Tootie's Tales: May 2007

I'm still in the midst of the whirlwind. Maybe I'm crazy for doing all of this. We've had a pretty busy month of May. It actually all started on April 30th when me, hubby and JG boarded a plane to go back to SC for a much needed Carolina visit. We got to have some great quality time with family and friends. Todd came back to Colorado on May 11 and I stayed in Greenville until the 16th. At 9:00 PM on the 16th, mom, dad, thomas, me and jg loaded into a van and drove to Canada. JG slept almost the entire way there! And he really didn't make much of a peep for the entire 14 hours in the car. To all of you who specifically prayed for that, thank you. God did answer your prayers. We spent a long weekend in Windsor, Ontario and got to go to my cousin's wedding and see a lot of relatives that I hardly ever get to spend time with. JG and I flew back to Colorado on the 21st of May, arriving home around midnight after traveling for 9 hours. JG was such a trooper through all the travel, but it seemed to take him a week to recover! When Todd brought me home that night, we drove up and there was a HUGE surprise in front of my house! Todd had spent every spare minute of his time re-landscaping the front yard. That involved sod-cutting out the entire existing patch of weeds and putting edging around sidewalks and new flower beds (not easy when you have roots like we do), rolling out sod, keeping the sod alive in Colorado and generally improving the curb appeal of our home by leaps and bounds. We still have a lot of details to finish up out there, but I was so pleasantly surprised and proud (as always) of my wonderful husband. Some day I'm hoping to post a bunch of before and after pictures of all the work we've done to our little 1906 bungalow. I say "we", but really I mean Todd. I didn't really do much other than supervise!

We had such a fun Memorial Day weekend, including a birthday party (the 11th anniversary of her 29th birthday!) on Sunday night and then we had about 15 people over to our house on Memorial Day...kind of a last minute arrangement, but lots of fun! I also got to spend most of Memorial Day at the Garden store and in the dirt of my backyard which was so fun. I got my tomatoes in the ground finally and am looking forward to a very GREEN and productive summer of gardening. Especially after the long, COLD winter we had to endure this year.

Back to the travel schedule. Todd and JG are back in G'ville right now celebrating my father-in-law's retirement from Fluor Daniel and then I leave tomorrow (hopefully) for Chicago on a brief business trip. Todd returns Saturday and I'm supposed to return Sunday. I say possibly because I found out some surprising news at work today. I've had a bit of a cough this week and turns out one of my coworkers had kids test positive for pertussis. (whooping cough). So, I got tested today and should get the results back tomorrow. I'm on prophylactic antibiotics right now, but if my test comes back positive, I have to be isolated until Tuesday. (Pertussis is extremely contagious) So, going to a conference with a lot of doctors is out of the question! The other big bummer is that my big sis had her baby girl TODAY!! And I can't go to the hospital to see her because I don't want to expose anyone else to this. For now I'll have to take her word about how adorable little Caroline Ashleigh (http://erikacounts.blogspot.com) is and wait to smell her sweet newborn head until tomorrow....or Tuesday.

Once this drama has passed, JG and I board a plane again on June 11 for Suffolk, VA to visit a dear friend. So, that's the craziness in our lives right now! I'll be posting more pictures soon!