Christmas!!!

Hi Everyone!
I just wanted to write a few lines to say hi to everyone! I have my little 5 year old (as of today) Aumalie typing on her princess laptop right next to me copying everything I do! lol So, my little girl turned 5 today! I can't believe it! I am just trying to clean up the house a little at a time due to my knee surgery! Aumalie's birthday party is Sunday! We also have Lucas this weekend! I am so excited! It has been awhile since we have gotten to see him for reasons I can't explain, but I am sure everyone can take a wild guess. I am so excited for Christmas! It truely is my favorite time of the year, and with having the man of my dreams and the family I have always dreamt about I am very blessed this year!
Taytum is on the Bethel basketball team! She is on the Pee Wee league due to her age, but the JV and Varsity coach has her playing both the pee wee and the JV team. They really think she has a lot of talent. They plan on next year having her start JV and Varsity for her grade school. She had her first game last night (which was a JV game). She got to play in the fourth quarter. She did well considering she has NEVER played a game of basketball before. The coach and her other teammates had to tell her where to go, but by the last minute in the quarter she was getting the hang of her position which was a forward. She caused a couple turn overs on her team but she also made two steals from the other team. She said after the game she was so scared her legs were shaking! lol We couldn't tell, except for the constant looking toward her coaches trying to figure out where she is suppose to be. lol
Aumalie and Kaylie love going to her games and her practices! We make it a family thing when we go....Kelly and I both believe that is the key to success with our children, making everything a family thing.
Well I have been able to rest my knee for a little while. I guess I better get back to cleaning. I will be off work for about 6 weeks due to my knee surgery. It hasn't even been a week yet and I am already bored out of my mind! lol
Well love ya all!
Desi and family.

Moving!

Well the girls and I are moving AGAIN! but this time I am super excited about it! Kelly has been living with the girls and I at our apartment, while paying half the rent on his house. Well we are going to be moving into his house with in the next week or two! I am excited but stressed at the same time, due to bad timing with my surgeries coming up! I won't be able to help move nor with I be able to be up and about.
I have my kidney stone surgery on the 20th of November. They will be sticking a tube up my urethra that will have a laser attached to it and directly laser my kidney stone to break it up. I will then have a stent in place for a week after the surgery to help pass the particles that broke. So, I am really not looking forward to that at all! Then I go on Monday to the surgeon that will be doing my knee operation to set up a date and time for my knee surgery. I ended up tearing my misnisci and I also have a lot of fluid behind my knee cap that is causing my knee to sit to the left of its primary possition. So, basically they are rubbing bone to bone when I walk! I will be out of work with that for several weeks! It will be covered under workman's comp but we all know you don't get paid 100% with that, but I guess some is better then nothing.
We had Lucas this past weekend which was GREAT! I love it everytime we get him! He is such the happy baby!(well little boy) He has been kinda stand ofish with me,but this weekend we broke it wide open! I was able to lay with him and put him to sleep Saturday night all by myself. And Sunday I did the same for his nap! We had a HUGE bon fire the girls always have so much fun when we go out into the country!
Well we are watching Kung Fu Panda for family night. I LOVE this movie!
Good night
DesiRae and Family

Halloween!!!!

I love Halloween! It is my second favorite holiday! We had a great time! I was Harry Potter but the outfit was a skirt, I had a cape, and glasses and a wand. Kelly was Keanu Reeves from the Matrix, Taytum was a Tiedied witch, Aumalie was princess Aurora, and Kaylie was Tinkerbell (which fits her personality so well, from the stubborn attitude to the looks blonde hair blue eyes!)
They have what is called a Trunk or Treat. It is where the kids can go to a local church that sponsors them and trick or treat. The people who volunteer decorate their trunks and stand infront of them and pass out candy to the children. We liked it because we know the candy is safe and we don't have to go door to door. We then went to my dads, great grandmas, and aunts house. The girls had a lot of fun, and passed out in the van on the way home. Yes I said van, I am actually driving a mini van. For those of you who know me that is a MAJOR shock! lol But I actually like all the room. I still as I am driving it try to picture my self driving it, and it feels funny.
I am proud to say Taytum got 3 A's, B+,B, and C+ on her report card this semester! Which is GREAT! On her midterm she had an F (which was music because she kept forgetting her violin) a C and one A the rest were B's. I am so proud of her.
Aumalie knows her right from her left, and is writing her name!
Kaylie is practicing her name by connecting the dots. lol
I am doing okay. I got a call from my doctor today that I do have a tear in my knee. So I go on the 11th to the orthopedic doctor. I am scared that I will have to have surgery! So, my nerves are shot right now!
Kelly is doing good! He had today off so he got to go golfing. It was a beautiful day! He hasn't been able to golf lately due to the weather not being cooperative. He has been great! I have had bad mood swings lately and he has put up with them all! lol
I am the luckiest girl! I never imagined being with someone who has everything I have ever wanted as my husband! I can't imagine my life with out him, and we have only been together 4 months! I love him so much!
Well we are having family night!
love
DesiRae

OUCH!

