tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19689918910753322202024-03-12T17:01:26.072-07:00The Patterson'sMsVickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09957799163109339680noreply@blogger.comBlogger35125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1968991891075332220.post-75795052144282424542009-05-12T11:16:00.000-07:002009-05-12T11:30:19.239-07:00So, it's been a month.............since I've blogged. Time is flying by theses days..........<br /><br />We have all been very busy lately. Troy had a field trip to The Barnyard last Monday. We had a blast. He loved the animals. Especially the babies he got to pick up an hold. I'll try to post some pics. <br /><br />Troy is still playing basball. His team has managed to squeak out 6 wins.........very surprising. But Troy's doing good. We are proud of him.<br /><br />Troy lost his first teeth a few weeks ago. The 2 on the bottom front. He was so excited. Seems likes he's been waiting forever. <br /><br />Zachary had his 5th grade cookout and 5th grade dance last Friday. He had a "date" to the dance. Her name is Alyssa and she might be the sweetest girl on the planet!! And very pretty! He bought her a corsage and actually put it on her wrist for her. What a gentleman. He wasn't too keen on asking her to dance a slow song but after he got up the courage to ask her the 1st time they danced the night away!! Every song after that!! It was a side of Zach I've never really seen before.....maybe he's starting to come out of his shell..........<br /><br />Zach also had a field trip to The American Village in Montevallo yesterday. It was really very interesting. We had a great time.<br /><br />Ronnie's doing good. Got a cortisone shot in his elbow a couple weeks ago - hasn't hurt since. Yeah! He is going to have blood work once a month now instead of twice a month, for his blood thinner. He will go back to have another PET scan doing on June 19th. <br /><br />I am doing great as well. Kind of ready for baseball to be over with because i am pooped all the time. But still love to watch my boy play.<br /><br />I am having outpatient surgery on my wrist Friday morning at 7:00 to remove a cyst. Hopefully all that will go well. <br /><br />As the school year is coming to and end the boys still have lots to look forward to. Troy has field day this Friday the 15th. Then next Friday the 22ns he is havnig a Luau end of the year party. Then the last day of school is Wednesday May 27th..........Zach is having the 5th grade softball game vs the teachers on Friday May 22nd. Then he will have 5th graduation on Tuesday May 26th and then his last day of school will be the 27th as well. This year has gone by sooo fast! Where does the time go? Can't believe Zachary is going to middle school next year ad Troy will be in 1st grade! I feel sooo OLD!!MsVickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09957799163109339680noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1968991891075332220.post-14700312495469862092009-04-10T10:12:00.000-07:002009-04-10T10:27:02.429-07:00TGIF!!!!Good morning all!! Happy early Easter!!<br /><br />I hope everyone is having a great week!!<br /><br />Ronnie got his results back from his 2nd PET Scan. Great news. Still no active Lymphoma!! God is good!! He is still on the blood thinners for 3 more months but hopefully after 3 months he will be done with those too!<br /><br />Troy's still playing baseball. Doing well I think. Although he is having a little trouble with his hitting but we are working on that!! Doing great on defense at 3rd base!! Looks like the rain is going to pass us by this weekend so we'll be at the ballpark at 6:30 tonight and 5pm tomorrow. Go Rockies!!<br /><br />Zachary just finished a week of testing!! I know he is glad!! I went today and signed his speech therapy release, so no more fun for him in Mrs. Liles speech class!! But I'm sure he will be glad to not have to take it in middle school next year!!<br /><br />A little prayer please for Ronnie's parents..........Joy has been retired for years and today is Kendall's last day of work before retiring..............so they will be home ALL DAY LONG with each other!!!!! I hope they survive!!! HA HA!! LOL!!MsVickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09957799163109339680noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1968991891075332220.post-48910942931645638322009-03-23T10:57:00.000-07:002009-03-23T11:10:29.595-07:00Happy Monday to All!! LOL!Well, another Monday has snuck up on us again. I hope everyone had a great weekend!!<br /><br />Troy had his 1st baseball games Saturday. He played well. He got 2 hits, and threw a batter out at 1st. He's playing 3rd base. Not bad for the 1st game. His next game is Friday night at 7:30. Go Rockies!!<br /><br />Zachary got all A's on his report card! Yeah. He earned himself a new cell phone. He was very excited. But he deserved it. He worked very hard!! Troy also had a good report card. He got a new ball, sunglasses, and a little car. It doesn't take much to make them happy!!<br /><br />Ronnie went Friday for his 2nd pet scan since he quit his chemo treatments. He will find out the results from that on Thursday of this week. Please keep praying that we have good news with this one as well!!<br /><br />I had a garage sale Saturday with my mom. It went great. Made some good money. Didn't really realize that some people were crazy garage salers.........bringing their own flashlights to look in the dark! Weird!! LOL!<br /><br />Well, I hope everyone has a wonderful wek that goes by quick!! Me included.MsVickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09957799163109339680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1968991891075332220.post-23973078672690069622009-03-05T11:23:00.000-08:002009-03-05T11:50:54.480-08:00Slacking again...........<em>Hello everyone!! Long time no blog!! I sure didn't realize it had been over a month. I tell ya! Time is flying by so fast these days. And I don't like it one little bit!!!