Birthday Week? Check!!

We made it through another year of birthdays for Ashlyn and Austin. Austin turned 6 this year and Ashlyn turned 5. All within 3 days! We had a really fun week with the kids with all kinds of celebrating. Both the kids chose to have small parties and only invited a few friends which meant they got to go do something extra fun. Austin chose lazer tag and bowling and had an absolute blast! Shawn and Uncle Nick took the boys for their afternoon fun and I didn't have to do a thing which worked out great - that's the way to throw a party. Ashlyn had fun with her girlfriends at Monkey Buziness - an indoor play area - soo fun. My sister made both kids some really cool cakes - Austin's looked like a Wii since that's his favorite past time at the moment and Ashlyn wanted a mermaid cake. They looked awesome and the kids were so excited! All in all it was a very busy week - oh I also got to go eat lunch with Austin at school on his birthday which was very special - someday he'll think I'm a big dork and wouldn't dream of eating lunch with me in public, but last week he thought it was the coolest thing ever. Then I went to his classroom and read his class a book - very special day for me (and him).
Of course, with all this excitement I landed myself in the ER over the weekend -turns out I have pneumonia - lovely. I feel ok, my asthma is just out of control. I thought all the drugs were working, but last night I had another episode so I am on the way back to the doc to see what's up. Hopefully I will be breathing better soon, can't seem to get very far very fast without breathing like I just ran a marathon (why would anyone want to run a marathon?). Minus the hospital trip it was a great week and we even did some furniture moving in the house which I have been wanting to do for months! We moved the playroom upstairs which I am very excited about - it no longer looks like a daycare when you walk into the house (ok, it still looks a bit like a daycare, but a more sophisticated one). We could sure use some nicer, matching furniture, but it's a start. Everything around here is a work in progress! Shawn only has one more coat of varnish to do on the doors for the kitchen cabinets and then they can go up - can't WAIT!!!! Hopefully we can fit that in this weekend. Mom and dad are on their annual trip to who-knows-where. I love their yearly, get-in-the-truck-and-drive-towards-some-mountains-somewhere trip. No planning, just some clothes, some food, some beer and some tennis shoes for hiking. Love it. That's all I know for now - gotta head to the doc for some more drugs - ugh.
Stay well and enjoy this awesome fall weather!