Nancy is in ICU

Hi, I wanted to give my blogging friends an update on what has been going on at our house. Nancy got sick on Tuesday night and I called the Doctor at mid-night. I had to take her into the office the next morning and she had a temp. of 103.6 she could not urinate and she thew up black bile while she was there. Also her blood pressure was 78/40.
The Doctor thought she was Septic and she was and he sent us to the hospital. At first she was in a room upstairs but real soon she needed to be in ICU but there where no beds available. The hospital is packed.
Nancy had to be in the post op. room the first night and then over to another place in that room and then into ICU. It could have gone either way but Praise God she began to make urine on Wednesday!!
Today, her blood pressure is normal she has no fever she is really making urine. She does have to have a blood transfusion this morning. Karen is with her this morning. I have been staying 12 to 14 hours a day and the girls said I had to rest this morning. I will go back up at noon.
This is from her tooth that they didn't want to take out because of the lupus. Please pray that the Doctors and us will have wisdom and know what to do about her teeth. Taking them out will cause major problems with her lupus, but this one tooth will have to come out.
One of her Dr's said it was amazing that she had recovered so quickly. She didn't call it a miracle but amazing.Thanks for your prayers.

Out to see the Fall Foliage!!

Karen throwing leaves on us


Nancy Grams and Kelly

Nancy and Grams at the Buckner cemetery

The trees were just beautiful there

Karen had gluten free cup cakes

Nancy had an Eclair

Kelly and I had Pumpkin cheesecake and

we all had a taste of a pumpkin bar

Grams at the Leawood City Park

Nancy at the same park

Yesterday we took off and went over to the Blue and Gray park at Lone Jack. Not really in Lone Jack but out in the country somewhere!!! I could not find it in a million years. Nancy wanted to go there because in the winter we were over there, and there were so many different birds.

Of course that day was the coldest day of the year with snow on the ground and the birds flying here and there,that day they showed up really good!

Then we took off for Liberty Mo and the bakery "Just Desserts" He is the baker who made the beautiful cake for my 70th Birthday party a year ago. I have posted the pictures of our desserts . His shop was so quaint, it is a block off the square and the trees around there were beautiful.

We drove around the Campus of William Jewel a 4 year liberal arts college that is really old and the architecture is so beautiful.

Then Karen took us to a park she sometimes has her lunch at when she is over at her work. It is the Leawood City Park and what a neat park. We had a fun day and I haven't seen the trees this spectator for years!!!

Wednesday!

Here it is Wednesday already!! I spent most of yesterday helping my special needs daughter,Nancy to get all of her Halloween card ready get in the mail over the weekend. She loves to send cards!! She signs her name and puts stickers on her cards and I address them. She has return address stickers from the American Heart Association. She is so proud of them!!

Lots of flu in our community. My friend called me on Monday to tell me that she had a lab appointment and the Doctors office called and said for her not to come that the office was full of people with the flu.
An 11 year old boy at our elementary school passed away over the weekend. They haven't said on the news if it was from the H1 N1 virus or not. It is so sad.When I get finished blogging I have to call the health dept in Jackson County. The lady I talked to last week said to call today and see if she knew where Nancy could get a shot. Nancy has had her regular flu shot but needs the H1 N1 shot. She told me what they are giving out now has a live virus and would be harmful to Nancy, that we should wait until the shot was available. Nancy has lupus and her immune system is weak. The Pulmonary Specialist said we should get her the shot.
We have enjoyed beautiful weather for a few days but I think they said this is all to change this evening with a cold front and storms moving our way.

Hosanna - HIllsong 2006

Just saw this cool video on Karen's Facbook page, she said they sang it at church today....



Quite a powerful song!

Carrie and Marcello!

Here is a picture of my daughter Carrie and her grandson Marcello. This was taken the first of the week when Carrie was babysitting just Marcello. He is almost 17 months old. He has a big brother,Kevin who is 2 and a sister Valerie who was 4 in August.

I am hoping to get some pictures of other kids soon. Marcello is really laid back and a good baby!!

Marcello has a cousin Mathias who is 8 years old. Mathias lives down there too. I am missing these Greatgrand Kids like crazy!!

It is warm and beautiful in Guadalajara!!It was another dark and gray day here!! They think we may have some sunshine by the first of the week!!

Wednesday!

I got such a kick out of my Faerie picture that Pea had posted for her Birthday Party that I had to share it with you all!! I laughed out loud and Kelly laughed harder then me!! Thanks, Pea for going to so much work to make us all smile!!

