Is he trying to give me a heart attack at 29?

OK, do you guys remember last summer when my hubby had the accident with the lift, and we spent the entire day at Parkland? Well, today he wrecked his dirt bike. I was inside wrapping presents, and Justin runs in the house screaming that Jeff's been hurt. So I run outside and he was lying on the ground not moving. By the time I got to him, he had come to. Apparently when he was jumping, the dirt bike bogged down, and didn't give enough power to make it to the landing of the jump. So what happened was it tossed Jeff off and he went head first over the handlebars. Get this; he WASN'T wearing a helmet! URGH! I swear, he's so dumb. Every time he gets on his bike to go ride, I am on him to put on his helmet. When he's riding on our little track by our house, he doesn't seem to think he needs it, for whatever reason. OK, so I'm out there with him, he's got blood all over his head, his knee is killing him and he's just rolling around moaning. Thank God he was moving and talking. When Justin got to him, he was unconscious. Justin was scared to death! After about 30 minutes of rolling around, sitting up, laying down, etc...I finally got the truck over there, and Justin and I were able to get him in the truck. He can't put any weight on his left leg, so he is next to impossible to move. When we came in, we only made it to the first bedroom, which is Justin's. He lay in there for a couple of hours, and then we had to get the rolling office chair to move him to the living room. I couldn't get him to the bathroom for a shower or bath. I did my best to wipe down his wounds with a wet rag. The ground literally took hunks of his hair out. He looks like he has a bad receding hairline, and then a little farther back, there is a hunk out where he has a bad scrape. Oh, and in his right shin there is like a puncture wound. We think it is from the foot peg...that thing is nasty. I got queasy looking at it...it's literally a hole about the size of a pencil eraser, and it looks like it freakin' goes down to the bone. What do I do about that??? I made Justin squeeze some Benzoil Peroxide on it, but I don't know if that did any good. I don't know how we are going to make it over to my brother's tomorrow night for Christmas Eve...Anyone have any crutches? My Mema called and offered her wheelchair. I think we may have to take her up on it. I'll post pictures later.

*******UPDATE***********
So I am writing you now from the office of the Imaging place (aka Cat Scan). We went to the family dr this morning and he took x-rays. Big boy has two broken bones in his leg. Lovely, right? So, we are here to get a cat scan, then off to the orthopedic's office. Who knows how long that will take, or what they will do. If he gets a cast, I'll definitely have to put some pictures up. Oh, and I do have some of his scraped up head. I'll put those up later when we are back home....

Dallas Arboretum!!!

We went yesterday because I wanted to get some pictures of P in her Christmas dress; plus I wanted to test my new camera. The Arboretum wasn't decked out like I thought it would be. It was actually pretty blah. But, it was a gorgeous day today, and they had green grass and a lake view! So, I did get a few good pics. Here are some of them. I know it seems like a lot, but it's really not considering I took about 120!!!

My Fish Kiss!

Payton and her Aunt Lana





Payton with her Aunt Lana again.

This group of kids walked by us and Payton just decided she wanted to go with them. So, she grabbed the girls' hand and took off walking with them!!

I feel so "Martha-esque" (Is that a word?)

I made toffee last night for the first time ever! I got the idea from a girl on a mom's board that I am on. I pulled up a recipe from www.allrecipes.com, went to the store for the stuff, and made it last night. It was actually very easy, and might have to make it a yearly thing. I packaged it up in this cute little box to give to my neighbor! Yeah!

An Update...if you will

Remember this? Well, I just received the bills from the doctor and hospital for this little incident. Can you say $469.03!!!!!!! And that's OUR PART! I freakin' hate having insurance with a deductible. That was one freakin' expensive fishing trip. Dayum!

Just 4 More Days...

Yeah! I am so tired of the malls, streets, grocery stores, and everything else being so packed! I love Christmas, and this time of year, but I hate how crowded everything is! I'll be glad when it's not so freakin' crowded. I think I have all of my shopping done. I guess what I have is what everyone is getting...if they didn't get what was on their list, then they're just going to have to do without. :-) Is that mean?

I would like to say thank you to everyone for all the lovely Christmas cards. I mean, you guys have some good-lookin' families. Feliz Navidad.

Check this out

This was the sunset yesterday. Isn't it gorgeous?

Isn't She Lovely?

Isn't She wonderful....here's the infamous ornament. Ain't she purty?

