Just Jas

Jasmyn is officially a teenager! That's right. She turned 13 on the 6th of October. With this new stage in life came a new challenge as well. She played in her first volleyball game the Saturday after her birthday. Jasmyn usually is the score keeper and the team was short a player so she got a uniform. Jasmyn is not into sports and really did not want to do it. She did step up to the challenge though and actually did quite well. She does practice with them everyday and knew the basics. The team was really supportive and encouraging. In her first game she scored 4 of the points! Not bad at all!Ready to serve.

After the first game in the tournament. They actually had to play 3 games that day.

Serving.

Encouraging and coaching.

After the volleyball tournament was over Jasmyn had a sleepover to celebrate her birthday. The girls had fun playing games and playing with the puppies.

After the sleepover Jasmyn played with Hannah. Here they are going for a stick horsey ride.

Give a child 5 minutes and...

...they can have a great time.

...they can make a huge mess!
...they will be proud of their accomplishments...

Even if it does turn their hair white!

...they could even get the worlds biggest sliver!

But most of all, you give a child 5 minutes and you give them the world and they give you a heart full of joy!

Heritage Days...

We recently went and enjoyed the Heritage Days parade in McCook. The Wauneta-Palisade band played in it so we got a 2 for 1 deal!

This Pogo stick was the best of the whole parade (according to Hannah)!

Our little clown! I can foresee numerous calls home from the school principals office.

Waiting for the parade to start.

Enjoying herself.

Notice the band-aid? She started out with a tiny little scratch. Now it is huge! She will not leave it alone and we have a hard time getting her to leave the band-aid on.

Our school just got these (almost) new uniforms. They sure do look great in them!

Jasmyn playing her Trombone.

They did a great job!!!

The song that they played is Paint it black by the Rolling Stones.

Jasmyn has come a long way this year in her music. Actually the past 6 months she has made wonderful, wide strides all over! Her tremors are almost non-existent and she can control both sides of her body much better. On occasion we will load up and head down to the local school and play some basket ball. This last time Dolan had made a comment regarding how well she is doing! Can't wait for basket ball season!

We have had a busy week! It started off with two new additions to our family. Introducing Sadie and Lola. They were adopted from the pound. They are 3 month old cocker spaniel/basset hound mixes.

Everyone loves them! They are full of energy and life!

A neat picture of Jasmyn.

Hannah has a big scratch on her forehead that she has to pick the scab off of. So it just keeps getting bigger. It will more then likely scar.

This weekend Dolan and I finally got busy on the lawn. We planted grass seed and covered it with straw. We had plenty of helpers as well. Hannah, Jasmyn, Sadie, and Lola all wanted to be involved "in" the project.

Covering the new seed with straw.

Hannah kept this p until the whole lawn was covered...one handful at a time.

Hannah had her first organized performance Sunday morning during church services. The young children sang a song. Hannah stood up on stage like a big girl. She swung her arms back and forth the whole time! She even tried to sing towards the end! My "Baby Hannah" is growing up way too fast. This is just the first of many more to come! The encouraging yet scary thing is...she looked right at home on stage (scary part comes from her being a clown!). The song that they sang is playing on my play-list now. They did a wonderful job! Thank you Sara for giving of yourself to instruct and teach them! You do an AWESOME job! God gave you a wonderful gift and in turn the rest of us share that gift!

Apples II Apples & Sisterly Love...

Hannah had a follow up appointment Tuesday late morning. When we got there her temperature was still over 103. The doctor listened to how the extended weekend went and decided to run a few tests. Hannah had to have blood drawn, a nasal swabbing, throat swabbing, and give a urine sample. When the results came in we were all relieved. All labs came back negative. Negative for swine flu, influenza, mono, and strep. By the time the labs were done she had been on antibiotics for 5 days. Since then she is feeling much better.

I got this picture of Jasmyn by catching her walk in the room. She didn't even know the camera was even out. She is turning into a beautiful young woman.
The next few pictures prove that they really do love each other.

Jasmyn helping Hannah write her name.

Hannah must have got something right by the look on Jasmyn's face. It is really great when we have moments like this. The girls actually getting along and not yelling at each other!

Hannah concentrating.

Jasmyn.

Jasmyn snapped these last pictures. Hannah was caught in the act. Caught in the act of playing piano with her feet.

Apples...

This week has been a rather slow week. Thursday Hannah went to the ER with an extremely high fever. When I took her temp it read 106.8. Way too high. Knowing she was terribly hot and hoping my thermometer was wrong, she was loaded up into the car and hauled to McCook. When we got there her temp was 105.5. They gave her a high dose of Motrin and Tylenol. By the time we left her temp was down to 102.6. They examined her and all they found was a sinus infection and a very red throat. They prescribed antibiotics and rest. Hannah ran a high fever for 3 days making it back up to the 105+ area but mostly in the 103 range. She also did not eat for those three days. She would take a bite and that would be all. She still isn't feeling too well, but is back to her active self. The fever is gone and she is eating lightly. We ventured outside today for a while. We are prepping the lawn for grass-seed. Hopefully it will planted. Hannah had fun but didn't want to spend too long outside.

Still not looking the best.

Putting rocks in the home-made bird-bath.

Helping pull weeds.

After all that hard work Hannah headed over to the apple tree.

She picked 2 apples.

And enjoyed eating 1. The other she gave to her dad.

After that she was ready to head back inside.