Kids...

The kids could not wait to tell everyone....Their little shirts say it all!!!

Could you read them?

Paisleys says "Big sister (x out) Biggest Sister"

Ketyon's says " Big Brother...a Boy Please"

Brezlyn's says "Little sister (x out) Big Sister"

Yes that is right We did it again....We are expecting #4 to make its appearance around

June 18th 2012!!!

We are all excited and things are going well. This is something we have been trying for for about a year now. I found out Last week and we have been watching my levels just to make sure things where going good. SO far so good and we could not wait to let everyone know!

We told the families and everyone is so excited and ready to meet this little one.

We are just thankful that God has listened to our cry for another child and has given us this chance to have another baby in our house. If you ask Keyton if he wants a boy or girl he yells "NO MORE SISTERS NO MORE GIRLS" So I am thinking he wants a brother LOL. Poor guy needs a boy but we will take what ever God gives us.

Pray we have a good pregnancy and that we bring home a healthy little baby. We will keep everyone posted on things as we go and we should know what it is in Feb. So exciting cant wait to add another one to our family.

Old testamony

The last few weeks have really brought this to my mind...With the prayers we have been sending out as a family for this sweet little boy who was clinging for his life and has been healed by Gods hands. Also a family member going through what we where told we would be going through with our own child. ...Here is my testimony of Gods healing hand and the power of prayer...

January 12, 2010....On of a the best days of my life!! The day Brezlyn Keylee Condra (our 3rd) was born. After having a miscarriage three months before getting pregnant with her this was a big deal to our family. The answer to our prayers to have her come home! Here we are at 4 am before heading up to the hospital to start check in for being endued to have her 2 weeks early because she was already so big. Thankfully....

Happy Mommy ready to hold that sweet baby girl.

After getting settled in and water broken at 10...we where on our way to having her. We sat and watched movies together....At 10:30...My epidural crawled way to high and was turned off...then at 1:20 they turned off my patosin because my doc. went into surgery and they wanted me to wait for her...well Little Bee had other plans and came into the world at 1:58 pm ...Yes even with out the drugs I jumped from a 6 to a 10 in just a short time. There she was the little baby we prayed so hard to keep and bring home!!! Tears filled our eyes as if she was the first baby ever! She was amazing!!!

Brezlyn Keylee 8lbs 2oz and 21 1/2in...all healthy!

She was perfect and we spent the next day enjoying her and ready to take her home to be with Big Sis and Big Bro. Life was whole and wonderful!

Little Bee all ready to go home.

Sibs. loving on their new sis!!! My 3 monkeys

Life was good and we enjoyed every moment in our new little family. All 5 of us learning to be a family again and all the joys of adding in another one to our routine. She was a happy, sleepy baby who just went with the flow of things. Slept all the time and we treasured the time she was awake.

All 3 enjoying life!

When she was almost a month old things started to worry me. He umbilical cord was not coming off or even loose at all. It looked just as it did the day we left the hospital. Even with cleaning it like I was told to do. I finally Called the Doctor to see if this was normal when she was 1 month old and the cord was not loose at all. They told me to come in and have it burned to see if it would help.

Brezlyn at 1 month with the cord still there!!

We all hated that thing

Well we went in and the doctor saw that I was not being a worried New Mommy. Yes it had not changed at all in 4 weeks. He burned it around the edges and Yes my poor baby screamed and screamed. He told me to come back in a week if it had not changed. Well yes we went back and again they burned it and told me the same thing....Now she is 6 weeks old and He does the same seeing no change from the last time. He sits me down and tells me that the reason this is hanging on is because of some kind of CANCER!!! OMG What....I was shocked, scared, confused, so many things...Mostly Scared! He sent me to the ER (because it was sat.) to have blood taken from her arm to run test. So hard to see...she talked to the nurse until she stuck her with the needle and took blood from her arm...3 test tube of blood. Then My bee gave the nurse dirty looks until falling into my arms asleep. We let everyone Know what was going on and started asking for prayers as we wait to see what we where facing.

