New PR

That is a running term for Personal Record. I ran with Dave on Thursday morning and he always pushes me! We ran our regular 3 mile loop and the last mile I ran in 8 minutes and 8 seconds!!! That is my fastest time EVER! The fastest I had run one mile before that was 8 min and 26 sec. I ran the whole 3 miles in 25 minutes and 55 seconds. Now someday I am hoping that I can push myself that hard on my own. I do have to say that the last mile there were times that I thought I would throw up, but I didn't and I made it.

Update

Okay so Lindsay's eye is not looking better and I called the Dr.'s office twice yesterday. I even told the nurse, "I don't want to sound paranoid, I mean, she is not even my first, she is my fifth, but I have never seen anything like this before." Fortunately she agreed that it seemed unusal, but they wanted to give the antibiotic a chance to work. So this morning, when I saw that it was even worse and called and got an appointment.


The Dr. was glad that we came in and said it looks like the bateria is resistant to the anitbiotic and she put her on a stronger one. Don't ask me the name, unless I am right by the bottle. I just don't have a good memory for those kinds of things. So she is taking the new one starting today and the doctor said that if it doesn't start to show signs of improvment by tomorrow that we should take her to the Emergency Room and have them give her intrevenous antibiotics to take care of the infection. It is a staph infection that can become serious if it enters her bloodstream. So far it is just on the skin, so keep her in your prayers. I found this website that is very informative:

http://kidshealth.org/teen/infections/bacterial_viral/staph.html.

So we are kicking back at home again today.

On a happier note, Samantha is having her birthday party today and fortunately we planned it for night games at the park! She is so excited because she invited boys to come too! Also she turns 14 on the 14th so she is thinking she needs to make it memerable!

Lindsay's Eye

Well on Sunday Lindsay looked like she had a patch of dry skin on her eye. Well by Wednesday it looked to me like it was cold sore on her eye or like impetigo (Paige had it when she was little, but it was around her mouth). I didn't know if you could get it on your eyelid. I did some research and sure enough you can. Since it is a bacterial infection it can be treated with antibiotics. So off to the Dr. we went and sure enough she agreed that it was impetigo. However she has to take the antibiotics orally because it is on her eye. Here she is yesterday afternoon.


That is marker on her lip, not anything related to the eye problem.



Now she has had 4 doses of the antibiotic and this is how she looked this morning:


Maybe it is supposed to look worse before it gets better. UGH! Today is picture day at her school. So I kept her home again. She shouldn't be contagious, but .... plus she is having a ball staying home, coloring and watching tv. Maybe it will be better tomorrow....I had such plans for today, oh well I am learning to be flexible:)!

Paige's Concert

Paige had her first Strings concert on Tuesday night and all went well. She is doing great! I don't understand how playing the violin works so it is fun to see her enjoying it!


Paige and most of the 6th graders in our ward had played for our Primary Program that was on Sunday and one of the mom's (Carrie Ekberg) had invited the Strings teacher to come. She ended up being sick on Sunday so Carrie arranged for the kids to play for her after the concert. They did a great job.

Some activites from the last couple of weeks:)

Samantha had her 1st Choir Concert of the Year tonight. She told us that her choir was singing last so we went late and were able to enjoy the shortened experience! They sounded great!
Here she is with a couple of her really good friends.



It seems to be all about Samantha lately...so here she is playing volleyball:



I took Kent with me to the game. The game was about 45 minutes long and Kent had to go to the bathroom TWICE in the last 1/2 hour. Oh well!

Rex Update

Rex got his stitches out last Friday and seems to be healing up okay. He still favors his right leg a lot, but who wouldn't? Here is a picture of Lindsay and Rex this morning and you can barely see his scar. He is definitely happy to be able to run around more.

Amber cracks me up!

In Sacrament Meeting on Sunday Amber was reading the program. In our program is a calendar that lists various upcoming activities. Our stake has a designated "family time" mostly to make sure that no meetings are held during that time so that the leadership can go home and have some uninterrupted time with their families. Well, Amber was looking at that and she leans over to me and says, "Mom, look it says right here that every Sunday we should have family time from 4-7pm, so I think that at 4 o'clock today we should all meet in the loft and we can have some family time until 7." Okay, this may not be so funny to anyone else, but we have 8am church and my calling does NOT take me away from my family on Sunday. In fact the WHOLE DAY is "family time" for me and frankly sometimes I just need more "QUIET TIME" after a long day at home! Maybe it means that Amber needs some quality time from me...anyway it cracked me up!