Caution! I ramble on for a long time here.

So I know it has been a very long time since I've updated this blog, but things have been so busy. With the move and everything else that has been going on, it's been crazy.
 We did take some pictures, however I will have to post those later. But here's what we've been up to.
On Sep 27, we packed our house in a Penske truck, loaded the kids up, said some tearful goodbyes and started on our long journey to Fort Hood, Texas. At this point we did not know where we were gonna be living when we got here, we planned to be in a hotel for a while and just off load the truck into a storage unit until we found our new place. The drive went really well (all things considered). The kids did pretty good. Jason drove the Penske truck and towed our trailer behind him while I followed in the Trailblazer. Most of the time the kids wanted to be in the big truck with daddy so I was by myself (which was AWESOME!) I turned the music up and probably looked like an idiot singing to myself. haha. We stopped the first night in Shreveport and stayed the night, then got up the next morning to finish our drive. The whole thing went pretty fast. We were making pretty good time and then we got almost to Temple, Texas (about 30 minutes or so from our destination) and we stopped for some gas and to stretch a little, and piled back into the cars and headed for the interstate. I turned around to check for traffic to merge and something happened in my lower back and I got a really bad sharp pinching pain that shot down my legs and I couldn't move (scariest moment ever) I thought I was going to crash because I couldn't move my legs. Long story short, we were able to pull back over and get out. I have no idea what happened, but I am so glad we were so close to Fort Hood at that point, because I couln't really drive much longer. It hurt so bad to be sitting and I couldn't even bend over. But we were so close so I just dealt with it and kept on going.
Finally, we rolled into Killeen and found a great hotel to call home. And the next day started the search for a place to live. We were looking for rentals, because we are not sure we want to purchase out here. We first checked out post housing and ran away screaming as fast as we could. It was a little stressful and overwhelming trying to find a good decent area to live in a place that you know nothing about. We had heard from a few people to try Copperas Cove, that it was the best city to live in so we went there. We drove around that place for 2 days and we couldn't find the nice part. So we gave up there. Short story long, we FINALLY found a place in a good part of Killeen with a good school for Braydon, and super close to everything!
Since we didn't know anyone here that could help us move. We just googled the church out here and randomly got a ward and they offered to help us. Oddly enough we ended up being in their ward boundaries and we were so thankful for their help.
This was probably the most stressful move we have ever made, with all the other little problems that kept happening throughtout the whole process, but we prayed A LOT and we really feel like we are where we are for a reason, like we were led here. We are very happy so far with Braydon's school, it is WORLDS different from his school in Alabama, and they even have a pre-preschool program for Ambria. She gets to go to school once a week with other kids her age and they have their own little classroom and homework and everything. She loves it. The school is just around the corner from us so we can walk.
The kids are adjusting really well. Braydon is happy to be in a fun school and Ambria is still trying to figure out what the heck just happened, but so far it's been good.
Oh, I still haven't seen a doctor about my back (Jason just in processed Tricare today) so I just try not to do anything that hurts it. I'm pretty sure I know what it is and hopefully the doctors will be able to do something about it.
I will try to get some new photos up as soon as I can. We are still trying to get re organized.

Back In The Hospital

So poor Jason is back under the knife this week. He went into the emergency room on saturday because he has had a constant fever for a week now since he had his surgery last friday. The ER immediatley gave him an antibiotic through an IV in case he had an infection. Then the Ortho Doctor came in to see him and drew blood and pulled a bunch of puss from his shoulder. When the Doctor found out that the ER doctors gave him an antibiotic, he was not pleased. Pretty much that screwed up the results of the test. So he told him to go ahead and go home and come back in on Monday morning to run more tests and compare to the ones they just did, and it will give the cultures time to mature. So he came home after 8 long hours in the ER. Then that night around midnight, he started bleeding out of his cut! Totally freaked us both out. But we ran to the bathroom and let it drip into the sink. It was a gross mixture of blood and ooze. And it WOULDN'T STOP! There was nothing we could do to stop it, we went through bags and bags of gauze, and just kept changing it out about every hour. We called the Dr from earlier that day and he said they wouldn't even be able to do anything until monday (Jason's surgeon was out of town). So we just dealt with this at home, constantly bleeding. It was horrible, to say the least. Finaly, monday morning comes and we are in the hospital early. His surgeon looked at it and said that this is a very rare case, but pretty much he has an infection on the inside where they cut him open. He said it's just a chance thing and it happens only once in every 500 or so operations. He also said that the antibiotic they gave him ER really complicates things because it isolates the infection. (stupid ER!!)  So they got him in for emergency surgery to clean out the infection and take some sample to find out what it is. He had the surgery yesterday and it went well, the doctor said it was "as expected". They had luckily caught it in time before it had done any further damage to his surgery site and the work they had done last week. So, now Jason is laid up in the hospital, with a lot of bandages and tubes coming out of his shoulder to drain excess puss, blood, and infection. He will wait it out for a couple days and then wednesday go back to surgery to do it all again. If all goes well he'll be out of there by friday or saturday. This picture was taken last night. He said he's gonna try to get up and walk today! Go Jason!

