Happy Halloween!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Happy Halloween Everyone!!!!!!!!
I just have to say that halloween is my favorite holiday. I love this time of year.


Here are a couple of pictures of me and Rick this year.

PDD-NOS

Okay so I promised some of you that I would post some of the things dee does:


He has severe anxieties.
His speech is significantly delayed
He does not USUALLY play with other children. He likes to play on his own.
OCD(obsessive compulsive disorder) I guess he just has tendancies not actually OCD
He wakes up in the night and wanders
He hates change
Never ending tantrums
He hand flaps when he is excited
He has abnormal attatchments to objects
He has some physical delays(not horrible but it is delayed)
He screams and sobs uncontrollably for little reasons
He has alot of fears

These are most of the things that I can think of that he does. There are other things that people with PDD-NOS do that dee doesn't but the majority of the things he does do.

HOW DO THEY DIAGNOSE?

They do a medical assesment to rule out any other things like chromosomal and what not.
Behavior rating
Behavioral observation
Psychological assessment
Education assessment
Communication assessment
Occupational assessment

They did all of these things to determine his diagnosis.


WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR DESHAWN?


Well he is going to always have some kindof delays. Hopefully we can help him with the behaviors and anxieties. Hopefully he will have a seemingly normal adulthood. We really won't know until he is older. But the doctor believes he is intelligent and should have no problems there so maybe with meds or other treatments we can make this as easy on him as possible.

Dee's doctor visit

Well deshawn's doctor visit went good today. He did get an official diagnosis of PDD-NOS. This is not autism but it is in the same family. Hopefully now that we know what it is we can search our options and make a more informed decisions on how to care for him. There is no cure all but there are behavior therapies, speech therapies and there are also meds that can help with the anxiety issues he has.

Just google PDD-NOS and you can read more about it.

Thank you all for your prayers and kind words I really appreciate you all!

somber sunday

Well today is being a sad day for me. Well all week has actually been hard. Rick came home on Tuesday and told me that one of his workers' and his wife had just lost their baby. She only had a couple of weeks to go until she was due. This is the first time since our little Kasey was born that we have known someone that has had a stillborn baby. Their story reminds me alot of ours. I still have no idea why God can let a woman carry a baby to term and then just take it away in an instant. I accept it but I will never understand it. Well I don't know if I really accept it either but it is what it is and I have to. This death has left my feelings a little raw this week.

I also attended a funeral for a very special lady. She is my aunts mom and she was a wonderful person full of love for everyone she knew. She always showed me love and I appreciate her for that. She has been suffering will Alzheimer's for a while now and she finally succumbed to it.

Today I found out that one of my dearest friends' sister died. She was only 28 and has a 7 year old son. My heart is breaking for their family right now. The situation reminds me alot of my cousin shane and of course that just makes my soul hurt. We all miss him so much. Everytime I see his beautiful children I can see him in them and I really miss him.

So like I say I am having a sad day(week). I think life is tough and not fair. But you just gotta deal right? Certain things will always bring you back to times that you don't always want to remember but I guess that's life.

Oh yeah just to remind you all Deshawns appt with Primary childrens is in the morning. Say a prayer that we will get the answers we need. I will post as soon as I get a chance tommorrow.

Finally!!!

We finally signed on our house loan so now we can begin the process of adding our garage and whatever else we can afford to do to make this the home we want to stay in for the next little while.

Oh yeah other good news. We were also planning on adding a woodburning stove in our basement. Well Rick was talking to one of the contractors they do work for and he mentioned that he was getting rid of his stove because he was replacing his with a pellet stove. Rick told him that we were planning on putting one in our basement and he told Rick he could have it for FREE. WOOHOOO that should save us a few bucks anyway.

Well tommorrow is our family halloween party. Pictures will come soon from that event.

Not much else to say!

Why are they so cute?????

Seriously why can they be little stinkers one minute and the cutest little guys you ever saw the next minute?

I was downstairs and I could hear them upstairs in the kitchen having waaaaaaaaaaaay too much fun and I thought to myself oh no what are they doing? So I instinctively grabbed my camera thinking that this might be blogworthy and sure enough to my surprise it was blogworthy.

I caught them (get this) PUTTING DISHES AWAY!!!!!!!!!!!




Adam's new after school chore is to unload the dishwasher so I guess they are trying to be like their big brother. (lucky him......he doesn't have to do it today)

breast cancer awareness month!

Did you all know it is Breast Cancer Awareness month? My Aunt Connie was diagnosed with breast cancer a few months ago and is going through her chemo right now. She is going to be fine but if she was not faithful about her yearly mammograms than she wouldn't be as lucky so please take care of yourselves ladies!!

