Please pray for our Tuck Man

Hi everyone, I know I have been terrible in adding posts lately. We have had a ton of stuff going on and it seems I never have a chance to sit down and add posts.

I promise this weekend I will add a bunch of new posts with pictures for them.

Right now Ryan and I are having a tough time. Our dog (technically it was his dog before we met, but its a big joke that I have stolen him from Ryan) Tucker was playing in the yard on Monday with our other dogs and my moms dog and all of a sudden he started yelping and howling. His left rear leg was just hanging. Ryan and I immediately took him to Union Cross Animal Hospital where I used to work (they are so great!). Dr. Murphy and all the girls took him back and tried to get an xray. They couldn't get a great shot because he was in so much pain but they could see that he had broken his femur. They took some blood work and the next day sedated him and were able to get a better xray. They could see that he had broken his femur completely and had bone fragments in the leg. None of the doctors there could understand how he broke his leg so badly just playing with the dogs. They were concerned that he may have a pathelogical break (a tumor or something wrong with the bone that weakens it). I told them that, Tucker was the dog that jumped out of the back of Ryans truck as he was driving! How could he survive that with no broken bones and break a leg playing with the dogs! They sent the xrays off to a radiology specialist to have her read it and see if she thought their was any tumors. She did not see any. We then took Tucker to Dr. Vernon at Kernersville Animal Hospital (they are great too!)to do the surgery, he said they would put a plate on the bone and pins. They did surgery on him this morning. Ryan called me at 8:15 with the news that Dr. Vernon had found a spot on his leg that he thought may be tumors. They took a sample of it and sent it off to be biopsied and since they didn't want to put a plate on it if it was cancer they just wired his leg to stabilize it. Hopefully by tomorrow we will have the results back for the tumor. It sure doesn't look good if it is cancer. Thats why we need everyone to pray for him.
Ryan has had Tucker since 2001. We started dating in 2004 and he has always been Ryan's buddy. I have gotten as attached to him as my other dogs. He is my buddy as well, all he ever wants to do is be with you and make you happy. We laugh at him because you can leave the door open to the basement (where his crate is for when it is too hot or cold for him to be outside) and he will run inside and get in his crate. Infact, Monday before all this happened we were out in the yard with him and Hoyt and we were playing with Hoyt and Tucker was sitting by the basement door waiting to go inside. He loves to be with people. He is so laid back, I tell everyone that he is the only one of the dogs that has any sense! He is our buddy and I don't know what we would do without him. He is the reason I saw Ryan for the first time (Ryan brought him in to Dr. Dixon's office where I was working at that time).
Please pray for him, and for Ryan. I know this is difficult for us. A lot of people don't understand how attached you can become to dogs, but they really are a part of our family. Anyways, please just keep them in your prayers. Thanks! Ill keep you updated.

Harley

I just had to put a picture up of Adams new puppy... Harley! He is so adorable and so friendly to everyone!



Harley



Harley and Crawford

This is a picture I stole off of Emily and Jacobs blog of Crawford and Harley. I saw the picture and loved it so much! Emily took both of these pictures.

Christmas

We hope everyone has had a wonderful Christmas! We were so lucky to get to spend lots of time with our families and we had a great Christmas! I am so lucky! A few years ago I had to sell my horse and I have regretted it ever since and have wanted to get him back. Ryan's parents bought him back for me for Christmas! How amazing! Ryan called me as I was on the way to his parents for lunch and told me that Adams horse was hurt and to come to the barn as soon as I got there. When I walked into the barn I noticed Fred right away! I started crying, I couldn't believe they would go through all that just for me! Then when I realized what was going on I noticed that Ryan had gotten all my family there and his family, Granny and his Aunt, Uncle and Cousin were all there! I can't believe they did that! I will post some pictures when I get them. I can't wait to start riding again! I am so glad that he is with us now. He is going to have the best place to relax and enjoy the rest of his life and he will be so well taken care of! I am going to be posting some pictures as soon as I get them! My mom is so excited that Fred is back again too!

Again, we love you all and hope you had a great Christmas, this Christmas was so special to us, knowing that next year this time we will be spending our first Christmas as a family! How exciting!

I have made some additions to the posts below so check them out!

Updates

I have been bad on updating the blog lately so I wanted to update it and update some of the past posts with new pictures. So scroll down and you will be able to see new pictures on the different blogs below.

