Graduation

My oldest grduated from preschool last night. I cannot believe how fast the time has gone... he is starting kindergarten next year. I remember 1 month after he was born and we went and bought a new vehicle and the loan was for 6 years and I told Josh this will be paid off the year Jace starts kindergarten.... at the time it seemed like that would be forever.... like it was so unattainable, looking back that seems like it was just last year.

I promised his preschool teacher (who is awesome) that i would not cry... she said you better not cuz if you do I will too. I did great up until the part where she spoke about each child... she got to Jace and said "Jace is one of my favortie kids I have ever had (no... she didn't say that about all the kids), he is hardworking and a great friend to everyone... I lost it, I am just so proud of him. I have raised him to be nice to all kids and have a good heart and she confirmed to me that he does. So now on to kindergarten and my youngest will start preschool this year.... they are growing up way to fast!!

This was his teacher talking so nice about him

First camping trip.....

After the HORRIBLE week we had we decided we would take the boys camping for the weekend and just get away. We should have known our bad luck was not over yet! It started out good enough but as soon as we turned to head up the Mtn. to Lost Lake we hit snow and I mean we hit snow.... like feet of snow. This is the campground we normally stay at:

After leaving there Josh said let's go up the Mtn aways and see what we can find... what we found was a bunch of snow drifts and rather then turning around we tried to go through one of them with the trailer and 4 wheeler on the back..... needless to say we did not make it! We were stuck.. not a little stuck... alot stuck! Josh had to go get help and 3 hours later we were free! By this point I wanted to go home but the boys really wanted to camp.

We found the only 1/2 dry campground on the Mtn and set up camp..... I knew our luck had to turn around at some point????? The next day some friends of ours suprised us and showed up... that was really cool! But they should have known the luck we were having.... the boys took the kids while her and I stayed at camp and got stuck..... again. This time though the handlebars top our friends 4 wheeler broke off. We got back to camp finally and called it a night pretty early.

We headed out yesterday and actually considering had a really good time... we can look back now and laugh!

What a weekend......

On Thursday all the problems I have been medically having finally came to a head... they admitted me to the hosiptal for a blood transfusion because I was so anemic.... NOT FUN! They released me on Friday and on Saturday I noticed Jaces side of his face was swollen... I ran him into Urgent Care and they said he had cellulitis and gave him a shot of antibiotics and said he should feel better tomorrow and if he is worse take him to the ER ASAP. Well Sunday morning (Mothers day) he came in my room and woke me up and looked like he had been in a school yard fight... he was so swollen his eye was almost swollen shut, so off we go to the ER where the hooked him up to an IV and did a CT scan and came back with the same diagnosis... cellulitis. Tomorrow he goes to a specialist to figure out the next step and I am really hoping he doesn't wake up tomorrow morning even more swollen.

I cannot wait to get these 2 hospital bills.... I am sure this weekend will cost us a fortune!!!