Busy Weekend

We've been busy since New Orleans. I spent the weekend after getting home painting the guest bedroom. I've been working on cleaning out the room. Aaron and I went through the closet and through lots of books to try and clean out and organize. I'm not real sure how I'm going to decorate the room, but it's a good start in the right direction. I've managed to decorate most of the rooms in the house and I'm slowly making my way down the hallway. My next project will be to tackle our main bathroom. I didn't have much free time this past weekend because of work. Saturday we had a benefit event for our Teddy Bear Motorcyle Ride in Plano. Bullwinkles pulled together a bike night to help us raise money. Saturday night we drove to Denton to take my Aunt Glenda to dinner for her birthday. Sunday we held a Back to School Fair at the Center for our clients, mostly foster kids. The event provides all the needed school supplies as well as a new hair cuts to start the year. We also set up games, arts and crafts and food to make the event really fun for the kids and families. Aaron and Conner joined me at the Center for a little while. Conner tried the bounce house for a couple of minutes but didn't like it too much. He kept saying hot and hasn't figured out the jumping thing yet. He did have time to have a red popsicle which he managed to get all over him. After the popsicle, I sent Mr. Sticky right home with Aaron. Work has been really busy as all of the fundraising events I work on are in full swing. It seems that the to do list gets longer and longer and I can't seem to cross the "to do" fast enough. Aaron starts back to school this Friday and the kids start the week of the 25th. Aaron has a new principal at his school and is looking forward to a new administration. Since Aaron goes back to school Friday and our sitter is unvailable, I'm taking Friday off and will be driving to Houston to visit my friend Erin. This will be my first long trip in the car alone with Conner. I've planned on playing some CD's in the car that he enjoys. I may be really sick and tired of kids songs like "If your happy and you know it" by the end of this journey. Wish me luck!

In May at a routine office visit for Conner they discovered that one of his testicles had not descended. We visited a pedriatric urologist in June and it was determined that Conner would need surgery. Since we wanted the surgery at Children's Medical Center an opening was not available until August. His surgery will be Monday, August 18th. From the conversations with the doctors, this tends to be a common problem and a pretty routine procedure. Of course any time someone has anesthia you worry, especially if it's your baby. It is a day surgery so we plan on being back home some time Monday afternoon. I'll update the blog next week to keep everyone updated on the recovery.