Update on Mom Carty

The doctors seem to have her blood pressure under control now.She has been moved out of ICU but is now in a great deal of pain. They are trying to figure out the best non-narcotic pain medication for her. She was originally supposed to be released to the rehab center tomorrow morning. I am not sure when that will happen now.

Prayer Request

Tom's mother had knee replacement surgery yesterday. She seemed to be doing well until the evening when her blood pressure starting crashing. They can get it up and then crashes. She had a Depidural (spelling?) drip which is a morphine time released drip in the spinal canal. She evidently is allergic to the medication which is what is making her blood pressure crash. She has been moved to ICU so they can put her on an IV drip to flush the medication out of her system. Also, Tom is pretty sick and can not be around her. So pray that he will feel better soon so that he can be around her. He is feeling like he is letting her down by not being there.

Nebraska Corn Harvest

I shot this video this morning to show the kids what harvest in Nebraska looks like. The Corn was planted in May and has now matured and dried down. It is picked by the Combine and offloaded in motion onto the auger wagon. It is then loaded onto a truck and taken to the grain elevator in Loomis to be stored until sold. It will become Ethanol, Cereal, Corn syrup, animal food, nachos or many other things.

Tessa's Birthday Party...

We had a delayed 1st birthday party for Tessa.  Her birthday was actually August 22, but Becky was in Guatemala.  So, we had some friends over to celebrate a few days ago.  Here is a video of her eating her cake and some pictures from the evening...

(by the way, if you haven't seen the latest video of Drew singing, see our post from yesterday on our personal blog here.)

 

 

Capturing Memories...

Since Tessa's birth, Drew has sort of gotten the short end of the stick photographically (probably some other ways as well)...  So, here are a few pics of Drew that I caught recently...

Rob

Kingsway Competition

We had our first competition Saturday. They took first place in their group and first overall with a score of 81.75. They won first Color Guard and Drum Line in their group. At this point, they have the highest score out of all bands they will compete against this season. Darlene did a wonderful job. She dropped her flag on a couple of hard tosses. The girls got new flags that were much heavier than their practice flags only an hour before the competition for their first song. They had a hard time catching a toss at the end of the first song. They also learned a really difficult and high toss last Saturday so they didn't really have time to perfect it. We were proud that only 3 (including Darlene) dropped their flags. The show is almost 10 minutes long so we have uploaded an edited version.

Guatemala Pics

I posted a blog entry with a bunch of pics about part of my trip on our personal blog today.  Check it out!  www.robandbecky.blogspot.com

Here is a picture of our team.  I'll post more pics on our blog this weekend, so watch for it.  You can also check out all the pics at www.robandbecky.com/family/pictures.htm

 

Becky

Fellow Bloggers...

I am so excited.  I have been waiting for this day for a very long time...

Windows Live Writer now supports image upload to blogger!  No more ftping images to my own servers. 

Now, without a doubt, some of you are like, woohoo, and some of you are like woopdeedoo.  Either way, I thought I would let you know in case you were also holding your breath.

Rob