Nampa Nights

In Downtown Nampa Idaho they do this thing every Thursday night during the summer where they'll have a live band and shut down a couple streets and you can just hang out and visit. We did that while we were there. Boise also does this but it's on Wednesday and I think it's better (don't know for sure since we haven't gone to it yet). So we went and it was pretty neat. We stopped at a fountain and ran through it and got nice and wet and then Austin found us and we went to sit with him and Colette and enjoyed each others company and the live music. But not the creepy homeless mentally handicapped person who would continually sway to the music and stare at the little kids *shudder* Erin is claiming he's a product of inbreeding. He tried selling us some "artwork". Anyways after the music was done Austin wanted to show us a dog park nearby so we called Matt to see if we could pick up Jack(the dog) and he said no. That was a little weird, Jack would of loved the park. Austin went and got his dogs and off we went. It was great. Ginger loved seeing all the dogs and she made a friend. Kids sure do know how to make friends quickly.

Swimming Hole

So while we were in Idaho Josh had a schedule of things he wanted us to do. And going to our swimming hole was one of them. It's not really ours many people know about it. I had my girlfriend Jessica come with us and it was great. The water was COLD!! Man I'd gotten used to Virginia waters, warm. But it was beautiful. Ginger sure did like it. She mostly enjoyed having Jessica pay tons and tons of attention to her. Zoey loved splashing her little feet in the water if you held her up to it. It was just great to go there and enjoy it. Even if it was cold.

Happy Birthday Ginger!

Ginger turned 3 on the 22nd! It was a sad sweet day for me. We were in Idaho for her big day and we planned a huge party at a local park where everyone can come and see us for a bit. Ginger had a blast. She knew it was her party to. All her cousins were there and she couldn't of been happier. She was so much fun to watch the whole time. When the cake arrived she wanted to eat it right away, it had spongebob on it. Her favorite. She couldn't wait to open her birthday cards, that's right cards. She has a thing for cards. She got one in the mail from toys r us and she slept with thing. And when Zoey got a hold of it and it ripped in half she cried. Watching her opening her presents was pure joy. Her expressions were priceless. She loved practically everything. Although her favorite was her Little Mermaid birthday card that played a song that opened up. Too cute. I also decided to take a page out of Aunt Lauri's book and ask people what they loved about Ginger. So without further Ado...

Norman: Her blonde hair and the way she gives kisses

Mom AKA Grammy: Her personality and the way she has "say so's" (that's what she calls her dresses, don't know why) mom thinks its cuz' she says so.

Erin: Her tantrums and how they work, and how she puts her older cousins in their place!

Josh: How she loves me and how she does silly new stuff

Zoey: Pftttttt (she just blew a raspberry at me)

Alex: Ginger (just kept saying her name), because. On a side note when Alex came home with Erin for the weekend we weren't at the house and that's where they went first and Alex went through the whole house calling for her. They're pretty good friends.

Austin: Her mischevious personality

Colette: Her "Perfct" hair

Matt: Her curls, her cheeks and her smile

Desi: Her laugh (in case no one knew Matt and Desi are expecting their first baby together!!)

Kaitlyn: Her curls

Kadin: I don't know, fun to play with

Cathy AKA Nana (Josh's mom): Her beautiful hair, her blue eyes everything about her

Venessa (Josh's sister): How pretty she is, her blonde hair, her blue eyes, her big lips and how she freaks out when she sees me

Kat (Colette's daughter): Ginger plays with me

Madison: Because she acts like me, and she gives her daddy the "look" (don't know what that look is)

Jessica: Funny, so cute, lovable no matter what you do she just loves you

Dad AKA Papa: She's a wild child who acts like her mother, reminds me of her mom

Whew!!

After 10 days of being back home in Idaho, we're back in Virginia. I'm exhausted, it was the most busiest vacation EVER. Josh had a schedule all planned out and everything. It was pretty great. I miss everyone already terriblly and we probably won't go back home for a long while. I'll be posting more blogs soon. Just gonna chillax for now. Feels good to be in my own home, in my bed.

To my Horror...

