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So By Sunday morning she looked awful! it was swollen red and green and was just spreading. Monday morning I call the pediatrician and we go in on Tuesday for a look. The immediately say get to a plastic surgeon. She has growths under it and it is infected. She needs surgery on her face and it needs to be done soon. She gets an antibiotic and off we go. The referral takes a day or two to get and so we wait. Got the referral and call the doc nooooooo they will not see her for that kind of thing. So its calling doctor back time. They have no idea what to do so they recommend I get all the numbers to plastic surgeons and call to find one that will see her and then we can go to that one.

I get on the phone and pretty much luck out. No one will see her. My mother in law (the best) decided to help me. She takes the same list I have and we start from opposites ends and call each one. I finally got one that will take her on Monday the 10Th. My mother in law calls back and says "man you were right no one will see her" It was funny though she called the same doc I got into right after me.

So Thursday comes and Alyssa's face is really bad but we have no appointment until Monday. I call both the pediatrician and the plastic surgeon and both say go to ER this can not wait. Both offices told me to have them call a plastic surgeon in that would be on call for the hospital.

Friday morning I take the kids to school and take Abbey and Alyssa to ER. They pretty much look at me like I am crazy and say they have no surgeons at all to call. The doctor took one look and said" I will make some calls be right back"! With in 5 minutes they had a name of a doctor that they personally spoke to and will see me right now. One down fall it is in Deer Valley! So off I go with my toddler in tow to this doctor. We arrive at about 11 am and wait and wait. By 12:15 the receptionist comes out to tell me he can not see her! She is not covered by this doctor. I was fuming. I just asked and double checked that they did before I drove 45 minutes out here. The doctor personally told me to come not an office staff so I said let me talk to the doctor. He told me to drive here I want to talk to him personally. They told me he only is covered in ER. Ok I will go there then. The doctor comes out and I convince him to see me in the Hospital. He agrees.

Off we go to Paradise Valley hospital. We go there at 12:30 and wait and wait with toddler in tow mind you. At 4:20 the doctor finally arrives. He definitely has to do surgery on her but will do it right there. YEAH!!!!! They numbed her up pretty good and took alllllll the Dermabond off and scrapped all infection out. He cut out the growth that was under and got it a clean wound. They then stitched it up. It looks sooooooo good. It was about 1 tenth the size and was a clean line with 6 stitches. We were sooo happy. Off we go home finally.

Saturday morning she wakes up with a small rash around her sore. No big deal until Saturday night when it has spread. Sunday morning the rash is completely covering one side of her face. Now we still had the appointment from the first surgeon on Monday anyway. So Monday I took her back there so that we could figure out what this rash was. It is the worst rash I have ever seen. Her entire half of her face is one huge red hot cluster of bumps. They think she is allergic to the ointment we put on it. Basically do nothing and stop everything that we were doing and leave it.

So that's where we are now. We go back on Friday to get the stitches out. i will update again then.

Alyssa and her on going face saga!

Thought I would finally get the entire story here so when I am old and look back on this I will actually have all the details to remind me of my way crazy week.

It all started on Halloween night. Alyssa was in a haunted house. She was going to take a break and walked out the back of the house through the back yard when she fell. She hit her cheek just below her right eye. Her friends told me I had to come and I had to get Alyssa she had blood running down her face .... I did not believe them. Its Halloween and i just knew they were tricking me. Well no they were not kidding. She really did need to go to urgent care.

Off we went to urgent care. When we got there they did not know why we were there. I was like what can't you see her face. Of course I forgot it was Halloween and they thought she was just dressed up! They were going to put stitches in and decided to lessen the scar to put Dermabond on it. This is basically liquid stitches an the equivalent to super glue. So off we go. Sat morning she wakes up not looking so good.

Before stitches.

After stitches

Random Craziness!

This was at the grand opening of Dana Park. I thought it was especially funny since it has been open for 2 years :). They had all sorts of booths set up with kid activities. Balloons, face painting and even free ice cream!

Alex with her crazy hat!

This one has nothing to do with the precious night. This is Hunter with orange yes I said orange hair in a mohawk! We actually took him to the mall looking like this!

This is hunters crazy hat. I do not know if you can notice but the fountains were full of bubbles and the kids actually got into wars throwing them at each other.

One crazy day shopping with Steve. His back was hurting him so bad that he hopped on this shopping cart and had me pushing him around! It was rather
hilarious to see other peoples reactions!

My little Abbey Doing Dance!

This is a small pic from my cell phone so not too good. She had the hardest time getting her head off the floor for her bridge. Of course I was excited when she did it so I had to snap a pic!

Alyssa in action.

This is one of the best action pictures I have. This is the current season of soccer. Alyssa is pretty much the soccer woman! She absolutely loves the sport. As you can see she is an active player. She scored a goal the week before she feel and got stitched in her face so now she is out for the season:(

Christopher's first boy scout picture!

I was thumbing the old pictures and came across this picture that one of my friends gave me. Isn't he sooooo cute.? He is going to kill me when he sees this post!!

Funny things Abbey says.

Actually.........

Ok let me just tell you the truth!

I guarantee it.

I say Abbey are you sick? Her response no just sick and tired!

Mom, dad there is a problem in my room.

wow he is being difficult today!

Just another crazy day in the Santos life.

This is just a random picture I found of Hunter. My son actually made a Mohawk with orange gel on him. We were getting ready to go to Arizona Mills that day and I was running late and by the time I realized he looked like this we were already in the car! The worst thing was my mother in law was with us soooooo embarrassing! The good thing if there was one is that mall is the perfect place to look like a freak. I mean really what is up with the entire gangster look there?




