HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHRISTA MARIE!!

Well, I'm back!! 23 years ago today I was in labor with my oldest daughter, although she was born a day later, my labor was 52 hours from start to finish. It started out on Friday with small pains every few hours at home in the company of Uncle Tim and Alan Mittan. Tim wrote down every pain and the time, Alan was to go get James when it got real close. By the time I got to the hospital which was an hour away (and Sat. /Sun. middle of the night) my pains were 3 minutes apart. My little girl was born Oct.21, at 4:23 a.m. Well worth the labor and wait.
Now I decided that if it was a boy, I was going to call him Christopher Alan, and if it was a girl I was going to call her Krista Marie, unless she was born on a Sunday, then Christa Marie, Christ with an A, and Marie, french for Mary. (I was born and raised a Methodist, Southern Baptist, and Roman Catholic. When I was a baby I was baptized all 3 in 1 day, and raised with all 3. Every Sunday I went to all 3 services. Methodist was 1st. with my Grandfather, So. Baptist 2nd. with my Grandmother, and Catholic 3rd. with my other Grandparents. It was a full day.) Well she was born on a Sunday, so she is Christa Marie, and she had a head full of dark brown hair and the prettiest blue eyes, she never cried, she just looked at me when the nurse gave her to me. It was pure love. I knew I loved her from the time I found I was carrying her and I knew she was going to be a girl because I didn't have the morning sickness and tiredness I had with James.
Happy 23rd. Birthday Christa Marie, Mom Loves You.........

Mom's Coming Back to Blog World

Well, my Mom is coming back to blog world. She has her own office set up so she can get to her computer and get online and do what she does. She is going to be very happy about that. Happy Surprise Mom, from Dad, John and Me, Ashley. We worked hard and in secret to get her office done for her. We Love You Mom. Welcome back. And thanks to all of you for your care and calls and visits, goodbye from Ash.

A NEW UPDATE

Well I've been getting calls lately about mom's leg. We have been soooo busy that I haven't had time to blog, sorry to all. Since mom had to stay downstairs, dad moved thier bedroom downstairs, and his office to the upstairs. Well then they liked the bedroom there so remodel time. Now mom and dads bedroom is where the family room use to be with a new master bath, french doors leading out to the back gardens and pool area(where theres now a changing bungalow)and new hot tub and water fall, and of course they have a fireplace and the gardens have one too. The den became the new quilt room and their old bedroom is now the guest room(because it has it's own bathroom) and the old guest room is now dads office. Confusing to those who haven't been here yet, but makes since to those who have. The kitchen also got a new face so mom could get around, and yes she's been cooking.
Now for mom's leg, she was put into a regular cast 2 1/2 weeks ago, and they took it off 2 days ago. Now she's in therapy and not suppose to put any weight on it unless the therapist says to. She has to where her air cast when traveling outside the house, inside she can have it off and elevated to keep the swelling from therapy down. And yes she won the battle about hunting, she can hunt on level ground, from a blind chair that swivels, and she's ready to go. Poor dad,lol. He's soooo right about mom, she is sooooo very tough. Go MOM!! Well I need to go, it's time to play moms new hunting game dad bought her yesterday for her xbox360, cabelas trophy bucks. She has all the cabelas hunting games, most of them on her playstation-2. Bye All.

UPDATE

Well most of you know via e-mail thismorning that they did xrays yesterday and found no other broken bones. They did a MRI and mom has a pulled tendon and muscle, I guess thats why she is having foot cramps in the bottom of her foot and charlie horses in her leg. Her leg is still to swollen to cast it the regular way, but she likes the air cast better, she says when it itches she an have us open it so she can scratch. This is a cool cast, it goes down her whole leg to her toes, you set her foot and leg in and let it slip into place, then velcro it shut then tighten it with velcro straps, then close the air valve and pump it up till she makes a painful face. She's on pain medication and something for swelling. Last week they had her on stuff that made her sleep alot so she wouldn't move around too much. She has to keep the cast on all the time except to shower, but then she's in a wierd looking wheel chair for that, she has to keep her leg up, and as still as possible to keep the bone in place. No surgery for now, their hoping that it will heal the right way and won't have to rebreak it or operate on it. She's awake alot more now, but groggy, and she made dad get her clothes and help her get dressed, she said she can't stand laying or sitting around in her jamas. Dad says the fun now begins, mom is not used to doing nothing!! I'm glad she's doing better, I was so worried. So now we wait, her next apt. is Tues. I hope I answered all your questions. And thanks for all the quilting items, mom was so suprised. ( how did you all know what she likes?) Gma V has a hard time finding things mom likes. And yes both Gma's are here,lol. I'll let you know if there's more news, Ashley

