I know it's been forever!

Let me just start off by saying, I've returned to work and I have been VERY busy or just so tired when I get home that blogging is not my first priority. But I have SO much to share with all of you, I'm not really sure where to begin.

Hmm lets see... I guess first things first. I returned to work on September 8 and left my two precious little ones with the best babysitter in the world. MY MOM!!! It is really funny how GOD works in our lives and at times we don't even realize it.

Let me give you a run down of what I'm talking about. I really wanted to return to work on September 14th not the 8th, but my job had schedule to move my temp to another location, so I wiped my tears away sucked it up and returned a week before I had planned. With that being said and all, Collin refused to take the bottle for my mom so that first week I was making a couple of trips to my mom's for a few feedings. Good thing she only lives a few blocks away and my cool boss, so did not mind. I was most certain that with me not being anywhere around he would take the bottle wrong. I came home Wednesday and did a Google search for bottles and breastfeeding and I stumbled upon this....



Breastflow bottles by first years. I had them expressed shipped and Collin was taking one by Friday. Ahh.. the relief. I was so stressed from going back to work and then him not taking a bottle and wondering if my mom could handle both of them, that I was just on the verge of becoming insane.

Now back to the part of God working in our lives... The next Monday the 14th (When I wanted to return to work) my mom got a kidney infection and there was no way she could watch the kids so my other best babysitter in the world, Chad's mom, kept them. So you see, God knew my mom was going to be sick and God knew that Collin was not going to take a bottle the first few days. I mean what would I have done if Collin was in Fordyce and was starving. There is no way I could get here in 2 minutes. But you see God knew and HE provided. You see it was not my plan (which I SO wanted it to be it was GOD's plan.

AWANAS has started at church and Anna is old enough to go this year. They had a kick off party and the RAIN caused us to move it from the church to the Commons Area at the high school. They rented a huge blow up obstacle course. Anna loved it. We had grilled hot dogs and cake and ice cream. Look at this cute cake.









Anna had such a great time. She will be a Cubbie and she is learning her pledges listen... TURN UP YOUR SPEAKERS




The fair came to town this past week, well I guess you could call it a fair. A few rides and $20.00 later, Anna had the best time. She called it the Pin Wheel. She had seen the Farris Wheel and somehow associated it with a Pin Wheel.




She road the horses on the Merry Go Round and when it would stop she would say Wooo Wooo Girl! To Funny.





Then she road the little Farris Wheel Pin Wheel. Her daddy road with her on the swings, while I stood there about to loose my lunch. There my baby was going around in circles high in the air. She loved it. She was ready to get off before the ride was over, but Chad would reach out and touch her and she would smile SO big.

Then she road the caterpillars and she bounced in the bounce house and Chad had to go in and get her in the ball pit pirate ship.


Before we left she through 3 darts and hit 3 balloons ALL BY HERSELF and won this cute dog.





We didn't get to ride the Farris Wheel Pin Wheel because every time they started it it would pop and the workers started looking around. It just verified what Karla (my friend at work) said. "Do Not put that baby on a ride that they take apart and put back together." Never thought of it that way until she said that, I think she was right.

Here is Collin at the Fair.



As I was traveling to church this morning, I just thought about how blessed and wonderful my life is. Things are becoming a lot easier. We had such a great weekend. We stayed at home and worked in the flower beds and just enjoyed our family. We had great family time at the fair and a wonderful church lunch fellowship. I hope to blog more frequently, but for now to sum it up. I've returned to work, Collin is taking the bottle a little better each day, Anna is growing and starting AWANAS, Chad is working his tail off at work and at home and GOD has blessed us all.

Just a quick update...

I've been working on this blog since Sunday and just got finished because I'm at home today taking care of my hubby. Chad was admitted in the Dallas County Hospital last night with server vomiting and cramps. He had a low blood pressure, sweats, chills, nauseous, fever, weird white blood cell counts and pain everywhere. His color was odd and I don't think I've ever seen him look so bad. They started him on an IV and some meds. His xrays where good but they were concerned with his white blood cells count. Russell stayed the night with Chad and I went back first thing this morning. He is feeling a lot better and is at home resting now. He has no energy and lack of appetite. He was still a little dehydrated and he had to stay until he finished his IV bag. He will return to his doctor on Friday for more blood work. Right now they think it may be a bad virus but don't think it is the flu. Please keep us in your prayers.