2 new posts again

Catching up my blogging again. Check out 2 new posts below.

April Showers

April Showers bring May flowers….. right? I sure hope so. April has been a difficult month. To make a long story short: the day after Katie’s party I started feeling sick. By the end of the week I was pretty miserable and went to the doctor Easter morning. We thought it was strep and I started taking antibiotics. Later in the week I started feeling worse so I went back to the doctor and had some more tests done and it was discovered that I got mono. So I stopped the antibiotics and I had to have bed rest for 4 days without watching any kids. I have slowly been recovering and I am feeling a lot better. I am still quite fatigued and have to get naps in whenever I can. I also discovered about 8 canker sores in my mouth just over a week ago (just when I was starting to feel better from the mono symptoms). Thank goodness those are starting to go away now. I can’t wait till I can eat without pain. It takes the bad to appreciate the good. I am so thankful that I am pretty healthy most of the time. I want to thank everyone who helped with watching kids, bringing food and for everyone that called or emailed to see how I was doing. I appreciate and love you all.

To top off April: our oven burned out. But hey – it went out in style and we got a light show. Last night we were cooking a pizza and we noticed the coils in the oven were sparking. So we figured we better clean the oven out next weekend. It sparked the whole time we were cooking the pizza and was sparking in different places and kept moving along the coils, which was making us pretty nervous. When the pizza was done we turned the oven off and it was still sparking and the coils were still red and it was starting to burn the coils right up. Chris poured baking soda on it but it didn’t help. Then he unplugged the oven and it finally went out. Check out the pics:

Katie was so distraught that the oven was broken - she started to cry. We told her not to worry we'd get a new one. We'll be going oven shopping tomorrow.

Katie's Birthday

Katie had a great birthday. The Friday before her birthday we took her to the dollar store to pick out a balloon. Then we took her to Artic Circle for ice cream cones and she also got a pack of Starbursts at Wal-Mart. The next day we went to the church in the morning for an Easter breakfast and egg hunt. Then we spent the afternoon getting ready for Katie’s party. She kept telling me for about a month that she wanted a dinosaur birthday cake. She loves dinosaurs and The Land Before Time movies. So I made her a dinosaur cake and we decorated the kitchen with color sheets of dinosaurs and green streamers. She loved helping to decorate for her party. During the party we had a Land Before Time movie playing for the kids and they got to color Land Before Time color sheets.

Here she is with her balloon:

Family pic:

Blowing out the candles:

Loves those new shades:

And her most favorite present:

After the party we took her for a ride on her new bike. She was loving it (and still partying - you can see the party blower in her mouth)