Sabrina's Adventures

Splash Valley

I was absolutely thrilled when the East Ridge City Council voted on a new waterpark here in East Ridge.

It will be only about a mile from my house....can you say Season Passes for our family? We will be going all summer long. Logan already said he will be living here all summer then.

I just can't wait for it to be here.....I'm not a big fan of water parks; however, I loved the Wave Pool at Sea World that we went to this past summer. It was so much fun and I know the kids will love it.

I'm so glad East Ridge is getting this...it's such a convenience for a lot of people and will bring in so much revenue for the City.

Way to go, East Ridge for making the right decision!!!!

Post Thanksgiving

I hope everyone had a Happy Thanksgiving. We had lunch with my mom and my family. I actually cooked!!! I got up at 7:00 am and this is what my morning consisted of until we ate at 12:30 pm.

1. Finish making Truffles. I had prepared them the night before but had to wait until hard in order to make them.
2. Make Sweet Potato Casserole.
3. Make Broccoli Casserole.
4. Make Hawaiian Bubble Bread. It's like Monkey Bread that you pull-apart except it tastes sweet like Hawaiian Bread.
5. Make Corn Muffins.

That's a lot of cooking for me...I hardly ever really cook like that. All the food was great and I'm thankful for my family and all that I have in my life.

Now, Christmas Season begins.

Shane's Update

If I did an entry each time Shane has been going to the doctor lately; I'd be writing on a daily basis. Tomorrow he goes for a nerve block. The doctor said this "sometimes" treats the problem; but if it doesn't, it will definitely tell him where the exact problem is.

I'm guessing that if the nerve block doesn't work, then the next step is surgery. I know he is in pain; so I'm hoping the nerve block does the trick.

Please pray for him tomorrow; it is considered surgery and he will be put under general anesthesia.

Shane's Disc

No, I'm not talking about a music CD. We found out Shane has a herniated disc between the C5 and C6 vertebrae.

Let me go back a few weeks...

Shane woke up one morning with a crick in his neck. It went away but the pain in his neck and left arm was still painful. Over the weeks, it has gotten worse. He now has constant pain and his left arm, all the way down to his fingers, go numb. Finally we went to the doctor this past Tuesday. Since Tuesday, we have been to two doctors, 1 MRI and Monday, he will have an EMG/Nerve Conduction Study and then Tuesday, back to the doctor for a follow-up.

I have to say I am very surprised and pleased at how fast everything is being handled with the Thanksgiving Holidays coming up. He got a steroid shot and has 3 prescriptions: Steroid Pack, Muscle Relaxers and Pain Pills. He said he feels a little better because he knows what is actually wrong with him.

We are hoping the steroid pack will make everything better(the doctor said that is a possibility); however, if not, then he will have to have surgery.

I'll keep you updated when we go back to the doctor on Tuesday. In the meantime; please pray for Shane.

Updates

I haven't really been doing much of anything on here since I started working from home. It seems I'm working over my 40 hours and it really doesn't bother me. I really enjoy my job!!!

Anyway, back to Diesel....

He is still having about one seizure every 2-3 weeks even though he's still taking his medicine. He had a really bad seizure last week so the vet said to up his meds to 2 pills a day, every 12 hours. So far, so good.

Diesel is just such a loving dog; I hate to see him having seizures. It really affects him afterwards. He's very drowsy and can't see good afterwards and runs into things. This last time, he barked at Shane like he didn't know him. We are guessing it's because he couldn't really see Shane. We stay with him until we know he's back to normal.

My work desk is set up in Ashley's room, so at night, I bring Diesel in for a couple of hours and let him get warmed up. He automatically goes straight to the lower bunk bed and lays there. In no time, he's out like a light and snoring his little heart away.

Here he is sleeping away and dreaming of Paris....

City Council vs Littlefield/Rutherford

I'm going to make this short and sweet......

Can't we impeach the mayor???

Late Halloween

I hope everyone had a great Halloween and got lots of candy or gave lots of candy; I did neither.

I made up my candy bags and besides my nieces/nephew coming over; I only had 3 trick-or-treaters from my neighborhood. I was disappointed; I love seeing all the kids' costumes.

Well, here's a collage of my little trick-or-treaters....

In order from left to right, then bottom row.
Ashley, Gigi, Skylar and friends(Skylar is the one on the right), Noah, Diesel and Katie. Also a pic of my pumpkin I carved.