Special Assembly day!

My handsome family!

The goof troop. (David, Cayden and Kieran)

Yep, that's Cayden in a tie again! It didn't last all day. In fact by lunch, the suitcoat and tie were off, but we are making great strides forward in his clothing aversion fetish. I'm so proud of him.

The day was beautiful-we had a picnic lunch outside. It was a little breezy, but nice and warm. That night we went out to each with the Palacios family and I had the best Ribeye steak I've had in forever! It was so yummy. I had waitressed the night before so we had a little cash to treat ourselves on. It was nice to visit with them. Hard to believe in a few short months there will be another Palacios pumpkin to get to know and love!

Jerod got the go ahead to go back to work on May 7th. He's a little gun-shy, but if he sticks to his restrictions, he should be OK. 30 pounds isn't much, but he's got to stick to it. I hope it won't be too much. Hard to believe that he's been off work 7 months, well, when I look at the checkbook, it's not so hard to believe. I will miss him home in the mornings and afternoons. I know the boys will need to adjust to it as well. Jerod hasn't been up before 5 am for a while(not counting turkey season this week) so that early hour will be hard for him to get used to I'm sure.

Time to get the muchkins off to bed. Then I can sit down and watch LOST in peace. I'm so addicted to that show. HEROES, too on Monday nights. It could be worse I suppose. They are two shows that you can't possibly watch just once and be OK with it. You need to watch every week to know what happens next. Yep, I'm hooked. Doesn't hurt that Nathan Petrelli on HEROES is pretty nice to look at. HUBBA!

OK, enuf of that-I really gotta go! I hear a small eruption upstairs! Catch ya later!

Ramblings of a winter weary woman...

So we are digging out from what I hope will be the last storm of the season. What's up with 6 inches of wet, slushy snow in mid-April? The boys loved it, to say the least. Good news-it'll be melted by the end of the weekend, so no shoveling for us. Ha, ha.

Well, we found a lawyer. Bill Olson in Madison. He came highly recommended by the Vocational Rehabilitation worker Jerod is working with. So last Tuesday, he drove into Madison and met with him. It went really well. Mr. Olson has handled thousands of worker's comp cases and knows his stuff. So now, we sit back and wait. He had some good insight into the reasoning behind the worker's comp industry and how they work their denial magic. One thing he mentioned was that Frankenmuth (worker's comp. company) ended up dropping Jerod like a bad habit because he is a high paid laborer. And they know that his chances of not being able to go back to his regular job is pretty high, so they didn't want to be liable of making up the difference in his wage for the next few years. Interesting, huh? Because worker's comp. is liable for up to 500 weeks after date of injury. That's like 9 years. So they send Jerod to a medical whore that is paid to state in an "official" letter that Jerod is fully healed. What a crock! I can feel my blood pressure jumping a few points as I write this since I get so frustrated at this stupid system of things. When will it all come to an end? We all hope very soon.

Cayden's two top teeth are growing in and boy do they look huge in his little mouth. He has changed so much since we moved here. I just measured both boys last night on the door frame. Both of them have grown about an inch since mid-January. Since we've moved here, they each have grown 7-8 inches. How crazy is that? That explains why I have so many clothes to get rid of in my garage sale. Hoping to get that all arranged by the beginning of May.

We are trying to sell our leather furniture set. So if anyone out there knows of someone who would like it, let us know. We are needing to get about $2000 for all four pieces.

Hope that this post once again finds everyone mostly healthy and happy! Take care...

More pictures....and stuff

Don't we have some dapper looking kids in our Hall? Every one was so dressed up for the Memorial and in good moods.