Update on Mom

Mom went to the Dr. yesterday evening and he drained more fluid out of her knee. He is sending her for an MRI. Mom is no longer wearing her brace or using her crutches, she's able to walk now (with just a little limp).

Accident Vehicle

This is the vehicle Chelsea was riding in on Saturday. Chelsea was in the passenger seat.

MOM

Mom hurt her leg this weekend she heard it pop as she was coming up the stairs from the basement. She couldn't stand the pain anymore so dad took her to the clinic yesterday. The results are popped ligaments, they drained some fluid from her leg, put her in a brace and she got some crutches. Now she has to go to her Dr. and find out what they're gonna do.

Here's mom with her brace and crutches.

Good Ole Chels

Chelsea had to take a picture of herself after she was put into the ambulance. She's been up and around today but she's sore. She will need to have some dental work done to at least 4 front teeth and 1 back tooth as of now. We aren't able to get her to a dentist until tomorrow. Along with pain she's heartbroken, she's not able to go to California with Soffiya this week. Her winter break from school was going to be spent traveling to California, I guess she'll have to delay her plans until this summer.

Chelsea's roommate Lisa from when they were in Flordia sent her flowers.

Prayers Needed

We got our snow storm that was expected, when it came it came hard. Young people sure don't like to listen to old people, they think they know it all. Chelsea and her cousin were heading to a concert about an hour or two away, halfway there they were in a car accident. I told her not to go that the roads were to bad, Vanessa even told her she shouldn't be going. I'm sitting home waiting for John to get there, I'm making phone calls and giving directions. The information I have received was that the girls were on a 2 lane road there was a car coming towards them and someone lost control and it became a head on collision. The girls were taken to the hospital, Chelsea was complaining that it hurts when she breathes, and it hurts to raise her head and her teeth were messed up.



This is the information I've recieved so far, once John gets there I may find out other information.


Update: Chelsea called about 8:30 tonight and they were getting ready to leave the hospital. She has no broken bones just bruised really bad. She's having problems with her teeth so we may have to get her into a dentist on emergency.

Welcome to Hell!

Chelsea and Soffiya went to the house on Tuesday, which is close to Hell, MI. Well of course they had to stop in hell and get their pictures by the signs. They also went driving and found horses and took pictures of that, they also found a buffalo farm and got pictures of that. They also went to John's brother's house and somehow they got a picture of a mouse sitting on a rock. They spent that day driving around and taking pictures. Soffiya will be leaving us on Sunday (weather permitting). According to the weather man we're expecting a big snow storm saturday, I'm praying it passes us by.

Vacation

One more day to work and then a full week off. We are gonna be on winter break next week. I am sooo glad, I think I need a week off. I hope by the time we return to work the cold weather has left us for good. It has been just too cold and it just keeps snowing. I think we're expecting more snow on saturday.

Happy Valentines Day

Happy Valentines day to all my family and friends. I love all of you.

For Valentines day we are getting snow, so far a couple inches YUCK! I'm really tired of snow. The only good thing about snow at this time of the year is that it wont last. The down side is that we're getting it at all.

Multiplication Bee

Thursday was the multiplication bee, Alex did very well. Out of 30 kids he came in 4th place. There was 2 5th graders that came in first place and a 3rd grader then alex. I'm not sure how they're gonna rule it. He'll either be in 3rd or 4th place. I'm pround of him, he did a great job.

Kidz Storm

Saturday we had a kids missionary at the church.

There were games, face painting, balloon animals and a Bible lesson.

The kids enjoyed themselves. The missionary was very good, he works very well with the children.

Alex got a Detroit red wings hocky team symbol on his cheek.

Great Job

Thursday was awards day for the first card marking. Alex came home with 4 awards. One for attendance, citizenship, scholarship and student of the month for November.
Alex also came in top in his class in the multiplication bee. That was seperate from the awards. I'm very proud of him.

A Day in the Snow

I took Chelsea, Soffiya and Vanessa to John's house for the day the girls wanted to build a snowman, but it wasn't the right kind of snow. Instead they spent time just playing in the snow. The porch on the back of the house has a lot of steps going down so they had the bright idea of sliding down on their bellies.

They were at the pond looking into the water which is frozen. This was a very cold day it was only somewhere in the teens.

