St Augustine Beach

We went to meet my Mom and Dad at St. Augustine beach today. They were staying at a nice Hotel on the ocean ( my Moms favorite retreat) we went swimming for a while then played on the beach and went out to dinner at a really good place called Mango Mangoes or something like that. Anyway, the kids really enjoyed it and I must say so did I. Im not greatly fond of taking the kids out to dinner, but it was a relaxed atmosphere and they liked the food, Hunter had a book to read and Cindy and Zolee came and kept Tyler, Noah sat by my Mom and Lizzy wasnt there she is visiting her Mom today so really it wasn't bad at all. Im sure they were just glad to get a break, we have been working in the backyard laying sod and cleaning up this weekend. They all worked pretty hard so they deserved a bit of a break to.

Movie night

Tonight Johnny and I took the boys to see the new baseball movie,Everybodys Hero or something like that. I had a really good time. (suprising seeing that I dont like baseball movies and I rarely dont regret taking the boys to the movies, you never know if Noah is going to decide to play musical chairs or not) It was really good. Both Johnny and I liked it alot, and the boys thought it was really good too, all three of them. And there was not anything even slightly inapropriate for children. Its gotten to where I distrust a PG animated movie. Anyway, thats a whole other can of worms. I didnt even want to go, but John really likes doing that stuff, so I went even though at the last minute I was still contemplating letting him just take them all, and I am glad I did. Noah sat through the whole thing without so much as a wiggle, and I actually enjoyed a baseball movie.

My face is killing me

Not exactly what you might think, its more like the lack of my teeth are killing me.I had two teeth removed. One was pure neglect from the lack of going back to the dentist to get it capped when he told me 7 years ago that the filling might not hold and that I should get it capped, he thought my tooth would crack around the filling. The other one was becouse the cap the dentist put in at the time did not fit, I told him it did not fit and was too tight but he said I would get used to it and crammed it up in my mouth anyway. it has bothered me non stop ever since. i go around everywhere with dental floss just incase something gets stuck next to that tooth, the pressure it creates in my mouth literally drives me crazy. Anyway when the new dentist I went to did the exray on the tooth that crcked like the other dentist told me it would, he showd me what the problem was with my oversized cap, it was pushing on my last molar on that side and had made a bad place on the side of my tooth, becouse no matter how much I tried to cram dental floss up there it wasnt working! I told mim to go ahead and take it out I couldnt stand another cap in my mouth! And if the first one made my real tootth not fit properly how in the crap was a cap going to fit in there without continuing to drive me crazy? Anyway I had two teeth removed from the back of my mouth at the same time. I remember having all 4 wisdom teeth removed at th same time but I didnt remember thinking it was that bad so two couldnt really be a problem right? In reality its not that bad. Its not pain really its irritation, but the tooth that cracked around the filling seems to have a direct line to my eardrum,and its getting old to say the least. It feels like my gums are itchy and i want to bit down on something, but I cant. And taking pain medicine for itchy feeling gums doesnt make any sence. And the worst thing is I can feel a piece of tooth sticking up that I think the dentist must have missed. i know it sais that you may have teeth sards work their way up threw the gums duing healing and that if they bother you to come by and they an remove them, but it doesnt make sence to have a piece of toth sticking out of your gums that wont move or come out when there is a hue open hole in your gums! I know my lack of trust in dentists is what got me here in the first place but Ill have to say I am not biting this tooth shard theory.

The mist rising. A view form "the top of the falls" where we had dinner. ( my photo)

Cindy and I at the edge of the Horseshoe falls.

The view...

This was one of Zolees photos of the view from "The Top of the Falls" the restaurante where we ate dinner. As much as I loved the falls during the day, I am so glad we were still there that night.

My favorite part of the trip

I could not believe how beautiful Niagara Falls was. It was by far the best thing I saw in new York. Zolee stood up on a bench to take this photo of Cindy and I from the bridge next to the tower that take you on the Maid of the Mist boat tour. At this pointe this is day 7 and I am really missing my kids. All I could think about everytime I saw something fantastic is how much one of them would enjoy it. I know Noah would love to be on that big boat, Hunter would love to be sitting at the base of a place he hass only read about in books ( he immediately started spouting how many bathtubs full of water were going over the edge per second when I called him to tell him where I was going) Tyler would have loved the hurricane deck at the cave tour we took that night, I could just see him standing there laughing as the wind and the water came at him full force. And Elizabeth would be following Cindy around staying exactly three inches away from her every step. Eventhough its like pulling teeth to get her to smile in a photo I know there would be a huge grin on her face were this her in front of the waterfall standing with Cindy.