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!

My family

Well Taytum, Aumalie, Kaylie, and I moved to Illinois back in May. I am engaged to the most wonderful man! We make the best family. I have a son finally! He is 18 months old and his name is Lucas. We live in an apartment right now in Mt. Vernon IL. I work for a medical billing company here in town. I actually do like my job. Kelly works for Pepsi and doesn't like his job. lol. We haven't set a date yet for our wedding. I would like to get married on the beach. I don't want a big ceramony, but I do want something due to me not ever having an actual wedding! It is all up in the air at this point. We are just taking it one step at time. We are completely happy with most of our life right now. We wish we had Lucas full time, but I guess we can't have everything the way we want it. The girls have decided to call Kelly daddy. So when I refer to daddy it is Kelly, not Tyler.

Kelly has been teaching Taytum how to drive a dirt bike. It scares me to death, but she loves it. They both love the father-daughter time. She hinted to Kelly that she would like a smaller dirt bike for Christmas like his so she can ride with him on her own bike.
We will be going Halloween costume shopping this weekend. I don't think Aumalie and Kaylie really know what they want to be, but Taytum wants to be a witch this year.
Well I just wanted to add our first entry into our new family blog. I am going to go to bed now. I will be posting pictures in the near future for everyone to see.
Love
The McCormicks