Zizzie Happenings

I thought the last few weeks were busy but I think this week tops them all.   I started the week dog sitting and ended my week cat cat sitting. It was VBS week at church and to help run everything we had two missions teams in town.   Missions teams = lots of extra food to make... we ended up planning 4 meals to take for the missions teams to eat.  One of the meals was empanadas.  Kathy and I made 72 empanadas one night. Another reason we made so many empanadas is because Philip and Michael came to Vegas with some coworkers to attend a convention.  So we had them all over for dinner one night. I got to watch these two cuties while their Mom took their sister to a doctor's appointment.  I don't normally get a chance to watch them because I live so far away but because of dog sitting I was much closer.  I had a blast!  Although life was crazy busy this week, Kathy and I were both able to make some cards.  We enjoy gettin...

Life has been so busy but I can't believe I haven't posted Project 365 for 4 weeks now.  I promise I have been taking pictures but now to remember everything so I can share it with you may be a little hard for me. Oh well, I will just give you the highlights so I can try and keep the post length under control. This year we were actually able to enjoy some of Paul's grapes that he has been growing.  Last year the animals ate all the grapes before they were ripe enough for us to enjoy. We have had several missions teams come and help us pass out flyers for our VBS week.  They have worked hard and thousands of flyers have been distributed. Kathy and I have been doing Weight Watchers for the past several weeks and we had gotten to a point that we needed to go through our clothes.  We looked at each piece of clothing in our closet and got rid of anything that was too big.  Three big garbage bags later we were done.  We donated them to Salvation ...

Back in July of 2004 Mike ended up in the hospital from an emergency appendectomy.  There were some complications which required the doctor to make a 12 inch incision to remove his appendix.  A few days after the surgery Mike had uncontrollable and painful hiccups.  Doctors determined that he had pressure and acid building in his stomach so they inserted an NG tube down his throat to empty his stomach.  After 11 days in the hospital he was released to go home. After 2 days at home Mike started experiencing major chest cramps and he was having a very difficult time breathing.  Back to the hospital he went to discover that he had a blood clot travel from his leg up to his right lung.  The doctors removed 3 to 4 inches from the bottom of his lung.  They started him on blood thinners and after 12 days in the hospital back home we went.  Three days at home and Mike had a really bad dizzy spell and after a phone call to a doctor friend of ours,...