They took off running in the snow, way back in the yard is a deer blind in a tree they ended up leaving Alex and he came back, but they climbed into the blind and sit for awhile. They enjoyed their self and when they came in we had dinner then left to come back to Detroit.

Deep Freeze

It has been sooooo cold here that you can't get out without freezing your behind off. I woke up this morning at 6:00a.m. it was -1 degree but when I left for work at 8:30a.m. it was -12 degrees. The girls went out yesterday to get some snow pants because they want to build a snowman. Here's Chelsea, Vanessa, and Soffiya in the store trying on some snow pants and taking pictures. I was talking with soffiya and she doesn't want to go to San Francisco to live she wants to back to L.A. because San Francisco is too cold. I guess she would never want to live in Michigan because it's alot colder here than San Francisco. It's supposed to be really cold tonight and then start warming up to the 20's that will be a welcome relief.
(It's warmer in Anchorage, AK than in Michigan, can you believe that)

Chelsea's Return

I talked with Chelsea today and found out they got a late start, they didn't leave until around 11:00a.m. They're coming from Portsmouth, VA. I hope they get here before the next round of snow comes, which is headed our way either tonight or tomorrow along with some cooold weather.

Here's a picture of the girls when they were in Florida.

Chelsea's Next Adventure

I took Chelsea to the airport today, she is heading to Newport News, Va. Not somewhere she would choose to vacation. She's meeting a friend she was in Florida with and will be spending a few days there. On monday both girls are heading to Michigan in a car, Sophia will be spending a week or two with us before she heads to California. When she leaves us she'll meet another friend from Florida in Chicago and they will drive together a few states, and the girls dad will fly from California to a meeting point and they both will drive together back to California.

New Years Day

We had a nice relaxing day, didn't really do much of anything. Before dinner was done I caught mamaw stealing a fried potato. Then I got a picture of her acting like dad(sticking her tongue out). Dad did a really good job fixing dinner, he did it all I just brought over some desert.

After dinner we sat around the table, it started out with vanessa straighting Lisa's hair. Most of the time the kids were in the living room. Except when Alex had us playing Guess Who?.

We sat around the table listening to christian comedy, it was pretty funny we all had a good laugh. After that we sat around listening to gospel music some old and some new. Mamaw still remembered alot of the old stuff and would sing along like the rest of us. WE HAD CHURCH! Becky and Josh were listening to comedy with us, while the rest of the kids were in the living room playing guitar hero.

After the kids left it was time for Jess to take her nap.

I enjoyed our day, which didn't end until around 7p.m. when the last of us went home.

2009

Have a happy and safe New Year, May God Bless you in the coming year.

The House

I took Mom, Dad, Mamaw and Lisa to Johns new house. We took sandwiches and chips and had a picninc inside. They gathered their chairs in front of the window so they could watch whats going on in the yard. Mamaw then told how I should decorate the house. She told me she wouldn't put no curtains on the window maybe a valance, that way we could set and watch out the window.

I showed mamaw a room I'm fixing up so she could stay with me awhile, she said don't make her a room she already has a house.

Dad and Alex went for a walk out in the yard and I tried to get a good shot but I only had my little camera. By the time we got home mamaw said that she would come and stay a week with me, under one condition, I have to take her back home. Then she said she might stay a couple weeks or longer, then she made sure I had a shower and bathroom close by her room. She made me feel sad, she told me she was sure gonna miss me when I moved.

March Weather

We had some wicked weather last night and into today. It started out last night with a big flash of light John and dad went out and dad said whatever it was lit up his whole house. All night I heard sirens. About 7 a.m I heard a noise and thought it was maybe an accident. When I looked out I found this tree laying across the road. This is about an hour or two after it happened. The first idiot who tried to cross it without moving anything got stuck and hit the red car a couple times until he got out. Afterwards there were a few people who moved the debrie out of the way. The city had the tree cut up and everything cleaned up by 3:00p.m. We were lucky and didn't lose power but due to the strong winds alot of people are without power.

Christmas 08

After dinner we sat around the table talking, Dad came and broke out with the homemade ice cream. After eating a couple bowls mamaw got cold (we all took a chill) she went and got her blanket and came back to the table wrapped up and we continued talking.

It's not a gathering without dad and one of his faces.
The kids got a wii for christmas, and talked me into getting in there to play. I played but didn't do to well

Jessica, Alex and Chelsea playing. I tried to getting them in silly positions but this is all I came up with.