Chloe Visit's Grand-Mothers Work

Looking Toward the Deli, while sitting at the tables.

Here are some more pictures from my old phone, of Chloe visiting Grandmother's work when she was just three years old.

 She is excited about getting her free cookie.

The have since remodeled the store and everything is much different than in these pictures.

 See, I told you I ate it all gone.

She has always loved to go for a visit, so she could get a free cookie from the Bakery and see her Grandmother.

Look there is grandmother busy working.

My First Pony Ride

Getting ready for her first ride.

Here are more pictures taken off of my old cell phone.

When Chloe was only four years old she decided that she wanted to ride one of Pop's ponies. She had always loved to feed them and be around them but never wanted to ride one.

 Grand-Mother leading Chloe on April.

So with her grand-mother and her Great-Grandfather (Pop) they saddled up a pony and let her take a ride. They led the pony for her and she really enjoyed the ride.

 Grand-Mother, I've got this

Pop, led her around the yard many times and she thoroughly enjoyed the ride, until the horse hair got to her nose and she started sneezing.

 This is so much fun, I don't know why I was scared.

After this ride, she has enjoyed many more rides on the ponies as well as the bigger horses.

A Four Year Old Showing An Eighty-Four Year Old How To Operate His Cell Phone

Chloe showing Pop how to use his cell phone.

When Chloe was four years old we were at her Great-Grandfather's home and he had just gotten his first cell phone.

He was unsure how to operate it and he asked would someone show him how to use it to find his phone numbers and how to turn it on and off.

She is very focused on showing Pop.

Chloe, his four year old grand-daughter spoke up and said I can show you how. He laughed, but thought that he would just entertain her and let her try to show him. To his and our surprise she proceeded to show him how to turn it on and off. How to add names to his address book and event to find out he had a camera on his phone.

And this is how you add numbers to your address book.

She showed him how to operate the camera and to later look up the picture that he had taken.

And this is me and Pop taking our picture together.

It just reminded us how smart the children are in this electronic generation.

Pictures From My Old Phone While In Hospital

In Induced Coma For Five Days

I just got me a new cell phone after using the same one for over nine years. It was a Samsung phone and a good phone for me. I had stored many memories into the phone but because it was so old they didn't have updates for it and I could not email my photos to my computer anymore so now I am connected with a Smarter Smart phone.

 In Coma Hooked Up To The Machines

In 2013 I was admitted to the hospital with Pneumonia after being told by X-rays that I had taken three days prior that my lungs were clear and I probably just had a common cold.

I knew that it was much worse than this, but I had told my regular doctor this and he sent me to the nearest hospital for x-rays and they told me that my lungs were clear.

 My Wife Stayed With Me In ICU

After leaving the hospital after e-rays, instead of getting better, each day I was feeling worse. I took my wife to work and as I was driving home I couldn't get enough air into my lungs. So I pulled over and called my father-in-law and told him what was happening and that I was going to try and drive home.

A drive that usually lasted fifteen minutes, I made it home an hour later. After pulling into the garage, I felt so weak and thought that I might pass out. I laid the seat back and called 911 and said that I needed help.

My Faithful Wife And Best Friend For Life

When they arrived, they got me out of the car and took me to the hospital. In the ambulance they kept me talking until we got to the hospital. As they took me out of the ambulance, I saw my father-in-law walking toward the ambulance. I was so relieved to see him and knew that he would be there for me.

Flowers Outside My Window At Hospital

Upon entering the hospital, we had to wait on a doctor and when they came up to the stretcher that is the last thing I remember for five days.

After taking x-rays again they found out that I did have Pneumonia and when they pulled up the previous x-rays, on the bottom of the x-rays was the Pneumonia that they had missed four days earlier.

 After The Breathing Tubes Were Removed

They induced me into a coma for five days to help me to become better. Afterwards they told us that I was very lucky, because most people in my condition don't make it through.

The doctor said that before I was put into the induced into the coma he had asked me was I willing to be put into a coma and he said, "I said yes, and God and you will see me through.

Well it has been three years since this happened but I finally got the pictures from my old camera and can now post them.

More Cousin's Come To Visit

This is me on the left (Chloe) and my second cousin (Scarlett) on the right and we have bread to feed the horses.

I sure love it when family comes to visit us and I get to spend time with my cousins,

On my mother;s side there are a few cousins, but nothing to compare with the cousins on my dad's side of the family. I probably have over thirty cousins and there is something special about each one.

This is Scarlett and her little brother Jamerson (JT) at the fence.

The cousins that came up this weekend was my Grandmother's, brother's family. Uncle Wayne has for kids and they are all my cousins (first cousins) and his daughter Amanda has two kids, a boy and a girl and they are my second cousins.

My favorite first cousin in this family is Angelia, and her brother Daron would be my second best. Why do I say this? It is because everytime they come to visit they spend time with me and I feel so "Special."

Here is Scarlett on one of the small pony's at Pop's barn at his house 
 
Amanda took me on a trail ride once when she was here on Pop's big white horse Chyanne. He makes me think of the horse that Barbie rides.

Now Daron is a nice looking cousin and makes me laugh and feel good about myself. Whenever he is here I don't feel like a little cousin but an equal with the other cousins.

Here is my cousin Angelia and my great-grandfather (Pop).
 
Now Amanda and Trent (Trent looks like my mother's new boyfriend and I wondered why he was here until I saw it was really Trent) have to children, Scarlett and Jamerson who are both my second cousins. Both are younger than I am but Scarlett is fun to play with.

Bailey Their New Kitten

This year Chloe's grandmother got her a new kitten for their house. This past year they had several of their cats die from old age and they decided that it was time for a new kitten.

Mimi found a kitten at the animal shelter in Jackson, TN that they fell in love with and got it for Chloe without her knowledge.

When she came to Memphis for Christmas she told her that she had a "Special Christmas Present" for her and she was so excited to see what it was.

Her first ride in the car home from the Animal Shelter, all wrapped up in her blanket.

On her ride to Memphis in her new car kennel. She looks so comfortable as she rides down the rode to her new home.

Under the Christmas Tree on Christmas Morning waiting for Chloe to find her waiting for her.

Hi Chloe, were going to be the best of friends for a very long time. I can't wait to see what kind of adventures that we will have.

Our First Snow For 2016

Chloe looks forward to the first snowfall each year. She wants an opportunity to get out in the snow to play and make snow angels and make snow people.

She thinks of all the things she can do when this "Special Day," comes along each year.

This year we got our first snow in January which is early for us, so now she is hoping for another one in February or March and maybe it will be much bigger.

She had made several snow angels in the yard but she didn't want to get so wet when she made her snow people so she decided to build them on the deck. She said that here they would last longer here than out in the sun.

She remembered how she had learned to roll the snow into a ball and roll it in the snow to make her snow person.

Her bigger snow person fell over after she had made it so she took it and threw it into the lake and then started over making another snow person.

Finally she had a finished product that she is proud of and then she tries to talk me out onto the deck so she can pound me with the snowballs that she had secretly made to use on me.