Gentry's Birthday Bash!

Saturday was Gentry's big birthday party. It was wonderful. She got tons of wonderful clothes and toys! Thank you all. She had a great time and thouroughly enjoyed her cake. In fact she ate the whole piece and threw quite the fit when it was gone. We had Dana's dad smoke up a brisket and pork loin (he does an AWESOME job). It was seriously some of the best meat I have ever had.
We also made:
creamed corn
cheesey potatos
veggie tray
fruit tray
rolls
7-layer salad (Thank you to Ann who made this for me. It was great as always.)
cake and ice-cream (The lady that made our wedding cake made the pooh cake and it kicked some real b-day party butt!)

We served 27 adults and 5 kids by the time it was over and we were all pooped.


Awesome Winnie The Pooh Cake!

Precious Birthday Girl!

I can not believe my mom would do this too me. Do you see the size of that flower on my head?

One of many great presents!

Gentry's Pooh Gear

Mommy blew the candle out right before I grabbed the flame!

MMMmmmmmmm!!

Why didn't you tell me about this stuff before?

Kennedy and Gi Gi!

Floor Cleaners

Whenever I am in the kitchen cooking supper it seems that these two little ladies have to always be on the floor right at my feet.

American Idol Tryouts!

Well it's that time of the year again. Amercan Idol is taking over on ABC again. Evidentally Gentry wanted to try out. Here's a glance at our future Hollywood!

The Big O-N-E !!!

Wednesday was Gentry girl's first birthday!!! She was born 2:47 a.m. via emergency c-section (didn't know she had turned and was feet first! Was at 7cm when arrived at hospital!) So she was already technically one when she awoke for her first big birthday present. She got a ride in car that mommy and daddy can push her in (no pedal power). She got one beautiful day on thursday to enjoy it outside before it turned cold again. Here are some pics!

New Blog to Follow

Okay, so I added a new blog on our links to follow. But get this.....I don't even know this woman. I found her blog through several others (a blog through a blog through a blog). I can't stop reading her blog. She has to be the strongest woman ever. She has four daughters, one of which pasted away. She has lots of video on her site about losing her daughter Audrey and thier story. She also talks about her Christian faith (which is so strong) and her amazing bond with her best friend Audra. This blog is just too awesome. Please check it out.

It's on the side bar under: Audrey Caroline

It will give you a new outlook on life.

Happy Anniversary Mom and Dad!!!

Today is my parent's 27th wedding anniversary!

Dad was born and raised on the farm where my parents have lived since they got married. I also had the pleasure of being raised there too! So my Dad has always had the same neighbors. One of those neighbors happens to be my mom's aunt and uncle (Max and Lana, We miss you lots uncle Max) Back in the day Max and Lana were always trying to fix my mom up on a date with my dad. At that time she was living in Dallas, TX living the single life and had been for 10 years. After many years of mom saying she was NOT dating a farmer she came back to visit and asked uncle Max and aunt Lana if that neighbor guy Larry was still single b/c she MIGHT be interested in meeting him. So before long they had thier first date. And 2 months later, yes TWO months they were hitched.

Happy Anniversary Mom and Dad! We Love You Lots!!!!!!

Cheese!

CHILD UNATTENDED!

Okay, so I leave my youngest child unattended for only a few (FEW, I THOUGHT??)moments and this is what I get!!! Come on mothers, admit, we all let them out of our site for short amounts of time. Gentry is becoming quite mischevious or shall I say curious. She has to explore every angle of EVERYTHING. And YES that is a whole box of brand new kleenexes on the floor.

Polar Opposites

So I thought I would post some pictures of our daughters' eyes. These two girls couldn't have more opposite eye color if they wanted to. Gentry's eyes are about as bright blue as natural eye color can come and Kennedy's are as hazel brown as they can be w/o actually being brown. Either way, both girls have the most beautiful eyes you have ever seen. Of course we are a little biased!!! Not sure where they really came from. Dana's fam carries the hazel brown gene and blue runs on both sides. But not this vibrant. We sure hope they don't change. We get stopped on a regular basis in stores from random strangers commenting on the girls' stunning eye colors.

