Cute new shirts

Nana and Papa went to Spain a couple of weeks ago, and brought these cute t-shirts back. So, what does mom do when her kids are somewhat dressed alike.....take pictures. Of course it's almost impossible to get everyone to look the same way. The girls also got some pretty hand made jewelry.

Our Bible Vacation is over. The kids had a great time at VBS, but everybody slept late today.

If it's not yours and you take it you are stealing!

This is apparently a new idea to many people. I hosted an event at my job the other day. The day before the event I was pulling out some supplies I had saved from a previous event. There were plenty boxes of juice, however they were all empty. I would like to point out this room remains locked, so only people who work there could have taken them. I was really irritated, but while the room is locked a lot of employees have a key. So, I then proceded to put a sealed case of water in the fridge so it would be cool for the party. The next day I show up and half the case is gone. While I know people take things they shouldn't out of the of the office fridge these were sealed. They had to bust open the box to take them! Who does that. It really doesn't matter if it's the office fridge or not, if you take it and it's not yours it is stealing!

Bible Vacation and More

This week is Summer Bible Adventure (VBS). Kase calls it Bible Vacation. This is the first year he get to go, and he's having a great time. Our whole family loads up every night and heads to church for the craziness. Ally had a rough night the first night. Some of her "friends" did not want her to talk to them or sit by them. Sadly this is just part of nine year old girls. While I know that the mom in me wanted me to shake their little teeth out. Tonight I asked if she could move to another group, and they let her. She did come across those girls tonight and they asked if she was going to sit down, and she curtly told them she wasn't in their group any more. She wasn't mean, but she did stand up for herself. I was proud of her. She had a great night in her new group.

Samantha is doing better, but her symptoms have not totally gone away. We have some medicine and we are checking in with the doctor.

We are done with swim lessons and the girls learned a lot. Samantha swam the whole length of the pool and Ally is diving like a champ.

What's been going on!

It's been awhile since my last update, but here it goes. A few weeks ago we went camping. We always celebrate the beginning of the summer with a camping trip. This year we went with some friends and really had a great time. We went fishing, and everyone caught a fish. Samantha learned to ride her bike without training wheels and jumped of the high dive for the first time. The kids all played hide and seek in the dark with the fireflies.

We also started growing a few vegetables at the beginning of the summer. Here is our first tomato. Sadly it's also it's last. I didn't make sure the pot a good drainage so we had a really good rain and the plant drowned! Oh well there always the farmers market.

The pool is of course open and we have spent a lot of time there. Ally and Samantha are taking lessons and have both really learned a lot.

These pictures a really from a while ago. At the end of the school year Arthur and I went to Dallas, because he had a conference and I went to help our Aunt. While we were there we went to go pick our own Strawberries. It was lots of fun. It was so strange to only have one kid. It was really fun to get to do something with just Kase. We really never get to do that.

It's all about the Poop! (Let's hope)

Sorry about the slow update, but I really just talked to the Doctor tonight. We've been playing phone tag for a couple of days. The CAT scan itself was not too fun. Sam had to drink contrast and she hated it. It took us forever, she never did drink it all, and threw what she did up. Anyway all of her organ's look good, but she does have some compacted stool. It could be the the cause of her problem, or not. So, for now we try some Malax and see how it goes.

More Results

All of the test so far are clean. So, CAT scan tomorrow. She is currently gorging herself, because she can't eat tomorrow until the test at 1:00 p.m. We are all hoping a nighttime snack will help a little bit.

Test Results

The test results were all clear. However, Samantha is still just no doing to great. She has added a high fever to her list of symptoms. Of course that makes her feel worse than she did. The did a strep test, blood work, and a chest x-ray. Depending on the results of those test will determine what exactly we do need. For now we have and abdominal CAT scan set up for tomorrow, but if anything show up in today's test we may have the CAT tonight. (which of course would involve an evening in the hospital) The Doctor should be calling soon.