Mid November 09

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Mid November 09

Well since we went to Hawaii it feels like November has flown by. Before we left Kendall had her last practice and it was under the lights at Franklin's Pierce's High School Stadium. Pretty cool for the girls to get to play at night and on such a big field, however the weather was unkind and it rained a ton. The girls didn't care! Then while we were gone Kendall had her last soccer game, so no pics of that. She did well though a scored 3 times! They are not suppose to keep score at her age, but when I asked about the game she made sure to tell me that "they won!" The weekend after we were back was the Pizza weekend! We went to Logan's last game and then to Pizza Hut for his awards get together. He liked soccer and loves his trophy. Sarah Cypher did an amazing job as a coach and it was nice for him to play with some kids he knew already- Kennedy and Sydney. After Logan's party I took Kendall to her new friend, Maddison's birthday party. It was the longest party ever, for me anyways! The kids skated for 2 full hours before they went into the party room to eat pizza, cake/ice-cream and open gifts! Yes we had pizza again. It was pretty interesting to see the girls interactions, unfortunately it is clear that clicks exist even in first grade! Kendall did pretty good on the skates after I went out with her the first half hour, after that she did pretty well. Then on Sunday we had Kendall's soccer party at the Tacoma Soccer Club. All the kids had a chance to play the parent's and just run around on the indoor field, then you guessed it Pizza for dinner and then awards. Kendall coaches- Stephanie and Heidi were wonderful too. The families were nice and most of the girls will get to play basketball together with Jamin as the coach- Who-hoo! I am trying to warm-up to the organized sports. Well this last week I have been cooking up a storm, prepping for Thanksgiving and my class had a mini-feast as well were they prepared the majority of the food. I was technically off on Wednesday so Linda finished up the feast with the kids and Avery and I stopped in to eat. Great food! Avery loved it!

Leroy Update

For those who have been wondering how our Dachsund, Leroy, is doing? He is actually really good! Two round of steroids-Pregozone, seemed to fix him right up! Hopefully he doesn't re-injure himself anytime soon!

Hawaii 09

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Hawaii 09

Well, despite all the chaos happening around us. Austin and I were able to sneek away to Hawaii for 7 days to celebrate 10 years of marriage. We had a nice time. It rained a lot so the typical vacation of sitting on a beach didn't exactly happen, but it was still a vacation! We saw a lot of the island in the two days that we rented a car. We did have some beach time and when it did rain we found other things to do, I got a massage and we spent a lot of time shopping! While we missed the kids and called everyday they were enjoying their own vacation with the grandparents. It was a nice trip to spend time together, but we are looking forward to the next family vacation too!

Rough times ahead

Well, it has been a rough couple of days for our dog Leroy and the family. We found him Sunday night in the grass not able to move. We don't know what he did? We think he jumped off one of the hills in the yard and just landed the wrong way. He couldn't move his back legs. Austin took him to the vet on Monday and they did some x-rays and he didn't break his neck and the spinal cord looks good, but he is paralyzed on the left side. The next step was to schedule an appointment with the nureologist to have an MRI to do Surgery. We called the nuerologist who told us an MRI would be 1,700.00 with surgery costing anywhere from 5,000 to 8,000. Yikes! We were going to cancell our trip to Hawaii to help pay for this until the nuerologist said even with surgery he would not be able to go up and down stairs, run etc. That the risk of reinjury is pretty much a given! Oh this has been so hard! So we were told we could give him steroids and that in a lot of cases the steroids can relieve the inflamation around the nerves and he could regain some movement. We are waiting to see. Poor guy is just lying around in his diaper. Please think happy thoughts!