I told you the good lord always hears my prayers!

I am totally shocked. I received a letter in the mail yesterday from the state saying they are going to cover me for another year. I am speechless actually. I know we make over the income limit but maybe they took into consideration that I am uninsurable and Rick does not get health insurance offered to him where he works. I don't know the reason but I am thrilled and very humbled. I really feel like my prayers have been answered. I really have nothing more to add than that. I just feel like a huge weight has been lifted from my shoulders.

Now lets hope the house thing will happen soon (I guess I shouldn't be too greedy with the blessings huh?)

Too much stress!!!!

Okay I just need somewhere to vent because today is stressing me out(and it really has nothing to do with PMS).

Okay first thing that has me stressed is my stupid house loan. We have been trying for three months to get this stupid loan. Everything that can go wrong has gone wrong. We have extremely good credit, Rick makes decent money, we have never paid anything late EVER. Yet we still have to prove ourselves like we are criminals or something. We even decided to not do our addition except the garage just because the banks were having a fit about us borrowing 90%. So we decided to add the garage and take out the kitchen downstairs and add a food storage room and then possibly combined the two bedrooms downstairs to make a larger master. We are also going to add french doors in the kitchen and make a deck outside. Well we were supposed to be signing this week and the appraisers that appraised our house called me this morning and said the lenders want proof we don't have renters in our basement. So they came over and took more pictures. I don't know how that will prove we don't have renters but whatever. I am so tired of this process I could scream.

Next stress is my health insurance for me and my kids. We have had our kids on the CHIP program since the company that rick works with does not provide insurance. Well it is time to renew and I always stress out because this really is our only option for the kids to be covered by any insurance. I think what set me off is the lady from the state just called and wanted proof that Ricks work doesn't offer insurance. Whenever I talk to them I get really nervous because we really need this help. We honestly have never used anymore money than we have paid in but I just like knowing we have it just incase something happens. The other part of the stress is me and rick have had some coverage from another state program because our income was low enough but rick has gotten a couple really good raises this year and we no longer qualify which as you all know this really sucks since I am diabetic and that is not a cheap disease. So now we are faced with paying for all my medical expenses out of pocket. OUCH! These all add up to almost $500 a month and when I have a dr visit that is another $140 a visit. SCARY..... I did find out however that two of the oral meds that I take are on the $4 walmart prescription plan so that will be helpful.

Sorry I had to vent I am really feeling stressed today for some reason. I am sure everything will work out.....it always does. The good lord always seems to hear my prayers. Thanks for listening.

It's a boy!!!!!

Well my cousin Brian and his wife Mary found out today that they are having a boy!!!!! I am so excited for them. I think boys ROCK! I can't wait till he gets here.

Hi everyone!

There hasn't been much going on in this part of the woods. I just felt like I should tell everyone hi. We have been super busy. Rick worked on his sisters house this weekend and the whole family went with him. It is supposed to be a 2 hour drive that took us 4 hours to get there. The traffic was horrible until we got out to the country. The weather was horrible too. It rained so hard we could barely see. Plus we were hauling the work trailer so that slowed us down too.

We had a great weekend with the family. I can hardly believe how big my nephews and nieces are getting. I got the chance to go to the movies with some of the older ones which was alot of fun. I felt like I was back in the teenage years hangin out with a bunch of friends. But it was even better because each one of them are so special to me.

The drive home was alot faster and it was a beautiful day so the drive was nice. Excluding the fact that Adam thought he had to sit in the front seat with us and then decided I would make a great pillow for his nap that he decided to take( I secretly loved it since he doesn't snuggle up to me that often).

Anyway hope ya all have a great night!!!!!

I have nothing to report.

I really haven't had anything to exciting to blog about. The most exciting thing this weekend was going out with my hubby and friends. We went to Salt Lake City and went to dinner and then a club downtown. It really has been a long time since I have been to a club but it was my girlfriends birthday and it was her choice. For dinner we went to market street grill in downtown and I wasn't too impressed for the money. The service was waaaaaaaayyyyyyyy too slow.

The next night we took my sisters baby again and also her stepson for the night. I really am starting to feel old. The baby thing was kindof hard. I am not use to getting up in the night anymore, especially since being diabetic. I think most diabetics agree that a schedule is the best way to stay feeling good and good sugar control. So as happy as I was to take the cute little guy I was pooped out. But as tired as I was I will be stupid enough to do it again. I just can't get enough of his new little giggle.

Other than that nothing too exciting here. Hope you all had a great weekend.

Oh yeah I just wanted to shout out to my cuz Risa CONGRATULATIONS on her engagement.




Below is a picture of the cute little lovebirds: