Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Uncle Jim's at the Cape

Hi Mom and Dad,
Here are some pics of the house in Chatham. You can see over the garage and kitchen where they bumped up to add the upstairs. The door (really a center door flanked by long windows) go out from the room upstairs onto the balcony. Sat out there in the evening (Don and Austin were watching some guy flick) and in the mornings before everyone got up, beautiful and peaceful!!

The girls out in front of the house.
The kitchen is all white and stainless, really bright and easy to keep clean. Love the new wood floors throughout the house!

The hall when you come in the front door. This whole part of the house really has not changed except for the floors.

A pocket door seperates the kitchen from the back entryway. Washer and drier are out there, and they added the stairs.

Nice big open room, all white with blue couches. Lots of storage with the trunks as end tables, and dressers on each end. Both couch and loveseat pull out for sleeping (couch is blow up bed, VERY comfy!). Pretty bathroom with sloped ceiling (but nice big shower) right to hte left when you come up the stairs. Up here and in the one bedroom downstairs they use they put in wall mounted central AC units (the compressor is outside and the units just hang on the wall). Nice and quiet.

Pic is kind of dark. Small table and chairs in center of room and loveseat, trucks and armoire across room from couch. Very bright and open. Balcony is off that door.

Oh, this is a better pic of that side of the room.

This is the new driveway they added to the back of hte house, so you could go right from here into back door and upstairs.










Cape Cod

We had a great, although short, vacation in Cap Cod last week - around a one day trip Don needed to make to MA for work.

Austin and Lina playing at the park
Daddy and Bell with squirt guns at the beach.

Lina playing in the sand

Bell had a great time in hte water, she is really becoming a water rat!


Still a kid at heart....


Checking out the fiddler crabs daddy caught


Late afternoon at the beach - the girls and Austins sand castle


Love them!


Andrew our guide showing us some of the crabs and fish we found in hte tidal flats at the Wildlife Sanctuary in Wellfleet. Lina conked out, so it was a good thing we had carriers.

All the kids got nets and Bell had a great time wading around catching fish and crabs.


Checking out the horseshoe crabs

The girls had a great time...

Look what I found mom.. she was not very happy when I told her it was a sancutary, so she had to leave the shells at the beach.

Uncle Jim and Aunt Loretta's house in Chatham, beautiful!!

The girls.

Of course we could not miss the Cape Cod potato chip factory tour!

Enjoying the free chips :)



Such a teenager


The girl entertaining us on hte way home with vacation bible school songs!!
Hanging in the jacuzzi tub after swimming at the hotel. We got upgraded to a "suite" becasue of Priority Club, nice!!

Lina swimming on the steps at the pool, it was a saltwater pool. It was great really, you could barely tell it was saltwater and no chlorine burn. We were in the pool 3 times, for TWO hours each time!!

Bell had a blast! She loves jumping in the pool and was swimming 4 or 5 strokes at a time by teh end of the trip!! I will try and post a video of her swimming.














Wednesday, July 14, 2010

One reason why I should listen to my mom and wear slippers!!

Both the nurse and Doctor could not find where it went in, but I ASSURED them it WAS in there and hitting a nerve! Sure enough the xray confirmed, the needle went all the way in, at least the 2/3 that didn't get left behind in the rug :)

And THIS is what it looks like when the Doctor says "I can feel it in there with the tweezers, but can't get it, lets take another xray with the tweezers in as a guide". He was close, just pulling in the wrong direction, so after 45 minutes of trying out it came!!

So this was my Monday:
1.5 hours at the dentist in the AM getting a scaling on right side, about 6 shots of novicane to numb me.
11:30 at night, needle in the toe, a bunch of shots in the toe to numb it (and more when he was still working on it and it was wearing off), a tetnis shot in the arm to be safe and an anti -inflammitory shot in the butt, oh.. and stitches to close up my toe.
NOT a good Monday....... I don't think Don has seen me cry that much combined in all the time he has known me (including two births!!), that sucker HURT!!

VBS

Some pics of Bell here from Vacation Bible School this week, more will post in the next 2 days.
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