***A few little tidbits to fill in as to what has been going on around here lately on the Coaster...

Welcome to my soap opera fellow 'streamers'.

1.) ~Gabe had his 5th birthday on Sunday the 25th.

 HAPPY 5TH BIRTHDAY GABMEISTER!

He was still in the family bed,so we decided to change that. We told him that it was a new state law that when little boys and girls turn 5 years old it was *big kid bed* time. We bought him new sheets,a new comforter of his choosing (with cars on it that the head lights glow inthe dark),and new pillows. The night of his party he got his other cool presents,we had a cake, and then we made his bed up really nice. We have been counting down to this day and marking it off on the calender for the past few weeks. It went wonderfully and he slept in his bed all night for the first time! WOOHOO! Happy parents!

2.)~My Freinds Eric and Jackie got married last weekend FINALLY! I will have pics to follow as soon as I get them. It was a pretty wedding. I will say more when I get the pics  to be posted.

3.)~Hubby went to the docs and got put out of work for another couple of weeks. FYI, He got hurt on the job when he was loading a truck and the arm of the lift broke at the chain and came down on top of him. The doc says he has a slipped disk in his back, his sciatic nerve has been pinched, and has many strained and pulled muscles in his arm, shoulder, and leg.. We are SO lucky he is in as good of shape as he is after that.He could be dead.

THANK YOU LORD HE IS OKAY!

4.)~ Gram got out of the hospital after she fell asleep on the hottest day of the year outside in the direct sun for 2-3 hours in her lawnchair and then passed out when she came inside. She was diagnosed with severe heat exahustion and dehidration and spent the good part of a week in the hospital after a frantic ED trip at midnight by me and my Dad to bring her to the hospital after she woke up on her floor and called us.She is doing much better now.

THANK YOU JESUS!

5.)~ MY son got a BIG boo-Boo today..Gabe, the consumoute independant non-listener, decided he was going to climb the countertops in the kitchen.This in isteslf is not a big thing,he does that everyday to repeated"NO's".Although today was a bit different. 

The doors to the cabinets under the kitchen countertops my son likes to climb have a very nice metal and porcelein handle with little blue flowers that my mom chose.They are vertically attached with a little finial on the top and bottoms of them.Pretty.

 Pretty lethal to a little boy who slips off the countertop in his under-roos directly onto the handle. Yep,onto the handle...

The finial on the handle top whent right up his right undershort leg opening and hit his scrotum and snagged.He got stuck on the top of the finial. My husband had to lift him off. When we moved his legs apart through his screams his thigh was covered in blood. I saw a flash of torn skin hanging like a flap of fabric and a glimmer of something bright white and round like a knucklebone. Thats when I realised he had torn open his scrotum and that the white was his testis hanging out. Thats when I screamed.

We wrapped a towel over and around him with his underpants to his knees,scooped him up swiftly in my arms,whipped out to the Explorer and ushered the girls in the backseat. My hubby hit the flashers and we pealed out of the driveway with my son cradled in my lap like an infant screaming and crying. We made a record trip to the ED.

Once at the ED I had my hubby drive to the ambulance enterence and drop me off. I ran into the  automatic senser doors and screamed for a nurse. My shirt had blood on it and my hands too so I must have looked a sight. A wonderful nurse I had seen many times in MY youth came forward in front of the ED doors and asked what was wrong, I told her that my son was hurt baddly and that he had ripped open his scroatal sack on a cabinet handle sliding off a countertop, was bleeding a great deal, and that his testes were distended and showing. I swear every man in the room sharply intook his breath and groaned in pain.

My son the tempermental fighter took 2 doses of medicine to knock him out and remained fully alert. He fought,screamed, and argued the whole 3 hours we were there. That nurse said she had NEVER seen a 30 lb child with that much strength of will and sheer fighting back muscle power! LOL, Thats my boy I am afraid.

To make a long story short,My son has a bevvy of new blue stitches and a very sore little scrotum. I am happy to say that everything that was surounding the gash is in perfect order and nothing else was injured.

THANK YOU GOD (yet again)!!

I still get to have grandkids,and now he is a screaming bedridden little 5 year old tyrant for the next 2 days,and he loves that. I have to wait on him.Plus, he is back in the 'family bed' again,sheesh.

Morals of this story?

 DON"T IGNORE MOMMY AND DADDY!

DO WHAT YOU'RE TOLD OR MR. WILLY MIGHT SUFFER!

WE THE PEOPLE petition Congress, Senate and the President of the United States of America to secure our homeland now. We further petition that all efforts be made to secure the borders and ports of entry immediately by the use of military resources.

WE THE PEOPLE petition for a 500 percent increase of funding for the Border Patrol personal and a 200 percent increase of funding for the purchase of the latest technology that would aid in the efficiency of the Border Patrol.

WE THE PEOPLE request that a business, upon conviction of having hired illegal aliens, shall be fined a minimum of fifty thousand dollars for each illegal alien that was hired by the convicted business.

WE THE PEOPLE petition the immediate deployment of reserve military units and the National Guard to aid local police and Border Patrol in the securing of our borders and neighborhoods against criminal illegal aliens, human cargo smugglers, illegal alien sweatshops and international illegal drug operations.

WE THE PEOPLE petition that the Corps of Engineers be employed to design and build a fence that would span the entire southern border from west to east and to be no less than 15 feet tall in height and have a durable life of no less than 50 years.

