Sleep Deprived

I'm running on two hours of sleep so I hope this makes sense and there are no errors. Last night hubby was carving on a piece of oak wood and he was about to finish up for the night but before that could happen his knife shut on his pinky finger. Once he did it he immediately knew it would require stitches. Well, since we just moved here we didn't know where the closest emergency room, so thank goodness for the internet - I jumped on the internet and found the closest hospital. Hubby wanted to show me how deep his cut was and I was hesitant, but then I finally said okay and once I saw it I suddenly felt light headed and almost felt like passing out. So we went to the hospital emergency room and this is where our long evening/morning happened.

• 11:00PM Signed into the emergency room
• 11:30PM Got Hubby's stats and why we are at the emergency room
• 12:00 MIDNIGHT still waiting
• 1:00AM Still Waiting
• 2:00AM Still Waiting and Sleep deprived
• 2:45AM False alarm we thought we were going to the back to see the doctor but they wanted to get our insurance information!
• 3:00AM Still Waiting and half asleep
• 3:30AM Called back to a room to see the doctor
• 4:00AM Nurse Came in the room to see the cut on the finger and get some more information
• 4:10AM Doctor came in to see patient and looked at the cut. He does indeed need stitches. The cut was about ¾ - 1 inch deep done with a pocket knife
• 4:30AM Nurse came in to clean cut and administer a tetanus shot.
• 4:40AM Doctor came in to sew up the finger.
• 5:00AM Paid hospital bill
Six hours later 5:15AM leaving the hospital.

We considered almost every hour to leave the hospital and go home and see our family doctor the following day but we knew the cut was too deep to consider. Over all, even though we hated the six hours in the emergency room, the doctor was awesome. Very apologetic about the wait - he came in at 11:30PM, the two other doctors left at 2:30AM and he was the only doctor on call to cover the emergency room and it didn't help that they did have a few ambulance deliveries. We do kind of laugh how it would have been amusing to have my camera with us; let's see what picture opportunities would we have?

A man walking around in a hospital gown with only his underwear on, thank goodness he had underwear on or else we would have been flashed several times.

The cute 7 month old little girl who would babble with us - she was a cutie pie and so good.

The red hair lady with a splint on her arm - every time we looked in her direction it looked like she was staring at us. It was kind of creepy looking...

Picture of Steven snoozing in his chair - which the chairs were the most uncomfortable chairs in the world - It might have something to do with it being 2am in the morning and we are tired.

Picture of me dead sleep in the uncomfortable chair. I didn't even hear them call Steven's name - I was totally out.

A picture of Steven's face when he saw the needle for the anesthesia. It was just the needle to draw the anesthesia out of the bottle and the actual needle was smaller.

Steven's face when the doctor deadened his finger - he said the needle HURT! I told him it would!

A picture of the doctor sewing up his flap of skin back together.

Even though we don't have any pictures we have the memories and it's Steven's fault we sat six hours in the emergency room :-) j/k

So I am very sleepy today - I did make it to a job interview today. I just hope I didn't look glassy eyed. Steven went to work as well, but I plan on picking him up because he is so tired.

PICTURES COMING COMING of the knife and finger...

Backyard visitors

Earlier in the week I had some visitors. I saw them one other day so I decided to save some old bread and feed them. They were not the least bit scared when I walked out to feed them. Once I started feeding a few, it seemed like the whole flock came. They came back the following day and I went out again to give them more bread. I try to make sure they didn't come in the yard because I didn't want them to get too comfortable and come up on our patio or yard. I would hate to have abunch of geese poo in my yard - YUK!

BasketBall

Some photos of the kids playing basketball one evening. The "Big" brother thought he would teach the girls how the boys play and yes they are playing barefoot! YIKES! they all went to the park in flip flops and didn't think to change into sneakers. We had fun and I even joined in on a game of Zebra instead of Horse - Christian decided to change it up abit. I think I was the first one out of the game and yes brother won!

