It’s starting to look like Christmas at the Matthews household! Pictures to come very soon! I asked Josh yesterday to be thinking of a few things he’d like to have for Christmas. I on the other hand have already started my list! I really don’t NEED anything and I’m just being selfish, but I do want just a “few” items. Nothing big…I need a new throw rug for the living room, a new electric toothbrush re-fill, a gift card to “Holly Lolly” for the After Christmas SALES!!!!, etc. I have a huge problem buying Christmas décor! I think I need to be admitted into Christmas Junky Anonymous! I’ve been informed by my husband that it’s too early to put up the Christmas tree so I have been slowly adding a little Christmas here and there all over the house this past week. I won the battle and the tree went up last night!!! Josh came in from work and said our house looks like a Hallmark Store :)
I just LOVE this time of year. It’s starting to get colder and I just love the happiness in the air! I think that Josh and I are going to do Christmas for a child in need again this year. We need to give to someone who doesn't have very much rather than adding to our pile of stuff! (This coming from the 27 year old woman who has a Christmas list) Last year we went to the mall trying to find the Angel Tree and they didn’t have it! I was shocked! The lady at the Dillard’s counter looked at me like I was speaking French when I asked if she knew where the Salvation Army Angle Tree was located in the mall. We will defiantly get one maybe two children this year….Christmas is LOVE!!!!!!
6 Weeks Old ~ November 28, 2011
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
"Creepin" on Facebook
This is a really random post.........A few weekends ago I went to Bentonville to see my family. Lori was sitting on the couch playing on the computer and her friend Carly came over and said "Lori, who are you creepin on?" No wonder I'm so uncool with the kids at Godtalk, I don't know their lingo! Apparently this means to stalk people on Facebook (Slang words just keep on getting more creative these days!).
First, hats off to the people who created Facebook! I have reunited with people from my childhood that I would probably NEVER of come in contact with again. People seem to come out of the wood works and people ask you to be their “friend” and you don’t even know them. I suppose that Facebook is like a conversation. You can chime in when you want to or you can sit back and “creep” or you can bombard all of your “friends” with what you’re doing for the weekend. I may not interact with Suzy Q today but 5 months from now she may post something that I find interesting and I start to interact with her again.
Random thought….. Are there any benefits of having lots of friends on Facebook? Is it some kind of desire for popularity? If I don't interact with a “friend”, should I de-friend them? I guess the answer is NO because you can “creep” on them without them finding out any time you want! Very stalkerish don’t you think!
I really do enjoy getting on Facebook but there is one thing that just annoys me to death and is just silly! Anybody who has ever used Facebook is familiar with the status update application. Basically the status update allows users to put a brief message next to their name to let their friends know what they are up to. When you write something on your status update it appears on your friend’s Facebook homepage. For example if I were to write on my status “is going to Wal-Mart” it would appear on your homepage as “April is going to Wal-Mart.” Now why do people need to know my every move throughout my day? However, I do think its okay to post something every now and again, but there are people who change their status more than 5 times a day! It’s not necessary to know that you’re going to the bathroom people! I just saw the status update about the bathroom and it inspired me write about this on my blog!
First, hats off to the people who created Facebook! I have reunited with people from my childhood that I would probably NEVER of come in contact with again. People seem to come out of the wood works and people ask you to be their “friend” and you don’t even know them. I suppose that Facebook is like a conversation. You can chime in when you want to or you can sit back and “creep” or you can bombard all of your “friends” with what you’re doing for the weekend. I may not interact with Suzy Q today but 5 months from now she may post something that I find interesting and I start to interact with her again.
Random thought….. Are there any benefits of having lots of friends on Facebook? Is it some kind of desire for popularity? If I don't interact with a “friend”, should I de-friend them? I guess the answer is NO because you can “creep” on them without them finding out any time you want! Very stalkerish don’t you think!
