12 days! Or less!

No, not 12 days til' Christmas. 12 days until the baby arrives!!! Could be less but I know that I will be having this baby in 12 days! My Dr. is inducing me on the 20th. That is Tim's birthday! I need to kick it into high gear and get this house un-packed! I am really surprised this move hasn't put me into labor yet or broken my water. But I am actually glad about that. I have sooo much to un-pack. I haven't been feeling the baby move much. I told my friend Emily who is a labor and delivery nurse at the hospital and she suggested I go to my Dr. just make sure every thing was ok. I knew I needed to, but I kept procrastinating it because I have so much going on. I needed that extra push to go. For peace of mind. My Dr. is out of town and everybody covering for him was gone for the day so I went to the hospital. They hooked me up and everything sounded good. I was even having a few contractions but nothing consistent or enough to keep me. Which is fine. At least I know all is well. :o) I am sure the baby has dropped. I can breathe! And she feels like she is going to just fall out anytime. It is a crazy feeling! My sister-in-law Tasha had her baby yesterday 07/08/09 her birthday is the birthday I REALLY wanted to have. 7-8-9. So cool! My other sister-in-law Donna is having her baby today 07/09/09. Lucky girl! Two of my good friends from Queen Creek in Arizona had their babies on July 1st and the 6th. AWESOME! And I am the tail end. I will be joining you girls in the new mother/sleep deprived club soon!
UPDATE: I got a text from my sister-in-law Donna today (7-10-09) She just had her baby today at noon. She went in yesterday to be enduced. I bet that was a LONG night for her. Baby Joshua is ADORABLE!!! Havent seen pictures of Tasha's baby yet but I bet she is adorable too!

Awesome friends!!!

I have to say, I have the coolest friends! I feel so blessed. I feel so SPOILED! The girls in my ward have totally jumped in to help me with packing and getting ready for the move. They even sent a sign up sheet out in an e-mail and around in church to have people come help with packing, meals and babysitting. Both of my visiting teachers, who should not be doing much came to help. One recently had surgery and the other one is also pregnant. Ladies I don't hardly know (I just see them each week at Church) have come to help. WOW!!! What a great act of service! Not only that but the men, yes, the men from our ward have also gotten together and planned to help us move our stuff from this house to the other house. It actually isn't unusual for the men from church (no matter what ward you live in form Arizona all the way to Georgia) to help with a move. But, I couldn't believe we didn't even have to ask. They heard we were moving and asked when and said they would get help together. Isn't that AWESOME! I am so relieved. This has taken a lot of stress off the move. We have so much packing left to do but have also gotten allot done. I AM THRILLED!!!! And so VERY BLESSED!!!! AND to top it all off, they are throwing me a baby shower on Tuesday. How cool is that!?!

We found a house.

We are moving 4th of July weekend. Ugh! I am not excited. I have no Idea how we are going to do this. But, we are. I don't care if it puts me into labor early, I just don't want to go into labor too early and have something happen to the baby. I am really nervous about that. We are going with the house that is still in our ward. YAY! Call me spoiled, but I couldn't live in the other house that Tim wanted. There was just too much that was icky too me. The biggest thing was the kitchen and it was really small and icky. The kitchen in the new house is small too. But I can deal with it. At least it is clean. It is a 4 bedroom 3 bath (the 5th bedroom is the retreat off of the master bed room). That is a good amount of space for us. I've been spoiled in this house. It is so nice and spacious, I love that part. But, that is also the problem. It is too big for me. I am going nuts having to go up and down the stairs ALL DAY LONG!!! We will still have stairs but no basement. So one less set of stairs. So anyway, here are some pictures of the house we are getting....

Kitchen


Kitchen looking into "formal dining"/play room. No, it is not that color anymore. It is painted cream.

"Breakfast nook" I call it the dining room since the formal dining room I am using as a play room.

Family room

Retreat/Baby room (Scrapbook room) off Master

Master. looking into master bath

Girls room

Girls room again

Office/Guest room on Main floor -Tylers room up stairs looks about the same.

