The oldest and wierdest son.

Kyle broke his glasses, so until the new ones come in, I fixed the broken ones. He decided to be a funny guy and did the Erkel impression. Now, he has made the blog.

The mysterious rash.

Rieley has an on again off again rash and welts for 3 days, can't figure it out. So, we went to see the doctor today and his physcian assistant, said, she is allergic to something. Now we just need to figure out what it is. so, we are keeping a food and liquid diary until we can discover what is causing this. She isn't really uncomfortable with them and benadryl does help. Today's was the worst and caused alot of itching. Hoping we figure this out sooner than later.

Thursday night we had fajitas and Rieley had a juice pouch to drink and within 30 minutes broke out. Her eyes were swelling shut and she had welts on her legs, back, belly and arms. We gave her benadryl and watched her like a hawk, that was 2 breakouts in one day. She ended up sleeping with us for the night.

When she woke up this morning she was free of rash and her eyes were back to normal and so far today, no rash.

Rockhounds baseball game

We had some free tickets for a Rockhounds basesball game and decided to take in their last game before playoffs began last night. Tim, had gotten the tickets while looking at cars at a local Chevy dealer. We ended up with another Honda, but only after Tim was called an unkind name, so he kept the tickets.

We did errands in Midland and Odessa before hand and had dinner. As, we learned last time the food at the baseball game is not very good and expensive. We did have snowcanes and popcorn, while taking in the game. Rieley enjoyed the game and the snacks. Fun was had by all even if they lost. We left early to get a headstart home, before all of the beer drinking fans left the facility.

Puzzle time.

Rieley has loved puzzles since the day we came home from China. She loves floor puzzles and is now able to do 70 -100 piece puzzles by herself. I bought us a big people puzzle to do, Tim decided to give it a try. Rieley and him, spent some time over the past weekend doing puzzles sie by side.

Our gardens harvest.

Rieley and daddy have been busy gathering veges from our garden and I have been busy making salsa, jam, and freezing peaches for the winter months without a garden and fresh veges. Of course, the strawberries and peaches were store bought. But, oh they are so yummy and will taste really good come Dec and Jan.

Tim did a little pruning of the tomatoes bushes, as they had overtaken the sidewalk. Hoping, he didn't go too far.  Tim says the watermelon pictured, weighs more than Rieley.

Hunter returns to Pitt. 8/23/10.

Tim and Hunter left for Pittsburgh on the 23rd of Aug. Hunter is being a mentor for the incoming freshman, so he was moving in a few days ahead of everyone else. He had a few days of classes and meetings to attend. Tim and him, did a huge run to Target to stock his room and get ready for another year of dorm life. They also, purchased his books for the semester, almost $1000. He will be rooming with 2 of his friends from his old high school, and it will be a much better year. I'm sure Paul and Mark, will enjoy the care packages that come that way also. I mailed one today, full of homemade goodies.
They will be living in triple room, 2 bedrooms, a living room, their own bathroom(they are responsible to clean it), and a fridge and microwave.

Jess's 3rd visit to TX.

Jessica came for another visit, to see Hunter and us before school started. They had different plans but didn't convey them to us before tickets were purchased for Hunter's return to Pitt, with Tim along to help with the move in.

We didn't do much while she was here. They, along with Rieley baked and cooked, plus played many games of crazy eight, garbage, memory, candyland, chutes and ladders and hi ho cherry o's. Of course, Rieley took full advantage of having an extra person here to read to her also. Rieley was Jess's partner when the big people played Scrabble and Sequence. They spent the day at the beach, our backyard, and played tball with her and swam in our little pool, olus having a small picnic.

Jessica headed back to PA, to get herself ready for her year at Ursinus and to spend some time with her family and some friends still at home. We look forward to her next visit, whenever that may be. We know Hunter won't be home until Christmas.