eastowners

So, it’s been a while since I’ve written to those that actually read this blog. Don’t know who you are, but you sure must enjoy reading about the life of a boring house wife! Actually, my life isn’t so boring…I keep busy most of the time. Let’s see, what’s been happening around here for the past month. Earlier in the month we went down to the land of Niles to help celebrate Brad’s grandparent’s Watson’s 60th Wedding Anniversary. It was celebrated in normal Watson style…tons of food, and out on the deck eating some Grillings. I was so stuffed, I think I could have fasted for 4 days by the time it was all said and done. The next day we went to Chicago with our friends Beeko & Jackie (they came in from CO to spend a week of vacation in wonderful SW MI) to go see the King Tut exhibit. I really wasn’t all that thrilled with it, maybe I needed to do the audio tour to make it wow me! They really didn’t have anything big from his tomb, and most of the exhibit was stuff on his relatives. It was kinda neat to see his family tree and learn more about it, but I thought it was the King Tug exhibit! And the music, it was horrible. They had the same 4 chords being sung in a repeat for like 5 of the rooms that had stuff in it. I thought my brain was going to explode! After the Field Museum we went over to the Aquarium to see the fishies. That’s always lots of fun, and they have some huge fish in the circular aquarium in the front. I think we are going to take Clare for her 4th birthday to see the dinosaurs and fishies in Chicago. At least that’s the plan for now!

Our “We’re Turning 30 Party” was a huge hit. We made about 150 jell-o shots, many pitchers of margarita’s, and various other things were consumed by our guests. Brad’s mom made an awesome chocolate cake torted with strawberry filling. It was frickin’ huge, but amazingly it was all eaten except like 3 slices. And there were some other wonderful things brought by our guests to fill in the missing spots around the pizzas I baked from Costco. The main thing was that everyone looked like they had a great time, and helped us eat our way through a bunch of food! The next morning we strolled down for some breakfast at the wonderful Wolfgang’s with our sleep over guests Beeko, Jackie, and Brad’s brother Dan. Afterwards we walked the Bizzare Bazzar in Eastown. It’s a yearly event in our section of town where they have quite a fewl local artisans there with their goods. Jewlery, pottery, glass work, and various other things can be found.

And then I got the phone call that my Grandma Boman wasn’t doing well again. Apparently over the weekend she was put in the ICU in the hospital, as her blood pressure was extremely low. They put her on meds, and she began to do better. During the weekend they found out that she’s had Ovarian Cancer for 2-3 years, and had no clue. I immediately drove to Port Huron on Monday to be with her, as they were keeping her on the meds in the ICU until I got there. I was supposed to bring Clare with me, as my Grandma wanted to see her quite badly, but she was sick with what I am thinking was a flu/tummy bug. So, she stayed home with Brad while I went to Port Huron. They admited her up to the Oncology Unit while I was there, and by Wednesday she was at home where she wanted to be. They didn’t know how well she’d do off the meds to keep her blood pressure where it needed to be….but apparently she’s prooving them all wrong! On Saturday we drove back to Port Huron to see her again, and she was able to see Clare. My brother Larry flew in from AZ for the weekend, as she had been asking to see him too. My mom said tonight that she’s hanging in there, but her time is coming. Then on Saturday night after visiting with the grandparents (we had to go over and see my Grandpa Morden too….as he hadn’t seen us in a long time) we went out to the Karokee bar with my Aunt, cousin, my brother, my mom, and Brad and I. I didn’t think Brad would make it….but he even got up there to sing a song. Karokee isn’t exactly our style…but we had fun none the less. I sang “Love Shack” with my aunt, “Rainy Day Woman” by Bob Dylan with my brother, and “Like a Virgin” & “Ice Cream” by myself. My mom even got up there to sing with my aunt. I think we all had fun, and Larry picked up a 63 year old woman. Pictures are in the photo gallery of him, under phone pictures. And then on Sunday, it was back home.

This week has been filled with much the same, classes at the YMCA for Clare, Yoga for me, and a few MOMS Club things here and there. Clare is taking a new class at the Y called Sports Sampler, they learn to play soccer, basket ball, floor hockey, and baseball. She of course is the only girl, but she had fun none the less on Tuesday afternoon. And she was tired afterwards, bonus for me! This weekend we are staying home for the 4th. We were origionally going to Chicago to stay with the Geeks for a LAN party, but after thinking about the money it’d cost us…we had to cancel. I’d much rather spend that money on gas getting us out to CO. I think that’s about it for now. Nothing too exciting, pretty much the same ol’ around here. Brad put some new pictures up, so be sure to check it out. Hope all is well out there!