B-I-N-G-O

Just wanted to see if anyone was interested in joining my-self and 2 other friends to BINGO Monday night! Bay City. Leaving the Reese/Gilford area around 6pm. Please pregnant woman, keep in mind they are usually smokie and 1 of the gals going with me, Dawn from CITGO smokes....although I am sure she wouldn't in the vehicle if we all drove together. We would sit in the smoking section for her, although I don't think it matters if your in smoking or not in these places, it stinks like smoke all over! Just wanted to throw that out there......if someone wants to go and can't make it Monday....I am sure I could find another available night in my NOT SO BUSY life lately, LOL

Tootles
~SHERRI~

Catch-up post

Here is a catch up post from our busy weekend!

Friday after school, Drew went to his friends Scott's house for a sleep over/birthday party. Adam and I took Bryce up to "The Rocket" and went bowling and ate pizza since it was a cold rainy night for a football game!

Bryce being a goofball after he threw his ball!

Standing there watching how many pins he dropped!

Bryce dancing with his ball before he threw it, LOL

Mommy posing for a picture!

Daddy giving a thumbs up after his "turkey" (show off)

Saturday afternoon we had Drew's football banquet! All the players and cheerleaders got a plaque for their efforts this season. We had good food too!

Drew with his plaque!

2008 JV1 #10 Drew................

Drew needed to make a "bug" for his science class. I bought a few items for this bug, and we finished it Saturday after the football banquet. Bryce thought it was so neat, that him and I made one also. He took his to school to show his class too! LOL

Bryce with his bug.....his has 8 legs!

Drew with his bug.....his has no legs, so it slithers

Both boys with their bugs!

Monday night we carved our pumpkins! The boys helped clean out their insides, then drew designs on their pumpkins and used the carving tools to cut them out! Bryce did just about all of his on his own this year! They had lots of fun! Daddy even carved a pumpkin too, while Mommy helped when needed and took pictures!

Shirtless Drew taking his pumpkin guts out!

Bryce taking his pumpkins guts out!

Drew using his pumpkin mouth for a uni brow ~he said that not me~ LOL

Bryce working SO hard to carve his pumpkin! His tongue is hanging out, LOL

Bryce having a blast carving!

Drew having fun carving his pumpkin!

Drew with his finished pumpkin! He says this is his signature smiley face! too funny!

Bryce with his pumpkin! AHHHHHHH scary!

From left to right~~~Drew's, Bryce's, Daddy's

(Adam used a pattern that looks like the wicked witch melting!)

That was our weekend, including yesterday!

Yesterday morning I went to the unemployment office for some testing and then had a career scope done. I was taking tests for over 3 hours! My brain hurt when it was done, LOL. In the career scope, it showed my interested is GREAT in law enforcement or special education. It did show some interest in what I think I'd enjoy doing. Although I did take a year of criminal justice before I had Drew. I thought that was interesting! Now I go Monday to fill out scholarship applications. Classes start again in Jan at Delta, so hopefully I can get in! Anyways, today is cleaning day, so I better get back to it! Take care!

Tootles

~SHERRI~

Bryce's fundraiser

Bryce is once again selling homemade holiday apple pies or homemade apple crisp! They started this last year and it went amazingly. Basically it is what it says....the REFA (reese elementary family association) makes the apples pies and apple crisps, you buy them and can either freeze them or bake them right away. I ordered 2 pies last year and froze them and when I did bake them, they were awesome! This year they are adding the apple crisp so I can't say how good these are. They would be wonderful for the up-coming holidays! I know Cheryl bought some last year too, if you'd like to ask her how they tasted! The profit from these pies because everything is donated is 100% back to Bryce's school. I know last year it went towards the new play ground equipment. It also goes towards the teacher appreciation breakfast the school puts on at the end of the year.
the pies are $8.00
the apples crisp is (9x13) and is $7.00

The money is due Oct 31st. I am helping to make the pies and can bring yours with me and drop it off. The pick up date is Saturday Nov 8th at Christ Lutheran Church in Reese if you'd like to pick your own up. Thanks guys and please let me know!

Tootles
~SHERRI~

Adam's plastic surgeon follow up visit

We had a 9:30am appointment today to get the stitches out. The nurse did that and Adam seemed to do pretty good. She was even a bit hesitant about the one going thru his nail, but she got it out and Adam said, "Are ya done?" LOL They seemed to come out pretty good, and all looks well according to the Dr. He was a bit short with us because he seems to think we were scheduled at 8am today but because we didn't have our card with us, we couldn't prove to him we had the 9:30 appointment. Last week when we were there, the nurse was also the Secretary, and she must have wrote us under the 8am in their book, but our card at home said 9:30. I had to check as soon as we got home, because he seemed up-set with us, and that made me a bit angry. I would never schedule an 8am, because we have to get the boys ready for school. Anyways, we did ask him about the loose bone kind of floating around and him being able to feel it, but he still seems to think it will grow back together. He said it will be a good year before he can bump it and it won't hurt. I guess we will see about mens league basketball this winter. That should be starting up here pretty soon.

