Weekend.. :)

Why does the weekend always go by so quickly? At least I got to get out of the house with a good friend.. just took a walk at pier park and had a small pizza at red brick pizza.. it was cloudy and cold.. but it still was nice. We are so lucky to live here in Panama City.. you can drive 20 minutes and see one of world's most beautiful beaches.. I do miss the mountains though.
Cobie is doing alright.. he misses playing outside the most I think... and he can't "play around" with his brothers. I can't wait to be done with the antibiotics..

New Calling..

Well this past Sunday I was called as the Relief Society President for Panama City Ward. I am still in shock... but very excited. I am looking forward to getting to know the sisters better and serving them. The start of the new year has been a rough one, with Cobie and now my new calling.
Cobie is still at home, he will need his IV port for at least another three weeks. We are hoping to have a homebound teacher to start coming to our home to help with the school work. He gets overwhelmed easily.. poor guy. It's hard to tackle so much. We try and break it up.. but I think it will be much better when there is a teacher telling him what to do rather than mom and dad.
I'm very thankful for my inlaws for stepping in to watch Cobie three days out of the week.. it has been a HUGE help!! There is no way we could make this work without them. Tomorrow is my day to stay home and I am so looking forward to it.
It's also payday.. yayyyyy :)

Cobie..

It's been a roller coaster to say the least. Wednesday we were walking in the doctor's office to see what he thought was wrong with Cobie's elbow.. thinking it was just stiff, or he bumped it. Of course it was something much worse.. septic joint (I think that's what they called it) and it was really infected... required surgery right away. They were hoping it was not in the bone. They still cannot tell me if it is or not. We ended up staying in the hopital one day shy of a week.. he is on some pretty powerful antibiotics and required an IV port to be put in .. upper arm near his chest.. When we were finally released, a home health nurse came out to show us how to give him is medications by IV. Not fun, you worry a lot about infection.. and wishing you had a huge bubble to put him in. He is doing alright.. he is normally so active, this is really hard for him. He isn't able to go to scouts tonight and is kind of upset about that as well. It looks like he will be on the antibiotics three times a day for three weeks. Plus two doctors visit per week.. when they say all of this to me, all I can think of is how much money this will all be.. we still aren't through paying for Tim's hospital stay back in 2006 when he broke his leg .. now this. I guess we all go through trials for a reason.. to make us stronger.. to grow. What a way to start off the new year, huh? I have no leave time left.. so when I stay home from this point, it will be without pay. Goodness.. I know we will get thru this.. Everything is going to be alright.. I just know it. :)

Cobie's arm

Gosh, here we go again! Well it started Thursday morning ( Jan. 7) Cobie woke up complaining his arm hurt. I just assumed it was from sleeping on it weird and we went along our merry way. Friday he went to a friends house and Saturday when I picked him up, he was still complaining. He is now unable to extend his arm out past a 90 degree angle. I notice that it is a little swollen, but not bad. He is having trouble putting on clothes and feeding himself , and is now running a low grade fever, so I make an appointment first thing Monday morning to see his peditrician. She doesn't like the look of it and sends us to get an Xray done. The results are faxed back to her office and the nurse calls to say it is either a dislocated elbow or a fluid filled sack that is infected. She doesn't feel qualified enough to make the distinction so she makes an appointment to see an orthopedic surgeon. Hopefully we will be able to get in there before the week is out.
Where did this come from?? The only thing we can think of is he fell on that same arm last month, maybe even more than a month ago, diving for a football and landing on the concrete. His elbow (same one) was scraped up quite a bit, and left a scar (mainly because he picked at it non stop), but I couldn't believe it wasn't worse than it was. This incident was probably what started it. So, NO MORE football at our house, first it was Logan jumping up in the air to catch a football in the yard and landing on a huge pine tree root and slicing his knee wide open , almost requiring surgery.. he still needed physical therapy! Not to mention the HUGE scar across his knee.. more like indention really. Sports.. not a fan!

Here we go.. 2010

A new year, a fresh new start. The house really looks good.. I worked on it during the break and I am really happy with it.. Now to get the yard looking half way decent.. needs to be raked.
It's been really cold here lately.. in the 20's in the morning.. I tried to put a blanket on my plants, but it came off during the night and the plants froze... I upset about that. Hopefully they will come back.
Work is going well. .. getting caught up and starting new spreadsheets and folders for the new semester.
We had a really nice Christmas this year.. I did a lot of baking (and gained 5lbs, respectfully..lol)
Time to get back to the gym.. just have to muster the motivation..