Lasik

As most of you know, on Monday, Gregg had Lasik. Everything went fine but the irritation directly after the procedure was almost unbearable for him. He said that for the first few hours it felt like he had a chemical burn on his eyes. He had an appointment every single day this week because there was some issues with fogginess but that seems to be clearing up now. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for good news on his appointment this coming Monday.

I thought this photo showed clearly how he felt... with his head against the wall. There was nothing we could do about the pain and he couldn't stop moving trying to get his mind off of it. We did try some Benedryl and Tylenol and that didn't really help, except it did make him fall to sleep, which was good in the end, since after he awoke, the burning was pretty much gone.

Here's Payton and Austin playing with some silly glasses, since those, lasers and eyeballs were the main topics of discussion over the past week. Thankfully that phase has since passed. Oh, and Payton had her first Orthodontic appointment this week, talk about a sign your baby is growing up... oh, that and the whispers about boys coming from her room when her friends stay over. Don't you occasionally wish you could stop time?

WAR & The Carwash

What a beautiful weekend it was. I figured I'd better post today since Gregg gets his eyes done tomorrow and I fear I'll be too busy carting him around to appointments after that to post.
Here are a few photos.


Gregg teaching the kids to play "WAR" in Payton's room before our Saturday begins.


I don't want to talk about the paint color in Payton's room. She picked it out (it's called watermelon and it looked less neon on the chip) and I HATE it.


Later that day, we jumped in the car and went to run around town. Here is Austin, not too happy about me taking his picture it seems.


Payton, always loving the photo op.


We happened to stop by Gregg's work. The kids had to stand outside of daddy's workspace so he could send out a super secret squirrel email about something he won't disclose.

Later we went out to dinner. Here is Gregg trying to teach Austin how to do a math puzzle while we wait for our food.

Sunday, Payton decided it would be fun to wash Gregg's truck & my car.

Gregg did quite a bit of the work, he deserves a big thank you. Although, I think this was about the third time he's ever washed his truck & the first he's ever washed my car.

Payton came up to me later and told me it was far more fun than she had expected. She said she'd do it again any time I'd like, all I have to do is ask. I'm just happy I didn't have to wash my own car, since I'm usually the only one who does this sort of chore around here.

On a side note, I started a new food blog. There is a link on the side of this page. It's just random recipes and photos that I thought I'd share. Hope someone enjoys it.

I've Been Tagged!

Well this is a first for me, so I'll give it a shot.

The instructions are as follows:
1. Pick up the nearest book (of at least 123 pages.)
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences.
5. Link back to the person who tagged you.
6. Tag five people.

1. Pick up the nearest book.

Since I don't think that cookbooks would make very interesting subjects for this sort of thing, I had to go to the bookcase and pull out the last book I read. P.S. I love you - by Cecelia Ahern. I have not seen the movie and I'm not sure I want to. It just doesn't look very good. The book, however was really entertaining for light reading.

2. Open the book to page 123. Find the fifth sentence.

3. Post the next three sentences.

He started laughing again.
"Oh, I'm sorry, Daniel, she really is ridiculous sometimes."
Holly shook her head over her sister.

4. Link back to the person who tagged you. Mandy

5. Tag five people.

I have nobody to tag. Everyone I know with pages have already been tagged.

Only In Virginia Beach...

So I get woken up this morning at 5:35am by a text message. I thought to myself that it was probably from Gregg (since he was up and getting ready for work) saying Happy Valentine's Day. I figured I'd ignore it and check the message when I got up to get the kids on the bus. Well, it kept going off so I had to check the message right then or I'd never get back to sleep. Come to find out, it was from the kids school, giving notice that school would start 2 hours late today because of, get this, inclement weather.

Here is the so called inclement weather, only in a beach community does this qualify. I knew that all you in Oklahoma would get a kick out of these photos because the whole thing is such a joke.


Does that car have a dusting of snow?


Holy Cow, it is snow!!


How can people be expected to drive in such weather?


Ok, all joking aside, can you believe they delayed school for this?


Now here are just some random photos...

Jolie outside on a nice warm day.


A close-up of my beautiful little girl.


Payton before school a couple days ago.

And last, but certainly not least, here is Gregg. He is having eye surgery in a few days and they had to dilate his eyes for tests, so he's wearing sunglasses. Somehow this has lasted more than 2 days now, he did get off work the afternoon of the tests, so I don't think he minded. I am not so sure that Navy Doctors are the way to go when it comes to your eyesight, but they swear they know what they are doing.

One Windy Weekend...

So this weekend could have been beautiful be we had wind gusts hitting 60 mph on Sunday. Saturday and Sunday both were in the high 60's and low 70's. Thursday and Friday of last week we nearly hit 80* here, the sun was out and it was warm enough to give everyone a little spring fever. But today the cold smacked us back into February with a high of 34*. We had our usual weekend here of a bit of shopping and out to dinner on Saturday. Sunday we stayed home out of the wind, watched movies and had some yummy chocolate cake.


Gregg and Payton in the kitchen before we left, ready to shop till they drop. I am going to spare you all the nasty details of shopping with Gregg for new shoes (for him). We'll leave it at this: 4 stores, 2 1/2 hours and probably 400 pairs of shoes later, nothing. On a postive note, I had two pairs of new flip flops picked out within the first 10 minutes. A cute black leather pair of Clarks and some TH madras which were so cute with my jeans the next day. I don't think I'll go shoe shopping with Gregg ever again.


Here's a photo of the kids playing in Austin's room before we left on Saturday.


Gregg and I being stupid. You wouldn't believe how many photos like this we have.

A super cool closeup of Jolie. I am sure she was real thrilled about the flash.

Another of Gregg and I. I realized that in the photo above of us, I looked like a giant.

Sunday evening Gregg made a fire downstairs since it started to cool off outside. We use our fireplace downstairs all the time. The one upstairs in our bedroom, however, almost never gets used. I think it's just too much of a pain to lug firewood upstairs.


Here is Payton enjoying the fire.

A Nasty Bug Going Around Here

Well this past weekend was a waste. I was sick mid last week and Gregg caught whatever it was that I had (aches & congestion) and he was sick over the weekend. We did watch the super bowl and rather enjoyed the final quarter and commercials. Monday Payton came home from school and has something completely different (fever & vomiting). I hope we all don't catch that nasty bug too.

So, since I have no new photos from over the last week or weekend, I've decided to post some photos from a couple weeks ago when Payton had a friend over and we all went to a hockey game. Hopefully, with any luck, we'll all be well & I'll have some new photos next weekend.


Payton and her friend Morgan while the ice is being cleaned. Everyone had a pretty good time. Although I think The kids enjoyed the snacks more than the game.


Well, here we are... don't we look thrilled? We had really great seats, but the fans were something else, very obnoxious. We were virtually ON the ice, the second row from the glass. There were some really nasty fights, which from what I understand, is why you go to hockey games.


Morgan and Payton playing games & looking oh so very sweet and innocent. At least they aren't trying to fool anyone.


I have no idea why they always sit together in the same chair.


Austin at the hockey game. I think he enjoyed it, although he didn't understand the game. But to be honest, neither did we until we came home and looked up the rules. We might have to make it to another one sometime soon.



Can you tell they are best friends?