My Crazy So Called Life

Well.....let me take a deep breath....where do I begin! I have to put this day in the blog so I can one day look back and laugh about it..one day!

Last week Taylor and Caden were sick. Tate had asthma issues as did Caden. Caden had previously been on antibiotic and steroids for a sinus infection and asthma issues. So, on Wed he gets put on a new antibiotic and Tate on a higher dose of her inhaler to prevent her from steroids and on we go. Thursday everyone is getting better....Thursday late afternoon not so much. I drop Caden and Jake to the MIL so I can go have GNO with Kate Gosselin (amazing BTW) and Caden is breathing not so great. So, as I am shopping in Justice with Cyn I call the asthma doc and we discuss and we decide to start his second round of steroids. Side note: 2 year old on steroids for 2 weeks not so fun. Michael calls around 10PM as I am waiting in line for my pic op and autograph and shares that Caden is sounding really bad. Get home and have horrific night. Up all night..breathing him every 3 hours and praying his chest opens up. Friday morning finally comes and he will not be going to school DARN IT! But, he is sounding so much better. At about 5 AM he starts breathing better.

Day goes on....late Friday evening he begins a downward spiral. Michael and I have plans to go see Debbie Dean. You all know my old student Dana (whom I adore) she is like my little sister. Her mom has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and I had not seen her since her big surgery. We are heading out to meet with her and Dana and her hubby are coming in from Dallas too. Ultra important we go see them. So, I leave my problem breather and two other kids with the babysitter with my mom on back up to come at 8PM if I am running late (thanks mom for allowing us to stay later and breathing kids and putting them to bed). Another really bad night. Feel like a horrible mom b/c I did not take him in that morning but he had sounded so much better!!!

Saturday morning Michael and I take him to after hours....O2 level is 96 not bad but not great. He is so tight in his chest. He has also developed and ear infection which explains why he took the downward spiral late Friday. So, he is on one of the best antibiotics so we now get to do three days of Rocefin shots. They also give him a steroid shot and a breathing treatment in office b/c he was in slight distress. We head home and I am exhausted. He sleeps ALL night.

Sunday morning we wake up and have to take Caden back to doctor for second round of shots...Jake has a horrible cough and Taylor is running a 102 fever...,ARE YOU KIDDING ME!! Have I mentioned I leave THIS Friday for Hawaii for 1 week! So, my sweet husband takes Caden for his shot and makes appts for all kids for today. We sleep ALL night except for the few times Tate's fever would spike.

Present day....All kids were threatened within an inch of their little lives to behave or their mommy was not reasonable for what I would do to them even in public. All went great. Nana met us there to help out and hear what the doctor says since she will be in charge next week. Caden gets his shots, Tate is diagnosed with a really bad virus (WBC Counts at 3500...5000+ is norm) and Jake is doing better. Nana gives kids $$ for McDonald's for a lunch treat! Enter neighborhood and Tate starts to gag. I scream for her to grab her bag from lunch and she gets sick. By the third time she overshoots and throws up all on the floor. I scream a choice word a few times and she then tells me I have said that already! Really, you are sick there is no time for sarcasm! We get home and I get her in bath and am cleaning all up. Put Jake (yes a 4 year old) in charge of Caden who is playing in the front seat of my car. Come inside to put all dirty rags in wash and turn around to find the 4 year old. I tell him to get back to Caden he says he wants to "fill my bucket" I say you will if you get in the car. I am screaming this as I remember my full Diet Coke in the front seat. I yell to him to go get hit..he yells back not before he gets me some more towels to clean up with to help fill my bucket. I scream the only way my darn bucket is going to get filled is if he gets my Diet Coke...20 seconds later "Mom Caden spilled your whole Diet Coke in your cup holders". UGH!!!!!!!!!

I cleaned everything and then counted down the days until I will be on a sunny beach with a fruity drink in hand!

God is making sure I am darn grateful for this vacation!