Improvement

Flashback!

Well all of your thoughts and prayers must be working. Oh, and.........the medicine too! We ended up making a trip to the doc on Sunday. Our dr.'s office is open 4 hrs on sat. and sun.'s. Influenza was ruled out, which was no big surprise since she had the flu shot. She was x-rayed for pneumonia and her lungs looked good thank heavens. She also had a culture done on her which takes 3-5 days to process. It should show anything else that might be attacking her system like Mersa Staff Infection or something of that nature. Those types of infections are not fought by the different antibiotics she had been taking. So she is on an old school sulfate script just in case something does show up but we will find out in a day or two. We also got refills for the nebulizer!!! So the breathing treatments are really helping. Last night she slept the whole night through. That was about the best gift I could ask for.

Kennedy prays every night that Gentry will get better. It is sooo cute! She truly loves her sister. When I got back from taking Gentry to the dr. on sun. I walked in the house to set down my purse and a few other things. Kennedy had stayed home with Daddy and helped him on a remodeling project we are doing. Kennedy asked, "Mom where's Gentry?" I said I had left her at the dr.s office (jokingly). Well she didn't understand my humor and started sobbing and crying NO MOM, NO MOM! I want my sister, go get her, don't leave her please please. Then I proceeded to tell her Gentry was asleep in the explorer and I was just teasing her. And then I apologized, of course! It showed how much she truly loves her sissy. Then we had to immediately go in to the garage and get her so she could see that I didn't leave Gentry.

So I am attaching a picture of when the two first met. It is just soooo adorable. It makes me choke up everytime.

The Sickly Saga Continues

Gentry continues to have a rough and when I say rough I mean ROUGH month. We've been dealing with the whole respiratory issue. The nebulizer seems to really help. Although we ran out of albuterol and she really needed a treatment tonight. Pharmacy won't open until monday. Son of a Gun. But since tuesday we've been onto a new round of illness. She had her flu shot over a month ago so I tried I really did. But since tuesday she has been running a fever. It spikes to as high as 102.8 when the tylenol/ibuprofin combo wears off. We thought we were through b/c she had a good day thurs. but that was just a tease b/c it is still going on. She threw up twice earlier in the week. Now she just cries, coughs, gags, snots and runs temp. She doesn't want to play and doesn't sleep well at all. I know it has to be a virus b/c she finished amoxicillan monday night from the whole deal before this. So if you could say an extra prayer for her we would be so greatful.

Christmaspalooza!

Dylan, Hayden, Gentry and Kennedy. What a crew!!!


Check out that Ace Ventura hair!!!


The girls opening their presents here at home before we hit the road.


Dylan and Hayden wrestle with Gentry. Only Gentry doesn't seem to mind!


Our adorable nephew Dylan in his suit after church xmas morning!


Santa brought Gentry a Dora ride on car!


Santa brought a bike for Kennedy!!


Gentry with her aunt Ann.

Christmas is always a wild holiday for us. We still celebrate with our parent's sides of the family aside from immediate family too. So this year we had 6, YES 6, Christmas' if you include our own with the girls. We had a great time. We were all pretty wore out by the time we made it back home from our 6 day stay. We are still trying to figure out where all of the girls' gifts are supposed to go. They fared pretty well, embarrassingly well actually.

Wind Generators Rock the Plains!

So, my parents have a new view from their front porch out in the country....wind generators. Amazingly enough they are a good 25 miles away from their house. But on a calm clear day they can easily be seen. And at night you can see the red lights on them blinking. So we all took a trip out to see them up close. They are unbelievably huge. One propeller is 100 feet long. (I believe?) And they are actually quite quiet while in operation. Here are some pics from our trip.