Who has 2 of the best girlfriends ever.....

ME! Look what they did today for me😘

My garden started out like this 

(Now we completely forgot to take all before photos ...bad blogger we are...lol)

This was as over grown as the first 😜

After!!! I'm going to plant some perennials to fill it in but we ran out of time 

 

Same as above! 

And then some smaller improvements 

It's an amazing start! A lot of energy has fine into this. 

Next week my dad and I will be building a  large planter (16'x3') which I can't wait to to fill and enjoy!

This is the up side to my children getting older, all the little kid toys that have overtook the yard since the moment we moved here are gone, it finally becoming an outdoor space I get to enjoy (and hopefully someday with some one?!?!)

The veggie are growing!!! I may get my first tomatoe off it later this week!!! The rest all look good to, I've come to the conclusion I need more planters (or less veggies) I'm certain then are planted to close together which will hinder the growth....beginner error!

I've also decide, despite the fact it may take 2-3 years to get a good crop, I'm going to grow asparagus!

I also want to plant potatoes, cooking onion, cauliflower and maybe some beet????

That being said, my neibour side of the house will be covered with planter (which hides the siding they won't fix) and my side of the house will have flowers....👏

Life's been busy, sum it up with an overall UPDATE!

Ok,so let's do a summary on this crazy life I have....

Nathan doesn't need surgery!!!! His cast is to come off July 28, then he will be in a walking cast for up to 3 wks (hopefully not so out birthday bash can go as planned)

I have a surgery DATE!!!! September 10, is the start of my journey to a new healthier me 😃 I start the shakes August 20 😝

Dalton's soccer camp went great, we were honoured to host a coach for the week (which was great!) I will do a full post on that later. 

We are headed into week 3 of summer holidays, camps are going great, I'm exhausted and feel like all I do is drive from one activity to another but in the end it will be over before we know it an back to school.

We still have not seen my ex (been over 5 months), he never made it to graduation (which apparently is my fault for not reminding him), he has not asked how Nathan is doing or contacted me to see if he needs surgery. I can only assume he figures if he did, I would have contacted him by now (because I'm legally obligated too). I did find out he was once again behind in payments for the dreaded van, to which he then tried to convince me to take it over to save my credit (his words not mine) 

To this day, I shake my head and wonder where the man I spent almost half my life with,went? A question I dont think I will ever get the answer too. 

Otherwise life is good. My body is beyond sore from carting Nathan around, the weather isn't helping either. Work is good, I just start my 1st week of covering the hospital full time for summer holidays (12 days straight...yuck) 

Hope you are all enjoying summer break! 

Nathan turns 4!!!

My baby is no longer a toddler, he's officially a kiddo 😩

Mr Nathan celebrated his 4 birthday yesterday, and although it was a low key event he had fun. Summer birthdays aren't all there cracked up to be, busy lives mean birthday need to sneezes into life!

We started the day with a trip to the fracture/cast clinic, after a couple X-rays the Doctor desided they he does NOT need surgery!!!! He needs to keep the cast on till July 28, then he will be in a walking cast for up to 3 wks following

After we got back into town, we went to lunch to celebrate! Followed by some soccer camp watching! Yesterday was the wrap up to Dalton's camp (more about that later)

A home made blanket from Grandma and Grandpa!!!!

And after 7 months of listening to him whine he finally got his own ...

3DSXL (cause 2 of them with 3 kids was clearly not a smart decision on my part at Xmas)

We also had some cake!

We finished out the night with a bon fire! 

Now to start getting prepared for the McCarnan Birthday Bash....3 wks and counting 😁

And then we got a trampoline....

For years Ive always said I would NEVER own a trampoline. And I guess I always knew why. 

My oldest 2 have out grown our playhouse/swing set it's big and takes up almost half our yard 

They have been asking for 2 years to up grade to a trampoline and because Nate was still small I kept saying no. This year when the question came up, I pounders it??? 

So last week I bought a trampoline 😜

It's 12' one, barely fits in the yard (will once the play sets gone) 

(Told you the yard was small!)

This was Friday, Sunday while I was planting my new flower boxes, I ran in to get more water and all I hear is Nathan SCREAM bloodily murder, Alex starts screaming and Dalton yelling I'm sorry.

I run out and Nathan is balling. I asked what happen and Dalton starts balling. At this point every one was crazy. 

I hauled the older to out of the trampoline and try and convience Nathan to scoot his butt toward the opening. And try and get him to stand up, he screams. 

At this point I still don't know what happen?? 

