Beach Outing

So, after the below mentioned dr. appt. I decided that we all deserved a fun outing. Then it got a bit out of hand. We drove to La Jolla walked around the cove, saw a bunch of Harbor Seals, and played in the sand a bit. Then the plan was to get a picnic lunch and eat it on the temple grounds. Well, the kids fell asleep on the way to the temple, so I started driving home. I'd been driving about ten minutes when I realized that I was near Belmont Park, which was not really on the way home so I must have taken a pretty round about way home. Well, Savannah woke up about the same time, so we stopped and had our picnic lunch on the beach there and I let the kids go on one ride at Belmont Park. They picked the boats. So, here are a few pictures from our day.

Tricare strikes again.

Another day, another Tricare issue. Lincoln has pink eye. Well, that's what they said when I took him in on Friday. Then he had an allergic reaction to the eye ointment they gave him, so we got to go back today. I called at 7:05 a.m. to make the appt. since the call center opens at 7, and was told that they had no available appt.s today. Apparently every single appt was booked in the first 5 minutes that they were open. Joy. So, the guy asked if I could make it to the Clairmont Mesa clinic in 30 minutes. We were currently dropping Jesse off at work, both kids were in their pjs, and I had just thrown clothes on without brushing my teeth or hair, but I took the appt anyway. So we make a quick run through the McDonald's drive-thru, and hurried to the clinic. We got there 2 minutes before his appt. So we walked in, just to be told that the appt was booked for tomorrow, not today. Not only that, but since we are assigned to a different clinic we aren't allowed to book appts at other clinics more than an hour in adavance, so they would have to cancel our appt for tomorrow. Luckily the lady was super nice, and scheduled us an appt in the East County (Santee) clinic for 9 am. So, we rushed home, I ran inside and brushed my teeth and hair, and grabbed clean clothes for the kids and a few diapers for Lincoln (he hadn't been changed yet from his nighttime diaper), and we rushed to Santee.

So we get there, and the nurse checks us in. Then the dr comes in. He asks what the problem is, and I explain what is going on with his eye, then go on to explain that I think there is something else going on with him as well. His eye is goopy, but not really red. Nobody else has caught pink eye from him the 5 days he's had it. He hasn't been rubbing it or anything (except when it was swollen from the other cream) Also he hasn't slept more than 2 hours at a time since last Wed, he cries most of the day, and hasn't eaten more than a bite or 2 in the same timeframe. The dr. totally blew off what I was saying and gave me a lecture about how pink eye makes kids uncomfortable, blah, blah, blah. So I repeated myself about the not sleeping, crying, not eating, etc. He says, "Well, he's not dehydrated." I don't care if he is dehydrated. Clearly there is something wrong with my child, and I want him checked out, dang it! The dr, kept insisting that all that was wrong was that he has pink eye, and didn't even check for anything else. I'm so glad that he wasn't our regular dr.

So, now we are just hoping that the eye drops he gave us will be some miracle cure for whatever is wrong with him or we will be at the dr again. We've already been 7 times this month, and its only the 21. Is it May yet?

Lincoln with "Pink eye"


Lincoln after getting the eye goop that he was apparently allergic to:

Pictures

Here are a bunch of pictures from our first weekend in Utah. After that my battery died, and I didn't have a charger. You may notice that they all have red eye and have not been cropped or anything. While Jesse was home and we were still in Utah he decided to clean off my harddrive and erased my picture editing program. So now I need a new one.

We're home!

Finally! We had a great time in Utah, but its good to be home. I'm a few days late posting this because I've been sick. Ear infection and sinus infection. Lucky me, I got to fly home with two little kids like that. Now I think Lincoln is coming down with it. He was up from 12:30-4 last night crying.

Here's a funny Savannah story while I'm posting anyway. While at my mom's house we were talking about ages. My mom asked Savannah how old she thought Grandpa (my dad) was, and Savannah answered, "Older than dirt."(She may have possibly been taught that) Then my mom asked how old Lincoln was, and she said, "Older than dirt and worms!"

Highlights from our weekend

It has been a crazy busy, and crazy fun weekend. Here are a few highlights in chronological order.

