Friends and late night movies....

Gracie, Katherine, Cory, Me, and Amber..oh! and little Man T!! So I look so bad in these pics becasue it is 1 am!! I was so tired..but it was worth it! We had alot of fun!!

I get this phonecall like around 7 pm...I couldn't get to it...and listened to my voicemail around 7:30pm....it went something like this...."Hey this is Amber. Umm...was wondering if you want to corrupt a few of us and go to the $2 theater to see Twilight...it is last minute and not sure when the movie starts. Call me back and let me know." This particular night I was scrapbooking with my sisters and I went to them and told them the could be plans...yes we have seen twilight like 4 times..but it is at the $2 theater!!! How could we pass it up?!? We joined a few of my friends for the 10:30pm movie...and had a lbast! One hubby wondered if a bunch of Mormon Moms were actually going to go to a movie that late or if we had other plans and not sharing them! haha (: I have the best friends here in Moval! I am truely going to miss them! I love being spontaneous and gettign together for random things!...staying up with them scrapbooking until 4 am....baby showers.....and church things....I do not think Idaho could offer me better friends. Lucky for me a couple of my dear friends will be joining me in Idaho! So I will have a few fun and great friends up there! Thanks to you girls for always being there for laughter, pain, fun, truimph, heartache, success, and for anything else life hands us!

Oh!!! And if anyone else wants to go and see Twilight at the $2 theater...I will go again with you!! (: hahaha xoxoxo

SeVeN.....7....SEVEN!!!!

I cannot believe it! Samantha is now 7!!! Time is flying by! Good thing we are having fun!! (: haha Samantha is such a fun girl! She is growing up to be such a beautiful young lady...but for now remains my little girl. We have alot of fun with her...she is always smiling! We love her and so glad she is ours!! xoxoxoxo

Of all the cakes she could have...she asked for cupcakes with rings...thank you Winco!! I know...not like me to BUY and not make a creation, but this is what she wanted...stay tuned for my attempt at Wesley's cake...coming up on the 20th! (:

Samantha and her gifts...she wanted to go to John's for her birthday dinner...her wishes were granted...and then as we were leaving she asked Grandpa Campbell to turn the hot tub on to have it ready for her when she got back...lucky for her, we grant birthday wishes!

Deal or no Deal...after listening to her Dad, Samantha took the 125 ticket offer...only to find out she had the 500 ticket case!! This happened three times in the night! That girl is lucky!

So....here is the deal..yes it does say 50 tickets! And so like idiots we all cheered for Samantha...and she quietly turns around and says... I only got 4. Look closely...the corners are 4 tickets and the little thin dark green space is the 50 tickets..it is a mean trick! (:

They love tickets....and getting prizes....I call it junk, they call it prizes....

The birthday girl!!

The 9 year old...

The 7 year old....
The 2 year old...

The three rugrats....having a great time...the perfect thing to do at night,
they go right to sleep after!!

Dave was brave and entered the hot tub with them...I love the hot tub..I just HATE getting out in the cold!! brrrrr

February Student of the Month!!

YAY Samantha!! Good work! She even went to Shakey's with the principal!!

Dylan update

Well....no new is good news?? (: We met with Dylan Dr. today and he was glad to report that afor now, there is no evidence of seizures. He wants to do another EEG in a month and if that one shows no activity then we will do a 24 hour EEG were he is hooked up to the EEG monitor for 24 hours. If both of those tests come back clean, then he sadi he would feel comfortable seeing us in a year to do a folowup. And then he showed us all of the MRI "footage". He began by telling me that he was glad that we went to Fontana Kaiser for the MRI..here is how our conversation went:

Dr.: Great thing you wen tot Fontana so they could sedate Dylan for the MRI
Me: Why is that?
Dr.: This MRI is s clear and it is easy to read. It has no fussyspots like it would if he were awake
Me: Well, then I am happy to report that they tried the MRI without sedation and was very pleased that he could sit so still.
Dr.: Did he fall asleep in there?
Me: No
Dr.:He did better than most adults.

