Good afternoon everyone, Well, I stopped for the day and "just went fishin'"! We had a good time. Danny, Kimberly, Zachary, and me. We caught crappie but they were too small so had to throw them back. Darn it. I want some big ones!!!!!!! Oh well, it was fun anyway even if they were small. It's VERY relaxing out there at the lake-hearing the pulley's clang against the mast's, wind blowing through and under the roof's of the dock's, etc. Well, I probably won't write for several days as I'm leaving for Austin to attend a wedding. Will be back late Sat. night. You all have a good rest of the week. Say a prayer for travel mercies for me. God Bless and remember that Jesus Loves YOU!!

Good afternoon everyone, Man, do I feel better. Just got back from my massage lady!!!! My muscles tighten up so fast. Drink lots of water to keep them moving well. She said I'll be sore to take an epsom salts bath tonight and drink distilled water. I will do what she says, because it DOES help. If you need a massage, let me know and I'll give you her name. She's in Plano and she's wonderful!!! Not much new on the home front. Enchilada's for supper tonight-yummy. Zachary won't take a nap for Kimberly--I remember when SHE wouldn't take a nap for me. Paybacks are great. hahaha-love ya Kimberly. It's beautiful right now but I think we're to get some rain this evening. I have several prayer requests-our friend Eddie is having some health issues, his sister, Kim, is also, our Sunday School teacher is in the hospital, continued prayer for Zachary and Caleb and Caitlyn. Thanks for prayers-they REALLY DO work!!! Have a great evening. American Idol is on--yippee.

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Well, here we are again at the first of the week!!! This won't be long as I'm cooking chinese for dinner!!! I just wanted to update you about Zachary. He will have to have a third transfusion next week. He's doing well but his hemaglobin is beginning to drop some. It was down to an 8 today. After he gets to about 3 months old, he'll start making his own red blood cells. He's still killing off the fetal red blood cells. Oh, but he's cute. We got to talk to our 2 other grandchildren last night. My little granddaughter has been so influenced by her mother that she's been told not to "love Grammy" because my ex daughter in law doesn't like me. She wouldn't speak to me but boy when she comes to Texas, she takes a running leap into my arms at the airport. It's so sad when babies have babies and mommies don't grow up!!!! Oh the stories. They'll be here this summer and we're planning on the fun stuff for them now. Exciting. Well, gotta go, hear the "fried rice" frying so have a great evening and remember Jesus loves even YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Good evening everyone, I'll be so glad when this wind stops blowing!!!! My allergies are going CRAZY!!! Ears pop, hurt, etc, sneezing, blowing my nose, etc. Oh well, this IS Texas. Yesterday was the 8 anniversary of my mom going "home to be with the Lord." How do I KNOW where she is? Glad you asked. The Bible says that ANYONE-meaning ANYONE, that includes YOU, anyone that calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved and will spend eternity with Jesus. John 14:1-6 was my mom's favorite verses. I can remember my mom quoting those scriptures from the time I was a little girl. Read them for yourself. God says that "He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, and No one comes to the Father except through Him". You say that's being narrowminded? It's not my mind but what God says so take it up with Him and see what He tells you!! One of my friends buried her mom yesterday and her mom knew the Lord also. It's such an encouragement to know that she will see her again and be with her in eternity. It's so sad for your deceased loved one to not know the Lord and for that matter for you not to know Him either. Unfortunately, you will see them again but not in Heaven. Yes, hell is REAL!! There's been too many "eye-witnesses" that's been there and come back to life to have their lives forever changed for the better. Seek them out and ask them about their experiences. Moving on to different subjects-Christopher made calendars for his kids today to send them so they can begin to count down the days til they arrive for the summer. He also made them a list of things they can choose to do over the summer like anything imaginable. We'll see if they check mark their lists to see what all they want to do. Not much else going on-gettin' ready to go to bed as I have 8:30 Sunday School. Love the time though-I'm out of church before 11am and that is wonderful since Bryan preaches at an assisted living home. Been doing that I bet 15 years. I hope you all have a great night and a wonderful Sunday!!!! God Bless.

Well, this morning Kimberly had a Dr. appt. and she wasn't able to drive that far yet so Zachary and I took her. Man, the wind is blowing so much and my sinus' and allergy is driving me crazy. I have a very bad sinus headache tonight and my ears hurt. Anyway, I wanted to share a couple of things with you all. Zachary is up to 9 1/2 pounds!!!! Kimberly took these pictures of him earlier in the week, I think. Time flies so fast, it's hard to know when she took them. He is also getting a little "sister!!" No, not a human sister. I may have told you this yesterday-don't remember. I'll enclose some pictures of her. Her daddy was Kodiak's daddy so it makes this puppy very special to all of us. She was born on Zachary's due date so she is 5 weeks old. She's 1/2 Aussie(her daddy-Kiwi), and her mom is a black Lab and I don't know her name. Clarence and Mary Jane said she was the biggest puppy in the litter and Kiwi was a tall big dog-just like our precious Kodiak. Les wanted to name her Kodiak but Kimberly really didn't want to so they settled with Kodi. We called Kodiak Kodi but that's okay. We'll love her anyway. She'll be coming home in a week or so. You can look at the 3 puppies and tell me if any of them resembled our Kodiak. Yes, the new Kodi has a white tip on her tail and is the puppy on the far right.

Wednesday already!!!! I can't believe it! I was busy this morning. In the state of Texas, nurses now have to be fingerprinted so I did that this morning, went to Clayton's Dr. appt., went to the driver's license place to update Clayton's I. D. and then renewed my license also. Ate lunch with my friend Elaine, who was with me all morning. Came back, got my allergy shot, and I'm home!!!! Kimberly, Les, Zachary are out looking at a puppy. She is a puppy from Kodiak's daddy so she has special meaning. It's strange but she was born on Zachary's due-date. Weird huh? Probably not. Kodiak was so special to all of us-we truly loved her so much. I really still miss her!!!!!!! RIP Kodiak. Caleb and Caitlyn were very excited to hear that there was going to be another puppy in the family-they can't wait to see her. Zachary had his blood tested and it was down 1 full point so we go back next week for another blood test. He'll probably have another transfusion but we'll see. He's really doing well-growing like a little weed. Kimberly read a book called Babywise and it has been great for them!!!! Zachary is doing so much better. I'm going to recommend it to all my friends who are having grandbabies in their families. I may even start buying it as a gift for new mom's. Kimberly is so much happier also and Zachary is too. Look for it at 1/2 price books. Well, that's all for now, have a great rest of the week.

It was a beautiful cool, windy day today. You know there are such sweet people in the world. Met one yesterday-Kevin McElroy. As we talked on the phone, we realized that we had something in common besides children. His mom and dad are our neighbors in our neighborhood. They've been in the neighborhood for many years and we only took over our home after my mom went home to be with the Lord. Thank you Kevin and your wife-I didn't get her name and also their children for giving us a precious little rocking pony that I'm sure our new little grandson will enjoy. God is so good. I'm so thankful for so many things!! My relationship with Jesus Christ is the most important. Without Him, I'd spend ALL of ETERNITY lost in a place that isn't very nice. The number 2 in my life is my family-my great husband, my #1 son-Christopher or rabbit-nickname, my #1 daughter Kimberly alias Tooter, my #2 son Les who I'm so grateful to God for giving him to our crazy family. Our 3 beautiful grandchildren-2 boys and a girl. We are so truly blessed in this world. My 3 brothers mean so much to me. One has recently come back to the Lord and I'm so thrilled at that-I'm still praying for my other brothers. They will-God knows I've claimed them for His Kingdom!!!!! We were all brought up in church but I'm the only one that stayed with it and now they are returning just like the Bible says will happen. My extended family-nieces, nephews, cousins. All of our friends both near and far. We are truly blessed!!!! That's why Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday-I AM THANKFUL FOR EVERYTHING GOD HAS PROVIDED FOR ME!!!! Here are current pictures of the grandkids. The one of Zachary with the green frog was taken last week at 5 weeks old. The other one of him is 4 weeks. The 2 older grandchildren pictures were made while they were here for Easter. They are getting soooo BIG!!! and I love them so much. Have a wonderful blessed week!!!!

