Family

Tonight I'm typing to you from my old bedroom at my parents house.  It's so nice to have such wonderful parents that are willing to take care of you 24 hours a day until you feel better.  Sean came down last night and today to keep me company but had to go back to work on the Circle T.

Right now I'm watching  The Lindsey Lohan version of The Parent Trap..(ya know before she was a crackhoe)  and am so nauseous that I really wish I would've kept on the little motion sickness patch they told me to keep on...and they pumped me so full of air during surgery that I think if the computer wasn't in my lap I would float up to the ceiling.   .... I may or may not be a little loopy from pain medication...Now that I re-read that paragraph I'm leaning towards the "may" side...

So before I left for the hospital I took some pictures of my Christmas tree and some of my favorite ornaments.  I was planning on doing a Christmas post about it but I have mysteriously lost my pictures....how do you loose pictures on a digital camera??  I still have the card, the pictures are just MIA... hm??

SOOO instead of Christmas ornament pictures you get to hear all about my Family Reunion we had last weekend.

We had my Dad's Dad's side of the family over to our barn for a family reunion. Dad has a nice barn with living quarters, you can kind of see it in the background of the photo...so don't like think we had a family reunion down in the ol' hay barn and square danced or something..we aren't that backwards.  ...anyways.   There were about 55 of us, the youngest in attendance was 1 year old and the oldest was my Great Grandmother Gladys at 96 years young.  (She's the little one on the couch)  She is still in good health and great mental health as well.  She was over heard saying at one point during the day, 'Well I guess I started all of this mess.'  And she did, six children multiplied into over 55 people!!

 Left to right, Susie (My aunt), Erin, Kinley, Great Grandma, and MawMaw

Kinley was the only Great Great Grandchild there and they took a 5 generation photo.  My Grandfather Passed away in 2003 so we substituted his generation with my MawMaw (His wife)  So even though it's not Blood 5 generations  It's pretty dang close!



Oh and I'd just like to give a special Shout Out to my Aunt Sherree who is a very dedicated Blog Reader!!  I just wanted to say hello and let you know how wonderful it was to see you!!  Now.... I'd like to zoom in on our family photo and we can all laugh "with" Aunt Sherree and her attempt to get Kinley to Smile...apparently K wasn't having it...  This photo made me smile because it shows Aunt Sherree's personality, Happy and uplifting No Matter what!!! Love you and See you at Christmas!!



Have a Great Day everyone!  Maybe you'll get to see my tree tomorrow...if I find those photos...

Wordful Wednesday

I'd like to start off by saying a big THANK YOU to everyone who prayed for me during my surgery!!
I was really nervous when they started getting me ready for surgery but as I was praying I remembered all the people that were praying for me and thinking of me and I felt so much more relaxed and much less nervous!!
Anyway,  everything went great and I am now gallbladder free :)   I had a close call with the IV needle but didn't pass out!!!  yay!  After waking up I was in extreme pain and after about an hour of morphene I was pain free and ready to go home.  I have four incisions and am really sore but I'm doped up on painkillers so I'm feeling great!  ha  They told me it would be a few days and I'd be back to normal.

And now for my WordyWednesday!


Sunday I went with Kacey and Ava to the Christmas Tree Farm  and we took pictures for Christmas Cards.  She called it the Christmas Farm and there was a petting zoo and swings and she seemed to have a great time!!  We had so much fun and Ava is such a great little girl to take photos of!!  Here are a few of my favorites..

For more Wordful Wednesday go to Angie's at Seven CLown Circus!
Well Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a great day!

Jenna T.

Surgery

Well Girls and Boys, Tomorrow I go under the knife. Yep. I'm nervous, I'm scared, I'm afraid I'm going to pass out again. What am I having surgery for you ask? I'm getting my gallbladder removed. Apparently that little thing isn't needed to sustain life and it's causing me A LOT of trouble that I thought was a result of my Celiac Disease but I was wrong!



I had come to the conclusion that I would just have to suffer for life and that even a wheat free diet wasn't going to fix my pain. After ruling out ulcers, tumors, and panic attacks that Web MD had diagnosed me with it turns out it was just my gallbladder. stupid gallbladder. The surgery is just an outpatient thing and I should be well within a few days, just a little sore. So stick me on your prayer list and hopefully everything will go well!

Thank You

Happy Thanksgiving! I have so many things to be thankful for but yet this year I just can't seem to be in the Holiday thankful spirit. There have been so many things that have not gone my way this year and if I was still five I would lay down on the floor and scream and kick and cry and yell "It's Not Fair!!"


But I'm 24 so I will just have to keep that all inside. Or just do it when no one is around.

When I was in High School I listened to a sermon that has stuck with me ever since. It was about Heaven, and if God loves us and created us for Himself, then why did he allow us to come suffer on Earth? Why not just let us live in Heaven with Him to begin with?

Some of you that are more bible savvy than I am may disagree but what the preacher said made a lot of sense, more now than ever. He said, without knowing pain and suffering on Earth, then we can't know and realize the Love and Perfectness of Heaven. If we don't know what it is to suffer and we don't know what it's like to be in pain, then we don't really know and appreciate Love and Goodness. Basically, you can't have good without having bad and vice versa. You can't have up without down, you can't have cold without hot. You enjoy Heaven without Earth.

So this year, I'm thankful for the stress and hardships that we are going through. I'm thankful that I have trouble paying the bills, and that Sean and I aren't getting a long as great as we could be. I'm thankful for the ill health I've had lately, and I'm thankful that Sean can't find a job. Because, one day when everything works itself out, and we don't have these struggles anymore then I'll be able to Know how wonderful I have it, I I'll be able to appreciate things so much more, because I know what it's like to not have everything.

But most of all this year I'm thankful for Earth. One day when I meet Jesus, face to face, because of my life on earth, I'll realize his glory, compassion, awesomeness, and splendor, because I've experienced the opposite and I can see the difference.