*Friday Christon (my sister) and Bret (my niece) both tried out for cheerleader. They both made it! I got to go to my sister's tryouts with my mom, and it was actually fun. And I got to be at the house when the "alien cheerleaders" came to kidnap her that night. Of course, this meant that I got to listed to stories of initiation a million times, and the "U-G-L-Y" cheer a billion times this weekend, but it was all fun and exciting.

*Saturday morning Savannah locked Bridger (my 14 month old nephew) in the bedroom. Almost 2 hours later when the second locksmith couldn't get the door unlocked we finally had then break it.

*Since everyone needed something fun after that we all went to the Junction and did glow in the dark mini-golf, bowling, and bumper cars. It was so fun! Especially since we had 3 adults and 8 kids.

*Lincoln learned to say Savannah's favorite word... BUTTCRACK!

*Lincoln also pointed to a pizza box and said, "Mmm, Mmm, that good!" Its the closest he's come to actually asking for something other that "Go," "Mine," and "Juice."

*It was conference weekend, and for the first time since I was 17, I wasn't sick!

*Tonight after conference we all went out and played a little "baseball" in my mom's backyard. It wasn't real baseball since we were playing with two 1 year olds, a 4 year old, a 4 year old, a 6 year old, a pregnant woman, and 2 men (my mom and I just watched) but it was very fun!

So, that was our crazy weekend! I hope everyone else had a great weekend as well.

I've been tagged!

Wow, this is a first. I feel honored. Kinda a weird question, but honored none the less that Samantha would pick me.

This is what you do:

1. Pick up the nearest book (at least 123 pages).

2. Turn to page 123.

3. Find the 5th sentence

4. Post the 5th sentence on your blog.

5. Tag 5 people.

"Was it not toward Jerumsalem that one turned to pray, however far away he lived?"
-from Two From Galilee, which is still on my mom's computer desk from when I finished reading it last week.

So, I tag Mar, Rebecca, Sharon, Patricia, and Fayette

Still in Utah

So we came to Utah on March 20 for Jesse's sister's wedding. The plan was to stay until the 26th. Well the day after Easter we got a call that a family that both Jesse and I are both close with's son had passed away during the night. We had been at their home that evening, and the boy was playing with our kids. He was 12 and passed away just hours later. So we decided to stay for the funeral, which was Sat the 29, and we would go back to San Diego that evening. Well, as I got thinking about it I decided that the kids and I should stay. My sister, Camille, who lives in Ohio is coming April 11-14 to bless her new baby, and I was planning on coming back for that since I am close with her and really want to see Cosette, my new niece. So, long story short, what was supposed to be a 5 day trip has turned into almost a month. We will be flying home on April 14.

We are having a great time though, other than getting sick. We had to go to the urgent care 3 times in 4 days. Friday Lincoln spiked a high fever out of nowhere. My nephew, Bridger, had been hospitalized the night before with a high fever and was dehydrated, so I felt that I needed to bring Linc in as soon as the fever started. The doctor said that it looked like strep throat, and since Bridger had a confirmed infection via blood test, Lincoln was put on an antibiotic without a culture. Sunday morning, Lincoln's fever was 104.5, and even with alternating Motrin and Tylenol wouldn't go below 101. So I decided to bring him back in. The dr. said that both his ears were infected, his throat was red, he had a lot of sinus drainage, and his chest was wheezy. So he was diagnosed with an antibiotic-resistant infection and put on a different antibiotic. He is allergic to penicillin drugs, so its always tricky to decide what to put him on. Monday morning Savannah woke up with a high fever (104.7) so we went back to the urgent care, again! She was diagnosed with pretty much the same thing, minus the wheezing. Today they are finally both fever free, just really grumpy and tired, and I think I am coming down with it... great!

We really are having fun though. The kids have gotten to spend a lot of time with their cousins, including my brother's son, Parker, who lives in Arizona and we haven't gotten to see in a really long time. We've seen all the grandparents including Jesse's grandfather that neither of my kids has ever met before, been to a wedding, a funeral, and a bridal shower. Had 2 Easter egg hunts. We've been to the children's museum. And we still have 2 weeks to fun left!

I forgot my camera cord, so I don't have any pictures from this trip, but I just developed a disposable camera from earlier this month. If you want to see some pictures I have a ton on our picture site, www.dropshots.com/carleyc the password is savannah