Dang Gall Bladder

Hello Everbody

Sorry it's been a while, the reason is that Emily is dealing with Gall Bladder issues and is in a lot of pain. She has had some issues with the docs to get her into a specialist to get it taken care of; however, she has finally seen the specialist and he is running a few more tests. Hopefully we will be able to find out exactly what is going on and get her fixed up and back to normal. We have wonderful friends who have taken upon themselves to watch Marcus during the day and Annabella once school gets out. Emily was having a hard time taking care of Marcus so these awsome frinds stepped up. With great gratitude in our hearts, Thank you. It has meant so much to us to not have to worry about Marcus during the day.

That is really all that is going on around here. The kids have all of sudden discoverd that they can use a special method of torture on each other called "bugging" and "ignoring" and "tattle" These methods are being used and the skill there of is being refined to make the torture even better to use on each other. Driving us nuts. At this very moment they are playing very good, but give them about 2 to 5 min. and one will be coming to me to tattle, while the other is screaming "don't tattle on me." Oh the joys of being a parent.

I am starting a leadership class this week. It is going to be for 6 weeks. I had to drop my school class because it is very important to do well in this leadership class. So after the leadership class I am going to have to make up for the class in order to finish at my projected date. Right now if all goes well I will be done with school about April of 2010. Can not wait.

Well I am going to sign off now. I do not know if I am going to be able to have time or information to give in the next 6 weeks. I will give new news on Emily's Gall Bladder.

Take care all,
Ramos

Good bye to 2008

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year everyone.

Here is what happened these past few weeks.

Christmas Eve we went over to the Scott family's house for an awsome dinner and a reinactment of the Nativity. Emily was Mary and I was Joseph. Annabella was the Angel and the Star. Marcus was one of the Sheperds. It was a really nice evening. Thank you Scott family.

Christmas day we woke up and did the present thing. We didn't do a whole lot and it was nice. Santa brought one present for the whole family, and I think that by far it is the best present ever. He gave Nerf guns to all of us. We all love it. It is so much fun chasing each other and shooting each other with the Nurf ammo. By far we have a blast, and they makes a great Family Home Evening activity. Here is a great moment from one of our games.

That night we had our traditional open house for anyone who needed a place to go for Christmas. We make a dinner and who ever shows up, shows up. We started this after our first year here and this allows us military familys and anyone else who can't make it home for Christmas to have an extended family to spend Christmas with, so no one has to spend it by themselves. There were a few families that came over and we had a great time. It was nice.

The next weekend was New Years, and Emily and I have never been big on celebrating. The kids went to bed at their normal time cause they are 4 and 5 and I did not want to deal with them the next day. So we bought The Dark Night and kicked back and relaxed. The New Year came and we crashed. Like I said not big party animals. On New Years day the kids and I watched the Rose Bowl Parade and then we watched a couple of Bowl games including the Rose Bowl. The kids were inthrowled with watching Football. In fact Annabella asked me while flipping threw the channels if we could watch the Dallas Vs. Eagles game. That was the best game ever to watch Dallas crash the way they did. Anyhow it has been kinda funny to see the kids so excited to watch football. Infact everytime a game is on they want to watch it and they have to know the name of the teams that are playing.

Now for a funny story involving a football. Marcus got a new football for Christmas and we were out playing with it. Marcus liked what he saw on the College games and so he wanted me to throw it to him while he was running. I told him that we needed to practice catching just back and forth but he didn't want to hear it. So I threw it and it hit him in the legs, he picked it up and threw it back to me, which he has a pretty good arm for a 4 year old, and told me to wait. He then proceded to run out about 25 yards and said throw it dad. I yelled "Marcus, your too far, come closer." "No dad, throw it." What else was I supposed to do. I steped to throw and I thought to my self this is going to hit him in the face. I released the ball and watched it go. It all went slow motion after that, I watched the ball spiral through the air and as it came down I was all of the sudden on America's Funniest Video and Marcus was the star because the ball came down and smacked him right in the face. He fell down crying and I was laughing so hard I was crying as I ran up to him to comfort him. I was laughing because I called it and I could not believe it happened. After we got him calmed down and back out playing catch he asked me why I was laughing. I had no answer for him I just wished I had it on video. I was a classic AFV moment.

Saturday we went to the Army All American Bowl. East Vs. West. It was fun. The kids loved it here are a couple of pictures from the Game.

And now it is Sunday, and it is back to work and back to school for Annabella. I hope this year is good for everyone.

