was drinking a lot MORE. We were thankful for this being we didn't want to go back to Cooks... We were still having the diarrhea/dry-heave episodes but she was DRINKING, so this was a step in the right direction. Then this AM she ate a WHOLE bowl of oatmeal & is asking for more; so YEA our prayers are being answered. She is GETTING HER APPETITE BACK with-out any side effects!!!

It's amazing how GOD gives you the strength during these times being I only slept about 4 hours in 48, I have NO CLUE how I stayed so strong... Watching your little angel get poked, prodded, sent away in an ambulance is so incredibly sad & I hope to never go thru this again. I know some of you have been through this many~many times & to you I have WHOLE NEW RESPECT & gratitude on just how strong you truly are!!!

I also want to THANK DANA for being there for us until J could arrive... man I TRULY WOULD HAVE NO CLUE what I would of done with out her there she was by far the ROCK during all the TOUGH TIMES IN THE BEGINNING. Thank you & I love you.... In closing thank you again to EVERYONE for all of your prayers, well wishes, love, care & dinners during this difficult time. We are forever blessed & grateful to have such amazing friends, family & LOVED ONES who dropped everything to listen to me cry, give me advice & to just Pray for our family! Again THANK YOU & we love you all!

1st week on the road....

(kind of dark being I took with phone... but looks like she enjoys the new egg crate)

So I am trying to be good about keeping up with this & I wanted to really blog about a "kids Halloween" experience we had in Frisco before I left for our trip. I just never got around to it.... I even had great pictures of the MADNESS. "oh well"

First I want to say a little prayer for Miss Aspen.... sweetie I hope you are getting stronger by the minute & know you have all of us pulling for you... HANG IN THERE, stay strong & GET BETTER so we can see your beautiful mom smiling again!!! Kel you too... hang in there & be the rock I know you ALAWAYs are/can be....

On another note... I have had a couple people say they are having a hard time leaving comments or following the blog. I don't quite know how to do it but I know there is a way you set up an account. Then every time a new blog is written or you are wanting to post a comment you just enter your email & password & it will post.... (help any????)

So here we are in our first week on the road. We are in PALM COAST, FL (Brooke sorry I told you Palm Beach....) IT HAS BEEN SOOOO STINKING COLD here, I am telling you "RECORD" lows... Totally not prepared may I add; so basically the same two long sleeves are getting their wear out of them! We had our first round of golf today & WHAT A GREAT ONE IT WAS... "go boys, gotta love Florida" Miss Kayla has had a rough adjustment so far (this is after being perfect on our 4 hour flight & hour & 1/2 drive....). We can't quite figure out why but in trying I am on a mission to make a Pack & Play more comfortable. Those who don't have kids may not know what this is but it is a card board type mattress :) that goes in a portable crib. Really who wants to sleep on that; someone should make a blow up type mattress to put inside of this thing that makes it more comfortable. I really thought it was my kid being high maintenance but the more moms I talk to say their kid sleeps horrible in them also. So the solution that J & I came up with is to go by an egg crate from the store & cut it down to size. THIS WORKED PERFECTLY being the sheet still fits over it and the mattress!!!! "Genius I say"... (for now that is) I should think of a patent for a solution to this but again I am sure not all kids sleep in theirs as much as Miss K (& mason...) Then by the time I do figure it out she won't need it anymore.... See all those things Dana you said you wish you would of thought of, now it is me saying it!

Well this is kind of wordy and long just wanted to touch base with our week... I won't be adding any new pictures being I don't have any down loaded yet. Wishing lots of luck this week in golf & to a healthy beginning TO ALL!