WOW! Can we say Hallelujiah..lol or however that is supposed to be spelled. I am sitting here in bed blogging!! Yeah that means we have internet!! Of coarse I couldn't afford to get the computer fixed, so we are borrowing a laptop! No more bugging Andria to use their computer!
This past month has been full of so many bloggable things.
FYI one thing you may not know about me is that I create my own words. Jeff and I have decided I should write a dictionary! For instance: I had a knot in the part of my neck that connects to my shoulder...I said "Honey will you work this knot in my Shneck". Another instance: tonight we were walking into the hospital to visit my sister and I said "I am going to die of coldation". That is just a couple samples of my upcoming dictionary.
Okay lets start with Christmas....
As our kids get older it seems we get less and less excited for Christmas to come around. Some think this is because of the children's belief system weakening...we believe it is because we realize the older they get...the more expensive Christmas becomes! Jeff and I have always had such a minimal budget for Christmas that we prefer to spend what we have on the kids. This year we spent a total of......$1500 on everything!! This included kids, nieces and nephews, siblings and parents. Not one penny was on credit..as we don't have any credit cards!!
Kylie LOVED finding her Hot Pink Ipod in the very top of the tree, Kasey was THRILLED to get his awesome Heely's and Kennadie thought it was pretty NEAT to be the only one to get a pink motorized scooter!! Overall, it was a great Christmas for our family!
New Year's Eve is always fun for us! I say that with some sarcasm...you see it is almost impossible to get babysitters on New Years Eve. So for the second year in a row I enjoyed a little karoake with my sister and the kids!! Jeff had to work all night so he didn't get to join us! By 11:00pm I was soo ready for bed! Yes I was in bed....asleep before midnight!!
Jeff enjoyed his experience of driving during Sundance. He met alot of very neat and some interesting people....or is it the other way around? He has a family that he has become good friends with!! He is their personal driver now! He has really enjoyed this experience!
FYI...I really should be going to bed....but I know I am so behind on this blogging thing!
Ok...so here is the scoop on Kennadie:
If you haven't heard, she has really been struggling with Migraines lately. With her history of seizures her neurologist wanted to be on the safe side and do an MRI. Initially on the MRI they just found an excessive amount of blood flow to her brain...just something to be aware of. The doctor wanted to get a second opinion from another radiologist...so we waited...and waited. That radiologist suggested they compare this MRI to one she had about 4 years ago. In doing so they found that her Brain Stem (or tonsil) is larger than they would have expected. What does all of this mean? Well, it means she will have another MRI in 5 years to compare (unless something provokes them to do one sooner). As, you well know this is very touchy ground for me; as I have Chiari and refuse to accept that my daughter or any of my children for that matter could have it! The good news is that it could just be that the brain stem could be normal and be nothing. In the meantime, for her pain they have put her on Topomax; it seems to be working pretty well for her! She still complains of a headache every couple days, but Leaps and Bounds better than when she would hold her head and rock on the couch because it hurt so bad!
Speaking of the Chiari....I reached my 1 year mark from my second surgery!! January 20th marked the special day. Back in November I decided that I would celebrate the anniversay by cutting my hair to the length of the regrowth from surgery. It was about 8 - 10 inches of hair! It was a very very sad moment for me!! I can't wait to grow it all back!! It looks much healthier and obviously thicker now!!
I have sooo much I want to blog about, but I am watching the clock in the bottom right corner of the screen...and it says I should really go to bed! Have I mentioned...I hate waking up at 4am for work?? Well...I DO! I will continue with more updates tomorrow!!
That shadow is a tree that was actually about 30 feet from us!
Can you see the tail lights?? Again not far ahead of us!
This portion of this blog is dedicated to Kylie! As it is proof that she is not the smallest almost 12 year old you know!! That is Britton standing next to her! Britton is our not so formally adopted daughter...she is actually 2 months older than Kylie! 