We also ran a few errands while in Saginaw. When I unpacked our Halloween stuff, I found Daisey's costume, so we went to pet smart to find one for Molly. Her's isn't necessarily a costume, because we were afraid she'd chew off the parts, like the devil one had a tail, and that wouldn't last. But we did find her something to wear for Halloween. Here are their costumes.

Daisey as a skeleton (it really glows in the dark)

Molly's shirt says BOO don't scare me I poop easily! It also has a button on the bottom that plays a scary laugh!

Tootles

~SHERRI~

Bryce's field trip!

The Reese 1st graders went to the Chippewa Nature Center in Midland today and I went as a chaperon! It was so beautiful, and very interesting! We learned a lot! Please enjoy the pictures.

Ryan and Bryce (1 that was in my group)

Bryce with a HUGE leaf he found!

Bryce smiling for mommy!

Bryce getting ready to play a squirrel game (he's a gray squirrel)

Our little group. (Bryce far right)

Bryce was selected to come up and become a bug! He didn't even raise his hand, but I guess she picked the cutest kid in class...LOL

Bryce the dragon fly (he was embarrassed)

Bryce at the dried up marsh, looking for bugs!

On the hunt for bugs!

Libby and Bryce were bug partners. They found a spider, a grass hopper and a caterpillar.

Bryce with the bug net!

Bryce standing under this beautiful tree that dropped lots of leaves!

Mrs. Church's 1st grade class!

Tootles

~SHERRI~

Drew and 1 of his best friends & Bryce

Drew had a friend come home with us on Friday to go to the Sugar Bowl at USA H.S. This is Travis. He has been one of Drew's good friends for several years now. The 2 were being goofballs after the game while waiting for Travis's dad to come pick him up, so I snapped a few pictures, since I don't have any of these two together.
Drew and Travis



Trying not to smile, LOL



Laughing



Messing around, LOL





Then I snapped a cute picture of Bryce....well shoot, all the pictures of Bryce are cute, LOL.

You can kind of see where his 2nd tooth fell out at the bottom!

Tootles
~SHERRI~

Hmmmmm surgery or will it heal?!?!

While doing Adam's bandage tonight, he seems to think the cut is getting much better but doesn't think the bone is fixing itself. He says when he wiggles his finger, he can feel the broken off piece moving! GROSS! I guess it's a good thing we go back to the Dr. on Thursday and see what he has to say! He can squeeze his finger where the stitches are a bit more then he could, and as days pass, it looks better. But we just are unsure if the bone will need to be screwed back on....hmmm I did tell him it's only been a week since he broke it, but who knows. All I can do is pray that he won't need surgery when we go back on Thursday!

Tomorrow, I will post a few videos on here of Drew's football. They finished their season on Saturday. For now, I am off to bed. I actually worked today at Johnson's pumpkin farm for 7.5 hours. It was fun though and I got paid! LOL

Good night folks and Happy 36th birthday to my oldest sibling! love ya

Tootles
~SHERRI~

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRO!!!

It is technically after midnight and because I fell asleep after Drew's football game today, I am wide awake and it happens to be my brothers 36!!!! BIRTHDAY! HAPPY BIRTHDAY SCOTT.....We love you! You sure are getting old...ha....hard to believe 6 years ago I sent you 30 birthday cards when you turned 30...LOL Love ya.....your MUCH younger SISTER!

