My Issues

I'm sorry I haven't posted in a while. Things have been a little screwy in my body lately so I've been trying to get some things figured out. I wish I could say that I'm feeling better than I did 2 weeks ago, but that is not the case. The story is a little long to go in to but I'm having problems in my tummy (which I've had for almost 4 years now) and with migraines (which have been going on for about 14 months, headaches through out my life). I've also had a couple of weird things happen in the last few weeks that has made me see these doctors fairly quickly. In the last 3 weeks I've had a CT scan on my brain, and EEG on my brain waves, and have an MRI on Monday. The first 2 tests look good so I'm hoping for a positive outcome on the 3rd. If that is the case then I'll just need to get these headaches and migraines under control and I'll be set in that area. The tummy problems are a little more narrowed down. I had an endoscopy (where they go down your throat with a video camera and see what's going on) this past Wednesday. They found a hyadel hernia and said that I have chronic gastritis. He wrote a few more things that he found on the sheet that I'll be asking him about in a couple of weeks at our appointment. They took a few biopsies and should get the results within 2 weeks. The procedure on Wednesday was rough. I got really sick from the Demerol and I actually feel worse then I did before. I'm not sure why, but I'm hoping the stomach pain and discomfort go away soon. That's kind of a brief overview of my health issues. I'll post more when I get more information.
More posts to come. And I promise they'll be on a happier note!!!

Tanaka Farms

We had a busy weekend. On Saturday I went to a baby shower for Tracy Ventura. It was at a Tea House and it was lovely. It was like a tea part for grown ups. So fun. Jenny and I talked about taking the girls sometime for lunch. I think that they would love it. I also thought it would be really fun to get all the girls in the family together (like mothers, grandmothers, sisters, aunts, cousins, etc.). Wouldn't that be fun. Anyways, the shower was a lot of fun. Good food, good games, and very good company. While I was at the shower Matt took Emily to a birthday party at Chuck-E-Cheese. They had a great time there.

On Saturday afternoon, we went with my sister and family to Tanaka Farms. It is a pumpkin patch with tons of other fun things to do there. We picked vegetables out of the ground (carrots, onion, radishes, green beans, etc). I've never done that before so it was great. I felt like a farmer. Then we took the kids on wheelbarrow rides around the huge pumpkin patch. They had a pumpkin launcher that was really cool. They would take a pumpkin and launch it way up in the air into a hill and try to hit the target. Really cool. The whole experience reminded me of Roloff Farms. You would know what I was talking about if you watch Little People, Big World. We also did a corn maze, petting zoo, hay mazes, and all sorts of fun things. This pumpkin patch was huge and really a great time for the kids.


Emily running through the hay maze

After completing the corn maze

Hehehe.....

The kids picking vegetables

Emily and Amanda on a wheel barrow ride

The weekend just kind of flew by but we had a great time. I think that it's all catching up with me. I'm kind of feeling a little cold like today so I'm trying to take it easy. Jack also sounds like he's coming down with something. Hopefully we'll get some rest and it won't hit us because we have another busy week ahead of us.

Apple Pickin at Rileys Farm

Family Picture

I'm finally getting around to posting about our adventure to Rileys Farm for a day of apple picking and LOTS of hiking. We (my sisters family and our family) headed out around 10am and did a little caravaning in the minivans. hahaha... :-) It's in Oak Glen, which is quite a drive away. We got there and it was a little colder that I had anticipated. We threw on our jackets and went on an adventure through the apple farms for a few hours. I was thinking that the apple farm was going to be big but that is an understatement. This pace was HUGE! We walked, and we walked, and we walked some more. There was a ton of different things to do. They had hay rides around the farm, a petting zoo, a civil war reenactment, picking of other fruits (strawberries, raspberries, pears, pumpkins, etc), a place where you could make apple cider, a bakery with fresh backed apple treats, and a couple places to eat. We fed the goats hay and watched them make apple cider but mostly the day was spent picking apples and enjoying the beautiful scenery around the farm. The kids loved it. Emily had a blast the entire day. Jack just loves being outside so anything outside makes him happy. And both my kids always have a ball with their cousins. Emily enjoyed picking the apples off of the trees (ripe or not ripe) and Jack enjoyed picking up the apples off of the ground (mostly the moldy, bruised ones) and then taking a bite. Yuck, I know. After a few hours there, the kids got cold, tired, and hungry. It had started to rain so that was our cue to head home. It was fun. We will definitely do it again next year.

