Kansas Bound

Today the kids and I are heading to KS to help take care of my mom. She had unexpected surgery last week because of her ulcers. Apparently there was a "huge" ulcer in her lower intestine that completely blocked off about a foot of her intestine. As you can imagine this caused serious problems for her. She has been in the hospital since last Tuesday and they did surgery on Friday. My dad said she is doing well and sitting up and able to talk a bit but she still has tubes in her throat for something so she doesn't talk much. She is supposed to be released either Friday or Saturday. So the kids and I are headed up for a week or 2 to help take care of her so my brother and dad can go to work without worry. We are headed to Clarksville for a day to crash with one of my friends and then hit the road early Saturday morning. Saturday is her birthday so I really want to get there that day. It is a long trip - it used to take Tyler and I 10 hours but now it will probably take longer plus I am bringing the little dog Lily. It will be nice to see them since our visit in Feb was so short due to our car problems in Idaho but it is a bit bittersweet because these are not the circumstances one wants to go home on.

I will keep you posted on her progress and we will try to have a little fun while we are there :)

Seems like it has been forever since I have updated this....not too much going on though. Pregnancy is going fine....hard to believe that in another week I will be 4 months pregnant. Hopefully the rest of it goes that quickly. This weekend we are going to TN for the Nightstalker Memorial Ride (Donnie's old unit). We are lifetime members even though we are not currently in the unit so we are driving up and bringing the Harley so we can go on the ride with all our friends. I look forward to this every year. There is nothing better than being on a bike and cruising thru the country on a nice day. I haven't been on one in a few years b/c Donnie had been deployed so I am looking forward to this one. Donnie is teaching me how to ride so maybe by the next one I can ride my own bike.

Other than that there really isn't much happening. Tyler is out of school next Friday. He got a letter in the mail from the mayor of Enterprise congratulating him on making the honor roll all year. We are very excited because he has struggled for so long in school and now he seems to be doing really well. I actually was concerned when I got it because I could not understand why the city was sending a letter to Tyler - I figured someone opened something up in his name - thank goodness it was a nice surprise. Vanna just had her end of the year gymnastics program. She was so cute. I will have to post some pics eventually - as you can tell I am not the best at doing that. We are going to sign her up for the summer so she can continue cuz she really likes it. Have a doctor's appointment on Thursday - will post any new news. Hope everyone has a great Memorial weekend.