Blessings in February

We had a scare when we got back from Texas. Allison was having chest pain and ended up visiting the ER three times without a diagnosis. After consulting a heart doctor friend, Jared took Allison to her OB. An ultra sound showed a grapefruit-size cyst on her ovary. Thus emergency surgery was scheduled. During surgery the cyst was drained and removed, seeing more blood the surgeon decided to do some exploring. In his exploration he found that Allison had had an ectopic pregnancy and her fallopian tube had burst and tissue had attached to her colon.

Since Dave and I are retired, we were able to help out the last 3 weeks at a minute's notice. I went up most days to watch the kids and fix meals. Makenna and Colin also came here over the weekend so Allison and Jared could be together and rest.

Blessings in February:

• Jared phoned a friend
  
• Allison's surgeon was very thorough
• she is recovering nicely from the surgery
• her chest pain has gone away
• she still has a possibility of more children
  
• Dave and I were retired
  

One of the things I took advantage of, was taking the kids to story time at the library.

I am so thankful Allison is healing - I will miss being with them every day, but know it was time they were a family again!!

Jacob's Train Table

Hours and hours of fun for my little buddy - compliments of Papa Dave (train/lego table), Aunt Annie (train set), and various generous relatives (little cars)..
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Austin - Visit #1

Dave and I ventured down to Austin this past week. It's a 15 hour drive -We started Sunday, Jan. 30th - after 12 hrs. we stopped south of Ft. Worth (Burleson) then finished the last 3 hrs. on Monday morning.
Oh, what fun we had entertaining Jacob and he entertaining us!! He loved his train table as you can see by the pics. Erin was again a very gracious hostess. Yummy meals and fun times. She even turned on the heat when it dipped below freezing.
That's right, it can freeze in Austin - it can snow too - we got 1 in. on Thursday evening. Jason pulled out some board games to pass the time on the cold days.
The weekend saw temps. back into the 60's. We visited the Capitol on Saturday - great design. On Sunday we ended our stay with a picnic at Basfort Park. Gotta go again to take in the trails...
Up and in the car by 7 a.m. - Dave got to driving and just wanted to be home - ended up driving all 15 hours Monday!
Bet you thought we'd sleep in on Tuesday - nope - we were still on Jacob time - Dave up at 6:30 and me up at 7. Maybe tomorrow we'll sleep in - oops forgot - gotta go see those two grand kids in Ames - been away too long from my Makenna and Coldog!!
Thanks Erin, Jason, and Jacob for welcoming us into your home - always love coming and forever hating to leave...
See you in a month - yippee :-)

Austin's Captiol