Sunday (Family Visit, Part 2)

I love these girls!!

Aren't they beautiful. Inside and out!!

Every time I point my camera at McKenna she gives me this funny grimace.

I love this picture of McKenna. She looks so sassy!

Nothing like a Sunday nap!

It has been super hot, especially in our house, so the kids cooled down in the sprinkler.

Drying out!

Parade and Park Lake (Family Visit, Part 1)

Hubs's parents have been visiting and they brought our nephew Cole and our nieces McKenna and Hallie. It has been so much fun having them here and just having visitors. The first day they were here we went to the parade and then the rest of the day was spent fishing, swimming, and relaxing at Park Lake.

McKenna & Hallie who are the best of friends.

Waiting for that parade candy. And they got lots!

Now for Park Lake...

Hubs getting the kids ready to fish. They were really excited about it. Hubs said that they finally were getting the hang of casting when they were about to leave.

These kids love to swim, swim, swim!!!

Tadpole hunting. There were hundreds of them.

Cole showing me his catch.

Just playing around!

Hallie and her beautiful smile!

Hallie swimming.

And my handsome husband!

YUCK!!!

I have had this nasty head cold since Friday night, and I am about sick of it, REALLY!!! I have gone through a whole entire box of tissue. My nose is raw, although I have been using Puffs PLUS! My stomach is sore from blowing my nose so hard, and I keep choking and gaging on some disgusting stuff! I don't feel at the moment like it is ever going to end, it is four days and counting! I didn't go to work today, and at the moment I am not sure if I am going to go tomorrow. If I do, I will have to wear a face mask all day, and won't be able to breath. And I will have to be running to the break room every 5 minutes to blow my nose, then sanitize my hands. I just don't think I can handle doing that all day. But I will have to see in the morning, maybe I will take some DayQuil.

East Helena Rodeo

We decided to check out the Rodeo this last weekend. Hubs loves Rodeo's, although you wouldn't be able to tell with him always in a white shirt and tie, he is a country boy at heart. We enjoyed most of the rodeo, although the atmosphere was not a pleasant one. Everyone around us was smoking and drinking, and this large group of young adults decided to take every last inch of seating around us, and we were squished. And then they were talking to each other over us, and the girl next to me kept on yelling for her friends in my ear. Finally after about 15 minutes they decided that they would move, and boy were we glad to stretch out a little. We left before it was completely over because both of our backs hurt from sitting on the hard wooden bleachers. But we were able to play around with my camera and take some fun shots. Sorry there are so many, I just couldn't pick a few. Both Hubs and I took these pictures, I took mostly the still pictures and Hubs took most of the action ones.

Enjoy!

Mini-Cowboys

Little guy watching the "Rocky Mountain Rocksters".

This picture is blurry but I really liked it!

Dreamin' of bein' a cowboy!


Mini-Rodeo Clowns

I just loved that these guys were standing exactly the same way. But I hate how it looks like they are standing on the fence pole.

I think that this is torture!


This guy really caught some air!

Hubs likes this picture.

OUCH!!! (All the same guy.)


...And the sheep riders. They were so cute!

another day fishing...

Oooooh the pain...

So I had kind of a weird morning...

I pulled up in front of our house after dropping Hubs off at work. I park on the street, and a car was coming so I was trying to hurry and get out of the car before they passed by. As I was getting out of the car, I smacked my knee cap on the adjustment handle that moves the steering wheel up and down. Oh man did it hurt, and instead of sitting in the car and recovering I decided to still hurry and get out of the car, and I could hardly walk. And then I started getting really woozy and I felt like I was going to pass out, so halfway up to the house I decided to sit in the grass, the next thing I remember I wake up laying in the grass with my keys, cell phone and purse scattered around me. I remember thinking, oh great our neighbors are going to think I am a slobbering drunk who just passed out in the lawn. I was really embarrassed. So I get up to the front door and I don't have my keys, so I go back and found them in the grass. And by the time I got in the house I thought I was going to throw up and pass out again. So I throw all of my stuff on the ground and get to the bathroom as fast as I could. I layed down on the floor of the bathroom (which isn't very big) until I felt like I could reach for a wash rag and wet it to put on my face. I was able to do that and felt much better. And after all of that my knee doesn't really hurt much. All day I have been thinking about this and it just seems really weird and it kind of seems like it was all a dream.

I got a job...