One of the Worst day of our lives...told she had Cancer

After getting home from the ER

Test came back Neg....Yeah!!! No Cancer...but what now....So still had not come off of changed another burning and they ran some more test and yes 4 more test tubes of blood one mad baby, sad mommy and her falling right asleep in my arm. All came back neg. They tried again burned and blood test this time for Cancer of the white blood cells meaning Lupus or Lucimia...Crud we where devastated yet again. Prayers kept coming in from everywhere in Abilene, Amarillo, Alabama and more....She was still the same baby but our hearts where heavy and we tried to live life from day to day between doc. visits as normally as possible. One thing that was hurting me was the thought of losing her after trying so hard to get her, keep her and bring her home safely. Again Neg.!!! Yes we are so happy next step was a sonogram to see if the inside was healed so we could have it removed by surgery. Not something we wanted but so much better than Cancer!!!! We would take it. She had the Sonogram and the call came a week later. Now 2 1/2 months old. The doc. was quite and sad...tells that there is a cyst under the cord. WHAT!!! He told me that he already had an apt. for us a Cooks Children's Hospital with a surgeon to see what they could do for her...have me all the the things I needed to do and apt time ect....I walked out of the store we where in and just cried and cried. My baby, My perfect baby had a cyst and yet again for the 3rd time we where facing to possibility of Cancer. Such a dirty little word and it had come up so many time the last few weeks. Here we go....Then one of the most amazing things happen the day before we went to Dallas Her cord just decided (by God's hand and the prayer poring in) to fall off on it own! Yes one surgery we would not have to do. It was Closed and she had a beautiful belly button!

2 1/2 months old Wonderful things happened!!!

Her beautiful Belly Button!!! Thank you Lord

Yes finally got to have her first bath and all of us helped and watched

She loved it and we loved it too!!!

So after this we headed off to Dallas with a fresh smelling little girl and a beautiful belly button to show off too. We saw the doc. and he was so happy that the cord was off looked her over, pushed on her and then explained the things we where looking at. First off surgery if the cyst was bigger in a month...yes we had to yet again wait another month...OH MY i was tired of waiting. Then said that he did not think it was Cancer but it could not be ruled out of coarse...we off we went home to watch and wait til we had to head back out to Dallas to see the sweetest set of doc. While waiting Easter came and we again made it as normal as we could for the family. We did so much to keep things normal for the other two kids and to spend time as a family like this. They could feel the stress but we tried.

Easter Sunday 2010

trip to Amarillo and the discovery Center with Family

The month had finally passed and off we went to stay with Tryon's Brother and Sister-in-law in Dallas. We where all scared and the first thing was another sonogram Friday morning to see how the cyst looked. Than later that afternoon an apt. with the doc to see where we go from there. The Cooks hospital was amazing and we loved everyone there and the care she was give during her test. Such and amazing thing they do for parents and families. Also her doc was amazing...normal predations need to learn from them really....Anyways we killed time between the apt. by shopping and eating close by. Then the moment of truth....we went in did not have undress her so I was thing oh God this could be great news or this could mean we need to admit her now....Crud right. He came in and told us the best news of my life...THE CYST WENT AWAY ON IT OWN!!!! The you God and tears of joy where in my eyes and Tryon's too. The nightmare was over thanks to the power of prayer and the hand of God our baby was the healthy baby we prayed for from the beginning! We called everyone with the news and went to Nikki and Timbers with humble joyful hearts!!!!

Touched by God!!!! On the way back from Cooks that Friday!!!!

The next day we celebrated by taking the kids to the Fort Worth Zoo...It was a wonderful day and so wonderful to spend real time not tainted with stress and worry!

3 healthy kids!!!!

She is an angel touched by so many prayers and God.

Today she is 20 months and still the joy of our life. It is so sad to see how close we came to living a long nightmare but it is wonderful to see God's work in person too. She is a silly little almost 2 year old and you would never know the troubles she had to face. We love her so and thank God for the healing he did in her life!

God is so Good...

