Braids, Strep and a Tag Your It...

Well this weekend has been most exciting. The girls have been begging me to have their hair braided in corn rows like all the little girls in their classes for years now. Problem is, people charge like 90$ to do it. Yah...like I'm going to spend almost 200$ on the two of them just to have their hair braided. Well anyway, here it is three years later, and they finally have gotten it done. NO I DIDN"T PAY 200$...I'm not that foolish. I'm a bargain hunter, and I found one. One of the teachers there at King Elementary that I interact with all the time has her own salon in her basement. She told me she would do the girls hair for ten dollars each. SOLD!! SO for twenty dollars and eight hours, both the girls got their hair done. I would have thought they would never sit still for that long, but sure enuf they did. They are so cute with them in. I'm wondering how they will look with them out, and I may have the lady do a perm on the two girls. Anyway, that was Friday (they had the day off from school). Then I woke up on Saturday feeling so miserable. I had a fever of 103, and that was with taking 1000mg. of Tylenol, and I had a bad sore throat, I couldn't talk it hurt so badly, and I didn't want to eat a thing. I couldn't handle how miserable I felt. I decided to go to the Instant Care at 8pm, and they decided to do a Strep test. They said it would take 6 min to do it. Apparently it didn't take that long for mine to show up, it was almost instant I guess. The Dr. looked at me and said that I have it pretty bad. SO she gave me a script for Zpack, and a refill on it just in case it doesn't completely go away after the ten days. I'm sure it will. I went to the pharmacy on the way home and they were closed, so I just went home. Will said I should go to a 24 hour pharmacy. I told him I didn't know where one was, so he looked one up for me, and seeing how I felt so miserable, he went and picked it up for me. What a sweet man. I took my antibiotic before I went to bed, and finally around 3am my fever broke, and I was able to sleep peacefully the rest of the night into the morning.OH MY GOSH...Do I feel so much better. It's like night and day. I still feel sick, and not fully myself, but man I tell you what, I am so grateful for medicine. I was at least able to function and be more of a mother and wife than I was on Saturday. Of course I had to stay home from church today so I wouldn't infect anyone else. And finally one of my friends tagged me with this fun A-Z self tidbits that I found fun. SO here you go. I have also put in some pics of our Hyacinths. I adore Lilacs, but because I am not going to be living here next year, I didn't plant any lilac bushes. So I decided to plant Hyacinths instead, and boy are they pretty, and smell so great. Too bad this isn't a scratch and sniff monitor..cause it would make you all want to run out and buy some of these Annuals.

Anyway here is the Tag portion....

A--Attached or Single: Attached
B--Best Friend: Will

C--Cake or Pie: Pie...Cherry..nice and tart
D--Day of Choice: Saturday..Best day to play with family
E--Essential Item: Hair Brush, and soap
F--Favorite Color: White
G--Greatest Accomplishment: My three kids

H--Hometown: Draper, Ut.

I--Indulgences: Toffee Bar

J--January or July: July...lots of fireworks
K--Kids: Three: Sabrina, Vanessa and Isaac...hopefully two more someday.

L--Life is incomplete without: My family
M--Marriage Date: April 28th, 2001

N--Number of Siblings: Four: Tiera, Jaron, Dalin and Tyler
O--Oranges or Apples: Apples
P--Phobias or fears: Claustrophobic

Q--Quotes: "I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully, tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails. I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp. I want to be there with grass stains on my shoes from mowing Sister Schenck's lawn. I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbor's children. I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someones garden. I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and tears of a friend on my shoulder. I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived." ~ Marjorie Hinckley ~
R--Reason to Smile: Seeing my kids laugh

S--Season: Fall: still so beautiful, yet not so scorching hot, and yet cool enough to have even more reasons to cuddle

T--Tag 5 Friends: Tiera, Michelle, Mom, Amanda, Lisa

U--Unknown facts about me: I've lost over 200 Lbs. in the last two years

V--Very favorite store: Manglesons (It's a craft and hobby store)

W--Worst habit: biting my fingernails....I know gross, but it's a nervous habit
X--X-ray or Ultra Sound: Ultrasound
Y--Your favorite food: Chocolate covered Strawberries...mmmm yummy!!
Z--Zodiac: Pisces