Test Video

Yesterday afternoon I upgraded my Blackberry Software. I didn't realize how much the upgrade added to the whole crackberry experience! Now I can take videos with my phone!!! And short videos can be sent to the blog with my phone. Like this one. This is a quick view of my very messy desk. I've been slowly cleaning out my office, but haven't been to enthused about it.

Back to the new software. What prompted the upgrade was that I finally discovered Pandora and have been using it at work and decided to try to access it from my phone. When I did that it said that my device needed the newest version of software and to upgrade to get it. So I did it yesterday at McDonalds. {Mcdonald's with wifi because I use my phone to connect to the internet and I couldn't do that to upgrade my phone.} The new software adds a video camera, a more enhanced Facebook, Pandora {internet radio for FREE}, a better music player that I haven't used yet..., Word to go, Slideshow to go, and probably more that I haven't found yet.

New Carseats ... Sorta...

There was a deal on a flowered Britax Marathon that I figured I would buy for Lexa to use so Logan could have her tan one. He is getting way too big for the infant seat we were using.

@ the Dr's Office

I've got some sick kids. It all started a couple of weeks ago. Lexa got sick - probably something that started from allergies - and ran a fever for a day, but then seemed to get much better but remained to have a cough. Logan had a couple days of a fever but tylenol did the trick and he seemed to be on the mend with some congestion and coughing remaining. Then last week I felt like the Grim Reaper was knocking on my door. Typical flu symptoms, achey, fever, dizzy, head cold, pounding head ache. I went to work last thursday and probably shouldn't have. I holed myself up in my office and took it pretty easy. Friday I took the kids to daycare and went back home for some rest.

Monday brought a big suprise. I was feeling quite better with just the remaining runny nose and cough. Logan had his 6 month dr's appt and just to make a long story short has 2 very bad ear infections and pneumonia and thrush. His blood oxygen was so low (88) that he was minutes away from being admitted to the hospital. I'm sure that if his appointment was for 3pm (like usual) instead of 9am he would have been. After 2 breathing treatments, a shot of antibiotics, a dose of steroids, and chest x-rays his blood oxygen got up to 96, barely high enough to go home. So we been doing breathing treatments and lots of medicine to get my little bubba back to his normal self.

But that's what worries me most. He didn't act like he was in any discomfort at all! He was still playing and smiling and talking and sleeping like usual. Dr. says from now on {at least for the next 12 months} if he has cold symptoms that don't improve within 3 days bring him in because he is more likely to develop pneumonia again since there will be a weak spot in his lungs for the next year. I yI yI.

Oh, and Lexa has an ear infection and I have 2 ear infections. We are all on antibiotics. EXCEPT Lance. He has somehow dodged this whole thing!

Wisteria

I took this picture last night before the Jane Magnolia but for some reason it didn't make it to the blog. We got a start of this off my aunt's. Some wisterias for one reason or another don't bloom well. We know this variety does because it was in full effect ay my aunts house when we swiped some of the seed pods. I'm looking forward to a more mature plant in the years to come - it will be beautiful. Lance built an amazing walk-through arbor for it to climb on.

Jane Magnolia

Sleepy Time

Phone Phun

Hagon Hanson

My sister had her baby today!!! Yay! The funny thing is that she thought she was having a girl! Picked out the girl name, decorated a super cute nursery in pink and orange. And then had a BOY! Congrats!!! Hagen is a cutie pie!

Pure Silly

Driving down the road and I check the rear view mirror to see what Lexa is doing. She's got not one arm out of her shirt, but both arms pulled out and through the neck hole no less!! So I'm pulled over {good excuse as any to hit Starbucks} to correct the situation. I just hope the neck of the shirt isn't hanging to her waist!!!

Hello, My Name Is Annie...

And I'm addicted to Facebook.

I joined facebook Sunday night because at the camping trip I remembered a conversations that started "facebook or myspace." It was unanimous for facebook so I just had to find out what it was all about. Like I said, I joined Sunday night. Stayed up late setting things up and adding friends and downloading the application onto my blackberry, combining my now to very addictive habits. Monday I got to work and facebooked myself into a comma on my blackberry. Tuesday, discovered that somehow our firewall computer Nazis had let facebook in to all of us pawns and did my share of adding friends, looking at pictures, reading walls. Tuesday night I stayed up to midnight looking for eggs, adding friends, messaging. Hey, don't judge. I found my best friend from HS last night! She said she has been looking for me on facebook since she joined. So I'm begining to wonder what I did before facebook, but all I need to do is look around the house to see what it was that I did. Pick up toys, was dishes, clean the kitchen, put away laundry, play with kids, potty train Lexa. So I think the initial facination should wear off soon and things might get back to normal with some regular facebook monitoring and friend adding. Who knows I may get burnt out and go for months without doing facebook. Doubt that though - its on my phone! It sends alerts to my screen (like text message alerts) when I get a new notification on facebook.

PBC t-shirt

I have a large vintage navy tshirt left if anyone is interested. $15 or $20 to have it mailed to you. Email me at lifeintheozarks@gmail.com if you are interested.

Baby Jaydon Funk {Updated}

Because I don't feel like going to prison today - I blacked out Jaydon's junkhouser. :)

Born April 4th at 2:01am 8.5 pounds! Congratulations to the proud parents and grandparents!!! I've already told Logan that he and Jaydon are best friends!

At the optometrist's office

UPDATE: The doc said that Lexa's eyes are responding very well to the glasses and currently no surgery will be required. We go back in July for another checkup.

The sun is out...

And the snow has melted!

Slick

Teva Deal

Homemade Bread

I tried my hand at homemade bread again and it turned out so so. I'll be trying it again and seeing if I can do any better. It just wasn't fluffy enough. Lexa liked it though.

Well, someone likes my bread...

First blog with my new phone

Well we are at home again today because of the icy roads and also because Lexa is not feeling well. She's been really congested and started running a fever last night. Poor girl. What makes it really bad is that she does not like to take medicine, we usually sneak it into a cup of juice but if she won't drink her juice I have to wrap her up and try to get it in her mouth while she is crying and spitting it back at me. Well it actually wasn't that bad last night - she didn't spit it out this time.

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A snow day for all

Yesterday afternoon it started freezing up and last night there was feezing rain and it is still sleeting this morning. It is supposed to be bad all day. We are all home today keeping safe and warm! We hope you are too!