Dylan was beaming. And of course very proud of himself...I was proud of him too! The Dr. also told us that he was amazed when he saw Dylan's MRI. He told me that when you have a premature birth, that you have things about your physical appearance sometimes that gives it away...as well as your brain. He mentioned that there are spots on the brain that are typically enlarged...and Dylan's is normal. He said by looking at the MRI alone, he would've never guessed he was born at 27 weeks. He said that was good news as well. So now we wait a month..and try to figure out how to get him to focus in the meantime...

Dylan

This year has been highly interesting. First to start our 2008 school year, we thought that in December we would be on our way to a new adventure in Idaho. That has changed to later this year. I am a believer in things happen for a reason...we might not understand now...but we will later. It is hard to put faith in that...but worth it if you do.
Dylan has a great 4th grade teacher this year...Mrs. Solorio. She loves Dylan and has done so much for him!! I need to back up a minute...every year during teacher/parent conferences, we have been hearing "you might want to hold Dylan back this year. He blanks out alot and doesn't pay attention. He just maybe a little too immature and need to stay in this grade one more year." I have always thought they were crazy and said "No Dylan is bright and smart...there is something else." It hasn't hindered him in school work. other than he has a hard time finishing. This year this sweet teacher began our conference saying "Dylan is a true delight. Never a problem with his behavior. He is incredibly smart..runs cirlces around my gate students. But he has a hard tiem finishing his work. He isn't realyl falling too behind. But I have to physically go up to him and get him to "snap out of it"" She asked for my premission to film him..I said ok. What I saw surprised me. He blacks out and doesn't remember where he was and thinks he had finished his class work like the rest of the class. It goes on all day. He is remorseful when he comes back..he doesn't know what happens....and thinks he will be in trouble. During the video, I noticed that he self stimulates himself..rocks back and forth as he blacks out. I thought..wow he looks like he has autism. But he is too old to be diagnosed with that. Then I thought...seizures. I am not a doctor and do not pretend to be..but these were my thoughts. She began the hard process of testing him through thte school psychologist...for things like ADD, ADHD, his IQ, etc. We were starting at the bottom and working our way up. After seeing the video, the specialists thouth the same thing I did...seizures. We are now meeting with a Neurologist...he is fantastic!! With Dylan's birth history..and the fact that they thought he was having seizures in the NICU, he felt that Dylan needed to be tested...so...we started out with an EEG.....

You have to be sleep deprived..with no caffiene...including the caffiene in chocolate. He was allowed to sleep for no more than 4 hours...and I had to account for driving time. So I got about 2 1/2 hours of sleep. We both were exhausted. I tried to make it a fun night but by the time that 3 am hit..Dylan was in tears begging me to let him sleep. It was a hard night and day the rest of the time...
All of those wires....it is a 20 minute test...so it is hard to sometimes to catch what is going on...

And after the test...Dylan was "marked" for the rest of the day...he thought it was cool. And then he went to sleep! (:

Then we had the MRI...we had to go to Fontana Kaiser because they do not sedate children in Riverside..only in Fontana.

This is what an MRI does...just FYI. And below is the machine you go into..a big loud tunnel.

I was'nt able to take pictures of Dylan in it...they wouldn't let the crazy mother with the camera do it! ): Dylan was very upset and didn't want to do the test because he didn't want the IV. He didn't mind the loud tunnel...but didn't want the IV...when we got there the Dr. sat Dylan down and told him that if he remain still, that he wouldn't put him under. I have never seen Dylan sit so still before! I was so proud of him! So no IV and no hospital stay for the MRI test. The Dr. let Dylan look at the pictures of his brain..Dylan thought it was so cool and asked for copies...we will get them on the 2nd.

We still do not know what is going on if anything...we find out on the 2nd of February. The hard thing is that epilepsy is hard to detect. You can have 10 MRI's done and 2 of them will show the disorder. So we may be starting a long road. I am grateful for Dylan and for his sweetness. I am grateful for how he came into this world. It was hard and trying but in those 4 months in the NICU I learned so much. He is a great brother and is such a leader. He is so special..and has so much to do in this life. I know he is a special spirit. I am grateful for my knowledge of the Gospel and for being taught it in my life. I am grateful for prayer. Without prayer, I would have fallen apart already! When things happen to us in our life we need to look at the good...the positive...there is so much around us!!

I will update on the 2nd...Dylan may be given a clean bill of health..then we will need to figure out why he is blacking out...and get him to focus....hmmmm.....I need Dr. HOUSE!!! (: