The Wilson's went camping.....YES again!

So as most of you probably know our first camping experience was eventfull to say the least! However this did not deter us from going again and this time we didn't have any problems to speak of, which is fine with me! We left friday afternoon and headed to the Poconos which is about 2hrs north of here. We were the first of the five families that we camped with last year to arrive. We set up our new teepee tent and the screen tent and then steve started a fire. we had dinner and then socialized a little bit then went to bed around 10pm. Max did great sleeping in the tent he didn't wake up once either night. I had a hard time sleeping as i could not help but think of snakes getting in my sleeping bag. I finally did fall asleep around 4am and was kinda tired the next day. I got up and started the fire and made the percolated coffee and made breakfast which was sausage patties and french toast made with texas toast. we hung around the campsite most of the day and the girls played with the other kids. Our teepee tent drew some onlookers and one guy even came over to ask us where we got it. It is really big so we had plenty of room. It did leak some on the seams but we also didn't waterproof it either. It rained pretty much all day saturday. Three of the five families left because there tents leaked and all their stuff had gotten wet. They hung around most of the day on saturday but left before dark. Sunday morning was my favorite part as i got up at 7am because my body couldn't handle sleeping on the hard ground any longer. It was really quiet(all the loud kids left the night before) and cloudy just the way i like it. I chopped some wood and started a fire and then made the coffee. So i was able to sit and relax, sipping my coffee and watching for bears! Steve and the kids got up around 8:30am and i made breakfast. The girls went on a hike with our friends and their kids as steve and i started to break down the camp. As you know Steve was hospitalized last weekend and was doing better during the week. He started having pain again on thursday night so i wasn't sure if we were even gonna get to go camping but he toughed it out and took loads of Tylenol! i will post pics as soon as i can figure out how to download them of my new phone. I remembered to bring my camera but forget to take the battery out of the charger!

Steve's Hospital Visit

So this morning steve was sleeping late which i like to let him do on the weekends because he gets up early during the week and works long hard days. However i needed to go to Home Depot to get supplies to paint the girls room and i didn't want to take max with me therefore i needed steve to be awake. At 11:30am i went to see if steve was awake yet and he was stirring but not really awake. He saw me so i asked him how he was doing and he was NOT WELL! He had a bad headache, back pain,bad chest tightness,sore throat and the chills. I took his temp and it was 100.4 which is high for him. Since he has been on prednisone for 2 years i didn't want to take and chances so i told him that he needed to go to the hospital. We got there about 12pm and i stayed for a while then took the kids to Mcdonald's to feed them and then back to the hospital to see if steve had been seen yet, but of course he was still sitting in the same spot and had not yet seen the nurse. So we waited a while longer and finally the nurse saw him, his blood ox was a little low and his fever was 102. because he was having the chest tightness they did an EKG to check for problems. Then from there they took him to a exam room, at this point i took the kids home. Since i had not heard from him by 6pm i called the hospital to check up on him. Of course he didn't want to spend the night but they admitted him anyway. We went to visit him or i should say we went to bring him his laptop! He was feeling much better and his fever was gone. They are giving him fluids and IV meds to take care of what they think is some sort of virus. So instead of painting the girls room today i spent the day worrying about steve!

House Repairs

While I am waiting for the spackle on my living room wall to dry i figured i would post a picture to show our new kitchen faucet that i put in last night. I did most of the work myself except for the hard part which was getting the old mounting nuts off of the faucet. Steve had to help me with that because no matter how hard i tried i couldn't get them to loosen. Once that was done i put in the new faucet, with a sprayer which is something we didn't have before. It was pretty easy to do and it looks so much nicer and is easier to use. I told Lori yesterday that Steve and I are looking for a new house, we really have started to outgrow this one and since it is a buyer's market right now we think we should take advantage of that. So that is why i have spackle drying on the wall in my living room. This house is in pretty good shape it just needs a few minor repairs, spackle, paint, carpets cleaned, etc. We are really hoping to find a house with at least an acre, we have lived in apts and now with this townhome which is basically a big apt we would like some land of our own! Maegan recently had her "bridging ceremony" for brownies now she is a Girl Scout. so this picture was taken before she walked over the "bridge" it rained that day so we had to do it inside and they walked over a makeshift bridge, which was a shame because they have a nice bridge at this farm.