My dog Zeplin...

So this is my crazy dog, Zeplin. She LOVES to sleep in the middle window sill in the front room. She has to have the blind pulled up and the window open just a bit so she can get the breeze.

She wasn't too happy with me in this one. She was trying to sleep and I was taking her picture...lol

WOOHOO for me!!

During March and April when Christian was being home schooled for a bit, one of his teachers would come over to the house and help him keep caught up in all his classes. One of the projects he had to do was make a pillow case.

Now that he has started back to school, he has dropped his "fun" classes and is just taking the basic ones so he can take the end of year testing.

We got the material for the pillow case (along with material for the frog, backpack and the apron) I hated to see it just sit there and go to waste so I decided to make the pillow case last night and this is what I got.....

It actually turned out!!

Spring Break....I think

A couple of weeks ago we had what should have been Spring break. But one morning this is what we woke up too....


Up under the pine tree

It broke branches off the Magnolia tree

We ended up with 13 inches of snow during the night!

We lost about 12 branches off of the pine tree in the back corner of the yard.

She pushed him into a locker!

Christian just sent me a text and that little bitch Dennoly just hit Christian and pushed him into a locker!!

Now I remember why I hated Jr high....

So the other night Christian had a couple of friends over. He has been friends with these kids for about 4 years now, and for those of you who have been around our family the last three years know Landon and Omar. Ken and I have been extremely nice to them and their families, let them into our lives and even taken them in as one of our own. Anyway, Saturday they came over and there is this new girl (well she is supposed to be, a girl that is, she looks like a guy) that has been hanging around with them he name is Dennoly (she is a lesbian by the way).

So when all them them were here Saturday, Landon thought it would be funny to put a stink bomb under Christians chair and have it break when he moved the chair. Well it broke and my whole house smelled like rotten eggs. Landon thought it was the funniest thing he had ever done! I got a bit upset about it and told them not to do it again. They can do it outside, just not in the house. Well, when I got mad Landon and Dennoly got mad at Christian and started texting him things like F*** You, you are gay, your mom is fat and ugly, they were going to kill him just stuff like that.
He was replying to them a bit, telling them to stop and other stuff. Well now there is a whole group of kids that are after Christian at school. Mind you, he just stared back again after being out for almost 2 months. There is Landon, Laynie (Landons older sister), Dennoly and he girlfriend Allison.

Landon has gone around the school telling Christians friends that he pops his zits and eats the puss, they will stand at then end of the hallway and yell "Christian is gay" or "Christian masturbates". then to top it all of yesterday (Tuesday) Dennoly took a swing at Christian and tried to punch him!!

All of this because I got upset they broke a stink bomb in my house!! And now he is nervous to go to school because Dennoly is in his A1 and A2 classes. What a bunch of crap!

NOW I REMEMBER WHY I HATED JR HIGH!!!

1 day down....27 to go

Today was Christians first day back to school after being out of school since the end of February. He was a little nervous, but then again so was I. I was worried that his blood sugar would go low or he would get really tired form the mono, but things were OK. WHEW!!

Christian has a cold....

I am hoping and praying that his blood sugars dont go sky high again.

To the hospital we go...AGAIN!

Things were going pretty good, blood sugars were down Christian was starting to feel better...WOOHOO!! NOT!! I let him do a few more things, he was feeling better right? I thought I couldn't hurt. Well, he went to a friends house to stay the night. His friend doesn't live to far from my mom, they walked over to her house (after waking to the park) he was hungry (surprise). Mom made him and Aaron a sandwich, chips and a drink checked his blood sugar, he was 67 so basically lunch was free ( or just about. He maybe should have had 1 unit of insulin). It normally would have been ok and we could have corrected at dinner which was just 2 hours away. Well, he was high at dinner (no surprise with having the sandwich at grandmas) gave shot for dinner and a correction shot. Checked him at bedtime and he was over 400!

Over the next few days he kept going higher and higher and higher and I noticed he was getting his rash back UGH!!

Talked to his pediatric doctor, he thought he might have strep throat because not only was he having the high blood sugars and rash, he also had a headache and he was really tired again.
Tested for strep...negative! Good but bad..now on to the ok what is the problem questions.
He started having ketones again (up to 3.3), no strep, high blood sugars, rash....mono was back again!

Finally on Sunday afternoon, he was getting sicker, blood sugars going higher more and more ketones appearing I took him to the ER for some fluid to help bring down the blood sugar. The ER had to call his pediatric doctor, he said he had to go back to Utah Valley. Took him down there and what do you know...he had to stay!
We were there Sunday night, Monday, Monday night and up till 6:00 on Tuesday.....there goes Bunco!!

We are home now, with some very large amounts of insulin. He needs 42 units of his Lantus each night, he gets 1 unit of Humalog for every 5 grams of carbs and for his correction it is 1 unit of Humalog for every 20 points above 140. It doesn't sound like much, but when you are drawing up the insulin and giving it to your child, it is A LOT!!

He has had ups and downs with his sugar still, but hopefully it will get better soon. He is going back to school on the 20th of this month but only for 1/2 days. He will be taking his core classes so he can do end of year testing. but his teacher will not be coming to the house as of today.

I hope we are making the right choice. I am so worried to let him go back to school, worried that he might end up back in the hospital. That is why we choose to let him go 1/2 day rather than going full time again. And with school just about over it hopefully wont be too much on him.

"A Little Bit Longer"

I am sure many of you know that Nick Jonas has type 1 diabetes also. Well there is a song that he has wrote about his (and others) diabetes called "A Little Bit Longer". Here are the words to it and if you get a chance go to YouTube and search for it.


"A Little Bit Longer"
Words and music by Nick Jonas

Got the news today
Doctor said I had to stay...
A little bit longer and I'll be fine
When I thought it'd all been done
When I thought it'd all been said

A little bit longer and I'll be fine
But you don't know what you got till it's gone
And you don't know what it's like to feel so low
And everytime you smile or laugh you glow
You don't even know (no, no)
You don't even know

All this time goes by
Still no reason why
A little bit longer and I'll be fine
Waiting on a cure
But none of them are sure

A little bit longer and I'll be fine
But you don't know what you got till it's gone
And you don't know what it's like to feel so low
And everytime you smile or laugh you glow

You don't even know (no, no)
You don't even know (no, no)
You don't even know (no, no)

(2,3,4!) Yeah!

And you don't know what you got till it's gone
And you don't know what it's like to feel so low
And everytime you smile you laugh you glow
You don't even know! No!

So I'll wait till kingdom come
All the highs and lows are gone
A little bit longer and I'll be fine
I'll be...fine