We won again! At Kaleb's work party we won tickets to the Diamond Rio concert up in Preston, ID. So last Friday we got a babysitter and went out to dinner at Iggy's (to use our gift card from winning the dessert contest) and then drove up to Preston, ID for the concert. Here's a picture of Kaleb and I waiting for the concert to start.
I know it's hard to see, but this really is a picture of Diamond Rio. I didn't realize that I knew all the words to all of the songs until I found myself singing along to all the songs. We had a blast, but they only played for a little over an hour. I guess that is typical of a county fair concert.
I tried to load a video of them singing "Norma Jean Riley", but I couldn't figure out how to do it. It was fun to have a date night and to have half of our dinner paid for and free tickets to the concert. We need to win more often!
Today is Maxwell and Jensen's first day of school. Maxwell is in second grade and Jensen is in first. The school had a back-to-school morning, where all of the parents could come with their kids from 9-10am. We met their teachers and found their cubbies and found some old friends. They will have a great day! And mom gets 6 hours to herself....yeah!!! Hmmm....What should I do first? I think I'll go shopping...no kids to whine, or hide in the clothes racks, or climb on the toilet paper shelfs and hide. My kids are great, but they are kids and they are boys, but I still love them! 
Jensen with his new backpack
Maxwell with his new backpack
So all of the test results are in and they don't know what Jensen has except that it is a bacterial infection. All of the tests came back negative, including mono and hepatitist. He's not contagious, which is great. We have to give him motrin every 6 hrs. or his temp goes back-up (the doctor says that can be expected for the next 3 or 4 days). He is also taking an antibiotic. We go back in on Monday to have his liver enzymes checked again. School starts on Wednesday next week so I really hope he is all better to start school.
Jensen went for his well child check-up on Tuesday and the doctor said he was doing great. Then on Wednesday he said his tummy hurt and when I gave him a hug he felt warm. So I took his temp and it was 100.7 and so I gave him some medicine, but couldn't get his temp to go back down to normal and in the night it went up to 101.2. So on Thursday I took him to the doctor early in the morning and his temp was still up to 101.7 and they checked his urine and were concerned that with the temp and the pain that his appendix might have an infection. So we had to go have 
blood drawn and get contrast for him to drink for a CT scan in the afternoon. It was NOT fun to have his blood drawn, poor guy, he's so tiny any ways. The contrast was supposed to taste good, it smelled like grape kool-aid, but Jensen said it tasted awful and his face showed it. So he drank and drank and then right before we went in for the CT scan he threw it all up. What a waste! So they put an iv in his little arm and did the scan. The blood work showed his liver enzymes were double normal and the scan showed that he had some swollen lymph nodes in his abdomin. The doctor said that he was extremely dehydrated. So we decided to have him admitted to the hospital where they pumped him full of fluids through his arm, cause he really didn't feel like eating or drinking, and they checked his temp every couple of hours and gave him motrin to bring the temp down. I stayed the night with him and we got up to go potty every couple of hours. The first pic shows one of the monitors they had on him. We had to unhook the monitors every time he goes potty and when he says he needs to go potty he means NOW!!! So in the night his temp got up to 102.6 and I was glad we were in the hospital. In the early morning his temp started to go down and I could tell he was starting to feel better because he arranged his buddies on his bed and told me I had to go sleep in the hard chair, then he said he was just kidding. When the doctor came in the morning he said that Jensen was well hydrated and his temp was down to normal, but his liver enzymes had gone up again and he had a left bump in his blood work, which point to a bacterial infection. The exact infection tests would take longer to get the results, but we could go home, keep him drinking and on motrin and check his temp, he also gave him an antibiotic to take. The doctor said he would call us when he gets the results of the rest of the tests. So Jensen is doing good but is still tired and we have to keep reminding him not to play to hard and to rest so his body can get well. Me -- it was hard seeing your little guy getting poked 3 times for blood work and once for the iv. I was so worried about him, but he was so scared too, so I stayed strong for him. Kaleb and one of our friends gave Jensen a blessing right before the CT scan and I think that really helped a lot. I've almost caught up on sleep, one night of little sleep takes me forever to catch up on with my fibromyalgia. I'm so glad that we went to the hospital for the one night so Jensen could get better, but we are glad to be home! The good things from this .... Jensen got about 40 stickers from the blood draw and the CT scan, he got a cool bag that looks like a school bus, and he got to eat jello and a sucker for breakfast and dinner!
I can't believe that it is August already! The summer has gone by so much faster than I had planned. This month brings our family some exciting new firsts. Maxwell will turn 8 on his b-day and then get baptized the first weekend of September. This will be our first kid getting baptized. I can hardly believe that I am old enough and have been married long enough to have a child getting baptized. However, we are so excited that he has chosen to get baptized! Another first is that both Maxwell and Jensen will be in school all day and so I get the day to myself. I am so excited to work on projects that have been waiting for years! Kaleb says I won't know what to do and will just sleep the day away, but I have so many things that I want to do that I am not worried about that. Kaleb also starts back to school this month and is a little worried that he has Chemistry and Biology this semester. At least with August is means that we are getting closer to cooler weather! :)
