Summer?

Catching up so it's a long one! Well really when isn't it ~ LOL.
Summer, or should I say winter, break has begun. Wednesday was the last day of school (I have a 4th and a 2nd grader now, OMG) and the temps were in the 90's with the heat index just about 100. For only the weather to drop out of the sky on Wednesday evening after another storm that passed through (yes we've been in the basement ALOT this year already) and now temps have not even reached the 60's. NOT NICE! I guess the weather is going to start to be more "normal" next week, so until then we really had to turn on the heat ~ in mid June???

I do have to say the sky was in all sorts of colors and clouds with this storm...unlike any I have ever seen.

The North West side of our Home

The South Side ~ Love the lightening strike!
Directly above our house ~ These are so COOL!
The East Side
With the end of the school year the school has been doing alot of fun activities for the kids. Here's Avrianna with her Principle Mrs. Renning at the Ie Cream Social... what's better then ice cream at school?

On Tuesday Dan and I volunteered to be chaperone's for a Field Trip to the Milwaukee City Museum. Not the day to be stuck on a school bus with temps almost 100, but the kids all had fun. Avrianna really liked the Butterfly exhibit ~ Or did the butterflies like her being there?

My bushes and plants are loving this weather. I LOVE the blooming flowers. The Rose bushes have buds on them but just haven't opened up yet, I can't wait!
The GREAT Hunter staking his ground....waiting patiently. You'd think these animals would get a clue and know by now that if you are in the yard YOU WILL BE CHASED! This week alone he's gone for 2 sand hill cranes (twice), deer, a turkey, and a cat. Really??

The pool is OPEN and it's getting alot of use already

My Sunbathing Babes! Oh Tis the Life!!
My good Friend Joe came over this week and put some "Personality" to my car....Thanks Calico, as always....I LOVE IT! You're amazing and so detailed ~ THE BEST!!
Check out my @$$ ~ LOL
My family symbol on the driver door :)Can you believe ALL of it free hand....it's an awesome thing to watch :)
Last night was the first night in some time...like since Feb/March that Danny didn't need any Oxygen through the night. I can only hope we can give that machine a break now for a while. I have an email into the Pulm Dr to see if we should put Danny on a C pap machine (ventilator) during the nite to help him breath and open his lungs, which we hope will slow these respiratory illness's down a bit. The Dr has been out of a couple weeks so hopefully she'll back to us with her opinion. We went down to CHOW on the 1st for appts with Danny but it was really a flop. Danny was able to get into see the ENT for a follow up with his ear, which is still draining...the Dr sucked out the goo (GROSS) and had it cultured. The culture came back with no bacteria but now Danny has a fungus there, great ~ NOT! From ENT we were suppose to see GI, suppose to be the key word here. We haven't seen a GI, other then when we've been in house in a LONG time. It's way over due and still ticking. Appts were running late that day and I had to get to my treatment on the other side of Milwaukee (I couldn't miss it) so we walked out of the exam room before the GI Dr even got in, UGH. I'm looking at see if we can get Danny into one of the GI Dr's that satellite here in the Fox Valley, as the one we would like to be followed by is nearly IMPOSSIBLE to get into see :( With Danny improving in his health we've been working his Lil Butt with therapies as he's been laxed with them this last school quarter. I'm sure he's thinking he thought it was summer break....BUT not with him. So back to work for him ~ LOL.

I've been a busy bee with end of school activities, dental appts, doctor appts, getting the RV set up, planning my summer activities. It's going to be a CRAZY busy summer..if it all goes smoothly it should be a FUN time. I have 4 possibly 5 parties planned here....Support Group meeting, Brownie/Junior bridging camp out/pool party, Eye Candi party, and a Block party. I'm looking at putting a get together with some of our "old" friends with their families....amazing when we all have families how time flies and we grow apart. It would be nice to start an annual reunion with them so we can stay in contact :) We have a family vacation planned to St Louis this summer and we're all excited to go. We just hope it's not so ungodly HOT. When we get back from there "A" goes to a week long summer Girl Scout camp. So READY.... SET.... GO for this summer!

