Fort Bend County Tax Day Tea Party

Ok Yes we did go to the Fort Bend County Tax Day Tea Party. Ben and I took the kids I think more for the experience and because we can then any thing else. My dad has always said "If you vote then you have a say. " We voted there for we went. I am glad we went and am amazed at how many people showed up. It was great. Here are the kids with there dad walking around Town Square

The crowds

Some of the sings. Sorry for the "bad" word in the one sign but that is how alot of people think right now.

Town square. April 15th 2009

Enrichment April 2009

For our Enrichment night this month we did a murder mystery dinner. It was so much fun and turned out great. The story took place at an Italian restaurant aka the church gym. Here is one of the tables all decorated and ready for guests Some of our suspects

Deon one of the waiters for the night. The Young Men and Young Woman did such a great job. Thank you

The murder mystery skit.

A table close up. The decorations, food and entertainment were perfect!

Quote for the night:

Our deepest fear in not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is out light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, "who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?" Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. You playing small doesn't serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is with in us. It's not just in some of us it is in everyone. And. as we let out own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates other.

Nelson Mandela
1944 Inaugural address

Spring Pictures

This is the front lawn of the middle school here by our house. It has turned into a field of morning glory. So last Saturday I decided to take the kids over and take their pictures. It was a lot of fun and I got some great pictures. Here ate all the kiddos Cole, James. Maddy, Kaycee and Matthew

Maddy in the flowers.

I absolutely love this shot of Kaycee

Our girls, Kaycee and Maddy

Our boys. Matthew, Cole and James

James

Cole

Matthew

James' shoes after walking in the morning glory. Look at all the pollen.

Easter

Ok here are the Easter photos. They are back words in order. For some reason my computer wont let me change the order here.

Any way here are the girls in their Easter dresses. I found these at Kohls for a great price.
Here is Maddy after she woke up form her nap. I love her smile.Maddy was sleeping during the Easter basket hunt so the Easter bunny left her basket by her in her crib

Matthew looking for his basketKaycee looking for her basket. I don't think the baskets would fit in a drawer but that seems to be the place to look each and every year. :)

James looking for his basket

Cole was sleeping before we started the hunt. He finally woke up and went to town trying to find his basket.

Here are the kids baskets ready for the Easter bunny to come and hide them.

On Monday before Easter for Family night we dyed Easter eggs.

The kids after they died eggs. I LOVE this picture. Its my favorite.

Showing off their eggs

Cole dying eggs

Cole helping Maddy dye her eggs

Kaycee busy dying Easter eggsJames waiting for his egg to be ready to be taken out of the dye

We also did a Easter egg hunt the Saturday before Easter. My mom was here and she though it would be fun to do an egg hunt while she was here. The kids had a great time.

Here is Matthew looking for eggs

James found something.

Cole having fun on the Easter egg hunt. I love his face here

Kaycee found some Whoopers

All the kids waiting to go out and find eggs.

Thanks for the fun Easter egg hunt Grandma!

Ice cream, friends and good times

For the Eplorer fest at the kids school they auctioned off ice cream with there teacher and a friend. Kaycee won the auction for the ice cream with her teacher and took her friend Bethany with her. They were able to go to Ben and Jerry's for there "date" Yummy!!! Look at the options for ice cream cones and toppings.

Kaycee and her teacher Mrs. Thompson. Look at the smile on Kaycee's face and the yummy ice cream. :)

I think Kaycee is enjoying the ice cream. What do you thing?

Bethany, Mrs. Thompson and Kaycee with their ice cream.

Kaycee and Bethany after they finished their ice cream. I think they liked it. Thank you Mrs. Thompson.

Maddy's new toy

For my baby shower for Maddy some of my friends got me an Exersaucer. While my mom was down this past week we put it together for Maddy.

Here is Maddy checking out the new toy.


I think she likes it!And why wouldn't she? Take a look at all the cool toys it has on it. This one is a reflection pool/ piano that plays music. Here we have some chew toys

This one is a flower garden. As you pull the flowers they play music.

This is another music toy. As you pull the bugs they play music. This part of the toy was the stage one part of it all. It hooked to some Lilly pad feet with a mat under it so Maddy could lay on her back and play with the toys.

She had so much fun playing it, it wore her right out. Too cute.

There is one last stage to this exersauser. When Maddy is old enough to start standing/walking you take the base off and it opens up to a standing table. Totally cool.

Sugery

As most of you know I had surgery to remove my gall bladder Wednesday April 1st. A few weeks ago I had some pretty good attacks. I went to the doctor about it and he sent me to get an ultra sound done. When I called the doctor back to get the results the nurse just gave me the number to the surgeon. So I guess it was pretty bad. Any way I have been living on a fat free diet for the past 3 weeks and hoping not to have another attack. I didn't. Thank heavens.

Any way Wednesday I went to Memorial Herman Surgical Center, Texas Medical Center up in down town Houston. I was asked to be there by 6:30 am. The surgery was scheduled for 8am.

All was going well until they put the IV in. It started stinging really bad and I got really light headed and passed out. I have never had problems with IV's or needles before. The last thing I remember the nurse saying was Dr. so and so I need you STAT. Then when I came to there were 3-4 people at my bed side and I had an oxygen mask on. When I woke up I was so disoriented that I keep riping off the oxygen mask so then they just got the tube of oxygen out and put it to my mouth, Finally I calmed down enough for then to put the oxygen. up my nose. Also while all this was happening Ben said my heart rate went down to 20. Not so good. Then after I came to and all was OK again I threw up. So when I went into surgery they also pumped out my stomach. NICE! So now I have 4 incisions instead of 3 like I was told I would have. :( O well right.

The surgery started about 8:30am and was done by 9:30am. But I didn't come out of the anistisa until about 1pm. So I got a nice nap out of all of that. :) After I came out of the anistisia I tried throwing up again. Of course to no prevail. Mt tummy was VERY empty. When the nurse, a big black man was trying to get me up to go to the bathroom I keep falling forwards and then back wards while sitting on the bed. Then when I finally got up to walk to the bathroom I felt like I was drunk. Not that I know how that feels, but I sure was walking funny.

Yesterday was a bit rough. My back and my ribs hurt from all the extra air they pumped in to me. The incisions don't really bother me its the extra air. My mom has been so good to rub my back, trying to get me to burp. It has helped a bit. I just want to get a pin and pop my self. :) I look 5 months prego. All in all everything is good and my mom is being a real big help. I cant lift anything heavy, vacuum or sweep and she has been really good to do the house work and help out with Maddy and the other kids. I am so glad I have a great mom that is willing to help out.

Today April 3rd I feel a little better. My incision where my belly button is hurts a bit. I think its manly because that's were you bend. Any way other then that I am doing real good. Bruised up a bot but doing good. I would have taken pictures and posted them but I figured I would keep my blog at a "G" rating. :) My tummy looks kinda nasty. Well not to bad but no one wants to see a bloated belly with black and blue marks on it.