Life of the Keiser's

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Fall

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Its been a while since Ive blogged. We have been really busy the last couple of months and just haven't had time to just sit down and get on the blog. Brian will be performing in our Church's Dinner Theater in Nov. He has also ran 3 races in less than 5 weeks. Grand Island Half marathon, The Buffalo Run and Kansas City Full Marathon. Right after the Buffalo Run he came down with pneumonia. Took off 2 weeks from running then had to get his but in gear and finish his training for the KC Full. Colin is still going to OT and Speech Thearpy once a week. He graduated from PT a couple of weeks ago. He had his last swallow study and passed and no need for swallow thearpy. He is loving going to his "Big Boy School"(ECSE- Early Childhood SPecial Education) every day. His teachers are great. He is also officially potty trained. He woke up one morning and decided that was it no more diapers or pull ups. Colin has been dealing with some asthma issues so far this fall. Not sure what is going on so we are going to go see a new ENT to see what he thinks about his sinuses and tonsils. Now time for some pictures.

July Pictures

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Pictures of Riley Cat

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The Loss of Riley Cat.

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Brian and I had to make a decision on June 30th on our cat Riley. It was a hard decision but we knew it would be best for him and us. The week before Riley became pretty sick and Brian took him into the vet to be treated for a UTI. Well the UTI was so bad that he had to have surgery to remove a blockage. He came out great and spent a couple of days at the vet. Brought him home and he started to vomit ever time we gave him his meds. That lasted a couple of days, talked to the vet over the weekend, stopped the meds. Noticed that he was no longer eating much. Took him into the vet on the 29th for a recheck everything looked good. started him on a new med. immediatly started vomiting again. Took him into the vet the next day to see what was going on, And the vet called us that evening with the grim news on him. He was in Liver Failure! He had lost a pound in a weeks time, which isn't good on a 17pound cat. And that is why he was in liver failure. The treatment for him would be painful and cost us alot of money and time and then it still might not help him. Force Feedings every 3 hours around the clock for the next 6 months, twice daily trips to the vet for shots or spend the next 6 months at the vet so they could do it.. Not the life we wanted to put our cat through. We made the decision as a family and went over to the vet to say goodbye. We miss our fun loving,playfull, cuddly cat. Life is sure different around here without him. Colin and Riley played so well together and Riley put up with so much with Colin crawling all over him, kicking him in bed, pulling on his tail and Riley would just lay there. Zoe (our other cat and his sister,same litter) is slowly getting use to Riley being gone, she still on occassion will go around to every room meowing for him. These are a couple of pics we took his last day,night and about a couple of weeks before he got sick.

Photo Time!!

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A quick look at couple of photos from the last month for Fathers Day,with surprise visit from Aunt Dee, Zoo, and out on the boat on the farm.

Long overdue

2009-06-20T05:27:00.000-07:00

So I have realized over the last couple of weeks I haven't updated since the beginning of May. My time sure does fly when you are busy. After Marathon weekend Brian started up with his running again and officially signed up for the Kansas City Marathon in Oct. and it looks like he will also be doing one in Nashville in April. LPS is out for the summer and Colin is getting a break for a couple of weeks until his Summer School starts up. We have made the decision with his LPS teacher that he will go centerbase program next year for school and move away from the homebase program. Brian and Colin went and had a visit at Clinton the week after the marathon and got to see his classroom for next year and meet the teachers. He was so excited to tell me about it when he got home. He is also really excited that he gets to ride the school bus.

We have also made a couple of trips to the Omaha Zoo, a couple of trips down to Peru and out too the farm. we will post some new pictures after the weekend is over.

Marathon Weekend in Lincoln

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So not only did Brian run his first marathon, Colin also ran his first race it was only a mile compared to Brian's 26.2 miles. Both did a great job and I couldn't be any prouder of my two boys. Enjoy some of our favorite pics of our race weekend.

Easter Pictures

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Colin and I spent Easter out in Colorado with my mom this year. Our flight was great and Colin had so much fun on the plane and behaved so well. On Easter Sunday we went to an Easter Egg hunt at Copper Mountain. Colin and Dominque(my step-sister) had a great time and it snowed the whole time we were at Copper Mtn. Then the week after Easter we went out to the Keiser Farm. Here our a few pictures from Easter.

Happy Easter!

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Hope everybody has a great Easter weekend. Colin and I are getting ready to leave for Colorado to spend Easter with my mom, Lancer,Acacia and Dominque. Colin will be going on his first plane ride. He is pretty excited about and im a little nervous about it(not the flying part me handling him and the carseat through DIA).We are also going to stop by Friday morning and visit our Friends Rupi and baby Atticus. Brian will be staying home since he just got back from Denver last weekend and he has papers to write. Enjoy some pics that we took a couple of weeks ago.

