Samantha's Birthday

I am late posting these, a death in the family threw me behind in everything.... not I am playing catch up. She didn't have a real great birthday party because the death of my grandmother. But at least she was only turning one and won't remember it. Her outfit was so cute on her!!! And now she is walking all the time, not justtaking a few steps. She is growing really fast!!!

~Malania

It's A Sad Day

My grandmother (my mom's mom) passed away on the 19th in a car wreck. I didn't know she was going to Missouri, she didn't tell me. Her and I have had a hard relationship for the last year, her husband (my step grandfather) passed away last December. My heart breaks for her. I wish things had been better this last year for her and for me. I wish things were different. I am still in shock. Today is her funeral, planning her funeral has been a hard thing to do. I have never had to plana funeral before. And now I am grandparent less. I have two living grandparents left (my dad's mom and my mom's dad) but I have no relationship with either of them and haven't in years. I feel bad for my children, they were close to her and she loved them so much. Someday the pain and sadness will lessen and the good memories will shine through, but today is a sad day. This past week has been so hard.

Early Christmas Gift

The kids have been asking for a puppy for a while now. David and I started thinking abouut. We knew we wanted a big dog, one that would be friendly but also one that the boys could play with, and then a small dog also- a lap dog. So we got the kids a doberman and a mini schnauzer puppy. The doberman is 9 weeks old, his name is Justice Lee and he is the calmest puppy ever!!! And the mini schnauzer is Julia Nicole and she is 7 weeks old and full of engery and loves to play!

~Malania

What a WEEK!!!

Wow, this has been a LONG week and it is only Thursday!! Sunday night to Monday morning, Samantha only slept 3 hours all night, she wasn't feeling well; just coughing and congested some- I didn't think anything major since she had NO fever.... was I wrong!!! I took her and Michael to the doctor on Monday. Michael was going because he passed out on Friday for the second time in 6 months. Michael had to do blood work (which was normal) and an EKG (which was normal) but he will be seeing a specialist on next Thursday to see if they can figure out what is going on. For Samantha when we got back to an exam room, I felt of her and she was hot so they took her fever and it was 101.8 and she didn't have a fever at all when we left the house, 15 minutes before that!! So they ran a flu test (which was negative)and a RSV test(also negative) and did a chest x-ray- she has pneumonia!!!!! I couldn't believe it!! Poor baby! So I took her back to the doctor and she got a shot. On Tuesday, Devin was coughing badly so I took him to the doctor, and the doctor couldn't find anything wrong with him. And Samantha got a second shot then, since she still wouldn't eat much at all, and was only having 2-3 wet diapers in a 24 hour period. On Wednesday no one went to the doctor. But on Wednesday afternoon, Garrett started limping. He has been complaining that his leg hurts, so I thought it was just a pulled muscle or growing pains, but on Wednesday he would barely walk. So this morning he went to the doctor and they did x-rays and those came back normal. So we are not sure what is going on with him, could be a pulled muscle or growing pains still. Hopefully will not be back at the doctors off for a week or two. And hopefully this week will end SOON!!! Crazy week. We are hoping for a better week next week.

~Malania