Her we have a very tired daddy during Christmas shopping time! After listening to him complain for long enough, I said get a cart then you baby. Sure enough we found this cart and I pushed him through wally world in a cart!!!

MY CRAZY SATURDAY NIGHT!

For some crazy reason I decided to take the kids to the Val Vista grand opening! It was really A good time but a ton of work for just one parent with so many kids. They had balloon making, face painting and so many fun booths for the kids. They had the fountains filled with soap and the kids just loved to throw bubbles on each other. There was a juggler on stilts and the kids just were amazed at that. All in all a good time.

Abbey's 1st Day of Preschool.

So I am a totally lame blogger and mom. Here it is two months later when I finally get around to posting my last baby on her 1st day of school. She is going to Mrs. Christi's preschool, where Hunter and Madyson have attended in the past. I was very apprehensive because if you know Abbey she does not leave my side well. For so long I would drop her off anywhere, even the places she was most comfortable, she would still cry like I was killing her. I tried her there over the summer and had Madyson go with her to try to transition. So here she is on the 1st day and she was sooooo excited. The other little girl is a neighborhood friend that we carpool with. I really was surprised when off she went without a word or a look back. I thank God she loves it. When I got there to pick her up she could not stop talking about her day. She went through the entire morning blow by blow as to what her teacher said. NO GUM MOM! The trash can loves trash. You have to wear shoes..... There is a boy that does not listen here mom!! It was the cutest thing. I mean come on how many of us moms get the dreaded answer "I Do not Know" or "NOTHING" when asked what they did at school today???

Abbey's Twin!

So this weekend when Steve was playing at the Oktober Fest I got to see a lot of people I had not seen in some time. One of the people I see at some of his gigs (Michelle) was there this year. She decided to bring her daughter.......... I about died when I saw her I actually had to think for a moment that I actually did not bring my daughter with me!!! She not only looks exactly like her she also acts just like her. You know what they say, everyone has a twin well here they are!

1st day of school!

This is the boy who will not allow me to take his picture. He decided to try to be cool.

At least I have a typical picture of a high school kid right??

This is just too cute. I was trying to take pics of the school kids when Abbey decided she wanted in on the picture with her cool 3-D glasses Christopher was wearing .

The coolest 1st grader!

The studs!

Our newest school girl!

My Birthday!

I am having one of the best birthdays ever. I had my math final yesterday, and found out that I passed it and got a B in the class. That was such a HUGE relief. I have really been stressing out about that and was worried I would not pass. Then last night I went to the movies with about 15 of my friends. It was such a surprise to me that everyone was able to go. Having a birthday in the summer has always been tough because of friends doing the vacation thing. We went to see Mama Mia. I have never laughed so hard. It was the cheesiest but funniest movie ever. It was one of the best times I have had in such a long time. We went to Apple bee's after for dessert and talked until midnight! Then of course my friends had to embarrass me by getting them to sing to me. It was so funny I heard them start to sing and I turned my head and thought WOW who's birthday is it and realized duhhhh its me!

Flowers from my son!

I got a GPS that I always wanted!
Alyssa got me a gift card for I tunes and a pink bag to take the towels and such to the pool!

(So I would not use hers anymore)
Patti got me the cute little book, notepad and figurine!
Tabitha brought me a yummy Jamba Juice and a gift card too!
Julie got me a bunch of cute note cards, magnets, Scrap stuff and some candy not in this pic!
Becca made this adorable necklace for me.
Shelley and Alice got me these yummy smelling soaps.
Tami got me the gift card to Barnes and noble!
Here is some candy I got and the candy that was from Julie too!
A really cool mirror!
I bought myself the soundtrack to the Mamma Mia!

Thanks for the awesome treat melody!
My daughter Alex made me this cute cake!
Little Make-n-Take at the Scrap store the morning of my big day!

Happens to match my scrap room perfect!
One of my friends Ronnie made me Jammi pants!

On the morning of my birthday my son got up and let me sleep in after my hubby went to work. I then went to the Scrap store for the little project. Ronny, Julie and I went to lunch at Nando's. Thanks girls. We went to wally world to get my CD and then headed home. I went out with Steve for dinner to Cadillac Ranch in Tempe Marketplace. That was fun since I had never been there we got to shop a bit. A huge wait for food but was a good night.

A huge thank you to all of you who called, gave gifts, came by me house, went to the movies with me, Lunch with me, and to all the people who gave me various cards and treats not pictured here because I ate them before I could take a picture:) I had a great day and thank everyone for helping be a part of it!

Our trip to California!

We went to Steve's mom for 4th of July this summer. We had a blast. The kids had so much fun and we all got to visit family that we had not seen in years. With having such a large family it takes alot to get us to go anywhere with 8 people. The expense is huge and frankly the kids are tough to deal with when not in our own little environment. However this was different we all got along good and for the most part the kids did great.

This was Abbey on her first plane ride ever!

Madyson was trying to go back to sleep but it never worked. We took a late flight out and it was way past there bedtime.

The Thursday after we got there we went to a place called Borge's Ranch! They had a real old house that gave tours but not open at this time. They had an area with these old tractors that the kids played on.

Look at the size of this pine cone!

A real well that had water that was about 58 degrees in it!

This was a old out house in the yard and the kids were so interested in it. I had no idea what was so cool over there until I went to see and found a nice dead squirrel in it.(gross)!