Woo Hoo...Girls Night

I got to go out to dinner with some of my old girlfriends tonight...I don't mean old as in age old, I mean as in I've known them for a long time. We used to work together at good ol' EDS. Man, how times have changed. OTB in Allen, thanks for all the confusion. We had a great time. No kids..wow, how exciting that can be. Sorry, no pics for you. That darn place closes at 10 PM. WTH????

~~~Oh, by the way... when I came home, was Payton asleep in her bed? No, she was asleep with daddy in MY bed. Hello? That's not the routine?! What's up with that?

Brooks....don't be mad

I know you are upset. There is counseling for that. I know you wanted that ornament...but it was obviously meant for my tree. I will take a picture of it tomorrow, just you show you how great it looks on MY tree. Really, don't cry.

Christmas Party

Today was fun. We went to my mom's group Christmas party. We had an ornament exchange for the mommies and a book exchange for the kiddo's. Oh and we ate, of course. We always eat! :-) I got a really pretty ornament (thank you Brooks, and sorry Bonnie for stealing it from you). Anyway, it's awesome. I thought I would steal my ornament because I liked it too, but I didn't. That was my plan though, if anyone stole this one from me. Anyway, I got to use my new camera and take lots of pictures of cute kiddo's. I'll post some for your viewing pleasure.

Now for some good news

1. The Cowboys won last week. Yeah, thank you, no overtime. I'm so tired of these nail-biter endings! They are stressing me out.

2. I bought myself an early Christmas present. My brother has gotten me into camera's and picture-taking. Well, really my child is really the one who has gotten me interested in the picture taking, but he is into camera's and I've been digging his camera. So one day he tells me, "If you like this camera, you should get the D50" (which is a step down from his). So, what do I do? Think about it non-stop, research it, read reviews, and finally (after like, a week) give in. This is what it looks like...

Anyway, I absolutely love it so far...and thank you Troy for helping to increase your baby sister's debt. Pictures to come.

To catch you all up....

I know, it's been like a month since I've posted. So here's a little bit of what's been going on...

A few weeks ago, Jeff locked me out of the house. Yes, he did. I walked him out one morning, and when I walked around back to pick something up in the back yard, he left and closed the garage door when he left. Well, I had walked out through the garage with him, so it's not like he didn't know that was the only door that was unlocked. Oh, did I mention that all I was wearing was a t-shirt and undies? No shoes, no pants...Lovely, I know. So, I start checking all the windows, knowing they're all locked...of course, they all were. Oh yeah, I also forgot to mention that Payton was still in her bed, still asleep, I hoped. The next thing I decide to do is to walk to the neighbors. Well, we live out in the country, so it's not like they're right next door. Their house is about 5 acres away. Don't forget, I'm barefoot and we have a rock road. Oh but don't worry, I just walked across the freaking hay, weeds, and dirt. It felt GREAT! OK, so I make it over there, and guess what? Not home. So, I book it all the way back to my house and finally decide it's time to break a window. I broke the little one by the front door thinking it will be the cheapest to replace...not. Not only that, but it was double-paned, tempered, so none of the glass people had it in stock. Oh well, at least I made it in the house to get my baby! It was over a week before the window was fixed...the day before Thanksgiving.

OK, so some time passes...nothing too exciting happens, or at least that I can remember. Last Monday night I was getting ready to drive to Austin with a friend. Well, I turned on the water and we had no pressure. Jeff tells me to call the neighbor to see if they have any water pressure...of course, they do. So what does that mean? We have a busted pipe. So Jeff takes his big light out to look, and sure enough, water spewing everywhere on the side of our house, and a swamp! Lovely. This month's water bill should be massive. So, I need to leave, right? Who's gonna watch P so Jeff can fix the pipe? I'm already late to meet my friend, so it's not like I have time to hang out. I call my mom, no answer. So, I decided to call my sweet neighbor, who loves Payton. I hated to bother her, but knew she wouldn't mind. So, she graciously said she would come over. OK, now we're truckin. I was just a few minutes away from getting to leave my nice warm house to go on a three hour drive to Austin...did not want to go. So neighbor comes over, I go to leave, and what do I do? I freakin' BACKED INTO HER CAR!!!!!! OMG, what else can go wrong?? I was so upset and ticked off at myself for being soo stupid!!!!! OK, so the car isn't fixed yet. I felt horrible. So much for Christmas money! OK, I'm ending this long post now, but more to come.