Surgery Update

Well surgery was a little rough yesterday. I'm not sure if it was the fact that she did two surgeries in one(so it took a little longer) or if they gave me too much anesthesia. In recovery I became very nauseous. They gave me a shot to help with the nausea but I still threw up a couple of times until I started to dry heave. Not fun after being cut on in the abdomen. Then to top it off the nurse suggested I not take pain pills because she thought it would make me sicker. So I went about 30 hours with out eating or taking pain pills. Today is a little better because my stomach is not so upset and I'm actually able to take pain pills and eat a little. The doctor was able to remove the endometrioma and reported to Steven afterwards that "it is just bad luck if it comes back again"! So I pray that my "luck" changes soon. She did find 3 more spots of endometriosis that she removed and she left the fibroid because it was in my muscle which she said would take major surgery to remove. Lets just hope that we don't have to do that.

Other than that I have to thank my wonderful husband who held back my hair and held my "bucket". He told me later that it is true love because he has never watched someone throw up before. He was a real trooper and I think he can handle more than he thinks. I also want to thank my family and friends who kept me in your prayers.

We are still alive!

I know its been a really long time since I updated my blog but we are still alive! I am loving my new job as a content mastery teacher and Steven is the best Asst. Principal I know. In fear of what the hurricane may do we did some preparations and had my sister and her whole family spend the night for a pajama party. They live in an older house that is surrounded by trees so they felt safer here. The boys played play station most of the night and we all ate lots of snacks and junk food. Luckily the weather was not as bad as we anticipated and we never lost power, which is very fortune considering everyone around us is still without power(Navasota, Somerville, Hempstead, etc.) In the Brenham area the majority of damage was downed trees and limbs. Now I just hope that we will have gas and food supplies since supplies will mostly go to the houston area first.

Our favorite resturant Mariachi's boarded up and we considered riding out the storm there but after one Rita Steven decided it was time to get me home!

Steven showing the boys the right way to play play station (thats what he said anyway)!

Other than that we have been dealing with my health issues (again) which seems like a hurricane in itself! After just having surgery in June I will again have surgery to remove another enodmetrioma that grew back less than a month after my doc took it out in June. My surgery will be out patient next Tuesday so keep me in your prayers that it will go away for good this time and this is the last surgery I will have to go through for a while (I don't do good with being put to sleep)!!! Then hopefully we will be able to move on with our plan of having babies;)

Steven's New Job

We have been so busy with school starting I haven't had a chance to update everyone. Steven is now an Assistant Principal Intern for Brenham Elementary School. It is kind of a complicated schedule but he is working at Brenham Elementary school in the morning and he teaches in the afternoons at high school. This will be his schedule the first half of the year and the second half of the year he will be at high school all day and coaching baseball again. So far he is really enjoying it, we will see how it goes when the students arrive next week!!!

So sad summer break is coming to an end!

Well its been a long time since I posted but school is just around the corner and I am realizing there are so many things I wanted to get done before school starts so our house has been project central. Steven got the wise idea to put a sprinkler system in our yard forgeting that it is the middle of JULY!!! I've been painting everything, cleaning the house/closets, and working in my classroom at school. I am moving classrooms so it has been a chore moving furniture, etc. This week I have inservice days, the Magnolia Luncheon, and hope to finish all of my projects. Teachers go back to school next week Thursday :( I can not believe the summer has already come and gone. Oh well, I guess I should look at the bright side, the sooner we go back the sooner we get out again! I hope everyone had a great summer! Now that school is almost here I'm sure my post will slow down, our life is pretty borning when we don't have time off(and sometimes when we do have time off) so I probably would not have anything exciting to post anyway.

Fishing with the kids!

Thursday we went fishing with our niece and nephews! We caught several fish and the kids were so excited. Dalton's goal is to catch enough to have a fish fry. I'm not sure if I want to eat the fish after I saw them being cleaned.

Dalton


Colton helping Dalton show of his fish



Tegan


Brandon thought his fish just fell off everytime he just reeled in his bobber. He never realized he didn't have a hook on his pole. It was really cute!


This is part of the big catch, one or two already got cleaned.

New Template

Thanks to Loralyn I now have a new template for my blog. I searched several pages of templates and picked out a few that I liked so let me know what you think! Thanks for your help Loralyn!!!

We're finally back home!

We are finally back in Brenham! We had a long drive home on Wednesday. We detoured to see my grandparents, which was nice, even if it was for a brief time. Since we've been home we have tried to relax but we have played catch up on everything around the house. Thursday we celebrated our 4th anniversary by going to the Woodlands to eat. Saturday we had a slumber party with our niece and nephews, yes all four of them (Dalton 10, Colton 5, Tegan 3, and Brandon 2)! We had fun swimming, watching movies, and of course eating. Most importantly Steven and I both survived but were relieved when their mom and dad came to pick them up! Overall the kids were really good and Steven and I really enjoyed having them over!!!!!