Best Date Night Ever!!

I think I have mentioned in the past that our family is pretty sports oriented. So with that being said you need to also know that I am a die hard Dallas Cowboys fan while my husband is a VERY devoted Steelers fan. As long as our teams are not playing each other I have no problem cheering for Big Ben (Steelers quarter back) About a month ago we decided to check off a box on Dan's bucket list and go see the Steelers play in San Diego. Monday night was the night and the Steelers did not disappoint. Best Game EVER!

5 seconds left on the clock, at the one yard line and it's Steelers trailing and their ball. TOUCHDOWN! Steelers win by 4 points! There were just as many Steelers fans as there were Chargers fans so the noise level was crazy loud! We had amazing seats by some other Steelers fans who after 75,000 high fives and 4,000 hugs you just become family ha! My main goal was to go to the game without my crutches which I did and then got in trouble by my physical therapist and doctor yesterday for all the walking and jumping up and down....it was worth it. The best part is my doctor was there so I'm super thankful he didn't see me!!! We stayed the night in San Diego at Dan's brothers house and then took our time stopping for breakfast before we headed home. Thanks Honey! Best date night ever!!!

We have been putting off getting our pumpkins because we refuse to go to the pumpkin patch when it is 100 degrees. Ugh! We waited until 8pm the other night and headed down along with a ton of other people who had the same idea. Everyone found their perfect pumpkin and all is right with the world.

October is Cancer Awareness Month...

We all have been touched by cancer in some way shape or form. We've had it and won, we know someone who has it and is fighting for their very life and some of us have even lost loved ones to cancer. I love someone who right now needs a cure. The thing with cancer is it's so BIG. It seems impossible that any one person could do anything to help anyone at all in the battle. But you can, you can send a card or take treats to the kids in the cancer ward at the hospital. You can take a meal or clean a house for someone. A firefighter Dan knows has a daughter fighting her second round of cancer and so we wanted to post this link for you to watch the video and buy a t-shirt to help support the cause.
 and the direct link to the store to purchase a hat or t-shirt is; www.ffdpinkproject.org facebook.com/FullertonFireDepartment

Here is another great link where you can support cancer research AND do your Christmas shopping all at once! I bought some bracelets here last week that are yellow to support colon cancer research which my aunt is currently battling. They are super cute, come in all different colors and styles and make AMAZING gifts. Go to puravidabracelets.com

It's a really small thing all of us can do and it is for a really BIG cause. Just sacrifice a trip to Starbucks or a lunch out and pitch in. Bless someone with a t-shirt or bracelet that is fighting cancer or who needs to feel loved today.

Raising Ryanne Story #346

I was thinking on Monday how I really haven't blogged much the past few weeks; so I checked my brain to see if anything stood out that was blog worthy.....hmmm.....saw the nieces and nephews and commiserated with my sister in laws about raising kids and the things we should never have to say out loud as parents. Started physical therapy which hurt so "good" I sweat through my t-shirt and had dripping wet hands...super attractive as your walking out the door of your appointment. Walked around the neighborhood a few times which totals about .5 miles. Took me like half an hour at turtles pace. Ya' nothing to exciting or note worthy just doing life. Then Wednesday night I am in the kitchen finishing up dinner, Dan has gotten home and gone for a run and Ryanne is outside playing when all of a sudden I hear this yelling and the dog barking like an idiot. Usually I would just glance out the window and ignore it for the most part because well, my kids are loud and the dog is always barking. But this time it just sounded different so I walked to the back patio and I see Ryanne standing there crying and her foot covered in blood. She was running past her mountain bike and caught her foot on the metal part that your chain sits on....yup peeled the skin right back. 

My first reaction is to always clean up the blood because it usually looks worse than it is. Nope not this time. Luckily Dan was coming up the street right at that moment and we took her to the urgent care where she got 10 stitches, a tetanus shot, 10 days of antibiotics and 4 days of bed rest. My friend said when I am done raising Ryanne they are going to just hand me a medical degree no questions asked ha!

Can I just say listening to your kid cry as they are giving her 6-7 shots to numb her foot was like the worst day ever! She was so good and so brave. I on the other hand felt like I was going to throw up. I'm super calm and collect like that. ha! The first ten minutes we were there the nurse was talking to us about God which was very comforting. I prayed with Ryanne before they gave her the shots and a calm washed over us. We got through it and I told her now we have a new scar for a new story. :)

While the doctor was stitching her foot he had Dan hold her leg down so she wouldn't kick him in the face or jerk her leg; we also gave her my phone to distract her. She text my mom and told her she was scared and my mom text back,"Oh sweetie I'm so sorry, that sh*t hurts but then it will be numb for the stitches." Well she obviously meant "that shot hurts" but Ryanne was reading the text out loud and to say the bad word got a chuckle from the entire room would be an understatement. The best part was my mom realizes her spelling error and instantly texts back,"Oh shoot, not that bad word I meant shot. Don't tell your parents I said that." Again Ryanne is reading it out loud. I think grandma needs to have her phone taken away ha! Good times.