Turns out they were all playing inside of it and Dalton (all 95lbs of him) fell on Nathan's leg. PERFECT 

I get him out and carry him to the van (we were on our way to a BBQ). He's no longer crying...he spent the day laying down while we all tried to figure out "what's next"

I could bend his knee all the way to his chest, extend it fully with little issues...sweet it's not broke!!!! The only time he showed pain was when I placed my hand behind his knee and slowly turned his ankle. 

We assumed he pulled/twisted a legiament or muscle. 

We tried everything all day to get him to stand on it (not my finest moments I know). We get home, I give him a cool bath and wrapped his knee. 

He was laying there watching a movie and apparently had to pee. He scooted to the end of my bed, yelled for help cause he had to pee... I put him in the floor and again try and get him to hobble to the bathroom (3' way)

Not thinking he stepped forward in his bad knee and dropped, screaming in pain (again not my finest judgement). 

So at this point I knew we were headed to the hospital (perfect! Sunday of a long weekend!)

I drop the boys off to my parent around 9pm and off we go. 

No ones in the waiting room (bonus), we are triaged and registered in less then 20 mins (double bonus), and then the ambulances started rolling in (5 in total plus a helicopter) 

After about 45 minutes we were called I to the back, into the drunk tank/chemical room (the room with a build in shower all made on concrete and echos when you talk) perfected for a 4 yr old who loves to talk!

Nathan notices and at the top of his lungs he starts singing/yelling "Johnny test, Johnny test, something, something something"  nurse thought it was hilarious, I was ready to cry!

We waited till midnight to see a dr (thankfully he was a trooper and not in a lot of pain). She comes in, checks him, askes what happens, chats with him, says she's sending us for an X-ray

I say "that will only show a break, I'm sure it not, I can bend and extended it fully. I think it's a pulled muscle"

"Let rule this out first"

Ok, so we are wheeled to X-ray, again after 15 questions of what everything was and was going to do, we had 7 X-rays taken. 

Back to the room, dr comes in about 25 minutes later....starts chatting with Nathan again ( I warn her he won't stop talkin so unless you plan on stay here a while I'd cut him off) explains to him that he has indeed BROKEN his knee (duh)

He broke his tibia bone straight down the middle (not good), and needs a cast from his upper thigh to his toes 😫

Mr Nathan will be sporting this bad boy for the next 4-6wks (pending he doesn't need surgery). 

My local hospital doesn't have a pedis ward, so they didn't have any crutches, so Monday was spent hunting down crutches for a kid who's almost 3' ...not fun!

I did finally find a pair of kids size (need some small adjustments) and a wheel chair (lugging his 40lb butt around is not something my shoulders or hernia where planning on doing). 

Monday he spent the day chiling watching movies on netflix while everyone else played outside poolside. He was in heaven! 

Once the sun went over my parents place he joined us outside. He thought he was a king wheeling around the deck. All the other kids were staring in ohhhh 

I'm so thankfully he still has his sense of humour...except when the pain meds have wore off!

He goes to the fracture clinic on his birthday, where we will learn if he needs surgery (not where I planned in spending his bday, especially seeing as it's at the hospital he was born at...haven't been there since he was cleared if his brain bleeds) 

Lesson if the weekend....trampolines (even with netting) can be dangerous...less then 48hrs after being out up we had our first injury. 

(Yes I'm having MAJOR mommy guiltin this one 😫)

(All ready for the Canada Day Parade!) 

Let grow a garden????

With all these new diet restriction around here I thought let's try and cut our groceier bill where we can!

So I had a friend build me some boxes, had my boss drop off some soil mix and hit up the store for some seeds/plants!!!!

Ok it sounds like it all happened quickly but it seems like it's been weeks since I started this process. 

This is what I did while the kids where playing on the trampoline (see previous post). 

I had the kids pick what they said they would eat (let see how that goes) and what we still had time to grow do to getting a late (ish) start. 

I plan in planting more fruit next year but we have 2 Stawberry bushes, grapes, watermelon seeds, 2 raspberry and 1 blueberry (we received the raspberries and blueberries free cause she positive they won't bloom this year)

For veggies we have: peas, green beans, yellow beans, radishes, lettus, carrots, green onions, red peppers, green peppers, cucumbers and tomatoes!

We still have corn, celery and onions to plant (we ran out of room)

I planted 4 days ago and we have already  sprung some green!!! Most of the packages say 60-75 days...fingers crossed!!!

And no garden is complete with out some pretty flowers (I have some threw out the yard but these are beautiful)