This week this has been shown to me more than ever. As you all know Keyton is Highly allergic to Wheat/Gluten of any kind. Well on Tus. night after eating at chick-fil-a for family super hero night he had the worst reaction he has had ever. I don't know how he got the wheat the only thing I can think of is cross contamination or he ate my fries that I put in my sandwich bag. Well we got home from there and the big kids where coloring when I started noticing things. Looking back I should has noticed how fussy he was but he had also hit his head really hard at the store before we ate. Any ways I saw a few spots on his hand and made him take his costume off and he was becoming covered with little red spots. Oh no is all I could think I started hounding him on what he had at school, home and if he ate anything at chick-fil-a off the floor. The answer was no every time. He also has been on Zyrtec for sinuous infection that week and had already taken it before so I did not think I could give him Benadryl too(found out later I could have). I watched him for a while and he started swelling around the neck, lips, and ears. I took him in right away. We waited for ever to be seen of course and then the Doctor did not even look at his spots. I was made as could be because on one his foot looked like a huge knot almost as if he broke his foot. Also his hand had one on it that looked like the foot. He treated me like a dumb mom who does not know what I am talking about. Needless to say I have not been impressed and really have no respect for the Texas Tech training doctors. He ordered Benadryl for him and then I showed the nurse how bad he was and she told me to stay for about 30 to 45 mins. to see if he gets better or if the hives spread or the swelling gets worst. We did and the hives started spreading to his back and neck which they where not there before the benadryl. Also the swelling to his foot and hand got a little worst. They called the doctor and he ordered Keyton Steroids to help jump start the healing. His breathing was fine and his heart rate too which is great that it did not close him off but he did say his throat was hurting to breath and swollow so some irritation was happening. The swelling stopped so we went home but not before the Nurse told me to push his doctor to give him an epi-pen for this so that it does not get like this again. He had to be on steroids, benadryl and Zyrtec. We put him to bed in our room so that if the swelling started to move inside his mouth we would hear him. He woke up and looked good on wed. the swelling was all but gone and the hive looked good...for a while and still had a scratchy voice from the irritation. Next morning he woke up and looked horable his whole head was so red from hives and his tummy and back. Hive do get worst when the body starts to digest the food again and with heat so since the swelling was not bad they told me to start oatmeal baths and Benadryl cream to help stop the itching. He looks good today and feels so much better thank goodness. Hoping that it is all out of his system and that this never happens again. The only thing that really gets me is that I am so good at keeping him away from it and this happened. Of coarse I feel like I let him down in some way and I know there is nothing I could do its just part of being a Mommy to feel this way. Also God was watching him that night because....We got home so late that normally I would just tell the kids to get into Jammies and get to bed. I would have said their prayers and then left them alone for a while to fall asleep. Thankfully the Zyrtec he was on did slow the reaction down some and he had that right when we got home. I just cant help but think if it was a regular night I could have lost him in his sleep before I knew what was going on. God also tugged on my heart to not leave the hospital after the benadryl so that we could see that it was still spreading and he helped the meds work. We where lucky this time...very lucky. Thank you Lord for watching over him and putting all that into place so that he would be fine. Now we are working on getting an epi-pen for us and one for school. I also talked to his teachers because he did not feel up to going to school on Thurs. but we did have to drop big sis off. I showed them his poor body also. They let me know how good he is at knowing what he can and can't have or to ask. They said on the playground he will get in line for the little snacks they give out and if it is something he cant have he backs up and says "no I cant have that I am allergic to wheat and gluten" Even with candy he knows to ask first. I was impressed and proud of him about that. It makes my fears of school a little better. I am also grateful that both his teacher have kids who have special diets and one does gluten free everything so she is already looking for it. It has been a stressful week with Him but things turned out wonderful.

Here are some pic of him and they are backwards...starts with thursday and then tus...

His poor head...it looked like that all over his poor head. and tummy too...
Tus. after all 3 meds and home from the hospital
This is his poor little foot

The swelling to his neck and face he looked so sad.All the other pics are on face book but this is all I could load on here for some reason. It is in the album called "the last few days"

Thank God he is so Good.