I got a job as a Dental Assistant.

I am really excited about it, because I have been so bored out of my mind. Also, the extra money will be nice to be able to save. How I got the job was all kindof weird but I dont feel like explaining it, it would just be too confusing.

Celebrating...

We didn't do much during the day, but in the evening we went to some friends house for a BBQ. It was alot of fun, and we met some other couples. One of the guys there served his mission in the Eugene mission (Medford, Eugene, Klamath Falls, & Salem) from 2001-2003, it was fun to talk to him about home. Both Hubs and I feel very old around all these couples.

Then we went to watch the fireworks. There is an older couple in our ward who live in CA but own a ranch that is in our ward that put on a huge firework show for everyone in our ward ever year. They hire someone to put on the show, played music to go with the fireworks and they were shot out over their little pond/lake. It lasted a good 45 minutes. We were impressed!

But all in all, I much rather have been at the lake house with Hubs's family or at the beach.

wishing you a...

Happy 4th of July!!!

from

B & B

This picture is of our nephew Cole, July 4th 2005, at the beach in Lincoln City, OR

my funky camera strap

OK, sorry that these are such awful pictures, I am a little ashamed of them.

So I have been wanting to do this to my camera strap for awhile. I got the idea on a web site where they were selling camera straps like these. So I bought some cute 1.5" ribbon at Walmart and just sewed it on. I am not a very good seamstress so I didn't do a very good job, but I figured not very many people are going to be looking at my camera strap very closely.
I really liked how it turned out. Hubs does too, although he said it is a little girly. But I don't think that is going to keep him from stealing the camera from me to take a picture or two.

Might as well be gold...

So I have suffered from migraines and headaches for about 20 years now. When I was in highschool, this amazing medication was introduced. It is the only thing that will truly take away my migraines. The only thing about these magic pills is that they are really expensive if you don't have insurance, which we don't have until August 1st.

Are you ready for this...

They cost about $190 dollars for one prescription. Only 9 pills come in one prescription, which makes ONE pill cost $21.

I have 4 pills left for 4 weeks, lets hope I don't get more migraines than that.

The good news...

When we do have insurance, one prescription only cost me $20-$30. And sometimes I get $10 off coupons in the mail from GlaxoSmithKline, which I love.

Also...

Our new insurance will have Chiropractic coverage, so I think I am going to see if that will help relieve some of my migrains.

It's a loooooong road to...Park Lake!

Sunday night Hubs and I decided that we wanted to take a drive and explore a little. We decided to take a road that went into National Forest past Mt. Helena. A few miles down the road it turned into gravel. We decided to keep going because it was so beautiful! Seriously! As we are driving down this pretty nice gravel road the houses become fewer and fewer, but every once in awhile a house would pop up. We go a few miles until we come to a sign that tells how far different little creeks and meadows are and it says that Park Lake is 16 miles. Hubs wanted to go to this lake because he said that someone had mentioned at work that they camp at this lake. I was the one driving and did not want to drive 16 miles on a gravel road. But we were trying to be adventurous so we kept going. After driving for what seemed like forever we came upon another sign that had the miles on it. It said Park Lake was 14 miles. I couldn't believe it, I thought we had at least driven half way there. I kept on saying "I am tired of driving!", and I got no response from Hubs, which obviously meant he wasn't offering to drive (both Hubs and I hate driving and we always argue over who has to drive). After more driving we came to a T in the road and there was no sign saying which way anything was (by this time I think we had driven probably 15 miles on the gravel road and about 8 or so miles from the original sign for Park Lake). So we turned right on a hunch, and not far down the road we saw a sign for cars going the other way and as we passed we turned to see what it said. It said that the Interstate was 5 miles ahead or Helena was 15 miles. So we had taken the very long way around to the lake. That made me even more happy that I was driving. So we finally came to a sign that said 6 miles to Park Lake, and then the gravel road got really bad and bumpy, my insides felt like they were put in a blender. I was thinking and probably mentioned once or twice that this lake better be something pretty to look at or I was going to be mad. When we were only a few miles away from the lake we saw 4 huge Elk and they were just staring us down as we slowly drove past. So we finally get there after about an hour and a half of driving 20 miles. There were alot of people there and yes, it was sooo beautiful as you can tell from the picture. There was even a really nice and beautiful camp ground there, which we now plan on going back to to camp. And then kindly Husb offered to drive home, how nice!