Partner in Hope!

I have been listening to the K102 St Jude's Radioathon for the past three days and everytime I hear a story about a child who lost their battle with cancer I start to cry. These stories have always made me cry but I think now that I have a son it is even harder to hear about someone losing their child. I couldn't imagine Colton being in the hospital with an illness as serious as Cancer. St Jude's Hospital and Research is an awesome thing and I figured what better time than now to donate. So this morning on my way to work I became a Partner in Hope. And it is a great feeling knowing that my donation will go to fight and hopefully someday illiminate Childhood Cancer. Also for becoming a Partner in Hope K102 will give you a one day pass for 2 to Country Jam, so now I just need to find someone to go with me.

Ash Wednesday

Every year I say I am going to give something up for Lent and then about 5 days into my battle I give up. So this year I am going to win the battle with myself. And I am giving up Chocolate! I was debating between Chocolate and Caffiene. And for everyone else's sake I decided on chocolate. I don't thing I should go without caffiene for that long I would be a very crabby person. So anyways starting today no more chocolate for me. And I am already craving one of those Nutty Butter Bars in the cupboard but I am going to be strong and not eat one. Good thing Oatmeal Creme Pies don't have any chocolate, they will be my life saver! Man it is 8am on the first day and I am already thinking about chocolate, this is going to be a long 6 1/2 weeks!

Scary Moments

Well this has been a long week. Colton woke up coughing pretty bad on Wednesday morning and of course being the worried parent that I am I took him to see his doctor. She said that he has Croup and that there is nothing we can do becuase it is a virus. She said it just needs to run its course. Well Thursday morning he woke up at 4am breathing really heavy. I figured it was just from him being congested, but after a couple hours I called the doctor and she said to take him to Children's Emergency. Of course now I start to panic a little. So we take him Children's Hospital and they immediatly gave him a neubulizer and a dose of steriods. And that seemed to calm him down for about an hour and then the rapid heavy breathing started again. So they gave him another neubulizer. And told us that they were going to admit him until he was stable enough not to need any more neubulizer treatments. Needless to say the second one seemed to work but we will didn't get discharged until 9pm that night. I was so glad to be going home with him I didn't care what time it was. He is doing much better today. He has been taking his dose of steroids twice a day to keep the swelling down and it seems to be working good. But I must say it was one of the scariest things I had to go through and it wasn't even that serious. I cired quite a few times on Thursday! It is so hard to see your own child struggle and know that there is nothing you can do to help!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentine's Day!

He is 7 months already!

Colton is seven months old already! I still can't believe it. He is getting so big. He sits up on his own... most of the time. He loves to play with toys, especially the drum his Auntie MaryBeth got him for Christmas (don't worry I will get her back some day!). He is still a very happy baby, he only fusses when he is hungry or wet. Other than that it is all smiles. Soon he will be walking, which means he isn't a baby anymore. Thank god he still loves to cuddle or I would probably cry all day long!

Other than Colton getting so big not much is new! I have tried a few new restaurants lately. I went out to eat at Zelo's in Minneapolis with the girls and it was really good. Although they use some kind of rare broccoli but still it was very good. I also went to eat at Chino Latinos and I highly recommend it. The food was awesome. Even Frankie is still talking about it and that is pretty rare. Well I have to go get ready, it is Tuesday which means basketball night! My brother is doing really really good this year. He is ranked 2nd in the Metro for rebounds. We try not to miss any games if we don't have to!

Happy New Year!!

Happy New Year!!

I can't believe it is 2007 already! It seems like we were just preparing for Y2K and here we are seven years later! 2006 was a great year for me of course! Colton is the best thing that has happened to me, which makes 2006 the best year ever.

I didn't do anything for New Years Eve, which is no surprise I never do. Frankie always has to work that night, although this year he was home by 10:30, and that is a record! My brother and sister and her fiance were over. Of course we had a few drinks, played a lot of guitar hero (my new obsession) and watched JackAss 2! I know you are all jealous of my exciting night. But I must say the that we did end 2006 the best way ever.... WITH SNOW!! We obviously need a lot more so we can use the snowmobile, but at least we have a start!

Well I hope everyone had a great 2006 and many wishes for great things in 2007!!

That is a lot of Cousins!!!

We decided this year to take a picture of all the cousins! On my mom's side there are 28 (including spouses and children) and two more on the way! On my dad's side there are 32 (although we were missing 11 for the picture which was probably good because I don't think we could all fit in one) and one more on the way (which we just found out about on Christmas Eve). Let me tell you Christmas with my family is NUTS! I think you can tell from the pics, especially the fact that everyone is looking different directions in both pictures. But it was a lot of fun! I can't believe Christmas is over. That is kinda sad, although we haven't had Christmas with my immediate family yet. We are getting together on Saturday. Just my mom, dad, my siblings and of course husband and boyfriends and Colton!!! That should be fun, the guys are going to order the UFC fight and the girls are going to play board games. I can't wait. I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and hope the New Year brings lots of happiness.

Merry Christmas!

I can't believe Christmas is only 3 days away! It came so fast. I am looking foward to the next couple days. Tomorrow we are going to my cousins for Christmas with my mom's side. Sunday we are going to Frankie's brothers for Christmas Eve. And on Monday we are traveling to the farm, for Christmas at Grandma's on my dad's side. It is going to be a lot of time in the car but I am still looking forward to it. Most of my family has not seen Colton yet, so that is going to make it even more fun. Colton gets to finally meet the rest of his crazy family. Anyways, I just wanted to wish everyone a Safe and Merry Christmas!