Changes...

Today was the start of a new chapter in a little boys life. Keyton started his first day at Mothers-day-out today. He was so excited getting ready along with Paisley for their frist day. He did so good and wanted to wear his new tye shirt to school which turned out helped break the ice as everyone loved it and would ask him about it. He played well and talked to everyone. On the playground he did get to see his big sis but they told me he did not even play with her and stayed with his new friends! Wow i was so happy he was able to do that and find his own way with out her today. He had a great first day and I am so happy for him. Paisley did well today too, she had the same teacher but new room and was so excited to see her bff Salon! They where both well praised at the end of the day. Mommy on the other hand made it out the door before I started the water works thankfully and kept them up til I got home. Then me and Brezlyn enjoyed time together at home with the strangest thing QUIET. My house has not been like that since Paisley was a baby! Wow I forgot how it was to have that LOL. Cant wait til the middle of september when Keyton gets to go on his first field tirp ever!!! Paisley loved the bus we will see what he loves!

Living Crazy!

Well it has been a long time since I have sat down and blogged. So much has happened in our lives and the kids have done so much! I guess it is a good thing in away that we have been so busy with life that I could not sit down to write about it. Here we go...

The three major events this summer...

We went to the wiggles July 8th in Dallas...It was a blast!!!! All three of the kids where so excited to go and see them. We got there and Brezlyn just was in shock it was too cute. She danced and waved and clapped the whole time. First one of our three to do this and it made it so much fun. She waved her roses so hard for Dorothy the dinosaur and screamed Ruff to wags! Laughed at all the silly things they did it was so precious. Paisley got in on it too just to be a little proud mommy and play with her. She is so much like me it is not even funny. Keyton loved the show but he did bit through his lip good right at the beginning of the show. Did not spoil it for him and he did get to hand his bone for wags right to Murry the red wiggle! That made up for the lip thing. He watched the show through the pain and even smiled with a big old fat lip too! At the end we got the girls a wiggle character head band and Keyton a bucket hat that he wears alot! We had a great time and such great memories every time we go. They are already counting down the days til next years show LOL, guess we know what we will be doing for vacation again. So worth every Pennie it takes to see the joy, excitement, star struck faces, and Love from all 3 of them.

July 25-27 was VBS! This was the first time for both my big kids and boy did they love it! They where excited every morning and almost sad when I came to get them. They crafted, sang, and learned about the lord. It warms my heart how much they both love Jesus and church. They still sing the songs they learned almost everyday and they tough them to Brezlyn who now loves to sock-it to the devil! Love their little hearts

We then had a wedding where 3 out of the 5 of us where in. It was Tryon's sister's wedding on Aug. 6 in Abilene. The big kids where the flower girl and ring bearer and Tryon was an usher. They all looked so cute in there wedding clothes and did so well at walking down the aisle! I was one proud mommy. The Wedding was beautiful and was just a perfect picture of them. The bride was glowing and the groom handsome. Such true love and beauty! It was a wonderful time and seeing family made it that much better. The kids got to play with their cousins and see all their aunts and uncles from that side. Was fast and short but so wonderful.

New with the family...

Paisley: She is growing up so much every day and it is just a joy to watch! She retains so much that it always knocks me off my feet when she tells me things. She is learning to sound out small words and spell them which is wonderful. She can count up to 40 with no help and if I tell her the tens she can go on forever! She loves to dress up all day everyday and is never in her normal clothes if we are at home. Her imagination is just wonderful! Now she is a little mommy and tries to "help" me out with things around the house! She loves to change diapers and pick out her own clothes. Also she has started loving to sit with us which is a true blessing because as a baby this was something she would never do. She is also becoming quite the artist and will sit and draw, color, craft all day if I would let her but baby sis makes that hard. She is so excited that school is starting back up on Thursday to learn more things and I am sure to show off just a little. She is a sweet heart that is funny all the time. Singing and playing all she can. Such a joy in my life.

