Evansville trip

We left Saturday afternoon to spend the night in Evansville just to let the girls swim for the start of their Spring Break. First we went to Chuck E. Cheese to let them play and eat pizza. Here's a few pics from that time.....

This picture is my favorite...the girls are posing identical which I think is hilarious. I just said stop and let me take a pic before you jump in and they stopped real fast and are posed the same!! Too funny! They look cute in their bathing suits, don't they? FYI--Kayla shaved for the first time Friday night. Some may say she's too young and some may say why did I wait so long, but I'm the mother and I decided it was time. She didn't want to wear shorts this year unless she could shave so I allowed her. Only now she wants to shave EVERY day!!!


Big stuff inside the elevator with big sis Danielle & in the lobby of the hotel playing games. It was so cold Sunday morning...brrr. Of course the night before we had tornadoes in Evansville so the cold weather was better than that I guess.



Sleeping beauties on the way home:) I think everyone had a good time. We didn't even go to the mall because they just wanted to go home so Eric & I were thinking "okay--save money!"

Foot Doctor Visit

Well Eric took me to the foot doctor, Dr. Parmenter, yesterday in Bloomington. He is very nice & smart! He said the best approach to my 4 heel spurs were to try these tight fitting compression socks, a compound gel to apply twice daily & physical therapy twice weekly x 4 wks. After I try that x 3 wks I am supposed to call him with an update. This is the approach he wants to take instead of surgery. Although the surgery didn't sound all that bad--15 minutes each foot and he's done! He also said that I indeed did break my left foot last Tuesday when I stepped off the porch and totally laid my foot on its side and I heard POP! I didn't think that popping sound was normal!! The x-rays didn't show anything that I took last week but he said it was deep in the foot. He pinpointed the spot exactly. So, anyways, this is what I'm trying for now!!! It's hard to get any relief when you're on them all the time. He said that's the trouble with feet--you can never rest them! After that we went to Wms. Bros. Pharmacy in Bloomington to get the gel filled because they make the compound there & they will send it to the Loogootee one for me to pick up. Then we drove to Bedford and ate at the Golden Corral (YUM!) then to Bath & Body Works & Shoe Show for some new shoes! Eric got some nice Nikes that have black & gold on them--cool! I got some new ones too. Today the old feetsies are hurting but I know it's a combo of the socks & new shoes together. Hope & pray it helps!!!

Uncle Joe's Farm...lots of pictures

Dad, Kayla, Danielle, Olivia & I all went to my Uncle Joe Fegan's farm this past Sunday. Joe came down, too, so we took a walk and visited and of course tormented the animals! We love those animals. Below is a pic of K & D chasing the geese. They flew pretty fast into the pond. Olivia thought the donkeys were interesting.

I couldn't get a very good picture of the goats--they ran too fast! There's a billy, mama & 2 cute babies. I love goats. They are my fave farm animal. We had one when I was growing up and we have lots of funny stories about him.

Here's all the girls relaxing in Joe's hammock! They look comfy, don't they?? Olivia didn't really like it all that much.

This is probably my favorite picture from the whole day--my Dad & Olivia listening to my Uncle Joe talk on the cabin porch. That's one thing he does very well--talk!! Ha.

Here's the girls inside the cabin rummaging through the toys.

Joe, Dad, Olivia & I decided to take a walk back to where the horses used to stay. Joe sold them but is going to buy another one hopefully. The girls used to love going back there to see them.
All Olivia cared about was this big ol' rock that she could sit on. She kept getting up & down, up & down.
Getting ready to leave the farm. Until next time....course that'll be soon because we love going there in the warm weather. Danielle even had a sleepover a few months ago in the cabin with her cousin Emily (Joe's granddaughter). It's nice to get away but not very far from home either:)

I had to throw a picture of one of our fave rabbits, Bryan. Here's Kayla showing him off. She has been working more with them here lately preparing for the fair!! It's not til July but it's good to work with them every day. The next night he escaped right out of his pen and I found him down the hill under our big bush in the yard and he was digging the dirt like a dog would. He had holes dug up all around the bush!! When I said "what are you doing down here?", he just came right to me like he wanted me to pick him up! Good boy!

Eric had lots of help later on with the cart & 4 wheeler :)



Olivia Monday morning--looks rough doesn't she? She's eating her snacks with her blankie in her Elmo chair. She has started reclining back in that chair & twice now has completely fallen over in it and hit her head but she continues to do it.


It was so nice yesterday we let Buster out to run awhile. He loved playing with Olivia. She liked him a little at a time....

Then he'd try and lick her face and I'd yell at him and then he finally licked her hand.

She did not like that and held her hand out like she was trying to dry it off!!

I had to slip in a bath picture while she's doing her "cheese face" AKA "chuckie face".

Happy St. Patrick's Day!!!

This is Danielle's 4 leaf clover t-shirt she made in religion class last week. She's so proud--she wore it today to school for St. Patrick's Day. We actually have ALOT of Irish in us. My great-great grandfather Fegan came right over from Ireland. That must be where I get my freckles from!! :)

Thursday Thoughts........

