My Little Stamper

Happy February!

Well, it seems we're starting February off with a bang this year. Yesterday it started to snow at about 3 pm and then when our power went out at 10:30 pm, Travis decided that would be the oportune time to go out & shovel the 4-5 inches off the driveway in order to make things easier for him in the morning (it was still snowing mind you). This morning there was another 2 inches on the ground but he only had time to scrape his side of the driveway. Since my car is such a low rider, I didn't get to leave the house today because I knew I'd get stuck between the driveway & the street. At about 5 I started to wonder when Travis would be getting home & if he was planning to shovel the rest of the driveway (and from the driveway to the street). What would you know, I look out the window and there he is. It seems we now require heavy machinery to move snow. Our snow piles are too high to get the snow shovel up over the top of!


Here's looking at my neighbor's house from my front porch:


Here's looking at our house from across the street!!


Here's the snow removal crew:


It's times like these that I wish I lived further south!! Hope you aren't running out of places to put your snow!

Brad Paisly Concert

Last night we got to go to the Energy Solutions arena and see the Chuck Wicks (Stealin' Cinderella), Rodney Atkins (Watchin' You, If You're Goin' Through Hell), & Brad Paisly concert. We had a ton of fun. We didn't even get home until 1:00 this morning. We went with some of our friends which made it a nice night out for us. The kids stayed with Trav's mom and dad and I picked them up this morning so it was a bit quieter at home this morning for a change!

Nash is doing SO much better. He was improving within 24 hours after getting his first dose of Zythromax. Now you'd never know how sick he was! We are just glad to have our happy little boy back. Thanks for all your help & prayers for him, we really appreciate it.

Nash's Adventure

Good News!!

2:30 pm - Well, we went to the pediatrician's office this morning. The dr. was able to get the blood he needed out of the IV they put in last night. He was going to give him a bag of fluid while we waited for the test results but after drawing the blood was unable to save the IV. So, he sent us home to wait. Nash had thrown up while we were waiting to see the dr. so when we got him home we gave him more nausea medicine. The dr. finally called back and said that his bacteria count is down to 1.2 (which is MUCH better than the 9.3 when he was first admitted and even better than the 3.9 when he was released). The dr. said that all the things that were elevated and shouldn't have been are still going down and getting closer to normal. So, what do we do now? Stay at home and wait for him to get better! The dr. said to call if he doesn't start getting better, otherwise all we can do now is wait. Fun! At least it's finally good news!

5:30 pm - The doctor's office just called me back. This morning when they took blood to do Nash's lab work, I had asked about the possibility of Rhumatic fever. The pediatrician said he'd run a test that would check to see if Nash had had any recent strep infections (you have to have strep before you can have Rhumatic fever). We were told it would take 2-3 days to get those test results back. Well, apparently the results are back already. It appears that Nash has been exposed to strep. Which means that he may have possibly had Rhumatic fever. There are several symptoms that go with Rhumatic fever that Nash hasn't had and there isn't an exact test for Rhumatic fever, so it's hard to say that's what it was for sure. The nurse said they'd call in antibiotics for him, so we'll go from there!