A little scare...

We had a little scare with my mom, and I just feel like I have to blog some of the details.
After getting back from Kansas City on Monday, Mom suffered from a stroke early Tuesday morning.
My dad took her to the hospital in Emmetsburg and they took her by ambulance to Mason City.
She had 24 full hours of testing, and thankfully after lots of waiting her MRI revealed that she did have a small stroke in part of her brain called the Basal Ganglia.
Mom does have some slight damage to her left side and her speech is a little off. I've already seen great improvements with her movements tough, and the doctor assured us that she would regain full mobility.  Home Health Care will come to her house and get all her physical, occupational, and speech therapy arranged. She'll get this at the house until she is able to drive herself.
She was able to head home today and I know she is just thankful that she can get some good sleep in her own bed. I know my dad needs some rest too, and I hope they can just get that.
I really appreciate all the kind thoughts and prayers from ALL of our family members and friends. It all reminds me just how loved she is! We all agree that she just needs to worry about herself for awhile and take the time she needs to heal. She is such an amazing women and I'm so blessed to have her as my mom.

We Love You Mom!!!!

Kansas City

This past weekend we took a mini vacation to Kansas City, but it wasn't just the three of us. Grandma and Papa Siemers joined us too. They had never been to KC and we thought it would be fun to have them get away with us.
We left on Friday and made a couple stops at some wineries. We enjoyed some great wines and then checked into our hotel.Our hotel had an outdoor pool so we hit that as soon as we settled in.

Papa and Tate in the pool.

That evening we decided to go down to the Plaza to look around and have dinner. Tate loved the fountains and didn't want to sit for very long...he was on the mooove after riding in the car for several hours.
On Saturday, we went to Legends for shopping. We got lots of great deals and made many purchases. This awesome outdoors shopping had more fountains for Tate to splash in and an awesome aquarium in one of the stores.

Grandma let Taterbean get all wet! He LOVED it!

On Sunday, we went to St. Joe to visit Aunt Maagie and the gang. We had lunch and played. Then it was back in the car and we headed to Diagonal to Grandpa Dick and Grandma Janis' house. Tate 'drove' the tractors and even went for a ride with Daddy on the 4wheeler. He loved it!

Enjoying our time with Aunt Maagie

Tate and Cousin Ashlei

We ended our Sunday in Creston at Grandma and Papa Taylors. We had a HUGE dinner. Mike even gave my parents a tour of Creston and we had a nice visit. This was the first time seeing both of the grandparents at the same time since Tate could say "grandma and papa". We thought maybe he'd be confused, but he did well. He's a lucky little boy to have such awesome grandparents who love him to pieces!
Now it's Monday and we are back home in Nevada. It was a great weekend and we are all glad to be sleeping in our own beds!
I'm just so thankful that we had a safe trip!