Elli’s blog

I've found it more conveinient to take off one whole day from work and cram as much as I can into it that needs to be done. It's exhausting, but mighty productive. Today, Sarah had a follow up on her tubes. Her hearing is in NORMAL range and there is NO fluid in her ears! Her tubes are working! Thank you, Lord! Troy also saw the ear doctor to have a dead bug removed from his ear....yeah, that's what I said. LOL A gnat flew in there weeks ago when we were at the lake. It stayed alive for like 2 days and nothing would get it out and he refused to go to the doctor then. So he finally went today to get it taken out because he could still tell it was in there. The doctor pulled out a big chunk of wax that no doubt held the bug. Gross...but Troy feels better. Then after lunch, Troy had to see the ortho doctor about his shoulders. They've been popping out of place for years and he finally decided to have that seen about too. The doctor scheduled him for MRIs on the shoulders and gave him some NSAIDs to help with any pain.

We had to take all three youngest with us because my MIL had to go to the doctor herself and couldn't babysit. Can you say WENT CRAZY?! Cause I about did....lol!

Well, you know what? I messed up. I was so sure that Rudy Guiliani ws going to get the nomination that I didn't pay much attention to the other candidates. Now that it's down to two (okay Hilary, I'll say three) I don't know who to vote for because it's all finger pointing and will only get worse until November. *exhale* More than likely I will be voting for John McCain because from what I understand he is more of a Moderate Republican and that's what I am. I need to do some research I suppose. I don't want to vote for the wrong guy. I was so excited when I self-discovered that I am a Moderate/Independent but that's hard at times like this. Suggestions?

Way back on July 22nd. It was exactly a week after her first birthday. Oh my gosh, I was so nervous but I had Momma & Troy with me plus tons of prayers (and Xanax) and sure enough, as always God protected her and everything went just fine. After the surgery, Sarah began walking straighter and talking more...all due to the fact that she had so much fluid finally off of her ears so she could keep her balance and copy words better. Here's some pics, a before surgery pic and then an after surgery pic.

So I love Patrick Dempsey aka McDreamy (not as much as Karev, but that's another blog) and many of you have noticed he has loaned his voice to Allstate commercials. Today at work I heard two or three times how Allstate can save me all kinds of money. Great, fabulous, I'm excited....but why is a millionaire appearing to care of I save up to 25% on car insurance???

But like I said, I do love the man...and we both used the name Sullivan for one of our sons. :)

Today was Sarah's first birthday party. We had it at a park in Opelika. It turned out so nice. So many people came and she got great gifts. I do wish she'd had a nap before hand but she didn't get cranky. Here's a couple pictures.

Yesterday, Alyssa and I are laying in bed watching cartoons. Jackson is playing cars on us. Every time he rolls his car on Alyssa's belly he pretends the truck is stuck. I was surprised that she was being so quite and patient, then she looks over at me and says "why do I always have to be the mud?" LOLOLOL!!!

Not so funny (to me anyway), I was getting a shower and Alyssa came in to use the bathroom. She points at me and says "Momma, you got purple stripes." My jaw dropped and she laughed. Jackson came in shortly after and I said "I suppose you want to ask why I have purple stripes?" He closed his mouth and shook  his head back and forth...I'm training him right! :)

I have been looking to this year's 4th for well over a year. With being pregnant and Lake Martin being so low last year, I wasn't able to get on the lake as we've done for the last few years. Wednesday I woke up sick. I took Vitamin C and some cough syrup all day and I woke up Thursday feeling better but before lunch I was at Primed. The doctor told me that I had strep, even though my test came back negative. So I got an antibiotic and headed to the lake. All went very nice. Jenni and Andrew even joined us on Friday which was great because I don't spend enough time with them. The down side was there was not one, but TWO bad storms that day so much of the day was spent in a tent hiding. The second storm was even worse bc Troy and Jackson were on a boat in the middle of the thing! We weren't able to see the annual fireworks up close bc we had taxied too many people to the island and had only one boat. But the nice thing was that there were all kinds of private shows all around us from people who live on the lake. It was pretty cool. Saturday hanging out with family and friends and soaking up beautiful Lake Martin. The NASCAR race was that night and Troy made sure that I was able to listen to it and relax on the boat. Only thing? I DIDN'T want to listen to it when the name Kyle Busch kept coming out of the commentators mouths. He went on to win. I was spared much of that pain, because I fell asleep beside a very cranky Sarah Delaine. Alyssa woke up Sunday throwing up. At that point, the lows of the weekend began to outweigh the highs and I turned into Prissy Elli and demanded Troy take me and my babies home. He was happy to oblige and we spent all day yesterday afternoon sleeping in bed.

So was it a happy 4th? For me, not really. But knowing my kids had fun made it more fun overall for me.  

...that I am not pregnant! LOL No, really I have talked with my school advisor and I will be graduating in March!!!! I am SOOOOO excited about that! I have 5 more classes left, and a competency test and then I'm DONE! A college graduate.....ME!!!! I have worked so hard and now that the end is so close in sight I am excited! My degree is in Criminal Justice, with a minor in Psychology. I will begin applying for jobs within the next few weeks. I am thinking Juvenile Probation. I have been reading a lot about Court Referral Officers too and that interests me.

Please pray for me that the next few months are easy for me and I will soon be posting that I hold a Bachelor's Degree!!

JUNIOR WON!

Victorywhew

Happy Father's Day to all the wonderful dads out there, including my own. My dad is great. I mean really he is. He has two sons who don't realize that because of some things (and people) in my daddy's past but they should get to know him now. He's wonderful. He really truly is! He taught me to look to the Bible for answers. I look to him for a lot: his opinion on politics, his opinion on issues with Troy, etc and I always value his opinion whether I do what he suggests or not. He calls me "Ed" from way back when my mom babysat a kid who couldn't say Elli, so he said Eddie. I think that is the sweetest thing ever. It's like our "thing" and I love that he does it. And while as a kid I may have seen him as "a meanie" sometimes, when I see him with my children I don't see how I could think that. He's so sweet with them. 

I could never tell him to his face without crying but my Daddy is one of my biggest heroes. He fought a personal battle for years when I was very young and he beat it. Today I see people struggling with the same problem and I know it could NOT have been easy for my Daddy but HE DID IT! I am so proud of him for that and admire his strength more than he will ever know!

Okay, let me stop now that I'm crying. :) 

Daddy, I love you!!