I certainly hope that you did!!  It's fun at least reading all that's happening to y'all.  It's been a crazy last 2 months.

In June, we were hit with the sad news that my husband's aunt passed away very unexpectedly...she basically died in her sleep at home.  My mother-in-law at first, couldn't grasp that her sister had died.  She still, to this day, forgets about it, and wants to pick up the phone and call her.  It was very tough on us all, but I know she's in Heaven.  Lori & Aaron helped us with our landscaping one hot June day and it looks marvelous!  It makes my house look more like a home, and not just dirt in the front yard. 

Lori wrote about our weekend with mom & dad and the Fowler's.  We had a lot of fun.  What she didn't mention was that at the Royals game on Saturday night, we signed up in the guest relations office to be a designated driver.  Just for signing up you get a free pop, so that's cool.  Well, in the middle of the 8th inning, they announce on the scoreboard who is the winner of a Royals jacket from the sign up.  I wasn't paying attention, and Lori yells...LEESHA!!!  I'm like what?  She's pointing at the scoreboard and then the stadium announcer comes over and says Leesha Heins is our winner this evening.  So, I won a cool Royals jacket.  It was my lucky day...07-07-07!  I never win much in drawings.  I was famous for one evening!

We just got back from Illinois last night.  We went to see our grandparents and extended family.  We had quite the adventure getting there.  The alternator went out on our van when we were about 50 miles from our destination.  Thank God that Aaron had AAA, so he called that and we were towed all the way to our aunt's house.  It was quite the experience.  Craig, Lori, Aaron and I were stuffed in the single cab of the rollback tow truck and we couldn't get seatbelts on, the tow man was on 1 hour of sleep in the last 48 and he was texting as he was driving.  I thought...we're going to die.  No, we didn't and Craig was able to get it fixed the next morning.  Even though it was frustrating, it really couldn't have happened at a better place.  We got to eat our favorite ice cream and favorite Pizza.  We didn't get much sleep so I'm ready for bed right now. 

My job is going much better with my new boss.  We have some issues with our computers which prohibits us from being really productive, because we are in a whole other office, separate from the hospital.  We are hearing rumors we may have to move back.  That will be fun...NOT!

Well, I should go.  I'm glad to know that Esther and I were intimidating in college...that makes me laugh.  Just because we wanted to impose a fine/toll on all the freshmen doesn't mean we were meanies!  You all loved us...we were fun!

I'll tell you where they went...down the drain!  Just kidding!  Not really, I've just been so busy and I absolutely hate our dial-up connection!  I hope to rectify that situation in the next week by getting us signed up for high speed satellite!  YEAH!

It's been interesting.  I started my new job, ya know, and I loved the position and my co-workers.  My boss...a whole different story.  To give you the abridged version, she's the most complicated, ungrateful, rudest boss I've ever had!  To give you a for instance, I got in trouble for working 15 minutes over (on my half day) to help a patient with his bill because he was VERY upset and thought it had been taken care of.  My boss told me I could NEVER stay over like that again.  Okay, let me hang up on the customer...that's great!  Anyway, I had had enough...and I marched up to our CEO's office Monday and was up there for about 50 minutes.  In the meantime, I had talked with someone at my church and she said a spot was going to be opening up at her work...and I was a shoo-in to come work there if I needed a job.  So, I figured I really had nothing to lose by going up there.  I told him all of the things that had went on (too numerous to mention) and that I was upset.  There was also a situation going on with my co-worker with this boss, too, and she had complained and even went up higher to ethics officer for three of the area  hospitals (that's how bad this situation was).  Anyway, by Wednesday it was like...Okay, they are going to do nothing, but that's okay.  At 3:55, our boss was supposed to have told us to go up to the Human Resources office...but conveniently she chose to STILL be childish and not tell us, so the HR director told us.  I thought...Okay, God...be with me, cause I'm losing my job and I will NOT cry!!!  My co-worker, Sherri, and I were to be up there and so we went...our HR director starts off and says...Bret (our CEO) and I have talked and we feel that the best solution to this problem (Insert...my beating heart and my mind telling me he's going to say is to let you go...but he doesn't) is for you two to no longer be supervised by Karen!  Hallelujah, Praise Jesus!!!  Our new supervisor is a wonderful, nice person...and we get to move uptown and be in our own office!!!!!  This couldn't have worked out any better after all!  I've also been offered the possibility of working from Higginsville if I want (it would be about 10-15 total miles less a day), but I like working with the people I'm with.

So, that's been the excitement...up until Friday night!  We kept our Pastor & Sherry's kids: 11 1/2, 9 (next week), 6, and 5 on July 5.  Wow...I was pooped last night!  I was literally falling asleep on the couch while watching my beloved NASCAR at 9:00!  That is so unlike me in so many ways!  I slept for 10 hours last night and I still feel like I could take a nap.  We had a pretty good time...it just made me realize I really only want 2 kids!  They enjoyed playing with the puppies and they got a tractor ride, and we watched 4 movies!  The littlest, Ashlynn, sat on Craig's lap all the time while watching movies.  It's cute...she's obsessed with him. 

Craig is hoping & praying that it doesn't rain anymore...we don't need it!!!!!  He's lost an entire month of planting.  By now he should have all corn (including yummy sweet corn) and 1/2 of the beans planted.  He barely has half of the corn and NO sweet corn!!!  It's just been too wet...so, I am doing anti-rain dances.  We had some flooding in Lexington (where I work) and we thought we were going to lose all water service even at the hospital.  They were all preparing...I'm thinking, thank God I don't live here!  A lot of the fields were under water...we know some of the people who were flooded.  It was amazing to see.

Well...I should run...I just thought I'd let you know I was alive and kickin!  =)  Have a blessed week!