Missed a whole month!

Ok so apparently I missed the entire month of November. Let see what's been happening since I posted last when we were all sick! Hmmmm we were home for a full 9 days stuck in the house so I'll blame the non-posting on that!!!

Lets see.......since then, I started a job, Ty started a job, I went to CO for a girly weekend away, Ty went to Arkansas to help a friend work for a couple days, Ty went hunting, I went to mom's early to help out because my grandma is in the hospital, Ty drove down to TX by himself with the 4 kids in Thanksgiving traffic and OK construction.......phew! That's about it! That's the short version at least.

I started working at the High School library and its been fun so far. It is a different dynamic at the school as a staff member than as a parent, so its been interesting (in a good way). Ty started working as the Parts Manager at the local Chevy dealership. He's been getting them in order and organized (*gasp*) over there and I think he's been enjoying it too. So different than anything he's done before but I think he likes it. About a week after I started working I went for 4 days to Colorado for a scrapbooking weekend with friends and it was SO much fun. I had a great time, relaxed, laughed, got a lot of work done (amazingly enough) and spent some much needed quality time with one of my very bestest girl friends! You can take a look at what I got done here: http://www.scrapbook.com/myplace/index.php?mod=galleries&u=388043&a=222815&page=1

Hopefully that works. I know there is a probably a really good way to do that and make it look better but I don't know how so you get the whole address.

After I got back from CO on Sunday, Ty left for Arkansas on Tuesday early in the morning to help Eric out at his office there. While he was there I got a call from my mom saying that grandma had a stroke and was in the hospital. We were all supposed to go down there for Thanksgiving but instead of driving down with Ty I flew down a few days early to help mom with the driving back and forth to the hospital and to spend some time with my grandma. She is not doing very good at all. She had a massive stroke and has deep brain injuries from it. There is little to no recognition at all and when I looked in her eyes she just looked so scared and confused. I hated seeing her like that. Doing things like that are most definitely not my strong suit, I'm not good at it, I break down and hospitals make me nervous but I did it and survived. Two almost three weeks later there has been no change at all. She is not in pain so that is good but inside she must be miserable, not being able to speak or talk with her family has got to be killing her inside. I know it is out of my control, someone much bigger has it taken care of and when its time, He will bring her home to be with Him and my grandpa. In the mean time however I pray we all have patience and that she is as comfortable as possible! I was always really close to my grandma and grandpa both so its really hard to watch them deteriorate like this. She taught me how to sew, how to crochet (although I never could get the hang of that), she started teaching my girls how to crochet too and honestly they are better than I am! She was in the middle of making Dagan's and Meara's quilts to match Emma and Austyn's. She was the one that taught me how to love my husband and what a good marriage was all about. She taught me how to pray and that it was perfectly ok to just have a conversation with God, as if he was sitting next to you chatting. She taught me how to respect my elders and speak with respect, to appreciate what I had and to respect my parents. Even when I was angry at them as a child she would never let me speak disrespectfully about them, or anyone else for that matter. She was strict and opinionated and I adore her as much today as I did then.

ok on that very sad note, I have to go before I start crying! I will try to get pictures up here soon of us decorating the house and the tree for Christmas.