Birthday boy

I can't believe this little boy is 6 years old today. I remember the day he was born. I remember the nurses and doctors wheeling him by me in an incubator towards the NICU. All the days I spent in the NICU visiting him. The day he came home. The first time he laughed after I had sang I am in the Lord's army with all the movements. The first time he crawled. The first time he said my name with that big grin of his. And the first time I opened my front door and he was walking towards me all by himself with his walker. I can't believe how time flies. He's not even mine and I am so sad that he is already six. He's growing up so quickly! Happy birthday sweet boy. Your Uncle Jason and Aunt Elizabeth love you!!!

Wes from the Bachelorette

So I have been an avid watcher of The Bachelorette this season. Jillian was one of my favorites on The Bachelor with Jason (grr!) and so I had to watch it.  I know I have voiced to my friends how much I have not liked one of the guys a.k.a Wes on the show because he said  he was there for his music and that he had a girlfriend back home. Well, I may have to recant all the horrible things I said about him. I found this website called Reality Steve, and he did an interview with Wes after he was eliminated from the show. Reality Steve was also the guy that knew last year that Jason was going to dump Melissa and get back together with Molly before the show even aired. I listened to this interview and now I'm totally confused as to what to believe. Is the Bachelorette even real? Would they really edit out parts of conversations and take answers to completely different questions to make a character for ratings? If that is what it is, I don't know if I want to watch it anymore. For those interested here is the link to the interview  http://realitysteve.com/podcasts/wesinterview.mp3. It is an hour and 20 minutes long( just warning you), but it is good information. Maybe you will change your mind about Wes or maybe you won't but at least you can hear his side of the story. 

HARRY POTTER!!!

I meant to post this the other day but I got to go see Harry Potter on Tuesday night! It was so awesome. I give it five stars. I recommend everyone go see it! I cannot wait for the next installment to come out..in a year and a half....

Last but not least

I forgot to put these pics up several weeks ago..oops. Over Father's Day weekend, Jason and I went down to Houston to visit our niece, Karis, and all of Jason's family. Karis has grown so much in the past few months since we saw her last. She is almost crawling and rolls all over the place. She is so cute!!

Out for a little bit of shopping!

If Karis could talk I think she would say "You look an awful lot like my daddy, but you're not"

All in all, it was great weekend filled with good times with family. I'm so lucky to have great in-laws and hope to be able to see them all again soon!

Happy Fourth of July!!

Happy Fourth of July!!  I LOVE MY COUNTRY! I know that we are going through a lot with the economy and are hurting so much, but I think our country is amazing.  Whether or not you agree with what the government is doing or not doing, or how you don't like or like the president, I'm thankful that we live in a country where we can express our views and not be jailed or even worse -killed- for our opinions. I have traveled to many places outside the U.S. and we have it so much better than many people in the world. Our freedom is something that I am truly thankful for and I know that it has come at a cost.

Thank you to all the men and women out there who have fought for our country to preserve our freedom. Who have stood up with pride and fought against the evils of this world (i.e. slavery, Hitler, communism, and the Taliban) to not only preserve our rights and freedom but also give freedom to others. Thank you. Words cannot express enough of my gratitude. 

So no matter what you may think of our government, take a moment today to thank God that you live in this country. And remember it's up to us as citizens to make our country the way we want it to be...not the government. That's what makes our country great. I'm proud to be an American. Are you?

Ant Bites

It was an eventful Sunday evening here at the Racca house. I was planning on doing paper work after dinner this evening and sit on the couch and watch the Princess Protection Program on the Disney channel (yes I wanted to watch it - I am not ashamed). I thought that Jason and I should go walk Lucye real quick to let her go to the bathroom and get some energy out. We walked around our apartment complex for a bit and then Lucye did her usual laying in the grass on the hill by the creek before we went back in to the apartment. As she got up to walk towards the house, she started walking funny and all of sudden Jason said " She's got ants all over her." Immediately, he got her on her tummy and started brushing them off as fast as he could. We rushed to the house to get her in the tub to make sure we got all the ants if we missed any. By the time, we put her in the tub, Lucye looked very tired and was acting lethargic. I called the ER vet clinic and told them what happened and they said to bring her in for some medicine. We got in the car and headed that direction. Lucye started having really labored breathing and was trying to go to sleep and wasn't trying to move at all. Let me just say that I was crying and hysterical and telling Jason to run the red lights (which he did run a few but he did do it safely - there were no cars coming). In what seemed like forever, we finally made it to the ER clinic and they took her back and started her on some IV benadryl and short acting steroid medication. We stayed there a couple of hours while they monitored her. I am happy to say that Lucye is doing better and is on children's benadryl at home but I think her poor momma is traumatized. I don't know if she will be laying in the grass anytime soon. Here's a picture of belly of all the ant bites. That doesn't include all the ones you can't see that are in her fur.

Long Time No Blog

I know...it's been almost a month. But I have good excuses. Or at least good excuses to me.  =) My life has been pretty busy. With my family here, moving to a new apartment, work and the paper work that comes with it, and trying to rehab my hip by running and exercise and then adding the necessary sleep and eating and cleaning, I haven't had a lot of time to blog. I have barely had time to get on facebook (gasp!) It's not that I didn't have anything to blog about but I just had no time to do it in. Oh well.

Anyways, my nephew came to stay with Jason and me for the last 3 weeks so he could go through intensive therapy. My parents or my sister in law were also in tow to take care of him so my house was pretty full but I enjoyed seeing Blake a whole lot and was really sad to see him head back home last weekend.    He did so well in intensive therapy. He is able to stand by himself for 2-3 seconds before falling and stand against a wall without help now. On the last day, he walked with a walker for about 400 feet with only one rest break. It was pretty awesome and I forgot my camera that day (Nuts!). If you want to learn more about intensive therapy go here www.suittherapy.com   It's a pretty awesome therapy concept and I hope Blake gets to do it again soon. Here are some pics from intensive with Blake:                                                                  

                              In the suit working hard to stand up     

                                          

                                                                                                                            

     

And before I forget, Jason did another triathlon on June 13. He did great and finished 6 minutes faster than he did in the same race last year!! Way to go babe!! Lucye didn't get to come with us to this one because she still had her stitches in from her spaiding and we couldn't get her too excited. But Jason will do another one before the season is over. 

                                                                                        

So that pretty much sums up the last 3 weeks or so. I will be back way sooner from now for the few people that actually read my blog and want to know about my life =)