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.

Days of Our Lives

Here are some other pics from the last week or two here. We did get some crazy weather about a week ago and the week before that. The girls LOVE watching the snow out the back door. Kennedy and her friend Lane made Rice Krispie Christmas Houses together the other day. And then last night they got to exchange their Christmas gifts. They were pretty excited.

We went and visited Santa at Town East this evening. Poor Santa, I don't know how many more years he has left in him. He is the nicest, but he sure looks wore out. He needs to put on about a 100 lbs to play the part a little more factual but I can't say they have a long line of overweight men sigining up to be the patient jolly old man in the red suit either. So cheers to Santa!!! He sure made Kennedy's night. Although she did make it very clear from the beginning that she would not be sitting on his lap. She would stand beside him and tell him what she wanted. And Gentry made it very clear upon the visitation that she would not be sitting on the big guy's lap either. But it was fun and then we took in some xmas light sight seeing.

We hope everyone has a wonderful holiday and that everyone stays safe, happy and healthy!!!

Well Gentry has had a long road these last couple of months. Really since the beginning of the summer. The tubes cured the ear infection plague thankfully though. But now we on to continual respiratory problems. She just went to the doctor a week ago tomorrow to be seen for the the same respiratory stuff for the 3rd time in 2 months. She always tests neg. for RSV thankfully but her lungs are always wet and filled up and boy doesn she get a nasty cough. So she is too young to actualy diagnose with asthma but they are pretty convinced that is what she has. It does run in my mom's family too. She has completed two rounds of prednizone and it worked temporarily but then it always fires back up again. So obviously this time we had to go an alternative route. So now a nebulizer/breathing treamtment machine has become a new permanant appliance at our house. She is doing breathing treatments every 6-8 hrs and will hopefully be able to cease that in the next couple of days. Then we will just use it as needed. She is also on amoxicillan! Yeah, I just love meds. So I have posted a pic of her doing a breathing treatment and boy does she look cute!!!

Then to make matters worse she was walking around the couch the evening of her doctors appt. and lost her balance and caught the corner of the coffee table. So we got our first shiner. Not too bad, but sure added to her traumatic day and mine!!!! dr

The Big Hunt!

Well, we went on the great tree hunt late afternoon/early evening monday. We broke tradition and tried a new tree farm this year. It is in the most beautiful location and we found ourselves really enjoying the scenery. That's probably why we closed the place down for the night! We somehow always have good intentions of getting to the tree farm in decent time but by the time Dana gets off work there usually isn't much daylight left and he even leaves early. But we found the perfect tree and the girls really enjoyed the hayrack ride through the woods. The weather was pretty cold but no wind so we couldn't complain.

The Latest and Greatest

So, we have had a lot going on recently. Thanksgiving was great, yummy, fast and tiring. We got to see a lot of family that we hadn't seen in a while and ate lots of food that we didn't need to eat. But it was great to have that overstuffed feeling while being surrounded by the people we love most. Saturday after Thanksgiving one of my good friends from growing up got married. We went to school K-12 together and have lots of good memories. She married a guy who just so happened to grow up down the road from me and my family in the country. Anyway, I helped out with the wedding hair (two bridesmaids and two flowergirls). It was a beautiful wedding and she was a beautiful bride. It even snowed the most breathtaking snow that morning while we were doing all of the hair. It was picture perfect. Congrats Paige and Russ!

SOOO, then we are getting ready to head out Sunday late afternoon. We stopped back by Dana's parent's to say good bye and get the rest of our stuff. Not two minutes after we walk in their house Kennedy gets sick and tosses her cookies all over Grandma, her living room floor and kitchen floor. We knew if would be a fun ride home. We had another BAD episode about an hour and a half into the drive. Luckily we had a bowl and towel. And then round three right when we got home. She sure was a trooper though. She's had the other end off and on all week and she still smiles laughs and packs an ornery punch.

Gentry popped her top two teeth through, FINALLY!! So, now we are up to four. They are some real chompers too! She's going to have some chicklet teeth just like her sister did. But boy are they cute!