ITS FEBRUARY ALREADY!!!!

Well January is past and gone and February is here. Not liking the way that its starting out, but I must say that God has a plan I we are going to keep going with it. Last Thursday Averi started throwing up, will not go into much detail because I don't want to make anyone sick, but lets just say that its was not a pleasant site. Telephoned the doctors office and you know what that meant....trip in to see what was going on. Oh let me just add, I did not just bring her in due to the throwing up, she had had messy diapers since Monday so I figured that there was something more going on. Well needless to say, Averi was weighted and she weighted in at 16 pounds 11 ounces.....she feel off the growth chart 3% in three months. Dr. Guidroz was not happy at all. She was on her was to being dehydrated. A hospital visit we went. We got to the hospital around 11:30 am and went through a list of things that was ordered. Several sticks for an IV and blood work. Finally got to our room that we were going to live in for several days around 1:30pm, with Nonnie arriving shortly after. We were supposed to see a Gastro Specialist Thursday afternoon, honestly don't know that truth to why we never did see one, however Dr. Alberti did come in Friday around 2:00pm and did a very detail exam on Averi. Once he was finished he left the room to go and take care of something and returned back with news that Averi has the Roto Virus. Well for those who have been following along with us for the last several 6-7 weeks now, Averi has been suffering with some kind of virus. We were released from the hospital on Monday afternoon around 5:30pm with instructions of not leaving the home!!!! Mommy nor Averi can leave the house. There are some test that are still being ran and we will see Dr. Alberti and Dr. Guidroz on Friday February 13 but until we are stuck. Dr. Guidroz wants to build Averi system back up and the only way that we can do that is for us to stay in the house.
Special thanks to Nonnie for taking time off of work to come and stay with us while Averi was in the hospital. Nonnie was super women!!!! I failed to mention that Brad and I caught the Roto Virus, there were times that I could not even pick my head up off the pillow, I felt so bad!!! Thanks Nonnie for ALL YOUR HELP!
We were not allowed to have visitors because of Averi being contagious, so thanks to everyone for all your phone calls, thoughts and prayers. We greatly appreciate them!!!

Please continue to pray for Averi's recovery!!!

January 2009

Well this month started off very rocky.....Papa Sanchez was not doing very well and got admitted to the hospital on a Thursday afternoon, in a room Thursday night and rushed down to NICU at 11:00 pm. Phone call to report to hospital, picked up Mama Sanchez, dropped Averi off at Nonnie's and off to the the hospital we went. We all went home, Lita and I headed back up to the the hospital at 3:30 am after getting a shower and waited to see what was next. Well we were not expecting the news that was next.....Papa had went down hill from there. Nurse came and got us around 5:30 am Friday morning needing to get in tough with Brad. Telephoned Brad because Papa needed to be placed on a ventilator or he was not going to make it. He stated on the ventilator until Tuesday mid day and returned to a room Friday afternoon. He stated in the hospital for several days after that, now he is home and doing well considering what he was been through. I must say that I saw Gods amazing works with Mr. Johnnie.


We went back and forth with having Averi's birthday party as it was scheduled. We ended up having it and having other news to go along with it......... Averi had a great time at her 1st Birthday Party, she opened the presents like a pro...

Anyone want to guess what this present is??

Well I will not make you wait any longer......

I'M A BIG SISTER SHIRT

Something told me on Saturday morning, the morning of Averi's Party to do a Pregnancy Test, in my mind I was thinking a "Pregnancy Test for WHAT?" Well let me just tell you sometimes God is talking to you and you are doing everything not to listen. Later that morning 10:37am on the dot....I was on the phone with Candice and I did the test...not telling her anything. Well when the test came back PREGNANT....you would have thought that someone had hurt themselves....I started screaming and screaming....now take into consideration that my dad and brother are outside cooking...so I finally settled down and Candice asked me if everything was okay and where was Averi and I said it has nothing to do with ANYONE....I AM PREGNANT...not even realizing what I had just done or what I had just said. She said, "WHAT" I responded, "NOTHING" She stated, "How do you know" and I told her that I had just done a test because something told me that I needed to do it..... Well I telephoned Brad asking him to come and talk with me once he got home. Well he returned home and come into the bathroom and I told him that I need to show him something and there was no tricks or games that was being played. I showed him the test and he looked and me, looked at the test, looked at me, looked at the test, and then stated, "Are you serious?" I told him, "Do you think I can play a game with this." Well we sent Candice on a wild goose run.....she went and picked up the Big Girl Shirt and also got another test for me to do. No one knew except the three of us. So when Averi started to open up the present everyone looked at the shirt and there were oohs and oz's..... (Honestly I don't know what people were thinking seeing what they saw). It took several minutes for them to figure out what was going on. And then Nonnie screamed, "SHE PREGNANT" Granddad and Poppie looked at each other and Poppie stated to Granddad, "I think that Kelli is pregnant, Granddad responded, "Who's Pregnant. Needless to say it was a HUGE SHOCK to everyone. God has been doing alot of work in Brad and I's life. One thing that I know that he is trying to teach us is, Having a little more faith in him. As many of you know, Gods timing is always perfect even though its may not seem that way for us.

