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Dawn, in WHITE scrubs!



Ah, don't ya just love my uniform. Nothing like changing dirty adult diapers in all white. I didn't think I was going to get out of my house without dirty from Jayden! LOL

Yesterday we watched movies on MAKING BEDS and WASHING OUR HANDS. Yeehaw! But then we learned how to take vitals, that was fun! I came home and practiced on Kevin...he has high blood pressure! Oh and just so you know...it's not as easy as it looks, the first time there are just all these cords going everywhere and it's awkward and strange and hard to hear the THUMP, THUMP, THUMP over your classmates...yeah...but it's cool!

Silly girl turns 10 months!

Jayden is 10 months old! Can you believe it?! I am shocked! She and Jakey will be celebrating their birthdays in just two short months!

Jayden and I have been hanging out all day, so no hairbows for her today! You can see her cute haircut when it's down anyway. It's grown out so much I can do pigtails in the BACK, I'll have to take a pic of that soon!

What can Jayden do????

* Says "mama," dadda," "Jayden," and "amen." Actually the funny thing we've realized about "amen" is that she thinks that is the word for food. This morning she was standing at the gate to the kitchen saying "amen! amen! AMMMMMMMMMMMMMEEEEEENNNNNNNNNNN!" until I handed her a graham cracker. LOL!

* If you ask her a question, she will answer...usually with a shake of her head for NO!

Unless of course you're asking said question with a video camera in her face...in that case she'll just kinda squeal because she's in LOVE with the camera! She is a total HAM! LOL

* She loves NURSIES...oh man...no bottles, sippies she'll tolerate with water or apple juice (she gets constipated, I hate giving her juice, I mentally wrack up all the $$ I'll be spending on her teeth as an adult everytime I pour it) but no expressed milk or formula for this baby!

Here's a video of our regular conversations with her about bottles...there is NO skin shown in this video and I'm wearing a tank top under my shirt, again nothing shows, she just lays her head on my shirt at the end, LOL!



* She crawls EVERYWHERE FAST.

* She can stand unassisted, but she doesn't know that yet...LOL She'll realize she's not holding on and plop herself down.

* She is VERY demanding...she wants what she wants RIGHT. NOW. No exceptions!

* She LOVES food, bananas and pasta especially....Oreos (hey a mom's gotta get her homework done!) are a treat she LOVES too! LOL

Well Miss Demanding is squawking so I better go get her! I can't believe she's already 10 months!

I'm a bad environmentalist!

We signed up for a program to reduce our usage during prime electric use on especially high usage days...our electric company just has to call or email (both usually) to us to ask us to reduce between 2 and 7 of a given day. Today they called one of these "Smart Days."

Well good for them! I NEED to do some laundry so SORRY! No can do! Whew, the house is getting pretty behind!

So far school is going great, it's a little difficult to balance everything and make sure everything is complete and turned in and I am finding my English class to be the most challenging because she doesn't use the forum format that she should be. (Message board looking format.) Anyhow, it's ok...I'll survive her I'm sure.

Well off to tackle those mountains of laundry, look for Jayden's 10 month photo and post later after a decent nap and I write an essay for English.

ARGH!

I bought a book without the accompanying workbook for one of my courses and now I have to REBUY the whole thing because I can't find the workbook seperately ANYWHERE. $100 mistake. OUCH.

Yeah, so that's my first day of school summed up. I have 2 papers due this week and 4 chapters of my CNA class, so I better get off here, but dang it, I just had to vent.

Willingness to Serve?

Today during Sacrament Meeting a boy (well man, he is 19) who is about to go on his mission spoke about service. He referrenced a 20/20 with John Stossell that investigated how service makes people feel. I hadn't seen this episode and there are so many episodes of 20/20 that any google searches I performed did not return anything I thought would be the right episode. Anyhow, according to this boy (man), 20/20 found that service makes us feel good and that is why we should do it. Well yeah.

So, as I left Sacrament Meeting and went about performing the duties of my own calling I found myself standing in the door way to the nursery. In this room were about 15 children, 18 months to 3 years old. Attending to these children were three VERY pregnant ladies - all in their third trimester. I know that currently they're having a hard time finding nursery leaders because of the health problems of their current leader (my mother and her knees) but I just felt so bad, able bodied (for the most part) standing there watching these women bend and pull and lift these children! All while inwardly praying, "don't call me to nursery!"

