#6

Well, Reagan (Jim's Little sister by proxy :)) used to do her snake count. well, I am doing my scorpion count....and it's now #6. And 6 in 3 years and 2 months is not bad. EXCEPT WHEN #6 WAS FOUND CRAWLING ON THE NECK OF MY SONS SHIRT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And the crazy thing is that I was able to see it. I was being lazy this morning and didn't even take the time to put my glasses on. I go into Matt's room and grab his clothes that he laid out on the floor and help him put on his shirt and socks (normal routine stuff). Then we head to the kitchen for breakfast. As he was standing at the fridge deciding was frozen item I could nuke for him I see a freaking scorpion crawling on the neck of his shirt (now mind you I am 20/200 without vision correction...in technical terms - Legally Blind!!). Never-the-less, I saw the S.O.B.!! I tell him to just freeze...he has no clue..and that was probably for the best! He just turns to look at me (just as the things about to get on his neck) and says "what...why?" I firmly say "STAND STILL"!!!!!!!! I couldn't think of anything but to blow real hard on it and hope it falls off of him. It got off his neck and I blew again and it fell to the floor. I holler at Jim to bring a shoe and the crisis was over. I just cannot believe how many opportunities that little sucker had to sting Matt and it didn't. Whew... what a way to start the morning. Thank you to the good Lord above :)

Halloween and other happenings

Sorry for the delay in posting the Halloween pictures. We didn't take many this year cause they kinda wore the same thing as last year. the big kids had tole me that they weren't going to dress up this year. I asked several times and they said that they just wanted to get to walk Brayden up to the doors to T or T. So I left it at that and I just LOVED Brayden's costume from last year and was delighted that it still fit. Well as i got him dressed to go out the big kids decided that they wanted to dress up. Pickings were slim, so this is what they came up with.

They all looked cute and got LOADS of candy in a very short am out of time! We really look forward to get to hand out candy in the new house this year. The kids have always love to give out...maybe even more than getting the candy :)

Sunday was my 34th b-day. Thank you for all of you that sent B-day wishes. Beth I hope you had a great b-day!! (Hers was last Thursday and I lame brained and forgot to tell her:(). We all went to the Ft. Worth Zoo and then to eat at Pappasitios. It was a great day to go and I think my parents had as much fun as the kids :) The food was great, but I was in complete misery for the rest of the day. They NEED to offer a 1/2 size of those dang fajitas!! :)

And we finally found out what the crap was on my arms! I was called into my drs office on 10/24 and he dropped a mini bomb on us. I supposedly have Sweets Syndrome. What that basically means is that the crap on my arms actually had nothing to do with my skin. Those "lesions" were an indicator that something is going on internally. The 3 main causes that makes Sweets appear is: malignancy, infection/inflammaition (Crones (sp?), Rheumatoid arthritis, etc), or a drug reaction. I have had a slew of tests done to rule out cancer. The 3 main types of cancer that make Sweets appear are: leukemia, breast, and ovarian. Well we know for certain that I don't have breast or "external ovarian". I have a CT scan sometime this week to completely rule out ovarian. My blood tests that were "tumor markers" all came back normal...woo hoo! The oncologist feels that it very well may be from all the drugs that I had been on to cure the crap on my legs...but can't give a "for sure". But he felt pretty strongly that if this was caused from a malignancy that my lesions would still be flaring up and...they aren't. They are almost all gone!!! So that's great news. Once all the cancer avenues have been explored, we'll move on to the infection/inflammation issue. If nothing shows up there then we just move on. Cause there's supposedly a 50% chance that you never find out what caused it. It's been one hell of a roller coaster ride and I'm ready to but this thing to bed!! I know Jim is too!

Everyone else is doing good. Me, Matt and the baby have allergy crud...but that's nothing a little Zyrtec can't knock out.

I hope you are doing well! Have a great week!