Rough Times

It's been a rough year at HK. I've been getting about 25 to 30 hours of work a week. 40 hours just covers the bills. It seems we're just sinking lower and lower, and getting further and further behind. The calls and threats come in daily. I've thought about finding a different job, but with KD's medicine being about $600 a month if we don't have insurance, I just don't know what to do. Other than that, we're all doing ok. The kids are growing and changing daily, it seems. KaraDawn has spent so much time having fun with them this summer, that sometimes I feel like a third wheel (and a little bit jealous.) Aside from the usual child tantrums, I have such wonderful children and a great wife. I still wonder what I did to deserve the wonderful wife, the beautiful children, the great siblings, and the incredible parents that I was somehow blessed with.

We're all still alive, it's summer, kids and grass are growing, and work sucks. That about covers it.

Anybody there?

I guess nobody reads our blog, since nobody ever leaves a comment. Guess I'll quit wasting time posting here.

Idaho weather

Don't you just love the weather in Idaho. I was thinking about it the other day, and realized that I have seen it snow here every month of the year except August. Maybe I'll see snow in August this year, then I can say I've seen it snow every month of the year. I'm very disgusted with the snow I woke up to on Wednesday morning. We got about 2 inches of the white stuff here. Needless to say, everything in my garden except the onions and peas is now dead, dead, dead. I keep debating whether to re-plant of not, but know that I will in the end. Things are going ok here. The kids are finally getting outside more, and trying to wear out the swingset and trampoline. KaraDawn has tons of fun every day watching 3 or 4 kids of the lady down the street, plus our own. I don't know how she does it. I thought I would be the one too busy to post on the blog within our family, but apparently I'm not.

Third Time

Ok, this is the third time I'm trying to post to the blog. First, my pop up blocker wiped out the long entry I typed after Memorial Day weekend. Then I tried to post a couple of days ago. After typing for about 5 minutes, and clicking on "Publish Post," it came up with a "sorry we can't post to your blog right now error." Lovely. Anyway, not much going on here. The kids are having a blast being able to play outside. We put up the trampoline, and I think it's going to be worn out in about 2 weeks.

Update: Just discovered that there was a draft saved of my previous two attempts, guess I'll be able to post them now? Maybe? I hope?

Arghh!!

I made a nice long winded blog entry about our Memorial Day weekend last Tuesday. I wanted to upload some pictures off our camera, so I ran to the bathroom while the pictures were uploading. Upon my return, the pop up blocker on our computer had come up, blocking my uploading pictures to the blog. Without thinking, I clicked on allow access. POOF! All my long typing, and more painfully so, the creative thinking process of how to describe our weekend in a creative, fun, and engaging blog entry........gone. Anyway, here's a couple of pics. One of Sydney and I on the four-wheeler, and Jack before and after his hair cut.

Memorial Day Weekend

Well, it was a great Memorial Day weekend for us. We drove out to Monteview on Saturday, and visited my friend Levi for a little bit. Then we went to visit mom's grave in Terreton. Tom and Emily and their kids, Charlie and Gayle, and Heidi and Dad joined us. Afterwards we went to dad's house. There we visited with aunt Beth. The kids wore out dad and Heidi with all their requests for four-wheeler rides. We rode the four-wheelers and motorcycles and had a lot of fun. We also got to see dad's new toy. I dug up some lilacs at dad's to tranplant to my yard, they were ones originally from Grandpa and Grandma Mecham's house. On the way home, we put some flowers on Brittany's grave in Rigby. Monday morning, I managed to mow the lawn and plant the lilacs just before it started to rain. It rained all the rest of the day. Being bored, I then got out the clippers and proceeded to give Jack a hair cut. He flinched at the wrong time, and lost most of his beard, so now he really looks like a chihuahua. Other than that, we just spent the time playing and watching movies with the kids this weekend. We had a lot of fun, and got a lot of relaxing in. One of the best Memorial Day weekends I can remember.