Hello everyone, Well today is Saturday. I need to be up busy but I'm not!! I will be later. It's kind of a dreary day out there but I know the sun is shining above the clouds. It's so cool being in an airplane and "rising above" the dreariness. Oh yeah, we can do that to here on earth. Rising above and seeing the "Sonlight" and stop looking at the dreariness that life can bring our way. The Son is always here for us, anytime, anyplace. He does truly answer prayers!!! Have a blessed day and weekend.

Hello everyone. I'm at Children's Medical Center today with Kimberly and Zachary. He is having another blood transfusion today. He's doing well. I don't have much to say today-rough trip home from the airport after flying for 2 days taking Christopher's children home. We love those kids so much-yesterday was Caitlyns birthday 4 years old!!!! It's so hard to believe. I hope you all have a good day.

Happy Good Friday to ALL!!! It's a gorgeous day today and our son is off to spend the day with his kids. They are going swimming today and we're going to decorate Easter eggs. Tomorrow, we'll have an Easter egg hunt. We have to leave with them on Sunday which we don't enjoy doing. It's sooooooo hard because they don't want to leave their daddy and they cry for quite awhile. It rips my heart out!!!! We enjoy them so much and we're so blessed to have them. I hope you all have a great Easter and He Lives!!!

Good afternoon everyone. Zachary had a good check-up today. He was over 7 pounds!!!! Go get 'em Zachary!!! Caleb and Caitlyn are having a ball. We're going to their daddy's work tomorrow to meet some of the strongmen he works with. Should be fun, it's definitely a camera day!!!!! Kimberly and Les are doing a great job with Zachary and Christopher is having a good time with his children. We can't wait for the summer. Well, you have a great afternoon for now. See ya.

Hey All!!! I cannot believe that "spring is in the air!!" It's a beautiful day out there, but very windy. We had a good day yesterday although Zachary scared Kimberly and I really bad. He turned WHITE and so we went back to Childrens (CMC-from now on). His blood was great!!! only lost 0.8 in 5 days. Wonderful news. They did a chest x-ray but no pneumonia or anything although he was "retracting" where his skin kind of sinks in on his chest. We see the Dr. tomorrow about that. Caleb and Caitlyn made it down yesterday also. We're SO HAPPY they are here. They had a great flight. So much love they share with us. Pictures will come very soon!!!! They are here over Christopher's birthday which is wonderful and we'll have birthday parties for both of them. It's a surprise, they don't know where (Thunderbird roller rink in Plano). They've never been there so it will be exciting. Well, I'll close for now so take care, God Bless and have a great day.

Kimberly, I left a comment to your comment. Don't know how to post it to yours so you'll have to go look. Today is Sat. Bryan and Christopher will be leaving in a little while to head out for his children. It's exciting. Pray for these kids, they are told so many negative things by their mom that they have trouble getting excited about coming to visit. She's such an angry, sick, little girl herself!!!! I pray for her also along with her new husband that didn't know what he was getting into. I haven't seen little Zachary this morning yet-that's later. We're going to go visit his daddy at work today after the airport run. Les is so excited to show him off!!!! You all have a great weekend and I'll keep you updated.

Hello everyone, Well I don't know if I've figured out why I couldn't get on here before or not. I didn't do anything but amazingly, it let me post without getting rid of anything? don't know. Anyway, It's been good this week. Zachary got to come home Wed. and his hemoglobin was 10. Today he was here and he's a little paler again, so we went to see Dr. Eastman.It's down to an 8. He will schedule emergency labs for Monday so we get the results on Monday and it may be back to Childrens's from there. Poor little guy. Great news though-he's gained almost 1 pound since his birth!!!! and Dr. Eastman said his color was great. He also answered a very important question for us-this isn't life threatening as long as we keep up with his hemaglobin and eventually he'll outgrow it. When?? big question. Right now they are calling it Hemolytic anemia. Caleb and Caitlyn come this weekend!!!! yeah!!!! I hope they get to spend some time with Zachary and not from a hospital room. We have a lot planned for next week but some of it may need to change. Les is off Tues and Thursday so that's great. Anyway, you all have a great evening.

