Birthday Parties

My mom and dad will be over this weekend. We haven't seen them since Christmas. We will be celebrating Birthdays this weekend. Dad and Eddie will be installing an Owl box in our backyard. We have a barn owl that is currently living in the back yonder in the trees. We would like him to make his new home in the box that dad has made for them. My dad has an owl box on there property out in Anza. He has seen 4 families of owls be born. They are on 20 acres over looking the valley. Although, we are suppose to have rain, I hope it doesn't come on Saturday. We also have a lot of yard work to do and we need to get it down before the rains.

Saturday Doctor Visit

We ended up taking little Ryan to the Doctor's Saturday morning. He has had this on going caugh, head congestion and off and on a runny nose. On Friday I noticed some raised bumps on the back of his tongue. The doctor's weren't answering there phones, so we decided to just drive down and try to get in. We were able to see the doctor at 10:40am that morning. The doctor observed Ryan. Did all the normal checks and said he is FINE! There is alot of this allergy stuff going around and he is just affected by it. Keep the Zyrtec and the Dimetapp in him. He will be fine. I questioned the ears. and the doc said, WOW, they look good. I said, "Yeah they better after 2 double ear surgeries and Adnoids, I would hope so!" She sent us on our way and we continued our weekend. We ended up staying home on Sunday from church because Ryan wasn't up too par. Come Tuesday Eddie stayed home with Ryan and took him to our Peditrician. It appears Ryan has a really bad double ear infection and Pink Eye. You have got to be kidding? The thing that has upset me is: On the weekends, they are not only charging the $20.00 co-pay, but also an additional $25.00 for a Weekend visit. Then another co-pay to have the pedetrician to tell us exactly what is wrong, plus his prescriptions. The pedetrician said, " The Saturday doctor obviously overlooked everything!" A double ear infection doesn't happen over night, especially this bad! It isn't like we had the extra money for the doctor's. I am just glad that we found out the issue. The bad thing is, Ryan has a high tolerance for pain and very seldom runs a fever. So, I didn't even think about an ear infection, because he hasn't had one since his tubes fell out, over 1 year ago. Go figure. It is now Thursday and I sent him to school this morning. He is so excited to be back. He will be turning 5 on the 15th of March. Then we have to go on the 22nd for his 5 year physical. :-(

WEDDING

So many emotions and too many Politics. This is the reasoning why Eddie and I had originally choose not to attend his oldest brothers Wedding. With all the crap that went on between the step daughter and our son Danny, I thought it would be best NOT to attend the wedding. I will not go into details about the Danny issue. I am not trying to protect him, but we are his parents and I believe that it takes two to tangle. It was a Friday, the week before the wedding and my husband mentioned that he wanted to take the time to place flowers on Dad's graveside the weekend of Johnny's wedding. I know I need to support my husband, but I thought we had agreed not to attend the Wedding? Right then the phone rang and it was our new sister-in-law. She needed to ask if Tammy would be so kind and take the photographs for the wedding. Eddie in the back ground is handing me the phone and nodding his head up and down. I felt obligated at this time to say YES. After all, this is our newest family memeber. Besides whatever happened between her daughter and Danny needed to go in the past. So, I put aside the differences and gladly accepted. We had a great time! It rained in and out all weekend. The wedding was inside afterall. We did have the opportunity to see Dad. We baked him Brownies and left him some next to his toombestone. We hit snow and slush through the grapevine on our way home. We are glad that we did make the decision to go to the Wedding. Mom was very excited to see us. We kept the kids at our dear friend's house in Ramona for the weekend getaway. I would upload photos, but I am still learning this photo thing. I really like the cascade of photographs, but can't seem to figure out way my template doesn't offer such thing.