My Boy

So within the last month, my boy has been so sick. He has had bronchitis, sinusitus, asthma and other problems. We took him to an allergist and after several hours and 17 needles, he has 6 allergies. Now we are working on controlling his environment to the extent that we can.

This morning I took him to the Dr. He now has pink eye in both eyes and ear infections in both ears!

Good thing he's tough!

TOFW

This last weekend, I went to Time Out For Women (TOFW). It was A M A Z I N G !!! I loved it. It was very uplifting and inspiring. I have many photos to post, but I need to feed my family and help J. with his homework (due tomorrow!!)

I would like to say that I have the most awesome husband. He is the one who encouraged me to go, and also took a half day off work so that I could get there on time. He's the best! He's also sick now. :(

Just a catch up

So much has happened since we came back. First, we were only home for 2 days when we went to the other side of the state for some parties! There was a 70th wedding anniversary celebration for my awesome grandparents. Did I mention 70 years!! Totally wonderful! That was great. The next day was a baby shower for my sister. That turned out very well and I got to speak to some people that I haven't seen for years.

After we came back (which is a totally different story), we had to get the kids ready for school. I didn't have everything they needed, so out to the stores we went.

They started school on Thursday the 4th. S. came home from school with a fever and missed school on Friday. I did take her to the Dr. as my family was arriving that night and I wanted to make sure that she wasn't contagious. She was fine, and they came. S. was baptized on Saturday and it was lovely!

On Monday all kids went to school. That night J. woke up with a croupy cough. Wayne and I were up a bunch with him. He missed school Tues. through Thursday. (S. was out also another day that week.)

So Friday was my first day home with no husband (earlier he was on vacation) and no children. I spent this time in the very quiet home cleaning (while on the phone with Wendy). Then Wendy and Jocelyn came over in the afternoon and we reupholstered Wendy's kitchen chairs (a pic is on Wendy's blog). That was the first time that I had done this. The first one took the longest, of course. After that they went rather quickly.

So, if you haven't heard from me too much lately, it's because I've been either running with errands and appointments, or home with sick kids. I would say that soon things should be calming down, but I've seen my calendar, and it probably won't for a couple of weeks and after that I still expect to be busy - life just seems to go that way! :)

I still love to hear from all of you though!!

Zoo

Tidings from the North Carolina Zoo!

Ok, this goes from the end of our trip to the beginning. (Sorry, that is probably an annoying way to view them, but it very time consuming to put them up and then to put them in the correct order!) All of the pictures with the family are included first, with all of the pictures of the animals after that. Again, this is only a small sampling of the pictures we took. I love taking pictures! They say a picture is worth a thousand words, so that means I've written tons! Enjoy!

J was so tired after all of the walking (guestimated at around 5 miles!) that he fell asleep very quickly once we were in the car.

We walked all of the way from one side of the zoo to the other and took the tram back to where we started!

J's nose is red from the italian ice that we had before lunch! It wouldn't wash off very well!

Ok, so at lunch time, there was a HUGE long line in the cafe, we couldn't even hardly get in the door, so we checked out the price of some italian ice. It was CRAZY expensive, but we didn't see any other options as you aren't allowed to bring food or drink into the zoo and we thought the if it was that expensive, the Cafe was probably along those prices. After we got it and ate (it took a while because they were bigger than the kind you get in the store), we went into the Cafe and they had real food for not as crazy prices, so then we got some normal food! S. even ate some of my lettuce from my salad and liked it!

J walked a lot of the way, but did get tired and was carried from time to time. :)

So precious! I remember Mom told me of when David and I once were walking hand in hand and how sweet it was for her and how she made a point of remembering it well because she figured if she went to get the camera, we would have stopped by the time she got back with it. That's what the picture below reminds me of.

Wayne was the only one to brave getting his picture taken with this!

I loved these flowers with all of the colors in 1 flower!

Here are the animals we saw (in reverse order)!

Hope you all enjoyed!

Botanical Gardens

On Aug. 12, the kids and I went with Aunt Anne to the Botanical Gardens. We we there for hours looking at all of the plants. They also had a water area. The kids wore swimsuits and could go in the sprinklers. I have put a very small sampling of pictures that we took (we took 351!) up online for your viewing pleasure. There are people, plants and butterflies. They are in no particular order.

Aunt Anne

This picture of J. just makes us laugh!

What a supermodel!

S. was talking to the geese and this one spoke back! I even took a partial video of it. It is hilarious!

This is an Eagle's nest. Aunt Anne told me that the area around it was blocked off for a time to keep it safe.

Just enjoying the view!

Hope you enjoyed!!