Silly Joey!

Once again, I've gotten some awesome pictures of Joey. This kid cracks me up!


After leaving Playland at Fred Meyer Joey received a lot of stickers. In the car he decided that instead of saving them he would put them all over his mouth.



Joey is notorious for sleeping with his toys. I discovered this at naptime today. The kid seriously has a thing for transportation.



The other night I put Joey to bed around 7:30. I could hear him playing around in his room and around 9 could hear him playing with his guitar. After awhile it got quiet so I snuck in to discover him cuddling his guitar.

Happy New Year!!!

Come on Now!!!

On Wednesday the 30th Josh woke up feeling very odd again. His heart was pounding and flubbing weirdly like last time. To be on the safe side we went to the ER where it was confirmed he was in AFib again.
While AFib is not generally considered a serious condition at first, it can lead to cardiac arrest or stroke if not treated. Because Josh had been shocked not less then two weeks prior, the doctors did not feel that cardioverting him again would be of any help, especially if he would probably go right back into it.
After several hours of waiting to hear from Josh's cardiologist it was decided to put him on meds to slow down the heartbeat and to meet with the cardiologist next week.
Understandably so Josh is very frustrated as am I! He says being in AFib is a constant unpleasant feeling of a fish flopping in your chest and it leaves you short of breath and constantly tired. We really want to be able to figure out why this is happening to Josh. It seems that because he has no signs of heart damage the cardiologist will meet with him next Thursday.

In doing some research of my own I have found that AFib can be caused by stress, caffeine, sleep apnea, etc. Depending on what the doctor says next week my guess is that they will want Josh to go in for a sleep study since he does have sleep apnea. As of today, Josh is mostly out of AFib (it can go away on its own), but it can also come back just like that. With AFib, it happening once is not a bad thing, but going in and out of Afib can shorten life expectancy and can cause stroke or heart attack.

Please pray for us that Josh going into AFib is treatable and curable.

A Callon Christmas

Christmas flew right past this us this year.

With our move and storage snafu, plus Josh's health scare Christmas did not really feel like Christmas at all. =(

If you know us Christmas is kind of a big deal. In years past Josh has been a junior Clark Griswold and I always make a huge attempt to decorate like Martha Stewart indoors. But to say the least, we still had a wonderful Christmas even if it wasn't our typical holiday style. There is always next year to make it even bigger and better.

We spent time with our both of our families this Christmas. The Holiday's this year seemed to be bittersweet for me. After Josh ending up in the ER with Afib, I counted my blessings over and over. I am grateful to have such loving and wonderful family to lean on in these trying times.

As tradition goes we spent Christmas Eve with all the Callon's and feasted on delicious appetizers and drinks and even broke out in Christmas song Karaoke, microphone and all. Joey entertained us with singing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, which someday I need to catch him doing it on camera.

Christmas Day was spent going to mass in the morning. We even braved bringing our hyper 2 year old to the mass, but of course it was to the "crying room" for us. Joey did well though. After mass we headed over to my parent's house, but not before a quick run the the only open Starbucks I could find in the Safeway to bring over some delicious coffee treats to the family. We enjoyed a delicious brunch courtesy of my dad and opened presents. We headed home to prepare our place for Christmas Dinner with my parents and my brother and his girlfriend. Cody made the best Chicken Parmesan and built and installed the neatest craft table and shelf for me in our Apartment.



All in all we had a good time spending the most wonderful time of year with our families.



Next year I have some goals to have an even better Christmas. Included in these goals are...
teaching Joey about the nativity scene and of Christ birth.
getting more into the holiday spirit and not be a buhumbug!
attending all masses in the advent season
to all of us being healthy and healed from a crazy 2009.