I had just got out of the shower, and was quietly getting my clothes (Josh is on nights so I have to creep around my room) and I hear Zoey crying, not just any cry, her "Help Ginger is picking on me" cry. I can now tell apart that cry from all the others. So sad. So I rush out of my room to see what's going and to my horror, there is Ginger lying next to Zoey on the floor, she had put her blankie over her and then had Zoey in a headlock! punching her head!!! Oh my! I nearly lost it on Ginger. To be fair she wasn't punching her real hard, more like bumping her hand. But still Zoey was not a happy girl. Some days I just don't know what to do. I get tired of yelling at Ginger to leave Zoey alone. But she continues anyway. It's like Gingers new fun thing for her to do, picking on Zoey. Couple days ago me and Ginger came back from checking the mail, she went right up Zoey and kicked her in the head. Oh MY!! Zoey is going to be one tough cookie. Ginger also enjoys shoving her finger down Zoeys throat just to hear her gag. When they're supposed to be sleeping we'll hear a *giggle* and then a *gag* a *giggle* then a *gag*. Man. And Zoey just LOOOVES Ginger, she can't wait to play with her. She no loner needs me now, she's all about Ginger, I'm just the food source. :( Ginger really does love and like Zoey, I know this post makes it sound like she doesn't, but she does. She likes to play with Zoey and they'll do the tummy crawl around the house together. Ginger will cheer her on when gets to a new place. And she enjoys sharing a room with her, and not just for the gag and giggle. Ginger calls Zoey her friend. I was putting Zoey down for her nap and Ginger kept saying (more like yelling) 'Zo Zo my friend, Zo Zo my friend' (she wanted to play with her).

Insurance

SO I've been having to deal with a whole bunch of crap with insurances cuz' of changing them so often. Well back in december I had to go to the hospital while I was pregnant with Zoey, no big deal. Non-stress test, ultrasound. Well come to find MONTHS later and after I've already paid the bill, the hospital didn't file the whole thing they left out $276 saying that my insurance didn't cover it, well how would they know if they didn't file that claim? So since I've discovered that I've been trying to get the hospital to re-file the whole amount. So far no luck. I've had to talk to Blue Cross often now and they have just been wonderful. They take everything so calmly, even when I talk to them like they're slow (I just wanted to make sure that we were clear on everything). It's been over 2 months and the hospital STILL hasn't sent in the proper claim. But now I'm going to do myself. I thought it was okay if I could do that. The Blue Cross guy (Peter) told me that as a patient it's within my right to send in a claim that I feel should be. And its my responsibility to make sure a claim is filed. Everytime I'm done talking with someone at Blue Cross I feel so relieved, like a weight has been taken off my shoulders. My new insurance (Dakotacare) isn't like that at all.

Virginia Beach- Again

I love this pic of Ginger, you can tell she's happy, just by the way she's bouncing

So we LOVE virginia beach, we went again last monday except this time we camped instead of getting a motel room. Way cheaper that way. It was a lot of fun. We swam in the Chesapeke bay we could see the chesapeke bay bridge tunnel from the shore (the worlds longest 17 miles), First Landing State Park (where we camped) had some pretty neat programs while we were there, like 'what's in the nets' they'd cast out nets and bring it up and show us what was in it, but the kids were asleep so we missed it. But then they had crabbing so we went to that and the nice rangers helped us out and Josh had a blast, he loved it. Even more than regular fishing. He didn't get one, almost got one, but it go away. That was just the first day. The next day we went to the aquarium, that was awesome, there was alot of neat fishes to see. Before you even go into the place they have harbor seals right out front (in there own exhibit) Ginger loved to watch them swim. There was sooooo much to see there, it was so much fun. We saw sharks and sea turtles and seahorses and crabs and stingrays (Ginger would NOT touch one) and tons of fish and frogs... just so much. Afterwards we packed up our campsite and then headed to the beach to boogie board!! Who doesn't love to boogie? I love it. I forgot how much I enjoyed it. It was Josh's first time ever doing it. So that was way fun to watch. It's amazing to me to see how Ginger can make friends EVERY time we go somewhere. Seriously. The next beach we go to this summer is going to be Ocean City, Maryland.