Daddy daughter time!

George and Rylee were having some quality daddy/daughter time!!! The pictures say it all.........

Then it was time to get all cleaned up.........

As you can see from the last picture.....George's legs became her canvas for her art work. He is such a good sport.....I LOVE these two more than anything else in the whole world!!!!!!!

WRECKED

I made my peace with my post about my mom. I was a lil later than normal getting Rylee from school on Wednesday. I picked her up at 5:20pm. I was in a car wreck at 5:25-5:30. I was a the intersection of Bowen and Division.  My car is totally busted.  I had never been in a wreck before. I had no idea that when the airbags come out that dust/smoke/powder mixture goes EVERYWHERE in your car. I seriously thought that my car was on fire. A van hit head on the front passenger side of my car. My whole dash area of my car was in my lap just about. 2 nice men came rushing to my aid but at the time I could feel no pain. My concern was Rylee who was SCREAMING like I had never heard her scream before. I thought for sure she was injured. She was sitting in the back passenger side of the car. I yelled for the men to get my baby. They had trouble getting the harness off of Rylee so I turned sideways a little and reached my arms back and got it unbuckled. I knew that she was out of the car and that was when I started to feel PAIN!!! My seat belt had dug into my skin around my hips and the airbag busted the inside of my lips. That is when I noticed the paramedics were there. They got to the wreck within 2 minutes of the wreck happening. They asked if I was okay and that is when everything started to get a little fuzzy in my mind. I had just gotten off the phone with George like a minute or two before the wreck and I knew that he might not hear the phone again so the first person I called was George's mom. I told her that we were in a wreck and that she needed to call George/go get him for the Hickerson's house a few streets away from her house and meet us at the hospital. About that time the were putting a neck brace on me and getting me on the backboard and loaded onto the ambulance. I could hear Rylee screaming and freaking out because she wanted me. I was demanding to know how she was, I was not interested in my pain until I knew that she was okay. They assured me that she checked out and was perfectly fine. They wanted to get me to the hospital and have Rylee ride in the cop car and I said NO!!! She will ride with me or we will wait for my husband. The lady was a little annoyed with me so I asked her if she was a mom and when she said NO I told her that if she ever became a mom she would understand...I'm not going anywhere from here without Rylee with me or in the arms of my husband. She slammed the door the ambulance and that was it. George got to their a few minutes later and followed us to the hospital with Rylee. I got to the hospital at 6ish and at 9:30 I finally got the release to have the neck brace off! I was so relieved!! 4 hours of laying flat on my back and looking straight up was the most frustrating experience. At midnight I got released and was sent home with a prescription for pain. I still haven't gotten them filled because I don't want to be all loopy. I am managing with some prescription strength ibuprofen and rest. I have bruising going from my left shoulder to my right hip and another bruise going from hip to hip. My hip bones and just under my right breast have strawberries/carpet burn from the seat belt. .I have strained muscles along my sternum and that is why I have/had shortness of breath and they thought I had broken ribs. A bruised and swollen Left knee and a gash on my right ankle and serious bruising on my ankle bone. I am lucky to not have more severe injuries and thankfully blessed that nothing it wrong with Rylee except for what looks like a hickey on her neck from her car seat. The cop/EMT guy told me that only 15% of parents put their kids in the car seat the proper way and I am lucky to be one of those parents. He said that he was expecting Rylee to have whip lash and possibly a broken neck from the shape my car was in and because I had her strapped in the proper way she is just fine. I am thankful that I stick to and demand that Rylee be strapped in the right way. It might not be as comfortable for her to have the straps snug and the plastic thing pulled up even with her collar bones/almost under her chin but OH WELL!!! It saved her. We are getting Rylee another Graco Nautilus this weekend. It did its job and I highly recommended this car seat before the wreck but even more so now!!

My Aunt came yesterday to bring us dinner, Thank you Aunt Susu! She brought Rylee a duck dressed in a jacket with bunny ears on it and when you grab the duck by the bunny ears it says "put me down, put me down *aggravated duck sounds here*" and sings a song while walking on the ground. Here are some pictures.....

That is about it for now.......

