dangerous job.....

Who knew appraising houses could be such a dangerous job?! LOL! This really is quiet funny. Over the last year, I've had all kinds of injuries due to measuring houses. I've had my tape whip up (while I was rolling it back in) and pop me in the knuckles and make my hands bleed. I've raised up and whacked my head or shoulder on a tree branch, or on a window ledge...etc. I've also been poked and scratched by a number of thorny bushes, and even had my hair tangled in a super tall bush (hence the reason I usually pull it back when I'm going to work now).

Yesterday was just another day. I got to my first house, was almost finished measuring the exterior, and I had my tape hooked to the top of a fence (measuring out to the edge of the house where there was a gutter, so I couldn't hook onto the brick). Anyway, I'm rolling in my tape, and I whipped it up to get it to pop off of the top of the fence, and it whipped back and whacked me right in the head! Luckily I had on my sunglasses it because it bounced off of them to. Whew. So I'm standing there going "ouch!" and thinking "dang, I've already got a knot coming up on my head....I wonder if I'm bleeding". So I looked at Seth and said "Seth, does Mommy have anything on her head, right around here?" He looked at me and his eyes got huge and he said "Mommy, it's blood!" Yikes! So I'm thinking "Great! How am I going to explain to the homeowner that I just beat myself up with my tape measure?!" LOL! Luckily I was able to wipe off most of the blood and get it to slow down on the bleeding before I knocked on the door to go in. LOL! Then I had 2 other houses to go measure after that....luckily no major injuries were involved! Ha!

Here is a picture of my head. It doesn't look as bad in this picture, but it was all bumped up and swollen and throbbing for the rest of the day. It's still pretty tender today....

Here is the culprit. The teeth on the edge of my tape measure....LOL!

I sent my husband a text with a pic of my head yesterday after it happened. He couldn't stop laughing! He teased me about it all night last night.

Weekend

I took the boys to visit my parents this weekend. It was so nice to see them again. My Dad is doing pretty good, but his leg is still really swollen. It has now been 4 weeks since he broke it, and he is supposed to stay off of it for at least another 4 weeks.

Levi has his basketball tournament game tomorrow night. We did not win a single game. Poor kids. But they sure had fun, and that's all that really matters. They think they won the last game. We only had 4 players show up, and had to forfeit, but they let us use one of our 2nd graders, and go ahead and play for fun. We did win that game by 1 point. That second grade boy was REALLY good! So the kids were excited to think they won at least 1 game. It was really good for their spirit and confidence.

Stephen and Seth are both sick today. Some kind of cold or something. I just hope Levi and I don't' get it.

Seth update....

They eye drops have worked wonders on Seth's eye. It looks so much better today. Yea! He is acting like it feels much better, and he has been a trooper about getting the eye drops done. He just lays back and lets me put them in, no complaints. He's such a sweetie pie.

Last night Stephen said my eyes were looking red, so I started doing eye drops and wearing my glasses, just to be safe. I've wore my glasses all day, and boy is it hard to get used to, after wearing contacts everyday. Especially exercising with glasses on. I forgot how much I hated sweating with glasses on, and them sliding down your nose. But at least the eye drops are helping, so all should be back to normal soon. :)

Seth...

Now Seth has Pink Eye. His is much worse than Levi's was. His whole eye lid is red and swollen. I've been doing eye drops on him since last night. Hopefully it will start clearing up today. If not, I guess I'll be taking Seth to the doctor.
Hopefully Stephen and I can avoid getting it......

Weekend...

Friday= I went to Levi's school for his Valentine's day party. He had a great time!

Saturday=Valentine's Day. We didn't really do anything special. We had to take Levi to a basketball game at 10am, then we went grocery shopping, and did chores around the house. It was a very nice, relaxing day.


Sunday= We think Levi has pink-eye, so we did church as home. Then Stephen made the boys a tee pee outside. They played out there forever! Stephen got paged into work. So I took the boys to get medicine for Levi's eye. Then we went out to eat and took the boys to a movie. They had so much fun!

Here is what the boys learned at home church. "I'm good soil for God's seed". We read the scriptures about the parable of the seeds falling on the different types of ground (stony, thorny, good soil, etc), then we talked to the boys about how they must be good soil for God's seed to grow in them, so they can share his word and his love with others, so his word/love can multiply. We then had the boys plant seeds in 'good soil', and make this little reminder, so they can remember what they learned, as they watch them grow.





Here are the pictures of Stephen building the boys a tee pee to play in. They had a blast! They are still playing with it today. (No school today).

Seth....

My sweet little boy is growing up. Next month, he will be 5! Where does the time go?
We were driving the other day, and singing songs. He kept asking me to sing songs, and he would sing them with me. Then on one of them "This little light of mine", he didn't sing with me, he just sat there staring at me. After I finished singing, I looked over at him, and he said "Mommy, you sing really pretty! Can you sing it to me again?" That sweet baby boy! He made my day! (and of course I sang it to him again! LOL!)

One other thing, when he wants to pause a show, he says "let me re-clause it". I don't know why he said "re-clause" instead of "pause", but it's so cute, I giggle ever time he says it. :) These days will be over before we know it, and I'm determined to enjoy every moment and ever funny word.

Levi is READING! Not just words, but BOOKS! I'm so impressed with how much he has learned this year. His last few spelling tests he has made 105, and 108 (he got them all right, plus the bonus words!) He is so smart. He has all A's! I just can't believe his is almost through first grade already. Where does the time go???

Boys and hair....

For months the boys have been begging for "mohawks". I refuse! So I compromised last week, and gave Seth a haircut and spiked the top of it up. He LOVED it! Then on Friday of last week, Levi begged me to do the same to his hair. So I cut it and spiked it to. It made his day!
He went to school on Monday and his best friend told him that he looked "wicked cool"! LOL!

Here's my "wicked cool" boys, acting crazy:

They are so Nuts! :)

Nothin' much....

Nothin' much goin' on around here.
Basically we are all busy working, juggling the chores, and Levi's basketball practices and games. Busy, Busy, Busy. But it's a good kind of busy. I'm so thankful to be busy with work! Woo-Hoo! Thank you Lord!

The weather has been beautiful! It was in the 70's over the weekend, and sunny. Since then we've been in the 60's, and will be in the 70's again by Friday (and for the whole weekend!). Yippy! I love this sunny, beautiful weather. It just makes you feel so energized, and refreshed. LOVE IT!!! :)

We did watch a good movie the other night. It was called "An Unfinished Life". It had Morgan Freeman, Robert Redford, and JLo. It was sooooo Good! We were laughing out loud, and it was such a wonderful heartwarming story of friendship, forgiveness, and love. We really enjoyed it!

Ok, I'm out of things to tell you, so I'm going to go put the boys in bed. Later!