I really do enjoy getting on Facebook but there is one thing that just annoys me to death and is just silly! Anybody who has ever used Facebook is familiar with the status update application. Basically the status update allows users to put a brief message next to their name to let their friends know what they are up to. When you write something on your status update it appears on your friend’s Facebook homepage. For example if I were to write on my status “is going to Wal-Mart” it would appear on your homepage as “April is going to Wal-Mart.” Now why do people need to know my every move throughout my day? However, I do think its okay to post something every now and again, but there are people who change their status more than 5 times a day! It’s not necessary to know that you’re going to the bathroom people! I just saw the status update about the bathroom and it inspired me write about this on my blog!
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Results....
I called Ashley's cell today hoping that she was already out of the hospital and it turns out she went home Saturday! They let her go early! Ashley said that she begged and begged and even got herself dressed and put make up on to make them believe that she was okay. It worked! Ashley and her mom were shopping at Hobby Lobby and Garden Ridge for Christmas stuff like this whole thing never even happened when I talked to her earlier. Ashley is truly blessed and I know she’s very thankful for all the prayers.
The Results: The news is very frightening….The biopsy of the tissues in her appendix showed that Ashley had a tumor in her appendix that was cancer. They said that it was “:medium grade” which we don’t know what that means (I’ll look it up later) and the tissue they found in her blood turned out to be nothing. After all the test they’ve done on Ashley, the doctors believe that there is no cancer present in her body at this time. The only reason they took out her appendix was because of the bleeding in her stomach. There is no other way they would of found the cancer until it had spread. I have tears in my eyes because it’s so scary! I want to believe that it was God who caused the bleeding in her stomach so they would take out the appendx. They still don’t know why all the blood was there! It has to be HIM! Every day is precious gift and most of us only call on God to ask, plead and ask again. Before we start to pray, we already have a long list of petitions and we often end the prayer without thanking Him for what He has already done for us. I’m totally guilty of this! It is right to thank Him EVERYDAY! We must thank Him because He has been good to us. The Bible tells us to “Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name.” – Psalm 100:4. This incident it has taught me one thing….Healing can be attained by trusting in His Wonderful name!!!! Thank you all again for your prayers and remember to THANK THE MAN UPSTARIS EVERYDAY ALL DAY!!!!!! I love you Ashley!!!!
The Results: The news is very frightening….The biopsy of the tissues in her appendix showed that Ashley had a tumor in her appendix that was cancer. They said that it was “:medium grade” which we don’t know what that means (I’ll look it up later) and the tissue they found in her blood turned out to be nothing. After all the test they’ve done on Ashley, the doctors believe that there is no cancer present in her body at this time. The only reason they took out her appendix was because of the bleeding in her stomach. There is no other way they would of found the cancer until it had spread. I have tears in my eyes because it’s so scary! I want to believe that it was God who caused the bleeding in her stomach so they would take out the appendx. They still don’t know why all the blood was there! It has to be HIM! Every day is precious gift and most of us only call on God to ask, plead and ask again. Before we start to pray, we already have a long list of petitions and we often end the prayer without thanking Him for what He has already done for us. I’m totally guilty of this! It is right to thank Him EVERYDAY! We must thank Him because He has been good to us. The Bible tells us to “Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name.” – Psalm 100:4. This incident it has taught me one thing….Healing can be attained by trusting in His Wonderful name!!!! Thank you all again for your prayers and remember to THANK THE MAN UPSTARIS EVERYDAY ALL DAY!!!!!! I love you Ashley!!!!
Friday, November 6, 2009
I called today to check in on Ashley and she was sleeping. I spoke with her mother and she said that they had Ashley on a walking schedule and it was wearing her out. She said that she was doing much better and she should be going home next Tuesday. Still waiting on the results from the tests! Thanks for all the prayers!