My Little Dancers

I miss these two little dancers. You would hear music blaring from their room and they were in there trying to create a new dance. I tried sneaking in several times to video and all I got was two girls screaming and asking me to leave. What footage I got is funny and I'm sure they will appreciate it when they are older. Now their room sits in silence and I miss hearing them giggle and laugh and oh not let me forget hearing them yell at their brother to get out. Well, it's probably best I end this post for now as I type through my tears....

Summer family game

So each year we have a summer game that everyone likes to play and we seem to play it all the time. Some of the past games are spoons and Uno Atack, but for this year it was BlackJack. I think one night we all sat up till after midnight playing. All three of the kids loved it and I would find them playing by themselves. This day they were in the dining room playing and Katelyn was the dealer.

more river photos....

St. Johns River

We took the kids out for half aday on the river. We didn't let alittle drizzle stop us and after an hour the sun came out in it's full glory. Thank goodness we had a canopy on the boat or else we would of roasted. We had a great time and each of the kids got to drive the boat. We pulled off for alittle trying to attempt to catch some fish - we were not luck enough to catch a thing. DH did donuts out on the river, if that is even possible, and the girls got soaked sitting in the front and would ask him to do it again. Next year we will definately have to attempt tubing, we wished we did it this time. Lots of great memories and a funny story that I can not share or else DH would kill me LOL

Fairport Girls

Keep these families in your prayers..... such a tragic loss.. It is unfathomable to make any sense of the tragedy which all to soon claimed the lives of these five beautiful girls.
http://www.angelsalways.org/

Girls Room

I just love how well the girls room came together. I love the Paris theme, it kinda evolved. It all started when we got the big photo of the lady and once we had a inspiration piece it all just fell into place. They went from a daybed with a pull out bed to two twin beds. They loved thier room alot. I would just sit in their once we were done taking it all in. I think it is so beautiful and so girly. We made the bedskirts and window box with silk zebra print sheets - I thought adding alittle zebra print would make it feel like an older girls room because after all our girls are now ten and eleven!

Father's Day

This year was such a blessing because we had the kids during Father's day during our summer visit. We normally get them the month of July but this year we got them in June. It was great for my husband because he was able to celebrate Father's Day with his children and I was so excited for him. I took the kids out to do a photo shoot with them to capture some photos of them and frame them for hubby. Talk about trying to get them to cooperate, thank goodness for digital I took about 80 pictures. I know towards the end they were getting tired of smiling, posing or hearing me say turn around let me take another photo. Once we were done, I let them help me pick out my favorite shots to frame and they really enjoyed that. Lauren painted a canvas with a flower for her Dad and Christian carved a piece of wood for him. Then I let the kids have at it in my scrapbook room and make their own cards for their Dad, I was so proud of them, they were totally into making the cards and had alot of ideas. Father's Day was great and hubby enjoyed being surrounded with his children. PS I still can't get over how much these kids are growing up!

Where to begin....

Gosh, where to even begin?? Do you ever feel overwhelmed when you haven't blogged in ages? That's how I feel and I feel like there is no way I can give an update because after all it's been forever. So I'm just simply going to give snippets each day of what we've been up to. We had the kids for the summer so all my attention went to them. This has been my first week with no kids and it left for a quiet week - No kids, no going to the library, going to the pool or the questions of what am I going to do, I'm bored. I've started my job searching and praying that I find a good company to work for.

So let's see what to start off with. The kids are growing up so much. Our visit was good, we enjoyed our time with them. Sometimes you feel like you don't have enough time with them, but overall everyone enjoyed their time. They all loved their rooms and loved the new house. The girls had a great time with each other and were in their rooms dancing away - we have evidences lots of video, I'm sure they will appreciate that when they get older.

I'll leave with some pictures.

This is at the Jacksonville beach. Kids and I went and they had more fun that I thought. I didn't even think they would want to get in the water but I was mistaken.