</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>So, they boys are both done with basketball. And now baseball season is beginning. Zachary has decided not to play :(. However, he sayd he might play in the fall. We'll see! Troy is playing. He had his 1st practice Tuesday night. He did very good. He has practice tonight. He has a practice game against Lamar's team tomorrow night and he has batting practice Saturday afternoon. Way to jump right in there the 1st week. Too bad they can't practice on Wednesday's and Sundays or I'm sure we'd be out there on those days too. I wonder if the coach realizes that they are only 6 yrs old? Hmmmmm? Anywho.....</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>Zachary is in the 5th grade this year so they get to do a lot of cool things. On May 8th they are having a cook/out fun day all day at school. Then that night they will have a 5th grade dance. Another day that month the have a 5th grade softball game. 5th graders vs. teachers. Then at the end of school the have a 5th grade graduation with reception to follow. It all sounds like so much fun. I have volunteered to help with the cookout and dance. :) I can't believe my little boy will be in middle school next year! I don't even want to think about it!!</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>Also, at Zachary's school they have something called Outstanding 5th grader. They do it with their Adopt-A-School partner Pritchett-Moore. The faculty at school votes for 3 girls and 3 boys to be finalist. They look at grades, conduct, and citizenship. Anyway, Zachary was picked out of about 150 students as one of the boys finalist!! I'm so proud!! They then had to write an essay about what their adopt a aschool partner does for their school, community, etc. Then today they got to miss 1/2 a day of school to go to Pritchett Moore and job shadow and they were also interviewed. So after today, they will take their essays and the interview and then Pritchett Moore will pick 1 boy and 1 girl and the winners!! Good luck Zachary!! I don't know when we will find out.</em><br /><br /><em>Troy is doing great in school. He is now up to 1.0 books (1st grade level). He loves reading.</em> <em>I can't belive he only has 2 more months of kindergarten!! I'm so sad. My babies aren't babies anymore.</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>Troy and Zach both have been taking allergy shots. They go once a week. Troy is doing so well tht he is going to be able to cut back to once every 2 weeks. He is very excited. I do think I need to make him an appointment with the Ear, Nose & Throat doctor. He has had strep throat 3times since school began in August. He may need to have his tonsils out. So, we'll see.</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>Ronnie is doing great! He started working out again about 3 weeks ago. His feet don't hurt near as bad as when he 1st went back to work. He is still taking the blood thinner everyday and going to have bloodwork done every 2 wewks. Hopefull he won't have to take them much longer. I know he will be happy about that. On March 13th he will be going on his very 1st field trip with Troy. They are going to the fire department, police department, Tumbling Tides, and to the park. I hope they have a great time!! Also, he will be going to have his 2nd PET scan done since he quit his treatments!! PLease pray that this one will bring good news as well!!!</em><br /><em></em><br /><em>Well, gotta run. Hope to get back on here soon.Love you all!</em><br /><br /><em></em>MsVickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09957799163109339680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1968991891075332220.post-79851371122834932432009-01-27T08:24:00.000-08:002009-01-27T08:40:25.997-08:00Where has January gone.........Goodness, this month had flown by. Next thing you know Christmas will be right around the corner!!<br />I hope everyone has had a great 2009 so far. We certainly have!!<br />The boys are currently in the middle of their basketball season. Both are doing well. Troy has gotten a lot more aggressive than last year(he was actually growling at the other team last game - weird, I know). He did make his 1st basket a few games ago. Zachary is still the same 'ol Zachary. Mellow and laid back......he has gotten some shots off but hasn't made any baskets as of yet. Although he did draw a foul last game. Watch out for him, he's a beast :) You know they say it's always the quiet one's........<br />The boys just had their 100th day of school. They are both doing well. Zachary got 5 A's and 1 B on his report card. Much better than the 5 B's and 1 A he got the last time. Troy did well on his report card also. Zachary will be going on a field trip to the Desoto Caverns next month - sounds like it should be fun. Who wouldn't think riding on a bus for 2 hours with a bunch of 5th graders fun......I can't wait :)<br />Well, since Zachary is in the 5th grade this year they have a lot of special activities. This year they are having a 5th grade dance. All year long Zachary and his friends have been making plans on who they were going to ask to the dance. Zachary told us Sunday that he was going to ask Brianna. I know most all of his friends but not her. She just moved here this year from Mobile. Anyway, he came home last night and he said he did ask her...........to be his girlfriend!!and she said yes...... I thought he was just going to ask her to the dance. Guess he had other plans!! Anyway, I guess I'll meet her on the field trip, if they're still "dating" then. You know how those 5th grade romances are.<br />Baseball registration starts this weekend.......think I'll wait until the very last minute. It's not like I just have $235 laying around........the boys better be working hard for the money this year!! I expect to see some home runs!! HA HA!!<br />I hope everyone has a blessed week!!