Flashback to Weekend of Thanksgiving 2007

I was thinking about what happened last year on Thanksgiving weekend at our house. We were sitting around having a relaxing weekend, no shopping mall crowds, no traffic, no airport crowds, just our family. The girls were doing their own things somewhere in our bedroom. Coby was on the phone. Shortly after, I noticed Abigail was chewing on something in her mouth. And I asked what she was eating and she opened her mouth and saw a "watch" type battery (another name: button battery). I took the one battery out off her mouth and very proudly I showed Coby what I had found from her mouth.

We were both wondering where she found this battery from, until we noticed it was from a book light in our bedroom. However this book light uses "three" of these button batteries... so, "where are the other two batteries?", asked Coby. We look and look everywhere, under the bed, under the dressers, in the garbage cans, under the sofa, under the chairs... the two batteries were no where to be found.

To make a long story short, we ended up spending the rest of the day in the emergency room, because we had heard horror stories, (click here) or (here) about a child from Atlanta swallowing a watch battery and it exploded in the stomach and died. After the x-ray, sure thing, the two batteries were in Abigail's stomach. Abigail was given a laxative and had to have several more x-rays to make sure the batteries were moving accordingly through her stomach and intestines and eventually she passed it the day after.

Talk about nerve racking! The picture above is her x-ray and you can see the two white dots were the batteries located in her body. When I told the colleagues at my work, they were saying how she is a "gloworm", so I came up with the picture below.

27 More Minutes On the Laundry

These girls are so cute, they are waiting for their favorites dresses to be done from washing. It's probably the longest 27 minutes they've ever waited.

Hooray to our Bishops . . . Catholic Bishops Will fight Obama on Abortion

Must read this article - Catholic bishops will fight Obama on abortion A lot of great and strong quotes, we are very proud of our Bishops!

Archbishop Joseph Naumann of the Diocese of Kansas City in Kansas said, "They cannot call themselves Catholic when they violate such a core belief as the dignity of the unborn,"

Bishop Joseph Martino of Scranton in Pa said, "I cannot have a vice president-elect coming to Scranton to say he's learned his values there when those values are utterly against the teachings of the Catholic Church,"

Visit United States Conference of Catholic Bishops website

It's A Sad Day In America . . . But We Are Not Doomed!

Mark this day on the calendar! This should make you smile a little.

I wanted to express my feelings and reaction from last night's election results. Yes, I'm sad our Pro-Life Candidates didn't win. I'm worried what kind of changes we will face in the next four years. What's going to happen to America?

After all is said and done, what is important to me? I have my faith, I have God! I have my beautiful wife that loves me and that I love very much! I have my children, my girls! I have family. And I have my job! These are what's important to me and these are what will get me through my life.

There are a lot of good people in America still, that thought gives me hope, as a matter of fact there are over 55 million good people. We are not alone! We survived Carter, we survived Bill Clinton and we will survive Barack Hussein Obama!

I read this on the internet today, "the media creates the culture and the culture elects the politicians!"

Lord Have Mercy On Us!

"1.20.13 Obama's Last Day" is courtesy of
1.20.13.com

All Saints on Halloween Night

We almost forgot to mention about halloween night, they are all about saints and candies.

Gabriela was St. Gabriel the Archangel, Rebecca was St. Bernadette, and Abigail was Our Lady-Mary. Of course trying to explain who they are around the neighborhood was a story in itself. One lady was trying to guess, "oh, how cute, you must be an angel, and an old lady and another old lady" She was refering to Rebecca and Abigail's head covering that makes them old ladies.

Mary in her modern donkey

with children from our neighborhood

How Fast They Grow

Since it was such a nice day, we went to the Arboretum in Tuscaloosa today. We like to visit this place every now and then for a hike and enjoying nature. Three years ago we took a couple of photos of Gabriela and Rebecca sitting on a white patio chair and today we took the same type of photos while they were sitting on the same chairs, and we were amazed to see how much they have grown since then.

Gabriela in 2005

Rebecca in 2005

Abigail has been recruited to sit in the chair for the photo op and we will compare it three years from now.