Pictures of our 6yr old

The countdown is on for my eye surgery

In the spring of 2003 I was painting the shed in our front yard. It was warm and sunny out. I was wearing my contacts. I had to scrape off the old paint and a flake of it got in my eye. I thought I washed it out and went back to painting. The flake of paint made its way somehow to the back of my left eye and made several scratches on the back of my eye. No big deal until the paint caused an eye disease called pic. Pressure would build up in the back of my eye and my vision would be slightly blurry. I saw specialists from Vancouver to Kelowna. I took steroids to relieve the swelling. I had to stop wearing contacts. There was nothing that could be done to fix my eye so I just lived with it. I could go sometime a year with out any swelling and sometimes only 4 months. It's something I dealt with over the last 7yrs. The optometrist keeps an eye on my eye. In February I went in to see my optometrist for one of my check ups. At the time my eye was swelling a bit, but my vision seemed to be only slightly blurry. At that time I wanted to get back into wearing my contacts and we discussed eye surgery. So I tried some newer contacts and they worked out great. They sent my chart to Pacific Eye Center in Vancouver to see if I would be able to get laser eye surgery. I heard nothing back so I called 6 weeks alter and the optometrist asked me how serious I was about getting laser eye surgery. I had saved up some money and had a decent tax return, so I could afford it. I just had to get one more exam out of the way before they could say yes. I have studied the eye chart and know the bottom line. LOL but knew that couldn't read from memory so I had to be very sure I let her know what I could actually see. Then she put the drops in my eye and really checked my vision. I passed that exam(: Then I had to wait for an appointment that was in the summer time and didn't fall on someone else's holidays. So the date was picked. July 22/10 at 11:30am is surgery, which means I need to be at Pacific Eye Center in Vancouver at 10:30am. I am getting very excited for the surgery and scared at the same time. I leave in 5 days. So wish me luck(:

Fun day at the parade & street party

What a wonderful day. The weather was so nice! Tomorrow we are going to the Stampede. The teens are going to the Midway. Hard to believe that Stampede is almost over. I'm glad Sean can come to the rodeo with us this year(:

Kindergarten Grad

Bowling Field Trip

Crystal had fun bowling with her class.

Father's Day Camping Weekend

I like this tent trailer because the stove hooks on the side so you can cook outside off the propane tank if you want to. We didn't need to use our Coleman Stove this time(:

School's Out! For the Teens.

Every year on the last official day of school, my teens get a pizza party. Kels started it when she was in grade 8 because she didn't get pizza every Friday like she did back in elementary school and Mike was still getting his pizza Fridays because he is 2 yrs younger than her. So it started Pizza and Jones Soda. Now this year they are both in high school, but have a little sister in elementary school, so they reminded me about the year end party. Mike decided to do his at lunch. So he invited some of his friends over and had pizza and Pop Shoppe Pop. I could've had the pizza delivered, but I decided to bring it home to them. (That way I also knew who was at the house). They played X-box and had a good time.

Kels decided to have her pizza party after school. It was a Mardi Gras theme


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They had Mardi Gras Masks. Kels had made a couple of King Cakes. She iced them herself. I thought they turned out pretty good. I made the punch. It was grape punch, but when I added the 7 up it turned a bit more pink than purple. I was going for the Mardi Gras look with the 3 colors- purple, yellow and green. Kels painted her nails Mardi Gras style too.
And of course they had the beaded necklaces. I made jumalaya for our dinner keeping in with the Mardi Gras theme as well. Kels had her pizzas that she decided to get the kind you bake at home instead of Panago. I was quite surprised at that decision. She still got her Jones Sodas. I didn't take pictures of the teens in their masks because they all went down stairs and played pool and Just Dance on the Wii. The party was supposed to be over at 7pmish but most of them stayed longer. Brandi arrived after supper and got to spend the night.

Crystal has 4 more days of school. They are going bowling 1 day, having a funday and then kindy grad is on June 28th.
This school year has gone by very quick. Now we are all looking forward to summer holidays.