Our Girls are Feeling Great

Henley has pretty much made a full recovery and hopefully she is not contagious anymore because we have returned to life as normal. Oh I almost forgot she does have a new ouch! I was taking the garbage outside and I gave Henley an assignment to take the bathroom trash can back to the bathroom and she completed her assignment quickly and tried to follow me with her arms full of all her treasures she was going to bring to town with us. Only she thought that I had gone downstairs and apparently she tried to follow me and fell. I came into find her screaming and all of her toys scattered down the stairs. I don't know exactly what happened because everytime I ask her the story changes a little bit, and so does the bruise on her right cheek. It has been red, blue, purple, and yellow, and is now finally fading.

Henley has Mono

This is so strange but we took Henley in for an ear infection and we were told she had double ear infections so she was put on an antibiotic. Well a week later her fever spiked again, so we were back to the doctor and at that time doctor said, "That is strange her ears look worse than they did before and she has the worst case of strep I have seen all night, I think she might have mono." So we had some blood work done and sure enough she has mono so we have been stuck at home. We can't figure out where she got it from because we pretty much have been home the last few weeks. Diana said that I guess it is a Peine girl thing to carry mono so maybe she got it from me. She will be contagious for awhile and they put her on some steroids so she will catch anything from anyone right now. I can't believe her though she was tired and had a fever for a few days but now she is all energy and apetite. She ate two bowls of cereal and two hot dogs and whatever else... she is not usually a big eater but this antibiotic or steroid is doing something to her.
The other day I said to her when she was feeling bad, " You just don't feel like my Henley huh."
When she woke up the other morning when she was feeling better she said, "Mom I am back to Henley."

I am still alive!

I am still here so please don't delete me...Liz!!! Diana told me that you were going to delete me if I didn't get on the ball so I am making some time. Anyway, I am so sad I missed you Liz. We need to just have a big get together this spring, we could do it here or in Utah. Somewhere, anywhere this is just ridiculous that we do not see eachother more.
Well those of you that were wondering about pictures of my kitchen, I am going to try to put them on here right after I am done writing this. I am just loving my new kitchen. Now if I could just keep it clean, my girls rearange everything daily and fill the cupboards with books and toys of all sorts.
We had a great Christmas and usually I am sad to see it end but this year I am excited to move on and continue with more projects. My next one is to paint Henley's room and finish the trim in my kitchen.

My kitchen is coming along

We have all of our cabinets in and they look wonderful. I don't have any counter tops yet but Dad brought me in a piece of plywood that is working temporarily and I do have a dishwasher now. I can't believe how much my kitchen changed. It looks twice the size and the floor plan is so much more functional. I only had a minute and now my girls need my attention.

We are living in a War Zone

I am so excited for our kitchen to be done, I know it takes time but we have a huge mess. We started tearing into our floor to see why we had a slope and we found the problem. Basically we are lucky we didn't fall through. Our floor joices were totally rotten and our house was resting on the bricks. I guess that is why we got this house for such a good deal. We do have the new floor in now. I had to push that quickly because I might have lost my girls down in the hole. I have no counters and I am down to 2 cupboards and my sink is hanging on by a thread. We have also been putting in some new electrical things. And now we have mudded all the holes. We are getting there and that is good because my cabinets should be here today.

No Time

How do the days go by so fast? I don't know how everybody does so good at keeping up with these blogs. I haven't even been on the internet in the last 3 weeks. We have a lot of home improvements going on right now. We are trying to redo our kitchen which is taking up all of our free time, well that and I am hooked on those crazy vampire books. I have been reading them like crazy. I can't wait until the movie comes out.
We are getting excited for Fall. Diana and Ben were here and took some family pictures for us and we bought Henley's Halloween costume today. We also have dad coming next week to work in the potato and beet harvest. It will be nice to have him again this year.
I am also writing the primary program again this year, that is one of the responsibilities of the first councelor, so I am trying some new things with that.
Henley started a mini preschool this week with some kids in our ward since she is still too little for real preschool. But I can honestly say she is potty trained now.... woohoo!!!!
Macey is army crawling all over the house, she keeps my floors clean. She saves the real crawling just for short distances.
And Eric is really busy with school and trying to keep his work schedule fulltime. We make the most of every minute he is home.
Tah, Tah, for now.....

Our Busy Summer

Well the last month has flown by, we spent a week in Sandpoint enjoying family and friends and camping at Camp Peine. It was a lot of fun to enjoy the lake and the campfire. But we spent the next couple weeks recovering from the illnesses we caught.
We are all healthy now and we are in the middle of having Adam's wedding. He was married on Friday and had one reception on Saturday and will have another one this coming Friday, so we have been busy with all that. He was married in Salt Lake so we were able to see some good friends on our trip down there. We just needed more time.