Oh My Gosh...

I am still waiting to hear the big news...

Any day now!

Levi is about to be a big brother,

and Roxi will be Nana to another!

Good luck Mel~ 

Kaitlan and Lilly came into town for a visit!

This photo is courtesy of Heather, Kaitlans cousin!

I did a photo shoot of Lilly and captured

a great one of Lilly and her Meme, my sister Frankie!

Lillian Mae

Isn't she darling?

I got an invite to go to the the Brothers of the Sun Tour :

Tim McGraw and Kenny Chesney!

Meigan got the tickets from her son Matt, who won them

in a drawing for Cleveland Browns season ticket holders!

It was at the Cleveland Browns Stadium

in beautiful downtown Cleveland!

Brendan and Halle were there!

Along with the "good Ole girls"!

I love me some Tim Mc Graw!

Even if we were in the very top row of the stadium!

A true gentlemen among men!

First Jake Owen,  and then Grace Potter opened the show.

Tim came on at 6:30 till 8:30

then set change, and Kenny came on stage.

No pictures of Kenny... sorry ladies.

Then they come out together!

Thanks Meigan and Matt...

What a fun way to spend a Sunday!

Early Monday morning... 4 am,

I headed to the airport to see this...

"OH MY GOSH"

Someone likes to squint her eyes and say

"Cheese"

I just have to be sneaky when I take her picture!

We are having so much fun together!

Taking our baby shopping!

She loves her reading cards!

And I love her!

More from Grand Junction later!

Crazy

Crazy boy~

Views from Colorado!

Danny likes to send me beautiful pictures

of Colorado skies and water.

I love them!

Rivers that he loves to fish~

under beautiful skies!

Here's my Danny

enjoying the Colorado lifestyle.

I get the feeling he is pretty happy where he is...

I only wish he were closer!

Tegan also sends pics~

A stormy day in Grand Junction

A little girl tip toeing around in the rain!

I am so excited to be going to Colorado on Monday to

see Danny, Tegan, Kelley and my

little Laylabug~

Just so you know...

Yep... 

I am the best "AVr"...

at least to my Molly!

Art Class... 101!

Sarah Rose planned an Art Class for her friends!

She had her Mom post on Facebook...

Ok FB friends with kids...My Sarah has spent the last three days planning an art class for kids. She wrote a sign up sheet and wants to stand at the end of the driveway to ask people to sign up. She has a project planned out and materials all ready. She wants to charge $1.00 for each person that comes. If you are at all interested in taking a fun art class from an enthusiastic 6 year old, please let me know and I'll sign you up! The class will be here, at our house, next Thursday, July 19 at 3:00. She is really excited about it and I want to see her succeed with a fun plan. Let me know if your child can make it! Thanks in advance :)

A few days later this post went up...

Wow! What an amazing response to Sarah's art class! If you have posted and I "liked" your post, we have you in our count. As of now we are at 14 people so we are going to cap it there. We will have to schedule another class for others who would like to come. Sarah is beyond excited! Thank you all :)

Sarah started off her "class" by showing her project!

A cute little pompom puppy!

Kids took their seats and got busy tracing and

cutting out the puppy from the patterns Sarah had drawn

and cut out for them ahead of time!

Brianna, in the white bow, is listening carefully to all instructions!

Molly was concentrating too~ and excited to use

the colorful pompoms!

Sarah told her friends how to zigzag the sides of their puppies

to make it look like fur!

She did a great job!

Sarah even had her very own art teacher come over to 

do the project too!  Mrs Merritt, was excited she said, to see what

idea Sarah designed!  She even said that next year, if she ever needs a sub~

she was calling Sarah!

A future teacher?

NOPE~ this little girl says she is going to be an

A R T I S T

Canada 2012

On Wednesday, July 18th, Cayden and his Mommy woke up

early to be ready in the lobby for the Shriners van to pick us 

up for his 7:30 am appt!

All smiles as we wait~ 

Smiles and some butterflies in his tummy.

Once checked in, Cayden heads for the fish tank...

He loves to count the big fish!

Room 8

Cayden is reminded of the three things he was going

to remember for his hospital visit.

1. Be polite

2. Be a good listener

AND 

3. BE BRAVE!

He knew room 8 was the place to be BRAVE.

It was time for blood draws

and he was very BRAVE!

He was a GOOD LISTENER when the tech did his

bone density test and spine xrays.  He did not move a bit!

He was POLITE to everyone he met~

he said "hi" to all the "friends"

and answered all the questions the Dr. had for him!

When the Dr. showed Cayden his xray the conversation went like this....

Cayden: Oh that's my skeleton!

Dr.: Oh you think so, do you?

Cayden: Well, actually, it's my spine!

Dr.,laughs:  Yes it is...smart little guy!

Dr. Frances Glorieux examined Cayden.

Cayden had grown 7.7 centimeters~ low end of normal for height

but he is on the high end for weight!

His bone density went up 3%~ we are happy

with any increase!  Cayden has been fracture free for since last years appt!

He is a cautious little guy and knows his limits~

Dr. Glorieux thought we might not see another fracture till pre-puberty,

when a "boy will be a boy",  because he is so smart!

Cayden was supposed to be scheduled to see the dentist there

but somehow it was overlooked in the notes.  It will be scheduled for 

next June since he is also being seen by a dentist at home.  Dr. Glorieux

felt his Dentinogenesis imperfecta is actually worse then his OI's type typically would be,

and wants to monitor it.  

Cayden then had to do a walking test, which proved to be

the end of his patience since he fell while running to the start line.

Falls scare him and once he was crying we realized he was DONE.

Good byes were said~

We went back to the hotel, packed up and hit the road for home.

Bri's little guy was tired!

He was so good in the car and he was excited when we reached

our stop for the night in Buffalo NY!

"Yes Meme, they have a pool"

CHECK!

A bit more driving down I-90 on Thursday am finds us at

Papa's office!  Cayden is excited to see Papa!

He plans to "sneak right up on him"

shhh...

Peek a boo at Papa's fish tank!

Cayden's turn!

It was Cayden's Birthday ya know!

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Cayden does not have to go back to Shriners till next year

or next fracture.  Should he fracture without real force, the Dr. would

start infusion treatments.  So Cayden... keep up the good work!!

You sure were

Polite

A Good Listener

and 

so 

so 

Brave!