The Byrd Family

Thursday, June 5, 2008

Vacation Pictures

Here are a few pictures from out vacation to Gulf Shores, AL. I only took 510 pictures so I won't be able to share them all. I will make a slide show soon and post it with more pictures. We had a great time and Brennen had fun at the beach. He was so much fun, except for the actual drive. I guess that comes with age, but he only slept 45 minutes out of the 7 hour drive to Jackson, MS the first night. And when he is not sleeping he is screaming to get out if his car seat. It was a rough drive to say the least. On the way home he slept from Gulf Shores to Mobile (1 hour) where we dropped memaw off at the airport. Then he did not go back to sleep for about 7 hours. Endless screaming and praying was happening during those 7 hours. Then he took a 30 minute nap and he was up again. So needless to say it was a very rough drive, but while we were there it was wonderful.

Thursday, April 24, 2008

Brennen is sick

Brennen has not been feeling well for the last 10 days or so. We thought he was teething, and he was. Then about 4 days ago he started running a fever. I didn't want to take him to the doctor so I tried to wait this one out. Yesterday his temp was up to 102.5 and I thought we better call the doc. So we took him in this morning and the doc saw a rash and said he has a virus. He told me the virus usually last 3-5 days and if I would have waited one more day Brennen would probably be fine. However, I am sure he didn't mind the extra $20 from me and whatever my insurance pays for office visits, for the 5 minutes he spent with us. Not a bad days work if you ask me. I feel like if I don't take Brennen to the doc and he ends up being really sick then I am a bad mom and if I do take him to the doc and there is nothing they can do for him then I am an overreactive, bad mom. So either way, you guessed it, I am a bad mom when it comes to taking my child to the doctor. The last time I took him to the doc he told me to wait 10 days and call him if he wasn't better. Yes I waited 3 hours in the waiting room and paid my $20 for that visit too. Anyone else feel this way?

The Airport Adventure

Barrett trying to tame the wild red headed monster.

Amy with Brennen. He will be a couple years older before we see them again.

Chad with Brennen

Stephanie, Amy and Stephanie one last time......hopefully next time this picture will be in Paris.

The boys with their babies.
On April 17, 2008 some of our very dear friends left to go live in Paris and fulfill their calling. Barrett, Brennen and I, and our friends Matt, Stephanie, Lucas and Georgia Harrington went to the airport to see them off. We were sad to see them go, but very happy for them.

Saturday, April 19, 2008

Trying something new

I have opened this blog back up so anyone can read it. I am trying a new spam filter. If it works I will leave it open, but if it doesn't work I will go back to invited readers only. So save your user name and password for possible future use. If I set it back to private then all you have to do is input your user name and password. If you have not been invited to read this blog please leave me your e-mail address in a comment under this posting and I will add you to my invited readers. Thanks.