Back Yard

Cul-de-sac, I just found out that the house directlly across the street from us is the Strouds house in our ward. They have a boy Tylers age. YAY! He will be so excited!

What's new?!?!

Well, two things since my last post....My dad and we are moving AGAIN! Ugh!

My dad has gone in for 7 surgeries in 2 weeks on his leg. 3 of them were simple, flushing of the leg but he still had to be put under for it. His last surgery (on Thursday) was to do a "flap". It is like a skin graft but they take muscle with it. They have to do that because the opening in his leg (where the bone was sticking out)they can't close it. So they have to do a "flap". They had to stop surgery and put him in ICU because his heart was showing signs of stress. WELL YEA! What can you expect?!? You are taking a 72 year old man in for Surgery every other day. They need to slow down and give his body time to recover. After he has the "flap" surgery, he will be given two weeks to recover and then they will have to do one last surgery to do a skin graft. We are praying he makes it through these last two surgeries. It has been a little scary and all of this over a dang broken leg!

NEXT! We are moving. Yes, moving. We have been in this house a year as of August 1st. I don't want to move, but the owners of our house want us to buy the house or sign another year lease. We can't buy it. And we were thinking of moving to a smaller house w/smaller payment in January. But we weren't going to do that for sure. We just started thinking about it. We don't want to sign another lease here. But I don't want to move yet. So, it REALLY STINKS!!! Did I mention, I don't want to move yet? I wanted more time but they are totally unwilling to work with us. WHATEVER!!! So now we have to find a house and move in the next couple weeks before I have this baby. I'm so mad. I DON'T WANT TO MOVE!!! But, we really need a smaller house and a smaller payment. We found a house in our ward (AWESOME) but it is a little more of a drive for Tim to work (stinks) This house is my favorite out of all the ones I have looked at. We found another house that I don't like as much but it is closer to Tim's work, close to all the shopping in a GREAT area and a little bit cheaper and it is in our old ward that we lived in for two months. I really liked that ward and didn't want to move out of it when we did. Now, I have made friends here in this ward and don't want to leave it. I don't like that house but Tim REALLY likes it! AHHHH!!!! I'm going CRAZY!!!!! We need to decide FAST and I hate that! Why can't the house I like, be the one close to all the shopping and Tim's work and have the smaller payment and be in our current ward???? That would just be too perfect!!!

June 5th - Another eventful day!

Well our trip to AZ has come to an end. I leave back to GA tomorrow. But I couldn't leave without another BIG eventful day! (Not by choice)