<br />I'll post again soon.........I hope.......MsVickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09957799163109339680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1968991891075332220.post-76892164214288262009-01-02T07:02:00.000-08:002009-01-02T07:16:56.351-08:00Happy New Year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<span style="color:#6600cc;">Gosh, It's been almost a month since I've posted anything!! I have been so busy. Glad the holiday's are over so everything can get back to normal!!</span><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;"></span><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;">Well, we all had agreat Christmas. I hope you enjoyed your's as well. The Sunday before Christmas Ronnie's brother, sister-in-law and niece and nephew came down and we had Christmas with them. We did Christmas at our house Christmas morning or course then it was off to my mom's for Christmas with the family. The morning after Christmas we went to Tallahassee to have Christmas with my dad, stepmom and sister and came back that Sunday. Just in time to go back to work!! Yuck!! I was off yesterday as well but had to work today.........thik it would have killed the to let us close today too? I don't think so!!</span><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;"></span><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;">Last time I blogged I told you that Ronnie has his last chemo treatment. On Christmas Eve he got the results from his Pet Scan!! Wonderful news.........he has NO active lymphoma!! Yeah!! He will go back in 6 weeks for a check up and at that time they will schedule another Pet Scan. We could not have asked for a more wonderful Christmas present!! I thank God that he has come thru this all so well. And he has been in such a good mood since then. Glad to have the old Ronnie back. I love him so much!!</span><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;"></span><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;">The kids go back to school on Wednesday - I'm sure they are looking forward to that!! :) Zachary wants a new cell phone so I made a deal with him that if he made all A's on his next report card that I would buy him a new one. His last progress report he had 1 B and the rest A's so I know he can do it.</span><span style="color:#6600cc;"></span><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;">The boys are in full basketball swing now. Troy's team is 2-0 and Zach's team is 1-1. They were off last week and were supossed to start back this Saturday but with so many people being out of town for the holidays and the Sugar Bowl they have cancelled this weekend's game and rescheduled them for next week. Troy's make up game will be Tuesday night at 6:30 and Zach's make up game will be Friday night at 7:30. Good luck boys!!</span><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;"></span><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;">Well, I hope everyone's new year had started off great!! Have a great rest of the week. I'll try to be back next week with some more exciting news about the Patterson Family!! he he....</span><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;"></span><br /><span style="color:#6600cc;"></span>MsVickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09957799163109339680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1968991891075332220.post-25761383836794448282008-12-05T09:17:00.000-08:002008-12-05T09:32:02.915-08:00Hello everyone...........Goodness, I can't even remember the last time I blogged. My sister-in-law Heather reminded me that I need to - it's been a while. <br />Well, Ronnie has his last chemo treatment the day before Thanksgiving. :) We had a surprise party for him the following Saturday (The Iron Bowl). It went great. He has no clue we had been planning this. I am so thankful for everyone that helped me pull it off and for everyone that came to celebrate. We had a great time. I hope everyone else did as well!!<br />Ronnie will have his PET scan on December 19th. He will then find out the results on December 24th...........Christmas Eve. What a wonderful gift it would be for them to tell us that he is cancer free!! Sure is hard to wait that long though!! Everyone keep your fingers crossed!!<br />This Sunday Zachary, Troy, Lacy, Dalton, Logan, and Carter will all be singing in the Christmas musical at our church (Chapel Hill Baptist). They will be singing with the adult choir and they will sing at both services - 9:00 and 10:15. If anyone wants to come we will be at the 10:15 service to watch(I work in the nursery at the 9:00 service). It should be really good.<br /><br />Mercedes as announced yet more cut backs. They will now be shut down from December 15 - January 20th ( I think). Thy will get paid for 1 wk in December and 1 week in January. Also, they were supossed to be returning to working 5 days a week in January instead of the 32 hours a week they have been on for a month. Now they will only be working 30 hours a week - 4 days a week , 7-1/2 hours a day..........and when they are on nights the will go in everyday at 4:15 instead of 6:15. Also, as stated before, the will still be shut down for 4 weeks in June. They will get paid for Memorial day and then they will have to use 9 of their vacation days and then will not get paid for the other 2 weeks.. Geez!! Somethings gotta give here. It is very nerve racking to say the least. Hopefully there won't be anymore "meetings" at Mercedes for a while. Sure hope the economy picks up really soon.<br /><br />Well, that's about all I have for right now. Hope everyone has a great weekend. ROLL TIDE!!!!<br />Oh. and I am using my last 1/2 day of vacation today and Jennifer and I are going to see Twilight!! I can't wait. Just finished the 2nd book of the 4 book series. Need to go get the 3rd book - ASAP!!MsVickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09957799163109339680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1968991891075332220.post-91015929035715350332008-11-19T11:33:00.000-08:002008-11-19T12:06:15.347-08:00What a long month this has been..............