Picc Line Free!

We went to the ENT yesterday for a follow up on Pierce's picc line! We got a great report! His nose looked GREAT!!!! Can I get an AMEN! Dr. Reed was very glad to see that the 14 days of IV med worked and had Pierce go to go! He said that he has never had to do 2 picc lines on one child so that made me feel good! I was worried that all of this might come back and we would have to do this all over again! Of course, Pierce wasn't excited about getting the line out, because he associated it with pain and the hospital :( poor man! But he was a trooper, again, and did a great job! He is very careful with his arm, but is doing great. There is still a little hole where the line was, but it will close up in time. We just have to keep it covered a few days to make sure that dirt and stuff doesn't get in it!

The best part about the day was that he finally got to play in Momma and Daddy's big bathtub. He hadn't been able to do that since he got the line put in because we couldn't get it real wet! He loved being able to play in the bathtub again!

Ready, Set, Go!!!

Ryan is getting ready for a class at the Academy, I talked about that in my post earlier today. About how he is training and getting ready! Everything thing in this class is timed! He has to do 50 sit ups under 2 minutes; 25 push ups in under 1 minute; 7 pull ups (not sure if there is a time limit on that) and other stuff. He also has to put all of his gear on in under than 1 minute. He brought all of his stuff home to practice and make sure that he can do it time and time again! So Sat after we got back from visiting with Mamaw Eppie, he worked on it. I took a video of it! Here it is!




Then I decided that I would put on all of Ryan's gear! Dang that stuff is hot, and I wasn't in it for very long!! Here is Firefighter Momma :)


Colton with the hat and mask on!
Pierce and the hat!
We do things as a family! So all of us acted like we were fireman that day!! It was a lot of fun!!

Colton and his Art

Colton has enjoyed drawing for a while. But when he did his project with the gingerbread man, I realized just how much he really enjoyed it. His school was offering a art class in the afternoon after school and I knew that he would love that!! So he started today. He goes once a week for 10 weeks I believe! It teaches him all kind of things that deal with drawing!

Here is his first picture!!

Just an update from our Corner of life!

I love when Ryan has the weekends off!!! I would rather him work during the week than the weekends. Call me selfish! But I have to work during the week and don't get to spend as much time with him as I do on the weekends! :) I can't help it, I love my Man and love spending time with him!!

Anyway, Saturday morning we got up, met Ryan's parents at Cracker Barrel for breakfast and then hit the road, headed for Monroe. Ryan's Great Grandmother a/k/a Mamaw Eppie lives there. She isn't in the best of health. We try every so often to load up and go visit! She LOVES when her family comes to see her. She needs our prayers! She fell back in December and just isn't recovering very well! She is the mostly Godly Woman I have ever met, and I admire that! Her family and her faith are the most important things in her life!! We had a good visit, minus her being in a lot of pain! We are praying that the pain goes away!!

Yesterday we didn't do to much. Ryan was a sweet hubby and make me breakfast and brought it to me in the bed!! AW!!!! And then the boys joined me and we watched Alvin and the Chipmunks for a while. Ryan went running ( he is getting ready for a class at the Fire Academy ) and Bella decided while no one was looking she would destroy a stuffed animal in the living room. Needless to say she got in lots of trouble!!! I got dressed and went and picked up a few things that were on sale at Dogwood and then headed to Kristen's bridal shower! Kristen is Ryan's cousin Jerry's fiance! They are getting married in Orange Beach in April! We are looking forward to that trip!

My tail bone is still hurting really bad from falling down the stairs last Sunday. Pierce got his stitch out of his head last night. And we also finished the 14 days of medicine through his PICC line! Now the PICC line just has to stay in until we go for his follow up visit with Dr. Reed, which is March 12. We just have to flush it twice a day until then. But that takes like 2 min vs. the 40 min it takes to give the med! I know Pierce will enjoy not having to worry about that!

