Fall My Favorite

I love Fall my favorite time of year. This week has been so busy for us. Kyra's Pre-K class went to the pumpkin patch this morning. Me and Wesley went along with them. Wesley was able to go and that was a blessing.



At home the kids have been having fun getting ready for Halloween. Here is one little monster that has been running around house.

The little one behind the mask is Kyra. She was even scaring her older sister and brother. Ha

Blake's school had a pumpkin contest. Without cutting it, you could make the pumpkin into anything you wanted too. Your parents could help and hopefully it would bring some bonding time between parents and the child. Well Blake wanted to make his into a Tiger. His schools name is Hyde Park Tigers, so imagine that. Well his mother was the helper and I am not the most creative person, so here is what we as a team came up with.

Does it look more like a rabbit? Ha, thats what everyone at my house thought. Well needless to say, Blake did not win, but we had a great time doing the pumpkin together and thats what matters.


My Little Candy Corns!! :)
We are really enjoying Fall.

As rough as most days are little joys like you see above make everything better. I remember last year saying that no matter how bad things are I am going to do everything I can to make sure the kids still enjoy the Holidays. Well the time is here again, and I find myself thinking the same thought this year.
Wesley went back to the doctor and even though he is still sick and having fever, the doctor stated that it is normal until the infection is all out. The doctor is not going to let him return to work for at least two more weeks. He goes back to the doctor in two weeks.

We are Home

Wesley got out of the hospital last Thrusday. He ended up having Staff infection and some kind of other infection that he seems to not remember the name. The infection had started spreading into his brain and we caught it early. We were lucky again!! Go back to 2008, this has happen before, but even worse that time. He is on a bunch of different medication. The doctors say rest and time will help. So far it is Sunday and he is not much better. He is better then in the hospital, but not by any means well. I know with time he will get better.
Basically for what ever reason he got an infection around the cut from his last surgery on September 1st. I am not going to spend much time trying to figure out why and the world this happen, it just did. He had a metal plate that was inserted to cover the shunt hole from where it was taken out. The doctor removed the plate and said he would be alright with it. It was covered in infection.
We can only hope this is the end of it.

The kids did really well while we were gone. I love their schools and teachers, it makes me feel so much better to know that they are in good hands.
Blake made A's on his Brenchmark tests, so I told him we would do something special for him. He wanted a Hamster and that is what he got. The new member in our family is Taz :)

This is going to be a busy week for us, all kinds of Halloween events.
I have got to get caught up at work this week too.
Wanted everyone to know we are back home and Wesley is off work and I am making sure he rests and takes his medication.
Thanks so much to everyone for your prayers.

Still in hospital..

We are still here. They were saying we might get out today, but he had a rough morning so not for sure now. Surgery went well yesterday. The metal plate was taken out and behind it was some infection. They are hoping it is just a minor infection that will just take oral medicine. The doctor has sent the culture off to be tested, that will take days to get back. Now he just has to recover again.
It seems that every time this gets harder. I could complain all day, but I am trying hard to feel blessed and thankful to God.
I know everyone means well do not get me wrong, but it is really hard to have faith right now. Can anyone understand where I am coming from? I know there are people that are so much worse off. Trust me I have walked the halls here and cried, I see people worse. It does not help the fact that I feel like we are in hell!!!
Wesley had just gotten back to work and now he will be off again for a few weeks. This just goes on and goes on. So everyone feel free to try and make me understand how to continue to have faith. I will be very honest, I am really having trouble.
In the midst of this Kyra has been having problems with her neck. She has a bad cough, which we are know makes the Chiari mad, so she has been hurting. Thankfully my mother has been with her. Her year check up is coming up and I am scared to death that it has gotten worse.
Anyhow, I will be ok, I always bounce back and I know God is giving me strength. Just having a hard time right now understanding why we can not get a break.

Back in Hospital

My heart is breaking for Wesley. He was doing so well.
A couple days ago he started having some blood come out of his last head scar. We did not think alot about it, but it continued to get worse and then clear fluid started coming out. Our local hospital said he needed to come to Dallas ASAP. Everything happen so fast. He has been admitted in Dallas and his neurosurgeon was called. Right now they are thinking he had developed an infection and they plan to go in tomorrow morning and clean it all out. The worse case is going to be that he is making to much CSF fluid again and a shunt would have to go in again. They are running some test tonight to try and rule that out. He is in a lot of pain. I really appreciate everyone prayers. I will update later.
I feel numb, thats all I can say. I feel angry.

Update

Hi Everyone
I do not keep my promises do I? Time for an update. Life just stays so crazy and I have no excuse, because I should make time for something I love which is blogging, but I just do not make time.

Wesley is doing pretty well. He still has headaches, he always will, but not near as often. I would say on average he now has a BAD one about once a week; use to he was having them daily. His brain has not swelled and fluid has not been building up. The shunt was no longer needed that is clear. He went back to work after three weeks and is doing well. He was switched to night shift and he does not like it at all. I am pretty good about adjusting to whatever we need to, thats what you do when you are a police wife. But, it is hard on me when I know he does not like it. But, not much he can do about it. We are both hoping that with time it will get better.

Kyra on the other hand has been having headaches more often. It is still not to bad, but I am going to start working on getting her into the Austin Dr. for her yearly check up. I know it will take time, so I should probably go ahead and start.
Kyra and Breanna are both going to Pre-K and they really love it. At first I felt upset that I had to put them both in Pre-K. I know thats normal to many, but I had been at home so long, that it was very hard. But, it has worked out great.
I totally love my job. Of course there are days to where I do not know what I am thinking, but for the most part I love it.

I have always felt like I am here to help other people. It has always been my passion. One reason why I obtained a Social Work degree. But, I truely believe God was just waiting for the right moment to put me exactly where I need to be. My heart has been heavy here lately. I want to do more, I am just not for sure what yet. I have been praying about it.
My heart has always been so heavy for people that can not have children. I know some of you know that I was going to be a surrogate mother for a couple, but they backed out because the father got sick. I never tried again. I am not for sure, whether I want to work with aboptions or what. I am even considering getting my masters degree, so I can go a little further with my degree. Maybe into adoptions or something. Like I said just really praying about it. Something feels like it is missing. Well I totally went from an update to blah blah blah about whats on my heart. Sorry, guess I needed to get that out. How about some updated pictures!!