How She Rolls...

Quincy had her surgery this morning. She was in, had tubes in, adenoids out, and kicked out of the single day surgery place in about an hour and a half. We stopped and let her pick out a movie, (as promised) and were home in time to pick Preston up from preschool.

Preston picked Quincy out a stuffed pig to take today. The surgical center gave her a new stuffed bear, she also got a new movie, (or 2 thanks to daddy) but the best part? She is super excited about the plastic 'puke tray' that they gave her when she woke up. Luckily, she hasn't needed it at all, but she hasn't put it down either! She seems to be feeling pretty good, was able to eat lunch (after reminding me 20 times that she didn't get any breakfast today), and is now sleeping. Hopefully she will continue to do well and all the ear infections that she tends to get will be a thing of her past!

Quincy

Tomorrow is Quincy's little minor surgery to get tubes in her ears and have her adenoids out. She has been very excited about her "suwgewy" and told everyone that she could about it. Tonight, she decided she doesn't want tubes in her ears - she thought that they would stick out of her ears and she didn't want to bump them on stuff. I tried explaining multiple times that she wouldn't be able to see them but she just decided she is NOT going tomorrow! Promises of new movies, ice cream, and jello have not really helped either! Hopefully everything will go smoothly and by the time she realizes what has happened it will be over for her and we will be back home. Her doctor thought the worst part might be trying to keep her still for a couple of days! Say a little prayer that all goes well, and that we have made the right decision for her!

Monday

This is my new "best friend" I was really excited to get my hands on it - as our mountain of laundry was getting a bit out of hand!

We have been really enjoying the nice weather! Harper loves her swing!

I was tax compliance checked at work today - by the IRS. It was not the funnest thing I have ever been through, so I am especially happy it wasn't an audit because I am sure that would be much, much worse! As un-fun as it was, it might have been more fun than the trip I took to the eye doctor with Preston and Quincy this afternoon! Our eye doctor is a very sweet, and soft spoken man. Quincy is, well, a little more used to uuummm being spoken to in stricter, louder tones! She acted like she couldn't hear him when he asked her stuff - so I had to 'translate' for him. It was atrocious! When he got done, he said he wanted to see Preston in a year, but said we could wait 2 years before bringing Quincy back! I was kind of surprised he didn't say we could wait 10 years to bring her back!!

No sporting events means we do what?

Today the guy who rents our land decided that it would be a good day to do some burning. As I stood out there with my camera, I am thinking to myself maybe I am addicted to blogging if I take pictures of us burning our pasture. And maybe my kids are a tad bit sheltered if they think burning a pasture is the greatest thing we have ever let them do! I said I would blog our family events though, so this is what it has come down to!

Last night Colin was excited as all get out because he finally caught a big fish! He has been trying all spring to land something worthy of some photos, or at least some sort of bragging rights, but until last night he hadn't been having much luck. This guy was 9 pounds, and was worthy enough to both get some photos, and intrigue Preston and Quincy! The photos are a little dark because I wouldn't let him bring it in the house and it was late!

track meets and fish stockers

Madison ran in her first track meet yesterday. Mallory was working hard keeping track of times for everyone there. It was a beautiful day and I think that everyone had a good time. Preston and Quincy definitely enjoyed themselves, and since the high school baseball team was practicing, Colin and Cameron were really happy with watching that between events.

Jim and the boys went today and bought some fish to stock our pond with. The boys had a great time. Quincy enjoyed seeing the fish, and immediately wanted to get her fishing pole out and try to catch some. We tried to explain that they will need some growing time first! Jim is so excited about owning a pond it isn't even funny! We have a ton of work to do out there, we need to do some major tree cutting and some fence re-building. It will be a lot of work, but a lot of fun too I think! I hadn't been out there since last fall, this hard winter really took a toll on the trees and we have a lot of clean up to do - but I forsee it as

a good way to have some campfires and family fun too!

The rest of this week has been much better than the first part was. We did purchase a washing machine yesterday, and it will be delivered on Monday morning. I suppose I can suck it up and go to the laundromat one more time so we can have clean undies for church in the morning and a towel to dry off on! This time we are buying the extended warranty - no more worries about it breaking down for a few years! I just hope that by Monday I am not buried alive in dirty clothes!

Thumbs down for this week so far

This week has been a vicious one. Harper is very sick with bronchitis. She has been coughing until she throws up and she pretty much wants to lay on my chest and not move.

Our pediatrician put her on some breathing treatments, but so far I don't think she seems much better. Colin, Preston and Quincy have the same thing but not as severe. And now Colin is breaking out with poison ivy (which I have no idea where he picked that up at). This comes during a week when I had quarterly board meeting, and am being tax compliance checked by the IRS at work. To add to my misery, the washer which has been on its last leg finally gave out today, so I had to go do a couple of loads of towels at the laundromat so we could take showers before the girl's band concert. I will mention here that of all the things I occasionally have to do, I hate the laundromat the most - like I really want to drag my granny panties across town and put them into a washer which other people use to clean kid puke off their area rugs etc. I just don't like it...at all! So yes, I have seen happier weeks and I have been in better moods before! The girl's band had their spring concert tonight. They played great! I am once again blown away by how good they are! Of course, Quincy is now grounded because she wouldn't stop licking me and Harper during the concert. (Yes I said licking - such a delightful child). I am also considering pulling Cam out of school and just letting him gamble full time. This kid's school had a little guessing game on the national champion for NCAA basketball - Cam was the only one who guessed Duke - he won some fabulous candy and soda from the school principal...he was really excited! He also won my uncle's bracket pick-em pool - schooling all my cousins and uncles in how to pick teams! I think it is a bit scary that he is able to pick these things so well....at least he will have gambling to fall back on if the priesthood doesn't work out for him!! I am now trying to decide if I should just crawl into bed and stay there for the rest of the week!

Happy Easter!

Cute or Cruel? Depends on which son you ask! I thought it was neat to dress them alike, one of them did not agree!

We had a busy Easter weekend! It was a lot of fun to see everyone! And it is nice to have Grandma feeling good too! Many blessings have been given to us!