Good evening all. I hope you have had a great week and a good & safe 4th of July!! I just can't believe that is July already. WOW this year is flying by. Well My week has been OK. Had a few rough nights with Kyle, he is getting two or three of his molars in at the same time. I just can't believe it! Andrew got two in at once, I thought that was bad! We got paid on Thursday, but unfortunately the stupid Omega has a dead battery. We thought we had fixed it, but nope! Went out there to start the car, and it was dead! GRRRRRRR That makes me so mad, the last time we charged it it had said battery charged, so we aren't sure if it's the battery or the alternator. Considering that we drove from here to the city and back with the alternator belt off the pulley! Who knows, so not this coming weekend but the next we are gonna have to take the battery and the alternator and have them tested to see which one is bad. Hopefully it's the battery, not sure how much an alternator is gonna be. This weekend we are driving to St. Louis, Mo to be there for my sister's ordination!!! We will be leaving Friday morning, and coming back Monday sometime! It should be an interesting trip. It will be me, Darryl, Kyle, Andrew, along with my sister, her hubby, Justin, Kelsey, Emily and Cade all in one vehicle!! It should be fun trying to squeeze 9 in a 7 passenger car!!! HEHE! My brother in law, Justin is being a JERK! He doesn't like the car that I have picked out, yet it's the biggest one that we could find online. All the others are gone, and my mom is already helping us out by paying for the rental, all we have to pay is toll road, gas, hotel, and dinner out one night. It's already totaling like $200.00 just for all that, plus all the basics bills and all that coming out, that is enough. So Justin and Joy said they were going to find a bigger car, and my mom told them that she will not be paying the difference they can! Joy & Justin can, cause we can't! We are barely able to make basics right now, so they can gripe and all that but my mom is doing what she can! It should be a fun trip. We are going to make cards, the guys will probably go to the zoo, it's free there, and we can swim at the hotel and such, so that should be fun! We got some fireworks on Wednesday and set them off on Saturday! We were expecting Joy and her family to be there, but they had other plans, so they missed all the fun, OH WELL!!!! It was kinda nice just having my family over there to spend with my mom, without other people around. It's really rare that we all get to spend time together! Usually it's all of us there, and that gets crazy!!! Also I just found out last week, that my brother and sister in law are going to be adopting a baby girl from China!!!!! They can have kids, but they have a rare, very serious genetic disorder, and the baby they carried for 7 months was born stillborn. Khury just didn't know if she could go through all that again. So they have decided to adopt. I think it's wonderful that they are doing that!!! Well that is what is going on here, just getting ready for our trip and all. I am so excited and proud for my sister. She will be doing a year residency in a local hospital in the chemical abuse for teens and young adults as a chaplan, in Des Moines!!!! You go girl!!! LOL. Well I write more before we leave, and when I get back will have to tell you all about what happened! Hope you have a great week, take care, Hugs ~ Jilly
