FINALLY A NEW POST !!!!!

Sorry it's been so long since I have posted. Things were a little hectic for me in October and November and then the craziness of December. Time has most definitely slipped away. January came with the start of a great new year. Things at home were awesome, the kids were healthy and James and I were happy. The end of January brought a huge surprise, we found out that I was pregnant. A miracle has occurred, thank you GOD! After two years and eight months of not using any type of birth control and no fertility medicine I was pregnant. James and I being totally surprised also asked the question, "how did this happen?". Funny now but we were very serious when we asked it. James asked the doctor and the doctor said "I hope you know how this happened!" Needless to say a huge shock and surprise but we are very happy about it. The kids fight almost daily about if its a boy or a girl. We will be able to end this argument on Wednesday at 4pm. This pregnancy has knocked the rug out from under me. I have been very, very sick and just had such a hard time. I am only 18 weeks but very ready for September to come!

A few others things that are going on and a couple of cute stories from my kids. Mattie turned 5 in February. This makes me very sad. She starts kindergarten in September and that is so scary for me. I want her to be little for ever but it has been great to have a big girl in the house. She is a character and very funny. Wyatt turns 3 on the 5th of May. He is doing so good. He is talking so much that we have to ask him to be quite! Which so you know never works. He is loving school and has made so much progress. Even with all the progress he is still a crazy little monkey hyped up on caffeine. Very fun but very tiring. And now for the stories. Mattie fell and had her first big sets of strawberries on her knees and feet. Mattie, being the drama queen, acted like her legs had been ripped off and she was going to die. I, being the excellent mother that I am, told her to get up and walk in the house if she wanted a band-aid. One would think that with that type of response she wouldn't be a drama queen any more but she still is. Inside while doctoring the knees and wrapping them in bandages and gauze she very seriously looks at me and says "Mom, before you had me and Bubba were you a doctor? Your so good at this." I giggled and said "No baby, I wasn't a doctor." She responded "Then how did you get so good at this?" I laughed this time and said "Lots of practice." She looked at me and smiled and said "You should be a doctor, your so good at this." I smiled and hugged her and called Dad to laugh. She was just so sure that I had been a doctor.

Last night James and I had finally relaxed on the couch after a long day. Mattie and Wyatt were not in the relaxing mood. They were jumping and laughing and messing with each other. I gave two warnings and said the next they were going to there room. They of course started back up so Dad sent them to their room. Mattie immediately started pouting and hanging her head saying it's not fair. Jamie said "stand up straight and hold your head up" to Mattie. Behind her Wyatt is walking and stretching his neck up and pushing his shoulders up to his ears. Jamie and I our cracking up laughing and Jamie says it again. Wyatt starts again pushing up his shoulders and says "Daddy me is up". It was so funny and cute.

Again, I promise I will post more often and will announce late Wednesday what I am having. Until then, goodnight!

A boobie story part deux....

This the the second part of the boobie story.

My diagnostic mammogram was scheduled for Wednesday, August 27th at 2:15. On Tuesday I received a call from the scheduler informing me that there was an error with my appointment. Basically, the nice (very old and senile) nurse that was so very impressed with my rack and blinded y my youthful appearance wrote on the sheet Wednesday 8/27 @ 2:15 but scheduled it for Thursday 8/28 @ 11:15. I know what your thinking, simple error anyone could have done it. I rescheduled for Wednesday 9/3 @ 1:30. This was there first available. Obviously there is a high demand to get you boob squashed and felt up these days.

On Tuesday 9/2 I had to re-schedule my appointment again. The office requires you have a drivers license and insurance card and since mine where stolen somewhere between 10pm 9/1 and 8am 9/2 I couldn't make that appointment. Side note someone broke into my husbands car, got the garage door opener used it and broke into my car and stole my purse. Now normally I don't leave my purse in the car, but Tuesday was the first day of school for the kids so I had everything loaded and ready to go the night before. The thieves left everything else in my car (including the two screen portable DVD player that was sitting next to my purse) but they did steal my makeup bag. To add to the fun James was out in the sticks hunting dove and received a lot of messages that went from hysterics to calmly saying were good and I'm at work as he finally got into cellular range. So because of no license no insurance card I re-scheduled again for Friday 9/5 at 2:45.

