5-31-09

Ok ready? Take a deep breath and then read...Monday for Memorial Day Jim was lucky enough to take the kids to the summer movie "Spacechimps" which he LOVED! (hee-hee, just kidding) Gwen was on-call for work and it ended up being a very busy phone morning so luckily Jim could take the kids and they met up with the Thornleys. Tuesday we got a call from Lois saying she wasn't feeling well (just a sidenote - she had been to the ER twice over the weekend but they didn't find anything). So Gwen and the kids went to grandma's and we ended up going to the heart hospital near our house and she was admitted and they eventually found that she had had a small heart attack but further tests didn't indicate any damage to her heart. We are so thankful that Cara was here to take the kids while Gwen stayed at the hospital most of the day with Lois and that she could also pick up nana. Tuesday night nana had her first stay and the kids were so excited to have her here. That night Jim broke one of his wisdom teeth (we were told 2 yrs ago to get them out -oops) so Wednesday we called the oral surgeon and were blessed and they got us in that day. We had to wait awhile but we can't complain. He did pretty well and that took care of that day. Thursday Gwen headed to yet another doctor, the pediatrician, since the kids had been complaining for a couple of days about their ears. Reagan had an ear infection and swimmers ear in one ear and John had swimmers ear in both ears. We'll we were headed out to pinedale that afternoon with nana so we went to the pharmacy to get the special ear drops and guess what? our insurance didn't cover $100 (for each kid!) so we had to get another prescription sent up to the showlow walgreens. We made it to pinedale, got the medicine and enjoyed some gorgeous cool weather! Friday we took nana to see the sites in showlow and the temple in snowflake. that night we had a couple of people from our ward stay at the cabin too. Saturday we had a lazy day and came home late afternoon. Cara and Steve came over for dinner that night and then Sunday was church, Jim taught an awesome lesson on home teaching (even brought a couple of men to tears :-) and we enjoyed having nana here. Poor nana, had to experience all of our weirdness this past week but the kids sure have loved having her around and just can't understand why she isn't up at the crack of dawn with them! :-) Hope everyone has a good week. Love, jim gwen reagan and johnp.s. Lois had a funny when they came to take her for her angiogram (sp?). She was really nervous so when the nurse asked her her name to check her band, Lois said "anna-susanna-banana" to be funny and quick as a wit, the nurse said, "OK, so you're here for the sex change operation - right?" It was so funny!