I Know Prayer Works!

Sat. Sept. 20th was an interesting day! Doug was bow hunting Friday night and through the day Sat. My mom and I took the kids to the Safetypalooza in Nixa. It was fun... Cade got his bike helmet fitted to him, and Madi got a new helmet and it was fitted to her. The kids got to shoot an air riffle, crawl in a Sheriff's car, and a fire truck. Cade even got to ride his bike through little coarses, even learning hand signals. When we registered they got entered to win a bike. They did drawings every 30 min. We had fun doing everything and when we were loading everything in to the truck, I got a call saying Madi won a bike. She was excited to pick out her own big bike!

After that the kids and I drove to Ash Grove for a family reunion on Doug's side of the family.

Early evening my mom, Judy, mopped the floor. After she got done, her stomach was cramping and felt bloated, she was feeling light headed and her chest was cramping. She decided it was best to call an ambulance. Just in case! The ER told her they use to send women home with symptoms like that and the majority would come back in 3 to 4 days and had had a major heart attack. They did a lot of blood work and a chest x-ray Sat. evening. They kept her over night and Sunday morning they had her do a stress test. The Dr. came in that morning and said it could be stress, muscle strain or 3/4 of the time it ends up being acid reflux disease. Sunday afternoon they let her go home, all of the test came back fine! They said her liver count was a little high, but that's nothing major. We're just glad it wasn't a heart attack or anything major!

My younger sister, Tracy, told us she was expecting again on Ty, her son's first birthday, Aug. 21st. (they would be 20 months apart) She had some spotting and cramping on Sat. and we told her to take it easy and drink LOTS of water. We wouldn't let her go garage sale shopping with my mom and I. Sunday morning she called us saying that she went ahead and went to the ER Sat. night. After running some test and doing an ultra sound, they told Tracy and Craig that they couldn't find a heart beat. (The Dr. told them that around 50% of pregnancy's end in misscarriage.- that's crazy! We don't realize how often it happens!) Initially they talked about doing a DNC (cleaning everything out) Sunday morning. Luckily her body did everything on it's own! Although it's hard think they lost a baby, God has completely had his hand on them. Tracy has had a peace! They know there was a reason for it. It makes it a little easier since she was only 12 1/2 weeks along. They didn't know if it was a girl or boy and they had seen the heart beat, but never heard it. Plus she has Ty to help keep her occupied. We know God works in mysterious ways and He is amazing!
Thanks for everyone's prayers!

A Crappy Day!

Being a mom... is interesting! Yesterday I took the kids to McDonald's and met a friend of mine (Courtney) there. The kids ate their lunch and then played for awhile. Cade came down saying he needed to go potty. So I had both of them get their shoes on and we were going to make a potty trip. Cade decided he wanted to play a little longer, because he knew once we were done with the bathroom trip we were going to leave. I thought, he must not have to go very bad, he'll come back down when he really needs to. About 5 minutes later Courtney and I were thinking.. Man, Cade's been quiet. I hollered at him and I saw him stand up in one of the big bubbles. I was shocked to see that he was wearing his shirt and underwear only. (And his underwear was on backwards.) I told him to put his shorts on and quickly get himself down to me. I looked at Courtney and slightly laughed. At this point I could laugh, cry, I was embarrassed, mortified, and shocked.... I couldn't believe what had just happened. Unfortunately my first thought was, we could leave now and no one would know. That thought didn't last long, I wouldn't want other kids to find it. (Luckily my 2 kids were to only ones in there.) So... I sucked up my pride and went up to the girl at the register, I told her what happened and asked her if they had something to clean it up with and I would go up there. She giggled over it and spoke with the manager. An Asst. Manager said she'd clean it up, she had five kids and it wasn't a big deal. I was so embarrassed and kept insisting that I would clean it up. The Asst. Manager went in and couldn't find her way to the right bubble. She was feeling claustrophobic so she came out. I asked again if she'd give the stuff to me and I would go up. She said she'd let me, only because of her feeling claustrophobic. Courtney ended up taking the paper towels and cleaner and going up there. (She's a nurse and deals with poop and stuff all the time. I was very thankful for her doing it!) I felt so bad, it took her a good 10 min. up in that thing.
We immediately went to the bathroom to get everything cleaned up. I had to change his clothes and wipe him down. Then, while helping Madi go to the bathroom, she almost fell in the toilet. I was ready to go home! I pray no other moms ever have to deal with anything like that, how embarressing!

The Begining!

I finally decided to start one of these blog thingies! Hopefully, I don't bore to many people and I can keep things updated.

It's amazing how time flies by! When you're little you can't wait till you graduate high school and find prince charming and live happily ever after. I just had my 10 year class reunion this summer, talk about time flying by! Doug and I have been married for 7 1/2 years now. Since we've had Cade (4) and Madi (2 1/2), time's flown by even faster! Doug's now back in school to get a Bachlor's degree in Wildlife Conservation and Management. Hopefully he'll be done next spring/summer (2009). It's been an interesting ride with him being in school full time, working full time, and volunteering the Conservation Dept. We know it's a ride that God's guiding us on!