Take care all

And remember it's almost Friday

Here is a super edited version of a family adventure that I made. The original was to big for the blog to hold. So I had to go back and do an edit. The original is way better, but this is what I could do for the blog. Anyways I hope you enjoy.

Hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving and Christmas preperations are going good.

Take care all

Ramos

Twilight

This past weekend Emily flew up to Washington to see Twilight with the females of the family. She left Thusday and returned on Sunday. She loved the movie, infact she went twice in the same night the 7:40 show then the 10:40. Emily said she got home at like 2:00 a.m. So the kids and I had the weekend together. It was fun, we went to Pizza Hut for dinner, the park, the Urgent Care and Burger King. Oh urgent care you ask. When we were at the park Annabella, of course, triped over something and landed on the ground but landed with her arms out. She grabed her arm right away, cried and said "my arm hurts." As soon as I saw this, my first thought was "you have got to be kidding me" Oh great Emily is going to come home with Annabella in a cast. How classic is that, mom leaves, dad in charge, kid ends up with broken arm. We went to the bathroom and got her cleaned up and she said she was doing better. We went home and she sat on the couch with an ice pack on her arm and was watching some princess movie. She then went out to play, so I thought nothing more of it until she back in and said her arm still hurt. By now it was 3:00 in the afternoon, so now it was time to make a choice, go now and sit for hours and get home at a reasonable time, or have to go in at 8:00 p.m. and get home at who knows what time. So off we went, we ended up coming home with nothing wrong. Good stuff.

Now I have Pink eye so they sent me home from work so I wouldn't spread it to anyone else and ruin there 4 day weekend which goes from Thrusday - Sunday. Sweet, I love 4 day weekends.
Emily and I are going to go see Twilight on Friday. This is finals week for one of my classes, always glad to get another class under the belt. Now the Holiday seasons is kicking off. Busy but quickly passing by. Crazy to see how fast time goes by without knowing it. Another year is coming to an end. Crazy.

Anyways to all have a safe and Happy Thanksgiving.

Ramos

Happy Anniversary !!!

Emily and I celebrated our 7th anniversary on Monday 10 Nov 2008. We have been through many adventures. This is just a quick note. I am working on a project to post; however, I thought of it a few days before our anniversary and it is taking alot longer than anticipated. So once it is done I will post it.

Take all

Chicken Treat !!

That is was what Marcus said instead of Trick or Treat at the Trunk o' Treat. It was funny.




Alright here is the Halloween Story. 10:00 p.m. the night before Halloween Annabella wakes up saying that her tummy hurts, so I layed down with her, and she rolls over and pukes all over the place. She is up all night ralphing, so we had to make the horrible call to not let her go out that night. She was heart broken, and when we told her it was heart breaking as a parent to hear her cry "I want to go Trick O' Treating, Marcus gets to go" It sucked, but what can you do. This is what we did, I told her that Marcus and I were going to go out and get candy for her, and the next day we will do a Halloween thing. After hearing that she was ok with it. Marcus and I went to the church for Trunk O' Treat and we came home after that. I was going to take him around base to the houses, but I figured he was able to out anyways he'll be just fine not going out again when his sister didn't get to go at all. Marcus came home with candy and everyone was happy.


The next day was our bimonthly shopping trip to Costco and Wal-Mart, and for the Halloween make up day the kids wore their costumes to the stores. We got some good looks, but after explaining the situation everybody was sympothetic and wished the kids a Happy Halloween. Annabella was a Fairy and Marcus was a Transformer. I will be honest I was a bit embaressed at first out two kids running around the store with their costumes on like we thought Halloween was that day when in fact it was the day before; however, once I explained the story and we got the "Oh Poor thing" I was fine. Ok Ok I know I should of not have been embarresed but that is the way it goes. The kids loved it and everbody was happy. So here are the pictures of Pumkin Carvin, before and after pictures. Thanks to the wonderful hot weather that Texas produces. For those who don't know San Antonio doesn't get cool untill the end of November, for example today was 85 degrees. It's just not right. So enjoy.


One last comment, it is good to get back in touch with old friends. It has been a nice reunion.

Yummy!! The Squirls, Flies, and Mold all had their part in eating our Pumpkins. This was on Halloween.

Happy Birthdays

If it looks like something is off in the picture, there is. Let me know if you can see it.