Well minor set back for me! I went to the hospital Mon and Tues with Ziatic nerve problems and my left knee in escruciating pain! I am restricted to the bed and minimal use of my leg. I am in a wheel chair until I can get to the dr to find out what exactly is going on with my leg. It hurts like a son of a gun! But I think everything will work out in the end! But I am going to be bored out of my mind! I do go to the dr today at 9:45 it is going to be amusing to see how I get around in a wheel chair! Kelly has been WONDERFUL! He has taken care of the girls, baths, teethbrushed, ect. He is taking them this morning to school and daycare! I feel helpless, but it is really nice to be able to just relax and not have a million stressing in the morning. So I am taking this for all its worth right now, cuz it doesn't happen all too often! I think I am going to go back to bed!!! woah that is definitely not something that happens very often!

Camping!

This weekend was another great weekend! Only down fall was that we didn't have our son this weekend. Long story but I can guarantee that won't happen again! So we decided to camp out Saturday night! The girls LOVED it! We made a fire and put up a tent right next to his parents garage so it wasn't like we were real wilderness camping. We decided with the girls never camping before we would try it out kind of in the wilderness. His parents live on a 40 acre farm, which most of it is wilderness. Taytum jumped right in with the gathering of firewood helping to get the blankets, finding a roasting stick for the marshmellows. Kaylie was a little scared at first, but she would follow daddy around gathering wood and kindle for the fire. She got to hold the flash light which made her feel like a true help! I worried about Kaylie bonding with Kelly but they are getting so close...I am kinda getting jealous! lol but I love it! Kelly told some scary stories, (well not that scary) mommy was too worried the girls would freak out and never want to camp again! But they did GREAT! Kelly got up atleast two or three times last night to put more wood on the fire so his girls wouldn't be cold! I love my fiance! We have decided to look into actual camping gear for a almost every weekend thing! I am really excited about starting to adventure out and camp. Hunting season starts out here soon, and I think I am going to go out and join Kelly and his family hunting. I probably won't do any shooting, but I would love to go and see what it's all about and spend time with Kelly and his family. We probably will have the girls join us eventually so they can turn into true country girls! lol They are still dead set on being country girls.
I got my hair done earlier Saturday. It was a new hairstylist that I tried and after we got to talking I found that she is my cousin! lol talk about a small world! She did a GREAT job on my hair and she is related to me! I can still be my high maintenced self and also be a country girl!
I am exhausted and I am ready for bed!
Love
Des Kelly, Tat, Aum, Kaylie, Lucas

Starting the week

Well I am at home this morning! I have to take the girls to the doctor this morning. Taytum isn't feeling well and Aumalie and Kaylie both need shots and a physical for day care. So I am just cleaning this morning waiting for the doctors office to open up!
We went this weekend to get our Halloween costumes! Taytum is going to be a tie dye witch, Aumalie is Princess Aurora, and Kaylie is tinker bell, Lucas is going to be Yoda if we can find a costume big enough, (the only size they had was infant)! I am going to be a Mrs. Harry Potter! lol I love Harry Potter! Kelly is going to be a man from the Matrix.
I am tired this morning. We took the girls out to the farm to show them how to be cow girls. They all are telling us they want to live on a farm and take care of the animals. So we went out to Kelly's family farm and were going to have them clean out the stalls but it had already been done. We will see after they have to clean out a stall if they are still wanting to live on a farm lol! They have two beautiful Quarter horses that they race! I would love to learn how to be a rider in a race! They say I am small enough and as light as a feather for the horses, but I don't know if I would be able to hold on that tight! lol
Well I am going to get off here and call the doctors office!
Love
Des and family

Fall Festival!

So we took the girls to our first fall festival here in Mt. Vernon! They LOVED it! We walked around visited with family and friends we saw there, played on the kids toys. Then we sat down on the side of the road and watched the Halloween parade go by and the girls fought for the candy they threw from the floats! It was funny and great! It is the best feeling in the world to finally have the family I have always wanted! After that we decided to take the girls to get our pumpkins! We went out to this farm, found our pumpkins, went through the corn maze, took the girls threw a kids haunted barn and pet the farm animals that were there. Taytum and Aumalie beat me, dad, and Kaylie out of the corn maze. They told us that while there were trying to get out they tripped over a corn stalk and both fell to the ground. That was the funniest thing they have told us in a long time. Then Taytum took hold of her sisters while Dad and I walked behind them in the haunted barn. She was being such a GREAT big sister!
The girls absolutely loved today! We all had to much fun as a family!
Kelly at this moment is preping Taytum's new glove we bought her this weekend for next seasons softball team! He used to be in the minor leagues and he loves playing ball with Taytum, teaching her all the different things! He keeps telling me she is so athletic and is going to be a great ball player, because she has the talent and him for a coach. lol! He is so proud of our girls!
He has taught the girls to fart on one another! OMG! I just about die when they do it, but that is their special thing they all do to each other! lol OH and MOM does NOT play that game with them!
I just wanted to share our special day with everyone and we hope you enjoy following along with our families activities and special moments!