When I arrived home Jayden, who had been with Kevin because he had a migraine and stayed home from church, came crawling to me and crawled into my lap. I looked at her and said, "Jayden" and she repeated it back to me, "Jayden"...I thought it was a fluke so I tried it again, "Jayden" and she repeated herself "Jayden." She did this several times until she started laughing at me and asking to nurse when I would ask her to say her name she'd just shake her head and sign "milk" and try to assume nursing position. Now Jayden's always been very vocal and has been saying "mama" "dada" "bye bye" and "hi" for a while now on command, but adding her OWN name completely correctly, that is amazing! So the moment this whole story has been waiting for arrives, we are blessing dinner, Justin is saying the prayer, asking for Santa to come to our house (only a few more months!) and when he finishes, "in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen." Jayden says "amen." clear as a bell! I am NOT kidding. "Amen."

So.....the thought occured to me... When we had decided she would stay home today it was justified to the boys that she was staying home because she didn't have a class to be in anyway and that she won't miss anything, well apparently that is now so. She does understand so much more than we give her credit for and she already is trying to communicate with her Heavenly Father by agreeing to prayers. And I should have taken her to church so she could partake in the Spirit of the meetings and I should not be so quick to hope that I don't get a nursery calling or plan what ward I'll move to if ever asked...I should remember these children are closer in Spirit to Heavenly Father and more in tune than we give them credit for and that spending two hours of Sunday with little miracles really should be an uplifting experience.

I need to reevaluate where I stand, either I am willing to serve, no matter where, or I'm not. No, I haven't been called to nursery and I'm working on my knee-jerk reaction to "oh heck no, we're moving!" if I were to be called and trying to focus on what amazing little spirits are in nursery! And how I should receive the same feelings of pleasure from serving my littlest brothers and sisters in the gospel as the subjects of John Stossel's 20/20 investigation.

Ugh. Just One Of Those Days!

We had an appointment in a medical office this morning and Kevin, Justin, Jayden and I were waiting in the waiting room. A lady with a brand new baby came in and sat across from us in the big waiting room. Justin got up and started kind of dancing around while we waited and Kevin told him to come back and sit with us, Justin smiled and started running in the opposite direction. Kevin told him to come back RIGHT NOW and Justin thought he was playing with him and took off. He was laughing and running and not looking where he was going and CREAMED the brand new baby in his carseat. I have never been more embarrassed of my child's behavior in all of my life. I apologized profusely to the woman and immediately our name was called to go back. I told the nurse, "Please take her and her baby back and make sure that they're ok" and took Justin outside and threatened his very existence if he so much as MOVED during the rest of the visit. When it was our turn he wouldn't even get on the scale without holding Kevin's hand. ARGH.

Then we get home and FINALLY get Jayden down for her morning nap and Justin keeps thumping around and playing while his sister is trying to rest. 20 minutes she is down for a nap and he jumps up and down and we hear: "Waaahhhhhhh!" Darn it!

Just now, I'm blogging and the boys are getting their swimsuits on to go get wet in the sprinklers out front and Justin grabs Jakey's shoes and throws them into the living room, hitting my feet. OUCH. Yeah.

So, Justin's for sale. Cheap. Free to good home even.



It's a good thing I love this little stinker. UGH!

Mommy, Are You Scared?

Today Justin and I are walking back (pushing Jayden) from taking Jakey to school this morning and we're talking about how Justin's not nervous anymore about going to school.

Justin: Mommy, are you scared of going to school on Monday?

Me: Well a little, I'm sure it'll be fine though, but I am a little nervous about it. It's normal to be nervous.

Justin: (Holds up his fingers and says) This much?

Me: Yeah that looks about right (2 inches).

Justin: Why?

Me: Because it's something new and different and it's normal to be scared.

Justin: Oh, because the kids are going to beat you up and take your toys?

Me: Well I hope not! I wasn't afraid of that...should I be?

Justin: Well maybe...you're going to be on the big kids playground.

Blogging in a reduced amount of pain...

I should preface this post with the fact that I just took muscle relaxants and pain medication. If I use complete sentences it'll be a miracle.