Planning is going good. We met with the tent guy today and got an idea on what he thinks we can do. We booked a caterer and I think everyone is going to love the food. We have been busy. I am just ready for it to be here. I would do it tomorrow if we could get everyone here in time!

I am so lucky to have so many people that are wanting a willing to help me. It is so nice.

Ryan and I are going to spend tonight with my family, tomorrow night with his family, and he has to work on Christmas day. We are looking forward to spending the holidays with all our family (my new family and his new family!) and we can't wait for the new year which will bring us that much closer to May 2!

We hope you all have a wonderful and safe Christmas and New Year and keep checking for more pictures and posts!

Planning

Whew! This week has been so busy with all the phone calls and emails I have been trying to do to get people lined up to do things. We are going to hopefully get our save-the-date/Christmas cards out next week. Emily is going to take our Picture on Saturday and I am so excited, she always does an amazing job! I don't know what I would do without her advice! She is so good at helping me out with stuff and answering all the questions I have about her wedding!

Ryan's cousin Beth flew in this week from Utah and we were so excited to see her. We don't get to see her often enough and although this trip was too short we will get to see her again at the wedding! YAY! She made the family some amazing food she learned to make while she was in Mexico and we got to eat and hang out with the whole family last night so that was a lot of fun!

I know it is still a ways away but with every passing day I get more and more excited. As much as I want a great wedding I am more excited about the marriage part of it! I would do it tomorrow!

Our families, as usual are being so great and supportive of everything. I am sure my mom and Nancy are tired of my phone calls and emails but they are so wonderful with everything. Poor Nancy is being so great with all my questions and input for our honeymoon... she is so sweet! My mom is busy trying to keep me calm and not stress out (like this week when I found out the place I wanted to do my cake was booked and so were the next three places I called!) she has her hands full with that! Overall the planning is fun and I am keeping in mind the advice Emily gave me, slow down, relax, and enjoy it because it will all be over soon! I am just so thankful that we have such great families and friends to share in this fun time and are so supportive. We are truly blessed!



Ryan, Granny Doby and Beth



Ryan and Beth



Beth and Crawford



Casey and Beth


Casey, Ryan and Beth

Eventful Week

Just a little over a week has past since Ryan and I got engaged. A LOT has happened in such a short time! We have set a date (May 2, 2009), chosen our rehersal, wedding and reception site (ok that was an easy one! His parents house), I got my dress, my bridesmaids have chosen the dresses they want, got the best wedding planner, booked a photographer and set up meetings to talk with florists and I am calling tomorrow to set up a meeting with the cake people. Whew! This wedding planning business is harder than I thought! I couldn't have done any of it without all the help from everyone! I hate making all these hard decisions so I left the dresses up to the bridesmaids and let them get their own dresses! After all, they are the ones that are going to be wearing it, not me! Now all I have to do is get Ryan to decide what he wants to wear!
Poor thing, he is taking it all in stride and being wonderful about listening to all my wedding talk and not getting upset with me. He is the absolute best! He does however give me some of the funniest answers when I ask him about things for the wedding. I think I came close to getting in trouble this weekend. I drove up to the hunting cabin and saturday we were sitting around the camp fire and I broke out my "wedding bag" as he calls it and started asking him questions! He loves to give me a hard time about it but he knows I just want it to be a FUN day! I want to get all this planning over with so we can relax and have fun! We are so excited! I saw an article in a magazine from this lady that had been doing wedding planning for years and her main piece of advice is to plan a wedding that tells the guest exactly who you are. She made the point that good planned wedding can be beautiful but a wedding that is done specifically with your likes and dislikes in mind will have guests saying, that is exactly what we would have imagined them doing. I want a wedding like that! Dont get worried, no camoflage in the picture...yet!

Wedding Date

So we finally have a wedding date. May 2, 2009. We have been thinking about that date for a while but wanted to make sure we could have our pastor Ty perform the service. We are so excited! We can't wait to see everyone! We are going to have the wedding and reception out at Ryan's parents house, it is going to be so beautiful! Hopefully we will be getting the save the date cards out soon, we are going to have Ryan's sister-in-law (and my matron of honor) take our pictures for the save the date card, she does a GREAT job and they are going to be beautiful! We are busy picking vendors for the wedding and thankfully so far all the vendors we have met with are free that day. I picked out the dress yesterday! Thanks so much to my mom, Nancy, Emily and Kim for helping me make my decision and being there for moral support! Also, a neat little bit of information... our wedding will be on Kentucky Derby Day!!

Below are some of the pictures she took of us! She is great!