9 DAYS LEFT/HAPPY BELATED BDAY, SHAWN AND RILEY

Kim has another doctor appointment today at 9am, I think the doctor is going to give Kim the paperwork for pre-registration for next week and give us the time for the c-section.
Yesterday, Sunday, David and Jodi had a small gathering for Riley's 10th bday, BBQ hotdogs and hamburgers, Xbox, Bocceball and slip & slide. Kim and Danny were the big winners in the Bocceball game, that's if you could get Danny away from the Xbox. David has the guitar and drum set so between David, Danny and Riley's boy cousins the Xbox was constantly going and very loud. Most the adults stayed in the backyard because it was too loud, unless they went in to sing along with the songs they knew.
Saturday, Kim and Danny had a garage sale and made over $100 and got rid of a bunch of stuff, except that darn desk, now I think Danny is going to try to list it in the pennysaver. Dave did some painting on Saturday but it is a slow process because it is so darn hot here, the backyard lawn is coming in nicely though.
Nothing else to report. Happy Belated Birthday to Shawn, Sunday, and Riley, Friday.

14 DAYS LEFT / 2 WEEKS TO GO

Early this morning I had a dream that Kim had the baby, it was one of many crazy dreams. Danny’s parents were late showing up for the c-section, the doctor was late, don’t remember seeing Danny at all, it was just a very hectic dream. Kim finally had the c-section, we were all supposed to see the baby on the TV screen and they would tell us if it was a boy or girl. We got the picture but were too late to see the sex of the baby, Kim came out and sat down beside us, then the doctor came out and I asked if it was a boy or a girl, don’t ask me why I didn’t ask Kim she was sitting right beside me, the doctor said a “boy” and I must say I was a little bummed, Kim broke the mold. The mold being that Vance, Mike, Marty, Jeri, Caryn and Marisa all had girls either for the 1st child or the only child. I guess maybe deep down inside I must want Kim to have a girl, people always say “I don’t care if it’s a boy or girl we just want a healthy baby” but deep down inside they know what they really would prefer.

14 days to go or 2 weeks left either way it is pretty darn close, I sure hope I don’t have these kinds of dreams the rest of the time.

Nothing much going on here, Sunday was church again, then brunch at a Mexican Restaurant. Later on we all went to Wal-Mart so Kim and Danny could get a slider chair for them to sit in with the baby.
Later on Dave and Danny played Wii Tiger Woods golf and Danny kicked Dave’s butt this time. I think Danny went behind our backs and purchased his own Tiger Woods game and has been practicing on Dave, what about it Danny???

Last night it was Danny’s working late night and Dave went to the Elks Lodge to have dinner and go to the meeting so Kim and I had a “Mommy, Daughter Night out on the town” Very exciting night, we both thought of “what happens if Kim goes into labor early” so needless to say we went to an Italian Restaurant and split a antipasto salad and a calzone and went back to Kim’s and talked while watching TV. I was back at the coach by 8:15pm and luckily Kim didn’t go into labor. PARTY TIME

Today Dave went over early to the house and started doing the touch up paint, still has lots to do but he is retired now so he needs to pace himself so the work will last until we take off again.

19 DAYS LEFT

The Title of Days Left is really opening up Kim's eyes I think. She said she read my blog the other day and didn't realize how close it was to the big day.
Not much to update, we hung around the rig yesterday, Dave worked on his computer again, played Wii golf and I did a little cleaning, read and napped. Last night we went to the Bakersfield Blaze Baseball game they played against the Modesto Nuts they ended up winning in the bottom of the 9th 10 to 9. They had so many scouts in the seats around us it was kind of fun watching them time the pitches and just watch the way the players played. The stadium is backward the sun sets in the batters eyes, thank goodness the game doesn't start until 7:45pm right when the sun goes down past the sign post then the batter can see. Of course no one in the stands can see either until the sun goes down.

The other day the driver's side sun shade fell down. Even though we have the window covers and the curtains closed I also put down the sun shades on both sides because it's just a little more protection from letting the Bakersfield heat in. The other night when we got home Dave's side of the shade was partly off the reel, it was late Dave said he would fix it in the morning. When we had gotten up the whole shade had come loose from the reel and was just laying on the dash. It was only held on with double sided sticky tape so Dave took the reel down fixed it and we put it back up. That's it, told you nothing really going on, next week when it cools down I believe
Dave is going to finish the touch up painting on the house.

