Update

Maddie and her "plane" like Daddy
Maddie's 1st birthday cake

Maddie feeding Mom some of her cake
Feeding Daddy some cake

We went to court yesterday and were expecting to have the custody of Hannah reversed to Tara. Didn't happen. Buddy has now come up with another fictitious charge against her. We now have a trial date of September 27 and 28. Full trial with witnesses, etc. We still have Hannah every weekend, so that didn't change.

I hope the DHR agencies in you areas are more efficient than here. As said before, they messed up at the beginning of this thing by giving Hannah to Buddy's daughter without any investigation. They cleared me to be Tara's supervisor when Hannah is here. They were to be getting Mike cleared so I wouldn't have to miss work on the weekends we had her and I was working. They didn't. So, two weekends ago, we spend 4 days trying to get an answer from them about Mike's clearance. A few hours before I was to pick Hannah up from school, I finally talked to a person instead of an answering machine. I was told they were still working on this. I reminded them I was working that weekend. I was basically told that if I went to work Saturday, I would have to take Hannah back to Delilah's. There was no way I was cutting Tara's weekend short with her baby. I got a couple of nurses to cover my shift and I didn't work Sat. DHR had not said a thing about Sunday, so after worship, I went to work. Mike came and picked me up to take Hannah home. On the way, a few blocks from the hospital, an 18 wheeler made a right hand turn from a left lane and into us. We were thrown into another 18 wheeler headon. My car was totaled. Tara and I sustained some injuries, but are basically ok. The kids and Mike were upset but ok.

Now, we are dealing with this farce of a court case, a national trucking firm that wants to shaft me, and an injury that will take about 6 weeks to heal (and the aggravation of it). As they used to say on Hee-Haw, if it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all.

On a good note: we celebrated Maddie's 1st birthday. A FROG party. Pictures say it all. Maddie is beginning to talk. She says Da-da, Ma-ma, Bye-bye and will throw kisses and the cutest of all (that I haven't captured yet) raising her hand in praise.

More later - got to go to work!