Hello 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.
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!!
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!!
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.

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.

Well, that's about all I have for right now. Hope everyone has a great weekend. ROLL TIDE!!!!
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!!

What a long month this has been..............

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!!

On to other things.........
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!!

Zachary got his progress Friday and he got 4 A's and 1 B. Yeah! Good for him!!

That's all folks.............

Finally home............

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.

Back 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.
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.
It has been a very long weekend for us all. Hopefully this will be all over soon.

WOW!! Time really flies.................

So, I pulled up my blog and realized I hadn't been on here in 2 weeks!! Shame on me!!

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!!

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.

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.

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.

Only a few weeks until Thanksgiving........I love the holidays!! And the weather is lovely!!

Hope every has a great week.........................

It's been a while...........

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!!

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.

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!!

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.

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.

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.

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.
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!! :)

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.

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.

I hope everyone has a great rest of the week!!!!!!!!!

ROLL TIDE!!!!!!!!!!!!

Long weekend ended too soon...............

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.
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.

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.

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.

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.

Well, until the next time I have a chance to blog..................I hope everyone has a wonderful week!!