Big Test is Tomorrow!!

I have put it off long enough and I could not put it off any longer, tomorrow is the start of the big STRESS test I have to have. Back a few months ago I have some issues that the my health care provider wanted me to have a stress test. But after the test was done I was resting and the heart doctor asked me if I felt anything, I said I feel my heart beating and was out of breath. So he wrote pain in chest on the paperwork. Which was a BIG red flag to my primary care provider. She wants me to have this two day stress test, the 1st day is tomorrow that the 2nd day is Friday morning. On the 1st day, they are going to have me resting and inject a dye and then take images or pictures kinda like an MRI. The test is suppose to take something like 2 hours. The 2nd day is the hard part, you have to get all hooked up again to the injection of dye then get on the treadmill and increase your heart rate while this IV is in your arm. Once you get your heart rate up by walking on the treadmill they will pull you off and send you back to the image or picture machine (MRI thing) to compare to the resting pictures they took the day before. Like this is going to be fun!!! I am sure it's not going to be easy but I will give it a shot.

Not sure what they are going to find with all this but I am trusting them as they know what they are doing. The test is going to be done by the group of doctor (or clinic) I work at, so that gives me a little more trust in them. Notice I did not say faith, reason is my faith is in the Lord with this. I have been able to trust his lead up till this point and I am not going to back down now.

I will update everyone once things as best I can as we go along.

Grandma Linda's New Loveseat & Chair

Grandma Linda had been looking for a new love seat and chair for her living room. Last weekend her and I went back to a store where she had seen one she really liked but they had sold it by the time we got back. Since Mike has been if KY all week I did not have anything else to do so we shopped around Saturday afternoon at some other stores and this is what she found. She got a really great deal, and it looks really great in her living room

I carry my camera with me all the time so when we were at the store I took a picture of it in case she wanted to think about it. But she didn't think to long cause she really liked it when she first saw it.

Hug & Kiss to all

WHAT A TRIP WE HAD

Recently a group of great friends took a trip to Talladega Alabama for a NASCAR race. What a wonderful time we had. This is an annual event that every year keeps getting better and better. We stay in a place 30 miles east of Huntsville, Alabama called Guntersville, it's also about 60 miles from the track. This year we were able to get two races in, we did a truck race on Saturday and the big NASCAR Cup race on Sunday. Of course anytime you go to a race you have to tailgate, check out some of the fun we had while tailgating. Here are some of my photo's from our trip, oh by the way you won't find Kelsey in any of these because she was not able to go with us this year due to her volleyball tournaments. I am proud to say they came in 2nd place in their tournament. She will be back with us next year.

Hug and Kiss's to all.
Love ya:)

Tailgating after the race. As you can see some of the group was not feeling any pain!

Spencer Getting ready for the big event!

What a gang!!!!
Would you be seen with this Group?

Look at that face, love those bug eyes:)


Love the look on Woody's face, did something piss you off?

The newest love birds.
Kaycie and Cole
It's great to see these two together.

1. Tickets to race..............................$135.00
   
2. Burger and Beer.............................$15.00
   
3. Ronnie's Race Hat..................$Price less
   

Volleyball Video's

Sorry for the quick post, but got to run. Here is a great short video of Kelsey serving at her volleyball last night. Each time she serves she is scoring a point for her team, Not sure how many she got but a few. The ended up winning this game and lost the next two games. Sorry for the bad quality of the film, hope you can see which one she is, again she is the one serving.

SWING BATTER BATTER SWING

Kelsey playing softball at her last game.

ANOTHER FAMILY UPDATE

Well, I guessed it was about time to bore everyone again with another family update.

Somethings have changed since my last update, as you last recall Mike was unemployed and he was taking some test for the local trades in the area. The good news on him is he has passed all his test with flying colors. There were several test he had to take over two days, the highest score you could get was a 7. I am very proud to say Mr. Woodring got one 7, four 6's and the rest were all 5's. He even improved on the one 4 he had the last time in team work. He is starting to play better with other in the sand box!!!! Well, what now you ask? He has gotten two offers, both offers were well under his expected pay range and he turned down both of them. He is wanting to apply for a job at the local damn but it won't come open till after the first of the year. In the mean time he has been contracting himself out to do odd jobs or general labor work. He loves it!!! He got to learn how to operate a BIG trash truck for a while and is now helping out some friends with general labor work, like unloading and loading trucks, cutting wood, cleaning up work sites, running errons, and other general stuff like that. AND HE LOVES IT!!! I can not express enough, how much he has changed over the last few weeks. He is such a wonderful person to be around again. Let me also say this he is now doing laundry, dishes and vacuums. Eat your heart out girls cause he's mine!!!! One day something will come along and he will have to move on from his general labor work but until then he is going to enjoy every minute of it.

As for Kelsey.....she is about to finish up with her Volleyball, I think they only have about 2 or 3 games left. And her softball games are also about to end, I have a great movie of her playing softball, once I figure out how to add it to this blog I will, so check back in a few days. I might have it up by then. She hasn't been bowling since spring due to all her other games she's got going on, however she is wanting to return to her bowling once softball and volleyball are done. Oh, and she also has a boyfriend now, his name is Michael. Mike and I have only met once but seems like a really nice guy. He came to her softball game the other night and meet her dad for the first time. Let's just say he is a little nerves around him. It's funny his my space page indicates that he has "meet the girl for him" meaning Kelsey. At 14 and 15 years of age how do you know that? but I think back and Mike and I were only 16/17 when we started dating. So who knows:)

As for me.....Well I am plugging along, my job is really crazy right now. I had a staff of 5 and lost 4 of them and now I am training 3 new hires so it's keeping me busy and working extra overtime. I am also keeping busy with my hair ladies. Seems everyone needs a perm at the same time. So between volleyball, softball, overtime, and hair I don't have any time for myself these days. I am sure it will all come to an end real soon and I will have so much time on my hands I won't know what to do. Mike and I are going to Alabama this weekend for 4 days, Kelsey is not going with us. She has a volleyball tournament to play in on Saturday and two softball games on Sunday so she wanted to stay home and do these instead of going with us.

So maybe a few days of rest will be good.

Hug and Kiss to all