In July we were able to take two trips to Red Lodge. One was with some of our good friends and the other was with some of Andy's family.
Our first trip was July 10-12th with Steve, Judy, Sienna, Taylor, Jason, Katie and Kelsey. This was such a fun trip. Steve and Judy moved to Florida last summer along with their daughter Sienna. Judy was pregnant with Taylor so this was our first time to meet him, and he is so cute. Taylor and Beau are only a month or two apart in age so it was fun to see the interact with each other. We all hung out at the house, celebrated Andy's birthday with a big bbq rib dinner, went fishing and 4wheeling, played games and hung out at the Maehl's camping spot. It was a great weekend in all.
Our second trip was with Andy's parents his aunt's, Margret, Jean and Terri and Uncle Paul. It was so nice to see all of them as they all live out of state, with the exception on Jean, so we do not get to see them very often at all. We all enjoyed many great meals, including a picnic at a lake just out side of town, played games and caught up on each others lives. We had to cut our time short by one night as Andy was not feeling well, but we loved every minute that we were able to spend with the family.
Well Thomas the Train came to Billings the 10th true the 12th and we headed down to the depot to see him. Vicki got Owen and Andy tickets to ride Thomas and Owen was thrilled. Andy and Owen headed down to ride and I met them latter on after the ride was over. My mom and sister also joined us with Tay and Brayden. The boys all had a great time but I think that Owen was by far the most excited. Owen loves Thomas and we heard all about it for days after it was over! He had a tattoo on his arm that we were not allowed to was when he had baths! I actually just got it off last Friday.
Well I was doing a little better over the weekend so we decided to go to Laurel so the Andy and Owen could see the fire works and have a bbq with my family. I just hung out mostly and had my soft food!!! I was so jealous of every one eating hamburgers. I am not doing much talking right now either so I could not even enjoy and nice visit with anyone. I was able to watch the boys have fun with some fire crackers. Owen is afraid of them but he loved poppers. I was able to get him to help me light a couple smoke bombs after a lot of convincing him that it would be okay.
I have also done two other posts along with this one.
These are just a few pictures from the past week of the boy's and their cousins. They have been able to spend a lot of extra time together as I have been healing from my surgery.
Well Beau has started eating rice cereal and he loves it. It is so cute to watch him get so excited to see that spoon coming. He starts kicking his feet and flailing his arms round.
Well on Monday I had my tonsils taken out and let me tell you that it sucks. I wish that they would have been taken out when I was a kid because kids recover from this surgery a lot faster and easier then adults do. So I went in at 9:30 and was is surgery at around 11. The surgery was about 45 minutes and I was told that it went really well. I did not leave to go home till 4:30. I had gotten sick from the pain medication that they gave me so they then gave me something to help my stomach but that mad me really sleepy so it took much longer for me to be able to leave. About an hour after we got home I ended up throwing up and wishing that I had never had the surgery in the first place. I pretty much just ended up sleeping the rest of the day after that. Vicki took the kids for us during the surgery and Melissa took them over night. Then on Tuesday my mom and Melissa came over with all of the boys and helped to take care of me. Melissa took the boys over night once again and at 3 in the morning I woke up throwing up again. Man I was so miserable. Throwing up after having surgery on your throat is not the greatest feeling in the world. So Andy called the doctor in the morning and we found out that I was getting sick from my pain medication and that I needed to cut down on how much I was taking and add Motrin to my regiment. He also said that I need to be eating more to help but it is really hard to eat when you can not swallow very well. Then Vicki took the boys over night on Wednesday. I have had a much better day today and have been able to eat a little more. I have been enjoying yogurt, pudding, chicken noodle soup, mashed avocado, cream of wheat and carnation instant breakfast. I was also able to do a little talking today. I was told that it is a 10 to 14 day recovery for adults so I still have a little ways to go. I am hoping that when this is all said and done that I am glad that I had the surgery. I do not know what I would have done without the help of my family. They have been so much help to me with taking care of the boys and me. Thank you so much mom. Melissa and Vicki. I appreciate all the help that you have given me.
I have been so busy the last two months and have been bad at making the time to blog so I thought that I would do some catching up. I have posted two other blogs about the kids along with this one. Well we have been doing tons of yard work and have mountains more to do. I think that we are just growing weeds! I have been redoing flower beds as they were over flowing with weeds that I thought that it would be better to just start over. We are also in the proses of taking out our old patio and putting in a new larger one. We have cut down three trees, two over grown lilac bushes gotten rid of a shed and dog kennel. Man we have been hard at it. I just got done with Vacation Bible School last week. I was so tired by the end of the week but it was all worth it. We raised money for a great mission Vision Beyond Borders and we had 14 kids say that they accepted Christ for the first time. Praise the Lord! I had worked so hard and long on VBS. It was our first one in years. I think that next years will be even bigger and better!! The Lord truly does great things in kids lives at VBS. We have also had family visiting from out of town and have some good friends coming on the 4th of July. I am hopoing that I will be all recoverd from my tonsilectomy by the time that they come to visit. Yes I have to have surgery on the 29th and I am getting very nervouse about it. I have heard how hard it is for adults to have this surgery. I hope that I feel much better after this is all said and done. Andy has been hard at work as it is summer and this is his busy time of the year. School is out for the summer and he has to go and do all of the updating and work out all the kinks that they can not work on while school is in session. He will be going to Vegas for two nights with his friend Steve in July while Steve is in town visiting. This just came about the other night as Judy, Steves wife, decided that she was not going to go and leave thier baby. So it looks like Andy is going to take her place and gets to have a fun vacation with his friend with out kids or thier wives around. I have yet to figure out how I get to do this some day!! I think that that just about does it. It sould be a great summer. That is if we get all of uor yard work done!
I am a child of God, a wife and a mother. We live in Billings and I work part time for our church. We have two boys Owen and Beau who keep me very busy.
