Kacie's Headaches...

February 7th Kacie stayed home from school with a bad headache and then Thursday the 9th she still hadn't got any relief so I took her to Dr. Dunbransky.  She gave her an IV because she was so dehydrated and an antibiotic thinking she might have a sinus infection.  

 Friday she was still hurting so we took her to the ER because Dunbransky was out of town.  They gave her some pain meds that finally helped and they did an MRI.  The ER doctor told us there were no tumors and her sinuses were fine, but that the tonsils in the brain were enlarged and that we needed to see a Neurosurgeon.  We had never even heard of tonsils in the brain.  Dunbransky's office was having trouble getting her into a neurosurgeon so I texted Kacie's kidney doctor and he said he would get the images and have a neurosurgeon see them out of Portland.  After a couple of days of stressing over Kacie possibly having to have surgery on her head the surgeon said they were not that bad and that she wouldn't need surgery, but that she would need to see a neurologist to see what he could do to help.  They were then thinking she was having bad migraines.  Boy were we all relieved but still frustrated that nothing seemed to be helping her headaches.  They tried different pain meds that didn't seem to help much then on the 15th I took her to another provider in Dunbransky's office that gave Kacie a shot in the butt and was suggesting that her headaches could be caused by food that she eats or her birth control pill.  We both felt seeing her was a waste of time.  The shot helped a little but we found out that she shouldn't have them because of her kidney.  We finally got an appointment with a neurologist but it's not until March 15th.  On the 20th Kacie was able to see Dunbransky again and she made some changes with her medicine.  She stopped the Topamax that she had her try but didn't help and then put her on a schedule to discontinue her Prozac and added Amitriptyline which is a nerve pain and antidepressant.

 Stacie and Taylor brought these beautiful flowers to Kacie on Feb 16th.  

That was sure nice of them.

Sunday the 26th Kacie was able to go to church and posted this picture and said...It feels good to feel good.  We love it when she has a good day and no headaches.

Nyssa Winter Sports...

 February 6th was senior night for the boys and girls basketball team.  They played Umatilla and both teams won.  It was a fun night of basketball.

Nyssa Wrestlers...District and State Champions.

   The individual state champs were... 4 time-Heath Hartley, 3 time-Osiris Tapia, 2 time-Jose Candelas and 1st time-JoJo Sanchez.  Pretty Awesome.

February 25th Kacie and I went to watch the girls play Cresell in their first round of State Basketball.  They won pretty convincingly.  We then went to hang out with Mom and Dad, Rosie and her three younger boys that were in town for Deanie's funeral.  Scott was at the Middle School Huntington Basketball tournament.  His team got 5th place.

Kacie's friend from Parma (Jesse Camacho) that was a State Wrestling Champ too...

Camp Rock Musical...

My cute date to the Camp Rock Musical at the Four Rivers Cultural Center...I love that he enjoys going to plays and musicals.  We really need to get him in one soon.  We had a good time and then after we got us some Dutch Bros...

Spirit Week & Valentine's...

Brady was such a good sport to participate in spirit week at school.  

I think he might be my first kid to do this.  Kacie has dressed a little, but not everyday!

Wacky Tacky Day

Sweetheart day!

Red shirt was the best we could do!

Whiteout Day!

I wish we got his picture without his coat.

Character day...he makes the best Draco Malfoy from Harry Potter!

Blue & White Day

He's such a cutie! Sure love this boy!

Our Valentine's..<3 <3

Mom made these for everyone...so cute!

Selfies...

Kacie decided to get her teeth whitened with some of her birthday money. 

February 4th Kacie and I went to Kris' clothing party.  I got a skirt and Kacie got a cute dress.  We then went to get us some Dutch Bros and then I had our Stake baptisms.   

February 5th

I always have fun watching the Superbowl.  This year it was the New England Patriots and the Jacksonville Jaguars.  It was awesome game with the Patriots coming from behind to win the game.  Unfortunately Scott wasn't too happy, but I was!(:  I've always liked Tom Brady and the Patriots.

Stake Primary...

For this year at our ward conferences we decided to do this activity as a stake.  So I cut out over 400 pink hearts for the kids to write down or draw a picture of how they are showing love and then at the end of March when we are done with all the wards we are sending them to Salt Lake.  I had the wards be in charge of collecting the permission slips from the parents that I gave them and if they wanted they could include a picture of the child.  It's been a lot of fun seeing what the children come up with.

This is the new treat we came up with to give the children that are
getting baptized this year.