Keyton: His bad run has some what slowed down to almost stopped. After the wiggles he did break his little toe. It was off to the side and he had to wear crocks for about 3 weeks or so. No more broken bones since. His count is 4 just this year and we are hoping for no more. He has had the normal bumps but nothing that has sent us to the ER again. He is also growing up so fast. He learns alot from just watching Paisley and he loves to paint. He will paint every piece of paper in the house. He loves to play outside so this hot hot summer has not been is fav. He is also learning to spell small words and working on his sounds for every letter. He can count to 20 by himself and with paisley up to 30. He loves to do his training book and is learning to write letters. He is into Pirates right now! He runs around all day being Jack Sparrow hiding his sward from Barbosa in daddy's boot LOL. Yes that is right Daddy let the big kids watch the 1st one while mommy was gone one night. Then they watched all 3. He loves them so so so much! Daddy just took him to see the last one at the dollar movie and he was so excited and was so happy. This is who he wants to be for halloween now. He is also fully potty trained but at night!!! Finally and it is so nice to have him this way...thank goodness for the potty watch. He is really becoming such a sweet little guy who is going to start School this year for the first time! He is over the moon to start the year. I will miss him during the day but it will be good for him.

Brezlyn: She has changed this summer so much. She has gone from a quiet little baby to a loud, funny, energetic little girl. She loves to make people laugh and will do what ever it takes to make you smile. She is finally done teething just this month, the longest one out of the three. She loves to dance and does every chance she gets. She is talking in sentences and saying really big words now. She loves to learn new words too and always ask. Now her fav. word is still baby and yells it out everytime she sees one. I love her spirit!! She is also trying so hard to be as big as her big sis and bro. She is always following one of them around all day. She is also in the copying stage and it is so funny. Loves to change peoples names too...like with my dad he is Poppy but she is now calling him Papa and wil not go back to it...and keyton is only Kiki and paisley is only Babies LOL don't ask me why she can say all the right ones she just does not want to. Her new thing is the pirate thing too and she says Yo ho all the time and Jack Sparrow! LOL she says Pirate, tail and sings along with the pirate music we have. It is so cute and she is just as smart as the other two. She is a real blessing to our family and is the one who can always make us laugh. She is also starting Potty training! The first day we did it she went 3 times in the potty and stayed dry for a long time...I was one proud mommy...but I learned with Keyton not to push to hard and just go with the flow for a while. We are going to get her a potty watch to help out some it work wonders with Keyton. It will be nice if she would soon to have a break from diapers LOL.

Us: I have started making the kids clothes and really enjoy it. They also love it and it helps me to want to try new things. I still do all the normal stuff like bows and painting but have loved this also. It is so fun to make them things I could not buy for them! Tryon was trying to get on at the Police station here but it did not work out but we are hoping for things to get better where he is so that we can take down our dept so that he has a better chance later. He is doing well just working crazy hours still and we miss having him home more. We do love Daddy's day off and enjoy it while we can...good things to come but more about that later. We are also trying to have another baby and hoping it will happen soon. That one will more than likely be it for us and is sad to say that part of our lives is almost to an end. We are also still working hard on remolding this house. We have the living room done, cabinets (thanks to my dad) redone and panelling in the hall is gone. Now just need to get the wall re-textured in the hall, kitchen and both baths so that all we will have is trim, baseboards to paint and walls to do!!! so excited to be this close. Then one day will put shutters up and change the carpet but for now we are close to being done. Life is good and we are excited to see where it goes from here.

It has been a good summer and we are starting to get ready for the fall and winter...Lot to do there with Halloween, Christmas and two birthdays parties to through! Cant wait for it to start.

Stress

Ok so I really don't think anyone reads this any more but life has been good to us these last few months. With that has come some stress too...

First off Tryon is working really hard to get into the police department here and thankfully so far he has passed the two test he has taken. We still have a ways to go before we know anything. This being said it has caused him stress because he really wants this and has finally found what he wants to do with his life. Each test has come with stress and then the stress of passing everything but still not getting in..we are hoping this does not happen to him but it is all in Gods hands. Prayers are still needed for this to go the way God intends it to go.

