PawPaw Update

You may have noticed that I added PawPaw (my Dad) to our prayer list. He has just been feeling ill lately and short of breath and would just be zapped of energy after minimal activity. He had an array of tests this week and his echocardiogram did not have great results.

He was still in atrial fibrillation and was now also in congestive heart failure (CHF). The scariest news was that his ejection fraction (a percentage of how much blood your heart pumps each time it contracts) was at 19%!! That is NOT good. At all. So, they admitted him to the hospital yesterday afternoon. They gave him a diuretic to help get rid of the fluid around his heart and today he was feeling MUCH MUCH better. He is still in a-fib and is planning a cardioversion in a couple of weeks. In his own words, "I'm not well, but I feel better". The cardiologist discharged him from the hospital and even ok'd him to go to our high school football game tonight. The Gators are the regional champs!! Woohoo!

So, please continue to pray for his health. That his heart rhythm will convert on it's own to a normal rhythm and rate and that he won't even need the cardioversion. That his ejection fraction will improve greatly with the resolution of the CHF. That he will have the energy to enjoy this retirement that he has worked so hard to earn.

Wordless Wednesday

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Laundry Shout Out!

I just want to thank B-man sooo much for doing the laundry! He's pretty much been doing it exclusively since Boo was born. I've done a few loads here and there and hardly ever to completion in a timely manner. But, B-man does an awesome job! It's so nice to wake up in the morning to neatly (perfectly) folded laundry!

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!!!!


In addition to laundry praise, I'd like to ask you for prayers for PawPaw (my Dad). He's just not be feeling well for a while now and has been diagnosed with atrial fib and is now on medication for it, but he's still having shortness of breath with minimal activity. He also is having a lot of GI trouble and will be getting all of the associated tests this week. Don't tell him, but I'm worried about him and we're praying that everything is okay, or that whatever it is can be easily fixed. Please join me.

8 months old!

Boo is 8 months old today!!! Wow, we've come a long way in that amount of time.

Baby's First Halloween!

Today marks Boo's first Halloween! We celebrated with the party a few weeks ago and today we went downtown to the square for trick-or-treating (really we just pushed Boo in the stroller and looked at everyone else). It was fun to see all of the itty bitty's all dressed up! So cute! Here are some pics.

We did find time to carve pumpkins this year!

Scary Larry and a Cute Lil Spider


Pumpkin snowman

These pups were hilarious downtown today! I had to take their photo.

Spider Boo!

Happy Halloween!

Do you see scary puppy eyes in the window??