John's B-Day Party

Saturday was my nephew John's birthday party. 6 years old! I can hardly believe that he's that old. It's really making me start to feel like an old man. I can still remember the day he was born and being an uncle for the first time! John's always been my buddy, even though I have this bad habit of hurting him in some form or fashion when we play. Can't quite explain that one, but we have to be careful around each other. :)

And now just a little while more and Alex will be 2. Wow, where does the time go? I couldn't ask for two better nephews or for a better set of in-laws. God has blessed our family tremendously!

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Pictures were fantastic!!

As I said last friday, we had new family pictures made at Portrait Innovations in Greenville on Saturday. They turned out amazing!! I'm going to include a one of the pics for your viewing pleasure. It's hard to believe how much Trey is growing up. I was looking back recently at some older pictures of him, and he's come quite a long way! Praise God he's as healthy and as active as he is! I hope you enjoy the picture! I'll try to add a slideshow later with more of them.

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New Pictures Tomorrow

We're going tomorrow to have new pictures taken of our little family. It's been a little while since we had any made, so it will be neat to have some updated shots--especially of Trey. The place we're going to, Portrait Innovations, is supposed to be really good. The best part is that you get your prints the very same day because they print them at the location, so that will be cool.

It's amazing to look back at pictures of Trey and see how much he's grown. He's becoming such a unique little person now it's amazing! Time truly does fly by when you have kids of your own. It's really weird thinking back to his birth, surgery, and other milestones. Now he's almost walking and getting into everything! Hopefully I'll have some new pictures to post next week, although I'm not sure if we get a disc with the pictures on them or not. Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!

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Lugnuts...

Well, my wife gave me quite an exciting day yesterday. Seems she ran over something around lunchtime yesterday and poked a hole in her tire. Therefore, I had to change a tire on main street in Liberty yesterday. No big deal, really. Well, except for one small detail. My wife's van has locking lug nuts, and it requires a special key to loosen or tighten the locking nut. It was no problem to change the tire, but evidently I left the key laying in the parking space on main street.

So, after having the tire fixed yesterday afternoon, I found out that I couldn't remove the spare without the key. I drove back all the way to Liberty to look for it, but I couldn't find it. I then had the bright idea to use the key from my mother-in-law, who has a van just like ours. One problem...she doesn't have locking lugnuts...therefore, NO KEY!!

Now I have to call the Honda place and try to get a key so I can take the stupid spare tire off! What fun!! Anyway, that was my exciting day yesterday. Hope you enjoyed my agony...ahhh, it wasn't too bad!

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Work, work, and more work!!!

Wow, I think I'm busier now than I've ever been in my working life. We are absolutely wide open here at work, which is a great thing. It's just somewhat stressful at times. Especially considering that we lost our girl in the office about 2 months ago. It looks like we're on the verge of hiring someone new to replace her, but that means training and getting into a routine, which is never easy.

Of course, I fell way behind over the holidays and am still trying to dig myself out. I also recently moved into an office by myself, which is nice, but also added to my being behind on things. I know in a few days I'll be caught up, but it's not too much fun right now. I guess that's why they call it work! Oh well, at least we're busy and not sitting around looking for things to do. That's never good. Anyway, that's my little rant for today. Now, back to work!!

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Great news for Trey!!

I just received a phone call from the nurse at Trey's Immunologist's office, Dr. LaCroix. She reviewed the results of his bloowork from a week ago or so, and she was thrilled with the results. His CD4 count was excellent, which shows that his T-cell count has caught up and his immune system is doing well! Also, he shows antibodies to all of his vaccines, which means his body is responding the the vaccinations! Wonderful news!!

If you'll look back at my archives to a post called "Bactrim is the Devil" you'll understand the best part of this news. He no longer has to take the bactrim!! He was doing really well taking it for the last several months, but I know he's going to be thrilled to not be taking any medicine for the first time in his life!! Praise God for working such miracles in this little boy's life!! I'm just overwhelmed with gratitude to the Lord for all the things he's done for Trey and our family. From such a scary time before his birth, the Lord has come through for him and us time and time again. You would never know there was anything wrong with Trey if you saw him. The little booger is into everything and weeks away from walking I think. Just thought I'd share the fantastic news!!

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The new Blogger...

Well, as you can probably tell, I've switched my blog over to the new Google format. I couldn't tell if I really liked it at first, but after playing around with it for a while, I think I do like it. I like that I can add pictures to the top, bottom, and side of the page. There's also a bunch of other stuff you can do that I'm not smart enough to figure out. I'm sure if you are a whiz at HTML you could really go crazy with it, but I'm definitely no good at that.

Don't really have much to say today. It's been a good week so far, but a long one. It's always tough going back to work, especially after being out for over a week. But the routine is starting to come back, and that's good. Trey always does very good with his routine, and he had no problems at all going back to daycare, so I'm sure he's happy to be back on schedule. Well, that's all for today.

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Bowl Trip, Christmas, and a New Year!

Well, I hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas this year. Our family certainly did. Trey had an absolute blast opening his gifts. He didn't really care too much for the toys at first...he was too busy playing with the wrapping paper!! He eventually caught on, though, and loves his new toys.
We headed out for Memphis to the Liberty Bowl last Thursday morning. What a long drive!! You don't realize how far it is to drive to the other end of Tennessee until you actually do it! I must say, Trey handled it like a little trooper. He never fussed hardly at all on the trip out there or on the way back. We luckily made it safely in both directions with no problems. The game was fantastic!! What a shootout! I was a little nervous for a while with how close it was, but the Gamecocks came out victorious, and that's all that matters! Bet the tiggers wish they could have won! :)
I hope everyone has had a fine beginnning to 2007. Hard to believe yet another year has come and gone. Time simply begins to fly by when you have kids. I can't wait to see what milestones Trey reaches this year. We just found out yesterday that the results of his latest bloodwork show that his T-cell counts were fantastic and in normal range. He should be coming off his Bactrim shortly. All of his shots are taking well too, so he's doing fantastic! Well, time to run for now. Happy 2007 to everyone!!

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