2010???

How can 2010 possibly be any better than 2009....I am skeptical...

Have a funky funky christmas

Break out the eggnog and the Peppermint Mocha coffee creamer and lets celebrate. Get out your copy of The New Kids on the Block Christmas and put up the tree....

Ddub in ATL

You would think that 7 shows in 7 cities in 7 months would be enough, right? Hell no. I have decided to travel to ATL in less than 2 weeks for Donnie's record release party. Can i get an "amen". Amen

Shootout at CEC

And the best part of the night??? The shootout at CEC..... So much for not letting my kid play with guns???



oh....And the moms had fun too...

Turning 5 is awesome

So, yesterday was coens 5th birthday...I know i know, i cant believe he is 5 either. We made a fabulous volcano cake, had a blast doing slime and bottle rockets at the Discovery Center, and ended the evening a Chuck E Cheese with some of our neerest and dearest....Chhheck it out..
The cake

Moo and TT playin


Making Slime

Getting wet

Riding bob

This is HAlloween, This is Halloween

Mimi and Bopah

The Mt St Coen

Baby J


Washing out the red







A night full of laughter, and chilly temperatures made it feel like Halloween again. Hot chocolate, rice crispy treats and family....Nice

5 years ago

Five years ago today i was snuggled up in bed on the labor and delivery ward at MTMC with an iv and a bedside commode, being induced, watching Fargo, and awaiting the birth of my first child.....
Sweet boy, love of my life, greatest thing i have ever done, I love you a million trillion, more than life itself.....



Here's to another great 5 years

Mt St Helens Coen

So, when i asked Coen what he wanted to be for halloween, he said volcano......So i made it happen

Movin out

So much has been going on lately around here, with my health and back and pneumonia and the whole mess with the swine flu. I havent had a whole lot of time to deal with a very large change that has been going on in my life.
While we were in Florida, mema had a "stroke" or what the docs thought was one and went into the hospital and later rehab. Everyone decided she could no longer care for herself on her own, so she decided to move into the Stones River Manor. We all got together the other night to pack her up and clean out the apartememnt. I realized, coen would no longer be going over there, which he has done every wednesday since he was born, and never would mema fix me a lunch or ask me to sit a spell....And it makes me extremely sad.... I know she is making friends and getting taken care of, but it is sad, and a little big for me to wrap my head around.

And it was difficult that i couldnt help my mom anymore than i could, being as sick as i was.....

Here piggy piggy

Ok, so last Sunday i was admitted to the hospital, and spent 3 days there with Pneumonia and suspected swine flu..Woohoo. Just let me tell you it sucks...I am a week out, tomorrow and i am still just barely making it. I went to Walmart last night and managed to walk to the mailbox today, and let me tell you, these are no small feats.

I dont think i really realized how sick i was. It's bad when you call the docs office to make a follow up appt and the nurse actually says, "wow you were a really sick girl." I have a hard time not asking for help and being really independant, so it has been really really difficult to just stand back and let the house go, and the laundry go, and the dishes pile up, and just expect denton to pick up most of the work. He keeps saying, in sickness and in health, and you would do it for me, but i still feel bad. Thank god Coen had plans in McMinnville this weekend, it has given me a chance to really rest.

Now i just gotta finish his costume, get ready for Halloween and plan the week....Yah

Pimp my wagon

Okay i had 9 months worth of stuff for Lil H, so the usual gift basket wouldnt do....so i got a wagon and TT helped me paint it, and we aunts had a blingin out the wagon party

She's crafty

So here are some pics of the stuff i did for Lil h...all the emroidery is hand done, and the quilt is hand quilted...snatch

Fashion diva

letting him pick out his own clothes is getting, rather interesting

Sweet boy

Coen has been soooo sweet the past few days, so far i am liking 5

Oh my aching back

Ok, so i have decided this will be the first, and last post i will do concerning my back (or will try to do.)

Anyway, somewhere in the middle/end of July i woke up one day in excrutiating pain and i couldnt get out of bed. I went to my PCP and he diagnosed muscle strain, sent me home with muscle relaxers and pain pills. I healed up after 2 weeks of meds and rest. No one knows if this was triggered by the Physical Therapy i was receiving for my feet or not.

I woke up again around the 24th of August in severe pain once again and couldnt get out of bed. Thursday night I ended up in the er and recieved muscle relaxers and pain pills and sent home. Saturday night i couldnt stand it anymore, nothring was helping. I wasnt sleeping and was in one constant spasm. So we headed back to the er. The xray was clear and after 16 mg of Morphine, and a little stronger pain med i went home. The following Tuesday i went to see a new doc, Dr Newton. He basically told me to suck it up, refused to do and MRI and sent me home, telling me to come back in 2 weeks. I went back the next Friday to get a refill on my meds and he told me to take Tylenol.

So this went on for 3 weeks. The cocktail of pain meds and muscle relaxers, accupuncture, and not even being able to get out of bed to make my son breakfast. So, Coen went to McMInville one weekend and i woke up completely covered in hives. My hands looked like sausages and were completely swollen so bad i couldnt write. Tuesday i had an appointment with a Chiropractor and and appt at the Neck and Back pain center. Both docs susspected a disc injury and Dr Moran's PA sent me for a MRI. The same test Dr Newton had refused a month before.