WE THE PEOPLE petition that the Federal Government recognize the Minuteman Project, Inc. as a volunteer action group and furthermore designate the Minuteman Project, Inc. as a civilian model for a government effort to regain our national borders.

WE THE PEOPLE petition for the passing of the U.S. House of Representatives Bill HR 4437 known as the Sensenbrenner-King Bill which will provide for training of local police forces and the building of a wall on the southern border of the United States of America.

WE THE PEOPLE petition that the cost of illegal aliens incurred by the States of the United States of America be reimbursed by the Federal Government for years of lax enforcement of immigration law by the Federal Government.

I thought I would put the dare out there to all my fellow streamers for the FFF this week.

 This being the first week of summer and all I was wondering streamers:

What are your five *Summer Memories* fun facts ? 

1.)    Have you ever had a hot bikini (or a flashy daring bathing suit)?

I have only had one bikini my intire life.

It was leapard print and tiny and I was so embarassed to wear it where anyone would see, I only could bring myself to wear it to sunbathe on the roof of my front porch outside my bedroom window.

2.)  Where did you spend your summers growing up?

I grew up in a lakeside tourist town.

The town that I grew up in is very small and the majority of the income comes in the summer from rental lakehouses (for flatlanders), and in the winter from skiiers because we have a ski resort.I spent all my summers at home.

3.)  What was your first summer job? How old were you?

I had my first job the summer I turned 13.

I worked unter the table cleaning hotel rooms at a little mom and pop motel that was up the road from my house. Coincidently,it was the same motel that my mother got her first job cleaning rooms at when she was a kid. They ripped it down when the owners died about 5 years ago. I cried when I found out. It is a condo development for timesharing now.

4.)  What is your fave summer adventure memory?

When I was in High School I partied  a few times at the house of our towns most famous (sometime) residents.

This world renound and extremely well known band lead singer(whom I will NEVER name) had this wonderful lakehouse with a living room that had mirrored walls. He used to pick up some of the local girls to come and party with them. A few times I got chosen from the private town resident only beach. I shared my very first french kiss with that lead singer. Ahh...those lips....sweet.

5.)  Have you ever gone Skinny Dipping? 

I love skinnny dipping!

Ok,so with me it may as well be called *Fat Plunging*, but I have skinny dipped in every swimming hole,lake,stream,riverand pond in the town and surrounding towns that I grew up in. I even skinny dipped in the ocean when we lived in Florida. Not easy to do...but I had my kids do it with me and my hubby did it too! I kow, I am shameless.

So, I have shared and bared(literally,lol) now what are your five *SUMMER MEMORIES* fun facts?

Here are a few funny lil images for a Hump day laugh from me to you:

I always wondered how they would do that.....

OOPS! Another tool time girl taking her work home with her...

WOW, kids these days really take things to the extreme. In my day we just tipped the cows....

Printer broken? Talk about inginuity...

And I thought I had trouble parrellel parking.......

Dogs of the world...BEWARE!

Ya know, a simple 'WASH ME' would have been sufficent.

I KNEW that key had to be around somewhere.

Hope you enjoyed some laughs!

Yesterday was my darling Husbands 39th birthday.

 So I thought I would write him a letter to share with all fellow streamers how lucky I am to have him,(and why) and let him know how I feel about him today.

To My Husband,

   Noone loves you more than I do,or ever could,except Jesus my darling. 

   To have ben able to share the past 7 1/2 years with you has been the most wonderful Joy of my life.

   You are the most generous, heartfelt, giving, selfless, exciting, handsome, sexy, devoted, thoughtful, uplifting, and inspiring man I have ever known.

   When I see you cuddled up with our children in our big bed sleeping, sneaking sugars on the backs of our kids necks with that little boy grin on your face, reading our little ones their bedtime stories and helping them say their prayers, teaching them about God, or comforting them when they are hurting, I am so eternally grateful that God chose you to be the father of my children.(And I know they are too.)

   I am so proud to have you as my husband that my heart swells out of my chest when I think about it.  

      I still get weak at the knees whenever I look at you.

   When I was a litle girl I told all my girlfriends that someday I would marry a tall,darkhaired,strong man with green eyes who would treat me like a princess.I would find a man that had a voice that sang and felt like velvet on my skin when he said my name. I told them that he would be a gentleman who would open my doors,pullout my chairs,bring me flowers for no reason,leave me love notes, and be the father of my beautiful children. I told them he would to love God more than me,my Dad would like him,and he would have big long arms  and stong shoulders with big hands that would wrap me up tight and I would never again have to fear or feel alone. In his arms I would be safe and secure.We would be like one person against the world.

   I have proof God answers prayers ~ YOU are everthing to the letter of what I dreamed of and prayed for way back then.

   You are everything I ever dreamed about,and things I never knew to dream about. I think when God was creating me he was thinking about you. God made us the halves of each other like a two peiced puzzle.

   I love you my sweet southern gentleman.

   You are everything a real man should be.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ! 

Love,

Your wife

On the stereo:

Kiss Me ~ Sixpence None the Richer (Our song)

Words from the WORD:

Beloved:

  Like an apple tree amoung the trees of the forest

is my lover amoung the young men,

  I delight to sit in his shade,

and his fruit is sweet to my taste.

  He has taken me to the banquet hall,

and his banner of me is love.

  Strenghthen me with raisins,

refresh me with apples,

  for I am faint with love.

his left arm is under my head,

  and his right arm embraces me.

Song of Songs  2:3~6