Busy days

Dan's graduation party went well.  Not as many people came, but it was still nice.

School has started.  We are in our 4th week.  Rick and Dan have gone up north, to get alone with God, and ask Him for direction in Dan's life.  They will come back in a couple of days.

Matthew went in for another yearly scoliosis exam.  He is doing well, no change, and will be continued to be monitored.

Rick, Josiah, Dan and myself went to see Tim Hawkins.  We haven't laughed that hard in a long time.  It was really nice to just kick back, and enjoy ourselves.

We had sicknesses go through half of our household.  First, Matthew got it.  High fever, and a cough.  Then, Sam got it.  He got hit really bad.  He was battling 105 degree fever.  I took him in to urgent care, and they said he had pneumonia.  They gave him an IV with antibiotics, as well as some fluid as they were worried about dehydration.  They sent him home with more antibiotics, and said if his fever went back up, to bring him back in.  Well, we had to take him back in, just a couple hours after he had been sent back home.  We had packed a bag for Sam and myself, just in case they kept him in the hospital.  They got his fever back down, and sent us home.  Then, Rick got it.  Thankfully, that's the only ones who got sick.

The boys and I were cleaning up the outside back yard.  When we came up to the house, we saw thousands of bugs.  We all looked at them, and tried to figure out what they were.  We ended up finishing our outside work, as we were trying to get it done, before the rains and cold weather came.  We then started thinking about those bugs.  We kept going out to see them, but they had gone underground.  We were finally able to catch some, and took them into Orkin.  They said they were carpenter ants, and that they can do a lot of damage.  Then, on Saturday, we found a HUGE one on a wall!  I taped it to the wall with mailing tape.  Its jaws (mandibles) were snapping.  We measured it, and it was just shy of 1/2 inch!  That is a big ant!!  Matthew was worried I was going to leave it there.  LOL

Blessings!