Salon Osero was up and running....I had to wash those grays right out of my hair and then (with some help, thanks Gail) added some highlights in it. Now those grays will be camouflaged more and harder to spot :) Lil Man had to get a serious hair cut ~ He's so HANDSOME!!
Getting into clothes that fit better has been so emotionally lifting...there isn't that constant reminder EVERYDAY that I'm getting bigger. If you don't look at the # stamped and the back of the clothing it makes it easier. As long as I can feel good and look good, really what do I care. Not to mention going out on a shopping spree was a BLAST! I so appreciate all the kind words and support from my last post. Unfortunately there really isn't anything I can do. I'm eating right and exercising, but with the meds I'm on to control my MS and a DYSFUNCTIONAL thyroid ... I have to roll with the punches. I can only hope my thyroid decided to swing the other direction (which it tends to do) and I start losing some of it. I just had to post about it, get it out, and then I'm MUCH better. I'm so glad I was able to help others with it...that's the whole point of the blog. I received many private messages thanking me for posting as they too were having issues, thanking me for speaking up. Well you all know me by now ~ I say what I feel, I tell you what's on my mind .....even if it's about myself. Why not ~ If I don't speak up who will? I'm NOT PERFECT and I'm not afraid to put myself out there. My whole hope for the blog, the whole reason I started it is for an outlet for ME and OTHERS. ENJOY! We LOVE you guys and we're always excited to see you stopped by to check in on us.

Some of my favorite pictures of the Memorial Day Parade ~

So Proud :)All I can say here is "DOUBLE TROUBLE"!
So Sweet!!!

In a black cloud there IS a Silver Lining

We are still in limbo mode for setting up a new date for Danny's spinal fusion n rod surgery. The powers at be that would like to speak with me before rescheduling haven't contacted me as of yet. Which is ok by me, for now.... as we wouldn't have been able to enjoy this ~

Here's our 60x40 garden we're starting......as Dan says go BIG or go home, LOL. So you all know what will keep me busy this summer n fall. Hoping I get as least half of the green thumb my Great Grandparents The NaGreen's had.

And yes I did learn to work the John Deer, so I'm now officially a tractor babe....heehee. Not only can I work the bucket but I've gotten a few hours behind me on the lawn mower attachment.

Now this is serious, LOL! Farmer Dan ~

I will keep you in the loop for when we reschedule the surgery. I will update later as I found out I will be getting the family pictures we had taken a few weeks ago, so I'll be able to share more of those with you tonight or tomorrow.

Please don't forget to fly those flags this weekend. THANK YOU to ALL the veterans out there for putting you lives on the line to make our country a better place. Happy Memorial Day! Be safe ~ and never forget.

Memorial Day

It must be a holiday weekend!!!!!!!

What a way to wake up in the morning.....to a puking child *sigh*. Avrianna finally just took a nap. She's been up puking every 15-20 minutes for the last 4 hours. The poor thing! I feel helpless ~ she isn't keeping ANYTHING down. I try and remember what my mom did that made me feel better when I was sick......so we have the couch set up as a bed, with a bucket, some saltine cracker, Sprite, and movies. I was able to give her a shower in between her getting sick, changed her jammies, and brushed her hair putting in some barrettes to help hold her hair back. You can just see it in her eyes that she feels miserable and weak.

Danny has decided once again to NOT wake up. I had him outside in his swing yesterday for a couple hours and I'm chalking the fresh air up to the reason why he won't show me his Handsome blue eyes. He fell asleep around 6pm last night and it's 12:15 now. At best he was up for an hour this morning.

Last night Dan and I had some friends over for Smoked Turkey and a pot luck. What a nice time that was ~ You guys are great! HAPPY BIRTHDAY PATTI!! Today is Patti's birthday and next week is Allen's so I decorated a cake for them :) Something simple, but I had fun doing it. Here is the Birthday couple....he is the local farmer so I tried to do a John Deere Tracker for him and she has a BEAUTIFUL garden hence the flowers. Hope you two have Birthdays!Other fun pictures of the evening on the deck :) Thanks guys...it was a great time, we'll have to do it again soon!

Enjoying the day outside, YIPPEE!Cuz "I SAID SO".... Danny listening to his girlfriend Lynn, LOL

Hope you all have a SAFE and HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY! Please remember the real reason for the holiday (not just a long weekend) but remember our FALLEN HERO'S. Your FREEDOM didn't come FREE....it has the ultimate cost......LIFE to many hero's! Thank you to our American Soldiers for all that you do.