Lasik

I can see! I got Lasik Friday. Everything is still a little blurry but I'm still healing and have high hopes that I won't have to go under the laser again. If in six months my vision in not 20/20 or close to it than they will do a touch up. We were very blessed that our health insurance covers almost the whole procedure. Something that would have cost well over $10,000 is coming to about $1600 for both of us. Yea, health insurance! I just don't see them as being as evil as Obama tries to make them sound!

No Good Day!

Today has been one of those days that you just have to laugh at! But, at the same time I also feel very blessed. I woke up in the morning to find the contents of my glove compartment strung out all over my front seat. Hmmm... It could not have been the kids. Someone was in my car last night. There was already a police car at the house across the street so I stoped and found out that there were five cars in the neighborhood that were all left unlocked the night before and had been brooken into. I can't find anything missing. The car seats are probrably the most valuable thing in that car and they were all there. :) I ussually have a couple of bucks in the console and there was no money there today but hey if that was all that was taken! Wow, I kinda feel like I dodged a bullet and feel blessed more wasn't done- or more wasn't in my car. Often I leave my diaper bag in the car and that would have been bad if it was taken. After filling out all the paperwork with the police officer, I went to the tag/title whatever that place is called, and found out they moved. Yuck, back in car seats to discover they only moved about a football field away. But, Larry didn't sign the title so it was a wasted trip. I'll have to go back to that favorite place. See bad day, but there was absolutly no lines so I was able to walk right up for them to tell me I was missing a signature. I could have had to wait an hour to find that out! Next, I stopped by the pharmacy only to lock the keys in the car! Two very fussy kids, no stoller, no way to get home but a mile walk. Luckily my sweet friend Debi came to my rescue. So I guess it wasn't too bad of a day. It could have been so much worse without a good friend! Hopefully, this bad luck is past because I'm scheduled for Lasik tommorrow. I'm so nervous! Say a prayer for me!

Sunday Thought

Larry found this and we both thought it was a good message.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Cw8I8eukaI

Camping

We have taken out our camping trailer twice now.  The first time was with a few good friends to a park with a lake.  We had a great time.  There were pesky raccoons everywhere.  They opened a plastic container and stole our food while we were sitting 15 ft away!  They were crazy.  There were also sand hill cranes looking for handouts.  They are almost as tall as Caden.  I told Megan and Caden I would give them $10 if they could grab the crane's beak and they were close but the $10 is still mine.  Mike brought his boat and I was able to clear the wake for the first time on a wake board.    Our second camping trip was to a beautiful park right on the beach.  We went for two nights.  The older kids had a ton of fun playing in the woods.  Ella had lots of fun playing with Aubree and Raelyn was fascinated with the water.  She would dip her head in the condensation coming off of the tent trailer's air conditioning or play in the puddle left by the faucet.  There is one good thing about her wanting to play in the water so much- it ment that she was not playing near the fire.  :)   I have to say that after two camping trips with a toddler and open fire I owe my thanks to lots of guardian angels (one being Katie) keeping Raelyn safe.  Although at the end of the trip she was really cute and while walking between the camping chair and fire she would hug the chair and walk as far from the fire as she could.    It was a really hot weekend.  I was glad for the AC!  The camping trailer came with a TV and we had an extra DVD player.  We brought both in case of bad weather.  I was thinking it would be if it rained all afternoon, but it was so hot and Larry and I were so tired we let the kids watch a movie one afternoon.  Some campers we are!

Family comes to visit.

My wonderfull sister and her family came to visit!  They came to Florida for over a week and we were able to see them for two weekends!  It was so much fun to see my kids play with thier cousins and get along so well.  Jana has five kids; 10 yr old Ethan, 8 yr old Kate, 6 yr old Henry, 3 yr old Eve, and 1 yr old Jane.  If you haven't noticed yet, those ages fit pretty perfectly with my kids.  We all had a blast.   For the first weekend we met them in Gainseville and had a great time swimming and going to a musuem which had really cool butterflies.  The second weekend they came here. It was crazy to have 9 kids and 4 adults all staying in our humble home but tons of fun. I didn't have my camera for most of the fun so I hope Jana sends me pictures, hint, hint.  But here are a few of the ones I did take.