YUMMY!!!!

EXCELLENT PUMPKIN BREAD

Read more about it at www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,194,155177-243194,00.html Content Copyright © 2012 Cooks.com - All rights reserved. 3 c. sugar 4 eggs 1 c. salad oil 1 tsp. Kitchen Klatter butter flavoring 2 c. pumpkin 3 1/2 c. flour 1 tsp. cinnamon 1 1/2 tsp. salt 3/4 tsp. nutmeg 1/2 tsp. allspice 2 tsp. soda 2/3 c. water 1/2 tsp. Kitchen Klatter burnt sugar flavoring 1/2 tsp. Kitchen Klatter orange flavoring 1 c. nuts Cream sugar, eggs, oil and butter flavoring. Add pumpkin. Stir dry ingredients together. Blend water and burnt sugar and orange flavorings and stir in alternately with dry ingredients. Add nuts. Bake in greased and floured pans filled 2/3 full. Bake at 350 degrees until done (about 45 minutes in loaf pan). Makes four 7 x 3 x 2 inch pans.After baking, remove from pans and cool on racks. Serve warm with butter or cheese spread. Cool and wrap for freezer storage. We always have pumpkin bread for our Christmas meal.

Baseball season: DONE

Sam played machine pitch baseball this year and loved it.

He says it's way better then T-ball. I have to agree.

Swing Batta, batta, Swing!!!!

He loved being the catcher the best.

Getting his award. They gave out medals instead of trophies this year. YAY!!!

GO VOLCANOES!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Open Tab........

I think we need a open tab at the hospital for Charlee.

On March 31 Sam and Charlee were down stairs watching a movie. I was working on the computer and Dad was watching TV. Charlee came up to me and told me she had swallowed a penny. I just told her to keep swollowing and it should go down. Later I was cutting everyones hair in the kitchen and she said "Mom the penny is stuck right here" pointing to the top of her chest. I looked at Jake and he said we better take her in. So we called Grandma to watch the other kids and headed out around 9:15p.m. or so. We walk in the ER and the nurse says asked us what was going and we told her. "No way" she said. "The only other person in the ER tonight is a little boy named Payton who has swallowed a penny." Crazy I know! Anyway we got an X-ray and sure enough the penny was still stuck right where Charlee said it was. The doctor said that we could either go to primary children's by flight or ambliance. I was totally freaked out by now. They said the penny was right at the point where the airway slits and goes to the lungs. If she moved a funny way or started crying hard it could lodge in one and there is nothing they could do to help her. The doctor decided to call the doctor at primary's and he said that 98% of the time is not in the airway. They let us drive. YAY!! It was of course the snow storm of the year all the way there. Jake did great though.

We made it there about 12:30am. and waited for another hour. They got us in a room and then to the X-ray lab. They had to strap Charlee to a board and layed her under a machine. A nurse at the top and one at the bottom. She was screaming the whole time. The Radiologist put a tube down her throat and then a wire and pushed the penny into her tummy. It took all of 4 or 5 minutes. They said we could watch for the penny if we wanted to but it wasn't a big deal.

We got out of there at about 2:00am and headed for home. Susan had to work the next day so we couldn't stay over. We got home around 5:30 in the morning. Lets just say it was a long stressful night. I wouldn't wish it on anyone.

We are just glad we still have our sweet little girl.

Charlee's Jounal

Feb. 9th, 2010

I did not sleep very well last night and Mom wouldn't do anything. I just kept coughing and coughing. Mom took me the doctor and I got a breathing treatment and they told me I could go home and come back tomorrow.

Feb. 10th, 2010

We went back the doctor today and my oxygen didn't go up it went down to 74. So, we headed to the hospital. It took awhile to get to our room and once we were there everyone started doing stuff to me. I had to have a needle stuck in my arm which I hated. Mom had to hold me down cause I wanted to get up and run. I had to have oxygen in my nose and I hated that too.

Feb. 11th, 2010

Still at the hospital. It was a very long night. My oxygen kept going really low so the nurses kept coming in like every 5 minutes. I really do not like nurses. I watched sponge bob square pants for the first time. Mom doesn't let me watch it at home but there was nothing else on. The best part of the day is when my family came to visit me. Grandma Sue bought me a cool Dora blanket and some books and coloring stuff. I really love my Grandma Sue. She even watched me for a while so Mom could take the other kids and get out of the hospital for a while.

Feb. 12th, 2010

Yup, I am still at the hospital. My oxygen went down again. But I think it is doing good today. We might even go home. The doctor said I had Broncialitis what ever that is. I just glad I get to go home.

Feb. 13th, 2010

I am home now but still have oxygen at night. I hope it's only for a few more days. I love being home. It makes me happy to be with my family and my own bed.