Happy Birthday Mommy!!!

Yesterday was my birthday. Nothing better than hearing your little one sing Happy Birthday to you. I'm quite happy to be 43 years young!!!

Nature's Beauty

Trying Hard Not to Smile!!!

Bad, Bad Blogger

I have decided that I am just a bad blogger these days.  I have the best of intentions with updating here but always seem to find an excuse not to update.  Maybe these pics will hold you over until I can give a proper update in the next week or so!!!


Dallas and her friends "K" and "M" at their Halloween Party at Chinese school. Dallas wanted to be a doctor so Mommy fixed her up as "Mrs. Doctor McDreamy"!!!


Our Christmas Elf "Peter". He's not a big hit with Dallas this year!!!

Crazy Update on Me

Life changed around here last Monday night.  I went to the ER as I wasn't feeling well.  I had a bladder and sinus infection that I had been fighting for almost a week and just couldn't seem to get rid of them.  I was drinking gallons of water and any liquid I could get my hands on, I felt achy all over and my eyes were blurry.  As soon as I walked in and described my symptoms, they checked me over and also my blood sugar level.  They hooked me up to an IV and started draining my blood!!!  Test results indicated a blood sugar level of 987!!!  Turns out the dreaded family diabetes had finally caught me after all.  I stayed in the hospital until Wednesday.  Hospital food is horrible but even worse when you have diabetes.  I have been resting at home trying to get the sugars under control.  I finally got them into the high 100's yesterday after a few medicine changes. It should return to a normal range within a few weeks.  My vision is slowly returning and I can drive now.  My doctor is confident that I can get this under control.  I hope to eventually manage this without any medication at all just by diet and exercise.  Dallas is fascinated with watching me give myself shots and check my blood sugar.  I swear this kid is going to be a doctor.

Thanks for Following Me

I realized a while back that I needed to move the blog as I have had a paid Site Meter account and have been watching my stats closely. It seems that anyone looking for anything having to do with the city of Dallas gets directed to my blog. I got uncomfortable with people looking at her pictures and associating them with the naughty things they were searching for. Better to be safe than sorry as some of those search terms were quite descriptive. Jonni over at The Chronicles of Mommia designed my last blog and it was great. She is going back to China this Friday for Samantha and I didn't want to bother her so I decided to make on myself. Well, I cheated and used one of those premade backgrounds!!! I just need to finish resizing all the photos for this blog and I should be finished.

This summer I decided to take a break from photography and concentrate on other things, mainly getting the house into shape. Still working on that!!! We have had so much craziness here lately, including a broken tail bone, visit to the neurologist, physical therapy, 4 weeks of no rain and 100 plus temps.  Hopefully that got your attention and you will visit again to found out all the details!!! To top it all off, my IL's are coming to visit in 10 days!!! What few photos I took this summer are coming soon.

Four Year Old Cuteness!!!