March 24, 2013

I've been rearranging all our bedrooms.  It's kept me so busy.  The kids all stayed in the same rooms, but they all switched beds.  I've been working on bedding and decorations and curtains and I even painted the girls bed--turquoise blue, which turned out so well. Bob's been so good to put up with the mess and all my returns because I changed my mind.  But we're pretty much done now.  I just need to figure out a few things to go on the wall, but I'll do that some time later.  My deadline was spring break because all my family is coming to visit.  My mom gets here Tuesday, so I have to be pretty much done.

Everyone is coming for my Dad's 60th birthday party.  They'll mostly be here Wednesday to Sunday.  We made a book for him like we did for my mom's 50th birthday.  It should be fun.  But we're also going to Lake Tahoe to celebrate my dad's birthday.  We go there every year anyway, but this year I was trying to decide dates with Amanda because Wendy can't go. And Amanda suggested we come with our family while they are gone to watch their house and use their things. We'd talked about doing something like that for my Dad's birthday, but big vacation rentals are so expensive. It worked out perfectly.  We'll go in August. 

My face and headaches are doing better.  My skin cleared up great.  And the neurologist gave Bob and me mild muscle relaxers.  We take them at night and they seem to be helping.  I think mine mostly help me sleep better.  But I've been having less headaches and I can wear my contacts most of the day.

We've really been blessed financially lately.  We got $25,000 from Linda's life insurance.  We're going to save most of it and use some to pave a basketball court in the backyard and some to take our three oldest to VA in September.  We also got a big tax refund because this was the first year we've claimed our huge income loss on our rental house.  So we're going to Disneyland with that.  Bob just got a big tv for our living room.  And now Bob's grandparents are going to give us their 3 yr old minivan for only $10000 when we go there.

Bob started working for my dad and Dr. Vita. The girl he reported to left ccbootcamp to go to Dr. Vita.  And she recruited him to come with her.  They have plenty of work.  And my dad has some projects that Dustin was doing, but he quit so Bob asked if he could do it.  So Bob's been working 15-20 hours a week.  We're pretty excited about all the extra income we're getting.  All my budgeting and planning is working out how I wanted, but so much faster!

Danny went to SeaCamp last week.  He was gone Monday through Wednesday.  We missed him so much but he had a great time. I can't believe how old he's getting.  He eats a ton and he lives to play basketball and play with CJ Dean.