March Happenings

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As always we are busy. I know that isn't a very good excuse. Brian had his first race of the year yesterday the State Farm Run next is the Lincoln Full Marathon. That is right Brian has been training since fall for it and the last couple of weeks he has been running 16-20 miles on Sat. mornings. He is busy with school and is getting ready to go out to Denver this next week for a confrence. Colin has been staying pretty healthy. He had a sinus infection a couple of weeks ago then he was off his antibotic for couple of days then he started running a fever. Colin's speech is improving everyday and we are amazed by his progress his LPS teacher Maureen still comes every Friday morning to see him. Colin and I have made another trip to the Omaha Zoo on a nice Friday at the beginning of the month. In other news the same day Colin and I went to the Zoo the transmission went out in our car that evening. After sitting and thinking about it for almost a week we decided to get it fix and not buy another car. The same day we picked up the car we took Brian's truck into the shop to get new brakes and get it looked at. We have been enjoying the nice March Days playing outside and made a trip to the Park on St.Patty Day. And our walks on City Campus after our Friday Pasta Dinners at Spaghetti Works. As always thanks for checking in on us.
The Keiser's

just a few more pictures.

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Have I mentioned I just love our new camera!!!

Feb. Happenings

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Busy that is the story of our life. So far this month we have enjoyed a trip to the Omaha Zoo, game night at Jamison's house, trip to the farm, Super Bowl Party, playing outside on the 60degree days, playing in the snow,trip to the Dr.,trip to St.E's for abdominal xrays(he was having a poop issue) and birthday parties. Tonight we will be going to church for a Valentine Dinner put on by the youth group. Brian has been busy traing for the Lincoln full marathon which will be in May and working out almost everynight of the week plus staying busy with school and work. Brian attened our neighborhood meeting at the beginning of the month to listin and voice his concern's for Matt Talbott moving into the neighborhood. If you have not been following this city council passed it and they will start work on it come fall. Now for a couple of pics from this month so far.

Colorado Vacation

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A week after we get home from vacation I finally have time to sit down and update. Colin had a blast skiing for the first time as you can tell in the pictures. When you ask him about it he will act it out then tell you that he fell down the hill and hit his head. He won't stop talking about skiing. So I think we are going to make sure he gets up on the slopes a couple times a year. He had no problems at all while we were out there with the altitude and his lungs. And we had great weather the whole week we were out there. It was great getting to spend time with my mom, Lancer, Dominque and Acacia.
Brian starts classes back up this week, so life will be busy once again until May when we have a couple weeks break. We have a couple of projects we want to start working on inside the house and the big one I want to have done before Summer is our bedroom floors. We have wood floors but they need some serious work. Also want to look at building a shelving area under our stairs(but then we would loose our tornado shelter). Colin's LPS teacher continues to come out every week to Preschool/daycare to work with him. He is making a big improvment and can't get over how far he has come. Come March we will once again apply for the EXCITE Program with LPS.
Colin continues to amaze us everyday and we have been so blessed to have had such a healthy winter so far.
Until next time
God Bless
Mattie,Brian and Colin

More vacation Pics

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Christmas and Vacaction Pics

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Just wanted to get Pictures up from Vacation will update later. Mattie

Part 2-Dogsledding

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Today we went on an adventure of a lifetime. We went Dogsledding(Brian,Colin,Dominque and I). It was so much fun and we went on a 5 mile route, the dogs were great and Colin loved getting out and petting and hugging every single dog every time we stopped. Did i mention there was 12 dogs pulling our 2 sleds. After we got back to our post Colin got to help feed the dogs meat soup. Brian got to drive one of the sleds as I sat in the sled with Colin. This afternoon we went back into town to find Colin some ski boots. At the second shop we finally found some that would work with his wide feet.So tomorrow morning Colin will attempt his first run on the slopes. He can't stop talking about going skiing. O and Im happy to report he is having no problems with his breathing so far up at this altitude. We are relaxing and playing a lot of scrabble and video games.
Singing off from Beaver Lakes Estates Goodnight,
mattie,brian and colin

Holiday's and Vacation so far

2008-12-30T14:22:00.000-08:00

Happy New Years to everyone. We had a great Christmas, and enjoyed spending time with both of our families. We are now on our second family vacation in 6 months and are spending it up in Leadville, CO. with my mom(Lila) and step-dad (Lancer) and my stepsister Dominque. We drove to Denver on Saturday and stayed at the Marriott City Center for the night in downtown Denver and then went out to eat dinner at a brewery with our friends Garrett and Rupi. Sunday morning we got up really early and went for a swim around 6 and then got ready for the day and headed up to Summit County to do a little shopping and then headed up to Leadville,CO. to meet up with my sister Acacia and her boyfriend Dan so we could follow them up to my mom's house at Beaver Lakes Estates.
will update more later Colin is grumpy and doesn't want me on the computer.
mattie

