Fun Filled Weekend

I can't believe that it is already Monday... This was a super fast and exciting weekend. Saturday night we went to OKC to watch the range round up. The range round up is a rodeo that working ranch teams compete in. Guess who lives on a working ranch and was there to support her family and ranch hands? Ree Drummond! We were pretty sure that she would be there, so we took a camera and her book to have signed. Well, Kirsten took her book, I forgot mine so I just got the picture. She was so nice and didn't seemed annoyed at all the we stalked her out...

We returned home late Saturday night. We were originally going to stay the night in the city, but we came home because we had a big night to get ready for on Sunday. Jimmy arrived in Tulsa around 10pm Sunday night. We were so excited to meet him and he seemed very excited to be here. He also seemed exhausted.

After we picked up his bags and had them loaded into the car, I told him we had to take a few pictures. I told him that I took pictures a lot and he would get used to it. The drive home was fun. Even though he was wiped out from the long day of traveling, he asked a lot of questions about us and the things that we do. He asked a lot of questions about the fire department and said that he had read about the recent fires that we have had.

He also made a comment about the trees. He wasn't expecting to really see a lot of trees, and even though it was very dark outside, he could see that there were many trees along the road. Apparently he had researched about Oklahoma and the rolling plains and was not expecting the trees to be so plentiful. Once we got home,  he was ready to just go to bed. We pulled in the driveway and got out to unload his bags and after one breath we discovered that there was a skunk somewhere close... Welcome to Oklahoma Jimmy!

This afternoon he will be enrolling in the High School and he will start school tomorrow. This will be a fast pace and hectic week, but hopefully he will get settled in easily and can start enjoying his time here in Oklahoma.

It's been a while!

Wow! I can not believe that I have not posted in over a year... I guess I sort of forgot :).

Well, Josh and I have officially been married for 5 years! August 11 was our anniversary. We celebrated by spending a week in Jamaica and it was wonderful. We spent a lot of time relaxing on the beach and watching the ocean.

While we were there we started talking about the possibility of having a Foreign exchange student come to stay with us. So, when we returned home I got on line and filled out the application. School started on the 20th here, and since that was the day I turned in the application I thought for sure that we would not be considered until next year. But, tonight we are going to pick up our student!! It was an extremely fast process, but we are very excited!

His name is Jimmy and he is from Germany. I have received a few e-mails from him over the last day or two and he seems very excited to get to Yale! Conner is a little skeptical and doesn't really understand the whole foreign exchange student concept, but I am sure he will be very happy to have a new friend once Jimmy arrives.

We are picking him up at the airport late tonight, so look for more posts in the near future!

My week of vacation

Last week I was on vacation for the whole week. It went so badly, that it was taken me nearly another week just to write about it!

It started off good. I was planning on doing some things around the house and helping with vacation bible school in the evenings. On Tuesday night, I started getting these awful pains in my back and side. I was a little freaked out because it hurt so bad. We ended up going to the emergency room (I have never been to the ER before). They decided that it was kidney stones. Ouch. They gave me an IV with some meds and took some x-rays (I have never had an x-ray or an IV before). They said that it was small enough to pass, which I thought was a good thing. By this time it was about 3 am on Wednesday morning. The ER nurse, who was super nice, said to come back at 7:15 am for an ultrasound. They gave me more pain medicine and some anti-nausea medicine and sent me home. The pain meds were WAY to strong for me and the anti-nausea was not strong enough. The only two things that I remember about the drive home are the awful pain that I was in and puking every 5 minutes. We finally made it home and went to bed. In hindsight, we probably should have stayed up, since we were supposed to be right back at the hospital in a few hours, but we went to bed and all of the meds kicked in and we slept through the 7:15 am appointment. Josh woke up and realized this, but it was already missed and he had to get to work. By 8 am, the hospital was calling to reschedule for 10:30am.

We went to the ultra-sound and found out two things. 1) It looked like there was only one stone, and 2) I have really nice looking kidneys. they sent me home to tough it out. That afternoon, I busted my eye open, like, really bad. there was blood everywhere and I lost so much blood that I got dizzy and fell on my face again. this was about 3:30 pm on Wednesday. Josh was in Tulsa, so I had to sit on my bed and bleed until 5:30 when he got home. He bandaged me up with 3 butterfly bandages and said that I needed stitches. I was supposed to be at bible school at 5:30, so I told him it would have to wait a few hours for stitches. It hurt SO bad, but I made it though bible school and we headed for the ER... again. We went to a different ER than the night before, thinking it would be quick, but as luck would have it, they were busy. We waited a few hours and then left and went back to Stillwater. We got in pretty quickly, after watching a short version of the Jerry Springer Show Live in the ER waiting room. I really felt like an idiot going back, but the cut was bad and still bleeding some. We seen the ER nurse again and a few hours later, we were driving home with 8 stitches in my eye (I have never had stitches before). The next 2 days were spent trying to avoid anymore injuries.

In short, I feel like I need a day to recover from my vacation!!

The Garden

Over Memorial Day weekend, my sister and I planted a garden. Last year, we planted flowers along the edge of my patio. They were really pretty all summer, but this year, after comparing the beauty of last years flowers to the weekly farmers market bill that I had, I decided to go with a vegetable garden. I planted jalapenos, banana peppers, okra, cucumbers, tomatoes, zucchini, green beans, and squash.

After we made it back to my house with all of the plants and supplies, I realized that we had more to plant this year than we did last year. So, my sister and I (really just my sister) extended my "garden." For most people, this would be no big deal, but my husband has put a LOT of money and sweat into making sure that our grass is pretty and soft. I don't think that he was too excited when he came home to see how much we had dug up! But I calmly explained to him that it was too late and to learn to deal with it:).

My garden is now starting to come up. It has not produced anything to eat yet, but I think it will start any day now. On to the new problem... BUGS. They are eating all of the leaves! I went to the garden section of the store last night and purchased a dusting agent that is supposed to get rid of the bugs. I will see in a day or two if it is working. I really hope it does work, it will be harder for my husband to live with the bare spot in the grass if there isn't any plants left!

Pictures coming soon!

Graduation time of year

Last night was the sixth grade graduation. I went, mainly because Josh was the keynote speaker, but it was really exciting actually. I really liked watching them, all proud and ready to head on to high school. Their heads full of a million different dreams. Josh's speech was really good too. It was the usual... Set your goals high, be the best version of your self, stay off of drugs... all of the necessary stuff. I hope that they listened.

We have a Kindergarten graduation to go to tonight... It is going to be sad for me. I can not believe how big he is! These past 6 years have flown by. Look for graduation pics soon!!

The rain...

This post is a little past due, but after tax season was over I climbed in bed and slept for about two weeks. I was begining to think it was time to build the ark with all the rain that we got. I wanted to show the picture of the crawdad that we found in the dog pen.

Kind of icky, huh?

Tax Season is over!!!

Tax season is over and I survived... You still have 2 days to file an extension, thanks to Emancipation Day. New posts coming soon.