I have decided that I would join Ryan in working out. He is working out for that class I mentioned earlier and I am working out to get in shape and get tone... after all, we have a cruise coming up!! So we start out by doing crunches, then flutter kicks and push ups. (Yes I do girl push ups) I can't do the regular ones yet.. but I hope to at some point. Then we either walk for 30 min or run a little bit. We are fixing to invest in one of the Biggest Loser DVD's.. We had one before but can't find it. It kicked both of our butts! We are looking forward to getting in shape together. It is so much easier when you have someone doing it with you. Its great motivation and it is great support when you have your partner with you! We are partners in everything in life! Well that is all from our corner these days!

Getting ready to board!!

I am so excited!! We are going on a cruise in June and I am like a kid!! I can hardly wait!! I have never been on one, Ryan has. We are also taking my best friend and her man with us! This is Ryan's birthday, my graduation, our anniversary and my birthday all wrapped up into one trip!! We will leave from New Orleans and go to Progresso and Cozumel Mexico!!! Of course I'll have tons and tons of pictures to show when we get back!!!

Just had to share the exciting news!!!

Wrong Place at the wrong time

Yesterday morning started out as a regular morning.....

On Sat, we had bought Colton a new bed, so that the boys could share a room, but have their own beds. So we took the full size bed down. So yesterday morning we were loading the full size bed in the back of Ryan's truck so that we could take it to storage. Well, I had the bed rails and was headed out the door. Pierce was a sweet boy and opened the front door for me. He had already gone down the stairs and was standing in the grass in front of the stairs. Mind you it is early, say 9ish... so the steps are still wet. Which I reminded myself of that, so that I would be careful going down the stairs. Well..... that didn't work. I slipped, fell down all 4 stairs and then all the sudden I hear Pierce screaming! Poor little man, the bed rail had hit him in the back of the head.
For you parents that know, it is amazing how when something is wrong with your child, nothing less matters... like how bad I was hurting! So I jump up and get to Pierce only to find out that the back of his head is bleeding. Well Ryan was still inside getting the rest of the bed, but he heard Pierce screaming so he rushes out to see what is going on. He grabs Pierce and goes inside to look at his head and see how bad it is. The next thing I know, Ryan says we have to go to the ER cause it is going to need stitches. Wanna talk about making me feel AWFUL!!!! So off we go, we all load up and head to Crossgates River Oaks aka Rankin! It was the closest place. Again, Pierce is such a little trooper. They numb his head around the cut and stitch him up! It only required one stitch, so thank goodness it wasn't too bad. It could have been a lot worse! So anyway, that was the adventures of our family for a Sunday Morning!

Pierce is doing good now. Besides still having the picc line, and now a stitch in the back of his head. This is his second time for stitches! Tough Rough Boy for sure!!

What does a PICC line look like??

Thought I would take a picture of Pierce's PICC line so that you could see what it looks like. He is such a trooper!! The blue at the end (left side) is the part where we hook up the med! Tomorrow (Monday) will be a week that we have been doing antibiotic's through this. We'll have 7 more days to go!

Prayer Request!!!

I just got off the phone with Grandma. She had just gotten off the phone with my mom. Momma's mother-in-law had a bad seizure and they rushed her to the emergency room. While they she had another bad seizure and they aren't sure that she'll make it through this.

Please take a few minutes to say a prayer and pray for all of them! I appreciate it!

Gotta have shows!

I know that I shouldn't have a lot of time for tv with working, having a family, and going to school. But a girl has to squeeze in her tv time!

My favs are:

Days of Our Lives ( as my mom rolls her eyes )
Biggest Loser
American Idol
ER ( very sad its the last season )
Private Practice ( normally makes me cry )

That is all the ones that I can think of that is almost like I can't live without them! ha ha!! I have them set to record so that in case I miss them I can always go back. I don't have time to sit down every night and catch up on my days, so that is normally a weekend thing, like when Ryan is working on a Sunday and the kids are playing!