December thoughts

2008-12-08T20:25:00.001-08:00

Wow, What a month so far and we are only into the second week of the month. Please keep my sister Audra in your prayers as she lost her boyfriend Brandon in a car accident over the weekend. Also keep his family in your prayers as well.
We had a great Thanksgiving with our families and as always we ate way to much. Brian and Colin braved the Black Friday madness and went out and bought a new camera for us. It is the camera we have been keeping an eye on for almost a year now and we got the lens i wanted with it. so check out the link and take a peek at the camera it is shown with the 55mm lens, and we got the 200mm lens with it also.http://www.nikonusa.com/Find-Your-Nikon/ProductDetail.page?pid=25420. I just the camera and could go on and on about how great of pics it takes but i will let you look at the pics and decide for yourself. Enough about the camera.
We braved the cold on Sat. and went to the Star City Holiday Parade. Then Sunday Brian ran in the 5k Holiday Run in the morning. Brian is busy studying for finals and we are ready for our vacation to the mountains. Thanks for checking in on us.

House Projects

2008-11-23T17:40:00.000-08:00

So we have officially finished painting the garage and house and the gutters are almost all up. We can't get over how much better the house looks with the "new" foundation. We have been busy this weekend raking the never ending leaves, after this last spring we learned our lesson and will make sure every leaf is out of the yard and street before it snows. Colin has been staying pretty healthy. We went in for his 3 week check up on the 14th and we have officially started his Asthma Action Plan for the winter. He will be taking his Pulmicort daily until Spring when we take him back him. Xopenex as needed and lots of prayers for a healthy winter. He still had a couple of lymph nodes on the left side of his neck that were swollen, and one on the right. They also found four in the groin area that were swollen. So we need to keep an eye on them and let them know if they get any bigger. He did start to have a nasty runny nose yesterday and a cough started last night. So we are going to start up the Xopenex and give the the Dr.'s a call in the morning too see what they want us to do. The Dr did give us a lot of good info for our vacation that is coming up in a little over a month. Colin will be making his first trip to over 10,000 feet also known as my mom's house. We are worried about his oxygen levels once we get up that high, but we will be prepared and have a game plan in place. We can't get over its Thanksgiving week, we are looking forward to seeing Aunt Acacia , Uncle Dave and Aunt Sarah who are all coming in from out of state. Will update more soon. Have a great week..

Fall Pictures

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Halloween

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My office all dressed up for Halloween.

Colin and Dr. Rhodes next to Billy Alley's sprint car

I know I haven't been very good about this blog. But, we have been really busy working on the outside of the house and by the time we get home at night its dark and we all want to go to bed.

We had a great Halloween Week, Sunday the 26th we had the Parents Reaching Out Halloween Party, Tuesday 28th Trick or Treat at my office, Wed. 29th Trunk or Treat at Church ,Thursday Colin had his Hallween Party at Preschool then Friday came around he was pretty much done with the whole Hallween stuff. We did make it to a couple of houses, Aunt Amber's, Grandma Nancy(neighbor boys gma who lives a couple door down from us)and a coworkers house. Colin was a bat this year and let me tell you he was one cute bat. We did manage to get the siding up on the North side of the garage in Oct. and last weekend we got the new gutters up and then the biggest task of all this fall, my Dad and Whitlow got the foundation done on Nov.3. It looks like a totally different house now and we can't wait for Spring to come so we can get out there and work on landscaping. Colin has been staying pretty healthy, he was on some antibotics for a Sinus Infection and we started Pulmicort back up every day and Xopenex as needed for his lungs. He took his last dose of antibotics on the 3rd and by the 4th his lymph nodes on the left side of his neck and jaw line were pretty swollen so they started him back on some more antibotics for 10days. They found it weird that he got an infection in the lymph nodes that quick after his last dose of antibotics. But this is Colin we are talking about! Thanks for checking in on us.

Mattie

Some recent pictures

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Brian taking Colin to his First "Real" Husker game Great Grandad Fike gave these glasses to Colin and he wouldn't take them off..
Waiting for Daddy to run by at the Omaha marathon
Brian and Colin after the race

Welcome

2008-10-10T19:11:00.001-07:00

Hello friends and family after 3 years on carepages we have decided its time to move over to a blogspot. Colin is doing so well and since carepages changed their format over the summer we haven't been on it as much for updates.(really we don't like the new format). We will see how this goes.
Mattie and Brian