HERE WE COME 2009!!!

Well we made it through with our surprise. Nonnie, Averi and I headed to Georgia Christmas afternoon to surprise Grandma and Grandpa. Well we thought that we were going to surprise them, but my uncle decided to let them know head of time that we were coming. We left Baton Rouge at 6:00 pm Thursday afternoon and arrived in Georgia at 4:00 am. We went straight to Aunt Lisa's house, had coffee and biscuits and off we went to the mall. Yes we are totally crazy. We shopped until 2:00 pm and then headed to Grandma's house. We placed Averi on the doorstep, rang the door bell and there Grandpa found our little trooper. We stayed at Grandma and Grandpa's until Monday afternoon and headed back home around 3:00 pm Monday. While we were in Georgia, Brad was at home suffering with a tooth. He had an emergency root canal done Monday morning on his tooth. Never a dull moment around here. Never the less, we are ready for 2009. I am so excited to see what 2009 is going to bring our family. We had some good time, bad times, and hard times but God was always there waiting to help us through. I am not able to post any pictures right now because I got a new camera for Christmas and we are in the process of trying to figure out how to work it. So pictures to come on a different post.

Happy New Year and I pray that many hopes and dreams come true to each and everyone of you in 2009.

Christmas Eve 2008

Oh My GOODNESS I can not believe that it is Christmas. Things have been non-stop around here. Just a little quick update.......Averi is getting over RSV....yes that is right......on December 5, we went into see Dr. Guidroz for a terrible cough, well back we went on the 9th, 16th and on the 22nd. She basically started off with a terrible cough that turned into the wheezing and goggling and then the terrible breathing process. She lost a whole pound between December 9 - December 22. We are on two different breathing treatments every 6 hours and every 8 hours, and a cough syrup (that honestly doesn't even hardly help). Brad and I are very blessed with catching it in the early stages of it, because from what Dr. Guidroz told me on Monday its a very bad virus. She did tell me that if her breathing was not a slight different from what it was when we were in the week before she would have sent us straight to the hospital, but with all the prayers we are truly blessed because she is in the last stages of RSV. Dr. Guidroz stated that it runs its course for 3 to 4 weeks with nothing really you can do for it except breathing treatments. I am just so thankful that we are on the up ride of this virus..... because Nonnie and I have been planning something for several weeks now and I did notwant to have to cancel. More to come on that in a couple of days.....ITS A SURPRISE!!!!!!

Pictures of Sneaux Day 2008:

After we played in the snow, she did not want to have anything to do with clothes, expect for the scarf and her hat.....

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!

Where Oh Where Do I Begin......

Well I must start off by saying, "Sorry that I have not updated in a while." Things have been non-stop around the Sanchez's. Averi started off by getting sick the Friday before Thanksgiving, we were at school and Ms. Rebecca came in and stated I think that she has a little fever, well that was an under statement, fever alright, 102.5. We found a sub for my classand off we went to the doctors office. She had Laryngitis. Did not know that babies could get that, but they learn a lot when you have one. Dr. told us that it would have to run its course, 3-5 days of fever, well you moms out there know that there is nothing fun about that. Finally on Tuesday fever broke and then I started with the sickness and ended up losing my voice. Not a good situation at all. I just started getting my voice back this past weekend. In the middle of Averi and I being sick the computer crashes. I must admit that I went into a very big depression.....just thinking that I was going to loose everything. Not a good feeling at all. I prayed and prayed and prayed. After making many of phone calls, Brad found someone for a reasonable amount price, FYI... make a friend that knows computers and knows how to work on them. Very expensive to get someone out to look at your computer when its crashed. God did bless us and a very nice man can out and looked at it and got us back and running. The best thing about it was that I did not loose anything!
We had a great Thanksgiving, did not do to much, but had a very nice time spending it with our family. There is so much that Brad and I are so thankful for, the precious baby that GOD has given to us, and much, much more. I just want to shot out a HUGE thanks to Nonnie and Poppie for all that they have done for our family. God has truly blessed me with the two best parents. Thanks Mom and Dad for all that you do for us!
Hope that everyone is getting ready for Christmas.....can not even believe that it is two weeks away.......