<span style="color:#993300;">It seems like I can't get anything done these days. My house is wreck, I am in the process if recovering the cushions on my dining room chairs(it's taking approx 1 hour per cushion!!), Thanksgiving is next week, I have family coming into town the day after Thanksgiving, I have x-mas shopping to do the day after Thanksgiving, basketball practice has already started for Zach and Troy(Zach on Tues & Fri) (Troy on Wed & Thurs), I have crazy cat that no one can seem to catch that I need to get rid of and I am still working in the nursery at church every Sunday morning. This morning I woke up with a little bit of a sore throat. I was not happy. I definetly do not have time to get sick, so I had a long talk with my self and it seems to have worked because (knock on wood) I have felt fine since I got to work!! </span><br /><span style="color:#993300;"></span><br /><span style="color:#993300;">On to other things.........</span><br /><span style="color:#993300;">Ronnie had a bad day Saturday. He is still on blood thinners since he had the blood clot last month. Saturday he had a nose bleed that lasted about 3 hours. We finally got it to stop. That was a little scary!! It hasn't happened again since then thank goodness!!</span><br /><span style="color:#993300;"></span><br /><span style="color:#993300;">Zachary got his progress Friday and he got 4 A's and 1 B. Yeah! Good for him!!</span><br /><span style="color:#993300;"></span><br /><span style="color:#993300;">That's all folks.............</span><br /><span style="color:#993300;"></span>MsVickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09957799163109339680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1968991891075332220.post-34136061189822744992008-11-12T07:09:00.000-08:002008-11-12T07:21:06.381-08:00Finally home............<span style="color:#ff6600;">Well, Ronnie finally went home from the hospital yesterday. He was very glad to be back at home. He will not return to work until Monday December 1st. He will have his chemo treatment that he missed today. And then he will have his last treatment on the day before Thanksgiving. He will be so glad to be done with the treatments, hopefully for good. </span>MsVickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09957799163109339680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1968991891075332220.post-12879051126806697812008-11-10T06:40:00.000-08:002008-11-10T06:46:01.855-08:00Back at work..............Well, for those of you who don't know, Ronnie is in the hospital with double pneumonia. He went in Thursday night about 7:30 and is still in the hospital. He just told me that the Dr thinks he can go home tomorrow. They want him to go a full day without a fever. He is doing much better than he was this weekend. He is still on oxygen and is still taking the breathing treatments but he is breathing a lot better than before. <br />He was supossed to have a chemo treatment this past Friday but they held off on that. I don't know when he will make it up but his Dr. said he didn't want to wait too long to do it. We are hoping that they will do it while he's still in the hospital. But we'll have to wait and see.<br />It has been a very long weekend for us all. Hopefully this will be all over soon.MsVickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09957799163109339680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1968991891075332220.post-77167386890262056632008-11-05T06:54:00.000-08:002008-11-05T07:08:13.251-08:00WOW!! Time really flies.................<span style="color:#ff6600;">So, I pulled up my blog and realized I hadn't been on here in 2 weeks!! Shame on me!!</span><br /><span style="color:#ff6600;"></span><br /><span style="color:#ff6600;">Everything has been going well. Lee won the game we went and watched. He did great. And Claire, my niece, did great cheering the football team on. They both have grown up so much in the last few years. Hard to believe!!</span><br /><span style="color:#ff6600;"></span><br /><span style="color:#ff6600;">Zachary and Troy had their birthday parties last Saturday. Everyone had a great time. With their birthday money they each bought a Nintendo DS and 3 games a piece. I haven't seen them since.................JK but really they are enjoying them.</span><br /><span style="color:#ff6600;"></span><br /><span style="color:#ff6600;">Since Ronnie had his 10th treatment 2 weeks ago he has now been able to stop giving himself the shots in the stomach of the blood thinner. I know he is extremely happy about that. He will have his 11 treatment this Friday. Only one left after this one!! YEAH!!! I know he can't wait.</span><br /><span style="color:#ff6600;"></span><br /><span style="color:#ff6600;">Well, yesterday was election day. Depending on how you voted, some of us are in mourning and some of you are celebrating. All we can do is take each day as it comes and pray for the best outcome.</span><br /><span style="color:#ff6600;"></span><br /><span style="color:#ff6600;">Only a few weeks until Thanksgiving........I love the holidays!! And the weather is lovely!!</span><br /><span style="color:#ff6600;"></span><br /><span style="color:#ff6600;">Hope every has a great week.........................</span><br /><span style="color:#ff6600;"></span>MsVickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09957799163109339680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1968991891075332220.post-62050228628592595612008-10-22T10:25:00.000-07:002008-10-22T10:44:32.639-07:00It's been a while...........<span style="color:#ff0000;">Well, it's been about a week since I wrote anything so I decided I should before Heather tells me I'm being lazy again!!