looking good

Kara, Daniel, Mike and I visited with Jamie last night. He was in a pretty good deal of pain and some of the medicine would make him nauseous, then the nausea medicine would knock him out. :) He was awake most of the time we were there and coherent during our conversations, His hand looked very good (but I don't know what to compare it to. He was in very good spirits and when he was "getting sick" he apologized to me, in case it was making me sick too! Praise God for carrying him through this surgery and building his confidence in the Dr. for future surgeries!

Jackie said it right

"My God is an awesome God"
just using this to give an update on Jamie...
Cissie called about an hour ago (a little after 10) Surgery went VERY well. The doctor is very pleased. He really couldn't get to the spot he wanted to that would have shut down this vein problem permanently due to the hardened glue they shot in there in Oklahoma....but that can still happen in the future with another surgery. They took care of the immediate problem which was his pointer finger and middle finger. They will worry about the other a little further down the road, the Dr is thinking about another surgery around Labor day. He will be in Room 223 and will possibly go home tomorrow. He is awake but in a lot of pain. They are rather dumbfounded as to why he is awake as they gave him a LARGE dose of morphine. Anyway, the hand does not look black as it has in the past (before Oklahoma) when they used the alcohol in the veins method. It is pink and warm! Praise God!
Cissie sounded really good, but really tired! Continue to keep all of them in your prayers!

a house full

...of CRAZINESS! Mike and I left a little after 6 yesterday evening to meet Jay and Tammy in Austin to pick up J.T. and Cooper. Mikenna stayed with Mom and Don while we were gone. We picked them up about 8:30, about the same time mom was in Floresville picking up Tanner, Elle and Lizzie. Mike, J.T., Coop and I got to Mom's house about 11 and then entered chaos!! :)
Don goes to San Antonio on Tuesday and Wednesday to be with his kids there and Mom is working; so the kids (all 6)loaded up in the van and we came home! I so love having them around! They are all so sweet and well mannered! But it was a bit CRAZY at our house until about 12:45 when they finally all went to sleep.
It was very neat this morning to wake up and check on Mikenna in her room, see the girls sleeping soundly in the computer room and walk into the living room with every soft seat taken by boys!
I took Mike to work a 1/2 hour ago and and am enjoy a few moments of quiet before the bliss begins!! We are going to have a fun week :) hope you do too!

Wonderful

What a beautiful wedding Caleb and Gaby shared with us! The ceremony and reception were wonderful and the scenery was just outstanding! It was so good to be able to celebrate with them!
It was also good to visit with Dana and Lin together!!! Being on the swings in that yard made me smile; we have all spent many moments there in the past! What a great time it was to think of old memories while making new ones as well.
Happy together forever Mr. & Mrs.

a river rat

Every June our family takes goes to Concan to vacation on the Frio River. Mom and Don have 5 children combined and we are all mairried so there are 12 adults and 4 of us have children of our own. Nick and Kayla weren't able to make the trip this year and Cam wasn't there either, but ALL the grandkids were there...including the 12th due to meet us in September.

We were a little worried about Mikenna being in the river because it is usually so cold, but the river was down so much this year that is was actually warmer than the pool we swam in the week before! Mikenna loved the river...and slept so well at night while we were there!

ready for the river

the Maxwell river rats!

Here are a some pictures of Mikenna with a few of our nephews in the river...


Tanner

JT...She looks scared doesn't she? :)

Cooper

We had such a good time with our family, wish everyone could have made it this year, we sure did miss them.
The first weekend in June we went to Teague (our first long trip with Mikenna) for my Dad's family reunion. When I get pictures from that I will post about the weekend!

a growing girl

Mikenna and I went to the Dr today for her 4 month check up and shots. We have a healthy girl! (just in case you haven't seen her in a while) She weighs 15lb,2oz and is 24.25 inches long her head is 41.6 cm (i think). She is in the 90th percentile for wieght...a very chunky girl she is, 40th percentile for length and 50th percentile in head circumference; dr seemed to be concerned about the head but didn't say anything except that she's growing! She SCREAMED with her shots this time, it was very hard for me! but she stopped crying almost as soon as I picked her up. She had a bottle right before the shots and I saved some so she could finish it before we left and she slept most of the way home!!!!! which was good since we were by ourselves this round.

We napped for almost 2 hours this afternoon but she had a pretty ruff evening. Not only did she get shots, she's teething...sad girl, but she went to bed earl this evening, hopefully she will sleep well tonight!

I need to unpack and do laundry from last weekend so I can pack for this weekend...RIVER TRIP HERE WE COME!!!! very excited about our annual trip to Concan!!!!

yea for summer time!!