Bargain Ball (Senior Ball)

Talbie left for the Bargain Ball (Senior Ball) tonight.

I thought this was a fun theme because there are 3 guy choice and 3 girl choice 

dances during the year.  The Bargain Ball was a boy's choice dance.

Homecoming and Prom are the other 2 and they are formal - expensive - dances.

Bargain Ball is a fun theme.

 This is how Talbie got asked...

 She answered him by filling an oven mitt with candy and writing...

 ...and then said "yes" inside.

Here they are before they left, in their fancy outfits they found...

 You'll noticed that my house is already decked out for Christmas :)

We did this last weekend because I knew Dave wouldn't be up to getting

down big boxes and trees for a few weeks.

More on his surgery tomorrow...

For their date, they went to the D.I. and picked out outfits and

them brought them home to wash them and get ready.

Blog Catch Up

Before I post about Dave's surgery - I really need to catch up on some

events from October and early November, that haven't been documented.

Katie Perkins had a baby shower.  She is having TWINS!

A BOY AND A GIRL!!

It was fun for the Knowles family to get together and celebrate!

Lauren, Abi, Maddie, Emmie, and Talbie

 Katie with a little blue and pink hat that Talbie knitted :)

 Granny, Sandy, Talbie, Maddie

 Lauren, Catherine, Lynnie, and Abi

Halloween came and went.  We had our first annual

Knowles Pumpkin Carving Contest.

 We had Aunt Brittany judge the contest.  

Everyone was a winner though and got a little prize :)

I think in the future, I will make it a little more competitive!

 The kids dressed up for school.  

Brock went as Clark Kent (Superman)

Bronson was Captain America

and Talbie was a grunge rocker :)

 (nobody recognized her because it was so out of 

character for her!)

 I went to my very last Halloween parade at the elementary school :(

Emmie with her friend, Mercedes.

 Brittany and I helped with Emmie's 6th grade Halloween party.

We played "Minute to Win it" games.

This game was seeing how many marshmallows they could pick up

with chopsticks and put in a container in 1 minute.

Their class has a student that just moved here from Korea.  

He ROCKED at this game!

 The next game was trying to find the piece of bubblegum at the

bottom of their plate of whipped cream.  After they found it,

the first person to blow a bubble - won!

I wanted to document a book report project that Emmie

worked so hard on.  This is a scene from the book she read.

It was a dance at the school gym.

 I thought it was so clever - disco ball and all

Dave's Surgery

It has been almost 20 years since Dave's accident when he shot is left eye out.

Maddie was 1 when it happened.

This Thursday he will go into surgery to have the bullet removed that still

behind his left prosthetic eye.

They left the bullet in after the accident because they thought it

would do more damage to have it removed.  They didn't want to

disturb the muscles around it to dig it out.  By doing this, they thought

it would give his prosthetic more movement.

His eye does have great movement.  A lot of people don't even realize he has a fake

eye most of the time.

But, over the past 5 years the bullet has been causing a lot of problems.

The problems started as headaches, which he's endured almost every day since the accident happened.

He also has chronic infections.  The ophthalmologists that have seen him over the years

feel like the copper jacket around the bullet are the source of the problems.

Our bodies don't like to have copper inside of them.

Dave's body has been trying to get rid of that bullet by building up pressure and 

fluid around it - causing him all these problems.

So, Thursday he will have it removed.  

The surgery isn't too risky.  The main risk is the damage that can be caused

to the muscles around the bullet.  That doesn't really matter to us at this stage.

We would rather have a little less movement in his eye, than all the problems he's

been experiencing with the bullet.

He will have to spend a day in the hospital after the surgery so they can monitor 

his pain and other things that can cause complications.

So dear family and friends, if you could offer up an additional prayer in our behalf

that things will go well for him - we would be eternally grateful :)