For the last two weeks my jaw has been hurting and I thought it was my wisdom tooth giving me fits. Not so! Now I think that the tubes down my throat during my surgery messed up my jaw, which you may or may not remember I have TMJ. (Remember the Monday before I had Jayden I spent the day in the hospital on Valium and IV rehydration because my jaw locked up from the TMJ, yeah that.) Anyhow, had a dentist appt today and she fixed me up. Well maybe. She drugged me up anyway. Hopefully my jaw starts feeling better soon - I'm starting to miss food!

So, I've been promising pictures...I got my camera uploading tonight and I'm ready tos hare! So without further ado, and while my fingers still work cause they're starting to feel a little um....buttery...PICTURES!

Jayden's favorite passtime is playing in the front yard with the sprinklers on...





The first day of school...



They really do love eachother!





I don't think I like Pre-Kindergarten...



I also went out to dinner with the ladies from my Pearl of Great Price study group - it took us January - August to finish that book and I learned SO much!



Ha! I ripped out my hairbow!





Here, Doggy, doggy, doggy!!!



Well I'm off to comment on everyone's blogs...night, night all!

Do you hear that?

It's the sound of SILENCE. Complete and utter SILENCE. I haven't heard silence in so long. I've missed it. Wait...I can hear my own thoughts! I have thoughts! Oh wow, this is awesome!

Jakey - in school.

Justin - in school.

Jayden - in her crib napping for the next two hours.

I feel like I've won the lottery! This is AWESOME. Now, where are my bon-bons? Wait...there's oh 4 years or so worth of housework that's backed up (that's how long it's been since I had a napping child while the other was in school). Darn.

I also just ate lunch, what I wanted to eat, not what someone else wanted to eat, and no one asked me for a bit. It was like 5 minutes of Mom Heaven.

Well, I'll be back - I have first day of school pics. Poor Justin, today was his first real day and he looked so sad when I left him! So small and so sad, but I'm sure he's going to love it so I just said, "goodbye Justin, I'll be back for you later!" and turned and left, no looking back! Ok off to upload pics!

Adventures in medical equipment shopping...

Yesterday Kevin got a sitter and we left all three kids (even though I fought very hard to take Jayden, he said NO KIDS) and went to the mall and shopped for the rest of my stuff for school. There is a uniform (should that be "an" uniform shop, or "a" uniform shop?) in our mall and we went there to get a patch for one of my uniforms and to look at stethescopes and blood pressure kits, etc. I was disappointed by their blood pressure cuffs, I ended up getting a plain black one but I wanted one that fit me more. Like my PURPLE stethescope - yep! PURPLE! Something you may not know about stethescopes - they kinda hurt your ears! LOL Anyhow after buying me $100 worth of medical equipment, Kev took me out to lunch at Red Robin where I dialated his pupils with my penlight while we waited for our order. My penlight has a gauge on it, that was seriously cool! LOL

After lunch Kevin dropped me off at my mom's house to go shopping with her for a while and we tried another uniform shop. This one had a blood pressure cuff that was cute enough to be mine, so we bought that and returned the plain black one to the mall. My new one has multicolored bandaids all over it. So pretty!

Other scores of the day were a cute pair of sandals for Jayden for $1.50 thanks to Payless's BOGO sale! SCORE! And a bigger size bow at Target! SCORE!

While shopping with my mom, for the first time in non-maternity clothes since my surgery (bloating), my belly button started having searing pain so I had to go home and rest. Darn that recovering from surgery! It's so deceptive because I feel fine most of the time, but every now and then there is a twinge that reminds me "hey buddy, you just had surgery!" OUCH!

Well I've finished my duties for my calling on the computer this morning (the incredibly late August newsletter! Oops!) and I need to hop through the shower so I have enough time to blow dry my long hair...stay tuned for pictures of my pretty purple medical equipment, my kids new church clothes, and FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL PICS!

At Least There's a Pink Power Ranger...

If I hand Jayden a purse, she throws it down. If I give her a doll she hits it. If I give her pink girly things she laughs at me and crawls away. When she crawls away she goes straight for her brothers' toys. Power Rangers are her favorite toys. Her second favorite are Rescue Heroes. WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY???????!!!!!!!! I waited for a girl for so long to balance out these loud, bang, bang, bang toys and always looked longingly at the Barbie and baby doll aisles of the store - and now I have a girl who'd rather play with Transformers and Power Rangers than My Little Pony.

