We Made it!

Well, we made it through the past 2 weeks. Malaya is all better and Miranda still has a cough, but hopefully that goes away.

Last weekend Gary made it home so we were thankful of that. I got some girls time and got to go to the Rascal Flatts Concert. Chris Young and Luke Bryan were also with it! I can't tell you how much fun it was. My co-worker got us 4th row seats! Boy, the seats sure do make a difference in the concert.

This past weekend we headed to Spearfish. We had so much fun. We went bowling and played ping pong. Went to church, out to lunch. Oh and my parents got this really fun game - Rubix Revolution. It's a blast!

Well, we're on the count down until Gary can come home this weekend. It's the Stock Show so we'll take the girls to see the animals - Malaya is super excited!!

Chris Young

Luke Bryan

Joe Don

Jay

Gary

Miranda was playing dress up when I picked her up from school



The girls wearing my new boots

Miranda in Shy's kennel with Shylow

The girls all dressed up for church

Malaya helping Grandpa put together our VCR Cabinet

Sheila helping the girls bowl

Malaya bowling

Dad bowling

Malaya holding her bowling ball

The girls doing the dishes

I'm Exhausted

What a week it has been. Last Tuesday night I was giving the girls a bath and noticed this dark red spot on Miranda's behind. She would pull from me when I tried to touch it so I figured it out. I called the Dr. and they said to come in. He said it was a boil and he was going to pop it and that they needed to put it under a microscope and see what type of infection it is. He said if it would fester back up to call and they'd want to see her again. Well, Thursday morning it had festered back up so I took her back in. I find out that what she has is MRSA (aka community viurs). From what I've learned is it's very difficult to get rid of and is highly contagious. Worst case scenario - it's life threatening. If you catch it early and stay on top of it everything should be fine. I was pretty upset at first and my parents were in town so they came over to my house. Mom ended up staying and dad ran back to Spearfish to get mom some clothes. The girls were supposed to go to Spearfish for the weekend because I had to work, but we decided mom would just stay here with the girls. I didn't end up having to work Saturday or Sunday and we decided to have mom stay until Tuesday and dad could pick her up on his way back from Wall.

Saturday Malaya woke up saying her throat and neck hurt. I took her to the doctor and she had strept throat!!! So, she got put on a antibiotic. Monday I took Miranda back in and they took a swab of her throat and cultured it, and I should get the results tomorrow. Since she was on an antibiotic they had to culture it as opposed to the regular test. He looked at her MRSA and said it looked 1000 times better than last Thursday. So...thank God for that! He said he has had to hospitalize 2 other patients this past week for MRSA so thank God Miranda's body reacted well to the antibiotic.

I told Gary he picked a good weekend to not come home!! We're trying every other weekend to save some money!! It's been hard though. Although, having mom here has helped!!

Miranda & Shy is Shy's kennel

Malaya being goofy!

Cute Malaya

Goofy Girls!

Sisterly Love