Winter sickness...

Always seems to happen to us sometime at the beginning of the cold fronts coming and going. We are ALL sick. Not fun being sick on your birthday!!! I got sick the Tues. before Thanksgiving. I went to the clinic and got a steroid shot and over $100 dollars in meds. Yes, 100!!! And guess what, the day we got back from Austin my symptoms returned, and I have been sick since. Faith got a bad cough Thanksgiving morning, but was acting fine. I decided to take her to the doc. last Tues., since we both missed school. She had a double ear infection... She is a trooper. She has a very high pain tolerance I am told. Last night it hit her hard though. She screamed from 10 pm till 12. She is usually out around 8:30, so we knew something was up. We called the doc. because she was in obvious pain; she was kicking and twisting her little body and wouldn't let us hardly hold her at all. It was real sad. Come to find out when a baby has a double ear infection, they can have phantom pains in other parts of their body. Learn something new all the time. We knew she was acting like her stomach hurt, but the doc. said that was probably what it was. Interesting and good to know for next time. Well, just got the last call. Stacy was feeling left out I guess. He said he has a fever and all the symptoms of whatever I have. Fun stuff!!! All of this is coming while we are in the process of changing insurance. Not good timing. We had to get on temp. insurance, which is like having none unless something major happens, until Stacy was at his new job for 90 days. I guess you could figure that out with the $100 dollar meds. What is worse, we have spent around $700 dollars since my first doc. appointment. Isn't that ridiculous!!!!!!!! I get sick to my stomach just thinking about it. Our new insurance is ridiculously good. I would only spend like $300 to have a baby. Crazy good!!! We spent a couple thousand with Faith. Anyway, all that to say I am so ready for this new insurance and we will likely not have temp. insurance again. It is so not worth it. Well, we are all going to just sit on the couch and sleep all weekend I guess. Hope better news to come!!

Mix of Many

This is a mix of Halloween pics and my trip to Tennessee to my friend, Bethany's wedding. First the wedding... It was a very fast trip. We left Friday morning and spent the first night in a hotel. Then we got to Tenn and had the rehearsal dinner that night. The wedding was on Sun. Monday we went to Alabama to visit family for lunch in one town and stayed with some friends that night in another town. Then we left Tues. morning and spent that night in a hotel and back home by Wed. afternoon. Very Very fast trip. We were at a different place every night and drove around 2,000 miles in 6 days. Faith was a trooper. She only cried when she was tired, but fell asleep soon after. She did throw up for the first time on the way down, so I was so worried she would puke on one of my friends that would come grab her and walk off. It was sooo fun and I wouldn't have missed Bethany's wedding for the world.


This was Faith's dress for the wedding. It was outside and a cool, but perfect fall wedding day. Is she not the cutest thing ever!!

Me, Bethany and Anna at the reception. The wedding was at this beautiful plantation in Nashville. She was a beautiful bride.

At our hotel, Faith loved playing in the drawer. There is not much for a 1 year old who has been in a car for 7 hours to do in a cramped hotel room, so this was the excitement.

Bethany and her new husband Derek at the rehearsal dinner. Love you both!!

How cute!! These are my boys... Beau, Todd and Ryan Garrett. They are like brothers to me.

Me and Faith before the wedding started. She is so cute!!



Now jump to Halloween... This is my little pumpkin playing before we left to go to the Fall Festival.