Nanny's doing fine

Hi! Made it to Nashville---had a good flight. Had to say good bye at the N.O. airport to 2 sad little gals.....(even though they had each gotten a book at the airport bookstore).

Susan's surgery went very well yesterday.....no problems (except that it got started much later than anticipated----we were there at the surgery center for 10:30 and the surgery didn't start until 2:30----another patient had some unexpected complications apparently). Anyway, the doc said all went fine and he got the calcium deposit out and a bone spur and took care of repairing what needed to be repaired on the heel and tendon. (OUCH!!) Susan has of course been a little "dopey" since then and i keep her on the pain meds regularly (like the doctor said) so she hasn't been hurting YET. She says I'm being a good nurse----I'm happy to be here for her. :)
We've been getting some good chat time in also in between her naps......it's funny because we'll be chatting away and then I'll be asking her a question or waiting for her to comment on something and she doesn't and then I'll know....yep, she's asleep. Then I either just watch t.v., read a bood she's gotten me interested in (the Janet Evanovich series) or do some domestic thing like some laundry or something (notice that's last on the list.....but hey, I do it.)
We are keeping the foot iced 20 minutes of every hour like the doc and nurse said.

Petunia comes home today....I finally get to see her (haven't seen her since Christmas time)--
she's been staying at Jen's house the past 2 nights while Susan's been getting ready and then having surgery. But the cutie pie is with us tonight and thereafter. :)

Let me run for now. Just wanted everyone to know the patient is doing well and the surgery was successful.....she'll be laid up at least 2 weeks maybe 3. My "shift" as Nurse Sutton ends on Sunday and brother Kip and family relieve me.

Thanks to everyone for saying prayers and thinking about her.

Oh, for some strange reason Nanny doesn't want me to post a post-op picture of her---wonder why????

I'm leaving ....on a jet plane......

but I will be back again....on sunday.

I'm heading to Nashville tomorrow (monday) to spend a week with Sue and Petunia.

Just me...no hubby....no E and E.....just me.

I'm looking forward to hopefully getting lots of hugs from little miss priss. And I hope I'll be a good nurse to Susan who is having surgery on her foot on Tuesday a.m. and will be unable to walk on her foot for quite a while. You have to check out her blog for all the details

http://www.fromgodsarms.blogspot.com/

Anyway, I hope to have some cute pics of Petunia when I return!

:)

(the photo of E. is her on the chair swing ride at Celebration station for her bday party. She was almost to long-legged to ride on it----you see Em in the back of her with a not so happy smile--not sure why)

Birthday Pictures----better late than never!!

Two happy gals!!!

I finally got hubby to download pictures from E's 10th birthday party---her birthday was July 2 and the party was June 27----so only a few weeks late. She had the party at Celebration Station and had about 12 friends and cousins there to help her celebrate. She got lots of great gifts---including a cute webkinz frog from Julia which she has in one of the photos. They played arcade games, ate pizza, had cake (how do you like her cake---she and her mom made it together---an idea we found on the internet--it's a "present cake"---we thought it came out so cute!) and ice cream, played more games, rode go-carts (until it rained unfortunately) and rode a few kiddie rides (the younger ones liked those more---the big kids liked the go-carts). Bottom-line was everyone had fun, especially the bday girl!!!! The 2 boys in the pictures are her cousins Connor and Zane (my brother's kids)---they were the only boys there (well, Julia's brother Reese was there but he couldn't play games---he's only 9 months old). I thought we took more pictures (and there are more than I have on here) but most of them are not turned the right way to post and I don't know how to fix them the right way (yet) so you just get these for now.

I'm counting down the days until I get to fly out to see Susan and Petunia in Tennessee.

I leave on Monday afternoon from New Orleans and I'll be there a week. I'll be helping Susan after she has surgery on her foot--taking care of both she and Petunia......:) Looking so forward to seeing them both!!!! My girls sure would like to see them too but we figure Nanny Sue wouldn't be that much fun this trip since she is going to be out of commission so the girls are just going to stay at maw maw and paw paw's for a few days and of course Dad will have them some as well.

