Glad to be home, or not!

We got home from our trip on Wednesday I wish I could say the trip home was un-eventful and a breeze but alas what fun would there be if it was!? We had a good 4Th well at least most of us did, we went tubing down the Portnef, Dana tipped over twice he hurt is foot in the process, we thought it was broken he could barely put any pressure on it, luckily it's not. I ended up packing the car by myself on the 5th, I had hoped to be gone by 9, 10 at the latest, of course things didn't go as planned and we didn't leave until 12:30, but I didn't care I was happy to be on the road. I drove for a little while then Dane took over (thank goodness), we were just outside of Springfield when we decided to stop for a potty break and something to eat, as we were pulling off the road our car started to shake our first thought was we had a flat we got out and checked everything looked fine. We took everyone to the potty and then went through the drive through (we got free ice cream for the long wait), with food in hand we got back on the freeway only to have our front right tire exploded and I am not using that word lightly pieces of the tire flew, you could here the rim scrapping on the road.  I may have said a few choice words and held on tightly to the OSH (oh sh*t handle), I am so glad Dane was driving, he kept the car under control till we could safely pull over.

 You can probably guess that we had to pretty much unload the car to get the spare and jack, I wasn't very happy about it but what do ya do!? So we were kinda laughing about what a pain it was a sayin well it could be worse like we could be in Arizona in 115 degree heat changing the flat, I laughed pointed and the big white fluffy clouds said well at least it's not raining and less then a minute later it started to you guessed it RAIN!!! I held the umbrella over Dane while he changed the tire. It took us about an hour from the time we pulled off the road to get the tire changed and the car re-packed (I actually did a better job this time), and with that we were off!

We made it to Mesquite by about 9:30p.m. everyone was tired and hungry, so we ate and went to bed, and of course things wouldn't be complete without a sleep deprived momma so Ellie woke up around 4 throwing a tantrum and Kaleb quickly followed by peeing the bed. My plan was to get up around 6 and hit the road, but I should have known better then to try and plan anything, I didn't get to sleep till about 5:30 and slept in till about 8 by the time we ate and got packed up it was 10, but honestly I didn't really care, we weren't in a hurry.

We got home about 6:30, everyone was so happy when the house came into few, we all hooped and hollered and shouted for joy, little did we know what awaited us inside! Dane and the kids made it into the house before I did and quickly discovered that the power had been out, all the food in the fridge was rotten and some was even oozing FANTASTIC!!!! The heat in the house was intense and the smell even more so, I ended up opening all the windows, the hot breeze from outside actually felt pretty cool in the house. So here was the deal with the power, we have M-Power which is a back that plugs inside your house and you have a little card that you put money on and load it into the box to keep the power going, Dane loaded a $100 onto the card and thought he loaded it the day he left, we learned that the card was faulty and the money didn't load so the power was shut off the day after Dane left so the power was out for 5 days, it was soooo GROSS!! We were able to get a duplicate card made and the $100 was credited, so that was a relief, but then we had to deal with the fact that we had spent the last $50 we had on power(before we got the $100 back), so we had no money to replenish out fridge, I am so grateful for really great friends and church that helped us out, we should be good till payday next Friday,

So things are better today, I spent all day yesterday cleaning,scrubbing, unpacking,  and doing laundry, I am almost caught up today. I have tons of pics from the trip, as soon as I find my camera cord and have time I will blog them, along with more fun stories.

I took Kaleb to the pediatrician today, we decided to change to a new office and Dr. we weren't happy with the office or Dr. we had before. A friend recommended this new office to us and I was so pleased the nurses and Dr. were absolutely AWESOME, they were very patient and made both Kaleb and I very comfortable. When I brought up my concerns about Kaleb the Dr. actually listened to me and didn't make me feel like was overreacting. He agreed that Kaleb does have ADHD but he feels that there is more to it than that, Aspergers and a couple other possibilities were brought up and we have been recommended to a specialist, it's a busy place and it will take us a month or so to get in, but at least we are on the track to finding out some answers and to get Kaleb(and us) the help he(we) need. Other than the issues I brought up, he is healthy and strong.