Vegas

I wanted to share with you about our great trip to Vegas. Bret arrived home on the 8th. We had planned to leave on Tuesday the 14th. Brayden came down with a stomach bug over the weekend. So I was not sure how he was going to do. Monday night at 10p I got a call from the people who were going to take Brayden saying they had a family emergency and could not take him till 3 or 4 on Tuesday. So I thought there was nothing that night I could do so the next morning I called my friend Rebecca who said no problem I will do what ever you need what a blessing. Ten minutes later our friends called back and said thing changes and they could take Brayden as planned. So great we are off to Vegas. We arrive in Vegas around 2 and check in. We than decide we will go down and walk around the hotel. We see happy hour is going on at the Diablo’s Cantina. We are there for about ½ and the bar tender asks if I can help him. I say sure. So every half hour the happy hour special change so they have a woman get up on the bar a spin the happy hour wheel. I get up and spin the wheel as I get down from the bar I step on the stool and two men help me down I jump and my ankle twists sideways. I am flooded with pain and my eyes gloss over with tear as I try to walk back to our seat. I sit down look at Bret and he just shakes his head. I have another beverage and we leave. We than walk all over the strip about 2 hours later I tell Bret I have to sit down my ankle is killing me. We head back up to our room I lift up my pants to see that my ankle has now swollen up and looks like cankle. So I ice my canke for about an hour feel bad because we are in our room and it really hurts. I am now in need of some alcohol relief. We head down to get a bit in the café and a drink. After dinner I decide I would like to play the slots and I am a big spender so I sit at the penny slots I put in my 2 dollars and two minutes later I win 225.00. I was so excited. Wednesday comes along my foot is now blue from the inside of my right foot all around the heel and across the top and hurts. But I don’t want to be a baby so we set off and walk all over and check out all the cool hotels and just enjoy spending time together again. Thursday is a good day Bret see’s that the Barrett-Jackson car auction is at the Mandalay bay hotel this now is a must to see. We spend several hours checking out many cars and taking pictures of all of them. When we return to our hotel I think lets take a romantic bath together that will be nice. Well not sure if my butt has gotten that big or what but it was a tight fit and not as romantic as I had hope. I move so we have more room and put my back to the faucet. As I go to get up out of the tub I jabbed my back with the faucet and am now bleeding. As we return from our weekend a bit richer and a bit banged up. All in all a good time.

It's funny

I came across this and my children and I have watched it and think it is very funny enjoy.

He's almost home

Well tomorrow is the big day my sweet husband returns. I wanted to post a few things my husband missed during his deployment

4 birthdays his, mine and both daughters
1 anniversary
1 set of braces coming off
1 child learning to ride a bike with no train wheels
26 days at the beach
1 surgery
1 child learning how to swim
8 softball games
16 soccer games
4 horse shows
5 inches grown
6 pounds gain
15 pains lost
205 hugs goodnight
Countless tears shed

All in all it has been hard but I made it through it with the help and prayers of all my friends thank you

Did I Get Your Vote?

Brayden has some sweet moves he doesn't even need music. Enjoy

What a week I don't know what I was thinking. The girls had the week off so I decided a while ago I would rent a beach cottage at Camp Pendleton and we would spend three nights there. That sounds great but I had to come back to San Diego every night one softball game and one soccer practice. But I never get over be amazed by God's glory. I was siting on the beach taking in the sea air I decided to listen to my I-pod and it was dead so I grabbed Hayley's and this is what was on. It made me smile the moment I heard it. Hearing this song and being song by my friend made me think how God has blessed me. Right now I am so incredibly lonely for my husband but God has surround me by wonderful friends and an incredible church where I can worship and love the Lord. I miss you Steve and Lauren but thought and prayed for you at the beach.

Lead Me

Recently I have felt God teaching me a lesson the hard way. In the past few weeks our pastors talked about how God doesn’t want us to do life a lone. To be able to ask for help when need. I struggle with this often and find my self overwhelm by life situations. The lesson of solely relaying on God is being shown to me through my son. Brayden’s surgery didn’t go as I wanted it to. We will know in two weeks if Brayden’s ear is healed and if not he will have no hearing in it till they can do another surgery when he is 10. I have found myself on my knees praying for him and reminding myself that God has a plain and to trust in him. He also reminds me that we need to boldly ask Him and others for what we want. It has brought me to this please pray for my son that God will heal his ear and would restore his hearing. This song and video has spoken to me this week and remind me that my heavenly father has not forgotten me maybe I have been forgetting him.

STAR STICKER MAN

Brayden was very quiet and I new that he was doing something. Then I said it is bed time and Brayden announced here is Star sticker Man. I took him to bed and said good night star sticker man he said good night star sticker mommy. It is so sweet to see his joy. We had a bit of a scare this weekend. I feel very blessed tonight. Saturday night we were waiting for a sitter and Brayden moved a bar stool in front of the front door to look out the peep hole. He did not see her I told him to get down and turned around and started to walk away and Brayden feel face first on to the tile in front of the door. As I turned to see him on the floor and the chair was on him. He tried to push himself up and hung his head to the side. As he started to scream he wouldn’t lift his head. As I ran towards him and try to see what had happened. My first thought was he broke his neck. As he screamed I saw blood start coming from his ear. At this point I thought I might need to call an ambulance. I got Heather on the phone and she came and got us. As I ran out of the house I gave the sitter the info and we were off to the hospital. Brayden got sick all over Heather car I felt so bad but what could I do. Anyway after a ct scan and many doctor’s asking what happened I feel blessed that Brayden has no bran injury. Brayden does have a left temporal bone fracture. I guess when they told me and I didn’t really get what that was but I have now educated my self thanks to the worldwide web. We are not sure yet if he will have any permanent hear loss or what if any damage was done to his ear drum. There is too much blood in his canal to see. In three weeks we will get his ear flushed out and another hearing test and see where we are at. That brings me to why I posted this. Please pray for my son and that God will heal him. There were some funny things about the night I smelled like puke for 24 hours and every doctor that came to talk with me stepped away. I also had Heather grab my car keys so I could get back into my house when she came to get us the next day, to bad I forgot to put my house key on that key ring. Heather held the trash can as I climbed the fence and jump on to my roof and broke in. As I sat in my car today trying to have a few moments with God waiting for carpool I read my daily bible verse it was Psalm 23:1-6. It was as if God pick it just for me. I felt my loving father reaching out and giving me just what I need, thank you.

I'm Back

What a great time we had in Colorado. I was born and raised in Colorado so Christams does not feel the same until I go home. We had a very white and cold Christmas. As you can see we went sledding. I went the longest that also may be because I weighed the most.
Brayden has become a master at the snow angel. I wasn't sure he would remember the snow. He love it he wanted to wear his boots all the time.

The girls always get to going skiing. It is funny how well they do for only going twice a year. Next year Brayden gets to go.

I missed going to church on Christmas Eve but God gave me this wonderful gift Christmas eve.