My Mommy

I have been thinking a LOT lately. I have a lot on my mind and not the ability to speak it all, so I will write it. If you know me you know this is not "normal". I am usually out spoken as I like to call it and "open opinionated" as George calls it. My mom has been on my mind a LOT lately. I try my hardest to stay positive about everything because she is such a positive person and not worried at all (at least that is how she acts/sounds when we talk). I sometimes get MAD at the WHY's in life. I am the type of person that would like answers and sometimes more than one answer is necessary for me fully understand. I know that I should let everything go and pray, knowing that He has a plan and reason for everything. I just don't get why there are people that DON'T live their lives the way they should and everything seems to be just fine. Yet, my mom for example, is a STRONG Christian, loving, kind, gentle, good hearted woman of God and yet she was diagnosed with ANOTHER brain tumor!!!! I am mad, hurt, upset, confused, you name it I am feeling it!!! How much can one person handle before their bodies just give up? WHY now, after dealing with all this are the tumors showing up in other places now.My mom was supposed to have brain surgery on March 8 to remove her most recent brain tumor but during her pre-op assessment they discovered a "spot" on her lung. The pulmonary doctor decided it would be best to postpone the brain surgery until they could do a biopsy on her lung. The biopsy on her lung was done on St. Patrick's Day. The doctor, who has been the lead pulmonary doctor at Loma Linda (her hospital) for 30 years, assured her that it was just *some fancy tumor word that I can't remember* (common in people over 50 who live in the desert ot dry climates) and nothing to worry about. Yesterday she went in to meet with him to discuss her results. To the doctors suprise, and our families too, it was diagnosed as a meningioma, the same kind of tumor in her brain. The doctor had NEVER seen this happen. The tumor in her lung will have to be removed but it is not as dangerous as the one in her brain so they will move forward with removing the brain tumor on April 19. Rylee and I have our tickets purchased and are leaving on April 16-23 to be in California with my mom. I can't wait to see her, put my arms around her and just enjoy every day with her. Seeing my mom and Rylee together warms my heart like no words can describe. The bond that they have is beautiful! All I can do is PRAY, PRAY, PRAY and PRAY some more that God gives her more time with us here on Earth because the thoughts of her not being here while Rylee grows up just KILLS me.

That is all for now, I am going to go pick up Rylee from school..........

Ended Mod F!

I will start with my mom! As most of you know she was diagnosed with her 4th brain tumor in mid-January. They postponed her surgery date because they found a spot on her lung during her pre-op assessment for the brain surgery. They did a biopsy on her right lung this past Wednesday, St. Patrick's Day. They have no reason to believe that it is malignant so that is great news. We should know for sure on Monday what it is. Yesterday, they set the new date for her brain surgery. April 19. That is AWESOME in my eyes!!!! I have never missed a surgery of hers and I was nervous about possibly having to miss it. I have my Spring Break April 16-25 so I am planning on going to California the whole time. I had been planning on going anyways but now I won't have to miss her surgery. I truly believe that everything happens for a reason, and I believe that my prayers were answered when it comes to me being able to be in Cali. for my mom's surgery and not miss any school. I would like to thank all of you that have been praying for her. Please continue to keep her in your prayers. The power of prayer is a miraculous thing.

George has been busy busy busy with work these days. He has been working later and later every night. He and I went to J. Gilligan's for a few drinks on St. Patty's Day with his sister, Kelly. We had a pretty good time. I posted a picture at the end of this post. I am glad that we left when we did because I had my Mod F Final the next morning.....I know you are thinking "why would she go out the night before a final?" and to that my response is....I got a 100!!!!!!! I am going to really miss Mr. Grant. He was an awesome instructor and he made the class fun and memorable, obviously....I ended the Mod with a 100 average!!!!!!

Rylee Roo has been having what the doctor called "bad allergies" off and on since January. She has been getting Benadryl EVERY morning and night for 2 weeks and then last night she started coughing and running a fever. This morning I called her school to let them know that she was going to be out and that she had a fever and they let me know that 2 other students in Rylee's class were diagnosed with Strep-Throat. GREEEAAAAAT!!!! I called her doctor and told then nurse that I was still convinced that she had allergies/cold but that 2 kids in her class have Strep and that since it is Friday I wanted to have a Strep Test done on her just to be on the safe side. The test came back NEGATIVE for Strep-Thank Goodness! He was still not happy with the amount of snot that he could hear NOR was he happy that she was had been on benadryl for over 2 weeks and was not clearing up. The Verdict: Sinus Infection and a prescription for Amoxicillin. She has had one dose of it and a lil motrin for her fever and seems to be feeling fine now.....she is watching Blues Clues about to take a nap.

That is about it for now......

Here are some pictures from the last few days!

Giveaway

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3-8-10

Bath time is such a fun time for Rylee that I decided to share a lil video with ya'll. I have never posted a video before so hopefully it works ok......

March already?!?

BOY! This year is flying by faster than last year was and I didn't know that was possible. I don't have much to write about this week when it comes to us so I figured I would just write what is on my mind.....

This thought started this morning when I saw my friend Kat's photo that she uploaded of her cat. I was/am thinking that in my next life (if there is such a thing) that I would love to come back as a cat. Not a Lion or Tiger (although they are purrrdy kittys!) but just your average indoor house cat. I would love to just lay around and sun bathe during the day with NOTHING to worry about but when my master would be home to feed and play with me. The occasional head rub and crazy kid trying to pull my tail or poke out my eyes would be nothing..... I would love to be a russian blue or a siamese...they are so pretty. I wouldn't want to be a long haired cat nor would I want to be the ugly bald cat that everyone laughs at. I would prefer to be female rather than male, but I would prefer that no matter what animal/human I would come back as. I would want to be an indoor cat so that I wouldn't have to worry about the weather or any nasty dog/wolf/stray mountain lion trying to have me for a snack. I would want loving "parents" and good health care. I haven't decided on anything else that I would want or not want so I will leave this thought alone for now

Next thought.....do I want to do my extern with a cardiologist or an OB/GYN? My passion is womens health and babies so I will more than likely follow my heart but at the same time I could get paid a LOT more with a cardiologist since I will have my X-Ray and EKG certs. also..... I just am not sure what I want more. Good thing I have another 6 months or so to figure it all out

That is about it for now.....