Caden's 2nd Birthday

Caden ready for his party

Tate and Jessie

I can not even believe time has flown by so fast. My littlest puppy is now TWO! God is so amazing how he put that seed in my heart to have him. I NEVER would have had a third without divine intervention into my heart!Caden is truly the laughter of our family. His new saying "I Cool!" SO FUNNY! He is finally talking more and more each day! Praise God!

Aunt Kimmy, Gator-bug and Trevor

Nana and Pops and Caden

Aunt Shelly and Sweet Caleb

His Mickey Mouse Cookie Cake

Granny and Paw Paw


Nana and Caden checking it out

Getting ready for cake (that he doesn't eat)

Family Picture before cake time

These pictures are from his Mickey Mouse Party. We had it a week early because I judged a Dance Contest the weekend of his birthday! He was SO excited. I had been telling him for days about it but he never "got it". When the first person arrived he went nuts and had so much fun with his friends!

Nana and Maddie

Caden's basketball goal

Opening presents

Breathing on his actual birthday

Catch Up

WOW! I am so behind! I am going to get better at posting but with this and my Face book addiction I have not been good!

Kimmy and Lala battling it out!

I had my "No Mama" weekend with Kim, Cyn and Angela a few weeks ago. Michael took the kids for the entire weekend away to Carmine and I got to hang with my besties! We stayed in our PJ's, drank Rum Punch Slush, ate pizza, watched The Women and ate some more treats and then played Guitar Hero for 3 1/2 hours!! It got intense for sure and I swear we all almost peed our pants when Anglea almost got booed off for her singing abilities (or lack there of). We then crashed and the rule was no one up before 8:30AM...I got up at 8:28;) We sat around and had coffee and chatted forever eating twizzlers for breakfast.

Serious Guitar Hero Player...Lala's Game Face

We finally got up and headed out for lunch at BJ's and then Angela departed us. We then went on a major shopping spree at Kirkland's. Bad thing was I had Michael's car and the trunk was full. We did not know that and Cyn and Kim bought two HUGE pictures. So we looked hilarious trying to load it all in and if you happened to pass us that day Kim's face was probably smashed against the back window. Kim then left us and Cyn and I continued to shop..Old Navy, Justice and then Target. We then had dinner at red Robin and it was so yummy! She then headed home and I had the house to myself until Sunday at 12:00PM. Thank you Michael for an amazing weekend and an awesome gift!

We laughed ALOT

New Year's Eve 2008

Daddy and Tate

Tate after they did the fireworks and it fell on her foot and burned her
Me and Angela

Maddie and Jakey Boy

The kids watching the fireworks (I have no idea why my camera does this with lights)


Me and Maddigans

Wee puppy staying warm watching the fireworks

We had a great New Year's Eve with my folks and our friends The Shaw's. They came over we grilled out some steak's, had peach champagne cocktails (yummy), popped some fireworks (thanks to Matthew Jake is no longer afraid) and played LOTS of Wii. The Shaw's brought the Wii and once they are back in stock Taylor will be getting an early b-day present!

Michael rocking to Beastie Boys

La La rocking out to Blondie

Pops playing guitar hero (he was terrible but he tried)

Tate is all worn out

Wee puppy just kicked it and I got great video of him dancing around 11PM! The kids held up great considering Taylor had been up since 6AM! She got in her PJ's and laid on my mom until we finally quit playing guitar hero and let the kids play bowling and golf!

The kids playing bowling

Maximum Sleepover

Pizza Dinner

We had Aaron and Brookie come for sleepovers last night. Taylor's break has been filled with them if not with Jessie (my niece) than with Brookie. I love remembering some of my fave childhood times of sleepovers with my best friends. Talking late into the night!

This was Brookie's first official sleepover! She did it..ye there was a slight chance I would be driving to Fairfield later in the night but she did it. We were all so proud of her. There was lots of playing and running and girl time and boy time and ...."mom, the boys are in here again" and that followed by giggles from the boys and then mom yelling "boys leave the girls alone" followed by "oh man". Such fun! The boys were asleep by 9:20ish. The two talkers more like ten.

