Glad the weekend is over.

I had a super busy weekend, and am really glad to have it over with. For the last week-2 weeks I have been going through everything and getting ready for a yard sale. Sapulpa had a community yard sale on Saturday and there were LOTS of people out. Cherrie and I had decided to have the sale together, which was SOOO nice. I enjoyed having someone to visit with. Actually, there were 3 people to visit with: Cherrie, Ryan and Chantel. I have had to run yard sales by myself the last few times and that is NO fun! We didn't sell out, but we did get rid of big items, yay! The rest we are just hauling to Goodwill. And I feel so much better about getting rid of some clutter! Ryan put his motorcycle in and had 3 different people inquiring about it. Just pray that at least one of them comes back! We NEED rid of that bike! Overall, it was a successful sale, but it is always so nice to have it over with.

On another note, Blake's 5th disease has spread all over his arms, all over his back, and now on his legs. But it is getting lighter this evening, I think. Hopefully Taylor won't get it and Blake can get rid of it soon.

Taylor and Blake only have school 2 days this week, I am hoping that Taylor and I can do some scrapbooking maybe Thursday night. I LOVE scrapbooking and haven't been able to in about 1 1/2 years. So needless to say, I'm very far behind!

Hope everyone else had a good weekend :)

1st day 5th disease pics

I just want to display these and and see if they get worse, the lady at the school said it may get worse, we'll see. I feel sorry for Blake, however, these are not painful or itchy. Thank goodness!

Fifth Disease

While I was helping Cherrie and Lee paint their house in Drumright I noticed that I got this UGLY rash on my arms. It looked like a bunch of dark red splotchy spots all over my arms. I had them a little bit on my chest also. I at first thought that I had an allergic reaction to the paint. Then last night I noticed that Blake had a few red dots/pimples on his face and I thought it was just dry skin. So I put Vaseline on his face and when he woke up, the red dots were still on his face. I didn't know what to think, but he went on to school as normal. Well... I got a call from the school and they said that Blake has a thing called Fifth Disease. It is kind of like chicken pox, but not bad like them. We all know pox itch and are just miserable. Well, Fifth Disease doesn't itch or anything, it just looks ugly. But like pox, you are contagious before the breakout. And it lasts 1 to 3 weeks when you finally break out. And supposedly you don't get it again, your body becomes immune to it. They said that he was fine to keep going to school though. They wanted to just let me know what it was, which I really appreciated. It is just a thing that is going around, so I thought I would let everyone know, because I had no idea what the rash was. Anyway, you get a fever about a week before you break out. I now think back to before I had the rash and I was sick but not throwing up. I had a fever and felt terrible. And it was about 1 week before the rash showed up. I will try to post a picture of Blake's skin, but for now, I found this picture, the arm in the picture looks EXACTLY like the rash I had a couple weeks ago. So this is just for all of you to know ahead of time, just in case ;)

Angelic voices

Today I went to Brother Jacob Bocook's funeral. He moved to Delta when I was a teenager and he started hanging out with my good friend, Velvadene, so I also hung out with him as a teenager. We weren't close friends, but was definitely good friends. I just felt so bad for his wife, Renee. She also was a good friend of mine as a teenager. It is so strange to see people that I am/was friends with being called home. He left behind 5 children and 1 on the way :( I just can't stop thinking about poor Renee. She is going to have quite a trial ahead of her. But as I was standing at the graveside, they asked that we all sing a couple songs. I have heard some beautiful singing, but today I just listened to the voices harmonize and it actually (to me) sounded like a bunch of angels. It comforted me. I don't know why that was the most comforting thing to me, but it was. I think it was only about 3 months ago that I saw Jacob and Renee at RD and Andra's wedding and it was so nice getting to catch up with them. I told them I was going to try to come and see them. And you know how time goes by SO quickly and I've gone through a lot of things in those 3 months, but now I just am so MAD at myself that I didn't. I hope that this will be a lesson for me that we can NOT take advantage that everyone will always be there and we can go see them just whenever we want to, because that isn't always so. He was only 35, his family needs all the prayers possible.

Slumber party

We had a slumber party over here last night that was full of laughs and plenty of goofiness! I had went to Cherrie's to help her get started packing/rearranging, but we really couldn't do much until we had some room, so in a few days, when her shop becomes vacant, we are going to get in gear! Anyways, I had LOADED up on caffeine, thanks for the DELICIOUS coffee Cherrie ;) When it was time to go home, I invited Stormie (Taylor's BEST friend). We got home and I kind of let the girls do whatever. They started watching Parent Trap and I had a LOT of caffeine running through my body, so I decided to clean and organize Taylor's room! I am soooo happy with it now. That kid had WAY too many toys. Cherrie and I both are planning on having a yard sale next weekend, so I am trying to get RID of stuff that we don't need! Mission: ORGANIZATION! Taylor had this huge toy box, full of mainly stuffed animals. The toy box looks like it is for a little girl (like 2) so we are getting rid of that and I had a pink storage container, less than half the size of the other, that I made into her "new toy box." Plus... I went through and took summer clothes out and put fall/winter clothes in. In the middle Stormie came in and wanted to help me. I told her she should enjoy relaxing and she insisted on helping me. What a sweetie! And she was a great help! But after the room was done, the girls continued to have a great time together! Taylor is really going to miss Stormie. But it was a really fun night