Shelly's Blog

Well, Sunday is almost finished, done, over. The combo-birthday party for Jess and Alyssa turned out really nice and I hope everyone had a great time because I know that all of us did. The only souls brave enough to get into the pool were the kids, which was fine with me. It left the adults time to get to visit without hearing, "MOM" yelled every 5 minutes. :) Lauren stayed and spent the night with the girls. I'm not sure how late they stayed up but I was in bed by midnight - back up at 8:30 and the girls were still asleep, sprawled all over the living room floor so there is really no telling when they went to bed. Alyssa worked on her back-drop for the wax museum. Her back-drop is a drawing of the Steamboat House. She is portraying a woman from around 1840. Can you guess who she is? .....probably not from just that, but she will have clues about her life posted next to the back-drop and she will be dressed as her "person". All of the other students will have t...

Today was the girls Field Day at school. They had all sorts of relays and races and other activities that they participated in. I took off at 1:00 pm and picked them up from school. Of course, I forgot my camera at home so I have NO PICTURES to post. :( We have been working the better part of the afternoon and evening getting ready for the girlies combination birthday party. I have baked a cake & brownies and I'm well on my way to being ready. Now, tomorrow will probably be a different story. I am scheduled to get up early and get Sadie to the Vet by 8:30 in the morning. That's gonna throw me off BIG TIME! I'll post tomorrow with pictures from the party.

We have been really busy getting ready for Alyssa's Wax Museum that the 3rd grade will be performing in. We have the dress, gloves and the hat that I made from a picture I found on e-bay. She is going to Margaret Lea Houston, wife of Sam Houston. I'll post pictures when the time comes. Tomorrow is Glenn and my 23rd Wedding Anniversary. Not sure what we're going to do yet, but whatever it is, I'm sure it will be with the kids since we don't have a sitter lined up. No gifts this year, though, since I got my big gift last year.....my BEAUTIFUL anniversary ring! We'll probably get Glenn a new band, though, to replace his original band that was damaged a few years ago. I took my ring to Jared's today to have it cleaned and while I was there I checked out the men's rings. Very nice! I LOVE Jared's!!!! Next weekend we're having a combined birthday party for Jess and Posey. If all goes well, it will be a swimming party but I have a feeling th...

I took Alyssa to the orthodontist on Tuesday afternoon. They took impressions of her teeth and have decided that both her top and bottom jaws are too small and this is why she hasn't lost more of her baby teeth. They just don't have room to come in. She will have to wear a permanent appliance on top and bottom to stretch out her pallete, which sounds painful to me, but which the orthodontist says won't hurt her. This will be considered "Phase I" and will widen her jaws so that all of her teeth will have enough room to grow in. When she's eleven, "Phase II" will be the real braces and straighten the teeth that have come in. Jessica got back from her 2 day BETA trip to Dallas on Tuesday evening. She was very tired and quiet and I pretty much had to drag all of the information out of her. What I didn't find out from her, but from someone else, was that she ended up rooming with 2 seventh grade girls and a chaperone that she didn't know. ...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JESS!! We celebrated Jessica's birthday on Saturday.....It was All Jess, All day! She decided that she wanted to go to the movies to see "Monsters VS Aliens" and then out to dinner at Texas Roadhouse. She started the day by ordering her breakfast.....she wanted a ham and cheese omlet :) Then she opened her presents. She got a basketball goal, new basketball, skateboard and a Fusion scooter as well as some "girlie" stuff! ETHAN ENJOYING HIS BIRTHDAY RYAN ENJOYING ETHAN'S BIRTHDAY She shares her birthday with her cousin, Ethan, so we went to Chuckie Cheese's in the morning to have his party. After we got back from the party, while Glenn was setting up the basketball goal, Alyssa was playing with Maggie and for some reason, the dog bit her on her bottom lip. Very uncommon for her and I was expecting it to be the new dog, not Maggie! So when Alyssa told me it was Maggie that bit her, I was very suprised! Well, this threw a wrench into th...

I have worked a grueling 4 days and am now off for 4 days......I am sooooo happy! The kids are off for 4 days, too, but Jessica will be going on the BETA trip to Dallas on Monday and we'll have to get her to the school by 4:00 am! She won't return until Tuesday at 5:30 pm. Alyssa has her first orthodontic appointment scheduled for Tuesday afternoon. We're hoping for beautiful teeth! (eventually) Last Saturday, we went to the SPCA and brought home our newest family member. Meet Sadie. She is a long-haired Chihuahua. She is a very sweet dog and needs just a little training and she'll be a wonderful addition to our family. Tomorrow morning, Sadie will go to the VCA Animal Hospital to get her check up to make sure that she has no major heath problems. Jess and I will go to see Judi to get our hair cut and Jess will get hi-lights put in her hair again. Saturday is Jessica's 12th birthday. We'll probably go to a movie and to dinner to celebrate. We're havi...

I had my bone marrow test on Friday March 20th and as of this morning I hadn't gotten any results back yet. I guess you could take that as no news is good news.......maybe? I figured that I just got forgotten. Dr. Faderl was out of town last week and I guess Brooke was just a little busy to call me back. I decided to call MD Anderson this morning and see what the results were. I heard back from Dr. Faderl this evening and he said that everything looked "perfect"! I can now breathe a sigh of relief. I was diagnosed with leukemia in June of 2007 and I guess you can say, "I've come a long way, baby!" Here are a few pictures from when I was first admitted to MD Anderson Hospital. I was scheduled to stay for a whole week for my induction phase of the chemo. I was admitted to MD Anderson's Hospital very late on a Friday night and I was doing so well on the chemo, that they released me by Wednesday morning.......of course, I had to take chemo for another 9 mont...