</span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"></span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">Troy had a blast on his 1st field trip to Critter Creek farms. I'll post the pics on snap fish when I get a chance. </span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"></span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">The boys got their report cards last week. All pretty good considering what we went thru with Zachary the 1st 9 weeks. He had 1 A and the rest B's, so I'm not complaingin at all. We are realy working hard this grading period to bring those up to A's. Wish us luck!!</span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"></span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">Ronnie has his 10th chemo treatment this Friday. Hopefully only 2 more after that. YEAH!! I know he is looking forward to the end...... He is still taking the medicine and shots for the blood clot. Hopefully he will know how that's doing when he goes back on Friday. He has to have another ultrasound tomorrow on another part of his body(a little more personnal so I can't tell you which one) which has been giving him some discomfort this week. So, we'll see what they say about that too. Other than the new ailments he feels pretty good this week, just in time to feel really bad again after his treatment Friday.</span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"></span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">Friday night we are going to Elkmont, Al to watch our nephew Lee play football. He graduates this year and Friday night is senior night. I heard he was offered a scholarship to Auburn University. Way to go!! We are very proud of him.</span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"></span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">My brother Patrick and his wife Heather have just bought a house. Congratulations!! We are really excited for you!! Can't wait to see it.</span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"></span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">Tonight the kids at church are going out to Huntington Place to hand out candy and fliers about our fall festival at church next week. Then they are going to TCBY. The boys are excited. </span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">Our fall festival is Next Wednesday night starting at 6:30 if anyone wants to come. It should be a lot of fun. The boys Halloween costumes should be here by Friday I think. Zachary is going to be Indian Jones and Troy is going to be a member of the SWAT team. I am also trying to plan Zach and Troy's b-day parties. They are both having them next Saturday Nov 1st at the gym at church. Troy is having an Elvis theme and Zach is having a basketball theme. Should be a grand time had by all!! :)</span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"></span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">Zachary's b-day is tomorrow so I am going to take a b-day snack to his class in the morning. Troy's birthday is next Wednesday so I will do the same for him.</span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"></span><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">Also, my friend Terri is going thru a rough time, about to file for divorce I think, so please pray for her and her family.</span><br /><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">I hope everyone has a great rest of the week!!!!!!!!!</span><br /><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">ROLL TIDE!!!!!!!!!!!!</span><br /><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;"></span>MsVickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09957799163109339680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1968991891075332220.post-63050239083732573392008-10-14T11:33:00.000-07:002008-10-14T11:41:36.737-07:00Long weekend ended too soon...............<span style="color:#cc0000;">Well, so much for my 4 day weekend. It went by like a flash!! But I really needed a break. I hadn't taken a vacation day since July. </span><br /><span style="color:#cc0000;">Ronnie has chemo Friday. He had to go back saturday to get a shot to boost his white blood cell count. Then he has to go back today to have some blood work done They upped his medication for his blood clot Friday and so the blood work is to check and see if it's doing it's job. </span><br /><span style="color:#cc0000;"></span><br /><span style="color:#cc0000;">Friday Troy spent the night with his cousins Emma and Brayden. He had a blast once he quit crying. He is always so excited all week long until he finally realizes it's time. But he gets over it pretty quick. He didn't want to leave when I got there to pick him up.</span><br /><span style="color:#cc0000;"></span><br /><span style="color:#cc0000;">Sunday we went to church and once we got home we didn't leave the house again until 6:30 this morning when it was time to start my work week again...uuuggghhh!! Yesterday me, Zach and Troy spent the day cleaning the house. We got done about 3:00. I took a shower then we went outside and played some basketball. We had a good time.</span><br /><span style="color:#cc0000;"></span><br /><span style="color:#cc0000;">Tomorrow Troy has his 1st ever field trip. We will be going to Critter creek Farms. I'm sure we'll have a great time.</span><br /><span style="color:#cc0000;"></span><br /><span style="color:#cc0000;">Well, until the next time I have a chance to blog..................I hope everyone has a wonderful week!!</span><br /><span style="color:#cc0000;"></span><br /><span style="color:#cc0000;"></span>MsVickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09957799163109339680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1968991891075332220.post-20975872178691408702008-10-08T06:58:00.000-07:002008-10-08T07:08:40.839-07:00New development...............