I can't believe I haven't written since Sunday!! All of you who reads this day to day were bored!!! Well, LOTS have happened since Sunday. On Monday, Zachary had a Dr. appt. at Children's Medical Center. We went to the appt. and ended up being admitted because his hemaglobin was too low. He got a transfusion last night that brought it up significantly and then another smaller one today. I can't believe how pink he is!!!!! He's NEVER been this pink before. He see's the hematologist next week to begin some work-up as to what is causing him to breakdown his red blood cells. He's been eating like a horse today!! Kimberly and Les are taking a few well deserved minutes to go out to dinner. I'm staying with him here in the hospital. I'll spend the night tonight since Les has to go home and go to work tomorrow. He's such a great dad!!! Kimberly's a great mom also. Zachary is such a sweetheart also. He's just had a rough time getting started. We're just praying that the Lord gives much wisdom to the Dr. next week and that the blood will keep him going or help him to jumpstart his own production of RBC's. I hope you all have a great day and more updates later.

Hey all, Well here we are tonight-the last night to stay with the kids maybe. I'll miss it!!!!!! Tomorrow is Dr. day and we hope to see the hematologist but I bet that will be later in the week. We'll let you know how things are. The other grandchildren will be here by this time next Sunday evening. Have a great day and I'll keep in touch.

It's 3:15am, how are you? We're good here. Tonight and then Sunday night should be the last night that you find me blogging during the night. I'm going to go home and spend the night on Monday. It's time to begin to let the kids handle their little bundle of joy on their own. They can do it though!!! They are doing well. The night's are the hardest on Kimberly because of the no sleep deal. Zachary is eating great and doing wonderful. Les told her that he was tired because he stayed up late the other night. Kimberly commented about it-it was funny. I have enjoyed being here with them but our other 2 grandchildren will be here in 1 week. One nice thing is that I'm not far away and can be here in a few short minutes. Of course that few short minutes may seem like hours to them when they are really tired and having a screaming baby. As my friend, Linda, told some people with a little sleeping baby, "him??? screaming??? I can't belleve it!! He's sleeping so peacefully!!!" Of course she was teasing them. They told us that it took 4 adults to take care of this little sleeping baby. The husband said that he ended up going to a friend's house to sleep while her mom, aunt, and the new mom tried to take care of their little guy. This little guy was about the size of Zachary. It was funny. Les has been so sweet to me-allowing me to invade his privacy and to be here with them. He's appreciative because at least someone is here that knows what they are doing. I've teased him about going to diapering 101 and such. Well, I'll close now because I still need to add some pictures-NEW ones at that.

Well we have had some conversations with Dr. Eastman today and we think we have an idea of what's going on with baby Zachary. Even though the newborn screening tests that they do for 25-30 tests showed all of his were negative, his uncle Kevin (Les' brother) and his cousin Mattie have a rare trait for thalasemia which causes anemia that is untreated with iron. Anyway, as stands now, we are still going to Children's on Monday for the GI Dr. to look again at his liver, spleen, kidneys because of the bilirubin test. Dr. Eastman is waiting to hear from the hematologist that took care of Mattie and Kevin. We're hopeful to see him Monday or sometime next week. Meanwhile, he's the sweetest little guy. Again, so wish we could have been with Caleb and Caitlyn during this time but only God knows why we weren't. We're just so exctied to see them ina little over 1 weeks time!!!!!!! Love to all.

Good morning everyone, Well, we had a short night last night-we were up more than what we wanted but we're doing better now. Kimberly is sleeping and I'm picking up around the house. Weather is cloudy but that's okay. We're just waiting for Dr. Eastman's office to call with lab results. Zachary is laying in his bed, watching his mobile for the time being. He's so sweet and I thank God for bringing to us. I also praise God for our precious Caleb and Caitlyn. We just sent the pictures of Zachary to the kids so I can't wait to see what they think of him. Christopher goes to get them in a little over a week!!! Man, time flies! I can't believe they'll be here in a little over a week. I haven't seen them since January so can't wait to see them. We get them all summer long!!!! Can't wait for that for sure. You all have a great day.