An Impromtu Photo Session

Fun Days at the Park

Catching up on some pictures!

At our church's Fall Festival, there was face painting. These were done by one of our friends. Aren't they great?!!





She seriously chose the 'purple eyes' on her own. She just loved them!!

A Day to Remember

This morning (yesterday!) I got a call from my sister asking or saying where is mom, is she coming over there, have you heard from her? Now, I couldn't really understand her since I was really still asleep. I had overslept, again, and she was waking me up.

I woke up much faster when I realized that she was telling me that mom had been in a car accident and was stuck on the side of the road.

Eyes flew open and brain started working.

I was fully alert now and ready to solve the problem. However, I did not have a car to aid in solving the problem. (mine is broken) My mom had called David, her dh, and he was on his way. I called my dh, who immediately set out for my mother. My sister called me and we whined about not being able to go. ;)

We called more and I was able to get dh to come back for the kids and I when they decided to take mom to the Emergency Room in the nearby town. Sister, Robin, set out at the same time. (Brother, Ronnie, came too!)

After we realized that dh's speedometer was around 15mph too slow, we made very good time!

We got there in time to see mom in a neck brace, (bad memories from her first broken neck) and glass all over her. Now, I may be being a bit dramatic here but you could see little, tiny pieces of glass sparkling all over her. A few minutes later the Dr., at least we think she was a Dr. she was dressed more like a nurse, told us there were no breaks. That is a good thing since they had mom up and sitting in a chair!! Seriously.

Anyway, as soon as they said it wasn't broken, mom tore off the neck brace and threw it across the room. (okay, she didn't throw it but there was a lot of passion in the turtle slow movements she was making) It took a full 10 minutes after that diagnoses to be discharged and for us to end up at McDonalds for breakfast. That's not that long considering that she can't walk that fast! ;0

I had the forethought to grab the camera on the way out the door. Actually, it may have been more of a morbid sense of 'I have to put this on the blog'; but, we won't tell anyone!

Here are the pics of my mothers 'Day She Met the Deer...'



Not a good picture of the little, teeny, tiny, nick on her face. I tried.




I snapped this when she was unaware. I was like a tiger waiting on its prey and then pounced when she was vulnerable.

Here is where it gets gross. The close ups of the hair from the deer is Robin's fault. I just want that out there.

The broken windshield and the deer fur.

Oh, yeah, an even closer look at the deer fur. Yum...

The hole the deer made in the windshield. In my effort to not think about how bad this could have been, we are not going to talk about this picture. :)

Some of the dents that were all over the side of the van. Oh, and a little sumpin', sumpin' from the deer.

More souvenirs from said deer.

A general overview of the front of the van. I guess she won't be using that side mirror anymore. :(

Isn't that a sad sight? We are hoping that they can fix her right up.

I know that I have been a little silly with this post and that it is actually a very serious issue. I just am not going to talk about it like that. Otherwise, I would end up in the loony bin and Robin would come over and hit me.

Seriously though, we are praising God for His protection and Mercies for our mother. thank you, Jesus.

UGH...

We have strep in our house. GRRR

On Tuesday morning our oldest noticed a 'pimple' on our 6yodd forehead. I didn't think too much of it until a little later, she had some on the side of her face.

I still didn't think too much of it.

THEN, around 1:30pm, during lunch I noticed that she was acting a little punky. She didn't want to eat. We were eating Pizza Hut pizza. Now, I knew that something was up because she loves pizza.

After lunch I had her come over to me and she was BLAZING HOT. I took her temp and it was 102.6*. ugh

I was on my way to the osteopath and my mom was watching the girls. As I was leaving, mom was giving the motrin.

Later that evening, around bedtime, she developed a terrible headache. That worried me a little. Her fever wasn't really dropping like I wanted it to.

I called the Dr. and he told us to give motrin and benadryll, wait a few days and see how it goes.

By morning, her throat was *very* sore. I knew that we needed to get to the doctor.

They got us in very quickly and he told us it was Strep. grr

She is still not feeling well. Her fever keeps coming back up when the motrin wears off and her head still hurts.

Hopefully, she will start feeling better tomorrow and no one else will get sick. :}

God help us all, it looks like Barak Obama is our next President.