They discovered i was allergic to the Percocet and started me on a new med, the physical therapy finally started and the chiropractor trips seemed to help. The Monday after my birthday i went in for the results of my MRI. The PA, gave me an exam and kept asking if i had leg and hip pain. He told me i had Degenerative Disc Disease, involving 2 discs on the right and 1 on the left. He told me he believed i was in alot of pain, and probably would always be in pain. He told me that my discs involved really wouldnt let me have any kind of surgery, and basically i would have to live with this the rest of my life. He said nurses have the worst backs...

So here i am. I missed the entire month of September, because i was in pain. I am in pain, varying degrees, every day. I am trying to comes to terms with this, yes i know it could be worse, but for right now, i pretty much sucks for me. I dont know what i can or cant physically do. I dont know if i wll be able to nurse the way i want for the rest of my career. I dont know if i will be able to hoop. Everything is up in the air...I had steroid injections in my spine, my next step and so far cant tell a difference. We will see

Daddy got out the clippers, and mama almost cried

What do you think....it is cute, shows off his big eyes, but i like it a little longer, to cover the 8 head he got from his mama

Punkin!!!!!!!!

Ok, so we compost in this house, yes we do. I save up my veggie, fruit, and coffee scraps and feed them to my lil wormie friends downstairs. While Denton, he likes to "compost" his own way, and by "compost" i mean open the door and throw things out into the yard... Well sometime last fall Denton took the rotten, falling apart pumpkin off the front porch and hurled it to the side of the house where, we totally forgot about it....


Well a few months ago, while mowing the lawn, Denton stopped and ran in, dragging me into the yard to look at what he found. It was a huge plant, with beautiful orange blooms and a little round "melon" of some kind growing. We all threw in our 2 cents, i said pumpkin and Denton and Coen said Watermelon. well it ws a pumpkin, obvious when it turned orange, that we had to pick the other day...

Funny thing is it is now Coens best friend, "punkin friend" actually. He plays cars with it, sleeps with it and even took it to memas, how cute. He said it is hard on the outside to protect it's "babies" and when it rots we are gonna dig out the seed babies and plant em... awe


I cant plant things that grow, but my husband farms by accident....nice

Good times, good times

Lemme tell you, it has been a pretty schweet weekend here at the Brock household. Mother nature has decided to let us have a "sneak peek" at autumn and let me just say, if i could have dragged my bed outside and would have had the assurance that i would NOT be eaten alive by mosquies than i might have just lived put there. You almost had to have a little cardie on, it was a lil breezy. The days have been in the 70s with a nice breeze. Heaven....
Friday night was Passion Party night, and we hooked up the Stripper pole in the living room and had some dranks, some lil weenies and boob cupcakes and talked sex. It was too much fun.
Around 2 am Angel, Dusty, Michelle and i decided to head for, where else, Waffle House, and that is where the night took a different, yet hilarious turn. (Angel blogged about the night on her blog, but left out alot of the dirtay stuff because her family ACTUALLY READS her blog, but since no one reads this anyway, i am gonna get dirty.)
So as we open the door and walked in these 2 rowdy rodeo guys yelled "woowee were'd you ladies come from? Can i come over there and make out wid cha." He was obvously BLASTERED, so we laughed along with everyone else in the WH and headed to the booth. We overhead him and his friend talking about going to the rodeo, and they were all decked out in Stetsons, belt buckles the size of a dinner plate, and really tight jeans. So we were all laughing, when Dusty thought it would be a good idea to give him a boob sucker we got from the party. Michelle begged us not too certain it would not be a good idea, but we thought it would be hilarious.
So after the waitress handed him the sucker he yelled out, "ooh are those titties? I'm gonna get carpel tunnel from sucking on these titties." At that point he thought it would be a good idea to come over and chat with us.... Nice. And instead of joking with the whole table, he targeted in on Michelle, the only one who didnt want to do it. She was soooo emberassed. He kept hitting on her, and she politely said no, and he replied "well i just wanted to eat your pussy for 45 minutes and buy you breakfast." We lost it. I just laughed behind my menu. He eventually got the hint and walked back to the counter to join his friend.
So we hysterically laughed, ordered and ate our food and were quite pleased to see him and his friend leave. The rodeo cowboys walked out, and than after a second the drunk one walked back in. He said "women got some excuses for turning me down, like i didnt shave or i got my menstraul, and cause my trucks dirty. But let me tell ya i'll ride in mud and f##k in blood." and walked out....
Menstual, who has had there menstrual since 1950???? We laughed for hours over that.... I drug my drunk ass in about 4am and passed out.
Saturday i slept till noon and did a lil work on the computer than i picked up Coen and Mimi's and headed to the Hoke' household for my lil man Kendans 2nd birthday.The weather was gorgeous and we played and laughed all afternoon with some great friends.
Sunday found us getting up and working on crafts. Spending some time playing at Camous school playground .....
I hope the weather stays as good

A Day in photos

This is last Sunday in pictures



Morning of making paper




Hey i got a room full of toys but let me beat holes in this box





Lunch




Following dad on the mower (best pic of the summer)




even my cat likes to hoop