It is still chilly here 45 degrees this afternoon! It is suppose to be for this time of the year in the high 60's.

My granddaughter Sarah gave us the wedding pictures in frames for us! Beautiful frames and pictures!! She has a beautiful new home, her groom built just for her! Kelly was down there over the weekend and said it is really nice. I am wanting to go down there and see it too!!

Happy Thanksgiving to Mary and Pea! Happy Birthday too!!

Happy Thanksgiving to Mary at Mary's Writing Nook and to Pea at Pea's Corner!! October the 12th is the Canadian Thanksgiving!It is also Mary's Birthday on the 12th!! So Happy Birthday to Mary!!
Pea's Birthday is on the 13th so a Happy Birthday to her, too!!!
It was down to 28 degrees this morning! Brr!I haven't turned on the furnace this fall. But more mornings like this and it is coming on!!
Kelly drove down to Sarah's yesterday afternoon and spent the night with them. Kelly's cats are used to sleeping in bed with her and in the night one of them pounced on my leg and thought it was a tree!! I had to get up and put her in the other room and I shut the door!!! Poor Kitty had to find another place to sleep!!

Karen has gone to CSMU to watch Jake run up and down the side lines at their football game! He is studying to be a coach!

Love Fall!

It is a beautiful fall day! 63 degrees! Nancy went to her pulmonary specialist yesterday and she is doing good. She had her flu shot,too. We have 5 specialist so we have appointments next month but with different Doctors. She also has lab work.

I am feeling better,I had that junk Karen and Kelly had last week.

Carrie and Aaron, John and Ale and Jey all left on Monday morning after the paper work they needed came in the mail. I heard from Carrie yesterday late afternoon and it was 102 degrees!! The AC had gone out of Aaron's car and they stopped at Wal-Mart and got some kind of something to help the AC. It started working again!

I am missing them. Carrie tried to get fall cleaning done for Kelly before she left! Kelly told her she was going to keep her here!!

Our leaves are changing and it looks pretty, I know by next week they will be in there full glory! Love it!!

Love this weather!!

It has been so cool here and it has felt like fall!! I am loving this!!

But seems like in the fall sickness comes around and Kelly has a viral infection. Karen is much better so I am sure Thankful for this.

Carrie and Aaron are here for another day, I always hate to see them leave!

She has painted my bathroom, painted the railing on my front porch, painted the trim around the front door, and the deal that the steps are on.

She also cleaned Nancy's room! All of her dresser drawers the closet everything in her room!! We had 3 bags full for the Goodwill!! Nancy woke up the next morning and said " I love my room"! You never know how she will take something like this, so I was happy she took getting rid of a bunch of stuff so well!!

When our company has gone I will try to get out and visit! I have found that Facebook is easier for me with Nancy. But I love blogging, too!!

Picture of my daughters and me!! Just wish Bill could have been there!

John and Ale

Ale said, "Grandma I want you to have these flowers"!!

Thanks! She is a sweetie!

Grams and her daughters

Carrie and Aaron had the reception for Ale and John last night. I thought it was really nice considering their wasn't any time to plan for this!! Nancy has an infection in her tooth. Kelly and I took her to the Dr. yesterday afternoon and she got an antibiotic for it and already she is better.

My son Bill is blind in one eye and it is so hard for him to see to drive after dark. Jake was going to bring him but he wasn't able to he had hurt his foot so bad. Bill sent a picture of his big toe were he hurt it.... I am not going in to details because it will make you kinda sick.... Bless his heart! He is studying to be a coach and he had to go to an out of town game today and stand on the side lines.

My other news is that yesterday Kelly made me a Facebook account!! I have found so many bloggy friends already on there or they have found me!! I am going to love Facebook too!

Another Wedding!!!

My Son-in law said he was coming up to the states to attend a conference in Wisconsin this weekend. My daughter Carrie said, I 'm going along and visit my Mom!! Jey hopped in the car too! Sofia and the kids stayed down there!

My other grandson John said, Ale and I are coming, too and then we can get married in the states! And they did, on the 23rd!! Our family will have a reception for them while they are up here. The big church wedding will be held in Mexico next month.

Kelly took everyone over to the Swope park and took these pictures, yesterday.

John & Ale

My other grandson Brandon and his wife Ale were not able to come up at this time. Yes, I now have two grand-daughters named Ale!!

