Rotavirus!!!!

If you have never had to deal with it

believe me when I tell you

that you don't want to ever have it or be around it.

Last Thursday our life changed very quickly! Abbie woke up and within a few minutes she threw-up. I did not think much of it since she had been coughing a lot so I figured she must had a lot of mucous in her throat that needed to come out. That was of course until 15 min later she did it again. I then became a little worried and started hopping it would be over soon. Well every 15-20min for the next 8 hours she threw-up. I could keep nothing in her and she became very lethargic with a fever of a 102.5. So off to the Urgent walk in clinic we went.

They looked at her and immediately said she was dehydrated, so they put an IV in and started the fluids. She was so out of it that she did not even flinch when they put the IV in her arm. After 700cc of fluid and a shot to stop the vomiting she was asleep and I took her home. We spent all night trying to keep the fever down it was now up to 103.5 and trying to get her to drink, but she was so out of it.

The next morning she woke up and seemed better. She went to the bathroom (first time in 24 hours) and was awake, but once again by mid afternoon she started throwing up and her fever spiked again. I called her Dr. and they said to go to the ER. So off to St. Joe's we went. She was lethargic again and could not sit up. When we got to the children's ER it was packed and I was so scared. She was not doing well and I was afraid we would not get to go back for hours. 1 1/2 hours into our wait things turned for the worse. She started throwing up and having explosive Diarrhea. Thank God that within 2 minutes of all this happening they called us back. They rushed her back and had an IV in her within minutes.

(She was so dehydrated that it took 3 sticks to find a vein)

5 minutes after that the Dr. was in a said they would run blood work so they could see what was going on. So Abbie and I curled up on the bed and that is how we spent the next 4 days. 2 hours of getting into the back of the ER we were sent up to a room in the Children's Hospital. That night they did some more test and she came back positive for Rotavirus!!!

For the next few days we laid in the bed with her hooked to IV's trying to get her to eat and keep her fever under control. She hated being bothered every 2 hours at night and she could never get her arm comfortable.

She was so happy that the let us go home last night. Neither me nor her had left their in 4 days so we were happy to see the outside world again. It is so funny how much you miss your shower and bed when you are stuck in place like that.

Even though she has not thrown up or had a fever since Sunday, She is not out of the woods yet and I still have to keep an eye on her now that she is not on constant IV fluids.

I must make sure she keeps drinking so she does not relapse.

I am so glad that we are over the worse part and hopefully she will be back to normal in the next few days. Here are few pictures of her during her stay in the hospital.

This is Thursday night after the Urgent Care visit! She got a cool purple bandage that she just loved!

Here she is in her hospital bed. She loved changing channels on the remote and moving the bed up and down!

Just laying in bed! That is all she could do!


Trying to get comfortable!


Gracie was reading her all the wonderful cards that friends from church made her!
She felt so special!



Trying to sleep! She is a belly sleeper and with her arm all wrapped up and cords everywhere she could not get comfortable!

This is her yesterday morning looking a lot better. Her hair was so crazy because she had not had a bath in 4 days!

They had taken her off the machine she got a bath

and we were waiting to go home!!!!

I am THIRTY!!!

Now that I am thirty I decided to look back at my twenties and remember all the things that stood out to me! So here are the things that I can remember about my wonderful twenties:

