Shelly's Blog

The Wicked Witch has arrived Jessica as Johnny Depps twin sister? Chelsey, Jess, and Ashley Brianna and Josh.........what the heck are they doing? The Hornets JV football team won their game today and will go onto the Championships next Saturday. Jessie and the JV cheer squad cheered them onto their win. ......and will cheer them on next Saturday, too! The Hornets Varsity football team also played today but haven't heard yet if we had a win. Brianna's (early) Halloween party turned out to be a smash! I think all the kids had a really great time visiting and dancing with each other. I dressed up as a witch and Jess dressed up as a pirate. Glenn ended up not going because he worked late. Alyssa went to her friend, Rachel's, birthday party instead of the Halloween party. They left directly from school and went to see High School Musical 3, went to dinner and then a sleepover at Rachel's house. She was deposited back to me on Saturday afternoon after the football game. All ...

The Houston Texans beat the Detroit Lions - 28 to 21.............and WE were THERE to see it!!!!! The day was beautiful........blue skies and nice weather. The roof of Reliant Stadium was opened up and everything was just perfect! Thank you Johhny and Elaine for taking us and showing us around............All of us had a really wonderful time. Here are some pictures starting with us getting ready to leave before the game to after the game was over. Enjoy!

Wow! I can't believe how quickly this week went by. I received a phone call from Dr. Cohen yesterday and he said that Alyssa's urinalysis came back normal. We'll still have to go to Texas Children's Hospital for the ultrasound, though. I should hear back from the doctor's office sometime around the beginning of the week. Jessica had a football game to cheer at this afternoon. We lost.......8-6 :( But we had a lot of spirit and that's all that counts. I forgot my camera, so I'll spare you any pictures......you have a reprieve, at least for another week. I get my hair cut tomorrow........YAY! Judy was able to fit us in tomorrow morning. My hair is driving me crazy so I really can't wait. Jess will get her bangs trimmed, too. We'll be all beautified to go to the Texan's Game on Sunday. Wow! That came up quick! I'll post pictures soon.

I took Alyssa for her follow-up check up for her UTI yesterday afternoon. I was told that since this was her second in a handful of months, that she needed to be tested further. Dr. Cohen said that he wanted her to have an ultrasound at Texas Children's Hospital to see if there was anything wrong with her Kidneys or any blockage. If anything is found, she will need to have another test that is a little more invasive. I'm praying that this doesn't happen. Both girls also had to get their flu shots and Jess got her third and last Guardasil shot. I have my next appointment at MD next Friday. I will find out how my chromosome test came out. I can't help but worry.........it seems like everything is going wrong lately, but I won't elaborate at this time.

Today was picture day at school for the girls. I took Alyssa to get her hair cut yesterday so that it would look nice for today. Jessica had hers cut a couple of weeks ago and it still looked rather good. I put foam curlers in Alyssa's hair last night and she had big fat curls in her hair this morning. I hope the pictures turn out nice. The photographer took one of both girls together and I think that one should turn out really cute. I still need to make Alyssa a follow-up appointment at the doctor for her UTI. She finished her antibiotics on Sunday so it's time to be retested. I just found out that Jessica's football game tomorrow was canceled so hopefully I can get the appointment for tomorrow after school. Jessica is due for her 3rd Guardasil shot and both are due for their flu shots. I don't think they'll be very happy about that.

We finished up the bedroom today and it looks great, if I do say so myself. Glenn, the girls, and I went out to this afternoon to see if we could find anything to hang on the walls that would look nice with the color scheme. We found a couple of pictures at Kohls that I thought would look nice and they looked even better than I even thought they would. Check out the pic. This morning, Alyssa "freed" the meal worms into the backyard. She really wasn't too enthusiastic about letting them go............she was afraid that her "babies" would not survive and that she would miss them. Hopefully, they burrowed down into the dirt and they'll be just fine. I saw a couple of blogs recently that showed "a day in the life" of the person creating the blog. Both bloggers took pictures of themselves during a 24 hour period and posted them on their blogs to show what happened during a normal day. I thought this was a really great idea and I will eventually do t...

Glenn and I painted our bedroom today and boy, does it look nice! We started first thing this morning but didn't get the walls completed until around 4:00 pm. Tomorrow we will work on the trim work and then we can move back into the bedroom. While we worked on painting the bedroom, the kids stayed busy in there own way. Jessica got out her pottery wheel and made a pumpkin complete with with jewels. Alyssa used modeling clay and made a pumpkin of her own, hollowed it out and she put one of those battery operated flames in it to light it up. Very creative kids!