Logan's ride in an....

AMBULANCE!!!!! So Tuesday at about 2:00 am Logan woke up with a slight fever and sounded a little croupy we gave him some medicine and we went back to sleep. The next morning he woke up an was feeling fine no fever still a little bit of a cough but was up and running around. So I decided that I would still go shopping with my mom as planned. So we went shopping and as we were buying the few things that we found Logan got really upset. I figured he probably was just get tired and hungry. So we finished up and headed to get some lunch. At lunch I ordered Logan's favorite, chicken and fries but he just picked at it. Then I felt his head and he had a fever again. So we finished lunch and headed home. On the way home I called the doctor and asked some questions wondering if maybe he had caught the stupid swine flu. He told me some things to do and I went home and put him to bed. That night we kept medicine in him to keep his fever down but he still didn't sleep much. The next morning he still had a little bit of a fever but was once again running around playing so I quickly took the boys to the store to get some groceries and came home and tried to get Logan to eat and take a nap. Neither happened. He just kept coming up to me and saying momma hurt!!! It was just heart breaking and then to listen to him breathing has sad to. I laid him down and turned on a show and tried to get somethings done around the house. Logan still wasn't doing well so I put the boys in the car and decided to drive around and see if I could get Logan to fall asleep. But while driving around I just kept feeling like I needed to get him to the doctor. So I called Paul sister and dropped the other boys off and headed to Instacare. I called Paul on the way and told him what was going on. I walked into Instacare and signed him in and was immediately take back by two nurse and before I even sat down had three more doctors and nurse there to help. He was immediately given some epinephrine to help open his airway. They told me that we were going to have to stay for 3 hours to watch and if it got worse again that they would have to send us to the hospital. Immediately he started getting better I asked the nurse if we could give him some medicine to help keep on top of his fever we tried giving him some and he just threw it up the nurse then took his tempature just to see who much we needed to make him have some medicine and it was 104.4. To the instantly got him some more then his breathing started to get worse again. Paul went and got the doctor and she came and listened and said that he needed to go to the hospital and that because it was respatory issues he had to go by ambulance. I was handling the news okay until two things happened the paramedics showed up and brought the stretcher and Logan said he wanted his daddy and that meant I was going to have to follow in the car. Along the way I got seperated from the ambulance and came running into the ER trying to find where they took Logan. I finally found him and felt a little better. After tons a medication and he breathing was getting better, his fever was coming down, but we were going to have to spend the night to make sure that his breathing didn't get worse again. So here I am at 4:00 am sitting in the hospital room updating my blog. Hopefully we get to go home soon.

Neighborhood explosion

November 4th at 9:13 I had just loaded my kids in the car to go run some errands and put the garage door up when all of the sudden I heard this loud noise and felt my car moving. My first thought was that my garage door had just fallen on my car. I looked up and nope it was still on the tracks then I wondered if I had hit something but didn't remember taking the car out of park yet I looked down and sure enough it was still in park. So I jumped out of the car to go look around outside and that is when I saw the flame reach higher than the tallest smoke stack at the refinery by my house. My first thought was I hope everyone at the refinery is okay then it was to get the heck out of there before anything else went wrong. As I was pulling out of the neighborhood I called Paul and said the refinery just exploded we are okay but I am getting out of here. Then instantly I thought of my friend who lives down the street and knew that with how big the explosion was something had to be wrong at her house and hoped that no one was hurt. When I called her husband answered and said we are okay but we can't talk now. I quickly said do you need any help? but he had already hung up. So off to my mom's house to be away from the refinery but somewhere were I could watch the news and see if I needed to hurry home and get somethings out of my house. As I am watching the news and they were talking about how house were destroyed but so far no one was hurt and the fire was out; I quickly loaded my kids back into the car and back home to see what damage had occurred. My brother Dallas came with me and we made the kids stay in the car as we looked to make sure there wasn't any broken glass or worse. Everything was fine so we then headed down to my friend Kristi's to see what help she needed. Nothing could have prepared me for what I saw. Her house was practically destroyed. Tons of broken windows, ever wall had at least a 4 foot crack in it. Doors that were broken because they were blow in the opposite direction that they opened and the wall in her garage was leaning to were there was a several inch gap were you could look up and see the sky. The roof had literally been blown off her house, sifted, and then came back down. Kristi was doing ok and really was just waiting to find out if she was needed to leave her house or what was going to happen with her and her family. There has been lots of damage to houses in my neighborhood and we still have people that like to drive through and see the damage. I have learned lots of things. One my house is just a house and my stuff is just stuff, people are more important. I love my neighborhood I love the people and how they pull together to help each other out and I love how quiet it is. Not a ton of traffic, usually just the sound of kids playing outside. I am really glad that we picked the house that we did.

Halloween

The boys had a great Halloween. We started of with doing a quick little trunk-or-treat up at the high school. It was a great little warm up for the boys to remember or in Logan's case really learn was trick-or-treating is about. Then Friday afternoon we went to Paul's work to do some trick-or-treating; the boys always love going to Paul's work and Paul likes showing of his boys. On actual Halloween it was up to my mom's for a party with all the cousins. My mom always does some fun games, has "scary" food and lots of treats for the kids. Then is was home for a little nap and then off to Paul's parents to show them the boys in their costumes and then a little bit of trick-or-treating. We didn't do that much trick-or-treating since they got so much at Paul's work so we went home and had the boys help pass out the candy to the kids and I think that was the favorite thing of the night. While passing out the candy we watched Halloween movies and ate Jack-o-lantern pizza. All in all it was a great Halloween and I think that from now on we are just going to do a little trick-or-treating and then stay home and watch movies.