Busy Life

Well, here it is.  The end of January.  Already this year is flying by us.  We have been a busy family.  Seems like everyone is going different directions. It's funny though....Jim and I have been the ones on the move...finally.  We left home Sunday the 15th headed for Destin, FL to catch a flight early Monday morning...destination....Las Vegas!!!  We spent the week at the World of Concrete convention and sightseeing.  This was not our first trip, so we decided to get off the strip for a day and go old downtown Vegas (Fremont Street, etc).  We toured the Mob Museum and walked Fremont Street.  Lots of "interesting" sights...lol.  We flew back to Destin Friday Jan 20 and drove to Ozark, Al to celebrate Ryan's b'day with a family dinner.  While there we learned that an old family friend had passed away.  Dr. Bob McLaughlin was more than a friend.  He was family and will surely be missed by all of us.  We also were able to see Larry and Kristy who are doing well and Uncle Billy and Aunt Merylon who also seem to be better than I expected.  We were unable to see Aunt JoAnn due to the fact that Jim became very sick while we were there. We left Sunday morning in search of a medical clinic to help, had to drive to Florida to find one (minute clinics are not allowed in Alabama and he refused to go to ER).  Got diagnosis of pneumonia.  I will forever blame this on a bacteria contracted through the CPAP machine he uses nightly.

We are on our way home (to show how sick Jim was, I was driving..lol) when storms erupted all around us.  The wind was blowing debris into the side of the car and the Interstate signs were flashing TORNADO WARNING...just our luck. We decided to stop in Quincey to spend the night and let the storms pass, but of course we lost power in the Hampton Inn that night too.  We FINALLY made it home Monday and Jim spent the rest of the week at home recovering.  I'm pleased to say that he is doing well and back to work.

We are preparing to leave again next week for Galveston but hopefully this trip will be a little less stressful.