I got a photo copy of my drivers license from my doctors and took my husbands insurance card (like he ever goes to the doctor to use it, MEN!) and headed to my afternoon of fun. I know I am making light of some very important testing but really its laugh about it or cry so what are you going to do. I am in no way making light of people that have breast cancer or anything. That's my disclaimer. So I am called back and taken to a nice area and told to disrobe from the waist up, use a baby wipe to get rid of any deodorant (and who doesn't wear it in Texas summers!) and put on a beautiful gown with the ties in the front. I do this thinking the Lord that I am not bashful or modest. After two children my goods have been looked at and touched by so many doctors and nurses I don't even care anymore. So the tech takes me in and starts the exam. She positions me in front of this big machine and lifts my boob and places it on a hard flat surface. I then am told to lean in as far as I can and the top part of the machine come down and flattens my boob. I am just saying I believe this machine could have been used as a torture device during the French Revolution. And obviously a man came up with this device and if he had tried it out on his goods the machine would not be here today. So I had a total of four x-rays done on both of my girls. I then sit as they check the films. I am then sent to the ultra sound tech. So after my boob has been flattened like a pancake (something I never thought a DD could do) I had warm gel squeezed on it as another tech ultrasounds my boob. So hears the cool thing. They could not find the lump. They good size lump that my doctor felt and estimated walnut size, that my husband felt and and that I felt was gone. In nineteen days the lump vanished, THANK YOU GOD, THANK YOU FOR ANSWERING PRAYERS, THANK YOU FRIENDS FOR PRAYING! I still have some pain but in no way like it was. The doctors are thinking its all hormonal. Yea hormones. Whatever it is or isn't God healed it and showed me it was in His perfect timing. I wish HE could of spared the purse and makeup but whatever God gives I willingly accept and praise Him for it.

The boobie story has a happy ending and I do love a happy ending!

I will post again soon with pictures and more stuff soon.

Happy blogging!

Silly Six (aka my first tag)

I was tagged by Jill.

The rules are:
1. Link to the person who tagged you.
2. Mention the rules.
3. Tell six unspectacular quirks of yours.
4. Tag six bloggers by linking.
5. Leave a comment for each blogger.

Here you go:

1.) All of my books are in a very specific order. The are grouped by type (example: religious, historical, romance, fiction etc.). Within each group they are separated by author and then alphabetically.
2.) When I sleep I have to be on the right side so I can lay on my right side and face out.
3.) I have to have 4 pillows when I sleep. One under my head, one on each side of me and one between my legs. I can not sleep or can't sleep well with out this.
4.) I have to read or watch tv to fall asleep. I can't just lay down and go to sleep. This drives my husband crazy!
5.) When I sleep I have to have just a comforter to cover me no sheets. The comforter has to be able to pull over my head and I have to be able to lift my feet up and tuck some of it under my feet. Again, drives my husband crazy because I will wake him up to get the comforter right.
6.) My closet and my kids closet or organized with all the shirts together, skirts, pants, shorts, dresses etc. Within each group the are organized by good clothes, play clothes and then by color (light to dark).

As I type this, I realize how messed up my head really is.

I am tagging Shannon, Sundae, Lynsey, Sarah, Linsi, and Kelly.

Happy blogging!

It's picture day!

I wanted to show everyone the kids new haircuts but didn't want to type alot so you get lots of pictures today.

Mattie's New Haircut














Wyatt's New Haircut















Mattie playing Wii Tennis (and winning!)














Jamie playing the lion















Wyatt playing the lion

Jamie and Mattie on the 4 wheeler in Bowie

Mattie and Wyatt having a campout in the living room

Jamie's new drink of choice

Hope you enjoyed!

And now a boobie story....

I was told by my sweet friend Shannon that I need to put the funny stories I tell her on my blog, so here it goes.

First, the not so happy part of the story. I started experiencing some very bad pain in my left breast. I went to a new general family doctor (what a way to meet, "Hi my name is Delilah, can you fell my boob and let me know what's going on") since I couldn't get in to see my ob/gyn for a week. The Doctor checked me out, with both of my children watching since I got the 10:40 appt at 9:15 that day, and informed me in his deep doctor voice "Yep, you've got a nice size lump at 6 o'clock". Now, I have never thought of my boobs like a clock but yes the area that hurts would be at 6 o'clock. The doctor also informed me in his deep voice "good news is it hurts, its the ones that don't hurt that we worry about". As I am sitting on the table in my paper half shirt that my two year old is lifting up (I think he wanted to make sure the doctor didn't do anything to his built in pillows) thinking back to a few moments ago when the doctor was almost punched in the face while he was probing the "nice size lump" I am not real happy about the pain even if it's a good thing. I was then informed that I will have to be scheduled for a diagnostic mammogram so he can see the "nice size lump" before he can decide on the next course of action. I asked is there anything I can do to help with the pain. Just so you know, its a constant dull pain and when I move wrong or lift my arm or have a two year old use my boob as his pillow it throbs with jabbing pain and when I try to sleep it hurts even worse. Gravity sucks when you have a pain in the boob. The doctor gladly gave me pain medicine. So while I'm getting dressed (side note my four year old wanted to keep the cool paper half shirt so she could use it when she plays doctor) I am thinking how exactly do I take pain medicine and function plus properly supervise my children. You guessed it, you don't. So pain medicine is only for night night time. (another side note it doesn't help) The doctor comes back in and takes me to his nurse to schedule the mammogram.

