Jordan is leaving for Florida

Just wanted to let everyone know that Jordan is going to be leaving Great Lakes, IL and is heading to Pensacola, FL. He is flying out on Sunday (May 3rd) and will be stationed in Pensacola for the next year. I will post his new address on here as soon as I have it. Keep him in your prayers and he travels and starts another chapter in his life in the NAVY!!! We are so proud of Jordan and we love him very much. It is going to be really hard not getting to see him every couple months. Thank goodness though for cell phones as I will be calling him often to make sure he is doing OK.

Jessica's Prom

Jessica went to her Jr. Prom last night and took her boyfriend Austen as her date. The theme was "Shanghai Moon". They had dinner and the dance at "Tuscany" an Italian steakhouse, then this morning at 4am. They loaded onto charter buses at the High School and went to Kings Island in Ohio for Post Prom. They will come home late tonight.

Weekend in Chicago

We left on Friday and spent the weekend in Chicago with Jordan. He is doing awesome. Jordan just completed his "A" school and earned 8 college credits for it. He is going to be stationed in Pensacola,FL for his "B" school and he is leaving on Thursday April 30th. So we went to Chicago to spend some time with him before he left. It was a beautiful weekend. Saturday we went into Chicago and went to the Navy Pier. What an awesome place. We had lots of fun and all 3 girls had to go to Build-A-Bear and make one. Jordan's girlfriend came down from Wisconsin and spent the day with us. She is a really sweet girl. Her name is Jenna and she is going to college in Osh Kosh. She is starting her basic training for the Navy in July. Jordan's friends Sam and Russell also got to spend the day with us and that was nice. We had not seen the boys since they left for basic in January. So once I have a new address in Florida for Jordan, I will be sure and email it to everyone.

Jessica

Well, Jessica is officially done for the season in softball. On Wednesday April 1st, Jessica called to say that her coach thought she severely jammed or broke her pinkie finger. My first response was "HA-HA April Fools on mom!!!" Unfortunately Jessica did not think that was funny and neither did I when she got home from practice. We immediately went to Champaign to Convenient Care because not only could she not move her finger, she had lost feeling in her hand and it was ice cold all the way up to her elbow. We got up there and they took x-rays and told us that she had broken her finger and that we would need to see the orthopedic surgeon on Thursday and he would decide if it was bad enough to have surgery. This doctor was being nice and didn't want to frighten Jessica until she saw the surgeon. We walked into our appt and the surgeon pulled out Jessica's x-rays and showed us that she had jammed her finger so bad that she broke off part of the bone that her knuckle joint rests in. So he was going to have us meet him next door at the surgery center and they were going to do surgery. Her surgery was about 1 hour long and she did great. She had a bone graph done. They took a piece of plastic and screwed it in to replace the bone she shattered. So she will permanently have a small screw in her finger. Her hand is casted for 2 weeks and then we go back to have her stitches removed. He is then going to recast for another 2 weeks and then she will have physical therapy to start moving her pinkie again. So she is going to stay on the softball team and be a cheerleader for them. But she will not be able to actually play the rest of the season.