What Business Is It Of Theirs??

I received a letter in the mail, probably several days ago because of where I found it when I was cleaning the house this morning, from our insurance company regarding Jayden's immunizations being behind. Justin's immunizations were never up to date until recently because he was a preemie and we felt it best to delay his. I'm not anti-vaccine...there are plenty of people who have risk factors or belief systems that compel them to not immunize and since I don't fall into those categories I immunize to maintain the "pack immunity" in their place but health insurance in general has been a sore subject this entire year.

Earlier in the year I could hardly find a doctor to see Jayden, let alone immunize her! She's had her 2 month and 4 month shots, she is behind on her 6 month shots and I don't think she needs any at 9 months. When we took her for her 4 month shots (at 7 months old) the doctor acted like it was no big deal...then we got our EOB for the visit and Holy Uncovered Until You Pay Your Deductible Expensive Shots Batman! $300! Yeah. So. I'm working on paying that off, I had to pay for my surgery too (to the tune of my $500 deductible plus 35% of my surgery!) so we're suffering from craptastic insurance AGAIN.

So WHY, if my insurance company cares SO MUCH about Jayden's health that they'd send me a letter about not immunizing her on time do they not just COVER the stinking shots like they do the wellchild visit with a copay? I'll tell you why...it's in fine print at the bottom of the letter I recieved "The development and distribution of these materials is supported by Wyeth." Wyeth, the makers of Prevnar...oh yeah Blue Cross is just lookin' out for us! Uh huh.

(Don't worry, she'll get her shots on September 11th at her next well child visit...when I finally get those stinking 4 month shots paid off! $200 more to her annual deductible...One shot, plus stick fee....)

Edited to add - and now they CALLED me! LOL

Messy Baby!

Jayden got to eat what we ate for dinner last night...well no salad, and that made her brothers pretty jealous - all the spaghetti and none of the greens, but she LOVED feeding herself spaghetti!

**The one bow look is common around here lately - she pulls out her bows CONSTANTLY!**

Almost All Better!

My left side of stitches was itchy, burning, red, and bothering me today so I called and asked if they could fit me in today. My wonderful doctor called at lunchtime and said to come in and removed my stitches and prescribed some meds for thrush, which is I think what mine and Jayden's nursing problem is right now. (Boy does it hurt to nurse her!) My belly feels so much better without those stitches tugging and pulling on me everytime I twist or move! The pathology report wasn't in yet so I have an appointment Sept. 2nd to go over that with him but I'm SO glad he moved me up from next week to today to get those stitches out, ouch! I feel about 90% now, much more healed in the abdomen area, I just have a hard time with certain motions like sweeping the floor (oh darn, have to get someone else to do that for another week! LOL) Soon, very soon, I'll be all better!

I have failed to provide adequate entertainment for my children these last few days of summer.

I've been scrubbing the kitchen, it's my one-room-a-day (My big goal of spotlessly cleaning my house is cleaning it one room at a time, each day, thoroughly) when I decide, I'm hot! I need a break! So I come to peruse the computer and procrastinate my duties when Justin comes running in from the backyard.

"Here Mom! Hold these! Keep them away from Jakey! They're bombs!"

Justin plops down a bunch of poker chips on my computer and runs back into the backyard.

Hmmmm...poker chips? Do I even want to know?

So I shrug and think, eh, who cares, we don't even play poker, so what's some lost poker chips...back to procrastinating. Justin comes pounding in the backyard again. My $295 electric bill nudges me into action - "Justin STOP RUNNING IN AND OUT!"

"I NEED those bombs, Jakey's turned his into flying saucers and we're going into outer space now!"

"Fine, just be quiet! You're going to wake up your sister!"

"OK mom, I'll be quiet..." CRASH! The baby gate has been knocked down from SOMEONE acting like it's a HURDLE (<---look at my mad props to the Olympics!) and made a very loud sound.

"Ugh....JUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSTIN! You are going to wake up your sister!"

Wahhhhhhhhhhh! And that's the end of my post. Grumble, grumble, grumble. Why does no one else revere her naptime like I do? I wouldn't dream of doing anything loud during it - it's PRECIOUS time!

Last Week of Summer Vacation!

