Make sure you scroll all the way down and keep clicking "older posts" (you have to do that twice) until you get to the Swimming Graduation video...it's amazing!
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Sunday, September 12, 2010
My apologies, Bloggers!
My apologies, bloggers for the late updates! If you are reading this, thank you for not giving up on me after over one month with no new posts. I have been beyond overwhelmed with work lately (expect a post on that soon) and we've had a lot going on but I think I am pretty close to being caught up to date! I added 15 new posts over the past 2 days with a lot of fun pics and videos.
Goodpasture Game
We played our big rivals, Goodpasture on Friday night. It was a close game and we lost 28-27 in the last minute of the game. There were a few really questionable calls by the refs that had major implications on the game...it was so disheartening. Overall the guys played well though they definitely made some mistakes. At one point during the 3rd quarter, I had been paying attention to Ryan and then went back to watching the game and all of a sudden I hear him screaming at the top of his lungs to the defensive players. My head snapped back around to him and he was saying "GET YOUR HEAD IN THE GAME. WE ARE WALKING AROUND LIKE WE'VE LOST THIS GAME." The next defensive series we got a safety! That's what I call "players are scared of Ryan yelling" :).
Madison Claire saying "TOUCHDOWN CPA" in her sleep
Peanut allergy - RUH RO!
After such a great afternoon with Madison Claire, we finished off with dinner. I had asked our doctor at the game on Friday night if I could give her some peanut butter because she had eaten a bite of Keatyn's at the Ft. Campbell game and didn't have any reaction. He said it would be okay so I made a little peanut butter sandwich and cut it into small pieces. She ate one piece...which she didn't even fully eat, she just sucked on it for a minute and then spit it out. I assumed she didn't like peanut butter so didn't give her anymore. Well, not 5 minutes later her sweet little face started breaking out in hives. At first they just looked like little bug bites and since we had been playing outside, I thought that was what it was. Then, as time passed, they got bigger and bigger and redder and redder. Poor little thing :(.
Ryan was at football practice so I called our Dr. on his cell phone (the first time I've ever done that) and asked if I had any Children's benadryl. I didn't have any so he told me I needed to IMMEDIATELY get in my car and go get some. Keep in mind that we had just been playing outside with the Nemo Slide so I'm still in my bathing suit! I threw on some clothes and put her in the car and went to CVS. Of course there was no cashier up at the front so I just opened the box and gave her that benadryl sitting right there on the counter at the cash register!
I was still trying to reach Ryan because Dr. Heil had said that if her mouth or tongue started swelling I needed to take her to the ER. Well, she had taken a bad fall over the weekend while with the McSwains so her mouth and lips were already swollen to the max. It was so scary because I couldn't tell if they were swelling more and if the swelling was from the fall or from the peanut butter. I had called every coach on the football team to try to reach Ryan and he finally called me back as I was pulling out of CVS. *Note - he was calling me to ask me to DVR the Boise State game, not because he knew I was in a crisis with Madison Claire! As soon as I answered I just started crying and told him I had been trying to reach him and explained what happened and told him I was driving to CPA so he could look at her.
Once we made it CPA, Ryan thought she looked okay (the benadryl had kicked in by then and she looked a lot better!) but recommended we take her to our good friends the Mowery's to have Dr. Greg look at her. Greg is an ENT physician and he came out to the rescue, looked in her mouth with his little light and reassured us that the swelling appeared to be from the fall and not from the peanut butter. Crisis adverted!
Following doctors orders, I did check on her every hour until about midnight to make sure she was breathing okay and give her another dose of benadryl. So - it seems that a trip to the allergist is in order, but we are going to wait until her 18 month appointment next month before we go. In the meantime - NO PEANUTS for Madison Claire!
Girls afternoon out!
When we got back to Nashville on Monday afternoon, Ryan had football practice so Madison Claire and I had a fun girls day out! It started with a trip to the grocery store, then to Sweet CeCes for her first Sweet CeCes ice cream (you can tell from the pictures, she LOVED it!), then playing in the Nemo slide outside! I love my sweet time with Madison Claire and work has been so busy lately that I haven't gotten much of it. This was a MUCH NEEDED special afternoon together.
Trip to Atlanta
After a tough loss to East Literature on Friday night, Ryan and I headed out Saturday morning for Atlanta with some of the other coaches from CPA. We had been offered sideline tickets and club level seats to the Chick-fil-A Kick off bowl, LSU vs. UNC at the Georgia Dome, by one of the coaches, Jim Ward. We rode down with the Mathews - Lisa and I in the front talking work and babies and Ryan & Jay in the back watching football film to prepare for the Goodpasture game.
We made it to Atlanta and had a great time at the game! Ryan got to go down on the sidelines before the game and watch the teams warm up and us girls stayed up in the club level being harassed by drunk UNC fraternity boys. It was quite amusing to watch them not say another word once our hubbys came back! It ended up being a great game and we are so thankful to have been invited. THANK YOU WARDS!
We stayed Saturday night and Sunday night at my parents house so we could spend time on Sunday with Meredith & Ben. It was the first time we had seen them since the proposal! We also got to spend the day with my parents and Sarah & Ryan...we missed Patrick! It was so much fun - we went to church together, had lunch out at Windemere Country Club and then the girls went to Bridals by Lori to try on wedding dresses! Meredith was of course BEAUTIFUL in every single one! Madison Claire stayed in Nashville with the McSwains so while we were sad to leave Atlanta, we were excited to get back and see the punkie brewster.
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