I LOVE LOVE LOVE DVR!!!!

Where is the fire?

I left work early yesterday to go home and change, let the girls out, get the boys clothes and Pierce's medicine. And I was off to get the boys from school. On the way there, I did something that I do a lot!! I let my lead foot take over!! As soon as I saw the police I knew he was going to pull me over, so I pulled over the first place I could ( I was on a back road ). The first words out of his mouth was "Where is the fire?" ha ha ha!! I had my license and insurance ready for him! So he took them and then asked if I was married or was dating a fireman? I said yes and he asked who he was, where he worked, etc! Well yesterday was my lucky day, because he let me go with a warning!! I told him I would definitely do better!

So note to my lead foot........................SLOW DOWN!! ha ha... anyone that knows me knows that will be hard!

oh yea! Thank goodness for my fire tag!!

Dixie National Rodeo

We had a good time at the Rodeo last night, minus Daddy not being there. He had to work, and we forgot when we bought our tickets. But sweet ReRe went with us so I didn't go by myself!


Pierce is actually looking at the camera!
My future cowboy

Great announcer!

Best Rodeo Clown!!

Loving the Weather!

As we all know, MS weather is very unpredictable!! Its Feb and the the boys were outside thinking it was spring! It was so pretty and cool this past weekend and we took advantage of it!

Colton is working on his swing for ball that will be coming up soon!
Pierce is working on perfecting his driving skills!

Skating fun for Ashleigh's Birthday!

Ashleigh's birthday was Feb. 1! She turned 9! Hard to believe, she was a little girl when Ryan and I first started dating!


Ash blowing out her candles!



The birthday girl and some of her friends

Crazy boys! Those 3 are trouble!! :)
MiMi, Me and MawMaw (who wasn't looking)

Update on Pierce

We started off the morning worrying that Pierce would be asking for milk all morning ( he loves his milk) because we didn't have to be to the hospital until 9 a.m. But he was a trooper and remembered us telling him that he couldn't have any milk after he went to bed! We got to the hospital and to our room where we would wait to be called upstairs to surgery. We waited and we waited, which seems like FOREVER! Finally around 10:30 or so we got called upstairs. Right before we got called up they gave him "funny" medicine as I call it. Its like valium for kids. It makes them act so silly, he had Ryan, the dr and me laughing so hard! Sweet Pierce! Dr. Reed (ENT) came by and talked to us and explained again what he would be doing. Which was to go into Pierce's sinus cavity and get a culture to see why he is always sick with sinuses! So they take him back, and it looked like he was going to get upset but thank goodness he didn't! That made it a little easier on Momma and Daddy! It only took about 10-15 min for Dr. Reed to do what he had to do, and when he got done the other Dr. that was going to put in the picc line started. Dr. Reed came out and explained how everything went and that Pierce did great going to sleep. He said that when he got into his sinus cavitity it wasn't as bad as he expected, seeing that Pierce has had this mess for at least a year!! He said that meant 1 of 2 things. One, there wasn't anything bad in there ( which would not tell us what is going on ) or two, it would be really bad. We wouldn't know the results till at least Monday or Tuesday. All in all he was in "surgery" per say for an hour! Daddy went back to see him when he was waking up cause we all know that is who he would want! He loves loves loves his daddy! Such a daddy's boy! So afterwards we went back down to the other floor for him to be monitored for a little while to make sure that he woke up good. He was a trooper! His nose was bleeding from where Dr. Reed had gone into his sinus cavitity. This is when we learned that we wouldn't be starting antibotics through his picc line until they got the results from the culture. And that a home health nurse would come out and change the bandage and give us stuff to maintain the line! So we were set to go home!

