Thankful!!!

Some wonderful news... Becky is on her way HOME!! The swelling is gone down, the bleeding has stopped, and she seems to be in better spirits!! We are so grateful and thankful for this news and for the prayers! I truly believe it has made all the difference in the world! The whole family thanks everyone for their thoughts, prayers, cares, and concern... We are blessed to have some many people to care of us.

Urgent Prayer Request and Answered Prayers

First, the G-O-O-D news.... Becky's results came back as the tumor NOT being cancer!! Praise the Lord for answered prayers!!
Now, the not so good news.... She is back down at Shand's in ICU. She has swelling and bleeding on the brain. The are going to have to do surgery. We do not know when the surgery will be yet. Also, Becky has been suffering from some personality issues as a result of the surgery. It has been very difficult for her as well as her family. Please KEEP them in your prayers.
Thanks!!

an update

Becky is doing wonderfully, you wouldn't even know she has had brain surgery. She got to come home today, which is GREAT cause they were first saying 4 days down there after surgery. She's a TROOPER!!! No results yet on the tumor, I don't believe.
Again, thank you for the prayers!

Surgery Day

Today Becky (kevin's grandma) had her brain surgery to remove the tumor. She went in at 8am for a 5 hour surgery. I just got off the phone with Toni (kevin's mom) Becky is already out of surgery and doing really well. The surgery went perfect. There was little bleeding and the doctors were able to remove all of the tumor. Toni says they should know something tomorrow as to whether the tumor was cancer or not.
Becky will have to stay in ICU for 24 hours and then be moved to a room for a couple of days. Then she should be able to come back home. If not further treatment is needed, Becky should be able to return to work in possibly a month or so.
Thank you for all your prayers, please keep them coming.

Much to do about nothing....

Its been a while, I know...
Just haven't had it in me. Last week my BFF Jill left for Gainesville. Before that, well just haven't felt like it.
Everything is going a long. Kevin and I have a lot on our plate right now... He's been working, Last week He only worked on day in ATL. We thought he was going to have to go to Orlando, then ATL, and then to North Carolina. But lucky for us, ((not so much in the money department)) he didn't have to go. He got to stay home and spend the weekend with me and Boo! We really didn't do much, raining and all. Then Sunday Athen got sick with a cold. We stayed in all day. Trying to kick the bug before it got started good. He is still a little snotty and was very whinny last night... But he's a kid.
This week Kevin leaves today for ATL, work there tomorrow, then Jacksonville on Thursday ((I think)) and Lake City on Friday. I THINK he's off this weekend to... YAY!!!
That's about it in our little world, there's lots more going with us but that's for a later time...
Hope all is well!!!

"Why"???

"...Because I said so"
Thus it begins

frogs, turtles, ducks, oh my!

Yep, we had frogs and turtles and ducks last night in our house ((or should I say in Athen's imagination =) )) Athen would throw the frogs on me cause I was 'scared' of them... and then he feed them to diezel. Athen was the duck at one point. And the turtle snapped at Kevin, so Athen through him away... =) I think someone should follow him around and write a book! Momma needs some cash! =)

Come and Gone(t)

Bear Brown(t) is gone(t).... Athen has not more interest in him. He does however, have an alligator that he talks to and plays with. Along with a snake and Aunt Ninnie said that he was talking to swipper (from dora) the other day...
One the way home the other day I had the windows down and Athen said there was an alligator out the window. He came in the window and scratched him on his hand... ((showed me his hand "see momma, see that alligator scratch me!")) then the alligator got a 'pank'n' from Athen for scratching him...
Boy oh boy, what will this kid come up with next?!?!? =)
love that kid!!!

Just for Fun

I thought it would be fun to see what you think!
In one word (feel free to include the definition of the word) describe Athen. Whether you know him really well, or only from reading the blog.... It will be interesting to see! Oh and a little bit of challenge - you can't use a word that someone else has used... =)

Bear Brown

Is 2 1/2 too young to have an imaginary friend? If so, don't tell Athen. Apparently Athen has taken up with a "bear" and he has named him "brown" cause "bears are brown, momma" So, we now have a new member. Bear Brown. He's a nice bear. However at times we are "scared" of him. He's a small bear that fits in the palm of your hand... Bear Brown goes to church and even made the trip to aunt ninnies for the spend the night party. However, he must be sleeping in, cause he has not been spotted today. I think its too funny and cute. He even had me take a picture of Bear Brown..... its was of course just a picture of our kitchen counter, none the less, it was of Bear Brown.
I just love that kid to pieces!!

Here is Bear Brown.... He's sitting on the counter, can't you see him??? =)

A Family 4th

For our family fourth, we took the boys bowling... All in all they did pretty good. Jett was really good at it. Athen, yeah..... not so much. He was a fan of the "granny style" and had as much power behind it as a 93 year old granny would... Thus he could just sit and watch his ball roll, roll, roll, and keep rolling... {see below}

If you can see, this is Jett's 2nd bowl... notice all the pins that are already down and also notice the ball ((its the small neon yellow dot))

GO JETTIE-MAN GO!!!!

Yeppers, he had to carry the ball himself... and surprisingly, we came back with all 10 fingers AND toes!!

Then we took the boys to eat ice cream, mainly to waste time before the really fun began.

Then, FINALLY, it was FIREWORKS time!!!

WOOK daddy WOOK!!

aww, they do get along...sometimes =)

Love him!!!

HAPPY 4TH OF JULY!!!!!

Date Set

Got word that the surgery is set for Thursday July 23rd. We do not have a time yet. We will know that when her paper work arrives in the mail. So for now, we just wait, and pray. Thank you for you prayers and your continued prayers. I feel confident that the tumor will be benign and Grandma Becky will make a full recovery.