Geez, so where did the warm weather go anyways? I had to take the van down to Jasper to Uebelhors for a "checkup" and it was chilly!! What was supposed to take maybe a 1/2 hr took 3 hrs! All I really needed was an oil change but my stupid check engine light had been on for about a week or so and I had them check that out too. It was an EGR valve & gasket needed and since my van is actually a Chrysler they had to go to Sternberg's and get the parts and then come back and put it on. Thankfully they have a little kid friendly area with toys, blocks, etc so Olivia kept herself entertained, but it really sucked walking around there for 3 hrs. If I had known from the get-go that it would've taken that long I could've used a loaner and got my WalMart shopping done, but I didn't. I called Eric, told him the price, then told him I was NOT going to WalMart after all. He can later if he wants to or we can go this weekend. We need groceries bad! Anyway, 3 hrs later, $330 later, one throbbing headache later, 1 slightly fussy/tired/hungry baby later, I finally arrived back home. Home Sweet Home--glad to be here. This was not the day off I had imagined. Oh well...By the way, Olivia Jean is 13 months old today and walking like a pro--finally! She still acts a little drunk at times :)

Tonight the plan is Fat Boys pizza from Montgomery. We all love that stuff especially Olivia! She's a pizza freak! She has to get that from her Dad---he could eat it morning, noon and night I believe. I normally fix spaghetti on Thursdays but Danielle has been begging for Fat Boys for 2 weeks now since she was gone the last time we had it. Kayla has dance so when she gets out her and Eric will go pick it up.

My feet have been killing me lately--really bad. If people would see me get out of bed in the middle of the night or early morning I look like an 85 yr old woman who hasn't walked for a week. I can barely use my feet. I had my uric acid checked at the clinic I work at about a month ago because I used to have gout and thought (hoping) that was my problem but it wasn't. So, finally after about 6+mos of putting up with this pain I had Jenny take xrays Monday. Come to find out I have 1 cm heel spurs plantar & posterior bilaterally. Which means I have spurs top & bottom of my heels on both flippin' feet!!! I couldn't believe it. Cathy said I have a set of horns on both feet. I said I know and it feels like Satan is in them too!! I'm going to see a foot doctor March 24 in Bloomington. I'm hoping for injections & insoles and no surgery but we'll see. That's the last thing we need.

The girls had religion class last night and Danielle had made a 4 leaf clover t-shirt in her class for St. Patrick's Day. It's really cute. I'll post pics later. Danielle announced last night that she wants to grow up to be a babysitter & Kayla wants to be an artist! Eric & I always jokingly say "no, you will be engineers"! We love to tease them about that. I told them they have to get college degrees in some field and they still have many years to find their calling but we don't want them to struggle with money like we have in the past. I told them money isn't everything but it makes life easier! Wish I could keep them at this age and they'd never have to worry about bills, groceries, jobs, etc, but that's impossible :(

Spring Fever!!!

Well, I bet everyone had Spring fever this past Saturday! Kayla's friend Kirsten visited & played for a few hours with her and Danielle and I walked around with Olivia. She was mostly excited about the rocks out front in my flower bed! All she did was sit and clang two of them together and just laughed!

Whoops......oh well, at least she tried it!!! Thanks to her big sis anyways.

This was all she wanted to do. I remember Danielle doing the same thing when she was little. These rocks always helped me get other yardwork done by keeping them entertained:)
Who could resist a taste? Yum...... Thanks Brayleigh for the Dora jacket. It was perfect for this kind of weather!
She discovered Fiona sleeping in a chair on the front porch but actually left her alone!

I just couldn't resist adding these next two pics. It's her first time wearing shorts since last summer. Plus she's wearing her Hannah Montana shirt! Isn't she cool?

Danielle's School Program & other stuff....

Danielle had her 1st grade program last night at the LHS Auditorium. She had a speaking part and said it good & clear even considering she had a bad head cold. She had fun & we all enjoy those little programs. She is directly behind the microphone in the 1st pic below wearing a short sleeve pink shirt. I also had to take a pic of her with her teacher, Debbie Hayes. She really likes having her as her teacher this year and so do we! I remember always getting my pic taken with my teacher after every program so I always try to of the girls too.

That crazy baby Olivia is nuts about two things right now. First, she's really into books especially ones with pictures of real animals in them and then she makes the animal sounds. Of course she makes a "woof" for every animal. Here she is really "reading" some books below. (I don't know if you can tell or not, in the first one, she has a little black blood blister on her right big toe where she stumped it trying to walk.)

Her 2nd new obsession is parking her butt in chairs or on top of things. I've been finding her sitting on top of the wipe box, the girls game boxes and anywhere she can back up into. Of course we make a beeping noise like it's a big truck backing up!! Here she is sitting on top of the girls' Barbie box preparing to eat a purple crayon.


Yesterday she crawled into the girls' Barbie chair and rested her head on the feathers. She kept resting her head there and just looked out the window like she was saying "ahhh, this feels good". It was so cute. Of course she starts yelling soon afterwards for me to come rescue her and get her back out.


The other morning she threw my PORCELAIN Shirley Temple doll out of my old rocking chair in my bedroom and was yelling for me. I go in and find her sitting in it in the corner. This was mine when I was a little girl.

Olivia & Danielle at supper time which is everyones favorite time !!!!




And one more with her beloved red necklace she wears. She throws it over her neck and walks around everywhere with it and drags it around clanging.