This is our last week of no school! We're going to be trying to get organized but having our last hoorah's at the same time. A week from tonight is Justin's first school night ever! I don't start until a week after the kids. I plan to go to a store, with only one child in tow, and celebrate! LOL Although truthfully I am a bit sad about sending off my baby boy to school - he's so little!

Update on me: I'm doing really good, my stitches itch like CRAZY but I even managed to go to church today, even with having to do quite a bit while there, I can feel that I'm on the mend...I'm not 100% yet, but I'm getting there. Now if the bloating would go away - I look 5 months pregnant! Yikes! LOL

Our family funny of the day...

I'm caring for my belly earlier and Justin comes in and looks at my stitches and says "the dr left a long black hair in your cut." I told him no, it's a stitch and he says, "Stitch?" A puzzled look crosses his face and he lifts my shirt and says, "Where's Lilo?"

Something I don't usually do...

review books! With a lot of downtime on my hands, I've spent alot of it reading. Of course my surgery couldn't have lined up better with the release of the 4th Twilight book - Breaking Dawn! So I'll start there - it was awesome! I won't elaborate too much, but I did get the feeling that it felt rushed towards the end - anyone else get that? But I still loved it!

I also read The Host by Stephenie Meyer (same author as the above book) and it was pretty good, not AWESOME, but pretty good. I enjoyed it. I do find the whole alien invasion, taking over our bodies, thing a little creepy but Wanderer seemed like a nice enough alien.

Which got me thinking about Stephenie Meyer - her dreams must be really interesting at night. I am not a particularly creative person, I just enjoy other people's creativity, so when I think of ONE PERSON thinking up both the Twilight series and The Host I think, wow, they must be crazy creative!

And to round off my completely non LDS fiction reading summer - I know, so odd for me! - I read Mrs. Mike by Benedict and Nancy Freedman. When I first picked up the book I found it interesting that a couple, husband and wife, wrote the book together! Kevin and I collaborate on children but not on work, I can't imagine writing a whole book with him! It'd be a terribly conflicting plot line! LOL Anyhow, my mom picked up the book originally. She read about it in "O" Magazine (Oprah's magazine) and the person who was reviewing it said "it changed my life." Well, it was a good enough book, but it didn't "CHANGE MY LIFE." I can only think of one set of books (the scriptures) that "changed my life" and Mrs. Mike was nice and all but yeah, not that great. It is set in the wilderness of northwest Canada in the early 1900's and so it has a very "pioneerish" feel to it. Perfect reading for our Pioneer Day spent up at the cabin, huh?

So, these aren't all out wonderful reviews, filled with the pictures of the cover of the book, and their page counts (I don't know how long each was - Mrs. Mike is short and Breaking Dawn was SUPER long) but just some random thoughts. Somewhere, someone has to be ready to discuss Breaking Dawn, ready to have spoilers rum rampant through their posts because it's killing me not to talk about it!

(If the above post doesn't make much sense, blame it on the pain meds...ok?)

Surgery Update

I went to the hospital yesterday at 1:00 and by 2ish they put something in my IV and I don't even remember the last thing I remember, LOL...I think the last thing I remember was leaving the pre-op room, but even that is fuzzy. Kevin had to work (to pay for this surgery) so my mom came with me and my SIL stayed with the kids here at the house. At 4:30 I started waking up and my dr came to talk to me - he said it was not a whole lot of endo but he lasered it and took care of some scar tissue I have and that I should notice a huge difference in my pain from all of that being removed. He sent something out for a biopsy but I don't remember what he said. My mom brought me home around 6 pm. The pain meds have been making me sick, so I try not to use them but then I let the pain get too far and I have a hard time getting it under control again. I was up sick most of the night. Today I went to my mom's house and slept in her guest room all day while she and my SIL took care of the kids. I'm SO sore, but it's rapidly getting better. I'm planning on going to my mom's again tomorrow so that she can take care of me again tomorrow, then thankfully Kevin will be off all weekend and I can mend at home!

Sweets and Sours

I don't have a ton of time tonight because I'm getting my house and kids ready for my surgery tomorrow, but I thought I'd update my blog with some sweets and sours real fast!

Sweets:

Justin got accepted to Pre-Kindergarten and we got the time slot at the school we wanted! Score!

I got all pre-registered for my surgery tomorrow and all my labs done and it was fairly painless (to my body, not my wallet! OUCH!)