· I married my wonderful husband Stephen
· Had two wonderful girls
· Got a AA in Early Childhood Education
· Got a BA in Criminal Justice
· Was the North Florida Director of The Princeton Review
· Was a surgery scheduler for a Women’s OR
· Lived in Gainesville FL
· Traveled out of the country for the first time to Jamaica
· Owned 7 new cars
· Was a telemarketer from home
· Bought my first house
· Sold my first house
· Moved to Tampa
· Got my first speeding ticket (57 in a 30)
· Took my first trip to New York
· Saw my first Broadway Play –Beauty and the Beast
· Lost my father-in-law to cancer
· First memorial service and funeral
· I Was pregnant or nursing for 5 straight years
· Wrote and produced 2 Christmas plays
· Organized and raised thousands of dollars for different charities
· Started a new Children’s program at church
· Stared in a commercial
· Sang on the worship team at church
· Was in my first car accident when Stephen hit a deer
· homeschool my girls
· Watch twins
· Been on more antibiotics and had more procedures done to my kidneys and
bladder then I can count
· Burnt down the Kitchen in my Apartment
· Saw and heard an angel (Neat story let me know if you ever want to hear about it)
· Have changed hundreds of diapers
· Had many sleepless nights
· Stood by Stephen’s side as he went through EMT school, Paramedic school,
Police Academy and College
· Racked up $30,000 in loans for a college degree that I don’t use
· Last but not least all the wonderful times I have had with my family and friends!!!

I guess I did a lot in my twenties I can only pray that I have as much fun and excitement in my THIRTIES!!!!

I conserve Water, Do you?

Here is a copy of the commercial Abbie and I did.

It is going to be playing on normal channels

throughout the day plus it is going to be on

the Season Finale of Grey's Anatomy!

Disney World!

My mom and nephew wanted to spend there birhtdays this year at Disney world,

so this past sunday all of us got up really early and headed to Orlando.

Here are a few pictures from are fun day!

Here we are at the start of the day! Stephen was in the bathroom so he missed out on the picutre!

The four Cousins~ David(it is his 2nd Birthday), Gracie, Sam and Abbie


It is only lunch time and they are tired all ready!

Honey I shrunk the kids play area was so cool. Abbie though she had really shrunk!

Mom on her 57th birthday with the girls

Our Family! We were waiting in line for Toy Story Mania ride!

It was so awesome well worth the wait!

Me and Summer we look nothing a like!

Abbie’s First Commercial

Yesterday abbie and me were in our First Commercial! It was very fun and quite interesting on how everything works behind the scenes. I guess you could say it was a bit of an educational experience.

The commercial is about conserving water. I was the neighbor in the commercial who comes in and pulls the mom away from washing the dishes during a party. Abbie being the 4 year old who is all about conserving water sees the water running, drags a stepping stool out of the closet and climbs up and turns the water off. Now we all know that there are not many kids let alone 4 years old who would go through that much trouble to turn off the water but it was very cute.

Abbie had so much fun being the star of the day. Here are a few pictures of her through out her day of stardom.

Abbie Getting her Hair and Make up done!

Lots and Lots of Ringlets!

Getting ready to start! She is so excited!

Dragging her Stool to the sink!

She was to short behind the island so she had to walk across a plank while holding the stool!

She had to balance without looking down! It was very hard for her. By the 40th take she was so tired of carrying the heavy stool on her shoulder.

You are all probably wondering where Grace was during all of this! Well she was not in the commercial but she had lots of fun having her make-up and Hair done over and over again all day. So she definitely felt like a princess!

Happy Birthday to Me . . .

IN 21 days!

For all of you who have known me forever know that I always start singing Happy Birthday to myself weeks and sometimes months before my birthday. I know you guys always thought I was a dork, but all of you eventually started to sing a long with me!

So in honor of my last 3 weeks of being in my 20's I felt that I should start up my singing count down once again!

So here we go with my song!

Happy birthday to me in 21 days!
Happy birthday to me in 21 days!
Happy birthday to me
Happy 30th birthday to me in 21 days!

Butterfly!!!!

Well for 7 days now we have been looking at boring Chrysalis that looked like this.

There was nothing exciting about it. All they did was just hang there. Well this evening Gracie was walking by and noticed something different. One of the chrysalis had opened up and we now have our first Butterfly!

So we ran downstairs and got some fresh flowers and sugar water and placed them inside the net. So now we are just waiting for the other 4 to break open and join their friend. I will post some more pictures once they are all out!!