Playing Hookey on the 4th

I think this is the first 4th of July in my life that I am/we are doing absolutely nothing to celebrate. We have had such a crazy last several weeks that we decided to excuse ourselves from the festivities to have a relaxing day at home. The first day like that in a LONG time! Plus, Samson was already freaking out last night from a few small pops of fireworks. He was hiding in our room, so we thought it would be nice of us to stay home with him too. We had our own little BBQ with teriyaki burgers and corn on the cob, we hung more pictures on the walls, watched TV, and played with Samson. I finally had time to post all of the many pics from the last weeks on facebook, and am starting to write and get caught up on here. You will see in my next posts just how busy we have been :).

A few updates before I get on with rewinding to all of our recent adventures. We have a few days of work for next week! What an answer to prayer to have some payed work, and perfectly during the only 2 weeks we had left to do it in. We will be doing some painting at my school :). Another answer to prayer is that my ER bills are going to be MUCH less than we thought! On our way to Chicago at the beginning of June, I began having severe abdominal pains, and ended up leaving the seatac airport (where our layover was) to go to the ER. The pains eventually subsided, and the doctor really didn't know what was causing them. Her best guess was irritable bowel syndrome, which cannot really be diagnosed nor treated. Anyways, we were kinda worried about how large the bills for the ambulance, er, and cat-scan were going to be. God sure is providing for us, because they are less than half of what we were expecting! One last update... we haven't had a dishwasher in this house since we moved in (well, it's there, but doesn't work), and a new one is FINALLY coming this week!