As most of you know, my parents live on a citrus farm and my dad works it himself. He is 72 years old (Next week) and retired and so that is his full-time hobby. He gets up early and goes to work on whatever needs to be done around the farm. He LOVES it!!! Well, at about 10:30 this morning, my sister was in the shower and my mom was still in her room (I think in the shower too) I was the only one to answer the phone. My dad called and asked me to come get him on the other side of the citrus orchard. He said "I fell out of a tree and I think I broke my leg." My dad does not call anybody for help. He will come in bleeding and hobbling before he will call. So I knew it was bad when he asked me to come get him and when he said "I think I broke my leg". I am so grateful he has a cell phone and that he keeps it on him. If he kept it in the truck or something he wouldn't have been able to call. So I asked my niece to run and tell my sister what happened so she could watch my kids when she got out of the shower and then asked my 16 year old niece and 13 year old nephew to come with me because I knew I would need help with my dad. And we ran out the door. As I was looking for my dad, I saw my 17 year old nephew who was looking for grandpa for some other reason (a major blessing) so I told him to follow me and then a minuet later I saw my other 20 year old nephew who is married and has a job but luckily wasn't at work today and so he was over mowing his dad's lawn (another big blessing!) He saw me and I waved at him to come over. I know the lord put them there right when I needed them. Being 8 months pregnant and knew I couldn't lift my dad up myself. And I wasn't sure if my niece and nephew that I brought with me would be enough help. We found grandpa (my dad) he was laying on his tummy, on top of a ladder that was on the ground. OUCH! He was up in a palm tree trimming the limbs and a friend of his called him asking if he could get some citrus from my dad. So he was getting out of the tree and as he put his foot on the ladder, the ladder fell. So he was hanging there and he thought he could just scale down the tree but little limbs on the tree gave way and he just fell right to the ground instead. He says he landed standing but then when his leg broke he fell. So anyway, my strong nephews lifted him up off the ground and got him into the car. Then my brother pulled up. He looked at my dad's leg and told me to get him right to the ER! He had a compound fracture. A bone was sticking out of his leg. So I took him to the ER. I stayed with him until my mom showed up. She came right after they did x-rays and I took off. One of my brothers came and my other brother was on his way so the ER room was getting too crowded. So I left. I needed to get back home anyway. But after the x-rays, they said he broke both bones in his leg and broke his ankle. They had to do surgery today and put medal rods through his heel and leg above the break and attached a big metal plate. He has to stay in the hospital til' at least Monday maybe longer, I'm so bummed we are leaving tomorrow. But at the same time I am so glad I was here to help and so glad that this happened at the end of our trip so we could spend as much time as possible with him. The kids and I went down tonight after his surgery to say good-bye. He has to have another surgery in 2 or 3 weeks to actually fix the break (I guess to cast it?) because they couldn't fix it today. I guess it was so badly broken. He will be in a wheel chair for a long time! Which wont go over well with my dad. He can't sit still for very long. And they say his ankle will never be the same. I am so glad my parents have an elevator in the house so he doesn't have to sleep on the couch. He can go upstairs to bed. Anyway, It was a very eventful day!

Up date: June 8th- My mom called today, my dad is still in the hospital and she said they are moving him to Scottsdale Memorial Trauma Center. I guess they feel like the break is so bad they need a Trauma Specialist to work on it. WOW! Totally crazy! I feel so bad for my dad.

Here are some pictures....
On Saturday (a week before) Riding in Grandpa's truck. Going to feed the cows...


Helping grandpa feed the cows.

Kenna thinks the cows stink...



WARNING!If you have a week stomoch, DO NOT look at this next picture....



Friday at the ER (bone sticking out of his leg)...


Visiting grandpa after surgery...

Good-bye hugs for Grandpa...



Some of the cousins that came to visit grandpa that night...

Arizona - May 24th

We are enjoying our summer vacation in Arizona. We have only been here 4 days and have all ready had a fun incident. Katrina and her cousin Kylie were playing in the Family room at grandmas house and they were throwing stuffed animals in the air and catching them. Katrina lost her balance and fell and hit her head on grandmas tile hearth (the seat in front of the fire place)and she split her head open. She was gushing blood and had a DEEP cut! We took her to the new Banner Gateway ER. It was really nice, we had no wait, they took us right in. It was great! Then Dr. Price came in! He is in my parents ward and we just saw him at church a few hours earlier in Sunday school. The lesson was on keeping the sabbath day holy and he was talking about having to work in the ER two Sundays out of the month and that last time they had this lesson he had to sew up brother ?(somebody) that evening. Well, it was us this time. He actually was the Dr. that sewed me up when I split my chin open when I was 4 years old. He was the Dr that sewed up my sister when she fell out of the tree and split her leg open, he sewed up my brother twice!!! Anyway. WE have a history with Dr. Price. It is funny! Here are some pics of Katrina.
OUCH!!!

Really Gross!

I couldn't stand the sight of her cut. I had to put something over it before we left. She fell asleep in the car on the way to the ER. I had to hold her head up.

Then the Dr. had me take it off so he could look at it. I felt SO BAD for even putting it on after that! I think it hurt her worse than actually hitting her head. Poor girl!
Waiting to be sewn up! She was only awake for a little bit and then fell asleep again right after this.

She's back to sleep..

Dr. Price sewing her up! She was so tired... They had lots of help there just in case she woke up and started screaming and trashing. But she didn't.

