Kamrynn's 3rd Birthday

I Can't believe my baby's 3! I purchased a play wedding dress a while back and decided to take Kennedi's pictures in the dress at the temple when she turned 3. I thought it would be fun to look back on when she gets married. Now its Kamrynn's turn since she just turned 3. Thank heavens I had my best friend, Charity with me to help out. It was kind of a spur of the moment thing. It was 12:00 noon, not a very good time to take pictures, overcast, and very hot and humid. I think the girls did well considering those factors and I managed to get a couple of shots.

Happy 4th Birthday, Kennedi

4th of July in South Padre

Summer Fun

Am I Getting Old?

The other day my 8 year old brother, Jake, said to me,

"Tiff, was it black and white when you were growing up?"

He was dead serious-LOL!!!

I Can't Freakin' Believe It...

Okay all you healthcare professionals. Diagnosis me...

So, I come home from Arizona and I have this itching, prickling pain on and off on in one location on my left side. It kind of felt like a spider bite, but it wasn't red and nothing was there. Two days later I develop a red maculopapular rash. At first I just though it was heat rash due to being outside in AZ and running during the day while it was hot. Well it didn't go away and began to spread up the left side of my back. It burns and itches like crazy. Diagnosis...



Finally on Sunday night I was thinking about the signs and symptoms and realized that it was Shingles. I went to my PCP the following day to confirm the diagnosis. For those of you who don't know, Shingles is caused by the chicken pox virus that remains dormant in your system until activated by weakened immune system, stress, or extreme heat. My immune system is fine and I am not under stress, so it must have been triggered from the Arizona heat. It attacks and follows the nerves and is typically unilateral. It usually occurs in people over 60, but it can happen to those younger. (Just my Luck). I was put on an antiviral medication and she gave me something to help with the pain. The antivirals worked great, it is almost completely healed-YEAH!

Congrats Amber Guymon, JD

Amber reading her poem she wrote for graduation

Good Job, Mom!

We are so very proud of my sister-in-law, Amber. We were able to go visit Arizona for her graduation from Law School. She and her family have made so many sacrifices to be where they are today. Amber-We love you and are so proud of you! Congrats!!!
Here are some of the things we got to enjoy on our trip...

Happy Mother's Day to Me!!!

I never understood all the excitement about receiving homemade gifts until I had my own kids. This was the first year they are big enough to make me something. It just made my heart melt. Priceless! I love being a Mom :)

AGGHHH...THIS EMAIL...

I tried to send out several emails last night to let everyone know that my email address is changing. They all came back system undeliverable. Then I get to my mom's house and she received 4 emails from me telling her that I was changing my email address. So I apologize if you received several emails, too. Now I am really confused if you received the email(s) or not. I just found out that I have to pay to use hotmail on my Microsoft Outlook, so I will just get a new mackus account. Sorry if you already changed it. My new and final email address will be

tguymon@mackus.net

Thanks for making the change.

Is Easter Here?

Kennedi kept asking question such as, "is the Easter Bunny here", except she would forget the word bunny and just call him Easter. "Did Easter hop all the way over to, Grammies?" ...I think we are approaching the question phase :)

We had a nice Easter Sunday. We all gathered at my parent's house to eat and visit. The girls were so excited that the Easter Bunny left them a basket. They couldn't get over that there were candy inside the eggs. They thought that was the coolest thing.