Time Flies

Well it's the end of August and I realized that I haven't blogged even once this month.
I have had things to say but haven't had much of a drive to actually say it.
At the end of the day I will think of the things I want to blog about but then just not be able to sit in front of the computer long enough to do it. I am, after all, in front of a computer at work pretty much all day and that makes the prospect of blogging a little less of a draw. And somehow the process of uploading pictures now seems to be just too much work.

Never-the-less I will try to go back and put down a few things that have been going on this month.

At the beginning of the month, my sweet Isabelle had to get her tonsils out.

It was a bit traumatic because, being the stubborn girl that she is, she absolutely refused to eat or drink anything once the initial numbing wore off. I'm sure both Branden and Amber were quite stressed out by this. She ended up in the ER needing fluids. The doctor wanted to try to get her to drink because he felt giving her an IV would be more traumatic than just getting her to drink, even if they had to do it by force. It was actually a pretty funny story to hear from Branden because even the hospital staff, using all of their combined efforts, could not get her to drink anything. They kept "threatening" to use a needle to give her fluids if she didn't drink but to no avail. She managed to fight them off and spit out anything they forced into her including numbing medicine (sometimes all over everyone). In the end she got an IV and the staff was shocked that after all the fighting, she laid perfectly still while they put it in (which took multiple tries since she was so dehydrated).

This is her stoic face

When the doctor was telling her that she needed to start drinking when she went home he thought he'd use some logic on her, asking her if she would rather drink or get another needle to get her water.  She silently looked at him and pointed at the needle in her arm! HA!  She showed them who was boss.  Apparently she did improve after those fluids though and they were able to get her to drink at home. I am happy to announce that she now seems to be back to normal.


Ryan came out for a short visit!  He is living in Indiana currently and working as a postal worker. He is considering moving back to Utah soon though and I'm pretty happy about that! I miss having my kids around.
He had lots of friends to see and not many days to do it but we managed to spend one full day together and went to Lagoon. Carter came too and it was a fun day.

We saw each other a few other times...breakfast one day, lunch another and I let him use my car a couple of times so we saw each other when he picked me up from work.
It wasn't tons of time but I really enjoyed seeing him!
He and Carter also hung out while I was at work and I managed to talk them into doing one of my favorite new activities: Axe throwing.  I seriously think they did it just to appease me but, since I'm always right, they had fun.

Frank and I went for a long weekend to visit his Dad in Portland. We wanted to help do a few projects around the house and just see him since it's been awhile.  I will probably do a separate post about our visit but the gist of it is: Frank worked really hard and I helped a little. :-)