New Years Eve

Happy New Years Eve to everyone!

I am not sure how I got stuck working today but I did. I guess it is a good thing since it keeps my mind off our ruined evening. I am not sure how many of you have read my blog since last New Years Eve but Mark and I have done the same thing for New Years Eve for years. The campground that we camp at has cabins that they rent too. The big group of us that camp together all get cabins and have a big party on New Years Eve. It is so much fun being with our "summer" buddies in the winter! It would of been a little sad this year since Kathy and Stan will not be there but Kathy is doing really good so we are all happy about that. Last year it snowed 12 inches from the time we went to bed (around 2:00am) till the time we got up (8:00am) It was amazing to wake up to that much snow when there was NONE on the ground when we went to sleep a few hours before.

Well anyways, that is what our plans were for this year also. Check in is at 3 so I was going to work till 2 or 3 and then go check in right after work. Well the camp ground has no power, which equals no heat, so they won't allow the cabins to be rented. So now we have no plans. I am sure we will come up with something but.....it is just sad.

I hope you all have a wonderful New Years Eve and that you ring in the new year with those close to you. I wish all of you a Happy and Prosperous New Year!!

Christmas was wonderful for all of us. I was very happy with everything. I got everything that I wanted and my family was all around me. The kids were all very happy with thier gifts and so was hubby! Yeah!
I got an extra special gift today, very early in the day actually. My daughter called me early this morning. She had news for me. She is pregnant!! She didn't want to tell me earlier since her ultrasound was today. I am not sure if any of you remember but Manda lost a baby not so long ago and she is so afraid of dissapointment this time around also. She is 8 weeks along, so danger is not out of the way entirley so please keep her in your prayers. She had an ultrasound today and she heard the baby's heartbeat. She had to call me after hearing that!! I am very excited. I am very nervous for her and I am praying that things go really good this time!
She will be coming out to visit tomorrow for a bit. Aiden will be coming tomorrow for the weekend also. We had lots of ice this morning, I could not see out the windows of the house when I woke up this morning, that is how much ice there was. It was just coated on everything! We have to wait till tomorrow to get Aiden, didn't want to chance the roads this morning. So tomorrow will be fun with my baby!! We have lots of new games to play. Chutes and Ladders and Candy Land!! Yea Grandma is excited about those games. Aiden and I will be playing all day!
I do have pics to post from Christmas but I haven't got them loaded yet. I will do that soon and post some for you all to see. I am very tired and off to bed. Have a wonderful evening.

Hello!

Hello! Wow where have I been? At work and crazy busy is where I have been! I have managed to get all my baking done and the shopping. I do still have some presents that I have to wrap this morning but other than that I think that I am all set! It was a challenge to get it all in but it is done.
There has been so much snow here! Every time it snows it seems we get tons more people in the operating room! I thought we would be slowing down coming up to the holidays but so far that has not been the luck. Ah well it is a good thing that I love my job!
My kids will all be here later this afternoon. We will be heading over to my husbands brothers house for the family party with his family. I am very excited about it. I pick Aiden up at 1:30 and then head over there. Mark had to work today for half a day, yuck! I feel bad for him but they were just having a party anyways so I guess it isn't so bad!
My family party was last Saturday. We had a very nice time. Aiden got some really cool gifts. He will be here this weekend with us so we will get to play with them then! I can't wait.
Tomorrow the kids will all be here in the morning. We will open gifts and have breakfast and then the kids will all head to their dad's for the family party with his family. Mark and I will stay here. My sister will come over and we will have mismosas in the hot tub and prime rib dinner later that afternoon. YUMMY! It is a tradition we started when I moved out here and I love it! It is a quiet afternoon and very enjoyable after all the rushing and hustling in the previous weeks.
Well I need to get off here and get some things done before I go get Aiden.
Have a MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