19 Days Left!!!!

21 DAYS LEFT AND COUNTING/FINALLY AN UPDATE

Boy, a week has gone by already, sorry I'm behind in writing. Let's see what has been going on since last Wednesday.
Thursday morning we got all the dirt dug out and the forms set so we are ready to pour the cement, once the lawn grows in which will be about 4 to 6 weeks I think. So I'm sure by then we will have to do clean up in the area before we get to pouring the cement. We have the yard fenced off so Toby and Valley don't walk on where the lawn hopefully grows in, and that's why we can't pour cement yet, otherwise the dogs would have no place to go to relieve themselves. Then after Danny left for work Kim, Dave and I left for the movies to go see Sex in the City, good movie, we all sure miss that series. Thursday night was watching the Laker's lose to the Celtics, series wasn't looking good, we knew they had to win on Sunday night.

Since I'm writing this after the series now, we all know the Laker's lost, Bummer!!!
Very embarrassing game ending championship.

Friday, was getting nails done then going shopping for last minute stuff we needed for the baby shower on Saturday. The rest of the day was just hang out and be lazy.

Saturday, Kim and I drove down to Simi for her Baby Shower, we left early so David and Jodi could take pictures of Kim pregnant, one she was wrapped in a shear cloth and she had her bra off and I think that David's eyes are scorned forever, Jodi had to triple fold it so it wasn't sooooo see thru.
The baby shower turned out really fun, at least I think so. We didn't play a lot of games just a lot of visiting which was fine with me. Jodi did a great job of keeping things going, I just kept talking with everyone, Thank You Jodi.
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I had taken a couple of the shear shots of Kim but I didn't post them, I figured she would rather have you see the professional ones that David and Jodi took.

Sunday, believe it or not, for Father's Day we went to Church with Danny and Kim. It was different, I don't know if I've ever been in a Church service where a band is playing and singing. I'm use to the old days where you just sit and listen to the preacher and in between everyone sings hems. We will go a couple more times to see if we really like it, I just don't understand why no one wants to sit next to me, something about lightning coming thru the roof and striking me down. :)
After church we went to the Elk's Lodge for a Father's Day brunch they were putting on. It was $10 per person, with champagne and all you can eat, and it was pretty good food. The only thing was their griddle didn't work so they were trying to do pancakes in a frying pan, no good. Kim made a comment that Danny was the only "brown person" there, that's so funny I don't even think about that, she is very prejudice. Anyway, while we were getting the stuff we wanted in our omelets Danny is whispering to me not to leave him a lone. Dave had taken off one way, and Kim had taken off another, so Danny didn't want to be standing there all alone since we didn't know anyone, we had a good laugh with that.
After breakfast we went to Babies R Us to return the dressing table that Kim and Danny had gotten and they ended up getting a different dressing table and picked up a crib too. Our gift to them was the mattress, fitted sheet and the changing pillow for the new changing table. Once we got home we set up the baby's room, it looks great, getting very excited now. While Kim and I were setting up the baby room, Danny and Dave were having a playoff on the Wii with the Tiger Woods PGA Tour, they were tied going into Sunday and I believe Dave won the tournament.

Monday, Dave worked on Kim's computer and washed some of the floors with the wood cleaning machine. Kim and I went thru the rest of the baby gifts and put them away and did house cleaning and laundry. Went and returned stuff to Wal-mart and Target and got the rest of the baby's bedding for the crib, look at the pictures it is really cute. We even got the hall closet cleaned out and the baby's stuff has room now, will see how long that lasts.

Tuesday, Danny and Kim took Danny's car into the shop, by us, to have an oil change then the two of them walked over to the coach. Thank goodness it wasn't too late in the morning with the heat here I think Danny is trying to get Kim to go into labor with the walk he made her do. The rest of the day, Dave finished fixing Kim's computer, and he and I also put up the TV in the baby's room so when Kim is on the treadmill she can watch TV while the baby sleeps. (will see if that works, I'm sure when the baby sleeps she will be sleeping too)

Wednesday, we hung around the coach, no work today at Kim's. We picked Kim up and went to the movies in the afternoon, this time it was "Baby Mama". It was a chick flick, Dave kept saying he was going to leave, but didn't. The price of the movie was right, $1.50 plus it got us out of the 100 degree heat for a couple hours.

