Updates...

The flu bug made its way through our house the past couple of weeks. Took Greg out first, though at the time he was sick with a fever, chills and aches, we didn't realize it was the flu. It wasn't until I got a call from Luke's school that he had 103.4 temperature, and rushed him to the doctor. The doc tested for strep throat first, then for the flu. After the flu test came back as positive, we realized then that Greg must have had it too!

*Note: we have no way of knowing if it was the H1N1 virus, as they do not test for the type of flu at the doctor's office. He said that would only happen if his condition worsened and then was admitted to the hospital. But the fact is, it's not typical flu season, so yes, it's very possible that it was swine flu.

Poor thing - fell asleep on the couch. This is how I knew he didn't feel good... so I just left him there.

Later, we had a fudge bar to make us feel better ...

but he made a royal mess of it.

Earlier in the week, before he got sick, we went to a really cool birthday party at the Events at Sherlake!

After you climb up the rope wall, you slide down the awesome slide...

SO FUN!!!

That's Jack and his Spiderman birthday cake.

Isn't he precious?!?!

The Pool

So ... funny story. It's August and we have yet to go to the neighborhood pool this summer! I know - that's weird. Well, we have had a busy summer, and there's been quite a bit of rain at the beginning of the season. But most of all, Mommy didn't really feel like getting in a bathing suit so that's why we haven't been. But lately, Luke's been begging to go to the pool. So Saturday, if he took a good nap, I promised him we could go down there for a little while. So we got our suits on, packed the bag, sprayed the sunscreen, etc. And we walked down there. (It's only about a 1/2 mile, so might as well walk, right?) As we got closer to the pool, I saw that there was no one there! I got excited that we would have the whole pool to ourselves! Well, that turned out to be not such a good thing since my key wouldn't work. I tried and wiggled - I know it was the right key because it slid right in. I didn't think they changed the locks this year, but I guess I'll have to call the HOA on Monday.

So instead, we came back here and filled up the kiddie pool; and had just as much fun!!

Splashing!

These last 2 pictures, I was having fun with a setting on the camera ... I think they look pretty cool...

Collages

I was playing around with Picasa this afternoon and made a few collages. If you remember, I did this last summer too. You can check those out here.