End of the Year Pictures!!

Our Kindergarten Graduate!!!

 

 

More Birthday Pictures!!

Presents from Oregon!!!

 

 

 

Dinner out on Friday with the biggest birthday surprise of all!!! Cousins!!

 

Birthday Pictures!!

I have not disappeared off the face of this earth!! I have been taking a three week course through University of Phoenix that is taking up my every free moment when I'm not busy dealing with the end of the year stuff at school!! BUT... Heather whined (just a little) about the missing birthday pictures so here they are with no elaborate blogging because I desperately need some sleep!!

This is a picture of the biggest surprise!! My mom and dad drove in from California and brought my niece (Abby's twin!!) with her! We kept it a total surprise from Abby so they are looking in the car and seeing her for the first time (she was laying down to hide!!!)

 

It was REALLY cold out but the girls braved the pool anyways!! Good thing, since that's the whole reason we bought the pool!! It will be really nice for the summer, though, to not have to walk down to the community pool to go swimming!!

 

 

 

Tink's New Bike!!

 

Minus the BIG TOE

Sooooo....I told my doctor that my foot hurt when I put weight on it right above my pinkie toe. She ordered an x-ray just to be careful. Turns out I broke my toe.

MY BIG TOE!!

What?!?!? How do you twist your ankle, toward the outside of the foot, and break your big toe????

Only me...I'm such an oddball. I see the doctor tomorrow to see if they fell the necessity to do anything about it.

On Two Feet!!!

Thanks for all the thoughts and prayers!! I'm definitely on the mend. I'm walking on two feet (without crutches!! YAY!!) After an evening of contrast baths, ice, compression, and ibuprofen...the swelling is much better. It's not totally gone by any means but tolerable, and better than the pain of being lopsided on crutches!! I see my ortho guy on Wednesday to get his opinion as far as soft tissue damage...I'll keep you in the loop!!

NOT AGAIN!!

Guess what??

No...I didn't win the lottery for the fourth time in a row.

I sprained my ankle. Or possibly broke it. We won't know until the x-rays are read and that won't be until Friday.

{{sigh}}

So, for now and the forseeable future, I'm on crutches. Again.

Pray for me!!!

**Note: I found out today (Friday) that the blessed thing is not broken. I'm good to go for another week on crutches, elevating, ice-ing, and resting...yes, bless her heart that's what the PA told me to do...go ahead, laugh, I'm laughing because I know what I do for a living and how many children I bring home with me at night and I have no freaking idea how I'm supposed to accomplish this task...I'm going to have to though because when I don't my pain level is rivaling that of giving birth to my 10lb 1oz 15 inch head son with no meds...and I'm not kidding!!!****

Relay for Life!!

 

A lady from our church came and spoke to the youth group about the Relay for Life about a month ago and Bethany came home bouncing off the walls wanting to participate!! Her godmother and my best friend, Heather went through what I can only describe as a horrific treatment for a horrific cancer and has survived to tell the tale!! We are hugely grateful to God that she is still with us and continue to pray without ceasing for her continuing remission (I don't think you can call it remission until she has been cancer free for two years and it's only been one but I don't know what else to call it)...So this past weekend Bethany and I went off to participate in the Relay for Life. She was determined to stay all night, she got close...she decided at 2:30 a.m. that she wanted to go home...which turned out for the best as I was slotted to help with the church play on Sunday. I was a little bleary eyed but made it to church. She, on the other hand, slept in until 11:00!!

Here are our luminaria:

 

In case you are wondering who "King JuJu" is...he was a sweet, beautiful little four year old boy who lost his battle with a brain tumor this past January. I never met him in real life...I only "knew" him through his blog...but he touched my life, and he touched my kids, simply by being him. He is in the arms of Jesus...but no mother should have to endure losing a child, especially to such a horrible disease...so I walked for Mimi, and for all the other mothers of children with cancer that she represents, so that fewer mothers will have to bury their beautiful little babies!! Fly High, King JuJu, Fly High!!

 

 

Random pictures!!

I finally got all my pictures downloaded and forgot I had taken this!! This is a picture of my best friend Heather wearing a viking hat and kissing a troll. (Don't ask!!)

 

Here we are together waiting for the fireworks at Epcot!!

 

At last!!

My computer took a tumble at the birthday party and the screen died!! I had to wait for the parts to come in and my dh and his techie friends at work to fix it but I finally have my laptop back!! Yay!! So here are the promised birthday girl pictures!!

 

Big sister was in charge of the make up station

 

Mrs. D was in charge of manicures!!

 

The glamour gang!!

 

Big brother was in charge of the photo session!! America's next top model in miniature!!