One good dentist out there

Just want to thank our dentist!! Sydnee had a tooth really hurting her for about a week now. I was doing what i thought would work to get the infection gone and some days she was fine but others it hurt so I broke down and called the dentist to get her in today. I knew it was going to cost a ton but what's another medical bill or truck deductible, or you name it and we owe it! So she goes in and the first thing they ask is how are you going to pay for this? So Troy says well that's just it I need to arrange something and the dentist was concerned and said why what's up? He proceeded to tell her of all my medical bills, Kai's medical bills, and the not so good luck we are having at them cooperating with us on a payment plan. And the most wonderful dentist ever named Jessica said don't worry about this one. Oh my gosh Troy almost cried and so did I. I wasn't there but Troy took her in, but when he told me it was the best news. I figured it would cost around $1000. Such a big relief. There are a lot of good understanding people out there and she is one of them!
Anyways... she pulled the tooth way in the back of her mouth and some very nasty stuff came out from underneath it. The dentist even thought that her jaw was so swollen that it may not even be tooth related but after pulling the loose tooth the infection was confirmed it was the tooth. So now she has a spacer and is on the rebound! Look at that tooth. It is so big. It looks like some foreign object growing in her mouth. I mean it looks like it walked out of the treasure chest from down under the ocean. By the way I am selling the crown after I bargain with the tooth fairy for it if anyone is interested? Rustin..... need any teeth to disect at dental school? Oh ya, Rustin will be a good dentist as well when he graduates in the year 2018 and we will be mowing his yard in exchange for pulling our teeth (just had to get that in writing)!

Tax season is over, yeah!! It seemed like a nightmare this year with all of our "make you a stronger person" moments and me going to Montana and the firm giving me triple the work as years before, but it's over. We celebrated today. Although I did not partake I hung out to be a part of the celebration. Unlike most firms who work until midnight on April 15th, our firm closes business at eleven and says "should of gotten it in earlier." SO at around 8 this morning they started with the champagne and lemonade (just including the recipe for those interested in a good drink they say). Then at 9 out came the bloody merry's and they sipped/gulped on those until we closed and left for the restaurant where all celebrated with a shot or two of tequila and who knows what else was in it along with marguaritas. I was a big fan of the chips and salsa. Then a round of beer or two for the after meal celebration. I hope the lady next to me made it home alright. I gave her all the shots they were bringing me and she didn't seem to mind. She did seem a little more gone than the rest! Glad it's over but the money was nice. If I were a real accountant I probably would have joined on the spirits and not just the food! So my time frame revolves around quarters(tax talk) and not seasons so I wanted to catch up on some things that happened to us this first quarter. Here is Kai all healthy and happy.
On February 27th I took her to the Williams Clinic for her fever that had gone on for a couple of days. They ended up rushing her to the hospital in Flagstaff, well not rushing because they needed to get their 45 minutes in so they could charge $1800 to get us there. First time I ever drive on I-40 under 50 miles an hour besides when Troy is testing his gas mileage and wants to get the best out of each fill up. So she ends up being diagnosed with pneumo thorax. It is pnemonia outside of the lungs.

Her oxygen was in the 70's which is very low. She didn't eat for a few days but when they brought around the macaroni and cheese she went to town on it. Those are her Pepsi's surrounding her plate and that's my helathy salad sitting beside her.

She got spoiled while in their. A lot of friends sent in the gifts and toys to keep her entertained. This was a singing balloon. It took quite a cart load to take down all of her gifts to the car.

She couldn't bathe and her hair was getting so nasty so while she was sleeping one night I stayed up and braided it. It was so much easier to deal with. So after 3 days in ICU and 3 days in regular room oh and $45,000 later she is home and healthy and back to ruling the roost. We were glad she made it through this. It was very scary in the beginning.

Easters

Okay all of you naggers, I am back (for this quarterly report only)!!! I would like to consider my self a quarterly blogger so here it goes in a nut shell,well Easter anyways. Some day I will have to blog about our exciting few months we have had! And yes that is Kai in her pajamas. She is a pajama girl and wanted to wear them to ply at the dock and all day and what does it matter what she wears. She's wearing what we'd all like to wear at the lake when we have eating disorders!! Easter at Roosevelt was not exactly the Easter we had planned out but we found ourselves here ready to get in that lake and have some fun in the sun. Mother Nature had another idea but we put our bodies to the test by trying to ski and tube in very cold conditions. On Friday we were able to jet ski and tube. Troy and Kamron even tried to ski but they didn't have a good report, they froze. The kids didn't complain they rode them a lot easier out of the water. The many fishermen with coats and sweatshirts on didn't htink we were so smart, neither did we but we had to say we did it right?

So this is the last thing that happened to us before we decided to leave for the weekend but this is where the picture popped up and I am not going to try to move it to the bottom! Kai fell in this fire. Thank my lucky stars I was standing right next to her and grabbed her out after saying a few choice words very loudly. I believe I wasn't the only one who screamed out but as long as she was safe who cares what the bishops wife said. Thank goodness her hair was wet after a shower because it still singed it. I wiped off flames from her clothes and flung her shoes into who knows where because there were coals in the bottoms of them. The look on her face just flashes back to me she was so stiff and scared. Fortunately the only thing that burned was her hand where she grabbed the metal fire ring to try to get out and a little bit of hair singed. Her and her cousin were fighting over her $1 bill she had found in an easter egg. She was crying, my money, my money. Well her money is now an ash in Roosevelt camp ground but that's ok.

And here is Troy and Kai on a boat ride. We did take the jet skis out this day but it was raining and so cold. We didn't get wet but still the only ones on the lake on jet skis in pants and coats. Kai just catching some sleep.

Here are the kids imagining they are tubing. Thank goodness for their imaginations! They got a lot of other things done like playing ball and hiding and coloring eggs and watching the only DVD we had there over and over while it was raining. And then there was the best thing of all..... our nice little Megacab met Mrs. Elk on the way to the lake. Troy decided to go to Roosevelt through Camp Verde instead of Lake Mary because he thought there would be "less elk". Well these two happened to be "NOT AT LAKE MARY." Fortunately no one was hurt, not even the BEAUTIFUL elk. It hopped up and ran off once we got to a stop. The kids slept right through it and we got out, looked at the damage, and drove on. Just typical of the things that have been "intorduced" into our lives lately but who has time to blog about them. Let's hope the insurance comes through but who's crossing their fingers. Only the bumper is twisted, hood smashed, grill broke, and side needs replaced.

And this story is flat for real no lie a true story..... the first night there we got there around 11:30 and got to sleep around 1 or so. About 2:00 am someone comes into my brothers camper and gets in bed with his little 3 year old boy. He was thinking it was my younger brother but figured there was no way he would be wrapped up cuddling with his son so he gets up to see what's going on. He shines the flashlight and sees this guy laying there. Then he rips off the covers and tries to figure out what is going on. After a few minutes of arguing with this "stranger" he calms down and starts talking to the guy. The guy was out of it. The little boy said, "dad what's happening?" It was then that this guy realizes he is sleep walking and kind of wakes up and leaves. It was pretty crazy. The next morning we figure out who the guy was and remember the what we had saw him smoking that night. Sleep walking or drug halucination, you be the judge, but it was crazy. We locked our campers from there out.