Hi Every One, This is Ashley

I want to say thanks to all who have prayed for my mom, and are still doing so. She still plans on having the 1st surgery, but they may be doing 2 since she and our family were on a hiking trip and she fell and broke her leg 3/4 of a mile in the wilderness. We had hiked in 2 miles for a camping/scouting trip and were on our way out sunday afternoon when it started to thunder and rain, I slipped and she grabbed me and fell down the ravine instead of me and broke her leg real bad and my need surgey to fix it, we'll know more on monday, as her swelling is just starting to go down and the 1st exray showed she broke her bone in half at a slant but they couldn't see the rest of her ankle area to see if she broke anything there. Dad is staying home and taking real good care of her and we are too. He is working from his home office. Dad said she's a real tough lady to walk out the rest of the way to our truck with only him to hold her one side up and she walked the best she could 3/4 of a mile, I am so proud of my mom, that could have been me, but she kept me from the fall, dad had to go down and pull her out, it was 20 yards down is what he said, and that she was lucky that a stick didn't go thru her. I so glad it didn't kill her, I love my mom, you all know that, anyway keep praying for her, I'll post more after her next exray. Thanks for all the phone calls too, dad said. Ashley, John, and Dad...

We Have Finished Moving!!

Thanks to all of you who helped us move in mid June. We decided after Memorial Day to move to our summer home, then we thought why not buy a new place in between Tacoma and Yakima, and sell our Rainier home. So that's what we did. Our new place is a 90 minute drive to Yakima, but close enough that my wonderful husband can still come home at night. The animals were our main problem, so we sold the goats, some ducks and peafowl, but of course we kept the horses. The animals now reside at our summer home and we reside at both our new and summer home since their close to each other, just on different passes. Only a 1 hour drive from one to the other. Our summer home is on the lake but away from other people so our animals won't bother them. Our new home is on 3 acres with plenty of room for the animals for the winter months. Our new home has lots of room, pool and jacuzzi too. And lets not forget good hunting, lol...
The kids and I have been busy unpacking and quilting. We each had 2 new quilts that we started in May and they are all almost finished, so I guess it's off the the fabric shop this weekend!! Well I won't be back on for a while, we have all kinds of Archery Shoot's coming up starting next weekend, and our yearly trip back to New York to see my husbands brothers and their families, of course were taking my mother-in-law too. And congrats to my cousin Trish and her new husband, they have been married since Jan. 07 and she just called last week to say she's 4 months along with #5. Her 1st. husband passed away a few years ago just before the birth of their 4th child, at least he knew it was a son and named him before he passed. Love you Trish!!
Well I must go for now, but I'll be back if I have any wonderful news to share, if not I'll be back later this summer. Love to you all, Sandy...

THANK YOU ALL...

Thanks to all of you for your e-mails and prayers for our family. And sorry to those whom I couldn't get in touch with. We had an unexpected death in our family 2 days after we got home from our Yakima trip for our archery shoot. We stayed in Yakima for a week after the shoot, was home 2 days when we got the call, I e-mailed all whom I had addresses for, but I didn't have everyones, sorry . Things are still kinda crazy here, so I'll be back on after Memorial Day weekend. I have to go do our family graves all over this state before the graveyards get too crowded, and still be back for our weekend trip, so I'll be leaving early tomorrow morning. Again thank you all for your loving support. Sandy.