Viruses, Vets and Vacations....

Hi Bloggy world!!! I've missed my blog friends this past week. How are you? Did you miss us? I am starting to get back into the realm of life again...its been a turmulous week indeed

Thurs night Jared had his third soccer game which he scored another goal!!! YAY! He is now 3 for 3!

I took off on Friday in order to get packed up and get things moving along...Jared'd 7th Birthday! I went to Hugo's (grocery store) after dropping the boys at school and picked up a fern (last year I started a tradition of buying a new plant for him on his birthday) and a birthday balloon...all through the store as I was gathering travel snacks Jaiden played with the balloon...punching it, letting it go to the end of its tether and drawing it back in again...up up up up, down, down, down down...she had about as much fun with it in the store as Jared has...and he has had a ball-ooney too. Isn't it amazing how something simple as air can entertain children for hours? One of their most favorite toys...bubbles...I purchased a 3 pack at the dollar store the other day (to take to the ballgame in case of boredom - they didn't make it out of my purse) they have had so much fun with just bubbles...

anyway, back to the trip....got home, got my plants watered, packed, ice cooler etc. Hubs comes home early (mid morning by now) so I put him in charge of dropping puppy at the kennel duty...a few minutes later he calls back...puppy is due a shot and cannot stay at kennel until shot is administered...oh great! Luckily our vet will take her at 1:30 that afternoon...our planned departure time of 2:00 is looking quite dismal by now...but what else can we do? I tried other vets in town but they could not take her until much later. So we get all packed up and at around 1 head to the vets office to wait for the vet to return....seems that the vet assistants cannot administer shots without the doctor being on the premises so even though there was no one there when we arrived we had to wait until 1:30 and the waiting room was full by then so Chloe sets in to barking (she is not a barker...whats up with that, NONE of the other dogs are barking by the way) so soon as the vet arrived the techs were able to administer the shot so we were out on the road at 2 just as we had hoped to be.

Got to Gramma K.s she had baked a cake for Jared and made him a special spagetti supper, which he was too excited to eat...finally got to the cake and presents and let the birthday boy play with his new toys - a transformer and the Bee Movie.

Saturday we got up and headed for the city, met up with Scott's brother and wife in the mall, had lunch, rode some rides with the kiddos then headed over to our hotel to prepare for game time. The boys went to the game while Jaiden and I went to a mall close by.

Sunday the kids took me out to breakfast at Perkins then we came back to the hotel and swam in the pool, warmed up in the sauna and then headed back to the mall of America and IKEA.

The game Sunday night was interesting, it was hard to pay attention because Jaiden was wired and couldn't seem to sit still in the itty bitty space of seating that your allotted...and in between getting up every time someone needed to pass by there was not a lot of attention paid to the game...but just being there was really cool. Cody was very disappointed that he wasn't able to get autographs on either night...and the Socks lost 3 of the 4 games.

Monday we headed home and somewhere in the night Scott caught a virus and woke up very ill. So I spent the night being a nurse...next night was my turn so by Wednesday I was exhausted...took off early from work because I was about to fall asleep at my desk. Thursday felt much much better....and now its finally FRIDAY! :) Yay!