Halloween

Right in the middle of moving and unpacking we left for Boise. We planned it right before we moved. We needed a break from everything and all the madness. The girls weren't in school yet, I had a week off work and it was time to get away. We left on Thursday and got to Sondra's around 3. the weather was beautiful and we just hung out. It was so nice to unwind. We left the dogs at the Pet Lodge. I felt bad but didn't want to deal with them. Friday was Halloween and Sondra got up and made us ghost pancakes then went to work. We went shopping for a while. We hit the Nike store and Gordmans. We all LOVE that store. Sondra got off work and we went back to her house to eat and relax some. Rich still has a hard time going going going and the drive up was hard on him. After eating and relaxing the girls got their costumes on and we went to the Village. We decided no trick-or-treating  (Sondra had plenty of treats for us. Sugar cookies, cupcakes, twix bars, peanutbutter bars, yum yum). We walked around the Village a little and went to see a movie instead. It was fun. Saturday Sondra made biscuits and gravy (spoiled) and we went to Hobby Lobby and Fred Meyers. Then back to her house to watch tv and let Rich relax. We were going to go out to dinner that night but decided we were going to see the Maze Runner. Two movies in two nights. Thats unheard of for us,. We barely go to two movies a year. But it was vacation... So instead of eating out Sondra made us tacos. We left and went back to Gordmans and Jason and Sonrda met us there. Sharon wasnt feeling well so didnt go with us. It was raining super hard so we didnt get to spend time at the Village except to go to the movie theater. Sunday came all to soon and we left to go home. It sure is fun to get away and spend time with my favorite people.

 We had a little passenger on the way up. We took this little pup to her new home in Boise. Sondra wanted to keep her. HAHA she sure was cute.

 Tymber did Hopes Vampire make-up

6 weeks

Today was Rich's 6 week Dr. Appt for his back. We had to go early for X-rays. The Dr. Was super impressed. He said he couldn't hope for a better X-ray and at this point Rich is way ahead of the healing game. Dr.Allen said the X-rays show more like a post op patient of 12 weeks vs. 6 weeks. His back is already fusing together super well.  He no longer has to wear his back brace and the goal over the next few weeks is to get off his pain pills all together. Rich has a little more freedom in things he can do but also has to be smart and not do any lifting over 10 pounds. He starts physical therapy next week. Hopefully in about 4 weeks the therapist will release him for work. He's pretty antsy and tired of being home. At the same time he also knows he's not able to go back to work yet even with restrictions. He has lost a lot of his muscle over the past 6 weeks and needs to build his strength up. He still gets pretty tired and can't to much without hurting.

We are right in the middle of moving. We close on the 16th and have to be out of here on the 25th. I'm pretty much freaking out right now. My work is being jerks and do not want to give me time off to move. It should be interesting and is so stressful. Thank goodness I have an amazing family who are always willing to help us out. I swear come November I'm going in hibernation. It has been one supper busy hellacious year. Honestly I will be glad to see 3014 go.