Still Recovering...

Well I am still recovering. Physically and Emotionally. I will write more when I am up to it.

A Blessing Discovered

I went to the doctor this last week since we finally have health insurance

(hooray!!) I talked to him about how I have been starting to have the pain from the endometriosis come back and how we have been trying to get pregnant for 4 years with no success and a few other concerns I have had about my body. He recommended we do the Laparoscopy surgery which is the same one that I had 10 years ago. I thought that I had been told by my first doctor at the time of my surgery that you could only have the surgery once and that after the surgery they treat the endometriosis with the Depo-Lupron shot which I had 3 years after my first surgery. Well this doctor explained to me that the surgery results last for 5 years and that is why it was treatable with the shots the first time but since it has been 10 years since the surgery and 7 years since the shots he said that surgery would be necessary to get the problem under control. So this morning I realized that I had the surgery in May of '99 and I got pregnant with Kennadee in May of '04. Russell were married May 1st and decided that we should not prevent having a baby just in case I had a hard time getting pregnant. Well now I realize that if we had waited I wouldn't have been able to get pregnant since May was 5 years and that would have been my last chance!! I am so glad that we didn't wait because it probably wouldn't be until now that we would finally be in the position to get pregnant!

He also ran some tests on my Thyroid and hormones and some other things and I haven't heard back about those yet. Also when he was doing my breast exam he found a mass in my right breast. They think it is Fibrocystic Breast Disease which is non-cancerous it just causes me some pain and discomfort. I will be having a mammogram and an ultrasound on it next week if they don't schedule my surgery before that. Otherwise I will have it done when I recover a bit. I will post the results from all of my tests as well as the date of my surgery when the Dr.'s office gets back to me.

Please keep me in your prayers!!

Big Job

Who would've known that a garage can get so messy in just a short eight months but ours sure has!! I have even cleaned it out a time or two but it keeps ending up looking like this:

So today I decided to organize it. Saturday we went and got some shelves and first thing this morning I went to work on it. I discovered two dead mice along the way (eeeekkkk!!!!) But other than that the project went pretty smoothly. Here is the result:

Long Summer

Well as most of you know Russell's contract was not renewed for this school year with Hutto High School due to the need to hire a Math teacher they had to eliminate a Spanish position.

Well all summer Russell has been earnestly searching for a new teaching job for this year. Early in the summer he had a couple of interviews but nothing ever came of them. So we spent the whole summer hoping and praying that he would find something. Well June came and went, July came and went with no interviews. We were seriously worried when August came and he still hadn't heard anything. And then last week he got a call for an interview with a Primary School that was hiring for a Bilingual 2nd grade position. He interviewed and felt really good about it but Wednesday they called him and told him he didn't get it but that he would have been their second choice. We were both heart sick because we had felt so good about this position.

Well yesterday a school in Manor called and asked him to come in for an interview this morning. So he went for the interview and they told him they would get back to him either this afternoon or Monday morning.

Well this afternoon just before 4:00 they called and offered him the position!! We are so excited and so thankful for all your thoughts and prayers!!

New York

I just got back from the best trip of my life!!! Diana and I went to New York to help our friend Bek and her family pack up so they can move to Houston. It was such a blast. I narrowed down my 265 pictures to 38 so I know this is a lot of pictures but it could have been more so be grateful! LOL!! (If you would like to see all 265 come on over I'd be glad to show ya!!)

This is Diana, Nathanael, and I on the airplane. By the way Jetblue is awesome!!

They are stationed on Staten Island with the Coast Guard so you could literally walk out their front door and down the street and be at the ocean!!

This is a blue crab that had gotten stranded on the beach so we picked it up with a board and took it back to the ocean. It was really funny because it kept snapping it's claws and trying to get us. It just didn't understand that I was trying to help it.

The first Saturday we were there we went into Manhattan. To get there we had to take the Staten Island Ferry. It was really cool. In the terminal while we were waiting for the ferry there was a guy with a fiddle playing for us. It was really cool. (Video to follow)

This is me on the ferry

View of Manhattan from the ferry.

Subway turnstiles

Me on the subway.

This is where the World Trade Center was.

It's now a big construction site where they are building the new World Trade Center and the 9/11 Memorial.

This is a church that is across the street. It is where the firefighters and rescue workers would come to rest and eat and be taken care of between shifts. The cemetery out front has headstones from the 1700's it was really neat to see.

Inside the church they have a ton of memorabilia from 9/11

George Washington had his own personal pew in the church. During the rescue efforts of 9/11 they used his pew for massages and chiropractic purposes.

These are the pictures that people would carry around in search of their loved ones. It was so sad to see!! It was a very tearful experience to visit there.

Here is Diana & Kaelten going down into the subway

This is the subway train

This lady was standing in the subway posing as a mannequin she was a little weird!!

Times Square

Bek, Diana, & I at Times Square

We had dinner at the Hard Rock Cafe

This is our waiter and I. He was really funny!!

This is the famous Toys R Us from the movie Home Alone 2 it's been remodeled and now has a full sized ferris wheel inside. It was really cool

Here is the New Year's Eve Ball on Times Square

Statue of Liberty (obviously)

Macy's on 34th Street

This is the Empire State Building. We were going to go to the top but it was lightning so they closed it and we were going to go eat dinner and then come back when it cleared up but by then it was too late and we needed to get back.

Radio City Music Hall

NBC Studios the Rainbow Room

Rockafeller Center

The fountain at Rockafeller Center. Those umbrellas are where the ice skating rink is in the winter. And behind it is where the tree is.

Me in front of the statue. We ate at a really awesome restaurant right there on Rockafeller center it was awesome!!

The Brooklyn Bridge at Night

Manhattan at night.

This was seriously the best trip of my life!! Thanks so much Bek & Jared for letting me experience this. It was AWESOME!!

Sunflowers

My awesome friend Anna called today and asked if I would be interested in having her take some pictures of Kennadee with the sunflowers by our house. Of course I couldn't pass up the opportunity and they turned out beautifully!! Thanks Anna!! Click Here to see more of Kennadee's sunflower pics

Girls Day!!

Friday night we had Kennadee's cousin Hannah over for a sleep over. They were so cute!! They stayed up 'til midnight but they were really quiet so I didn't know they were still up until they came out and asked for another movie! I went up and looked in on them in the morning and they were sleeping face to face about a foot apart it was so cute! When they woke up they came down dressed in each other's clothes (Signs of what's to come when they are teenagers? I think so!) Well Kennadee was wearing her own shorts because Hannah's didn't fit. They had a blast!

Later that morning we were going to watch the Dayton girls so we decided to invite Sofia from across the street over to play in the sprinklers and she brought her little swimming pool to. Here they are all ready to go swimming!
The girls all had a blast while they swam and played. They got cold after a little while so we came inside to have cookies and then their Mom came and picked them up.