$600~~FOR REAL!!!

I am not above advertising for something, someone, or anything that has value to me...

So, I say this with "nerdy" excitement...I will save over $600 by switching to PROGRESSIVE Auto Insurance!!!! ~Did that sound like a commercial? Oh, well!

I had been watching a show that gave ideas about how to save money in these "tough economic times" and I had already been considering the move to another insurance company anyway...so, I did it! It was all online (BUT, I couldn't just do it~I had to call to ask a few questions~just couldn't make the jump without a voice reassuring me :) I am so psyched because it really is going to save us over $50/month!!!! Couldn't get any better if I tried and tried and tried!

On another note, Carissa is still "battling" or overwhelming fear of "all things that fly" and it is getting to both of her parents and her sister! We are trying everything~IF ANYONE HAS ANY IDEAS, PLEASE LET ME KNOW!!!

Went for a 5-mile (give or take a little) bike ride while the girls were at another church's VBS last night...I'm not gonna lie~I felt it this morning! Still, I'm feeling pretty good today~got 3 loads of laundry done, cleaned the house here and there, and will probably go out and trim the evergreen bushes tonight while the girls are @ VBS...I feel a little guilty taking them because it's not our church, but they had a blast last night!

Do you think they were tired?!?!

Wow! What a summer full of crazy weather...

There have been some crazy storms here lately...Last night it stormed, today it was calm (But STINKIN' HOT), and tonight there has been constant lightning...and pretty severe storms!

We were supposed to go to Springfield to meet my Dad's plane at the airport...The girls had made signs and everything, but the flights were delayed, he missed a connecting flight out of Chicago and ended up taking the Peoria Charter bus back home! So, we didn't go to Springfield, but did get some stuff done in Decatur...

Home now, watching some shows on the DVR and listening to yet ANOTHER storm getting closer and closer...GOOD sleeping weather :)

Tomorrow WILL be a better day!!!!

Even though we've been home from Disney for 10 days, I have not gotten around to posting any pictures...but we've kept busy!!!

Today, well actually last night, Carissa and Jocelyn were doing their "bridges" from tumbling class and Jocelyn decided to "jump" on her. Well, I thought it was a typical "drama cry" because we had friends over, so I got her ice and let her relax. I gave them bathes and hoped that they would go to sleep early. The rest of the evening was uneventful and I had hoped everything was fine...

This morning, her arms looked different from the other...so, I took her up to the ER and they took an X-ray and we waited...the Doctor came in and said, "She broke her arm--at her elbow." I couldn't believe it! Seriously?!?! I had said all along that I thought Jocelyn would be the one to break a bone first--and as my brother said it: "She did break something first--it just wasn't anythinng of hers!" TRUE, TRUE, TRUE!!!!!!!!

So, we took a trip to Springfield, saw a ped. orthaepedist, she picked her cast color, and on it went...she will have it on for 3 weeks (June 30) but won't be able to swim or get it wet at all. She has developed a FEAR of bugs, so she thinks she won't be able to play outside the whole time! Crazy thinker that she is...here are a few pictures of the doctor's work...

P.S. To top the day off, while picking up Jocelyn from a friend's house, I closed the sliding van door on one of my fingers!!! Went home, tried to shake it off, but it just kept swelling...SO, you guessed it...I went to the ER, had my own x-ray and found out I broke my finger!!!! Seriously!!!! How could that happen to anyone else?!?! So. they relieved the pressure in my finger (I won't go into details about this), put it in a splint, gave me some pain medication and sent me on my way!