<span style="color:#990000;">Ronnie's leg was hurting bad all day long yesterday, so he called DR. Dubay's office. The nurse wanted him to come in and have an ultrasound done to make sure he didn't have a blood clot. Sure enough, he did. He now has to take a prescription medicine avery day and give himself a shot in the stomach everyday!! OUCH!!! They said the blood clot was in a secondary vein so they didn't think it was anything to worry about. Hopefully the medicine will take care of it. </span><br /><span style="color:#990000;"></span><br /><span style="color:#990000;">He will have his next chemo treatment this Friday at 1:00. Three more after this one and hopefully everything will look good.</span><br /><span style="color:#990000;"></span><br /><span style="color:#990000;">Troy had is first and last tournament game last night. So we are done with baseball.........until next spring. Just in time for basketball which is right around the corner!!</span><br /><span style="color:#990000;"></span><br /><span style="color:#990000;">The boys are out of school Friday and monday so I have taken vacation days and will be off work also! YEAH!! Although I do have a parent/teacher conference for Troy on Friday it should only take about 30 minutes or so.</span><br /><span style="color:#990000;"></span><br /><span style="color:#990000;">Zachary and Troy have both picked out their Halloween costumes. Troy is going to be a member of the SWAT team and Zachary is going to be Indiana Jones!! Thank goodness Halloween is on a Friday night this year.</span><br /><span style="color:#990000;"></span><br /><span style="color:#990000;">Well, I hope everyone is having a great week. Take care.</span><br /><span style="color:#990000;"></span>MsVickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09957799163109339680noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1968991891075332220.post-38489431213476262612008-10-02T07:56:00.000-07:002008-10-02T08:15:36.393-07:00Not much going on........<span style="color:#990000;">Well, it's been a while since I blogged anything........it's been relatively quiet at our house the last few weeks. But I guess I need to write something since my sister in law Heather thinks I'm slacking!! :)</span><br /><span style="color:#990000;"></span><br /><span style="color:#990000;">Zachary is doing much better in school. Although, he will be doing ALOT of reading over the next week. He has 2 more books to read before the grading period ends on October 9th. I know he can do it if he puts his mind to it. </span><br /><span style="color:#990000;"></span><br /><span style="color:#990000;">Troy's last regular season game is tonight. Their tournament will start on Monday. They got beat pretty bad Tuesday night but Troy did get to play 2nd base the last inning. He was much happier about that!! There is not enough action for him in the outfield for him. He really needs to have something to do.</span><br /><span style="color:#990000;"></span><br /><span style="color:#990000;">Ronnie had his 8th chemo treatment last Friday. It went well. He felt very bad Sunday and Monday but I think he is starting to feel much better now.</span><br /><span style="color:#990000;"></span><br /><span style="color:#990000;">Mercedes cut their hours back to 32 hours per week starting this week. They are letting employees sign up for extra work on the Friday that they are off. Ronnie didn't think he would get picked to work since they were only picking 250 people out of the whole plant but luckily he was one of the employee's picked this week. He doesn't know what he will be doing but as long as he's getting a chance to work that day I'm sure he doesn't really care what the job will be. Keep your fingers crossed that he might get picked again next week. That would really help out a lot.</span><br /><span style="color:#990000;"></span><br /><span style="color:#990000;">Well, it is starting to be a very busy time of year for us. Zachary and Troy's birthdays are both this month, Zachary on the 23rd and Troy on the 28th. I am planning on having their birthday parties on November 1st. They both want their parties in the gym at church so they can play basketball. Works out great for me since it doesn't cost me anything ro reserve the church.</span><br /><span style="color:#990000;">Ronnie's birthday and our 7 year anniversary are both in November. Ronnie hopefully will be done with his chemo the week before Thanksgiving. Then you have Thanksgiving and then Christmas the next month. I think I need to try to get some rest now while I can.....ha ha!!</span><br /><span style="color:#990000;"></span><br /><span style="color:#990000;">Well, I hope everyone is having a great week so far. Only 1 more day until the weekend!! Yeah!!</span><br /><span style="color:#990000;"></span><br /><span style="color:#990000;"></span>MsVickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09957799163109339680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1968991891075332220.post-39224338478321795902008-09-24T11:27:00.000-07:002008-09-24T12:01:25.552-07:00Half way thru the work week..............<span style="color:#009900;">Well, I had my parent/teacher conference with Mrs. Weeks(Zachary's teacher) today. Overall Zachary is doing okay in school. He doesn't get in trouble much. He just doesn't want to do anything. And thank goodness it's not just him. It seems to be an epidemic this year in 5th grade. Hopefully everyone just got off to a rough start and will start realizing exactly what they need to be doing. I'm keeping my fingers crossed anyway. He did score very well on his SAT so that is great news.</span><br /><span style="color:#009900;"></span><br /><span style="color:#009900;">Ronnie has his 8th chemo treatment Friday. He will have 4 more left after that. YEAH!!! I know he is glad that he's nearing the end!!</span><br /><span style="color:#009900;"></span><br /><span style="color:#009900;">I hope everyone has a great day!!</span>MsVickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09957799163109339680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1968991891075332220.post-29001971488692229822008-09-23T07:18:00.000-07:002008-09-23T07:42:13.880-07:00What is wrong with my children.............