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!!!

Happy Easter!!!

Noelle's annual Easter photo. She was mad at me and wouldn't look at the camera. For the past three years I have tortured the dog and made her pose with bunny ears on. She pounces on the ears when they come off. I have a few more photos which I will try and post tomorrow.

Happy Birthday Dallas!!!

Dallas turned 4 years old today. My baby girl is growing up fast. It seems like only yesterday that they handed us a bundle of joy. Look at her now. We celebrated by having lunch with a few friends. Dallas was very excited to have her two best friends Allie and E. join her for lunch. We went to my parent's tonight for birthday cake. Dallas picked out a My Little Pony cake this year. Here are a few pics from today.

She's So Serious at Times

Please Vote for My Pumpkin!!!

I have entered Dallas into a contest for a chance to be on the cover of our local mom's magazine. The winner gets to be "Cover Cutie" for 2009. Dallas is #39 and is in the 6th row. There are no names by the kids so here is the photo of her to look for. You can vote as many times as you want to each day until March 11th. Please, please, pretty please go vote for her!!! Here is the link.