Jayden enjoys not having her hair done, so she's not making me feel like a slacker for a day of no bows and heck no getting out of her onesie she wore to bed either! LOL

I am 1/3 through Breaking Dawn! I also need to admit, I'm Team Jacob. Sorry! I am.

Sours:

Justin's been having pee/poo (Yeah POO!) accidents all day because I think the reality of pre-K has set in for him and the reality of not being home with mom all the time. Poor kid...poor me, I HATE laundry!

I'm nervous about surgery, I had to sign all the consent forms that allude to that horrible D word, but I know this is necessary.

If ONE. MORE. PERSON. asks if I'd like to get my tubes tied "while he's in there" I'm gonna knock them out. Seriously.

I have to clean/cook alot tonight to prepare for tomorrow, I'm already tired! LOL

Ok, time to share a Justin funny and I'm off to get ready!

I've been prepping him for school during his baths at night. Last night I'm washing him up...

Me: What do you say when your teacher says, 'Hi, little boy, what is your name?'

Justin: Justin Parnell

Me: What do you say when your teacher says, 'how old are you?'

Justin: FOUR!

Me: What do you say when your teacher says, 'are we going to have fun today at school?'

Justin: I'll say, 'It depends, what are we doing?'

Where I'll be the next couple of days...

I'll probably be scarce again and since I didn't post a farewell on my blog some of my regular bloggy buddies were worried about me when I took my vacation, so I just wanted y'all to know I'm having surgery on Wednesday. It's mostly an exploratory surgery, we may do some small procedures while in there, but overall it should be nothing, but I'm a little nervous. Tomorrow I have my pre-op stuff to do at the hospital and I'll get my table time, so think of me! :) I'll be back as soon as I'm on my own two feet again, or if I get super bored while others take care of my kids, whichever comes first! :)

Summer Vacation 08!

We went back to the beautiful R-Ranch in the Sequoias for our annual summer vacation. This year my parents have bought a 2nd share that they let us use and so we got our very own cabin! (I think they just don't want to hear Jayden cry or be awakened so early on vacation by my children! LOL) We chose to take our best friends with us, David and his wife Yaneth and their two kids - Cynthia and Ethan.

In no particular order...LOL

One night David and Yaneth and Kevin and I double dated - to the adult center. We quickly lost interest in being around only adults and went to the Family Center. We played Ping Pong and I have ZERO hand-eye coordination. No one wanted to be on my team and when I was paired with someone they would hog the whole side of the table and only rarely let me hit! LOL I don't blame them though because I kept hitting the ball under the Dance Dance Revolution Machine...which sparked the boys' interest...



I have an even better video, but I've been threatened with divorce if I show it...

And so we move on....Kevin and I! We played pool too, I actually did pretty good at pool...it stems from those weekend vistations with my dad when my parents were divorced, and my dad's family fun spots were bowling alleys and pool halls...I can bowl and shoot pool! Thanks Dad! LOL



We also did our customary trip to the Trail of 100 Giants...I love this hike, it's SUPER easy, I mean REALLY easy, it shouldn't be called a hike, it should be called more of a walk. LOL

Before


After


This is how Jayden spent much of our trip...



Justin rode a horse...that I led...LOL



And Jakey rode Taco, a horse that bit mine on the trail



Me mounting Spot, the pain in the neck horse. Spot likes to eat. A lot. And poop. A lot. And pee. A lot. LOL And Spot is SLOW. There was no "see Spot run" moments LOL.



And we swam. This is the closest you'll ever come to seeing me in a swimsuit...I have one, and all pictures of me in it have been destroyed. BWhahahahaha



And we played Horseshoes....Jakey and his first horseshoe!



We fished, but we didn't catch anything. We got bit by mosquitoes frequently. And it was a FABULOUS trip...we're going again next year!

Honey, I'm home!

We're BACK! I'm about to put my camera to uploading all of the pics of our wonderful family vacation of 2008. We went back to the R-Ranch for 9 days of sun, fun, relaxing, swimming, horseback riding (yes, I rode a horse!), and hiking! It was a blast! I AGAIN failed to put on enough sunscreen and have blisters on my back from my sunburn, but what can ya do, LOL!

More to come soon, just gotta put the camera on to upload and take a shower with WATER PRESSURE.