She slept the whole time he was stitching her up. It was a nice quiet evening in the ER. I was so worried about her waking up and SCREAMING the whole time. (Like I did when I was 4) But she was a perfect angel!

Yard work and D-backs!

Saturday began with Yard work and ended up with a rewarding evening with dad at the Diamondbacks game here in Atlanta. WE WON!!!!












And just for fun....

Explain this to me....

How the heck do you go from looking like this....

To looking like this in a week and a half?!?!?! I HAVE NO IDEA!!!

Baby Girl - 3D/4D Ultrasound

I am working on getting the video on here.... but not having much luck. Here are some of the pictures. She liked sticking her toung out alot but we didn't really get a picture of it. You can see it in the video (if I can get it to post) but not really in the pictures. Here are 5 of my favorites! And yes, it is confirmed AGAIN that it is a GIRL! No doubt about it! Oh also, last week at my Dr. appointment I measured a week early. Today at the ultrasound it was saying more than a week earlier. It said the 18th. Yahoo!
Yes, she is smiling in this picture! CUTE!...

Our CRUISE!!!

WARNING! This is by far my longest post ever!!!

We had such a blast on our cruise. Our destination was switched from Cozumel, Mexico to Key West Florida. What a blessing!!! (You will see why later.) Us girls had so much fun. I went with Monika Peterson and her friend from her ward Lisa. Our sweet husbands stayed home with the kids and did a great job holding down the fort. Tim even tried to take the kids camping but because of bad weather and tornado warnings they had to come home. But they went back the next day for breakfast. It was a fathers and son's camp out but he took the girls too.

Day 1: 5:30 AM - Monika came to drop off her boys (Tony had to work so Tim watched them) and to pick me up. We went back to her house to meet up with Lisa who was driving.

6:30 am - We were on the road to ALABAMA!

11:30 am (Alabama Time) 12:30 pm (Georgia Time)- We arrived at our port in Mobile, ALABAMA. We got all Checked in and on the boat within 1/2 hour. We went and had lunch while waiting for our room to be ready. Our room was ready by 1:30 so we went and hung out.

4 pm - DRILL. We had to grab our life vest and go to the assigned area for the drill. We listened to an announcement that told us what to do and where to go if there was an emergency and then put on our life vest. That was it. We were now leaving the port. So we went out to the deck and hung out for a little while. The breeze was so nice. The port was ugly and dirty. There was junk everywhere and the water was brown and gross. But that didn't last long. After we got out of the port and actually into the ocean, it was Beautiful! It took about an hour to get out.

5:30 pm - We went and took naps. We were sooo tired! Our dinner reservation wasn't until 8:15.


7:30 pm - We woke up and thought we were gong to be late for dinner. We hurried and went to dinner. When we got there the guy said your reservation isn't until 8:15, come back in 1/2 hour. Or cell phones had switched to international time and said 8:20 - we didn't know what time it was. I had to go buy a watch from one of the stores there so we would know the time. So we went out on the deck again to enjoy the ocean view until our dinner time.

8:15 pm - Dinner. It was really nice. We had more silverware and cups on our table than we knew what to do with. It was all fancy and gourmet. Which doesn't mean good. With me, it usually means disappointing. All I wanted was a yummy juicy steak. I got a Flat Iron Steak (the only steak on the menu)and it tasted like a Salisbury steak from those frozen dinner meals. Oh well. It was a dinner I didn't have to cook or clean up after. The other girls LOVED their Shrimp Cocktails and fish. I am not a seafood person so I wouldn't know.

10 pm - After dinner we went to one of the shows. It was a welcome aboard show they did some relay races and then a guy came out and did comedy. We had some good laughs but we were so tired that we were falling asleep too.

11:30 pm - We went back out on the deck for a few min to enjoy the night air and then we went back to our room and discovered our first towel animial. Oh, we had a letter on our bed when we got back that they took my Iron because they we were not allowed to have ions in our room. They said it was a fire hazard. So now I have to worry about remembering to get my Iron before we leave the boat. Dang it! Then we went right to sleep!