Forgot to mention, saw Kim's doctor on Monday, and July 9th is the date so that means 21 days left and counting.

PS, my condolence to Danny for the Laker's

Quick update / No Gonzalez Zone lately

We haven't had any real mishaps lately because we haven't been doing much work, I think we got a little burnt out.
We got Kim on the Wii Fit and she came up as Over Weight, I wonder why??? :) To work out on it she will have to wait until after the baby comes because it is too much balancing and hoping around and there is no way we will let her do that in her condition. Just what we would need is for her to lose her balance, Dave and I won't even leave the Wii Fitness at the house because we don't trust her not to try it on her own. It is a lot of fun and you do get a workout from it, Dave has been using it a lot while I'm at the gym.
Monday, after we took Kim to the doctors, which came out OK, Dave and I loaded up the truck with the window shutters and hauled them to the dump. When we got back we filled the truck again this time with the rest of the bricks and cement that had been torn out. As Dave was getting ready to sweep out the truck at the dump he fell backwards right onto the bricks and cement we had just cleared out of the truck, cut his arm, more bleeding. Monday night we went to the Elks Lodge for Dave to rejoin the Elks again. Most of the Lodges have camping on the sites and it's for free, so now we will have another place to stop while we drive across the country and stay for free. Got to save money some way with these diesel prices the way they are.
Tuesday afternoon we drove down to Simi for Riley's Play at Pinecrest School. They were doing The Wizard of Oz, it was pretty cute, not what I remembered in the movie but a pretty good likeness.Riley played Bippity, one of the little witches that assisted the Wicked Witch of the East. The play started at 7pm and was over about 9pm then we drove back to Bakersfield.
That's about it for now, tomorrow we go back to working on the backyard before the gardener comes on Saturday to seed it.

I thought for sure someone would ask what "White Broccoli" was from the last blog, but you all must know what it is. When I had asked Danny about different veg; he had said that yes he liked broccoli and he liked the white broccoli too, which we all laughed about. What he was talking about was "cauliflower", but you all knew that already.

THE GONZALEZ ZONE - GET IT???

In this episode of the Gonzalez Zone Kim is still laying around moaning in pain, she is eating a little and drinking lots of water but still in pain. Danny walks in and Kim says "NO MORE KIDS" oops, I think Danny is cut off for the rest of his life. Oh well, there goes the other 3 or 4 kids that Danny wanted, I guess if he wants them he will have to figure out how to have them himself.
In the mean time, the 3 of us head outside to work in the yard, Danny and I are filling the p/u truck with all the brinks and cement that was busted away, Dave is working on the wiring. I'm sensing a pattern here, physical lifting and digging, the hard stuff, Danny and I do, the wiring and easy stuff Dave does??? Now I know why Dave keeps calling Danny and I "Manual", I thought he was losing it or just trying to be funny, I should have written about this before, drat!!!
After we filled the truck, Danny (Manual#1, he's stronger) and Dave drove to the dump. On the second run to the dump as soon as they entered the place the left back tire popped. By the time they got to where they could unload the stuff they were on the rim. They put on the spare tire, I wasn't there but my hunch is Danny did 90% of the work, then they drove to Costco and brought new tires. They were only going to buy 2 tires but they had a sale on and ended up purchasing 4. I say, can't we ever go a day on a project that something doesn't go wrong????

Change of subject, something funny for once.

The other night at dinner we got to talking about foods and different vegetables and did you know that Danny likes the "White Broccoli" too? He has no idea what Brussel Sprouts are, he is just too funny, he lead such a sheltered life growing up.
God, you have to love him, Kim is really a lucky girl to find him, we all laugh so much when we are together, or even talking on the phone, even with all the mishaps.
It's Sunday lets see what today brings, I know tonight we are going to have an old fashion "Sunday Night Family Dinner" with me cooking beef stew, salad and rolls, and Kim laying around moaning and groaning, because I haven't finished cleaning the house yet. :)

P.S. I have to make a correction from the last blog, the vet thinks it is a sinus tumor not a brain tumor. Although now that she is on the meds she seems to be doing better, maybe it was just an infection.

