Geez, we had a sight to come back to from vacation! We went from 84 degrees to barely above 0! Thanks be to God for His protection during the ice storm! It worked out well for my parents, who live next door, to come over to our house and stay warm with the wood stove. We came home to a dark, but warm house and sometime in the middle of the night the electric came back on! We lost quite a bit from the freezer, most of 2006 deer meat, but that is minimal compared to what others have gone through!
We had a GREAT time in Fort Myers, FL!!! Ron and Julie's house is awesome! (We loved swimming in their pool!) And it was great to see the nieces again! Traveling went smoothly, weather was great, food was great, La Quinta Inn was decent, shopping grand. All in all a great vacation! The most unusal thing we saw was this bank chain called "Fifth Third Bank". What in the world? If you are the 5th bank that ranks 3rd, wouldn't you kinda keep that info to yourself??? Why not bank at the 1st third bank? Why does it even matter what number bank you are if you are already 3rd??? I really didn't get it but it cracked us up every time we would pass another bank!!
I want to apologize for being so long in posting a blog. For Christmas Ike got three Rescue Hero computer games. Oh my! Is this boy happy! First thing out of his mouth every morning..."Is it my turn to play on the computer?" All three kids are computer game crazy and I probably let them spend way too much time on the computer but that's my mama card. In order to keep Jake focused on school he gets to take a break every time he finishes his assignments in two subjects. That break is usually spent on computer time! Same motivation for Molly. Bruce offered to buy me a laptop computer but even if I had one between schooling the kids and regular life...I can't really get on the computer for more than e-mail/blog checks a few minutes at a time. So, my interesting stories of life and times at our house may not come as quickly! As if!
You can see I posted no pictures. Yip, haven't figured out the camera yet!
Marissa's One Year Old Birthday is today!! She's the littlest one year old I've ever seen! She is such a JOY!! She crawls around and grabs everything!! She's still not sitting up on her own and the First Steps Physical Therapist says it's partially because she doesn't just want to sit...she wants to go! She is going to start getting PT once a week to help with sitting and weight bearing on her feet. She is getting better but with therapy they think she will catch up quickly. She also will be getting OT (Occupational Therapy) once a month. That is too help her isolate her thumb and finger for picking up stuff. Like right now she grabs things by doing this sweeping motion with her hand. So, it's hard to pick up small things like Cheerios. She will get Speech Therapy at some point because she tested delayed in that area as well. Well, delayed according to Baylee and Peabody. These are the standardize test they use to check for development. Too bad Marissa didn't read the book to know where she is supposed to be!
Friday, January 26, 2007
Monday, January 08, 2007
So here's the scoop...
Well, we are all better now! We are left with this lingering cough but ready to tackle the world again! Being sick at Christmas and New Years was not as bad as it might have sounded. We just kinda buckled down at home and watched movies, played games, read books, which was a nice twist from the hurry, hurry lifestyle we have become accustomed to! Now we are ready to go to Florida for vacation!
We bought a new camera so I probably won't be posting any pictures for awhile until I figure out all this new equipment and software. I hope we didn't purchase beyond my capability with this camera. It's actually a hard drive video camera, but with the software you can capture any still shot. With this we have the features to edit the video, add music and titles. It will make really neat DVDs if I can pull this off. I'm really not a 'read the instructions' type gal. I just kinda get there and try to figure it all out by hands on. Bruce made me promise that I would actually read the instruction book!
Last night I watched "High School Musical"...pop up edition. I love anything "pop-up'. It's interesting learning the tricks of the trade and finding out the back story from the pop ups. One time on TV Land they had marathon episodes of "The Brady Bunch" in pop-up. That was the bomb! Anyway, last night I learned from "High School Musical" pop up that the kid who played Ryan, Sharpay's brother, was from Springfield, MO. He was discovered in a smoothie line. So if anybody has any aspirations for Hollywood, there must be people right here in Springfield that can discover you if you are standing in the right line!
When we brought Marissa home from the hospital I told Bruce we should look for an agent for her. Ya know how all babies born on TV and the movies look like there are about 3 months old? Well, I thought Marissa would be perfect for the newborn roles since she still looked newborn at 4 months old weighing only 5 pounds and about 16 inches. She probably could have made movies for awhile as the newborn! By the way, did you know that when a baby is born on TV or movies that they mix together cream cheese and grape jelly and spread it all over the baby to make it look like they just traveled down the birth canal? I didn't read that in a pop up but in a magazine about the show "ER" when it was at it's height. Interesting, huh? Or too much information??!!!
Well, we are excited to be taking our first vacation outside of Missouri...ever! We are flying to Fort Myers, FL to see Bruce's brother and family. It will be like a little family reunion because Bruce's mom and sister and her two daughters are going as well! We aren't going to do the whole Disney thing but plan to go to the beach. Jake watched a thing on the Discovery channel months ago about jelly fish and he is not too keen on the whole beach idea! I thought he would be worried about sharks or crocodiles, but nope, it's jelly fish that has him nervous! You can pray for us traveling grace and that we don't get any relapse from the flu!! Maybe I'll have my camera figured out by the time we get back and I can post some pics here!
We bought a new camera so I probably won't be posting any pictures for awhile until I figure out all this new equipment and software. I hope we didn't purchase beyond my capability with this camera. It's actually a hard drive video camera, but with the software you can capture any still shot. With this we have the features to edit the video, add music and titles. It will make really neat DVDs if I can pull this off. I'm really not a 'read the instructions' type gal. I just kinda get there and try to figure it all out by hands on. Bruce made me promise that I would actually read the instruction book!
Last night I watched "High School Musical"...pop up edition. I love anything "pop-up'. It's interesting learning the tricks of the trade and finding out the back story from the pop ups. One time on TV Land they had marathon episodes of "The Brady Bunch" in pop-up. That was the bomb! Anyway, last night I learned from "High School Musical" pop up that the kid who played Ryan, Sharpay's brother, was from Springfield, MO. He was discovered in a smoothie line. So if anybody has any aspirations for Hollywood, there must be people right here in Springfield that can discover you if you are standing in the right line!
When we brought Marissa home from the hospital I told Bruce we should look for an agent for her. Ya know how all babies born on TV and the movies look like there are about 3 months old? Well, I thought Marissa would be perfect for the newborn roles since she still looked newborn at 4 months old weighing only 5 pounds and about 16 inches. She probably could have made movies for awhile as the newborn! By the way, did you know that when a baby is born on TV or movies that they mix together cream cheese and grape jelly and spread it all over the baby to make it look like they just traveled down the birth canal? I didn't read that in a pop up but in a magazine about the show "ER" when it was at it's height. Interesting, huh? Or too much information??!!!
Well, we are excited to be taking our first vacation outside of Missouri...ever! We are flying to Fort Myers, FL to see Bruce's brother and family. It will be like a little family reunion because Bruce's mom and sister and her two daughters are going as well! We aren't going to do the whole Disney thing but plan to go to the beach. Jake watched a thing on the Discovery channel months ago about jelly fish and he is not too keen on the whole beach idea! I thought he would be worried about sharks or crocodiles, but nope, it's jelly fish that has him nervous! You can pray for us traveling grace and that we don't get any relapse from the flu!! Maybe I'll have my camera figured out by the time we get back and I can post some pics here!
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