Category: Our Family

Apricots

A couple of weeks ago, we went to Granny’s house to pick apricots. Only I had the chills and a fever, and just felt yucky at the time, so I basically sat on the back step and watched Kyle pick the apricots for me. Then since I was sick when we got the apricots, they went directly into the fridge when we got home. They sat there for quite awhile before I was well enough to tackle them, and by then some of them were yucky, and a bunch of them had frozen. I guess the air wasn’t circulating very well in the fridge and certain areas just got colder than others. So there weren’t very many that were worth canning as plain halves. I ended up making jam, syrup, puree and pie filling.

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Wandering Camera

Today I went to get out my camera to transfer the pictures to my computer and found it wasn’t in my cupboard, which caused me to panic. I started looking all over the place for it but I couldn’t find it. So I had to sit and think back to when I last used it. I remembered wanting to send it with Kyle to the pack meeting last week, but he had no idea where the camera is either. Then I remembered taking it with me to the Lehi foam days and I drove mom’s car! After asking her if it is still in her car, she said that she found it. She didn’t take it out before leaving because she thought it was Tiffany’s breast pump. So now my camera is in California, and we have plans to go out of town next week and I really want my camera for our trip. 🙁

Walking Pneumonia

Last week, on Monday I started coughing, and as the week progressed the coughing got worse and worse. Then Sunday after church, I found that I had a fever. All week I have been dealing with this fever, and the cough, as well as the chills and hot flashes. It has been miserable. Not to mention the fact that being pregnant means that every time I cough I feel like I’m going to pee my pants. Well last two nights have just been the worst. I could not lay down without ending up in a coughing fit. I tried sleeping in the recliner, but that means not sleeping very well at all. Today I had to break down and go into the instacare. There the doctor asked me some questions about the cough and fever. He felt my neck, and listened to my lungs and said that we can’t take x-rays to confirm, because I’m pregnant but it’s “walking pneumonia”. He mentioned that he could hear the yuck in my left lung when I was breathing. So he gave me a prescription for two different antibiotics to take simultaneously. Just what I need to be dealing with at 20 weeks of pregnancy and in the middle of the summer. 🙁

Foam Fun

Mom wanted to do something fun with the kids today. Tiffany didn’t like the idea of just going to play at a park, because she didn’t want to have to chase kids. Debby sent mom a link about the Lehi Foam Days event. Mom thought that looked like lots of fun, and that became the plan for today. I am still not feeling very well and I had a prenatal appointment this morning so I was hoping they would just take the kids for me. But mom expected me to meet them at the park for foam days after my appointment. So I helped get the kids ready, and sent them with mom in the van. Tiffany and Debby and their babies went in Debby’s car, and mom left her car and keys for me to use. I put my camera in the car because I figured, if I don’t go and take pictures of the kids playing in the foam I won’t have any and I went to my appointment, then I drove to Lehi to meet up with the others.

When I got to the park, I found Mom with my kids at a booth playing some games.

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We went to go back to where Debby and Tiffany were and Mom got some food to share for lunch. Then it was time to go play in some bubbles. They had the foam area of the park broken down into sections for age groups. Ethan and Jeremy refused to play in the foam, so Tyra and Dinah went together to their age group, while Mom and I took Chloe Lydia and Adam to where the little kids were supposed to play. There were lots of people that were just covered in the foam, but my little ones didn’t know what to think of it.

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They didn’t play for very long and when they were done, mom took them back to the rest of the group while I tried to find Tyra and Dinah. By this time though, I was feeling pretty weak. I wasn’t able to find Tyra and Dinah in the masses so I went back to the rest of the group to sit down, and mom went to look for them. They finally found us, and we decided it was time to get going. Mom took the kids in the van again, and I asked her to give the kids a bath when they got back to the house. I wanted to stop by the store to get something to help boost my immune system, and get some things for dinner and some other things that we were low on (like milk).

By the time I got home and the car was unloaded Kyle was home. We went downstairs to watch Hotel Transylvania with mom, Debby and Tiffany. I came upstairs before the movie was over to get the barbeque started. Debby cut peppers for me and made some kool aid while I grilled the meat for fajitas, and the corn on the cob. When the meat was done, mom sliced it, and Kyle sauteed the meat with the peppers and onions, while I cut the watermelon. Then I announced that I was done and that I was going to sit for the rest of the night because I was feeling weak before we left the park, and by dinner time I had just pushed myself WAY too far. So Kyle served dinner. After dinner, mom and Tiffany loaded up the rest of their things and put Denzel in the car to start the drive to head back home. They had to stop by Debby’s to pick up the rest of Tiffany’s stuff so Debby and Rexton left too. It was a good day and we had a nice evening, but I’m not going to lie, considering the way I feel I’m kind of glad they are gone so I can try to get some rest.