When it rains it pours!!

Sometimes it feels like nothing is ever going to go right. If I wrote about all of the crazy things that are going on in our house no one would even believe it. We thought it was about as crazy as it could get then, this afternoon happened! Just a little update on a few things going on at our house. Kellen has been sick and we are hoping the doctor will not make him spend Halloween in the hospital, Mekenzie has had a sore throat all week, I had a procedure done yesterday to cauterize the ulcer I have burning a hole in my stomach, and Kelly has had a rough work week (sweet Camden, so far so good with him). So I am sitting here this afternoon (I am home bound, something about the drugs they gave me?) and Kelly stopped by to pick something up then headed back to work. As he is leaving there is a large crash, it sounds like he drove into the garage door. I go out to investigate but see nothing. Kelly is long gone by now and has no idea anything happened.
I hear Kelly trying to open the garage after getting home from work tonight and it is going up a tiny but then crashing down. He investigates and notices the big tension cable is BROKEN! We are told you cannot even lift the garage door if the cable is broke. We try to prove them wrong. They are right. So now my car is stuck in the garage, it is Halloween tomorrow, the kids have an awards assembly, and a million other things need to be done with me being out of commission for the last two days. Luckily I can walk to the school and everything else will wait until the door gets fixed tomorrow morning, thank goodness someone was available! I am going to go and knock on some wood, or find a luck rabbits foot, something!

Doggy Update!

No need to worry the dogs have been found! Our good neighbors were making signs about missing dogs they found when they saw our signs and realized it was our dogs!! I guess they wandered into their garage so they saved them! Yeah for them,(and us!!) Maybe things are looking up for us!

Are you Kidding Me???

It has been a rough week around here so you would think it could only get better right? Wrong!! Last night the gate got left open and our dogs got out! Regardless of what you have heard Kelly say we love our dogs. My favorite thing about them is the barking> I always know when someone is at my house because "Pepsi" barks.
"Bo" (an anniversary gift from Kelly), does not bark. He is a lover not a fighter but is the most cuddly dog you have ever seen.



So we have now canvased the neighborhood with signs, checked with all of the shelters around town, and done everything we could think of. We did have one guy call to tell us he saw the dogs last week, which is funny since they were at our house last week?!?
So we will keep looking, it is keeping our mind off the other crazy stuff that is going on here!!

The ER, a CT Scan, X-Rays, and a Sick Day

This is a small description of our past couple of weeks. I was not going to blog since sometimes our lives seem like a big joke - a little unbelievable. Hopefully it is the time of year but we just cannot get healthy around here. It started with me being sick. Not just any sick but I-can't-even-get-water-down sick. I ended up at the ER with an X-ray to confirm a bleeding ulcer. I have had ulcers before, even bad ulcers, but they all pale in comparison to this ulcer. I have been miserable!
Then Kellen has been not feeling well so he had a CT Scan (he has crohns disease so it is not uncommon for him to have a CT Scan to see what's up), they called us the next day and told us he was too backed up to see what they needed to see so we needed to do a clean-out. He does not like clean-outs! Since he has been out of school for a week we decided to get it done. We don't think his clean out worked too well so it was an x-ray today and now we wait!
Now Kelly has been sick. He actually took a sick day! I believe this is the 2nd time in our 16+ year marriage he has taken a sick day. It looks like just a really bad cold, but it is really getting him down!
Luckily Mekenzie and Camden are such good kids they are trying to give us a break and be healthy! They are awesome!!!
So now it is a lot of B-12, Vitamin C, Aiborne, a Scope of my Ulcer on the 29th, and who knows with Kellen - nothing will surprise us with him! We will keep trudging along looking forward to some fun in the weeks to come! Wish us luck (we need it)!!!

We are so smart!

My brother Matt is one of the smartest people I know so I was impressed when after following the link on his blog to checked to see what level of education is required to understand our blog. Matt's was Elementary level. I am proud to say we are at a High School level. I have heard some of the "High Schoolers" when I pick Mekenzie up from school....I hope that is not what they are comparing us to!! To see what your Blogs readability is go to http://www.criticsrant.com/bb/reading_level.aspx

Awards!!

The boys had an "Award Assembly" on Friday and they both got awards!!! Kellen got the Govenor's Community Service award.
Camden got two awards for his awesome "Red Hot" reading!
We feel so blessed to have 3 awesome kids that work so hard at school! Luck us!

San Fran

Kellen's 5th grade class went on a field trip to San Francisco this week. I went with him and it was a good time! We started off getting on a "fancy bus" not a school bus. It had a movie playing, the kids had all of their electronics, and it was air conditioned! We drove 2 hours to the Exploratorium. If you have never been there and you live in Northern, CA you need to go!!! It is a great "hands on" museum with awesome science stuff. They were even dissecting a cow eye and a sheep brain!! I had a group of 3 boys and they thought it was awesome (I thought it was awesome)!! We were there for about 2 1/2 hours and it was not nearly long enough. I plan to take my kids back when they are off track, it was that awesome!
From the Exploratorium we went to the Golden Gate bridge and walked the approx. 2.5 miles across. That was one of those things that does not sound fun but was actually really fun! It was a great walk for me, about 1/2 way Kellen decided he might not be able to make it (he has been sick). I tried to explain he had no choice we had to just keep walking. We were one of the first groups to make it across and then we collapsed on the bus, took the 2 hour ride home, and got home just in time for dinner and bed! When I got off my foot it really hurt I took off my shoe and had a quarter sized blister! Kellen was exhausted and took 2 days to recover.
It was a really fun field trip, we might just do it again with the whole family!

It's Over!!

It is over... I have had it! I am tired and I need a break!
I am talking about Corporate Close at work! Anyone who knows our family, or has talked to me this last 2 months knows that this is the busiest, most exhausting time of the year for me at work. I am the Financial officer for an OBGYN and we close down the Corporate Year on Sept. 30th. That means we spend the end of Aug. and ever hour in Sept. preparing! My poor family, house, and friends have suffered. But it is over! And I am thrilled!!! Looking forward to a break.
I now get a few days off. My boss thinks it is to rest. The reality is that I need to get groceries, clean, make dinner again, etc... just to get things done that got no attention in Sept.
I think everyone is happy I am back to doing all my chores! Kelly is even asking for a haircut.....Will he never learn???