Then there is the summer stress of the kids not wanting to be together all the time. This is mainly just my stress but has hit Tryon just a little bit too. The big kids are use to two days away from each other a week and the being pushed together all the time...the same class at church and any where we go it seems 3s and 4s are always together. They cant get a break. I guess this is one big down fall of having them 16 1/2 months apart. Oh well it is life too

Then there is the stress we have never had before. We have been trying to have a baby...wait did I just say trying! Yes this is something we have never done before it has always been OH my I am pregnant again. LOL I really wanted to have a baby close to Brezlyn just like Keyton and Paisley so we have been trying since Dec. with no luck yet...This will be our last baby and it is taking its time to get here too. I know God knows when the right time is and I don't want to go through the samething as we had to before we where blessed with Brezlyn. I am just tired of my period making its way to me every month..LOL sorry if that was to much. This stress has been on both me and Tryon, more on me I know. Funny thought Paisley is feeling it too she is so ready for me to have another baby that she is praying for it too. She does not want me to stop having babies. LOL she is funny and just like me in that way. The thought of only one more is so sad to me but I know it is the time in our lives to stop having them after this and just live as one big happy family...Now if something was to happen and we ended up with more I would be fine with that too...But back on topic....We are all ready for another little bundle of joy to make its way into our lives and be with our family. I keep hoping every month and praying this is the month. I will so thrilled to see that stick say yes more that ever before!!!

Keep our little family in mind as you pray with all the changes and hopes we have going right now.

Everyone is doing good....growing and loving life.

Sleep overs!

These are some of my best memories from childhood. As soon as my mom let me that is all I wanted almost every weekend! The more girls I could have over the happier I was. LOL I had a few friends I had over a lot and they are still some of the closest friends ever. I remember ever Birthday from like 5 on was a big sleep over with 6 or more girls over. We would stay up as late as we could playing games, watching movies, eating fun food, and doing nails...Oh and we picked on the little bro to.

Tonight I entered this world again but as the Mommy and I hope the fun Mommy too. Paisley has been begging for her little friend Bailey to stay the night. I gave in finally and asked her mom and Tonight was the Night!!! I don't know if either of us Mommies where ready but our girl sure are lol. The really funny and neat thing is that us mommies, where the best of friends growing up almost like sisters! We spent about 1/2 our lives at the others house or on vacation with each other! Our girls both look just like we did at their age and act just the same! It was like watch a video of us playing and staying at the others house. So cool and such a great thing. The girls are fastly becoming really close friends and enjoyed tonight so much!

We started off the night with "Cowboy" dinner which Paisley asked if I would make for them. I called it this one time because it was beans and hot dogs and Paisley was going through a no bean stage and this is how I got her to eat LOL. Then we waited for Little Bee to go to bed to go swimming in the little pool out front! How funny this was...they splashed, played in the mud and just laughed so much. Then we had to take a quick bath to clean up the mud and other fun outdoor things off them. They played for a min. washed up with no fuss! The girls both let me brush their hair just fine. After that we did nails...put the fun stickers on them and glitter!!! Yes Keyton picked the glitter too...So you cant really tell but yes he had to join in the fun! Then we started Gnomeo and Juliet while I made Monster yogurt to go with...that is just vanilla yogurt with strawberries and kiwi in these cute Monster bowels I found today for just $1...They taught this was supper cool and asked to have in for breakfast too! They went to bed just fine and we will wake up play, eat lunch and then with Bailey's mom and baby sis head up to the discovery center for just a little more fun before call the sleep over done!!!

I am sad that my little girl is growing up but I loved this as a girl and as soon as I knew Paisley was a girl I could not wait to do this with my little ones!!! Such a great time in life and so fun to pass on....one thing I have going for me my parents did not is that Tryon and I are both night owls so the late nights should not bother us as much LOL. I will be posting pics and a video of the night on facebook! SO fun and cute..

Such a big mile stone in their little lives...they are already asking to do this again some time and with more than just Bailey...yes she is just like me...Here we go.