Eclipse Movie

The Eclipse movie came out last night at midnight. My mom, sister-in-law Betsy and I went. It was great. We didn't have to stand in line long before they started letting us in to set. We arrived at Rave about 9:30, got pretty good seats and enjoyed each others company until the movie began. As far as the movie goes I really enjoyed it. It was better than New Moon. I loved every bit of it. And it followed the story line pretty well. I am very sleepy today and will be taking a nap soon, but worth the girls night and movie!

Where to vacation?

My family and some friends were planning to vacation this August in Panama City Beach. Due to oil spill we have decided not to go this year. I hate how the oil is effecting the gulf. Not because it has ruined our vacation but because it is ruining business there and the environment. I won't get on my soap box, but I sure do hope we can fix this soon for all parties involved. Anyway, DJ still has vacation time set aside for a week and now we are wondering what to do. Going to the lake and renting a cabin/condo is more expensive than going to Florida. We have promised Hannah earlier in the year we would go back to the beach this year and she constantly talks about it. I can't bring myself to tell her the sad news before we make other arrangements. So, my question is for ideas of where to vacation that is fun for all ages, not farther of a drive than to Florida and not more expensive. Anyone have a place in mind?

Hannah's trip to the ER

In Texas I had to take Hannah to the ER. She looked like she had a spider bite but it only ended up being a staph infection. O took some pics with my phone an I have finally gotten around to posting them.



Swollen ankle on the right side. It was very hot and very hard to the touch. This was called cellulitis.


Infected bug bite maybe from a fire ant on left big toe.

Lefty or Righty?

Trey is learning how to use his spoon. At first he would primarly use his right hand. Lately he has been using his left and doing a better job too. I know it is too early to say if he is a righty or lefty, but it is fun to speculate. DJ would love for him to be a left handed pitcher and play baseball. I guess it really doesn't matter to me. I wonder how hard it would be to teach him how to write left handed since I write with my right. I have dome time to figure that out I guess!

Trip to Texas = Disaster (updated)

All my distant family lives in Texas (my side). Since I have been married I have made the 7.5 hour trip to see my family a total of 3 times. I would love to see them more regular but every time I travel there without DJ something major happens.

Six years ago a friend and I traveled down to visit and the morning we were leaving a big, loaded down truck headed to a construction site ran a red light and totaled my car. My friend hurt her arm and went to the ER. DJ and my friends fience rushed down to pick us up. They made the trip in 6 hours and still had on their golf shoes from their game they just started when we called.

Two years ago my brother Matt, Hannah and I flew down for a 50th wedding anniversary. DJ was going to drive down an pick us up and then drive back. On the way down Hannah dislocated her elbow and we went to the ER. The dislocation didn't correct itself until 4 or 5 days later. I can't remember exactly. Also on this trip my grandmother had a blocked bowel and was severly sick and had emergency surgery.

This time was going to be the breaker of all bad things and everything was going to go smoothly. DJ had to work and so once again I was going onle with the kids, my bro Matt and his girlfriend. In Saturday while getting everyone ready for my family reunion I noticed Hannah had a sore on her left toe. it looked infected but I figured it would be fine with some ointment and a band-aid. then I noticed her right ankle was swollen and hard. The swollen ankle made me decide to take her to a doctor. Since I am from out of town and it being a Saturday I decided I would take her to the same ER we visited 2 years ago. GREAT! Turns out they were seeing a lot of staph and said she had MRSA staph. the doc gave her a prescription and sent us on to the reunion.
The rest of the trip was going fine and the night before we were going to leave I felt we were out of the woods. only to find a big tree limb laying on top of my car. My grandmother has several Arizona Ash trees in her yard and they are all about 30 years old and huge. One of the bigger more heavier limbs fell and landed on a smaller one and then both landed on top of my car. Thankfully the smaller limb broke the fall but it was still a big mess. It was around 12:40 in the morning I noticed it and so I called my uncle and with his help ad my mother and brothers we were able to cut off the limb little by little. We finished around 2am and I was finally able to go to bed. I got about 4 hours of sleep before having to get up and drive home. The car survived with only a few surface scratches. We did make it home safely, but I will not be going back with out DJ ever again. and DJ said the same!