Yeah, yeah, so it's been since March.  Let me tell you about my morning.

Our roof suffered major injuries during the hail storm in April and has to be replaced.  The roofers got here today at 8:30 to begin work.  Today.  Like 4 months later.  It's cool though; I know they've been busy.  Well, when I went to pull out of the garage, there were about 300 piles of roofing equipment spread all over the driveway.  And a big long truck blocking the whole thing at the bottom too.  Every worker was on the roof so I had to walk down the driveway just for them to see me.  Trying to convey the message "Can you move your stuff so I can get my car out of the garage" was about as difficult as asking them to write out the pythagorean theorem because I don't think they knew anyone was home in the first place & couldn't see the garage door open from where they were on the roof.  And they didn't speak English.

Next, I went to Kroger because Kenzie needed a specific kind of Lunchable to take to school.  I stopped at the Starbucks inside and ordered my regular:  Grande Lite Mocha Coconut Frappuccino with an extra shot of espresso.  Trajedy struck again when she told me they didn't have the coconut flavor and it had likely been discontinued for the season. 

I took Kenzie to school and signed her in, however, not a single soul could be found.  I ran into a couple teachers and they denied seeing any of a group of about 30 preschoolers all morning.  I kind of feel like the noise generated from that group alone would be hard to miss.  Anyway, after walking all over the school, I finally found them all outside.  Behind the school.

Finally on the way to work, while driving down the interstate, a semi blew a tire and most of it flew back and hit my car.  Surprisingly, and thankfully, I can't see any damage to my car.

I had planned to get to work around 9.  It ended up being around 10.

This all happened in an hour.  See how my intentions are good and things just happen?  Same thing with the blog.  Good intentions + poor follow-through = neglected blog.

So here are the last two weeks in our life-

By the way, the top picture is "Diva Pippa", dressed by Kenzie of course, two days ago.

This "cake" is not really a cake at all.  In fact, it should be called "hardest to make fake cake in the world" because it's really made out of watermelon, kiwi, blueberries, strawberries, and whipped cream.  And making the bottom half wasn't hard.  But what happens when you have a really heavy, wet, watermelon disc and then try to set it on top of perfectly placed blueberries and whipped cream?  It squishes everything out because whipped cream isn't all that dense.  Erin showed me a picture of one (sans recipe) and since I'm such an awesome wife, I made it for him.  It did taste really good though.

This cake, which I did not make, was brought by Erin's coworkers for his last day at work at Fort Sanders Regional.  He had been there for 10 years so they threw him a little going-away party.  He has accepted a new job at Parkwest Hospital, which is much closer to us.  Same job, different location.  And he really loves it so far.

Our sweet Kenzie had to have surgery last week.  She had 2 hernias and they were evidently congenital.  They weren't causing her any trouble, but her doctor said they needed to be repaired before she got any older.  In true Kenzie fashion, she took it like a big girl and did really well.

The dog she is holding is a girl and it's name is Joshua.  Kenzie put bows on Joshua's ears the night before.

This is right after she came back down from recovery.  They gave her a grape popsicle, hence the purple teeth. . .

She was quite proud of her IV, although at the time, she didnt realize it was actually connected to her.  She thought it was just a tube taped to her hand.

She has since asked to go back and do "doctor day" again.

On the way home, she asked for ice cream for lunch.  She hadn't been allowed to eat or drink anything since midnight the night before and had done SO well at the hospital. . .

Who would say no?  I mean really.  Plus, I wanted ice cream with tons of candy on top too.

Speaking of ice cream, the ice cream truck has been frequenting our neighborhood and that is pretty much the best news ever for me because it's the ONLY way I can get one of these:

If you know where I can just buy these, please let me know.  Because we've been looking since I was about 8 or 9 years old.  That's a true statement.

Best.  Stuff.  Ever.