Allergies!!!!

I guess it is that time of year again.....allergies. Jacob nor I have really been affected in the past by allergies...well not this year.

Yep....swollen, puffy and watery eyes...sneezing and snotting. Does it ever end??!!!!

Poor guy, there are times, if he doesn't take his allergy medicine on time, his poor eye will swell almost completly shut. But he doesn't let it get him down... he keeps on truckin'.

He definitely has his mommy in him!!

MEN.......

So last week was a week from who knows where. Last Friday night, I came home to Brad on the couch with severe stomach pains and vomiting. Knowing me, I immediately thought it was the flu but as time passed his pain got increasingly worse. Needless to say, we ended up the the ER until 1AM. That night morphine had become his best friend.

Saturday and Sunday he stayed pretty commatosed with Vicatin and muscle relaxers. AMEN for MEDS!!!!

Monday we had an outpatient Hida Scan done which tested the function of his gallbladder. Wednesday was a trip to the General Surgeons office. Hida Scan and ultrasound came back normal. WOW!! Now what!!

Friday on to a EGD (tube down the throat). Results.......6 ulcers (1 big one), a hyedel hernia, and Gastroesophal Disease. All caused by acid reflux. YEAH, what a day!!

So what does that mean for Brad......quit chewing, watch calcium intake, reduce alcohol and caffeine consumption. After being told all of this, he asked the doctor only one question....."Can I at lease eat my greasy foods"????????!!!

GO FIGURE TYPICAL MAN!!

Rachel Gardening??????

Most of you that know me, know that I am not much of a gardener nor do I have a green thumb but that is all about to change.

LOOK AT ME NOW!!! Here is a picture of me and some of my co-workers putting in a garden for the Missouri Department of Agriculture. Yep, you heard me right, the Missouri Department of Agriculture officially has a vegatable garden and will also have a pumkin patch!!!

Thanks to Lane McConnell and Tony Anderson for helping us all become better gardeners!

Now the next chore is actually getting a small garden put in at out house. Yeah, I know, it is a scary thought.

HAPPY BELATED EASTER!!!!

I just wanted to stop in and wish everyone a Happy Easter!!!.

The Easter Bunny was very good to Jacob this year. Almost a little to good.

GOD Bless!!

Pictures to come soon....

Happy April!!!

Happy April Everyone!!!!!

Man, it is hard to believe that it is April already!!! Although I am not complaining about the nice warm weather.

Needless to say things have been a bit crazy around here. School is back in session. I have Statistics on Monday and Wednesday nights and then Consumer Behavior online. My graduation date has been pushed back till October 2009. UGGGG!!

Brad has been spending his weeks in Bowling Green working 12 hour days Monday thru Friday. We are all ready for this project to be complete. Him and Jacob are really having a hard time with it because they don't get to spend as much time with each other as usual.

We do have a surprise in the family......Brian and Trisha are having a BABY!!!!!! She is due somewhere around the beginning of November. YEAH!!!!!

Wedding plans have officially begun. I will keep everyone posted on the progress as we go. I think right now we are planning on making our own invitations and programs. YIKES!!! Trisha and I got together the other night and work on ideas for wedding flowers and bouquets.
This wedding thing is alot of work!.

School

Sorry it has been so long since my last post. Things have been absolutely CRAZY!!!! I am at work 8 hours a day/5 days a week. Every waking minute that I don't have Jacob seems to be filled with doing school work. YUCK!!!

Right now I have 2 online classes: Business Finance and Advertising and Sales Promotions. Mom and I spend hours upon hours working on my Business Finance class and it is kicking our butt. Luckily we are now starting week 7 of a 8 week course. Thank goodness!!

The next 8 weeks I have: Statistics on campus 2 nights a week, and then Consumer Behavior and Western Civilization II online. Yeah, I am not for sure how I am going to pull this one off yet but after that I only have 3 more classes and I AM DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I don't know what I am going to do with myself once I graduate. PARTY!!!!!! (yeah right)

Well I better get back to the homework....

Loehner Crew on Christmas Morning!!

Better late than never!!

Here is the Loehner Crew plus Jacob on Christmorning. If you look really hard you can see dad in the back window. From left to right, me (Rachel) - 24, Robin - 22, Katie - 21, Sarah - 18, and the good ole brother John across the front at 14. Let me tell you, he is on heavy little man. And then of course Jacob - 3, on "Aunt" Katie's shoulders. He always has to be in on all the action.

I would like to think that we are a close family but if you would come down to mom and dad's when we are all together, you would never know it.

"Big Sister" has her work cut out for her and I think out of all 4 of them John has been the hardest to keep up with. Imagine that?!