It's Been a While...

Reminds me of that Nickleback song LOL.

But anyways...... things have been so busy and chaotic since school started, we moved, kids are transfering schools, comuting is a b*tch, and the holidays just really wiped me out.  The second week in January and I had pneumonia.  They think I had walking pneumonia for a few weeks before it got bad enough to knock me down... and  it did!  YUCK!

Kaitlynn's surgery went well!  The doctor said she pulled out some HUGE adenoids!! The only part that was rough was when she woke up from the anethstesia. She was thrashing and pissed off! She wasn't aware of what she was doing or anything around her, so we couldn't even comfort her.  They had to give her a dose of pain meds to knock her back out so she could wake up slower and calmer.  Her is her recovering:

had to be with Dad!

Our Little Trooper!

Max couldn't help but upstage his sister on the evening she came home from the hospital. With mom, dad, and all the grandmas in attendance, he decided to trip on a toy and hit the one spot on his footboard that could split his forehead open. Back to Kaiser we went... 5 stitches later...

with the last scar off to the right, he's trying to create his own Harry Potter look....

My schooling is going well.  I have perfect attendance and a 4.0 gpa.  Matt is starting there as well the second Monday in February.  He is going to get his IT AA.  He is a closet geek and loves computers so this is perfect for him. Especially when the construction is dead in this town and his back can't handle it anymore anyways.  He will go to day classes and I will go to night classes. Hard schedules, but we are trying to do the best for ourselves when this economy turns around and be in a better position financially.

Kaitlynn turned 5 and had a party at McDonald's. It was a lot of fun and she had a blast!! Here is her and her BFF, Rylee. 

and here she is 2 hours early waiting to go to her party:

I'll try to keep up better here now that some of the chaos has passed.  But with this group, ther will always be something going on... makes life interesting HAHAHAHAHA!

Fall Activity Pics - Kids - My School

You can see our Trip to the Pumpkin Patch, Making & Baking Fall & Halloween Cookies, and Halloween 2010 pictures at the following links.  What great Fall Fun!

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Max is in two different Presschools - Mon & Wed he has Preschool that is specifically geared to Speech Therapy Activities, and the rest of the week he goes to a regular state Preschool through the school district.  The Mon/Wed class has gotten their school pictures back and Max's was PRECIOUS!!

Isn't he just too dang cute?!?!  Three years old and already a handsome little devil!!!  He will have his other class school pics as well as Kaitlynn getting hers in another week or two.  Mike got his but they weren't exactly great and he and I agreed to do the retakes.... still waiting for them to come back.

 

I have finished this first tern towards my Medical Billing & Coding Specialist Certificate.  A+ in my Strategies class (102%), an A in my Keyboarding Class, and an A in my Computer Concepts class, so what does that make...?  4.25, right?  WOOHOO!!  Dean's List here I come!!  I am so excited about school and loving it!!  Very proud of myself for getting back there and doing this well!

 

 

 

 

It's been a fun ride, but can I get off now?

Good news with Mike's shoulder - no surgery needed - at least not yet.  He is still trying to talk me into letting him play soccer?!?! He doesn't consider it a contact sport and cannot understand why he can't play while going through physical therapy.  he's almost 17, and you know, they know everything at that age. He is struggling with Spanish (poor kid is like me and couldn't pick up a second language if it would save his life), but the rest of his classes and grades are doing really well!  Finally!

Kaitlynn has "prominent" adenoids and although we haven't gotten the monitoring results back, her Dr already referred us to the ENT (ears nose and throat) Specialist to look at options.  That appt is on the 27th.  Her bangs are growing back at a snail's pace and I am highly doubting that they will be normal by Xmas pictures LOL! But she is developing some amazing critical thinking skills that have blown us all away these days... she can look at the situation and come up with what's going on in an incredible way!  It is so fun!

Max's aide has figured out that I might just know how to be a good parent and I might actually know more about Max than she does. She was also reprimanded for her breaking policy by restraining Max to begin with.  She also figured out the hard way, that when it comes to my kids, BACK OFF.  We went to the ER almost 2 weeks ago for a spider bite on Max's foot that swelled up his whole foot, stayed hot to the touch, and was bright red for an entire afternoon into the evening.  Antibiotics and Benedryl and he was all better in just a day. He is talking SO much better.  It has been a lot of pressure and tension dealing with him when he is frustrated by not being able to communicate, but lately it has been 200% better!

I have straight A's in school right now, but this is the easy part - Anatomy and Medical Terminology are where the hard stuff will come in.  If keyboarding doesn't kill me first.  I have an A, but I have to type 55 words per minute to graduate with my certificate.  UGH

Matt has kept himself busy with a few remodel jobs going at the same time.  He is still called to help John and Mae with their apartments now and then as well.  Thanks to that, we haven't sunk financially.  Times are definitely tough, but we are surviving. As soon as I finish school, we'll be in like Flynn!

We are looking forward to the family trip to the Pumpkin Patch next week.  Then we will have a Pumpkin Carving Party and also celebrate Uncle Kelly's big 4-0.  Then Halloween will be too much fun as well!  Max will be a cowboy and Kaitlynn will be Snow White, wig and all.  I can't wait to take a million more pictures of them!

Here is a link to the pictures from our Boat Trip weekend before last.  We had a wonderful time and the kids love the boat just like their Daddy does.  Me, I love being ON the water anywhere, not in it, but on it.  A Mango Mimosa in hand while on the boat = Heaven!

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