The BIG 3-0!!!!

Happy Birthday to Jason! He turned 30 on friday. He was pretty much in pain and had a fever the whole time, but still had fun. We had some friends over and played games, ordered pizza and had birthday cake.

Adventures Of Ambria

So I should probably be embarrassed about posting this, but it was too funny! I was in the bathroom getting ready for the day and I hear Ambria yelling "Mommy, I stuck! Mommy, I stuck!" I'm thinking she is stuck somewhere and can't get out, but then I see her walking around trying to find me. And this is what she is "stuck" in. I laughed for a good ten minutes about it, haha.

Bony Bankart

Here are the after effects of Jason's second shoulder surgery. It's a pretty big cut! It looks like the just about cut the whole arm off! For those of you who don't know, he was having some pretty bad problems with his shoulder, like pain, and it kept coming out of joint, and he wasn't able to lift his arm above his head with it coming out and a lot of pain. So he went under the knife for the second time on this shoulder. The Dr said that they were working on him for about 5 straight hours and that it was a really long, hard surgery. They had to take a peice of bone from his clavical and put it in his shoulder to keep it in place and stop it from coming out of joint. He said that this is probably the most painful surgery that he could have had. It's gonna take a long time (5 months to a year) to recover from this and he has to go to physical therapy 3 times a week. Poor Jason! Here's to a quick recovery!! He is doing better and is able to move his arm a bit now. He hasn't had to take his pain meds as often lately, so he's very happy about that.

At The PoOl, BeInG SiLlY!

A few random shots of the kiddos having fun and being silly. It has been so stinkin hot here lately, that we have to keep the pool filled up out of sheer necessity!   I think this photo is so funny! Ambria was jumping off the slide on the pool into the water. She is such a daredevil!

I had just fixed Ambria's hair for the day and she said "Mommy, take a picture!" So here are the pictures she wanted.

So, I decided to make a blog of the projects I have created and am learning to create. Check it out http://www.homemaderazzledazzle.blogspot.com if you want. I'm pretty much still a rookie at most things, but am having fun learning. This blog will have projects, crafts, recipes, pretty much anything homemade. It's new and still a work in progress, bear with me. And don't laugh too hard, haha.

Gator, take 2

Another video of the little guy

Fun Little Surprise!

It was a pretty boring saturday, we were wondering how we were gonna entertain ourselves when suddenly THIS came along! This is in my next door neighbors' front yard! He's about 5-6 feet long, and they said he came from the woods BEHIND MY HOUSE and was probably bullied out by a BIGGER one! (words of comfort, I know!!) It sat there for a while until animal control got there, they weren't great friends to say the least! In fact I think little Gator here, pretty much hated that guy!

They made several attempts to capture the little fella. This (below) was not the last. Every time they tried to get a hold of it, he would bite on the pole and rip it away. Finally they got him after a few rolls around on the ground and some tackling.

Yeah, they hog tied him-enough said.

And now for the photo op.

Last Minute Solar System

So Braydon came home from school on Thursday and said "By the way, I keep forgetting to tell you, but I have to make a solar system by TOMORROW!" Yeah, that just happened! So we had one night to put a soalr system together. We just used whatever we had around the house, cause we had no time to go to the store and plan this really nice awesome project. So 11:00 at night, it's finished. It wasn't too bad. Braydon really liked it and was excited to take it to school.