Better day

Yes we had family pictures done today. They took over 50 different pictures. I have Holiday ones of the entire family and just regular ones of the whole family. I have some of Aiden alone and some of just Aiden and Jeremy. I also got some of Manda and her b/f Zac. I did get a few of Jeremy alone because I wanted one to put on the "gradautaion" wall. I have pictures of graduation pics of all the kids but Jeremy graduated after his class so he never had graduation pics done. Well now he is up there on the wall with the rest of his brothers and sister.
I was very happy that they were all here and we made it to the photo place and got all the pictures done with no problems. I thought Aiden was not going to coperate at first but when he realized this was going to be fun he did good. The holiday pics of the whole family, he didn't not smile in a single one of them! Grrrr oh well he smiled for the rest of them.
John and Josh went over to visit Nick's parents last night. Nick's mom asked them if they could make a collage of pictures of Nick. They have been busy with that. Lots of facebooks pics that have Nick in them. I have been teaching them how to add them to our computer and then I send them to CVS to be printed. I love getting my pics that way. I never have to take my camera to the store, I just upload to my computer and then pick the ones I want, and CVS prints them out and I go get them. Wonderful! So the boys have been busy with that. The funeral is Tuesday. There is going to be only the one day. Two hours of viewing before the funeral and then the funeral. I have to take the twins to get some dress pants. They have shirts but no dress pants. I am going to go to the funeral as well but I am going to let the boys go with thier friends. Mark and I will go alone. It will not be a good day and I think they need to be around thier friends.
All the kids stayed after the pictures and I made a big batch of spaghetti for dinner. They all stuffed themselves with that! Manda and Zac are staying the night since Zac has a dr. appointment tomorrow out this way so they will just stay and go to that tomorrow and then home after that. I don't mind, I love having them here. I have to work in the morning. Yuck. I hope there is no more snow tonight to make my drive horrible in the morning!
Well time to do dishes, have a great evening.

As promised....

I really am right back to make another entry as promised! I am sorry that I haven't posted much lately. Things are just a little bit to crazy. I wish it were different.
I feel as if every time I come on to post I only have bad news, I don't like it when it is like that. I hate being a downer but I guess life happens to all of us.
This post is no different, it is gloomy too. I do have some good news though. My girlfriend, Kathy, is doing better. She is still not fully awake and her left arm is still paralyzed but they have seen movement in the left leg. They are weaning her off the sedatives to see how she responds to things. She does realize there are people in the room. She makes movements and her blood pressure goes up when you talk to her or touch her so all of that is very limited. We have to sit quietly. She still has the trach in so she isn't able to talk. They are hoping that by Christmas or the New Year she will be able to talk. Praise the Lord. There is still the worry of infection and things but her progonis is good.
Yesterday morning I was sitting here making the rounds to go everyone's journal and trying to get comments in so people didn't think I had totally forgotten them! I was very happy, one of the twins was home, he came home Thursday night and him (John) and I were going up to Grand Valley to get Josh. Josh's indoor track team had a meet Friday evening and John was going to stay there with Josh for the meet (Josh was not running in this meet he just had to be there for the team) and then the team was having a Christmas party after. I was going to go to Muskegon to stay the night with my girlfriend and then pick the boys up on my way home on Saturday and come home. I went upstairs to wake John up to take a shower so we could get on the road. I was sitting back down here at the computer when John walked into the room. He was crying, he said "Mom, Nick died last night" I think my brain did not want to register what he had just said cuz I just sat there looking at him. I finally said "Nick who?" I know John must of thought I had lost my marbles cuz I know without a doubt who Nick is. He has been one of the twins best friends since we moved here. He was actually the first friend that they made and the first friend to stay the night here with them and them over at his house. Needless to say our plans for the day changed drastically. John and I drove out to Grand Valley. We told Josh. Neither of them wanted to stay for the meet or the party. We spoke to the coach and he told me to take Josh home to be with is friends here. The boys went to a gathering at another friends house last night. They are still upstairs sleeping right now. I don't know how things went last night.
I don't know alot of details about his death. I do know that Nick has had some issues with drugs. He was using perscription drugs but they were not his perscription. He was buying them. John told me on the drive out to GV that he and some other friends of his had decided that they were going to spend alot of time with Nick over Christmas break and get him away from the people that he had been hanging out with who were involved with this drug stuff also. I do know that the man that was supplying the drugs to Nick was arrested yesterday. Nick was at his house when he died of a drug overdose. The man did not call the police, he called Nick's girlfriend who came over and found Nick on the floor but it was to late. Needless to say my twins, along with many of the other kids, his parents and siblings and all his family members, are devastated.
I know Nick was making some bad choices lately. But Nick was a good kid, a very good kid. I also know that he knew the Lord as his Savior and that he is resting with Jesus now.
Please keep Nicks family and friends in your prayers.