Karen has walking pneumonia and has been off work for several days. She went to work today. Nancy has not been feeling very good so please pray for her, too.

Homecoming!

Tonight is Homecoming between Oak Grove and Odessa! It has been a rivalry for years! Oak Grove Panthers meet the Odessa Bulldogs tonight at Homecoming!!
On our local channel 9 each week has the Game Of the Week!! The station received 36,000 votes this week and 19,000 were for the Oak Grove - Odessa game!! This means that our local hero Lenny Dawson from the Glory Years of the Chiefs will be at the game tonight reporting live on the 10:00 news. I always went to all the games when my son Bill played football .#30

Kelly was in the band we went again to the games. She was a trumpet player.

This afternoon was the big Homecoming parade! Nancy just loves getting the candy and she had so much that all the kids threw to her from the floats. We took little sandwich bags and filled them with candy and took the extra out to the folks at the library. Karen snapped these pictures with her cell phone and I am not a computer whiz so I don't know how to make them larger!

Nancy and her candy

OG marching Band

Thankful Thursday!

I haven't done a Thankful Thursday for a Long Long time so maybe today I should!!I see the subject is on Masterpiece. I heard this story years ago and I don't know if I remember it correctly or not. But here goes. When a potter makes a beautiful pot he throw away the broken ones and the ugly ones, etc you get the idea..... until the piece is perfect then put his name on his piece.

God takes us when we are sinners and gives us His Name and calls us His Master piece before He even get started on us!!! I love that story. I am so happy that God never gave up on me!! He keeps changing me from what I was to what HE wants day by day! Praise His Name!!

I am so thankful for His love, grace, mercy goodness,life,light,kindness the list is endless like His Love!

This fall at the Ladies Bible Study we are going to start a 6 week study on a new book. Our leader Joan has chosen the book "When Wallflowers Dance" by Angela Thomas. Last spring we did a study by Beth Moore, Esther, "It tough being a Woman." I really did enjoy the weeks we were going through this book.

Joan is a wonderful teacher and taught school for 30 years or so and know how to bring out the best in everyone.I love going to this Bible study. I don't get to go to church as much as I would like to and this is just great that I can go to this. Karen comes over and is with Nancy so that I am able to attend! That is some thing I am so thankful about.

This summer at Sarah wedding I met a very nice lady and she told me she also goes to Joan's Bible study. It is such a small world.

This book is about becoming a woman of Righteous Confidence. Here is a little blurb about the book.

Using both Scripture and story, Angela Thomas addresses the attributes of "becoming" and the freedom we have in Christ to keep developing the characteristics that reflect our God-given longings..... Sounds like something we all can relate too.

Oops! I clicked when I should not have!!

We did have a great time this weekend at Santa Cali Gon Days! One of my comments on my last post by our friend Linda said, "I can NOT believe the "Kelly getting LOST" story didn't make the Santa Cali Gon history!!! That was another "special memory" from that festival! Whew - we're sure glad she got found!!! I also hope you "dedicated" some of that kettle corn y'all ate to me! I haven't had kettle corn in about two years. I LOVE it - so luscious!

Yes, it is true we lost Kelly, for a few minutes when she was around 3 years old! I had her hand in mine and let go for one minute and she was gone and all around us were hundreds of strangers!!Talk about panic!! We started yelling "Kelly " "Kelly" at the top of our lungs!! I think it was Karen who found her not to far from us and relief swept over us and we were so Thankful!! I think I got a stroller for her and we use that for the next few years!

But when Kelly was 16, Karen had got a bunch of stuff and asked her to take it to the car and she couldn't find it! Well!!! For a while we didn't think to much of it but has the minutes turned in to like 30 minutes and then longer, we started to think OH MY GOODNESS! Is Kelly lost again!! or worse! She didn't come and Karen said," I am going looking for her Mom" and then we saw her coming down the street! So we always say, Now Kelly don't get lost! She just gives us a dirty look, nowadays!! Oh yes, we did have kettle corn!! We did say I bet Linda would love some of this!!!

I was out messing with my blog!! Oops!! I hit the wrong key I think ! Or I didn't read it very close where it said colors will disappear if you click this button!! So instead of a nice blue blog I have white one and I am to afraid to click any more buttons until Karen can take a look, and do some damage control!!!

The true friends who we meet online
Are a very special kind ...
They pierce your shields and see within
The corners of your mind.

