I'm Back! Sort of...

A nice family photo at Northwest Trek Wildlife Park.

The Grizzly Bears were out to play.

KN takes to the trails with her bag of popcorn.

(A Moose. It looks thrilled to see us.)

I'm back! Well, I was never gone, just half of my head was so I was trying to keep away from the computer. Thankfully, you can still take care of children, a husband and a house with only half a head. I am feeling much better now but still have two doctors appointments to look forward to where they'll see if they can find out what's causing all of the pressure in my left sinus passages. I was put on antibiotics for a sinus infection and broke out in a head to toe rash from the meds. I couldn't get in to see a doctor about the rash until that evening and still had to take our kids to their last day of swimming lessons so I caked on the makeup and hoped no one looked at my arms! ( It was way too hot to wear long sleeves. ) That evening the doctor commented on my "Summery hot pink shirt" and then broke out in laughter at the sight of my hives. I told her I figured, if you can't hide the rash, you might as well try to match it. She prescribed a different medication to clear up the sinus troubles and a cream for the hives. The new medication gave me awful stomach troubles so I quit that after the 3rd day. Now I'm just left with the occasional mild headache, slight pressure around my left eye and left sinus. As I'm sure many of you know all too well, you must see a different doctor for each part of your body -so, off to the eye doc I go and then off to the Ear, nose throat doctor ( He must feel VERY qualified to get THREE parts of the body to specialize in! ) Of course I have to have a head CT done first so they can see if I've been putting any marbles or peas up my nose.

Anyway, I feel well enough to blog again! We had a wonderful day last Sunday out at North West Trek wildlife park with our sister and brother in law and cute little nephew. My sister in law wrote a wonderful account of our day on her blog Kiss of Pikake. Titled 'Trekkin in the Northwest.'

We'll spend this Sunday at our little community fair where the kids entered some flowers, produce, art and CT entered a bison he created out of vegetables for the 'Vegetable Critter Contest.' Then it's time to get ready for camping and my husband has already been gearing up and working the dog for the hunting season which is just around the corner!