One sick week

Our family has been going through a stomach bug. most of my kids got it for a day or two and then they were fine. A typical stomach bug. Kalin on the other hand got super sick. she started throwing up on Tuesday. Every hour or sooner she was puking or having some nasty diaherra. She also had headaches and fevers as high as 104. Even on fever reducer it would only come down to a 101. so Wed. night I took her to St. Lukes because at this point I knew she was dehydrated. She also had not eaten anything but half a banana and was throwing up like she had full meals. So they gave her some zofran [nausea medicine] and gatorade and sent us home. So the next day she was on zofran and very little gatorade and got much worse. She was violently throwing up,her diaherra got much worse and she was becoming really weak and lathargic. So i took her to her doctor friday morning, basically we ruled it was one vicious tummy bug and she would eventully start to feel better. She prescribed her some fenergan, which is also nausea medicine, but will make you sleepy. So we came home and gave her the meds. She perked up a little and ate some dry kix. Well about an hour later she started throwing up so bad she couldn't breath. So, by this point I was getting really worried it was more than a virus so I took her to Conroe hospital. They took her back right away and ran some test. They of course admitted us and put us in a room. They gave her an IV. Well 24 hours later she only threw up once but looked much worse. She wouldn't even sit up in the bed. She had only had one wet diaper all day, not good when your being pumped with fluids. So they kept us another night. At this point they ruled out all bad things it could have been, it was truly a virus and she just was really, really sick. So they uped her fluids and gave her more zofran. About 10 min. after them changing her fluids she was smiling and pushing the buttons on the bed to make it go up and down. It made a huge difference she went from looking like she was on her death bed to looking a little sick. So the next day the sent us home, whih was yersterday. She's still getting better, but a least now she can keep stuff down so she can get completely well. I've never seen a tummy bug make someone that sick. I'm glad its allmost over. I am so hoping I don't get sick after all that.

Easter 2009

Mario I think found the most eggs out of all of my kids. He was super excited.

The boys had a blast when we got home they wanted to go look for more eggs.

My beautiful girls. Kalin actually didn't get any eggs, by the time we got out the door they were all gone. Her siblings all shared.

Maya couldn't stop gigling she was so excited!

Ian got to build a pretend fish tank out of foam. He thought that was pretty cool.

Our Easter was pretty nice. We usually go camping on Easter, this year we decided to stay home. I got to dance with to other wonderful girls, we had a lot of fun practicing together. Lots of laughs and good times. We decided to give the kids their baskets Easter Eve because later on that day our church was having an Easter egg hunt, plus Sunday morning was going to be way to busy. The kids each got a bucket,[because they can play with them and use them again, verses a basket that they won't use again], in each one was some candy, not a whole lot, a surprise. They had lots of fun. So here is some pictures of our Easter. I'll post more of them all dressed up later on.

What were you doing?!!

So, I had to share this with all of you. A couple of weeks ago, I was teaching my older kids Social Studies and I had Elijah and Kalin playing with blocks in Elijah and Ian's room. Well, then about 15 min. later I realize their being really good and almost to quiet [yea, you know what your thinking], so right when I decide to go see what their doing Elijah brings me my camera, my brand new digital camera. And then he says to me, "Mommy, i took pictures!" I'm thinking, Oh no, did he break my camera, so I start scrolling through the pictures and what do I find.......... KALIN PLAYING WITH SCISSORS!! Woa, what were you two doing. He took all kinds of pictures of her trying to figure out how to use the scissors. Granted they were safety scissors but it still freaked me out. Whats next Kalin playing with a butcher knife! HA!HA! Anyways, so here are the pictures I found that day. O, by the way it is a mystery to me how my kids keep ended up with the scissors, if you remember this is not my first story on here that involved scissors. anyhow... enjoy they will make you laugh!

My long lost friend

When I was 12 I met my friend Amanda. She was crazy and a lot of fun to be around. I'll never forgot we were hanging out at youth group at she says to me you wanna be my best friend or something?! I said sure, why not, and here begins our story. We talked on the phone for hours everyday we were always together. She had a really hard life things I will not share, that is her story. Anyway when we were 15 she ran away from home. So from that point to this point, we have always found eachother. Her brother passed away in 2002, he was my husbands best friend, so I grieved heavily for both of them. Her first born son was born at 20 weeks and could not survive. That was a horrible day. She was so heartbroken, she disappeared out of all of our lives. It has been 3 years since I had heard from her or seen her. In May of last year I got a phone call and sure enough it was her!!! She had another baby, born to early but survived and has no complications. She named her Madison. She just turned 2 yesterday. So. we drove way out there and got to spend a couple of hours together. We could not stop hugging eachother, I swear every 5 minutes one of us was grabbing the other one. I love that girl, and probably worry about her way to much. I hope that all her dreams come true, and she has a life full of love and joy from here on out.

The Shack

I read the book the Shack, and absolutely loved it. Probably one of the best books I've ever read. It opened my eyes and my heart a little more, okay a lot more. I almost felt like I gould relax and enjoy this life I've been given with my creator. So today, I looked up the author to find out a little more about him. This little journey led me to youtube, which led me to a ton of preachers totally hating this book. I was in shock. Every one of them took certain things in the book out of context. Not on them saw the beauty and freedom in this book. First , everyone of them threw a fit with God appearing as an Afircan American woman. First of all God is neither male nor female and in the book God tells him, I'm appearing to you in this way to basically get you out of your religious box and see me for me not for who you think I am. I totally loved that. God is our everything. He is at that time what we need him to be. To the fatherless their father, to the motherless their Mother, to the widow their Husband, he's our friend, our Lord, our shelter, our Love. Much later in the book God appears as a Father figure because thats what he will need. They forgot to mention that. These preachers remind me of the pharisies in the bible, when God shook up their world they didn't like, and sought to destroy Jesus. This book brought a breath of fresh air. It reminded me its all about Him, all about relationship with him and others around us. It breaks my heart that these people couldn't see that and felt the need to attack this man. It makes me wonder what kind of relationship these pastors have with God. Are they just about controlling their congregation so they do what they think is right. I pray God opens their eyes to see Him in a more loving more awsome picture, than we thought possible. God wants to share our daily lives with us, all day, He doesn't want to just be at the top of our to do list. Lets let Him in, and get to know His heart.

Our yard is on fire!!!

Spring is arriving! I love this time of year. I love when everything comes back to life, and everything is beautiful yet again. So, Saturday we decided to go to the Garden Center and get mulch and some flowers and come home and fix up our front yard. So we did, we came home and worked really hard on our front yard, it took hours. We raked the yard, bagged up all 10-12 bags of leaves, [I can't remember exactly how many now], and planted some new flowers. Sunday morning about 7:00 or 7:30, I faintly hear someone banging on my door. I jump up and go to see whats going on. When I opened the door it was a fireman, and smoke was everywhere in my front yard!! My first thought was, my house is on fire, and thier getting us out, and then I realized it was more towards the street. The bags of leaves were on fire! Apparently a neighbor called the fire department. The fireman begins asking me if we bagged up anything that could have caught fire, I said no just leaves, so they put it down as undetermined. I'm geussing someone diving by threw out a cigerette our something like that. Oh, and the fire apparently got very close to Mario's car. Yea, there's always excitement at the Quintanilla house. So, Mario made another trip to the garden center now that we had big black burn spot at the front of our yard. He brought some grass so all of our work didn't feel in vain. Well, there you have it another fun filled day!