Where's Luke?

When we got home from the first day of school there was a message on our machine that was my Dad, "Luke is having emergency appendectomy surgery, I just got a call from a nurse." The problem was that we did not get the name of the hospital and felt like we had no clue what was going on. I got in the car and started driving to Kansas City (4 1/2 HRs) Sarah started searching all hospitals. After finding Luke's boss and him not able to find Luke at any hospital we started to panic. The last hour of my drive Sarah called and said he was at the hospital that Luke worked at as an IT specialist and recovering. I was never so glad to see my baby brother as I was that night at 9 pm laying in dark room. He is now home and doing great. Luke had been in extreme pain for an entire night and finally at 8 am drove himself to the emergency room, got stuck in rush hour traffic, arrived and was immediately diagnosed. We found out later that when a patient is in surgery or emergency room they are not admitted to the hospital yet.

Back to Reality

Tagg started kindergarten on Monday. He was not at all wanting to go and we captured some priceless pictures that speak volumes! Saylor started frst grade but in all of our pulling and dragging of Tagg we didn't capture her photo. Thankfully when we got home Grandpa had sent balloons and candy.

Breckenridge

Last weekend we drove to Breckenridge for some relief from the humidity and heat. We met our good Army friends in Denver and found a school playground to entertain everyone. To our amazement, everyone got along just like before! What a treat to still be close to friends from the past. When we got to breckenridge the kids tried the bungee/trampoline. Saylor LOVED it and could not go high enough, there were more giggles per inch of air under her feet. Tagg was happy to stay close to the ground and go fast on the alpine slide. This was my first trip to the mountains where I was not altitude sick, what a difference that made. Hiking was so much fun that when we got caught in the rain it only added to the experience.

Colleen visits Iowa

My closest friend from 1st grade came back to Iowa for a visist from Montana. She brought her 5 beautiful children with her and I couldn't pass up a chance to get our kids together for the first time. Unfortunately, while we were at Chucky Cheese Saylor became sick with a fever and as soar throat and we had to cut our visit short, a very short, 4 hours together!! The trip was totally worth it.

August Lake Trip

We went to Matt's Uncle lake for a weekend of fun! We brought along our best buddies and had a blast with all 5 kids trying to water ski! They were all super brave and very tough.Martha was so tired we had to check to see if she had a pulse!

Butz Family Reunion

Dont be surprised if we don't respond to civilization for a while we are reading the new Harry Potter book and can't tear ourselves from it. Matt and I have battled over the book a few times already. We did manage to take break for some company and fun last night. We are only half way through and hoping no outside information reaches us before we are finished.




Last night we had an impromptu dinner party for Matt's grandmother, Nonnie. We all enjoyed getting together and telling old stories. The little one, Kori 8 months, stole the show and entertained all of us.