The Strasser's

Rana said... So actually it doesn't sound like you are doing all that great right now. Do you get a lot of ear infections? Were your ears hurting? Is that how you knew. I wonder why the doctor asked about Cory and baby girl? Did he think it was contagious?? Owen seems to have had constant ear infections.....is he allergic to milk or anything? Poor baby! I hope you all get feeling better very soon. You're on my prayer list!! My Answer.... I have not had ear infections since I was little. But I guess every time I would get a tooth my mom would also get an ear infection. Saturday night it was really painful. It felt like I had a lot of water in my ears. I could hardly hear. I was actually wondering if the doctor was going to talk about putting tubes in his ears. But he didn't mention anything about it. Cory was actually complaining about his ears a little bit. But Alyssa had a fever on Friday and I was wondering if she did have an ear infection. Which I was right. ...

So to start off I scheduled an appointment for Owen and I yesterday. Owens appointment was at 3:30, mine 4:15. The doctor looked at Owens ear and his right ear is worse than his left. I had mentioned that I had a appointment scheduled right after his with my doctor. He looked at my ear and said well you have a smoldering ear infection each ear. So two down, two more to go. The doctor said "well it would be nice to see if your husband and your daughter have it to". Cory was called up and he woke Alyssa up and they both came over and Cory just has stuffy ears and Alyssa has an ear infection also. So: $75.00-Copay's around $100.00 for med's. With our other insurance much more! So that is how we are doing right now.

So here are some outside pictures that I took while we were working in the yard. We are actually in the process of painting the trim so I will get a picture of the house after we are done with that. So we brought the truck over and we were pulling some shrubs out and this one came out and took a whole bunch with it.

So while I was taking pictures of the house I took a few of Owen. Last time he was weighed he weighed a grand total of 23 lbs 4 oz. He has already 4 teeth and is working on another 2.

As promised, here are our pictures of our house. Well here is our living room. We just got the blue couch and are trying to sell the futon. So the couch is covering the fireplace for now. So the top color above the chair rail was a light mint green, the chair rail was white, and the bottom was a dark mint green. Not particularly my favorite color of green. I like the colors much better. We replaced all the window's expect for one of them, which we need to go pick up and replace. We also refinished the hardwood floors. And there is my little man modeling for the picture. Yep and there is a whole bunch of our clean laundry that needs to be put away. Well here is the window in the kitchen that we raised up like a foot. Here is the section of cupboards that we had to redo. And our nice refrigerator. And here is our bathroom. It's a very dark picture. Yes I did get myself a nice palm tree shower curtain. These shelves were already built in. Here is looking at our dining room and our...

There has been a lack of pictures. I am very sorry to those that were and have been looking for pictures to be posted. I have lost my camera. I guess it got legs and walked off. Not sure where it went but I am REALLY hoping that it comes back soon. I have been really bad at not taking pictures of the kids, well because of the camera walking off. I do hope it comes back from it's vacation. So I do promise that when the camera reappears that I will post pictures. I know I have promised them several times and I know I have promised that one time this month that they would be posted. When that camera appears, even if the house is a mess, I will take those pictures and post them.

A long lengthy post will hopefully be posted this week.

Owen has a total of 4 teeth now. He is slowly moving forwards. But he definitely knows how to move backwards. I am going to finish taking the pictures of the house today and post them later.

I now each time you come on here you find a new background. Well I have found a background that I am going to be keeping for a while. I found another cool website with backgrounds: http://scrappinblogs.blogspot.com/ So today was Shar's birthday and I made her cake, cheese cake to be exact. And I wasn't sure how it was going to turn out, It turned out really good. I was very happy. I did take some out door pictures of the house. I will post those tomorrow. I want to go finish the book I am reading and go to bed.

As I have promised I will have pictures on VERY soon! I am very sorry for the delay in posting them. We have been working in the yard the past few days. I have been waiting until the flower beds have been done. So I am hoping tomorrow!

So I found the crafty tag on someone else's blog and I decided to do it. I only have one on my list and that is Rana. I will wait for another couple of days. And than hopefully have some pictures up of the house.

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I have posted several entries just to let everyone know, there is more to read.

Here is some random pictures that I got. Alyssa playing with bubbles on one of the nice's day we had. Owen being a happy boy!

Alyssa has had this thing for wanting to color all the time, well she got marker on her hand's and she picks her nose, which I tell her not to do cause it's gross cause she eats it. Ya to much info! So I got her!

I took Owen today to the doctor to get the last of his 6 month shots, because he has been sick he finally got one out of three last week and the last two today. He weighs a grand total of 21 lbs 14 oz. Plus today was a check up to make sure the medication worked pretty good, But he is still taking it cause there is still a little bit of an ear infection in one ear. Than earlier in the week Alyssa woke up during the night screaming and tugging on her ear. So while we were at the doctor's he checked her ear's and she has an ear infection in each ear, which her's is pretty bad. So she is on the medication to. So now I have two sick kids. I guess Owen wanted to share with his sister, what a loving brother to share.

So I promised some more pictures. Well my uncle came all the way from Utah to help us with the house. He had this hat with him and Alyssa really liked it. So here is the kids modeling the hat off. Owen playing while we were trying to get some work done. So Alyssa likes to call my grandma, great mama, She came over to see the work that we had done so far and she was holding Owen and he just loves great mama. While my uncle was here we had the opprtunity to take my uncle crabbing to take a break from working. Alyssa,Cory, Shar, Owen So a crab got lose and Andy picked him up out of the boat and the crab had a hold of a trail mix granola bar and had a good grab on it. Some Crabs Alyssa & Andy hanging out in the boat Cory and Owen (Owen's first time in the boat)

Ok so I will post more pictures later today after I get back from the doctor and get some things taken care of. I am going to post pictures of the house to. Not the outside though cause we really haven't done anything out there yet.

I promised pictures a long time ago. So here are some pictures. I will get pictures of the inside of the house by the end of this week posted. But here are some from way back in December time. So this was when there was the winter storm going on and the power outage. This is what happened to Cory's parents shed. There were a few holes in the roof. I think there was two tree branches. So Christmas Eve Alyssa fell down a couple of the stairs. She bit her lip pretty good. She had a huge lip. Than for Christmas Shar made all the girls some really cute nightgowns. Alyssa opening present's Owen with his first sippy cup, which he gets really excited about. While we were at my grandma's Christmas day Cory and Owen fell asleep.

It was HORRIBLE! Owen kept us up alot last night. Now this morning we go back to the doctor and see if the shots worked. I sure hope they worked because the past few nights have been pretty bad.