Happy 8th Anniversary!!

Ok, typed this up yesterday and on Chris' laptop and it only published the title, so here is the real blog I wrote yesterday!!
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Hi all! It has been a wild couple of weeks

As some of you know, play day was fun, but a disaster. it was cloudy and cold and they still did all the events. there was no 3 legged race, there was no tire race. it was mostly water games and soakers at that. nathan got super chilled. he came home soaking wet, and purple in the face. i had him take a warm shower and lay down. When he got up, he looked better and ate some supper. he complained of his stomach hurting but I figured it was from all the wierdness of the day. When he woke up Saturday, he still complained of his stomach. i didn't think much of it. Got him some breakfast and we went to a birthday party. He was complaining of it still hurting that afternoon and i assumed too much sugar, so we rested the rest of the day.

Went to church and then came home. When we get home, and he heads to the bathroom, he says, "Hey mom, I have blood when I wipe". I looked and all it was was blood and mucus. So I called Dr. Evans and he asked if I could get a sample to the lab as soon as possible. We did and waited. We were supposed to meet Dr. Evans at his office Monday morning.

he didn't have results yet, but examined nathan to find that he had a hemmeroid (sp?)

We waited for test results.

he went to school tuesday and came home pale and complaining that he was passing blood again.

I called the dr. office and they said they wanted to see him first thing in the morning.

do that and his initial results are negative for everything. However, they didn't run a test on a certain bacteria that appears after a flood in contaminated water, found in either water hoses or stuff like that. Wanted another sample taken to run it on that.

Nathan slept most of the day and we waited.

When final test results finally came Friday afternoon, they were negative also, but dr says he assumes that probably what happened is that during the water games, something had traces of the bacteria and that had made him sick. Nothing to prove that and nothing they can do to treat it. The body normally takes care of it itself, unless a fever or vomiting occur.

In the midst of all this, thursday, we had our friends Mike and Amber back over for supper. We visited and Chris found that he has another brother in the land of science fiction. Amber and I visited about how interesting it was to live with a spouse that seemed to always live in another world via the computer. We laughed about how if we have to move, we will make Lowes move them along with us.

Since Nathan was feeling a little better, we went ahead with our plans to have mom and dad watch the kids, under the condition that if he got worse, we would come and get him.

We all ate out at Dennys friday night and then Chris and I went to see spiderman 3.

Saturday we slept in, and the bed was super comfortable i didn't want to get out. One of those when you lay on it, you feel all the stress and stuff melt away. it was awesome.

We went to the city market, which was awesome. all kinds of fruits and vegtables and stuff that were home grown. We talked about that next paycheck, we should bring a cooler down and our grocery allowance and get some homegrown food for good prices.

After that, we went to the world war 1 museum. It was amazing. would definately recommend anyone to go and see it. A lot of information.

We headed back to the hotel to rest and go swimming before heading out to dinner and the T-bones game. (Royals were in florida)

We ate mexican and then went to the game. it was a really neat stadium. No bad seats anywhere. The T-bones won by one point, 7-6.

We headed back after the fireworks show and crashed. Waking up Sunday morning, we spent time in our hotel reading the book of Ephesians and then checked out.

We went up to Legends, a shopping area near the t-bones stadium. We walked around and saw many interesting shops. One, called harry and Davids, had all kinds of food you could try. it was stuff like carmeled popcorn, chips and salsa, etc. Really good.

We headed home after that and took a nap. We ordered pizza and watched a movie and went to bed.

Chris had to work monday morning and mom was going to bring the kids home that day, so I did a bunch of house work until they got hear after 3.

We ate some cream of chicken and headed to nathans baseball practice after mom left. Practice he did really well. He had to miss 3 games due to his sickness. He was really glad to get to play.

Today was their first day of summer school. I actually need to pick them up in about an hour. Will be posting every monday when they are in summer school, so will be more frequent in my updates. On my next one, I will have to let you know how it is going.

Oh, and as for the title of this blog, today is our 8th anniversary. We are excited and glad. We talked about how much our children are a blessing to us and that if we hadn't met and gotten married, we wouldn't have the most wonderful family in the world, (or at least we think so:-)
We actually almost forgot this morning. With the chaos of getting things together, Chris went to work and called from there to wish me a happy anniversary, to which I replied, oh yeah, i almost forgot.
planning on going out to dinner together to celebrate. Hope everyone is well, and will write more next week. Till then!