Change

Over the past few years my dad and I have not been as close as we once were. I have grown up, gotten married, and started my own family. Therefore I don't "need" my dad the same as I once did. But I do still "need" my dad. I need him to be part of my daughter's life. I need him to be part of my life. I need him to still love me and call me his little girl.

Last Saturday night, I got a very awakening call from my mom. My mom was in the ambulance with my dad, on the way to the hospital, he was having a heart attack.

My heart dropped. I put on my shoes. Chad had his dad come sit with Keegan, she was sleeping. It was late at night. We proceeded to the hospital. I didn't have much to say. I called my sisters. We were in shock.

They took my dad to surgery at midnight, to put in a stent. 3 1/2 hours later the docter came out. They put in 3 stents. My dad had a major heart attact. It was very serious. At that point was when the emotions finally hit me. I could have lost my dad.

My dad is okay now. He has to have more stents and watch his diet. He also has an aortic aneurysm that they will continue to watch. He has to make a major lifestyle change.

My dad is only 64. I am not ready to say goodbye to him.

Only God knows when our time is up. I realize we must make the most of each day that we have. I am looking at things in another light now. Sometimes it takes a very scary situation to remember how much the ones closest to us mean, and at any moment they could be gone.

I love you dad.

Missing Pictures

In October I did not do a very good job of posting pics. So here is a quick little recap of what we did in the month of October.

We did the Halloween campout at Sugarloaf. It was the second year in a row of awesome weather. Our family and neighbors came out to celebrate with us. The kids had a blast trick-or-treating from campsite to campsite!

We also celebrated our friends Kia and Russ's wedding. The bride and groom were stunning and we had a blast. I love going to weddings!

The night before Halloween we carved pumpkins with my family. Our pumpkins turned out amazing and we had fun doing it. We got Keegan and Sylar all dressed up and got some pictues of them. Keegan was a hippie and Sylar a dinosaur.

We took some time the day we got together to do pumpkins and went over to our Great Aunt Virginia's to visit her. The kids were dressed up and she loved seeing them. She is only in town for a couple weeks in the Fall and Spring. She is a traveling woman, and she is 88 years old!