July 2012 - One Hot Summer

French Broad River before our Tubing Trip

Trout in the Pond near our Cabin in Canton

Princess Abigail

Porch of our Cabin in Canton

Melissa

The view from our Cabin

Bomb-quiesha (as she wants to be called - after her new Kinky Braids)

BSN - Finally

Our cabin - Tabb couldn't stay away from the computer

My Boys

What my co-workers had to do to keep me from coming to work!

A crazy composition of photos as I learn to move photos from my Iphone to my blog.  I promise I'll get better.  This July has been "stinkin" hot.   We have a pool membership, but I haven't been once.  The kids don't seem interested, so it will probably be the last year we are members.  The 4th of July we spent in the mountains of Asheville with Melissa.  Katie went to girls camp for 2 days and then came home - a little case of homesickness.  Next year, I'll have to go with her.  She has new kinky braids and is starting to turn into a little "fashion diva."  It's fun to see her sense of style - so unlike her mother!  She's a sweetheart.  When we were in Asheville, we went on a 4 hour tubing trip down the French Broad River. Tabb wanted nothing to do with the experience as evidenced by frequent complaining, covering himself up like an Egyptian mummy, and frowning.  Melissa was up for the adventure, as was I.  As we launched out in our tubes, I accidentally flipped over within two minutes.  My tube escaped me and I almost went under with the current.  Melissa came back to help me and Tabb left us behind.  We spent the next 4 hours trying to catch up with Tabb (who had our water and sunscreen.  A huge thunderstorm came up (with lightening bolts).  Melissa and I couldn't find Tabb; so we crawled up an embankment with our tubes to escape the lightening.  We then hiked down a road until we found the place the tubing adventure ended.  Melissa didn't talk to me for the last hour of the trip.  She was tired and hungry.  The highlight of the trip was the multiple times we were stuck on rocks and Melissa had to get out of the tube to drag us off into deeper water.  I never laughed so hard watching Tabb be so miserable. Other memories of July - cardiac cath for chest pain (all turned out okay, but pretty scary), Abigail got a Cinderella dress, shoes, and crown.  She loves them and Daniel hates the glitter on the dress.  Oh well!!  My diploma arrived for my BSN.  I was nominated for the Great 100 Nurses again, but was not selected (3rd time nominated - look out Susan Lucci, I'm competing for your title).  That about sums up July.  Here's hoping that August is cooler (hah) and that I have time for a Temple trip.  Working on daily scripture reading again with the desire to feel the spirit more closely each day!