Eric

Eric has been having headaches for the last

few weeks. When we were in Springfield I

had to take him to the ER it got so bad. He

had another really bad headache the night

of the wedding so as soon as we got home I

took him to our regular doctor. She wanted

him to go see a neurologist at Children's

Mercy and sent us home to wait for them

to call and said in the mean time just take

him to the Children's ER if he had another

one.

Tuesday night he had another bad

headache so I took him to Children's at

about 1:00am. They gave him some pain

medicine and finally got the headache stopped

and sent him for a CT scan. While we were

waiting for the scan results I paid our copay and

got ready to go home. I figured they would

come in and say that they didn't see

anything and would send the scans to neurology

and we would follow up with them.

Unfortunately that did not happen. The doctor

came in and said that they had found a

large arachnoid cyst on his left frontal

lobe. He told me that they are normally

nothing to worry about but this one was

very large and they were going to admit him

to the hospital and we would see a

neurosurgeon in the morning.

Needless to say both Eric and I were

terrified! I called Paul and told him what

was going on then tried to keep calm until

morning.

The neurosurgeon finally came in and said

that all most all of the time someone who

has one of these cysts was born with it

and the normally do not grow or cause

problems and they never remove them

unless they do cause problems and he

didn't think that the cyst was the cause of

the headaches. Then he ordered an MRI

and referred us to a neurologist.

The neurologist didn't think that the

cyst had anything to do with the

headaches either but they are going to

watch it for changes. The doctors think

that he is just having migraines and the

cyst in incidental. We finally got

released from the hospital about 6:00

that night with naproxen for the

headaches. He is still having headaches

about every other day

so now we just wait and see

what happens...

The cyst is on the left MRI images are mirrored.

At least we do have proof now that he does

have a brain. He does have funny looking

eyes though.

A wild week...

The kids and I started the week by going to

Melisa & Jeff's house in Springfield

on Tuesday. Mrs J was Sara and Eric's

preschool teacher and we liked her so

much we just decided to keep her.
She has a new baby the same age as

Lily and my nephew Remington and

we just couldn't wait to meet her!

Sara and the girls.

Ariana, Rebecca & Ella

Ariana Grace

She is so sweet!! She's a very happy

baby and likes everybody.

Poor Ross was having pj problems

but he didn't mind.

The kids and I went on to Aunt Tina's

on Wednesday, Paul met us there on

Thursday and we went up to the

Grand Bear Lodge on Friday.

Friday Toni & Tim had a big

pig roast so everyone could get

together.

There was a big ladder ball tournament.

We finally got to meet Cash and Slade.

They are even more cute in person!

Madaline had a great time! She danced

all night at the reception. She is so talented

she can even dance while eating a

chicken leg!

Patti made her salsa and cookie bars

for the picnic they were great as usual!

Aunt Tina made all of the center pieces.

she hand painted all of the pots and

they were different colors they

were really cute! We went up early so

we could help her get ready for the trip and in

true Aunt Tina fashion she had everything

ready to go. Except for the potting of the cacti.

We wore gloves to plant them and as Tina

said we still got little pricks all over us!

Aunt Tina had a pinata made.


The wedding was Saturday under this beautiful

tree and the weather was perfect around 80 degrees!

Ali & "Aba"

Josh & AJ

The Reception

The reception was a blast! We danced all night.

They had a photo booth at the

wedding. It was so much fun

before dinner everyone took

nice family photos then after

dinner the props came out!

Charlotte was very serious about

getting dressed up for her picture!

Quite a professional!

Others, not so much...

The kids had a great time doing the limbo

Jack just kept running circles around Erin!

Ali & Ersix

Ali spent a lot of time keeping track of

Ersix, Aba & Sara. If only Lolo could

have been there it would have been

perfect for her.

I love this picture!

The only way to get my knuckleheads

to stand together and smile is to add Ali.

The love of my life! He makes me so proud!

Sara and Jack on the balcony in our cabin.

The water park at the Grand Bear Lodge.

The amusement park at the lodge.

Matt, Demian, Jesse and Sara trying to make

themselves sick for the 6 hour ride home.

This is pretty much how we all spent the next day!

4th of July & Hanging Out

We spent the 4th at Lolly & Don's.

Don spent the entire day cooking

and the food was great.

The pinata fell apart right

away so we had to keep

putting it back together so

all of the kids could get

a whack at it.

Best friends are even better

when they have a bag of candy!

The peanut gallery

Demian is teaching Jack dork 101

It's like the street sweeper after the parade.

Caught playing ball in the house!