ANOTHER DAY AT HOSPITAL AND VETS

Talked to Kim this morning she said she was OK but stomach still in pain, I said we would be over after taking Valley to the vets.
It seems that after a couple weeks, after we left last time to go to the Bay area, Valley started hacking at Kim and Danny's. (She stayed with them while we were gone it made it easier for visiting family). Anyway, she would really have hacking attacks, so when we got back we watched her for a couple days before calling the vet. She was hacking and couldn't breath through her nose, she would sneeze and tons of mucus like stuff would come out.(That part wasn't happening at Kim's she and Danny said) Gross, I know, but I told Kim and Danny that they should practice with the baby nose sucker on Valley, they weren't falling for that. We got Valley in today, and she sneezed as soon as we got in the room and luckily the nurse was there to see it. When the doctor got in and heard how long it had been going on and the looks of the stuff coming out her nose and she guessed that maybe it was a brain tumor. She said a sinus infection wouldn't last that long, and if it was maybe a bur/sticker she would be sneezing blood by now, so she wanted to keep Valley for x-rays and blood tests.
As the vet was telling us all of this I get a call from Kim and she says she needs to go back to the Hospital. We left Valley and out the door we run, we made it to Kim's while on the phone with Danny, telling him not to leave work until we can find out what is going on with her. We got to the hospital and checked into "Labor and Delivery" and she was hooked up with monitors. She was having mild contractions the nurse said, but touching her stomach hurt her and we don't know why. Then they gave Kim two shots to stop the contractions we waited a little while then they sent us home. The nurse had done a finger test to see if she was dilated and Kim just about yelled it hurt her so bad. The nurse said she wasn't dilated at all the cervix haded even opened up yet, so she needed to go home and rest all weekend, drink lots and lots of water and see her doctor on Monday morning. I called her cousin, Marisa, to talk to her and get her mind off of the pain, which really worked, they talked for awhile and Kim sounded pretty good.
Dave took off for Lowe's to return and buy stuff and I started cleaning Kim's kitchen and doing their laundry. It was late in the afternoon so I didn't get much done, only 5 loads of laundry and only the kitchen.
I think I am slowly catching on to the game she is playing, she has been bugging me to clean and do their laundry, she said that's what Nana use to do for all of her kids, I said no I think she only did that for Marty, not the rest of us. So if she keeps me at the house all the time and "inside" the house not outside working then I start cleaning and laundry. So she wins!! :) You know I'm just kidding.

Dave called and checked up on the dog and the vet didn't find anything in the x-rays so she said now she needs to do a cat scan and an MRI, Dave said NO NO NO! What else can we try 1st, so the vet said antibiotics and steroids for 2 weeks then see how she is doing. We decided there is no way we are going to pay $1,000 for the other 2 tests so if she isn't any better in 2 weeks we are going to put her down, we love her but we just can't afford her anymore. Enough depressing news.

Danny got home from work and around 6:45pm Kim felt a little better so we went out for Mexican food, probably not the best thing to do but that's what her and Danny do every Friday night when Kim gets off of work. At the end of dinner she was in the bathroom the whole time so we paid the bill real quick just in case we had to head back to the hospital. Will talk to them later because we dropped them off, picked up Valley and headed home.
That's my story and I'm sticking to it. Can't wait to see what tomorrow brings, it seems like lately it is never boring anymore in Bakersfield, unless you think sitting in a hospital hour after hour is boring. :)

KIM was IN HOSPITAL AGAIN

Tuesday night, after Danny got home, he took her temperature again and it was 102.4, I think, and just when Danny was calling the doctor on his cell phone the doctor was calling him on the house phone. He told Danny to take Kim to the hospital where they started an IV, she was dehydrated again, low on potassium and they put her on Tylenol. Danny stayed until 1:30am then went back today, Wednesday, at 7am. Dave and I got to the hospital about 8am. They had gotten her fever down but the doctor said he would come by after his surgeries and check on her again, and if everything was OK he would release her. Dave left about 9am to work at the house. Danny didn't make it to work today, we kept trying to tell him to go to work but he has this fear that he will get a call that the baby is coming and he won't make it in time. He left the hospital about noon to go to the house and help Dave. The doctor said she could leave after she had her clear lunch and was able to hold it down. Kim and I left the hospital a little after 1pm and she went straight to bed once we got home. She has been sleeping the whole day now, Danny waking her up so she can drink water, so far so good right now.

