Relief...

Kyle is on the mend. The antibiotics he was given yesterday seemed to have really helped. Today we took him back to the doctor. As soon as we got to the office, the doctor, and 3 of the nurses ran over and said how good he looked compared to yesterday. I am very grateful for good doctors (she called twice yesterday to check on him) and modern medicine. The doctors best guess is that maybe in inhaled something into his lungs, causing him to instantly start coughing so much. Then his body noticing the irritant started sending cells and fluid to the area, causing the pneumonia. That would also expain, why he started cough and then ran the fever 2 days later. Usually it is the other way around. He is on antibiotics for 10 days, and the doctor said to expect him to keep coughing for about 6 weeks, until all the junk gets cleared out. Thank you for all of the prayers for our little guy!

Our little guy...

Kyle hasn't been feeling very well the last couple days. He started coughing Saturday night. He seemed to be feeling better yesterday, but we kept him home from church to just give him a little more rest. Last night he had a pretty rough night, and woke up with a 102 degree fever. We took him to the doctor this morning. After some very uncomfortable chest x-rays they determined that he has pneumonia. They gave him a injection of a major antibiotic. We will go back tomorrow for another injection and more x-rays. Hopefully his fever will break, and his lungs look better! So if you will say a little prayer for Kyle, we would appriciate it.

Our little Fairy and cute Charlie Brown!

Tonight we went to the Irwins for a Halloween Party! Kyra plays with their little girl Bailee, and Kyle is the same age as their second little girl Eli. So it is always so much fun to hang out. Kyra loved the party. She went as Tinkerbell.

Kyle was Charlie Brown. He is teething!

The party was a "gross out" Halloween Party. So everyone brought something gross, but edible. This was ours. My parents were very into Halloween. Every year they had a "Haunted Front Yard", which was usually a 20 person production...everything you can think of. So now whenever I put up anything for Halloween, I have to ask Karl "Is this what normal people do?" Karl said no to this food item, but oh well!

It was so much fun!
This is Kyle with Eli, who for some reason everytime Kyle sees her, he tackles her. Silly boy.

We also went to the zoo with Bailee and Eli this week. This is Kyra and Bailee laughing just for the sake of laughing!

Suns Game!

A couple weeks ago the Suns had their annual scrimmage here in Tucson. It was great. Kyra loved it. It was such a fun evening..we ended up getting free tickets, and sitting only 3 rows up from the bottom, and even sat in the section where the players come out of the tunnel!

Rodeo

We recently went to a rodeo with some friends. Kyra and her friend Bailee got their arms painted with a picture of a unicorn (whick Kyra loved). They also had this wheel thing you could spin and win a prize. I won 2 shot glasses with the words "Desert Diamond Casino". Whoo who!!! What on earth do I do with 2 shot glassess. Well I ended up just throwing them away..Karl suggested keeping them until I wanted to get released from my calling and then using them during a white elephant gift exchange.

It was a rough day.

Okay...Kyra was on one this day. Right after this I made the comment "Kyra Elizabeth if you don't stop being naughty I'm going to beat you (note frusterated mom tone, not actually going to do it tone). No sooner had I said those words, the phone rang. It was a local church group asking for a donation, but their opening line was "Hi we are from the local something church, do you know of anyone that could use a prayer right now."

Matching PJ'S

So I had this brilliant idea of buying the kids matching pj's and taking some photos! I kid you not these were the best we were able to get.




We are regrouping.

Busy, Busy Busy

It is funny how if you don't keep up on blogging, suddenly you can feel very behind!
Of most importance is that Karl passed his oral graduate boards!!! I am so proud of him. So all he has to do now is get a B in his last class, and then he will graduate in December. And, if he gets an A in that class, he will gradate with a 4.0 with a Masters in Industial Engineering, with an Empasis in Operations Research! I really couldn't ask for a better guy.
We were lucky enough to be able to schedule his oral boards during homecoming week of our alamater, NMSU. We went to a volleyball game on Friday night, which was great. Our team is ranked in top 25 in the nation! They won the first 2 games, lost the next 2 games, and then were down 14 to 9, and came back to win 16 to 14. Kyra and Kyle were chosen as some of the cutest kids and put on the jumbo bigscreen, and Kyra got a miniture volleyball with all of the players signatures. The next day while Karl was doing his oral, Sharon (our friend from college) and I took the kids to feed the ducks at the pond. These ducks knew what was up. They came running up the second they saw the bread, and started circling.


The next day was the homecoming parade.

Karl swears it was the cheerleaders who suggested the picture.


This is us at the Homecoming game with Bobby and Sharon. We actually won! Kyra would sing the Aggie Fight song and get to the part where they spelled A-G-G-I-E-S, but she would just say whatever lets popped in her head..A-X-I-J-K-L.


They recently remodeled our stadium!

It was really such a fun weekend. The kids LOVED Bobby and Sharon!

What a big boy I am!

Kyle is now 6 months old. We love having him in our family. We can't get enough of his smiles. Recently he started crawling, standing up in his crib (aka giving Mommy a heartattack) and can even sit in a big boy booster at the kitchen table. We love our little guy.

Can you tell they are related?

Kyra


Kyle


Kyle


Kyra

Girls Night Out!

For my birthday a group of us girls went out to the Macaroni Grill, without the kids!


After dinner we watched the Office Season Premier. It was a really fun night.