Here's the funny part. The nurse looks at me and checks out the girls and nice as can be says "SO THOSE ARE IMPLANTS, RIGHT" I look at her and say "No, no implants they're real" and she replies "Oh really." I have 38DD boobs that have been through two rounds of breast feeding got up to 40G's during said breast feeding and are saggy as all get out. So the nurse schedules my appointment for a mammogram, begins to explain it all to me and stops mid-sentence and says "I don't need to tell you this you've had these before, right?" I look at her, pause and say "No, I'm only 33 and they aren't a required test yet." Again she says, "Oh really." So in one day I was told that I have a "nice size lump", I have implants and look old enough to be required to have yearly mammograms. All I can say is I love God. On a day that was stressful and painful God provided me my own comedy relief. Every time I wanted to cry I thought about my implants and stopped. God knew what I needed to stop myself from drowning in a sea of despair. A big safety ring of implants and 6 o'clock lumps. Thank you God.

I will keep everyone updated on the mammogram and the 6 o'clock lump. Or as Mattie says "my mommies sore booooobbbbieeeee", she really likes saying it because it makes me laugh and her giggle. I will also try and post more funny stories and tomorrow I will try and post our back to school haircut picture and that fun story. It involves me losing my temper and calling a corporate headquarters, three hair cuts and my son stripping in the hair cut place while my daughter hides under the chairs laughing. Fun times!

Weekend fun at Fair Park

This weekend was really great. James didn't work on Saturday for the first time in weeks. We decided to take the kids to Dallas Fair Park Museums. I had been to some of the museums a long time ago during the State Fair. James had never been. We went to the Dallas Aquarium, The Museum of Nature and Science (which is the old Science Place and Museum of History), we had lunch at the Old Mill Inn and took the kids on a paddle boat ride in pond. We really had a great time and saw a lot of really cool stuff. Wyatt liked the fish at the aquarium best and Mattie liked playing in the Children's Museum in the Nature and Science Museum. James and I liked the fact that we did lots of cool stuff from 10 - 5 and only spent $50. Since we aren't taking a family vacation this year we have been trying to do fun stuff every couple of weekends with the kids. There are still 5 more museums at Fair Park that we will have to visit. We are also going to try a weekend trip to Abilene. James was born at the Air Force base there and has never seen it. So, if anyone has been there and can tell me something fun to do with the kids or good places to eat let me know. Also, if I can figure out how to get pictures from my phone to my computer I will add some pictures of our trip to the museum.

Just a heads up, the first Saturday in October we are having an Early Christmas Sale in Keller. I will have my bows and some new stuff I am making including notebooks and belts. Plus, there will be some very cool other home made stuff. Mark your calendars!

Yes, I am still alive.....

Ok, so it's been 4 months since I have posted. The delay was caused by two things. One, I got really, really busy. I'll explain the really, really busy later. The second reason is it took almost 4 months to get our Internet to work correctly! What a headache. So, I promise to try and post in a more timely manner!

Here's a quick recap of the last four months.

*Gave a portion of my testimony at my church's women's retreat

*Started attending celebrate recovery at my church.

*Worked with Wyatt and three different therapists multiple times a month

*We had a major storm with tornados ( at the end of my street)

*Mattie played soccer

*Had my 33rd birthday

*Had my 7 year anniversary

*Celebrated Memorial Day, Flag Day and Forth of July

*Went on our first family camping trip

*Wyatt got his first concussion during our first family camping trip

*Mattie finished Pre-K 3 class

*Worked with Wyatt and all his therapists some more

*James and I began working in our kids rooms on Sundays at church

*Found a lump on Mattie's head

*I got a teaching job for the summer at a mother's day out program

*Started school

*Mattie's lump started to grow

*Worked with Wyatt and his therapists some more

*Visited a surgeon and scheduled a date to have Mattie's rapidly growing lump removed

*Still working at school, kids love it

*Had Mattie's lump removed (it's benign)

*All the work with Wyatt paid off and therapists have back down to one visit every other month ( THANK YOU GOD FOR ANSWERING OUR PRAYERS)

*Last day of summer school today

So, its been a busy few months.

Wyatt is doing outstanding. He is saying more words than we can count, his favorite is "nooo aaay mommmma" translated means no way momma. Mattie is healing from surgery, has a small scar and a little patch of hair loss that will grow back. I have a few weeks off before school starts back in the fall. Really we have been enjoying life. Our family has gotten closer and stronger. Our relationship with God has deepened and it's awesome. Things have been going pretty good. So, I will work very hard to post once a week. Hopefully!