1. Follow the yellow brick road.

2. My camera is something I always take with me on vacation.

3. To achieve your goals, you must do things you've never done before.

4. I'm a star wars nut is something I'd like you to know about me.

5. I have a quiet neighborhood.

6. Hope floats.

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to taking my daughter to her first dance, tomorrow my plans include hanging out and Sunday, I want to chill!

Friday Fill-ins

1. One of the best concerts/plays/movies I ever saw that I really didn't think I'd like was 30 Seconds To Mars.

2. My Chocolate chip cookies is a recipe I recently made (or meal I recently ordered) that was delicious!

3. It's time for some fun.

4. Time alone is quite refreshing.

5. If I never hear the words close my account again, it'll be too soon.

6. To one side of the curving road was a deer, and on the other was a meadow.

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to rest, tomorrow my plans include grocery shopping and Sunday, I want to Finish Caitlyn's costume!

Update on my life.

About a week before Makayla went into the hospital I got a new car. I traded in the 4-runner for a Ford Focus. I just love it. I've always liked cars over suv's and trucks. It gets much better gas mileage. Some time that same week I started to have a break down. I took myself off my meds and so much was going on. The worst part is that Makayla hadn't even gotten sick yet. Anyways the girls at work told me to leave and go do something for myself. So I went home changed my clothes and went for a drive. I went to Reno, then up Mt Rose hwy through Incline Village all the way to South Lake. I went to my favorite waterfall, but believe it or not it was all dried up. Can you believe it. The scenery was still pretty. This a picture of the viking castle at Emerald Bay. Needless to say that on Friday when I got the call that Makayla had to go to the ER I wasn't doing to well to start out. But we made it through. All the time I spent at home with her gave me time to work on the costumes. I'm on the last one. We also just finished up the ATC swap that my SJ buddies and I were doing. I got to hostess it so I got to see all of the cards first. I'll be mailing them out on Monday. I'll also take pictures and post soon. We will be starting a new swap for Christmas. Just as I was getting excited at all the leaves changing colors we got snow yesterday and today. I was going to drive out to Hope Valley and take some pictures, but not with the snow. This was my first weekend without the girls in about a month. Hopefully the next weekend they are with Rob the weather will be nicer to take pictures.

My girls

So along with everything else that has gone on this past month, both of the twins had to get glasses. They look so cute. Celeste has now informed me that the board in class is blurry so guess who's next?

Makayla update

Well here is Makayla when she was in the hospital. She was there for a total of 4 days. When she was finally released Rob took care of her at home for a day and a half then I took Thursday and Friday off. It was some very long days. She was on 8 different meds and had to have a breathing treatment every 3 hours. On that Friday when I took her to the Dr. she got cleared to go back to school and had the breathing treatments lessened so she could go. After another week the Dr. finally gave her the OK that she was better. So now she's still on 6 meds, but only 5 more days left of the steroid. We have so much equipment for her I feel like a medical facility. She has been so good about all of this. She remembers her meds on her own (of course she knows not to take them without me there). She goes in about 2 weeks to see an allergy specialist. They have determined that her asthma is allergy provoked. So of course they will run tests on her. The tests they ran in the hospital show that she is allergic to dogs, cats, and wheat. The previous one showed dogs, cats, grass, and trees. They are saying I have to get rid of Toby. I'm not sure what is going to happen. Rob has offered to take him if need be. It's possible we could take him back after a year or two, if the allergy meds work. She's so upset about the dog, but we haven't made a decision yet.

When it rains it pours!

So guess where I spent my weekend? I'll tell you anyways. At the hospital. On Friday morning one of my twins started having problems with her asthma. I let her stay home and she took a couple of breathing treatments. Well that evening between 5 and 8 Rob gave her 3 treatments. They didn't seem to be helping me so he called me and I told him I'd meet him at the ER. When we got there they took us back and got a respiratory specialist in right away. They put her on oxygen and albuterol. They also gave her a steroid. All the things we are use to, but it wasn't helping very much. They took an X-ray and the Dr thought she might have pneumonia. We don't have a hospital here locally, so they have to send you to either Carson City or Lake Tahoe. Well they sent us to Carson-Tahoe Hospital's ER after about 5 hours. So we drove the 30 minute drive with her on oxygen. When we got there they started her on more treatments, but this Dr determined that she did not have pneumonia. After a lot of waiting and treatments they finally decided to admit her. Her oxygen levels were in the low 80's. By the time we got up into the room and asked the same questions for a third time Rob and I had been awake for about 22-23 hours. I finally got a 2 hour nap in. During the whole time Makayla is being so brave. She is still in the hospital as I write this. She is improving slowly, but it wasn't until tonight that one of the Docs told us just how bad she was. They were all concerned and had care flight on hold in case they needed to send her to Reno. On a scale of 1-10 and 1 being the worst, he said she was a 3. And they weren't sure she was going to make it through the first night. So of course once I heard that I just broke down. That is my baby! I do know that she is now getting better and I should think positive, but it's hard to think that if we'd hadn't taken her in and just tried to control it ourselves she could have died. The Dr. expects that she won't be able to go home until at least Tuesday or Wednesday. And until now I didn't know just how severe her asthma is. I knew it was bad, but not severe. Today her and I were laughing and teasing each other, so she's in good spirits. She just wants to come home. I had to come home today, because Catie was sick and I have to work in the morning. My boss is letting me leave at noon and then I'll drive back up to Carson. With some luck I'll get to bring her home with me. Rob is staying with her tonight so she isn't alone.

I'll fill everyone in on what else has been in going on this past week soon and also keep you updated on Makayla.

Love You!

On Wednesday, Sept. 10th my dad called me to let me know that one of my favorite guys was in the hospital. My wonderful grandpa had had a heart attack. That morning he was having chest pains so he went to the hospital. They ran all kinds of test, but never really found what the cause was or if it was an actual heart attack. He only had to stay one night. I'm so glad that he is ok and home. It was 10 months ago that he lost my grandma so I get very worried. They say that when you lose your sole mate you lose your heart. I've been afraid for the last year that he might go of a broken heart. I am very proud of how strong he has been. Tomorrow or actually in five minutes he will be 82 years old. My sister and I are going to take him out to dinner the begining of next week. I told him he needed a date. Please pray for him as it is coming up on a hard time for him. This is a picture of he and I last year at Christmas.