Pumpkin Patch 2008

Jake and I decided today would be a good day to take JW to a pumpkins patch. I got home from the gym at about 11:00 am, and asked JW if he wanted to go to a pumpkin patch. I asked Jake if we should call JWs nana and invite her along. He said that sounded like a good idea. I called her, and she said she had to finish work, and would be at our house in a little over and hour!!

At the age of two, my son doesn't forget anything you say, no matter how much you try to distract him. For over and hour, he kept say "we going punkin hatch mommy?" It sounded cute the first 20 times. I kept explaining to him that we were waiting for nana, and then we would go. He ran to the couch, and looked out the window yelling "Is nana here yet, we go punkin hatch!!!" No matter what I did to distract him, every three minutes he would run to the window and look for nana. Nana finally got to our house, and we loaded up into the Durango and headed out. We went to a local farm, and looked at the "buful fowers" (beautiful flowers), and headed out to the horse drawn wagon that would take us out to the pumpkins.

Now, I have never been out to a pumpkin patch before in my life, but I never in my wildest dreams imagined that picking out the perfect pumpkin would be such a hard task. Every pumpkin that we pointed out to JW, he would say with conviction "that punkin no good!". I finally after looking at 50 pumpkins had to say, look at this baby pumpkin JW. This is mommies! No, my baby punkin! I have that one! Thank goodness, he finally found one he liked!!

Emergency Room

So, I met my girlfriend at the gym on Saturday morning. I just signed up, and it was the first time I have gotten to go since joining. We did cardio for about 40 minutes, and then Tosha said she was going to show me how to work my lower back. I felt really good during the cardio, and was excited to keep going.

We went down stairs, and got some water and headed to the workout machines. Tosha showed me how to do some exercises on a certain machine, so I went ahead and did them. When I stepped off of the machine, I felt a little dizzy. I told Tosh that I was going to sit a minute, b/c that is what I usually do when I am dizzy. The feeling didn't go away, so I said to her husband that I still felt really dizzy. I put my head down, and then I heard someone saying my name. I looked up and I was surrounded by a bunch of people. I was told that I had fainted, and that I was unresponsive. Next thing I know, they have called 911, and I was in an ambulance. No matter how much I said was fine, they said I needed to go to the ER. They took me in, and Tosha called Jake, and he met me there. We did an EKG, and blood work, and all is well. They don't know what caused it, but I just need to be a bit more careful.

Needless to say, I got up and headed to the gym this morning, and everything went fine. I doubt I will use the machine that made me dizzy again, but I am not going to let it stop me from getting in shape. A few guys came up and teased me a bit about leaving the gym on a stretcher, but now at least I know a couple of other people at the gym!!! I try to look at the positive.