<span style="color:#cc6600;">First off let me say that Zachary's 5th grade year has turned into a nightmare!! I am at my wits end with what to do with him. He doesn't care about anything this year. He doesn't care about his grades, he doesn't care about being grounded, he doesn't care that he is in trouble everyday of the week. He won't bring his homework home. He constantly leaves his text books at school. He doesn't tell me he has tests nor does he bother to study for them. Found out at 8:00 last night that they had a science test last Friday. Apparently the class overall made such bad grades(Zach made a 68) that the teacher was kind enough to give them a make up test today. Did Zachary bother to tell anyone that? NO!! Did he bother to bring home his work to study? NO!! Did he bother to study at all? NO!! Not until I found out about it at 8:00 last night and then he had to study until 9:45 before he finally learned the 9 vocabulary words. This grading period he has to read (3) 150+pg chapter books. It took him 6 weeks to read the 1st one. He now has 17 days to read the other 2 before the grading period ends. And he acts likes it's all no big deal. When he got done studying last night and finally got in the bed. I had a long, serious discussion with him for about 20 minutes. He didn't say a word. Didn't get upset at all................until I turned his tv off!! Then he cried!!!!!!!!! What??? He didn't cry because I was getting onto him. He didn't cry because of school. He didn't cry because I told him if he didn't start taking school seriously that he wouldn't be playing basketball this year. He only cried because I turned his tv off!! What is wrong with this picture? </span><br /><span style="color:#cc6600;"></span><br /><span style="color:#cc6600;">Then there's Troy...............Troy was the biggest goof off in his game last night I could have screamed. In the outfield dancing, playing, picking up grass, spinning around, his coach telling him to pay attention every time someone got up to bat............you name it - he did everything except play baseball. I have never been so ready for a game to be over in my life!! I told him last night (along with my discussion with Zachary) that I wasn't going to watch another game like that. There is absolutely no excuse for the way he has been acting in his games. It is childish nonsense. If he is going to play baseball then he needs to play baseball. This is not recess!! Otherwise he is just wasting our time and money. </span><br /><span style="color:#cc6600;"></span><br /><span style="color:#cc6600;">At any rate, I think someone has taken my good, sweet boys and switched them with somebody else's kids!! I hope this behavior is just a phase - and a short lived one at that. I might have to start taking some medication!! HA HA!!!</span>MsVickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09957799163109339680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1968991891075332220.post-16878120474371633512008-09-16T08:37:00.000-07:002008-09-16T08:45:33.998-07:00Wow - where did summer go??????<span style="color:#000099;">I actually had to wear a jacket at Troy's game last night. Luckily, I had one in the trunk(I never leave home without one since I am always cold!!) But it was nice not to be sweating thru my clothes for a change.</span><br /><span style="color:#000099;">Troy had a good game. They won. He had a single and eventually scored and then he got out at first. They are now 4-1 overall. He has 5 games left and then will have a single elimination tournament. Maybe he can bring home another championship trophy!</span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"></span><br /><span style="color:#000099;">Ronnie hasn't felt good the last few days. I hope tomorrow is better for him. </span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"></span><br /><span style="color:#000099;">Zachary and Troy both rec'd their 1st mid 9 weeks profress reports. Both did well. Zachary had 1 A's and 4 B's. Troy was meeting all academic standards. Good job boys!!</span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"></span><br /><span style="color:#000099;">Tonight I can actually go home when I get off work. No ball games, no practice, no school meeting. Absolutely nothing!! Yeah!!</span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"></span><br /><span style="color:#000099;">I hope everyone has a wonderful day!!</span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"></span><br /><span style="color:#000099;"></span>MsVickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09957799163109339680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1968991891075332220.post-43649135825448761302008-09-12T13:24:00.000-07:002008-09-12T13:28:56.705-07:00Ronnie's grandmother...........<span style="color:#6666cc;">The services for Ronnie's grandmother will be Saturday the 13th. Visitation will be from 12:30 - 2:00 at Miles Funeral Home in Winfield, Al. The funeral will be immediatly after visitation with burial in West Alabama Memorial Gardens in Gu-Win, Alabama.</span>MsVickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09957799163109339680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1968991891075332220.post-42036874713840188102008-09-12T13:10:00.000-07:002008-09-12T13:24:16.304-07:00Great, wonderful news...........Ronnie got the results back from his PET scan today and it is great news. They said that the cancer was not completely gone but was much better than they thought it would be at this time. So, after today he will have 5 more treatments and when he has another scan after the 12th treatment, hopefully the cancer will be completely gone. We are keeping our fingers crossed. Thanks so much to everyone for prayer for our family.MsVickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09957799163109339680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1968991891075332220.post-89600282017228506992008-09-09T18:55:00.000-07:002008-09-09T19:11:38.334-07:00A sad day.................