The rest of the week

Woke up the next day and worked some more on the house. It's starting to look so much better and that's just with a little cleaning and texture, can not wait until we get to finish it up. After lunch we headed back to the beach to make another sand city!
Hard at work! Lots of ideas back and forth but they finally decided on this.

Which made Princess Rylee very unhappy. So she made her own castle and then crushed it just to show us how mad she was. She told us!

The finished project! Nice work Logan and Cody!

Cody wanted me to take a picture of this one because he made it ALL by himself. Proud moment!

Waiting I guess, she just wanted a picture.

Just got home, we had dinner and went for a glorious boat ride. I absolutely love being on the water when the sun goes down. Beautiful! Not the kids, the sun.

And this is what we do when we go under a bridge....scream!!

Went to bed and woke up to pretty much the same routine. Oops, forgot to say that when we drove by to show Justin the new sand castles...they were stomped over. Another set of mad kids!! After lunch I looked over and Cody had lost his tooth!! I asked him why he didn't tell me and when he turned to look at he it turns out, he didn't lose it...from the side it just looked like it was gone because it was so loose and just sticking straight out. (you should probably stop reading here Amy) Enough already he decided and he wanted to tie string to it and to a door and shut the door and see if it works like it does on TV. We didn't have any string so we went to Amy's house and found floss. Tied it up and he decided just to pull it instead, chicken! He pulled and that tooth shot clear across the room. It was hilarious, until of course we found out we couldn't find it. A white tooth on white carpet is kind of hard to find!! Luckily, we did! That tooth fairy is getting poor, that's 3 out, and none back in!

Went to the beach and made a new "booby trapped" sand city. They filled each sand castle with rocks and sticks, hiding them with the sand so when someone kicked it, they'd hit rocks...evil. Anyway, they did that and then dug HUGE holes all around it so if a four wheeler came by it would fall in the holes, it's tires anyway. And seriously, they were deep, came just below Cody's shoulders!! Anyway, dug holes in a circle all around the castle and then covered them with sticks and leaves. Ha! Never saw a booby trapped sand city! Unfortunately, I forgot to take a picture! stupid me!! BUT, when we went back on Saturday (we built it Wednesday) most of it was still there!! Success! Only 2 castles had been smooched. awesome.

Came back for dinner and waited for Justin to get there.

Loaded up and headed home. Thursday we had Rylee's eye appointment. And here's some great news...they want to hold off on surgery!!!! She showed no signs of worsening or getting better so he's hoping it's something that she will possibly grow out of, next appointment is 6 months from now. I am so hoping it will fix itself, don't honestly know if I can go through crying blood again. Ick.

We headed back to the lake on the weekend after some horrible news. One of Justin's employees was killed in a motorcycle crash. Justin had a hard week dealing with the loss of a friend and employee. Needless to say he was exhausted. But he went ahead and took the boys on a bow fishing adventure Friday night. They got home about midnight, exhausted. Around 3am I heard the weirdest noises coming from the living room, go look and Justin is rolling around on the sofa with a pillow in his mouth yelling. What the what?? I ask him what's wrong and he says his foot is hurt. I assume he stubbed his toe or something so I turn on the light and see the blood. And I mean lots of it. (luckily we're changing the carpet anyway) I mean it looked like a stabbing so much blood. I looked at his foot and he has 2 HUGE cuts and blood everywhere. Inside the cuts were twigs, sticks, dirt. I pulled what I could out and cleaned up what I could but he was in horrible pain. He refused to go to the ER until the next morning when Russ looked at it and told him he needed to...so he did. (what? why did he listen to Russ and not me????? Arrgh) Oh forgot to mention...he was sleepwalking when it happened! Yup, sleepwalking! He walked over to the front door, which we have never used, unlocked the screen door, unlocked the dead bolt and then unlocked the actual door, which of course we have no deck or steps off the mobile home. It's a good 3 foot drop I think to the ground,which would have been fine except for the cinder block under the door, that's what he caught his foot on. He must have landed on the corner of the block, his skin stayed but his body kept going. Ouch. So we made it to the doctor and they said it was too late for stitches and tried to clean it up, it wasn't broke which was good, but disgustingly dirty and swollen. Put him on crutches for 4-6 weeks, cleaned it and we headed home. Nice.

He spent the rest of the weekend in the boat while we played around. Felt sorry for him but um...also got a good laugh of how it must have looked when he fell out of the doorway and then crawled back in. (I imagine it looked like when the coyote is chasing the road runner and he walks off a cliff, stops and then falls...) Anyway, he went to the doctor again today because he can't move his toes still and it is really swelling. Turns out he has nerve damage and is scheduled for an orthopedic surgeon on Monday. Awesome. Possible surgery and more crutches all because he walked out a freaking 3 foot drop door. Geez.

So that's about all that's going on here. Getting ready to go to the end of the year pool party for both boys baseball team which should be fun! Hope you guys are having a great week. Love and miss you all!