I forgot to mention, Danny reminded me, that yesterday morning we had taken my car in because I have a "check engine" light lit on the dash. When Dave had to go over to Kim's to buy a thermometer and take her temp. then take her to the doctors, I had a hair appointment and I had no car. I jumped on the bike and had to ride over for my appointment, luckily, it wasn't miles away and the weather wasn't too hot.
They things we have to do for our kids!

BACKYARD WORK HAS STARTED/KIM SICK AGAIN

I'll start off with Kim. Danny said this morning when Kim got home from work last night she wasn't feeling well, nascea, not hungry, so she just slept. She went to work this morning and ended up being sent home. She said she couldn't hold anything down and was freezing cold, oh know the flu. I told her to take some asperin and go to bed and get rest and drink water. Dave ended up taking Kim to the doctor's because she had a fever and the doctor wanted to see her. 101.8 fever is what he was worried about so he told her to take asperin, get rest and drink plenty of water, I think that's what I told her too. He did give her a prescription for anti-neausea medicine, which I couldn't do. The doctor said no work tomorrow, she has Thursday thru Sunday off then next Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday is the last work days then it's disability time.
Enough about Kim. :)

Sunday we started on the backyard, digging trenches, so we can put new sprinklers in.
When Kim and Danny got back from church Danny changed clothes and started in helping us. It ended with Danny and I digging and Dave putting the sprinklers together, so he was working in the patio and we were out in the sun. Later in the afternoon Dave started putting the sprinklers in the ground and Danny and I were by the patio. As we are digging, keep in mind, we keep running into the old white sprinklers that are already in the ground. There was this one old sprinkler pipe that was in our way so Danny ask Dave if we are going to use any of the old stuff, and Dave said "no". So Danny went and got the sprinkler cutters from Dave to get this pipe out of our way. Danny is having a hard time cutting it, but there was "NO WAY IT WAS GOING TO BEAT HIM" so after a little while Danny won and cut right thru that thing. The next thing I know Danny is cussing, which he never does, even the "F" word was used. He had just cut thru the cable for the computers and TV, when Brighthouse was out about 3 weeks ago, when the gardener cut thru the cable, when they fixed the cable they put part of the wiring thru a sprinkler line, so that's why we thought it was an old sprinkler line. I looked in the house and luckily Kim was a sleep, so she didn't know the TV wasn't working. We called Dave over to see if he could fix it, which he said he would try but he had to drive back to the coach to get the cable splicers, or something like that. Do you know he made it back from the coach and fixed the cable before Kim ever woke up, boy that was close. Danny asked me not to mention this is the blog, but you know me, miss big mouth.
Kim and Danny went out Sunday night and purchased a Wii, they liked ours so much, plus Danny was afraid we would get to good at it and he can't stand losing.

Monday we went back early to Kim's for more trench digging, I think every part of my body is sore. We worked until 3pm then that was it. Although I did make it to the gym on Monday night to workout on the treadmill.

Tuesday we arrived early again, all trenches finished now, a lot of the sprinklers put in or measured out so us lucky people can go again early tomorrow and finish the sprinklers. You would die laughing if you could hear us turning over in bed at night, the screams of every part of the body hurting.

Kim and Danny's Baby Shower

 

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We went to Kim and Danny's Baby Shower yesterday in North Hollywood, Danny's sister, Bibiana and Danny's mom, Kathy threw it for them. The weather was great, the games were fun, it was an overall great party. They got lots of nice baby gifts, this baby, which everyone thinks is a boy, has enough face cloths the the rest of it's life. The game where Danny and Kim are blind folded and having to change a baby's diaper was way too funny. When they put their hands into the dirty diapers I thought for sure Danny was going to lose it. Kim won the game, Danny was still trying to get the diaper on. The cake and give aways, Bibi made, her baking is amazing, she has now started her own business called "Just in Cakes". Once word gets out about her baking, her business is going to take off. Fernando, her husband, is going to be able to retire early and be an assistant to Bibi's baking. :)
That was Saturday, we got home about 9:30pm so it was a long day. Before the baby shower we went to Ikea to buy a dresser for the baby's room, needless to say Kim's car was packed really tight for the drive back to Bakersfield.

Friday night Kim and Danny had come over after work for dinner and to play the Wii, I think they are hooked. Dave and I had purchased the Tiger Woods golf game and the exercise game for the Wii. Dave did the exercise one while I was at the gym, he said it was a lot of work, I'll have to check it out.