The Fun Never Ends

It seems like when I have a ton of stuff to blog about, I have the least amount of time to actually sit down and write about it.


These past three weeks we have:

• Sent yet another member of our family to the ER which resulted in a full blown hospital stay. This time it was Hans with a horrible side ache that made him vomit over and over. They ended up finding out that his left kidney was not draining into his bladder very well. He will be seeing the urologist next week to have some tests run and hopefully a diagnosis will follow.
  
• Had a family reunion of sorts when Joe and his seven siblings (and parents) were all in town at the same time. It was 4 days of out of control fun for all of us. The kids especially loved it when Uncle Darren gave them tractor rides.

• Celebrated our 11th wedding anniversary.
  
  


• Threw a "friends" party for the twins' 10th birthday.
  

• Went out to a restaurant with my sister LeAnn (visiting from the Seattle area) on Saturday night to celebrate the twins' birthday and my 30th birthday. Joe told the boys he would give them $5 each if they stood up on their seats and started dancing when the servers came to sing happy birthday. Here is the video to prove that they actually did it:
  
  
  
  
  


• And if that wasn't party enough, we celebrated the birthdays again on Sunday night with Joe's family. You may have noticed all the scrapes on Joseph's face. Before church he tried to use his new slip and slide boogie board on the concrete patio and biffed it big time.
  

• Potty trained Jennabee! I just did what I normally do and waited until she was ready. She only had a couple of accidents and now tells me everytime she has to go. It's nice to only have one in diapers.

AND...Now that we own a house we have been having fun doing whatever we want to it:

• We pulled up the existing carpet in our house which we were going to replace with wood laminate, only to find cork floor tiles underneath. We LOVE them and are going to refinish them and keep them.

• Joe took a saw to the wall going into the kitchen and cut it out to open it up. It looks great, now we just have to figure out how to make it look finished.

• We painted one bathroom and primed another.
  
• Joe installed two ceiling fans, and five new light fixtures.
  
• We put in faux wood blinds in several windows.