Day 2: 9 am - Woke up and got ready to go out and see some sun!

10 am - We got breakfast

11 am - Got a good spot on the deck and began our sun bathing process! We laughed and talked. Read some good books/Ensign Articles and drank Virgin Pina Coladas! It was a blast! We were really enjoying our day. It was beautiful. The sun was out but there was a constant cool wind to keep it a nice day.

2 pm - Went in for a late lunch and discovered the famous animals made of fruits and veggies. I realized I was getting burned. I knew I needed to be a little more cautious in the sun and cover up more.



2:30 pm - Back on the deck to hang out more in the sun! Monika and Lisa went for a spray Tattoo! I just hung out and got back to my book that I stole from Lisa. It was so good! By Dr. Laura - In Praise of Stay-at-home Moms! I was LOVING it! I put on Sunscreen first but my can was almost empty and so I really had to spread it thin. But I thought it would still work. We watched a guy on the deck do an Ice carving and watched a Hairy Chest Contest - EWWWW!!!! I am not a person that likes hairy chest. By this time I was feeling burned and so I put a towel over my legs, shoulders and chest.


4:30 pm we went in to start getting ready for dinner. But FIRST! Had to go buy alovera spray because I was feeling really BURNED! They were too but not as bad.

8 pm - We went for dinner. It was formal night so we had to dress up in our nicest attire. I had another Steak but this time it was a - NY Strip? I cant remember. It was good. And so big, I had to split it with Monika. The girls again loved their shrimp cocktails and Lobster.

10 pm - we went out on the deck to enjoy the night air for a few minuets and to eat Ice cream. We had some good Laughs! We were like 3 teenage girls. We went and saw a show. And then went back to our room and discovered our next towel animal
and then
went to bed. Well, Monika and Lisa went to bed, I laid in bed in pain from my sun burn and couldn't sleep. After a while, I was up pacing the floor in TEARS from the PAIN!!! I could not sit or lay down to relax because I was in so much pain! I paced the hallways and said multiple prayers begging the Lord for some relief so I could lay down and sleep.

Day 3: At 5 am I again, tried to lay down and sleep after pacing the hallway all night. I couldn't. I got up and went into the bathroom and sat in the shower for a hour and let cold water run on my legs. By then, I was so tired and worn out I laid down and slept for about 20 min. Then I was up in pain again. So I got ready for the day. I couldn't wait for the medical center on board to open at 8am so I could go down there to get some pain releif for my legs.

Finally at 7:45 am I went down there and talked to a nurse. She said all she could give me was Tylenol and Alovera. I told her I already had alovera on my legs and I took the MAX Tylenol I could take in a 24 hour period! She said she couldn't help me. I called Tim in tears. He gave me some comfort.

8:05 am - I went back to my room. The girls were up getting ready.

8:30 am - We got breakfast. I couldn't even sit still to eat. I ate so fast and was up walking again. I sprayed LOTS of sun screen on my face legs and arms and we headed off the boat on to the Island of Key West. As soon as we walked outside the heat hit my legs and it was more painful. It was like getting sunburned all over again.
We walked around and found a place where we could sign up to do some fun stuff. Because I am pregnant I can't really do anything. So I just went along to video Monika and Lisa. There were so many things to do. They all sounded fun. We decided on Para sailing.

11 am - we got on a boat to para sail. I kept a towel over my legs. That kept the sun from touching them but that didn't help when somebody bumped my legs. Every time somebody bumped my legs, I was about to cry in pain. It was lots of fun to watch them para sail though. I was so envious. I really wanted to go.

12 pm - we got off the boat and started looking for our next adventure. We didn't get far. I told the girls I was in so much pain. We decided to go sit at a restaurant in the shade and relax for a bit and get lunch. Right after we sat down I looked at my legs and they were swollen up twice their normal size. I broke down in tears!!! I couldn't take it any more. I told them to go do some fun stuff and that I would meet up with them later. I was going to the hospital. They were so sweet. They said they would come with me. A guy (who was on the same cruise ship as us) in the restruant saw what was going on and offered to take me to the hospital. We had to go to a different Island to the hospital. This is my reason for being so grateful that we we did not go to Mexico or Bahamas. I don't know if I could have gotten help on either of those Islands.