Adam's Dr. up-date

Adam and I went to see Dr. Allport this morning. He was very nice! He looked at Adam's wound and cleaned it up (Adam said he was a bit rough) and basically after looking at the x-rays seems to think it will heal itself. He said the break is about a millimeter from the end of the bone, so hopefully it will just fuse back together. He does want to see him again a week from Thursday to take the stitches out and get a better look at it. It's still a little red and banged up, but all looks good. PHEW! He did take the whole day off today, so we enjoyed an afternoon together, and plans on doing the same when he gets the stitches out! Some of my family members have asked me to take pictures of the stitches, so I did tonight when my mom was over and changed his gauze. This picture is much prettier then it would have been before the stitches, but it's still not very pretty! Anyways, all looks good, so thanks for the prayers! ALSO, I did take a picture of his finger before the stitches, but not from the under side which was much worse, so if anyone wants to see that, let me know. That one I will not post on here! EWWWWW The break pretty much goes in the same direction as the stitches, because we have the CD of his x-rays! It's on a diagonal like that!

~~~~~~~~~~~~Stitches~~~~~~~~~~~~

Tootles

~SHERRI~

Adam's Dr. appointment

I called the Dr this am and he can't see him til tomorrow (Tuesday) at 10am. So we won't know much more til after that. No idea what his plans will be, but Adam says he is staying at work all day today unless he is in too much pain! Will keep you UTD though. Say a prayer for him please!
Tootles
~SHERRI~

Our fun filled Sunday!

Sunday morning started out wonderful, as Bryce lost his 2nd tooth. It was wiggly for awhile, and he finally pulled it out. So now he has a big gap on the bottom of his mouth, as both teeth came from the bottom middle! He is too cute and growing up too fast. He came down with $1.00 this morning and was very excited!

About 1pm, we met my dad at the Trinity Cemetery in Reese with his splitter and split the huge pieces of wood that had been cut up. They filled our truck and my dads truck, and on the VERY last piece they were splitting, Adam's hand slid down in between the wood and the splitter, and down the arm went to split the wood. My dad was running the splitter and had NO idea his hand went down there until Adam yelled UP UP UP!!! My dad took it up, and Adam yanked his hand out. His finger had been crushed! THE VERY LAST PIECE!!! AHHH We wrapped it in napkin, hooked the splitter onto our truck and took off for home to change vehicles. We dropped Bryce off at Drew's friends house where Drew was at, and Adam and I were off to St. Mary's Med Express. The crushing happened about 3:20pm, and we didn't leave St. Mary's til about 7pm. He got a tetanus shot, and I think he said 4 x-rays. They numbed his finger because it was cut pretty bad, and he stitched that up with 7 stitches. He also broke the end of his finger. It's a clean break, but it goes on a diagonal at the very tip, even further down then his last knuckle. We stopped and saw my mom at the pumpkin farm where she is working for the season, where she told me my dad called her and was crying, because he was running the arm, and feels terrible. I do want him to know it was an accident and it is NOT his fault! We grabbed the boys, went home for them to shower, and I was off to get his medicine. Our prescriptions can only be filled at rite aids, so I took off to Caro. I found out the only rite aid pharmacy opened past 6:30pm is the one off 675 where we just were. So I was off to that one. Today we have to call a Plastic Surgeon to see what he wants to do about the broken tip off his finger. I don't see that they would just let it heal, because it seems like it would just hang there, but because of the trauma to his finger and the 7 stitches, it is so swelled up! I don't know how much sleep I got last night, but I know it wasn't much. I finally got Adam to climb into bed about 12:30am after falling asleep in the chair. Once he was in bed, I kept rolling over to see if he was sleeping, and waiting for him to punch me and tell me he needed another pain pill. I also kept looking at his finger and thinking this was all a bad dream! NOPE he woke up with a HUGE wrapped middle finger, so he looks like he is always flipping me off! LOL He has a great attitude about it, but gosh I feel so bad for him. He even went to work today until I call the plastic surgeon! What a trooper! I guess the 2 best things out of all this is that it WAS my dad running the arm and not Bryce who may have just kept going down when Adam yelled UP UP UP! And he broke the finger on his left hand, and he is right handed! I will spare you the picture I snapped before the Dr. came in b/c it's pretty gross, but I have a pretty cool 1 on my phone that isn't gross if anyone wants to see that. It's of the break! Please say an extra prayer for Adam today that he be strong when going to the plastic surgeon as I know he is going to play with that finger that is hurting so bad and that IF he needs surgery to put the bone back on, that all goes well with that. I of course will keep everyone UTD! Thanks guys!
Tootles
~SHERRI~

V-I-C-T-O-R-Y

HA!!!!! FINALLY! Drew's football team won their first game last night! 22-13! It was very exciting! I am learning how to put videos on here a bit, so on my "day off" tomorrow, I may attempt to put 1 of his tackles on! His name was announced 3 times for tackling! He was actually involved in 4 tackles, but only announced for 3...oh well! YEAH DREW!!! It was also parents night, so Adam and I walked on the field with him and were announced as well! That was their last home game. Anyways, I'll see what I can do about the video part tomorrow....we have too much to get done today! Just wanted to share with everyone that they finally won! We are now 1-4! Better then 0-5! WTG DREW!!!! WE ARE VERY PROUD OF YOU!!!

Friends and family that are preggers

OK, so after being shocked with some friends blogs last night, I felt the need to ask for some prayer requests. I have a few family members and friends that are preggers and I just wanted them to know they are in our thoughts and prayers that all goes well. I'll start with family. Robin (Adam's sister) is due November 17th with a baby girl. Their first child!
My cousin Courtney is pregnant not sure about when she is due, but I know she still has awhile to go. My 43 year old cousin Kimmie is pregnant with a boy. She is due March 20th. They have a daughter already and all is great with this boy, being that she is "older" they had an amnio and everything looks normal. I should also tell you all that they waited so long because she had some sort of female cancer (although they kept that a secret) so the chances of her getting pregnant was slim to none and now they are expecting number 2! I am sure my mom will know what female problems she had but I don't remember!

Now onto friends.....my best friend growing up is expecting number 2 in 6 weeks! They have an adorable little guy already! The family I used to babysit for, Dawn and Joe are expecting another child! They have 2 amazing sons already! Then for the shocker that made me want to write this post.......the couple that bought our house in Richville just over 2 years ago already have a cute little girl and will soon hear the sounds of 6 more little footsteps in their house! They found out they were pregnant about a month ago, then went for an ultrasound on Tuesday and found out she has 3 in the oven! TRIPLETS!!! AHHHHHH They will have 4 babies under the age of 15 months when these babies are born!

CONGRATS to you all, and please know your in our thoughts and prayers for happy and healthy pregnancies, deliveries and babies! IF I forgot anyone, I am sorry! Everyone reading this, please keep them all in your thoughts and prayers as well!

(I am thinking instead of looking for another job I should start doing day care again! LOL)

Tootles
~SHERRI~