Well, first off, i think our children are against vacations. I am sure you all remember when Forest and I went to Vegas in March and the day we left Owen ended up in the ER with pneumonia. Well, the day we left for this last little vacation, Miss Brielle ended up in urgent care with severe pink eye in BOTH eyes. THEN, not even half way to Hermiston on our way to The Dalles, Owen starts screaming and crying about needing to go to the doctor because his ear hurt. He loves going to the doc, so we thought maybe it was just an act of jealousy because Brielle got to go to the doc and not him. After him screaming the entire drive to The Dalles, and seeing that after we got there, his eye was also getting nasty looking, we headed to the ER after dropping Brielle at my grandparents house. Sure freakin enough, he had a terrible ear infection and pink eye. To make the story even better, the doc asked what eye drops Brielle was on, so he could prescribe the same for Owen. I told him and he looked at me like I was crazy and said are you serious? Uhhhmmm, YES! Come to find out, that drops that Brielle were on are not recommended for use in children AT ALL. They have a steroid in theme and it can cause serious permanent damage and even blindness. NICE!!!! So, he gave me enough drops for Owen to share with Brielle also. Good grief, I am so not looking forward to that bill. UGH!

After getting that all taken care of on Sunday, we laid low at grandma and grandpas for the week and then hit the zoo on Thursday. It was very hot, but we had a great time. Saturday and Sunday we went racing in Woodburn and had alot of fun. We are all very thankful and happy to be home. Now if I could get Brielles poor little nose to clear up. I am praying its just teething and allergies that's causing it.

Wow, what a long 8 day vacation it was!! I will update tomorrow, promise!!!!!!!!

Yesterday I had Forest get up in the attic and dig out "my" baby doll from when I was a little girl. I got the doll when i was really close to Brielles age. I put Brielles coming home outfit on it, and Brielle absolutely LOVES that doll. Its really cool to see her enjoying it as much as I did. That doll went everywhere with me!

Forest got another first place win at the racetrack lastnight. Woohoo!!!!!!!! We had a ton of friends there to watch him too, so that made it even better. We had a great time.

I am supposed to be packing righ tnow, but I am dreading it. We are leaving after church tomorrow for our little vacation. I am very excited about going. I think the kids and I will have a great time hanging out with grandma and grandpa for the week.

What a busy week already! I ended up going to The Dalles monday morning and stayed the night so my aunt and uncle could see the kids before they headed back to Utah. Thats a long drive with just me and the kids. Its a little over 2 hours. More like 2 and a half when you have to stop and pee! We had a great time though. Owen played so hard with his cousins. Brielle fell in love with uncle Jack, but that might just be because of her vast love for MEN. I am in SO much trouble with her, or will be someday. She absolutely LOVES men. Its ridiculous!!!! I am supposed to be doing laundry right now, so I can start to pack for our trip. We leave sunday. I am so excited and cannot wait to take the kids to the zoo in Portland next week. Its going to be so much fun. Owen is absolutely going to love it!!! We are going to be gone for 8 days. It will be a great little vacation for us all.

I know, I am a complete slacker when it come to this blog think lately. Bare with me, we have been crazy busy!!!! And its only about to get worse. I may not post much next week at all because we are going to be out of town from the 12th to the 20th. Forest has a class to go to in Portland for work, so the kids and I are going to go down and stay in The Dalles with my grandparents while Forest is working. We will get there sunday afternoon, the kids and I will stay until Thursday, then Grandma and I are taking the kids to the zoo in Portland and she will drop us off at the motel afterwards and we will stay with Forest Thurs. night and Fri. night. Then saturday morning we are off to Woodburn to do some racing. We will be staying in Woodburn Sat. night and racing again sunday. Then sunday we are staying in The Dalles again, and then heading home Monday. Its going to be so busy, but so much fun. I am REALLY looking forward to spending some time with Grandma and Grandpa and also going ot the zoo, oh and okay, the shopping too!!!!!

Our 4th of July weekend was great. We went on our wine tasting tour saturday and had a total blast. It was awesome! The kids stayed at Stephanies house saturdya night. Paul and Sheryl were down, so they kept them while we went on our tasting thing. They went out on the boat and they are both so tan it makes me sick. I am so jealous of their little tans, its not even one bit fair!!!!! Anyway, I am off to make breakfast for the monsters!

My internet has been down for what seems like FOREVER! But alas, it has been fixed...today, wahoo! We haev another super busy weekend ahead of us. We are going on a 6 hour wine tasting tour on saturday amd a busy day in Hermiston on sunday. This past week has been very busy also. We have had doctor appointments, dentist appointments, hair appointments, internet fixer dude appointments! The list goes on and on. Paul and Sheryl got here this afternoon and will be staying tonight and tomorrow night with us. They will be taking the kids with them to Stephanies house saturday while we are on our tour. They are actually keeping them all night so its looking like party night for us saturday, YAY!!!! We are actually going on the tour with some really good friends of ours that moved to Idaho. It will be nice since we don't get to see them very often and they are so much fun. Anyhow, its late, im tired and I have a busy day tomorrow. I have to rest up for my pedicure tomorrow!!!

Pictures to come soon......I promise!