12:45 pm - We walked into the hospital and Tim called to see how I was doing. I broke down in tears AGAIN! It was good to talk to him though. The girls were so sweet and kept me in good spirits. We had some good laughs.



2:45 pm - We finally got in to see the Dr. He totally understood what pain I was in. I had a 1st degree burn on my legs. He said as the cool air came across my legs my body would jump and cringe because my legs were so HOT (not sexy hot, but temp. hot). He knew it was painful. He said my legs were swelling up as a reaction to the burn and would swell more if I didn't keep the elevated. He said stay out of the sun and keep those legs elevated. He prescribed me the best pain medicine he could considering I am pregnant and couldn't give me much. I was happy with anything that would take the edge off the pain. He said there was a cream that would help more but couldn't give it to me because I was pregnant and it would absorb into the skin and go to the baby. They called us a taxi cab to take us to Walgreen's to get my prescription filled. We got it along with some Coco Butter with Aloe and some burn spray to numb the skin.



3:30 pm - We called another Taxi Cab to pick us up at Walgreen's and take us back to the Island of Key West. I went straight back to the boat and the girls went shopping. Since I didn't get a chance to get any presents for the kids, Monika grabbed a couple things for me to give the kids. I went right to my room, took my pain pills, elevated my legs and crashed! I was so tired! And I was finally able to have some relief from the pain. Oh, before I fell asleep I called Tim to give him the update. He was so sweet not to lecture me or make me feel stupid for doing a stupid thing by laying in the sun for too long without a sufficient amount of sun screen. I love my sweetheart! anyway, then I crashed. The medicine did not take the pain totally away, but it did take the edge off so I could relax.

4:30 pm - Time to be back on the boat. The girls came back and told me about the cool private beach they went to. I was so glad they went and did some other fun stuff. I felt so bad that they even went with me to the hospital. They are great!

5 pm - I ordered Room service since I couldn't walk anywhere. It was yummy! The girls ate with me since they missed lunch because we went to the hospital. We had more good laughs and hung out. Then they got ready to go to dinner

8: 15 pm - They went to dinner. I painfully got out of bed to take a shower. That was not fun! It hurt so bad!!! Then I took another pain pill, filled out my room service card for breakfast put it outside on the door and went to bed for the night. I slept soooo good!!! We didn't get a towel animal this night because I was in my room when room service came so they did the minimum and left! I only had to get up once to go potty. The pain from standing after having my legs elevated for so long was so horrible. But I had to do it. I took ANOTHER pain pill and went right back to sleep.

Day 4: We laid in bed until 9:30am when room service showed up. I was so excited because I had put on the card to come at 8:30 and I had ben awake since 8:30 waiting for it. I was so hungry. I ordered a Banana, Muffin, Milk and Cereal. The guy walks in with 10 plates on his tray along with 8 boxes of cereal 3 different drinks, plus Hot chocolate. I was thinking he had somebody elses order on there too. Then he gives it all to us. I looked at the girls and said "did you order something?" The guy handed me the room service order card and the girls started laughing. Every thing accept Coffey was checked off on the card. They did it the night before and thought they would get a good reaction out of me. They also changed the time on the card to 9:15. That is why it came so late. It was pretty funny. I was so confused at first. Between the 3 if us we ate it all. The portions were so small it wasn't that hard to do. We hung out in our PJ's until 11. IT was great! We just talked and had some good laughs.

12 pm - we got ready for Lunch. I rented a wheel chair since I couldn't walk. That was great! I think we got down to lunch about 1:00. There was a nice family that came and sat by us. We had fun talking. Then they told us there was a Chocolate Buffet upstairs until 2:30pm.

2:15 pm - We rushed up stairs to get some chocolate. Some of it was good. It was mostly gourmet which to me means, disappointing. IT was not very good. Oh, on our way to the elevators to go up to the chocolate buffet, we saw the guy that took us to the hospital. He was such a nice guy. We were ever so grateful to him for doing that.

