Happy Birthday Molly!!

Molly's birthday was July 15th and she is now 14 years old!!! We will be taking her and one of her friends to White-Water on Sunday (Scott is really looking forward to that one) and then Molly gets to stay with us all of next week and we plan on painting her room and doing a lot of swimming (hopefully). We can't wait to spend this time with her as we haven't seen her in so long so we have to make up for lost time.

Update on Scott's Mom.

Well we have had a lot going on since the 4th! Scott's mother went to the hospital the day after the 4th for back surgery and we thought she would be home either Friday or Saturday but we were so wrong. During her back surgery the Dr. accidentally tore a hole in her small intestine and we found this out on Saturday morning when she was rushed in for emergency surgery! Once she came out of surgery on Saturday we were told that she was put on a ventilator and couldn't breathe on her own and would be in ICU for they didn't know how long. During the following week the Dr's tried to take her off of the ventilator each day and some days she would breathe for maybe up to 45 min on her own and then there were days she couldn't make it 5 minutes. On the following Saturday they turned the ventilator off and we kept our fingers crossed and this time she didn't have to have it turned back on....yeah!!!!! Monday (7/16) she was able to get out of bed and sit in a chair for almost 3 hours and the Dr's also let her eat some jello which she said was better than a steak!! She is still in ICU as of Tuesday but we are hopeful she will be in another room either late today or early tomorrow. The Dr's have also let us know that she will still be in the hospital for at least another week but we are on our way to her recovering. Scott has been at the hospital each morning around 6:30 and we leave around 9:30 - 10:00 each night so we are both very tired.

Happy 4th of July!

Well we had a fabulous 4th of July! We started the celebrating on Tuesday night with Fireworks at the local high school and we had a picnic while we were there and it was an awesome display. We got home Tuesday night and started our cooking for the 4th and I made my cake (see pic above) and coleslaw. I usually make a flag cake but found a recipe that had a little variation on the arranging of the fruit and it also had a couple different ingredients in it so I decided to try it out and everyone said it turned out great. On Wednesday Scott and I got up early to get the house and the deck ready for everyone. Once everyone started to arrive around 11:00 we put the fish on to fry along with the hushpuppies and french fries. It turned out to be a good crowd as we had Dale, Cathy, Riley, Jim, Liz and their grandson. Jim and Liz also brought their newest additions to the family which are three of the cutest puppies that are chiwawa and poodle mixes. I have included a picture of one of them below where Scott was trying to teach one to swim....lol. Once it got a little later in the day Liz's two kids Derek and Fallon came over and they brought Derek's girlfriend as well. So to wrap everything from the 4th up....we had great friends, good food and a great time socializing, swimming, playing horseshoes and can't wait to do something like this again.

New Layout for Blog!!!!

I have decided to change up our blog so let me know what you think!! When I made the template change it lost a lot of my content so I am trying to recreate it now. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Getting ready for the 4th!!

Nothing really new to post from this past week as about the only thing we have done is get the house ready for a 4th of July party we will be having. It looks like we will have about 8-10 people and we will be having a fish-fry complete with hush puppies, coleslaw, french fries, and a couple of desserts. Scott worked hard outside all day Sunday getting the horseshoe pits and the yard cleaned up and I spent my whole day getting the inside of the house ready. Really all of this (other then the horseshoes) needed to be done no matter if we were doing the party or not but knowing that we would have a few people over then that just means we couldn't put it off any longer....lol. Well this week will be kind of weird with both of us off on Wednesday but we do plan on going to a fireworks show on Tuesday night, party on Wednesday and then Scott's Mom is having surgery on Thursday. Scott will also be off on Thursday to be at the hospital for his Mom and I will go there after I get off from work. We thought we would have Molly this past weekend but that didn't happen and then we should be getting her this Friday but she has a trip planned for next week and has to attend a pre trip meeting on Saturday and then leave on Sunday......man it has been forever and we miss her greatly!!! The good news about not getting her for a few weeks is that we will pick her up on the 20th and won't have to take her home until the 29th so we will have her for a whole week!!! Molly's b-day is on the 15th (she will be 14) and she has requested that we go to White Water. I am excited but Scott is a little apprehensive but I know he will have a good time with us. We also plan on painting Molly's room while she is here and I will try to post pics of the room renovation and also of the b-day festivities. Well that is about it and I will post again soon....