Good Morning

Good Morning Everyone, This entry is just a short one. I want to invite you all to a Christmas give away that Betty is having. Go on over to her place and leave a comment and you will be entered to win a prize!

Sorry

I am sorry I haven't posted lately. Things have been rather crazy and a little upsetting. I know that I have posted many times about camping and how much we love it. We have a group of 13 different couples that we camp with. Well I guess they aren't all couples, a few are single people but there are 13 different campers that all camp together, I guess there is like 20 some of us that all go together. Anyways.....one of the couples that camp with us are very good friends of mine. Kathy and Stan. They live in Alma which is very close to Mt. Pleasant, where my son John goes to college. When we have gone to visit John we have gone to see Stan and Kathy also. Stan acutally went with Mark to move John into his dorm when John first moved in. Stan is retired and Kathy is also but she is only 55, Stan is 63. I love this couple, they are so sweet. Kathy had a stroke last Sunday. She had a bleed in her head, they think it had been bleeding for quite some time. The blood had been pooling in her head for awhile and the pressure of the pooled blood finally pushed the vein (the one that was leaking blood) up against her brain and it caused a stroke. Kathy had surgery on Monday after being transfered to a larger hospital in Saginaw. The hospital in Alma was unable to deal with something like this. They had no neurology department. She is doing as well as can be expected but she is still not awake. She is paralyzed on the left side. Please keep her and her family in your prayers. Her grandchildren are just devastated. They spent alot of time with her. One is 15, one is 11 and she has a new little one who is just 4 months old. Right now there is not really a prognosis. She is still alive and has made it through the first week so that is good. They want her to remain still for about another week and then we will see...............It is so difficult to visit her.

Sorry I figured it out.

Well that was fairly easy. All fixed.
I have been so busy since Thanksgiving! Managed to get alot of things done though and that makes me really happy. I really enjoyed having my kids home. I have to say though that I didn't realize how used to "quiet" I have become in just 3 short months. Those two boys can make more noise that I remembered. That and the fact that they seemed totally unable to stop bugging me for more than 5 minutes at a time! LOL! Who am I kidding? I missed it horribly.
Sunday night I had to drive Josh back to Grand Valley. What a horrific deal that was. The roads were sooooo busy. Everyone must of been on thier way back to college or on thier way home from somewhere. The weather certainly was not cooperating either. What would normally take me 3 hours took me 7. When we got to the college, Josh all of sudden looks panicked and realizes he has forgotten his ID and his dorm room key. So we had to find someone to help him get a loaner key and get his stuff in to his room. We also had to figure out how he was going to eat (all thier meals are prepaid with thier tuition and are loaded onto ther ID"S) I left him some money to buy meals with till his ID could be mailed to him. He has it now and all is good.
I had to take Monday off work since I was so long on the trip and didn't make it home till way early in the morning! today I am back to work!
I will make another post later to let you all know about weight watchers.

Where is it?

I am a little confused here. I no longer have buttons to be able to pick what color I want to write in or what kind of font I want? What happened to that?