Cousins

This was as good as I could get of the 2 of them under an apple tree


They loved pickin apples







Feed goats hay

I'm back...

I'm back. It's been a while since I've posted a blog so I thought I'd fill everyone in on my last couple of weeks. First I'll start with Emily's accident last week. Last Wednesday (a week and a half ago) Emily was jumping on her bed like a little monkey and I asked her to sit so we could read books before bed. As she went to sit down, she hit the pillow the wrong way and did a major flip out of bed and hit her ear on the side panel of her bed. As she fell to the floor she let out an enormous scream and started crying very hard and holding her left ear. She finally settled down and I looked at her ear and couldn't see anything wrong, except it was a little red. We went on to read books, sing songs, say prayers, etc. Her mood changed instantly after she fell out of bed. That night was rough. She was in pretty severe pain. I asked Matt if I should take her into the ER but he said she would be fine. My advice to all moms is to listen to your conscience. That is why God gave us one, trust it. Anyways, I didn't listen and went through a pretty miserable night. She woke me up for good about 6am telling me she needed to get up because she had goop in her ear, which turned out to be blood and goopy stuff. I was freaking out. I took her into urgent care at 7:30am. They sent me to the ER because they thought she might need a CAT scan. Spent a couple of hours in there. The ER doctor did a very thorough exam and came to the conclusion that she did not need a CAT scan and that he was pretty sure that she ruptured her ear drum during the fall and bruised the side of her head and ear pretty bad. They also said she had a really bad otter ear infection. Strange coincidence?! Then we went home and she started getting the chills. Her temperature went up to 102 degrees and I was like what is going on. Called my doctor and they wanted to see her right away. Went in and they thought she had an inner and outer ear infection so they gave me oral antibiotics along with the ear drop antibiotics. That poor girl didn't smile for days. She was in severe pain for 3-4 days and then it started to feel better. Last week started out as a great week but on Wednesday night it flipped very quickly..... That was a lot of doctor visits all in one day.

Let's see, what else happened this week. Mostly the same old. Emily finally made it to preschool more than once this week. She actually went 3 times and had a great time. She is still having a hard time adjusting to it but she really enjoys it when she's there and loves her teachers. That I am thankful for.

We went over to my grandparents house on Tuesday for part of the day. It is always so good to hang out with them and my kids just love being around them. I am thankful that my kids have their great gaga and papa. We had lunch together, played outside on their swing and with their outside toys, and the kids helped them water the plants. Gaga made them cookies and the kids made a mess of their house. It was great fun!

Papa and Jack watering the flowers

Emily and Papa watering more flowers

Thursday we had a play date with Jenny and Maggie and Jenny and Maddox. That was a lot of fun and all of the kids played really well together.

Friday, Matt got off work early so we headed to Disneyland. It was kind of busy out there that night and it was nice to have my mom with us.
More Disneyland pictures



Emily (our little mommy) taking Jack on a walk. He did not enjoy that.

Saturday was a busy day. I'll do a separate post about our fun outing to the apple farm. Then this evening Stan and Ivy came over for pizza and playtime with the kids.

So that's what's going on in the life of the Doerrs. Hope that everyone is doing well. Sorry for my long post. I used to be so good at scrap booking and putting pictures into albums but I can't find the time to do that anymore so this is my little scrapbook of all the events going on in my life. This blog is more for me than anything else. It's an easy way for me to keep track of current events.