Its been a little while since Ive blogged. I seem to forget to get on here and then another day passes. I need to add a sticky note to my desk to remind myself to blog. Not that I have people reading and following my every day, but if there is anyone out that remotely interested then I should do it for them.
Let me think and recap on what has happened since my birthday. This may end up being quite long. February 19th was my 27th birthday and definitely didnt go like I wanted it to. I thought it was going to be so much better. I was just having a rough day...not because I was turning 27 or getting older...it all had to do with my husband. Not too many people know our marital problems and thats the way Id like to keep it. (for now anyways). but lets just say we have had some issues for some time now and I was definitely expecting more from him that he gave. He got me a card for my birthday. I just expected a least a birthday cake and would have liked a present, but i can live without. He said he was going to get me something, but couldnt find the perfume that i liked so i ended up with nothing. I pouted most of the day and kind of did my own thing and stayed a bit distant. Later is when I told him my feelings were hurt that he didnt even think that if he couldnt find what he thought i wanted, to just get something else. But I guess its the thought that counts right?! Try telling that to all the other females out there. : )
So the next day I tried to be happier. Its a new day and we decided to take the boys on a trip to Branson, MO. Its about a 2 hr drive down there. Got up early, got the boys baths and while we were giving baths. I was in the tub with Connor and Matt was taking a shower with Cohen our hot water decided it didnt want to be hot anymore. So we all had to rinse off with cold water. I just new after that, it was going to be a bad day. Turned out pretty good with two toddlers.
We made it to Branson and made our first stop at the Dinosaur Museum. Cohen had been talking about seeing the Dinosaurs since he went to bed the night before. The boys loved seeing all of the lifesize replicas of dinosaurs. Matt and I werent too impressed but its all for the boys, right?! So i tried to take some pictures of the boys with the dinos but my photography skills are just not the greatest and most of those pics inside the building turned out blurry. I am a much better photographer outside.
We finished up at the Dino Museum and started on our way to The Butterfly Palace. This is the place that I have been wanting to see. On our way Matt sees the General Lee parked outside of this Dixie Outfitters store. So of course we had to stop. You just dont know how much my family, the boys included LOVE The Dukes of Hazzard. Cohen calls the General Lee the Yee Haw car. lol : ) We pulled up to the car and there was a sign saying that we were allowed to take as many pictures as we liked as well as sit in the car and all...they just asked that we donate to the Arkansas Childrens Hospital. So of course thats what we did. Took lots of pictures and donated some money for the pictures. We went inside of the store to check it out and part of the store is owned by Ben Jones (Cooter). There were lots of memorabilia from his days on The Dukes of Hazzard along with shirts and stuff that he has made and is selling in this store and his other two stores in TN. We each had to buy something that was affliated to the show.
After spending a quality amount of time at the Dixie Outfitter/Cooter Garage store we finally headed out to The Butterfly Palace. Let me just say it was amazing. My favorite place. It was so tranquil and serene. You walk into this Atrium filled with lots of greenery, flowers and butterflies galore. The butterflies floated by your head, even landing on you at times. They were everywhere...hundreds of them. I would definitely go back. Whenever I win the lottery and can build my dream house I would love to build something like this.
The boys were getting a little cranky so we stopped for some lunch/dinner at the IHOP across the street from The Butterfly Palace. All you can eat pancakes makes for a happy Sarah and two happy little boys. After eating, we set out to the Veterans Museum. Matt could spend hours there. I had to rush him a little bit. While I find all of the history interesting and all, Im not engrossed in it like Matt is. He says we will definitely go back and see it again, probably this summer sometime.
Its getting late in the day so we made one final stop to the Shepard of the Hills Inspiration Tower. Its this huge tower that you can go to the top of and look out. We rode a glass elevator about 230 feet up to the top. It was quite cloudy so we couldnt see a great distance away, but the view was still spectacular. After spending some time there, we headed back to the homestead. By the time we got home it was bedtime for the boys and time for me to relax.
We spent the next day relaxing. I did some grocery shopping and cleaning around the house. Then on Monday I had a doctors appointment and a dentist appointment. My doctors appointment went okay. I just have to say I am not a fan of military doctors. For whatever reason I think their education levels are just not up to par. This is just from my personal experience with different docs over the course of 5 years and even in different country/states. But whatever, I went to get a referral to see a plastic surgeon about having a Breast Reduction. I started the process while I was in Germany in 2006/2007. I got as far as talking to the plastic surgeon and getting ready for a surgery date when I decided I wanted to wait. We were in the thought process of having another baby at that time. So we held off and not too long after I was pregnant with Connor. Now things have settled and we wont be having any more children anytime soon, if ever...I decided to get the process going again. Well I have to see my PCM and he has to refer me to a plastic surgeon. Well dlike all doctors they have to exhuast all other options before tricare will pay for surgery. So he put in a request to see if tricare will cover this surgery and i should hear something by friday. Im crossing my fingers. After all that, I headed over to the dentist office to have my first consultation with them. I had xrays, teeth cleaning and noticed that one of my back teeth needed a root canal. I knew this, just been putting it off. So he started the root canal on Monday and I went back on Wednesday to finish it up. I have to go next week to have the crown put on it and. I really wished we had better dental insurance. You would think that it would be since its military and the health insurance is pretty good. But nope, dental sucks. Im having to pay about 600 dollars out of pocket for this root canal.
I think ive caught everyone up on whats been going on. Today nothing exciting has been going on. Ill start a new blog soon. We are looking at repainting the interior of the house. starting with the kitchen/dining/living room area.
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