Em has lost 2 teeth in 3 days.....yes the girl is rich from the tooth fairy. All she wants for Christmas (in addition to a Wii, games for that, a camera, and a big screen t.v. for the whole family) is her two front teeth! I'll be taking photos soon of the toothless gal!!! She is adorable!!

Her daddy can't help but laugh every time she smiles!!! And E and E outsmarted the tooth fairy---the first night the tooth fairy took em's tooth and left her some cash----then 2 nights later the tooth fairy left money for the next tooth but forgot to pick up the tooth from under the pillow. So em and E. decide to put it under E's pillow and Em sleeps in E's room that night with E. and low and behold, the tooth fairy left 4 dollars under E's pillow for that tooth (which she DID take this time). They were so amazed. They were bummed she took it that time. So when I say em is rich, I mean it. I think her total off of 2 teeth (she and E split the 4 dollars) is 13 dollars.

She's ready to lose more.

In other news both girls picked out book bags for school. They said "now I can't wait to go back to school." If only buying a new bag made ME feel that ready to go back to school.

I start back officially on August 6. Kids come August 8. I know all of you who are not teachers do not feel sorry for me at all (Susan, I am talking to you! : ) )

Bye for now.

Happy Birthday Nanny!!!!

Today is Nanny Sue's birthday. She is 29 today :) ----- right Nanny???

We wish we could be there to help her and Petunia celebrate! But we are sending big wishes her way.

Make sure you stop by her blog and tell her happy birthday....I don't know how to do that where I can just type "Susan "and you can click on her name and get to her blog but I can give your her
address so stop in and say hi.....at www.fromgodsarms.blogspot.com
Plus you'll see some cute pics of Petunia!!!

Sue, Happy happy birthday!!!! We'll call you later today!!! WE LOVE YOU!!!
(And I'll see you and cutie pie in about a week!!!!---can't wait)
Remember a "few" years back when we were in Switzerland for your birthday---fun times!

Photography by Em

Just thought I'd share a couple of photos Em took while we were in the hotel room in Orlando after the cruise.....I was busy doing something in the room and her dad and sissy were out of the room and Em was just posing her stuffed animals and my cell phone. She was enjoying herself very much. And I thought the photos were pretty cute.

Still haven't dowloaded any birthday pix from e's bday party. Bad mom!!! Still to come!

(i just don't know how to do it so really bad Dad because he hasn't done it for me.)

We had a laid back 4th of July holiday. Took it easy most of the day......then hubby grilled later in the evening and we ate and then when it got dark we laid on the trampoline and looked up at the sky and watched everyone shooting fireworks (illegally in the city limits) all around. Em and E didn't think it quite compared to the fireworks display on the cruise boat though. I had to agree. Not much would now.

This coming week I am helping with the Cheer camp at our church's Upward Basketball and Cheerleading camp. It's from 8 until noon daily. The girls are going too. I helped last year and it was really a blessing. (and no, I never was a cheerleader in school---I just pretend to be one now!)

hope everyone has a great week!!!!

Missing our island...............

This is where all 4 of us Suttons would like to be now......hanging out again on the beach at the Castaway Cay Island..................we just think about our cruise vacation all the time. It was just the best..... we highly highly recommend it!!! (We'll be happy to go on one with you too!)
That's our big boat, the disney "Wonder" in the background.

Happy 4th of July to everyone!!!

Happy 10th Birthday Ebeth!!!!

Happy Birthday to you...
Happy Birthday to you..
Happy birthday dear Ebeth...
Happy birthday to you!!!

We love you girlie!!!

We'll post pictures soon of our 10 year old!!!

Last day to be 9 years old!

Today is E's last day to be 9. Tomorrow's her birthday and she'll be in the double digits.

So today is her last day ever to be in the single digits. She will soon hit a milestone.

How did she get so old??? She had her birthday party on Saturday and we will tell you all about it when we download the pix soon.

Anyway just thought we'd post today and post a picture of her while she is still nine.

My little girl is growning up! I love you E!!!