<span style="color:#009900;">This morning Ronnie's grandmother, Mamie Langston, passed away. Please keep us and Ronnie's family in your thoughts and prayers.</span><br /><span style="color:#009900;">I will post again when I find out the arrangements.</span>MsVickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09957799163109339680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1968991891075332220.post-1124720717672407952008-09-08T08:54:00.000-07:002008-09-08T09:05:33.758-07:00The weekend...............<span style="color:#339999;">Well, it was another busy weekend at The Patterson house. Saturday we watched my nephew, Dalton, play football. They are undefeated(although this was just the 1st game). We then had haircuts to get and Alabama football to watch.</span><br /><span style="color:#339999;">Sunday we went to church then out to lunch. Troy had a birthday party that afternoon and then back to church from 5:45 - 7:00. It was the 1st night of AWANAS and it was messy game night. Although my kids were fairly clean when we left, they had a blast!!</span><br /><span style="color:#339999;">Tonight Troy had a game at 7:30. So the week starts out just as busy as last week ended..........I could really use some me time...........I'm exhausted.</span><br /><span style="color:#339999;"></span><br /><span style="color:#339999;">Ronnie's grandmother is still in the hospital. No real change at this time. We went and visited her Friday night but I don't think she new we were there. Hopefully things will get better soon.</span><br /><span style="color:#339999;"></span><br /><span style="color:#339999;">Ronnie went for his PET scan this morning. This should show his progression since he's half way thru his chemo sessions. Hopefull we will get a good report. We should know something by Wednesday I would think. I will post as soon as we hear something.</span><br /><span style="color:#339999;"></span><br /><span style="color:#339999;">Yesterday was my friend (and child care provider for 10 years)Belinda's bithday. I hope she had a great one. Me, Ronnie and the kids miss her very much. HAPPY BIRTHDAY MIMI!!!! WE LOVE YOU!!!!</span><br /><span style="color:#339999;"></span><br /><span style="color:#339999;">I hope everyone has a great day!!!!!!!!!!!!!</span><br /><span style="color:#339999;"></span><br /><span style="color:#339999;"></span><br /><span style="color:#339999;"></span><br /><span style="color:#339999;"></span>MsVickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09957799163109339680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1968991891075332220.post-38503447516821179722008-09-04T18:53:00.000-07:002008-09-04T18:55:14.637-07:00My boys...........<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjziO03czUYRgzXp6EcQlwIXXoEPbEbzKlNjBoQB8foVt3qlr83KOf0P7ZcxbrZuK1tWWd5xqmE-uldUb7TK9m6Kmhk6SOTA7nhP0M1pV883fUX_EKvOUiV6LWpJj9i5sb5-8LJoY-dLBg/s1600-h/ronnie+zach+troy+vac.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5242349814876224658" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjziO03czUYRgzXp6EcQlwIXXoEPbEbzKlNjBoQB8foVt3qlr83KOf0P7ZcxbrZuK1tWWd5xqmE-uldUb7TK9m6Kmhk6SOTA7nhP0M1pV883fUX_EKvOUiV6LWpJj9i5sb5-8LJoY-dLBg/s320/ronnie+zach+troy+vac.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div></div>MsVickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09957799163109339680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1968991891075332220.post-68847935572450784912008-09-04T18:51:00.000-07:002008-09-04T18:53:00.824-07:00Baby me.......<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGOrixEmM0NT_Z8S14k5cLn-OiHifZuoiCTQJtVfieQdnQ7OraE8riYqgTqoHyqROTtdNd-JIxa0ORI8WX_JK8NhDaqEYmZMVTxfUoJryUEtCFoad0U0VgPyRA6I4Lvs_gJBCqMmKptvs/s1600-h/baby+vicki.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5242349216669340946" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGOrixEmM0NT_Z8S14k5cLn-OiHifZuoiCTQJtVfieQdnQ7OraE8riYqgTqoHyqROTtdNd-JIxa0ORI8WX_JK8NhDaqEYmZMVTxfUoJryUEtCFoad0U0VgPyRA6I4Lvs_gJBCqMmKptvs/s320/baby+vicki.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>This is me when I was a baby!! Wasn't I cute?</div>MsVickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09957799163109339680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1968991891075332220.post-24141580842821732182008-09-04T18:36:00.000-07:002008-09-04T18:50:40.254-07:00Another day closer to Friday....<span style="color:#663366;">Well, it was a VERY slow and boring day at work. I am very glad tomorrow is Friday. </span><br /><span style="color:#663366;">Troy had his 2nd coach pitch game of the season. Tonight they lost 14-10 but they played well. Troy got 2 at bats. He was thrown out at first and hit a single and eventually scored a run. He played catcher in the 1st inning and center field in the 2nd and 3rd innings. </span><br /><span style="color:#663366;"></span><br /><span style="color:#663366;">Zach has decided to take a break and not play baseball this fall, but he is playing basketball and will resume baseball in the spring.</span><br /><span style="color:#663366;"></span><br /><span style="color:#663366;">Ronnie's grandmother was taken from the nursing home to the hospital tonight. I'm not sure what's wrong with her but will post when I hear something. Please keep her in your prayers.</span><br /><span style="color:#663366;"></span><br /><span style="color:#663366;">Also, my friend Lajuan had a baby girl today. She weighed 6lbs 6oz. I don't know what they named her yet but I will find out soon.</span><br /><span style="color:#663366;"></span><br /><span style="color:#663366;">And I want to wish my stepdad a HAPPY 51st BIRTHDAY today!!!!!!!</span><br /><span style="color:#663366;"></span><br /><span style="color:#663366;">I hope everyone has a good night!!</span>MsVickihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09957799163109339680noreply@blogger.com0