The home health nurse came out and showed us how to flush the line to keep it from closing or clotting, which wouldn't be good. And that is all we had to do over the weekend. Monday, we got a call from Dr. Reed's office with the results from the culture. It showed that there were 3 "bugs" or bacteria in his sinus cavitity. Poor baby, no wonder he was never getting well. So then the home health place called and said that they would be coming out to give us medicine to give through the picc line and show us how to do it! It takes about 30-40 mins for the medicine to get done. It is a little bulb that we hook up and he can do whatever in the time that it is going in! He does so great! He doesn't have to be still, which is a blessing, but I know that he would! He is a sweetie! He is doing great with the whole picc line, much to our surprise, but a good surprise! We only give him med once a day. And we'll do that for 14 -20 days. Not sure yet!

* My feelings are hurt that some didn't call and check on Pierce afterwards! But we love ya'll!

**You know, I was thinking after nursing Ryan after his wreck and nursing Pierce through this, what you think.. Nursing school???? ha ha! Never thought I would say that, but I can't lie it sounds interesting and has crossed my mind! Thank goodness for Ryan, we can't afford for me to quit work and go to nursing school full time!

So much to catch up on!

It has been rather crazy! I have pics to post from Ashleigh's birthday party, the boys enjoying the pretty weather this past weekend, and the trip to the Rodeo last night! But I gotta download them first! I'll work on in the next few days! I am behind on school work so I am playing catch up! Seems like this last semester is a rough one! Busy Busy!

Its been a while...

Life has been rather crazy lately. I have been very busy at work ( which I'm not complaining, it makes the day go fast ) and at home! Here are a few of the things going on.

Pierce seems to have inherited his daddys sinus problems, poor little guy! He has been having problems for a while, and after repeated trips to his Peditrician, she told us to go see our ENT, Dr. Reed. So at the end of Dec. we went and saw him, thinking that we would probably have to do sinus surgery on Pierce to get him better and get him to stay well. Well we started off by trying 30 days of oral antibotics! About 2 1/2 weeks into the medicine he started getting all nasty, running nose and cruppy cough! We finished the meds anyway. We went back to see Dr. Reed last week to see how he was doing after 30 days of med. He said he didn't look too bad that day, but that we were the ones with him all the time, and we told him about the nasty nose he was just getting over at the time. So the next step of this journey is to get a culture from his sinus cavity and see what they are dealing with. And also put a pic line in my sweet mans arm :(. We go for this tomorrow, Friday, Feb 6. They will put him to sleep and do the culture and then put the pic line in. I am not really sure what all this entitles right now, but I will be asking lots of questions! I'll keep you posted on how that turns out!

Ryan has had the sinus crud for about 2 weeks now! Like father, like son! He went to the Dr last week and the told him it was just drainage. But I am thinking otherwise! Not that I am a Dr. or anything, but he sounds awful, feels awful and is coughing his head off! So Dr. Wife said that if he wasn't feeling better by the weekend, he'd be making another trip to the Dr. And any of you that know Ryan well enough, knows that isn't an easy job getting him to go to the Dr. Believe it or not, he is very stubborn when he comes to Drs! UGH! Love you baby!

Colton has been staying well! Thank goodness. He has a runny nose, and a small cough, but I am sure that is just from the Lovely Mississippi weather that we have! Who isn't gonna have some kind of cold all the time when it is 44 one day and almost 70 the next! Gotta love the Mississippi weather! He is still doing great in school. They are having a school party for Valentine's Day! OMG, he is 6 and already starting that. HA! No really, I am excited about it. Parents aren't allowed, but I think they'll have a great time. It is tomorrow night from 5:30 - 7, so that isn't bad. They'll get to have pizza, drinks, snack, and lots of fun games to play. I think that will be good for Colton to have fun with his friends! Then he is going to spend the day Saturday, with his friend Dylan. It is Dylan's birthday and they are going to have a "boy" day with his parents. I am sure they'll have a blast.

My school is really cranking these days. So that just adds to the fun in our family! But there is a light at the end of the tunnel, and it isn't a train! It is called May!