Behind again

So this weekend we went camping up at Bear Head Lake State Park.  Despite the occasional thunderstorms blowing through it was a lot of fun.  We took walks, boat rides, naps, and ate lots of Dairy Queen.  Maybe not the best for the body, but my mind enjoyed the break.

I have pics of our New York Trip, Kee's final hockey session, Lyle's Birthday and the last two camping trips at home on the computer.  I will try to make it a priority to get all those darn pictures online some time this week.

I did get wonderful news last week; I do not have to fly out to our plant for work this month!  This news made my week and means I will spend a full month at home...the first in a very long time...I think since December or something like that.

I've also been having a bit of a tooth deal going.  During my last trip to the plant I cracked a tooth; probably from grinding my teeth (which I do when stressed).  Went in to have the dentist look at it on Thursday and I needed a crown.  The whole thing sucks because I have very good teeth, this is the first major thing I have ever had happen to them. 

Then things got worse when the Novocain wouldn't work...seriously the dentist shot me up with Novocain like eight times and then put me on nitrous oxide.  I still jumped when she would hit this nerve in my tooth...it just wouldn't go numb and hurt horribly when ever she tried to drill that part of the tooth.  So she drilled about a quarter of it out, epoxied it or something and wants me to come back this afternoon to finish drilling.  I was at the dentist office for like 3 hours and am really not looking forward to the appointment this afternoon.  She was worried I might need a root canal and I have heard that is so not fun.  I am not totally clear on what happened because the nitrous oxide zapped me out pretty good.

So I am really really hoping the drilling goes better this afternoon and I can just get this crown on and be done with it.  Or maybe they can just knock me out or sedate me or something; I wish there was someway to have this done without me having to be present and conscious.

All that fun aside, I am going to try to get some posts up about camping...birthday...etc.  Hope you are all doing well.

Ramping up for yet more fun...

This weekend Lyle and I will be in NYC.  We've never been there and hope to see a lot of great sites Sat to Monday.  Then on Tuesday we will be attending BEA (Book Expo of America): I'll be covering that adventure on my book blog.

The general craziness has continued.  I was at the plant in Oregon again last week.  Then got back and we picked up our boat and finally got that in the lake.  So could we calm things down for a bit?  Of course not.

We fly out to NYC this week and then get back for a couple days.  After that it is up north to go camping over Memorial Day weekend.  Then back home for a few days and then I will be out at the plant again for a week.

I swear I feel like I am at home less than 50% of the month some times.  It is fun but exhausting...okay well the work trips aren't exactly fun...but I am a Platinum member of Choice Hotels now and I get free airline tickets a lot so that is nice.

We still haven't gotten the canoe out this year.  We have done lots of bike rides with Keegan on his tag-along bike.  I will have to post some pics of that at some point.

Keegan is done with hockey for now and still has a couple sessions of swimming left.  Then in June he starts soccer.  After soccer he has informed me he wants to do karate with mommy.  So the boy's got plans.

Everyone in the family has been doing well.  It looks like Lyle's contract is going to be renewed at Medtronic so that is nice.  There have been some sniffles and sneezing from occasional allergies but other than that we have been surprisingly healthy.  (I suddenly feel a need to knock on wood)

Hope that you all are doing well.  I still have yet to post pics from our first camping trip...hope to get around to that in a couple weeks.

Keegan Quote of the Day:

We were debating what to have for dinner while Lyle was at the hospital visiting his stepbrother.  Keegan's input was this:

"Well mom, you know me.  I am kind of a sprinkles and frosting type of guy."

Happy Mother's Day!

Okay I know it is not quite Mother's Day but I plan on doing other fun things on Mother's Day, so I will say Happy Mother's Day right now :-)

This brings to mind last Mother's Day.  I had been having to travel a lot to the plant (which I am still doing and just seems to be my lot in life right now).  I got home late on a Friday and was kind of bummed about it all.  When I walked in the door I was greeted with the below:

Yep that says "I Love Mom" written out in Duplos...  It was so geeky and so sweet.  I love my family :-)

For this Mother's Day weekend we got plans.  Saturday is yard work, then going to Free Comic Book Day at the Source (I am so excited!!!  I can't decide which one I want...I love Locke and Key and am really looking forward to the Jack of Dreaming one, and then there are the neat ones for Keegan), then to pick up the boat, then meet my parents for dinner and hopefully go see Thor at the movie theater. 

For Sunday we have plans to hit the Outlet mall (my Mother's Day present) and then meet up with the rest of the family for dinner.

It should be a lot of fun and I am really looking forward to it :-)

Hope that you all have an excellent Mother's Day too!