Happy Birthday Marcus. We celebrated Marcus' 4th birthday today. It is acutally on Tuesday, but it'll be much easier to do it today after church when we have plenty of time. Anyways Marcus all of a sudden loves to watch Transformers. He has his Transformer underware that he loves but he saw the original, and the best, Transformers cartoon on Utube and he loves it. So we were able to find a Transformers DVD, not the original, but it'll do. I know I am able to find all of the originals online, so maybe that that'll be a Christmas present sometime.

This will do for now. He was so excited to get this movie. Marcus chose a chocolate cake with a sprinkle frosting. He had a couple of choices and he thought that the sprinkle cake with sprinkle frosting would be too boring. Huh? Go figure. We had a fun time! We got a family picture while we were at it. Ok, for those who don't know Marcus has a milk/dairy allergy, just like his dad when he was a kid, and so we have been trying so hard to make sure he dosn't have milk/dairy. Marcus and Annabella have become aware of the situation and make sure what ever we give him doesn't have milk in it. Cool. Oh the allergy would make Marcus very tempermental. When I mean tempermental I mean he would rather take the punishment then do what we asked him. When he took the punishment he would look at me with a look that said "is that all you got." Kinda of that Rocky Balboa look after he was pumbled by Clubber Lang, but then got up and said "is that all you got." Then Marcus would still not do what he was asked to do, and again got the punishment and the cycle would go on, until I couldn't do it anymore. At this point I knew I was in troble when he is a teenager, and great fear entered my heart and I think at that point I was truly scared for Marcus. If he is like this now, I could only imagine what it is going to be like later. Not the kind of thoughts a parent wants to have about their kids. All the "what if " came to my mind and I needed to figure something out. Long story short I was asking my mom if I did the same thing when I was a kid hoping that it was cause I turned out all right, though some people in my presence would beg to differ, any how as I was explaining all this it popped into my head "what if Marcus is having an allergy to the milk?" Cause my reaction would also cause me to become grumpy and so what if Marcus is having the same issue just way worse than what I had. So, Emily and I removed Milk and eventually all dairy products from his system and He is doing great. For the most part you ask him to do something and he says "yes" and off he goes to accomplish what ever. Alot of fear and stress was taken off our shoulders. Luckly for Marcus there is Soy Milk and other non dairy products that he can have in place of. Me, I had Orange Juice on my ceral and later had this nasty powder milk. No fault to my parents they were using what was avalible to them. That I am grateful cause I have a great story that everybody gets grossed out about. So an even longer story longer, Marcus and Annabella had a Primary Program Practice on Saturday and so Emily and I dropped them off and took off to Costco to go shopping by ourselves for the first time sence having kids, it was awsome, and when we got back there was Marcus chowing down on Pizza, covered in Cheese !!!! Oh Crap we said to each other. "Ok we know how to handle this and we know what is going to happen we just need to have patients and send him to bed as soon as posible" Lucky for us he did not have a reaction and he was quite pleasent for the remander for the day. Nice. So the next day was the program and it went well. Annabella had a speaking part and she bailed out at the last minute, for those who don't know Annabella, deathly shy and hate to be in front of groups or crowds nontheless, so that was not a big surprise. After the program the kids went to primary and Emily and I ended up talking to one of the leaders outside of the classroom and she said that the kids were having Ice Cream Sundays for what ever reason cause that's all the we heard was Marcus is eating Ice Cream. "Oh Crap" we went inside and sure enough there is Marcus eating Ice Cream. We went in and Emily asked Marcus if he was eating Ice Cream, hoping it would jog his memory that he was allergic and we just had this talk about not eating these certain foods. His reply, "This has no milk in it." all we could do was laugh. It was funny. Well we weren't so lucky tonight, at dinner he had to finish what was on his plate before we could do his birthday, that is when Diablo (the devil) showed his ugly face. All we could do was laugh. He did eventully finish his meal and the rest of the night went well, so it was not as bad as it could be, but there was definitaly a difference his his whole being. Crazy.

Whew !! That was a story hope it was good. Next up is Emily's birthday. The kids and I did a cake and presents for her. Nothing big. The kids decorated the cake with those little beads of sugar that roll everywhere. Mental note never use those again they hurt to step on and they go everywhere. This is how the cake started




and this is how the caked ended.





And as you can see it ended on us. The kids thouht it was the best thing ever to see mom and dad smearing cake all over each other. And for the record she started it. But he deserved it! (Emily finished typing!) Good times, Good times. Well it's been fun and I don't want fatigue to set in and so I will sign off for now.

Peace and Love








P.S.

It's Sunday night and the weekend is over and tomorrow will be Monday, back to the same ol same ol; however, just remember that it'll be one day closer to Friday.