Since Hank's dad, Darrell, passed away 10 months ago, there has been a very visible absence at the ranch. Sam has had a hard time going up there - we all have. But spring break 2011 was a turning point. Sam took his friend Michael with us. Hank and the boys had so much fun hunting, fishing and getting dirty. I have not seen Hank and Sam spend that much time together in years and it was so good for them. I know Sam will never forget this spring break. Sam is growing up and as I sit here filling up with tears...I really understand why our parents and grandparents always say "it goes fast!"
Welcome to our crazy life!
For years friends and family have told me to write a book about some of the wild, funny, challenging and (at times) unbelieveable events in my family's life. I decided a blog would be a good way to get my feet wet...so here goes! I was NOT an English major so don't critique.
Monday, March 28, 2011
TA - DA! Through the magic of digital photography...we had fresh fried fish in minutes...not really. I bet Wanda is still applying ICY HOT to her arms after cleaning fish for hours!
it's Oklahoma in spring so, of course, there was a hailstorm just as we pulled up to the pond to fish. I looked at my weather app. on my iphone and told Hank "it's getting ready to storm really bad." His exact words were "this is going around us - I PROMISE." That is why he and the older kids had to wait out the storm in a little hut on top of the hill with a horribly STINKY wet dog...while we sat in the truck. While they were in the shack Sam said to Hank "mom's going to kill you for not listening to her, esp. if we blow away."
Wanda scared me a little bit when she said "we will never be able to drive out of the this mud." So we started videoing our own episode of I SHOULDN'T BE ALIVE with my phone while we were sitting there. The storm passed, we got a little stuck trying to get out, spun the tires for awhile and made it home safely. All I had to say to Hank was "I WAS RIGHT!"
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Thursday, March 10, 2011
This rash (that covered her entire body) is what eventually led us to the E.R. last night. You have to know Stella's medical history. She's anaphylactic and we take every rash/hives seriously. They thought this was viral and spreading because her fever was so high. They got her temp. down to 102 and sent us home.
Right before we left for the hospital she said "this day is not the way I planned it!"
I said "amen sister."
My arsenal of meds. to make Stella feel better. She disagrees!
SICK BAY:( Another round of illness has struck the Hubler household. Why does mom have to get sick when the kids are sooo sick??? Tuesday night was one of the hardest nights I've had with a child in a long time. I was sick with fever while Stella cried all night from various ailments, fever, nausea, ear pain, etc.
Monday, March 7, 2011
Aren't they cute?
Today I had to take stella to the doctor (in Tulsa). That long drive on the turnpike is just tranquilizing....zzzzzz.... I'm thinking the seatbelt in this situation (top pic.) is probably more life threatening than life saving. I don't have super-stretch arms to adjust her head...although there have been times where I almost tore my rotator cuff trying to reach sippie cups, and pacifiers.
As a matter of fact, there is a dent in my front fender (with Riverfield blue paint on it) where I reached back to grab a sippie cup for a child who was going to die if she didn't get a drink RIGHT THEN!!!
1. The constant smell of grass fires burning
2. wind and more wind
3. frogs croaking at night
4. ticks (i pulled 4 off of Stella the other day)
5. POLLEN COUNT IS THROUGH THE ROOF!!!
OH - how could I forget tornado season???
After getting our garden ready to plant and working in the flower beds....I took 2 Benadryl, did a sinus wash and laid awake all night sneezing and holding a kleenax up to my nose:(
Further evidence that we do, in fact, live in the country:) This is the scene when you walk into my garage from the kitchen. I try, try, try to keep it cleaned up...forget it! Muddy coats are very common around here also - as you can see. This is why I got rid of my water efficient front loaders and went back to the old, cheap top loaders that fill the tank with water.
Thursday, March 3, 2011
WAY TO GO BRISTOW!!! Shelby's team just won GRAND CHAMPION at the academic bowl this morning... I had to brag a little. She did GREAT. Guess what question she missed? Hank needs to get his oxygen mask on - "What does www stand for in computer terms?" I kept waiting on her to buzz in....nothing....silence. She looked at me as soon as they read the answer like dad would die if he were here right now!
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
This is Hank's new obsession...checking our internet speed. We are trying out a new wi-fi company here in town. They promise a certain speed so Hank is holding them to it by gosh! Every time I sit down at a computer this is what I see (above). As you can see from this test we were getting a lousy 1.32 mb download speed. We were so spoiled in Tulsa.
FYI - we are bandwidth hogs so they are going to put us on our own tower.
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
I found this on the counter when I got home from Wal-Mart. No one told her to write this. Maybe she did learn her lesson. After she wrote her 100 sentences I said "what did you learn?" She said "not to write that many sentences because I can't feel my hand, " as she picked the pencil splinters out of her fingers:( I said "it looks like you need to write another 100 after dinner then becuase you didn't get it. All of the sudden she positively knew the lesson!
She's a really good kid, I'm surprised by this whole incident.
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