This morning I awaken to Aaron doing sprints up and down my stairs. He was just a giggling and I was not! I told him to get his scrawny butt into the room with the girls. Jake and Caden were still asleep. They are my sleepers and slept till way past 8:00. I then find out Brooke got up around 5:20 and proceeded to wake Tate around 6 something. Not real happy about that but they did make a pact that whoever got up first would wake the other. We will remedy that bright idea before the next sleepover!

Aunt Kimmy and Caden
Everyone wants to love on Trev

Other than that they were excellent. Even with Aunt Kris constantly making them clean up. Aunt Kimmy came to spend some time with me and have our kids exchange gifts and then they were all gone by 11AM.

My fave picture


Second fave with wee pupp escaping

We can't wait to do it again!!

Christmas 2008

Anxiously awaiting the go ahaead to come downstairs

The big geo-trax airport for Jakey Boy

The performers (they put on a show every year now)

Tate and her Gigi

Well~ It came and it is gone. It still amazes me how I get so hyped up like a little kid Christmas Eve day and the days leading up to it and by 4:00 Christmas Day I am wiped! No change in that this year but we had a wonderful Christmas! The kids got everything they wished for (of course) and some extras too!

Tate opening her school supply bucket!

Caden and his blower

Jake's big gift was he DS. I am learning fast that he has to have limited time on it or he would live on it. I am not real popular with him at the moment for setting time limits. Also, mommy is a little addicted to Super Mario Brothers!! Who is the DS for hmmmmm??? Tate got Barbies, lots of DS games a robe and a huge bucket with teaching supplies for my mom. She loves to play school! Caden...well he still doesn't realize the big idea yet! So, he got some clothes and some Mckey Mouse toys and a little blower he loves. I got the best gift from my sweet hubby....a NO-MOMMA WEEKEND!!!! What is that you ask...he and the kids leave town that is what it is..yes all three of them! They are leaving Friday and returning Sunday!!! He even contacted my three closest friends and had them clear some time. We are having a sleepover and then shopping and movie day YEAH!!! He also blessed me with a huge shadow box of Craig Biggio hitting his 3000 hits and a autographed ball:) He rocked that day (my hubby not Craig).

Safety First

We had lots of fun with family and the kids were very spoiled and blessed!

Christmas Vacation

We puppy feeling better

Jake and his train from the train show

We have had a heck of a beginning for our vacation...both boys got the tummy bug again last Thrusday night. Jake got over it quick but poor Caden is just today doing a bit better. The last two nights he has been up with tummy pains! Pray it is all over. We had this bug in the house for over 4 weeks and it has hit me, Caden and Taylee twice.

We started the vacation with many sleepovers. Tate went to my SIL's to hang with my niece and that turned me picking them up Sunday morning and them coming to church with me, an all day play date and that led to another sleepover just at our house. Jake got to have a sleepover with Granny and Paw Paw all by himself. Then Monday after gymnastics Brookie was going to come have a sleepover but Caden was throwing up again so Tate went to The Blackshear's.

Jess and Tate at their sleepover

Tuesday the baking and cooking began. I made two home-made pie crusts..have no idea how they will taste tomorrow! I made 4 dozen Christmas cookies. They are Uncle Ronnie's mommy's recipe...we call them Mimi's cookies! As you can see Jake has 1 or 10! He has been on a growth spurt! Eat...Eat...Eat...so much for the pounds I lost when I was sick. Having the kids home and an appetite back is not a good thing! I then made my spaghetti sauce for dinner with my folks tom.

Jake Cramming the cookies in

Today, Christmas Eve, I made the two pies...it is called Cherry Delight and is Michael's moms recipe..we shall see! We attended Christmas Eve services at 4:30 and followed up with our Christmas Eve traditional dinner at whataburger and then we went looking at lights. Now all are in bed and I am about to go play Santa....I have already eaten the cookie;)

Looking at lights...weird lights from the glare