They're always there when you're in need
With their power to discern;
They feel your pain, they offer hope
And genuine concern.

We bare our souls, expose our hearts,
And show our inner fears;
And then before you know it ...
The keyboard's stained with tears.

And if we could see them through that screen,
Then no one could deny ...
That to be a TRUE online friend,
They too must surely cry.
~ Author Unknown ~

Thanks again, Denise for sending this to me! I do love all my online friends!

Happy Labor Day!

This is Labor Day Weekend and it is time again for Santa Cali Gon Days in Independence Mo.

The first Santa-Cali-Gon Days Festival was held in 1940 to celebrate the unique heritage of the City of Independence as the starting point of the Santa Fe, California, and Oregon Trails. A second celebration was held after World War II in 1947. The event would not be held again until 1973. The festival, then called Three Trails Days, featured a beard and mustache contest, the Miss Independence pageant and a pioneer costume contest. In 1974 the festival was renamed Santa-Cali-Gon Days, a name originally penned by Velma Katschkowsky in a 1940 contest to name the festival. In 36 years the Festival has evolved into one of the nations premier festivals, drawing more than 225,000 people.

Some years we go and then we miss a few and then we go back up and enjoy all the festival has to offer! Now that Nancy and I can't walk long distances Karen and Kelly push us though the crowds in wheel chairs!! They are sweet, brave girls! There are huge tents full of all sorts of crafts that we love to look at but can't see it all!
It is raining here this morning and it is 63 degrees. I have been up there when it was so hot you could not enjoy it very much!! But we went any way! I have taken my grand kids different times through the years.
When Kelly and Brandon were teenager we parked our car at the RLDS headquarters and took the shuttle bus. Then the two of them decided to get me a shelf and a deal to hang quilts on! Wow, that was fun on the bus! But we did have fun! Nancy loves to go and eat everything she can!!







This past week Kelly came home with a stack of books for me and included in it was a wonderful book by Pamela Roswell Moore "Life Lessons from the Hiding Place". I finished reading it last night. I found it so inspiring.

Corrie ten Boom

I've never seen God,
But I know how I feel ...
It's people like you
Who make Him so real.

It seems that I pass Him
So often each day,
In the faces of people
I meet on my way.

He's the stars in the heaven,
A smile on some face,
A leaf on a tree,
Or a rose in a vase.

He's winter and autumn
And summer and spring,
In short, God is every
"Real," and wonderful thing.

I wish I might meet Him
Much more than I do ...
I would, if there were more
People like you!


~ Helen Steiner Rice ~

This lovely poem was sent to me by Denise over at Shorty Bears Place. Thank you Denise for thinking of me.

Hi on Friday Afternoon!

I know it isn't fall yet!! But our weather has been so nice and cool you would think it is September not August!! I think fall is my favorite time of the year.

I haven't been out visiting very much this week. I had a phone call from one of Nancy's Doctors office and they needed me to call Medicare. Yikes!! Who knew this was going to consume days!! Well, two of them!! I was on the phone from 9:30 until 1:00!! The day before, for a long time too!! All I can say is ....... The government wants to take over Health Care!! Well, YIKES again! I had to call her secondary insurance also.
Not much news with my ear next to the phone!! OK, I will stop ranting on and on!!
Yesterday was the last day for my visiting nurse. I am doing better and I don't need her to come by anymore!
I hope everyone is feeling good out there! Hope to get out and do some visiting today and tomorrow!

Please join us in wishing Grams a very, very Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday, Mom I love you. - Karen

Love you Momma, Happy Birthday! -Kelly

A Few Wedding Pictures!!

Here are a few picture from Sarah and Kyle's wedding a couple of weeks ago!

Sarah getting ready

The Bride and Groom's Mothers

My son Bill and Sarah


Sarah and Kyle









It was so hot that day that I stayed in the church!
They drove around the block and came back for
photos. I know there isn't any of me! I had burned
my lip the week before and had a horrible looking
sore on my lip! It was bad enough I had to go to
the wedding looking like that I am not sharing
that picture with the world!






They had a great reception with all kinds of delicious food and a chocolate

fountain with fruit,pretzels, and marshmallows



Sarah was a beautiful bride and Kyle is a really nice guy!

Kyle and Sarah got home Sunday from their Honeymoon

in Hawaii ! She said it was very beautiful there. Sarah

teaches school and she has been really busy this week

getting her classroom ready for the first day of school.