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Today I stopped by the ICU to see Ashley and she was perched up in her bed with her USPeople magazine and her computer and phone by her side...Typical Ashley style! She looked 100 times better! They are moving her out of ICU and they had just took the tube out of her nose that went to her stomach…she’s is doing awesome! I sat with her for about 15 minutes and we just talked about nothing really (the celebs, tv shows, etc.) Ashley hasn’t eaten anything since last Friday and she made sure to tell me that she was STARVING!!! They told her that she has to “pass gas” before she can eat. She said “If only I could fart, I can have something to eat!” They are still waiting for the test results to come back from her appendix and the tiny piece of tissue that they found in the blood they removed from her stomach…pray!
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Update on Ashley....
I went to the hospital again today and there still is no result as to why the bleeding happened. Ashley is a little more coherent and still in a lot of pain from the stomach surgery. They started her on the blood thinner medicine that she normally takes daily and they are keeping a close eye on her. She is still in ICU but they should move her tomorrow to a recovery room. I have met the whole family and these past couple of weeks has been the worst for them. Keep up the prayers!
Monday, November 2, 2009
Prayers Needed
Yesterday, I got a text from my beautiful friend Ashley Salter. It read "Im in hospital"....I immediately called her thinking that she would answer since she just sent me a text. Then I got a text about 30 minutes later that read "Baptist ill call hen i cal tlk". So of course I'm panicking but I’m thinking she has her phone so she must be okay!
A brief history of Ashley’s health condition…..Ashley was diagnosed with ARVD back in 2001 when she collapsed playing basketball. “ARVD stands for Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia. Arrhythmogenic means causing an arrhythmia. The right ventricle is the chamber of the heart that is affected and dysplasia means there is an abnormality of the structure. ARVD is a specific type of cardiomyopathy (a disorder of the cardiac muscle). Simply put, ARVD is a genetic, progressive heart condition in which the muscle of the right ventricle is replaced by fat and fibrosis, which causes abnormal heart rhythms. ARVD is estimated to affect 1 in 5,000 people. The disease can affect both men and women. Although it is a relatively uncommon cause of sudden cardiac death, it accounts for up to one fifth of sudden cardiac death in people under 35 years of age.”
Ashley will be 29 years old in a few weeks on November 23rd so this is why I freaked out and thought it was her heart! Ashley has a implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) which is a small battery-powered electrical impulse generator which is implanted in patients who are at risk of sudden cardiac death due to ventricular fibrillation. The device is programmed to detect cardiac arrhythmia and correct it by delivering a jolt of electricity. When Ashley first got this device put in, it would go off all the time for no reason. When I say “for no reason” I mean she would be walking in the airport and she would just fall to the ground. It turns out that they had a recall on the particular ICD that she had so they had to go back in and do another open heart surgery and put a new one in her body. Ash has a big scar on her chest from this surgery….I’ve only known Ashley about a year and half now but the only time her ICD has gone off in the past three years was this year back in Aug I think…
A few weeks ago, Ashley had another heart surgery to change out the battery in her ICD (I think that this is done every 5 years) I could be wrong but anyway! The day before Ashley’s surgery, Ashley’s mother had a stroke and ended up in the ICU. (Her Mom is okay now…but could the timing of been any better!) Ashley had the open-heart surgery and was recovering while her mom was in the ICU.
The last text I got from her yesterday was “Um un icu riftgh now visting ha+rs r form 8 to 1130Pm Jopefupleyu I’ll ne I me moves romm omorrow”. She wasn’t making any sense and I immediately went to the ICU at Baptist and found her. They told me that she had been in the ICU all weekend. It wasn't her heart...on Friday Ash woke up and had really bad cramps, but she said that it wasn’t that time of the month and she never gets cramps. She went on and went to work but the pain kept getting worse and worse. It finally got bad enough where she asked one of her co-workers to take her to the emergency room. When Ashley got to the hospital they did a emergency surgery where they removed 2 liters of blood from her stomach. They removed her Appendix and tried to find where the bleeding was coming from but couldn’t! They sewed her back up and she’s been in the ICU ever since watching her closely to make sure there is no more bleeding. Please keep Ashley and her family in your prayers!!!!! Ashley was heavly drugged and her husband had sneaked her phone in the ICU but made a deal with her that she wasn't allowed to call or text anyone....of course Ashley didn't listen and notified me. Ashley’s heart might be the healthiest but she is a STRONG woman and one my very good friends…please pray!
