Prayer Please!

I just wanted to take some time to ask that you pray for my grandmother as she found out she has a cancerous mass on her kidney. They will remove it and have said that it hasn't spread anywhere else. The kicker is that her other kidney isn't functioning well, so she may have to be put on dialysis after surgery. Just pray that her other kidney will start functioning well enough to prevent this. Although this was news we never wanted to get, we are confident that God is in control and whatever he does is right. Thanks for the prayers!
Julie :)

Happy Birthday Troy!!!

Troy turned the big 32 Saturday. He wanted a chocolate bundt cake with white icing, so here he is reluctantly posing for a pic. We went out with some friends and had cake at home, nothing exciting.

This is typical Kole right here. You hardly ever see him walking around the house without some food (usually too much) stuffed in his mouth. He goes around and gets stuff under the table that was dropped. It's like having a dog - cuts down on the sweeping. Anyways, the only other Kole story I have is that I found him the other morning dipping water out of the toilet with a cup and pouring it on the bathroom floor (many cupfulls of water), so that was fun to clean up. Nothing new with Maci. Last night, Koby told Troy that he was the best daddy that God ever made. We thought that was cute. Of course this came after we had to have a talk with him about private parts because on his etch-a-sketch he drew a naked guy peeing. Kids!
Have a happy day!

Let the Lysoling Begin!

Yes, that's right, Maci woke up this morning with a high temp and the chills. Here we go again. Troy and I are going on a much needed trip to Colorado in two weeks. Therefore, I am banning the kids from any form of childcare for two weeks, hoping to keep the sickness away from the adults. Very selfish, I know. I may not even take them to the grocery store. I've turned into a maniac. I reluctantly agreed to take them to Chuck E. Cheese Friday, the mothership of all germs. I suspect that could be the culprit. Until we're well.............

Summit Student Ministry (Joe Bill Joe Jim #4)

It's been a while but Joe Bill and Joe Jim are back!

Everybody Dance Now.....

I'm not sure if this is dancing or not, but it rained all day and we were getting bored, plus I wanted to figure out posting a video on here. So anyways, here is the zoo running around in their underwear.

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think it is safe to say we are over the crud. Wow, what a long week! I hope everyone is having a happy valentine's day. Troy and the kids surprised me with a necklace with four charms (kids names and then my favorite bible verse Prov. 3:5-6). I love it! We are going to just hang out here and probably let the kids have too much candy. Have a good one!

Puke, Puke & More Puke...............

I know - it sounds gross - but it's the reality of what's been going on in our house for a week now. Monday night, Maci wakes up puking, so I get up, get all the stuff out of her crib and wash it, change her clothes and get her back to bed. Next day, she feels better, Kole pukes all over the floor. It doesn't seem to phase him, because about ten minutes after he pukes he is running around playing and screaming "Eat, Eat." All this time I, who am not normally worried about germs, am lysoling everything I see, washing my hands every time I touch Kole or Maci, washing sheets and pillowcases everytime someone lays on them for more than an hour, just praying I won't get sick. I kept Koby out of school Tuesday, just in case he was contagious and then waited to see who was next. Wednesday, Kole had the runs all day, but there was no puke. So Thursday, since Koby hasn't caught it yet, I assume he's not going to and send him to school. Thursday afternoon, I pick him up from school, he comes in and takes a nap and you've probably guessed it by now, he wakes up PUKING! In case you didn't know, a five-year-old's puke is much worse than a 1 or 2 year old's puke. It was disgusting. I saw chunks of stuff and asked him what he ate for snack time at school - batman gummies. Yeh, they came back up. Okay, so I mopped the floor, washed the sheets, changed his clothes and an hour later, he pukes again. So I go through the same routine again and an hour later, here it comes again. Same routine, mop, wash, change clothes. Oh, and don't forget lysol, except by now I am out because I have used a whole can in two days. I pile all the kids in the car and go to the dollar store because I've got to get sprite, saltines and a jumbo can of lysol. Sidenote - Troy has had an extremely busy work week so I've mostly been on my own, so yes, I had to take the sick kids to the store with me. Besides, it's hard to get anyone to come babysit puking kids - they don't want to get sick either. Okay, so Friday, there is no puke, just the runs with Kole. Saturday at 6 am, Kole is crying. I'm thinking, "he can just cry because I am not getting out of bed this early, I am exhausted." Well, he doesn't stop after 30 minutes, which is unusual, so I go check on him. I open the door, and the overwhelming smell of puke comes over me. He has thrown up all in his crib. So I go through the routine again, he acts like he's okay all day and then Sunday morning, I wake up to him crying at 6 am again and that's right, he's puked everywhere again. Go through the routine, he seems to be fine yet again. Troy wakes up with the runs and chills and so I put him on the couch with soup, saltines, advil, and berry blue kool-aid. In the midst of all this, Saturday, my dryer breaks, so at this point, I'm tossing the puky sheets on my back deck so I don't have to smell them. Sunday, I borrowed my neighbor's dryer until Troy feels well enough to fix ours. As a final note, one night I was feeling sorry for myself and I thought to myself, "a caramel sunday from McDonalds would just make everything better and let's face it, I deserve it after this horrible week." So I head to McDonalds, wait in line for the drive-thru and when I finally get up there, there's a sign on the speaker that says the ice cream machine is broken! I decided at that point to just accept the fact that sometimes nothing goes right and I should just be thankful we're all alive. Well, that's what's going on in Arkansas - sorry for the gross blog - if you've made it to the end of this, you must be bored. I just thank the Lord I haven't gotten it................................yet.