New Baby

Gordon's daughter Jacque had a baby girl Wed Aug 20. 6pounds and 18 inches long, head full of dark hair, her name is Dallas Paige.
We didn't go to the hospital, Gordon is refusing to go right now. Him and Jac have a strained relationship. She won't call him, will be send me a text on occasion. But for the most part stays to herself and has shut out her family. Her brother Gordon Jr. goes anyway and calls regardless. I gotta give him kudos for that. He hates the guys Jac's with, but makes an effort because its his sister.
I think that Jacque is afraid her dad is disappointed in her. He's more involved with Bethany and Chase than he was with his oldest too. Age probably has a lot to do with it. I wouldn't let any person keep me from being apart of my childs life including them. My kids know they are stuck with me no matter what, and that I will be there through every good and bad thing in their life. To me that's what being a parent is. Not being petty and letting your own pride get in the way of a relationship with your child.
I think if Gordon would just set her down and tell her how much he loves her and hug and just tell her that no matter what, that we are here for her.
And in the meantime I'll just pray that the loser guy she's with will just move on.

Eyes

Chase had another appointment with the eye doctor. I have been stressing all week about it, so afraid that his eyes would get worse. But thank God, his eyes were the same. He wrote another prescription for a little stronger pair. Says they usually do that. He's worried about his left eye becoming a lazy eye. So again we'll have to patch his right and let him play video games for a couple hours. he really hated it, but I'm hoping after this we won't have to worry about it.

He had to have his eyes dilated and he couldn't say it right it came out more like diantical..... He wasn't happy when we laughed. But it was cute.

First Days

Bethany wouldn't do the whole video thing, she was too nervous about this being her last year at Maryetta.... So enough of that. So anyway she wasn't up for the video. Here she is her first day of 8th grade. She wasn't happy about me taking her pic the first day of school, thought it was retarded. But I at least got a smile outta her. Her new haircut makes her look more grown up.

August 6, was Chase's first day of Kindergarten, he was excited. He wants to be 6 so bad and he knows starting school comes first. He's wanting to grow and in a hurry so he can ride the Hulk ride at Universal. I took a little video with my camera of Chase's so hopefully it turns out. I tried to get him to talk about what he would do before school, but he wanted to do his Power Ranger Moves. Which is too funny!

Chase

I got bored and was looking through some pictures. I noticed that in this picture Chase's face and body is so thin and skinny. This was taken a few months before his surgery. This was taken last week while we were on vacation. His face is a little more rounded. Mostly I notice in his legs and arms that he's filling out. He was about 43 pounds before the surgery and now he weighs 49 1/2 pounds. My little boy is growing so fast, of course he's gotten a little taller as well. He's got a little tummy on him now. He likes to eat and likes snacks, although he's always asking if what he's eating is "healthy".

Bad Omen??

Sunday morning July 20, we leave out around 6am headed to Florida on Vacation. We are on AR 59 close to Natural Dam area and its very foggy so we're not going very fast. I close my eyes and lay my head back, cuz its too early for me and I've got a sinus headache. When I hear OMG and then a Bang. We hit a deer (thank God I wasn't driving) hit headon with the bumper, spun around and hit my right fender flare (I think that's what its called..). As you can see below. But the real kicker is. It just knocked it loose along with the rubber piece along the front bumper. Gordon made the attempt to put it back into place. We get to Florida, drive around all week, went to Cocoa Beach etc... The following saturday/ early sunday morning we are just north of Little Rock and hear something. Gordon pulls over and tries to push the fender flare back into place, we get back on the interstate and we see it pop out and then whooosh it was gone. I'll admit it I cried. Have I mentioned that I love my Jeep??? Ok well I cried thinking why God does something have to happen to a vehicle that I really like? Am I being punished, have I been to vain?? All of these really retarded thoughts are going thru my head. So we stop at a gas station to fill up and I had to take a pic.

Ok, well we get around Monday and got an estimate, so my baby is in the shop getting fixed insurance covering the majority of it. So I wont get back until Tuesday, apparently Jeep parts are hard to get in. I did get some good news as well. Not too long after we got the Jeep, Gordon was mowing and threw a rock and hit the drivers side door putting a dent in my door. Well the body shop has bonded and sanded it and my door will be like new. So I gotta give thanks for my blessings.

I know that the damage to my front end could've been much worse so I'm grateful for the tank that I drive. :D

None of this put a damper on our trip, we had a great time. Thankfully we didn't let this little incident get us down and we had a great time.