Anniversary

Today Dedrick and I have been married 8 years! To me it is hard to believe we have been together for that long. We have had many wonderful and many difficult times together, and I would not change it for the world.

To Dedrick: I love you very much, thank you for being in my life. For wanting to love someone who did not know how to love. Taking on problems that you did not need to. I hope we can continue love and support one another for tons and tons more years.

To Damian: I love you too, dear. You have given so much to our relationship and our family. For claiming to not know how to love, you have sure taught me a lot about love. I also hope we can love and support each other for many more years.

Close encounter with a crazy driver

Last Friday Damian brought the kids downtown to meet me after work for dinner at the Spaghetti Warehouse to have my birthday dinner. Afterward, she took Becca in my car to go get the babysitter and I drove home in the minivan with Aidan and Kaliska. It was about 7pm and it was dark outside. About halfway home, I was in the far left lane going about 70 mph. Up ahead there was a left exit off the freeway. I noticed there was a car ahead in the lane to the right of me which had come to a complete stop in the middle of the freeway and was turned 90 degrees across traffic. They had missed the exit and were going to try to cut in front of my path of travel to get to the left exit.

I could scarcely believe it and barely managed to brake in time to avoid a head-on collision into the drivers door of the other vehicle. If I hadn't braked in time, I would have killed the other driver for sure and totaled our minivan, certainly injuring the kids and myself in the process. Thank God I was able to brake just enough to avoid that disaster! As it was, it was such a close call that there is actually paint from the other vehicle's rear bumper on our left-front bumper!

I still can't believe anyone could be so stupid as to do what that other driver did, but the important thing is we're all OK and our car isn't damaged. It sure scared the bejeebers out of me, though!

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We have been lucky since we moved here. The kids have not had any health concerns or major accidents. Tuesday morning about 3:40am, Becca wakes up in a panic because she is having a hard time breathing. For those who know Becca, she doesn't get sick all that often. So she comes into my room crying, telling me she can not talk right. But I notice she is having trouble breathing. The breathing gets worse as she gets more upset, because she doesn't understand what is happening.

I than try calming her down the best I can, wake up Dedrick, and find the closest hospital. I know what your thinking, we should have know were the closet hospital was. So we call 911, and they sent an ambulance and fire truck to the house sirens an all.They ask if she has asthma, thinking it was something easy. They asked if she showed any symptoms of being sick. Which she didn't of course.

After they got her on oxygen and loaded in the ambulance, off to the hospital we went. On the way they figured out she had Croup! That is right, croup. I was in shock, because it happened between going to bed at 10pm and waking up at 3:40am.
They gave her steroids treatment, did an x-ray, them sent us home with a prescription. We were there for about three hours.

The funny part is, she has not had any problems since then. It is just very strange.

I just want to thank the wonderful firefights that came to the house, and my wonderful father-inlaw Howard!

Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday, to the man of the house. We love you, thanks for all the hard you work you do for us.

We Want OUT!

Q:What do you do when there is snow on the ground, it is raining, and too cold to go out?

A: Move the van out of the garage!

P.S. Click on the Video to watch!

Snow Days

We got snow for Christmas, they even closed the roads for two days. Dedrick and I spent Christmas afternoon shoveling.

Then we come to snow days for the school system, they have 7 snow days scheduled into the calendar. This last week we used 2 of the snow days. What makes me laugh is that we didn't have snow for either of those days. Both days were cold and sunny, the school district decided to cancel school for freezing temperatures. Yeah, that is right for the temperature, and not snow.

When I was in school, I only had one snow day my entire school years. We had many half days for when the volcano's would erupt.

So my kids get two four day weekends, this weekend I understand for holiday. Most parents would make sure that their kids are bundled according to the weather. So why I ask you, WHY did we have two snow days!!!

Here is some fun pictures of my silly kids!

Kids sharing music!


Bowling Shoes, by Kaliska