A brief history of Ashley’s health condition…..Ashley was diagnosed with ARVD back in 2001 when she collapsed playing basketball. “ARVD stands for Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia. Arrhythmogenic means causing an arrhythmia. The right ventricle is the chamber of the heart that is affected and dysplasia means there is an abnormality of the structure. ARVD is a specific type of cardiomyopathy (a disorder of the cardiac muscle). Simply put, ARVD is a genetic, progressive heart condition in which the muscle of the right ventricle is replaced by fat and fibrosis, which causes abnormal heart rhythms. ARVD is estimated to affect 1 in 5,000 people. The disease can affect both men and women. Although it is a relatively uncommon cause of sudden cardiac death, it accounts for up to one fifth of sudden cardiac death in people under 35 years of age.”
Ashley will be 29 years old in a few weeks on November 23rd so this is why I freaked out and thought it was her heart! Ashley has a implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) which is a small battery-powered electrical impulse generator which is implanted in patients who are at risk of sudden cardiac death due to ventricular fibrillation. The device is programmed to detect cardiac arrhythmia and correct it by delivering a jolt of electricity. When Ashley first got this device put in, it would go off all the time for no reason. When I say “for no reason” I mean she would be walking in the airport and she would just fall to the ground. It turns out that they had a recall on the particular ICD that she had so they had to go back in and do another open heart surgery and put a new one in her body. Ash has a big scar on her chest from this surgery….I’ve only known Ashley about a year and half now but the only time her ICD has gone off in the past three years was this year back in Aug I think…
A few weeks ago, Ashley had another heart surgery to change out the battery in her ICD (I think that this is done every 5 years) I could be wrong but anyway! The day before Ashley’s surgery, Ashley’s mother had a stroke and ended up in the ICU. (Her Mom is okay now…but could the timing of been any better!) Ashley had the open-heart surgery and was recovering while her mom was in the ICU.
The last text I got from her yesterday was “Um un icu riftgh now visting ha+rs r form 8 to 1130Pm Jopefupleyu I’ll ne I me moves romm omorrow”. She wasn’t making any sense and I immediately went to the ICU at Baptist and found her. They told me that she had been in the ICU all weekend. It wasn't her heart...on Friday Ash woke up and had really bad cramps, but she said that it wasn’t that time of the month and she never gets cramps. She went on and went to work but the pain kept getting worse and worse. It finally got bad enough where she asked one of her co-workers to take her to the emergency room. When Ashley got to the hospital they did a emergency surgery where they removed 2 liters of blood from her stomach. They removed her Appendix and tried to find where the bleeding was coming from but couldn’t! They sewed her back up and she’s been in the ICU ever since watching her closely to make sure there is no more bleeding. Please keep Ashley and her family in your prayers!!!!! Ashley was heavly drugged and her husband had sneaked her phone in the ICU but made a deal with her that she wasn't allowed to call or text anyone....of course Ashley didn't listen and notified me. Ashley’s heart might be the healthiest but she is a STRONG woman and one my very good friends…please pray!
Sunday, November 1, 2009
What a Beeeeautiful Family!
This year it was my turn to pick our Halloween costumes....so what's better than going as a BEE FAMILY! I searched EVERYWHERE for these outfits. It all started when I bought Koen's little bee suit at Target for $9.99. Josh and I couldn't figure out what we wanted to beeee :) So I said let's go as the bee family! So here we are…..
Yes that is my husband in spandex and our precious little Koen :) I know it will be worse when I have a human child! We ended up winning the costume contest and I have to say we did look pretty cute! Next year it’s Josh’s turn to pick….it better beeee good because we have to claim our winning title again. By the way, we also won last year’s costume contest at a different party (we were characters from Dodge Ball)...
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