Germs

Germs have hit our house.  Not the really icky ones.  So far we have avoided the stomach bug... THANK GOD!  And the Flu but both boys have had a cold, and then I got a scratchy throat which I thought was going to turn into laryngitis.  I was wrong.  My sinuses are KILLING me, well the left side right now.  I HATE being sick.  It sucks... I think a doctors appointment will be in my near future.  It'll probably turn into a nasty sinus infection for me.

Other then that things have been going good around here.  Just living life and that's it.

2012 Year in Review

Welcome 2013.

Last year was NUTS.  David had heart surgery twice.  His first one was
on my birthday January 17th.  Then again the end of May.  Here is to
hoping there are no surprised that lead us down that road again this
year.  His next echo isn’t until June.

In February David officially made is wish with Make-A-Wish to go to
Disney World!

In March David lost his bottom two front teeth.  The first to lose
teeth between the boys.  The first at something fun!

Nothing exciting happened in April really.  We did talk about holding
David back in Kindergarten but then the principle talked to us at the
end of the school year and we decided to go ahead and try first grade.

The end of May David had his 2nd surgery of the year, his 4th open
heart surgery all together.  This one surprised us.  We were not
expecting it and were almost sent to Ann Arbor via Ambulance.  He was
in surgery two weeks after that fateful echo.  This surgery was much
scarier for me because it was not expected like the other three.

June and July we did some summer camping.

In August the boys turned 6.  In August we started to get antsy
because we hadn’t heard anything about David’s wish trip.  We found
out that Dr. Gobles office dropped the ball and never returned the
paperwork.  So the coordinator sent it again and this time I called to
make sure they got it.

The boys also started first grade in August.  They started early
because this school year is now doing a ‘balanced calendar’ (aka year
round school).  The end of August we were finally contacted about
planning our trip.  The first full week of November was finally
decided.

September… noting super exciting happened… THANK GOD!!!

November… DISNEY!!!  I think November is when Matthew finally lost his
first tooth.  I can’t remember for sure.

December was the usual Christmas stuff, my anxiety started bothering
me and it got COLD.

So here is to hoping this stay exciting but every stays in good health
and there are no unwanted surprises!

Update... PIC OVERLOAD!

I slacked off on the Disney posts.  The winter is not my best time of the year.  I have an generalized anxiety/panic disorder, as well as seasonal effective disorder and Emetophobia (the fear of vomit).  The phobia is the basis of my panic disorder and causes me much anxiety.  The seasonal effective causes it to be way worse this time of year.  This put together is seriously making me consider moving to Florida.  Though I don't think I could leave my parents.  I wish I could just 'get over it' but it's not that easy.  I don't like feeling like this and I feel like my meds I take for it are not working well enough.

But anyways onto the happy stuff.

Disney was AWESOME

We had way more fun then two six year olds could have imagined.

We are already planning our next trip back.

 

Christmas was Great!  The boys got some cool stuff.

Santa brought them a Cars2 slot track, Matthew got a Lego kit, and David a big Spinasaurus or however you spell that but it's a Dinosaur and his favorite one. Matthew was very excited over the Tigers Fielder shirt we got him.  His favorite Detroit Tiger!

Now we are on to the new year.  Paul and I are going to Tennessee tomorrow for a New Year's Even concert.  I'm excited to get out of here for a couple nights!  Paul and I need the time away.

Disney Wish Trip Day Two

We got up early and headed to the Magic Kingdom!  We had big plans this day.

We had two VERY excited boys!

 The most beautiful building every!

These little critters were everywhere down there.

We got to meet many characters...

We had a handicapped fast pass.  We got to use the fast pass lane on EVERY ride and never had to wait in line to see a character.  We made it through the whole park, riding each ride we wanted to plus some extras in one day!

We had way to much fun.  I'm ready to go back to Disney right now!

Disney Wish Trip Day One

It first started out with a 3:45 alarm clock.  The limo was supposed to be here to pick us up at 4:30.  But 4am there was a knock on the door.  The guy was a half hour early.  Luckily EVERYTHING was packed, and I had showered the night before.  I just threw some snack stuff in for us to eat and we'd get breakfast in Detroit.

We first flew from Flint to Detroit.  The boys LOVED their first flight.  Matthew kept looking out the window saying "It Looks like a model".

David

Matthew

We flew from Detroit to Orlando.  I was nervous as to where we would find out greeter since it was SUPER BUSY in the Orlando airport.  Then we saw it...

They took us down to baggage and then to get our rental car.  Paul got us upgraded' to a nice ford explorer. I'd been fine with what we were supposed to have but this car was NICE.  We found the village and checked in.  They gave us a little rundown then showed us to our villa.

We unloaded the car and I unpacked clothes, put them the the dresser.  We were STARVING so I decided to order lunch.  There was an orientation meeting one parent had to go to.  I decided to let Paul go to the meeting and I took the boys to the awesome pool.

 Who would have thought... November 4th and we are SWIMMING.... OUTSIDE!!!

I was in HEAVEN... Palm trees, warm breeze, island music playing.  I could have laid there all week.

After the swim we went back to our villa so Paul could go over all the info with me.  All our meals at the village were free.  Breakfast and Dinner was at the Gingerbread house sponsored by Perkins and it was acutally very tasty.  Lunch was at Katie's Kitchen and it was Boston Market food.  YUM!

Since we had a late lunch we headed out to put David's name on his star.  Every wish child that comes to the village get's a star, they put their name or whatever they want on it, and it's hung in the castle of miracles.

 

Then we woke the owl in the tree and the boys each got a pillow.

The boys saw this slug on top of a mushroom outside of the Castle of Miracles.  He became their friend and everytime we walked by David would say 'There he is'.

 

 

 

Then we tried the Dino putt... we only got to the 3rd hole and the dino scared the boys so that was it... no more dino putt for us.

The boys found the model train set in Amberville.

 

 

 

Then we finally had dinner.  Ms. Mary saw us at our table.

After dinner we called it a night because we were getting up early to head to the Magic Kingdom.