2:30 pm - The girls took me back to the room so I could elevate my legs again and rest. On our way back to our room, I got in a wheel chair accident. Monika was driving. We were laughing so hard, I almost peed my pants! Monika thought it would be fun to run down the hall way and then jump on the back for a ride (like we used to do with shopping carts when we were kids) She ran and then hopped on and we ran right into the wall but it wasn't just the wall. It was somebodies room door. I've never seen anybody come out of their room so fast! I don't think he expected to see 3 girls with 1 in a wheel chair. I think he expected to see drunk teenagers or something. His face changed so fast from a Mad, "what was that" look to a concerned "are you ok?" He even said, "are you ok?" we were trying to not laugh and said "yea" he just shut his door. We were trying so hard to be quite until we got in our room. And then we just busted out laughing! Then went up on the deck to swim and enjoy the day. Then they came back and got ready for the evening.

7 pm - We went to the last show of our trip. They had some good performers. Their costumes were kind of small which I was disappointed about. It was supposed to be a family performance. I guess the actual performance was for families but not the costumes. Anyway, we had a good laughs with one of the guys trying to keep his pants up while dancing but they just kept falling and eventually were down around his ankles as he finished the dance. It was really funny! Luckily he had shorts on underneath.

8:15 pm - We went to dinner. We had the same waiter the whole trip so when he saw me in a wheel chair he was shocked! He said what happened?! Telling somebody you got a bad sunburn seems so stupid. And I am sure lots of people thought, I've had a bad sunburn but it didn't put me in a wheel chair. How do you explain how bad it really is? You don't. I just let them think what they wanted to think. Believe me, if I could walk, I would have. Despite the pain. But seriously, It was that painful and my legs were that swollen. My ankles wouldn't bend. So when I walked I looked like a lobster colored penguin walking or worse. LOL!

Baked Alaska

Dang! I wish I could remember the name of this one...

We got another cool towel animal

We had fun dressing it up



We also had to take some fun pictures before we returned the wheel chair.


10 pm - The girls went to another show while I stayed and got ready for bed. My legs and feet were killing me despite the pain pills. I called room service to reserve the wheel chair for then next day and found out that we needed to have our bags outside of our room by Midnight so they could pick them up. That way we didn't have to worry about carring all of our bags off while pushing me in a wheel chair. So I quickly packed. The girls came back at 11:30 and quickly packed too. We got all of our bags out by midnight and then went to bed!

Day 5: We woke up at 7:30 am. The girls went and got breakfast. I couldn't because I didn't have a wheel chair (I had to return it the night before) and it was still to painful to walk. I had a granola bar in my bag that I ate. They came back and we hung out until our number was called to get off the boat.

9:15 am - A lady came with the wheel chair and got me and the girls. She took us to get our bags and then all the way out to the curb where we waited for our car. It was so nice that I didn't have to walk at all. Then we got in the car and left. I expected it to be a sunny day but the sky was totally dark and it was raining hard. I asked the girls. "Is there a tornado warning?" I called tim to ask him and he said yes. Oh, how exciting! We quickly got on the road and got out of Mobile, AL. The sky cleared up about an hour outside of Mobile. Then I realized I forgot to get my Iron. I was so mad! I called them 3 different times for different reasons and asked them each time how to get my Iron back and they kept telling me they would give it to me when I lef the ship. Well, they didn't give it to me and I forgot to ask, as I figured I would. That is why I kept telling the girls to help me remember but, I still forgot. Dang it! Anyway, We drove back home. It took us about 6 hours to get home. Which sounds long to me but it we had so much fun talking that it did not seem that long. IT was GREAT! Dispite the PAINFUL 1st degree sunburn.

On our way home

I brought the kids some star fish.

What my legs look like today. Not lobster Red anymore but they are turning purple which is making me nervous! And still painful. I can't wait until I can quit taking these dang pain pills. They make me dizzy.