Boca Raton

We are in Boca Raton now. It is so pretty here! We checked in at 2:30 however our room wasn't ready, so they put us in a regular room. It was a nice room we thought. Then we got our room. Wow! I don't know how Mikey does it, but this room is great! It is a 2 room suite. 2 queen size beds, full living room, dining room, 2 bathrooms, walk-in closets, refrigerator, and 2 balconies. We have been sitting out on the balcony watching the yachts go by. Each one we say, "thats the one I want."

It is between the intercoast and the ocean.

Here we are watching the bridge go up.

I think we have found our hotel to stay at when we come down. There is a state park 1 block over. The boys and I are going to walk there tomorrow while Mikey is working. His coworker brought his family as well, so we are planning on getting together with them for dinner tomorrow or Tuesday night. They have 2 boys, the youngest is about Zacharys age. Christina stayed home alone. She didn't want to spend her spring break away from her friends and boyfriend. We invited Robbie to come with us, but since it is Spring Break, he has to stay home and babysit his 6 year old sister, Brooke. (Her and Zachary play together very well, and are in the 1st grade together.)

There is a very fancy restaurant on the 11th floor and a cafe on the waters edge and next to the pool. That is where we had dinner. Crab cakes, and a blackened mahi mahi sandwich. Both of which were wonderful. The boys had a hamburger and Zachary devoured his and wanted a 2nd one. Caleb is a very very slow eater, so I cut his burger into 4ths and gave Zachary a quarter. They ate their fruit too.

After dinner we walked to the beach and Zachary found a coconut. I can't wait to chop it open and munch on it! This picture is from Mikes phone. For a very 'top of the line' phone, it takes crappy pictures. I cant get rid of Zacharys red eyes!

Dinner and a Frog

We are leaving tomorrow morning for Boca Raton. We will probably be there thru Wed. That is is our 8th wedding anniversary! 8 years!! Married to my best friend! Awww.

Since we will be gone over April 1st, I decided to do our April Fools Dinner tonight.

I made meatloaf and 'frosted' it with mashed potatoes.

I didn't let the kids see what I was making until after it was done.

We called the boys in, (Christina is at Robbies) and started singing Happy Birthday to Speedy. Our turtle.

The boys were like 'WHAT?? Cake for dinner?"

Then after they blew out the candles Zachary started smelling it.

"It doesn't SMELL like cake mommy. It LOOKS like it, but somethings wrong with it. It smells funny."

I cut into the 'double layer cake' and he really was like "EWWW, thats NOT cake Mommy." Caleb on the other hand was totally fooled. "Yummy!! Cake for dinner!! I cant wait to eat cake!"

I think Caleb ended up being the most disappointed that it wasn't cake.

However they loved the taste of it!!

I will post the recipe on my recipe blog. Very easy to make as well!

This comic from Family Circle is SOO our boys.

Billy is saying "I'm telling on you."

Then at the bottom it says "What was it you did again?" Mike and I laughed so hard at this because they are in the tattling stage. I think they "tattle' on each 1000 times a day. I am at the point where "unless you are bleeding, I don't care!!!" This grapefruit is off our Grapefruit Bush. I say Bush because it is only 5 feet tall and full of grapefruits. The grapefruits are huge, but sour. Maybe I need to take the fruit off before they get so big? I've never had a citrus plant before, so I need to find out how and when to harvest it. Right now we are sitting outside enjoying the beautiful weather. Its probably 75 degrees. Zachary is riding his bike and Caleb is rolling his golf balls down the little hill. I don't like Zachary riding in the street. I only want him on the sidewalk. Then a neighbor a few houses down pulled into her driveway. She parked her back tires ON the sidewalk. HELLO??? She has 12 feet from the front of her van to her garage. So I walked over there and asked her VERY NICELY to please move her van off the sidewalk so my children could continue to ride on the sidewalk and not in the street. Well, she moved it up alright. Can you tell how much? Her back end is still hanging out over the sidewalk. She totally has about 10 feet of space to pull forward. What is up with that? Why cant people get their cars back ends OFF the sidewalk so we can use the sidewalks for what they are meant for??

I told Mike that OH WELL if Zachary scratches her van while riding behind it, she has no one to blame but herself.

So I am sitting here typing this and the boys found a frog. They gave it to Mikey to hold and it jumped over to me. Of course I screamed. "AAAHHH get if off of me!!!"

He took it and put it back on his lap. Then it jumped on the computer!

It has spent the last 5 minutes trying to climb up the screen!!

We have it on video as well. How funny!!

Ok, its dark now, and time for the boys bath. We have a busy day tomorrow so hopefully they go to sleep early. Wait, no I take that back. We will keep them up a little later, so that hopefully they will nap on the way down to Boca Raton. We are going to get there before the race so we wont miss it! We have our priorities you know.

Stupid Health Insurance Company

Today we received the final bill for Zachary's hospitalization in Dec. $15,079.56. Guess what? Our health insurance company doesn't want to pay it. Why? Because they don't know if we had health insurance for 12 months PRIOR to it. WHAT?????? What the hell difference does it make whether or not we had insurance BEFORE this? We had it, paid in full on the day he went in to the day he got out. Just to be clear..... We have never NOT had health insurance. From the moment Mike has ever worked, or for that matter, that we have ever been ALIVE, we have had health insurance. Zachary has been covered by one health insurance or another since the day he was conceived. The day Mikes employment started with this new company was the day they started covering him, and all of us. That was the day we canceled our policy with United HealthCare. We made sure of it before we canceled United. But what I don't get is WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES THAT MAKE???? Preexisting conditions? Does that mean that if he was ever treated for something that the new insurances are able to deny us coverage if he needs to be treated for it again? What happens if Mikes employer changes insurance companies? If Zachary has another asthma attack they wont pay? We are supposed to choose between going broke or our health? What is the country coming to? Thank God it was only 15 thousand +. We could somehow cover it, but what if it was 150,000? We could lose everything. But the point is we have insurance for a reason. To cover us if we become sick. We pay our premium every paycheck. What good does that do if they aren't going to cover things at their own whim? Mike was on the phone yesterday for HOURS trying to get down to the bottom of it. (that in itself is a freaking joke. How come nobody has LIVE people to talk too?) It seems like it has come down to us needing to show PROOF that we had coverage for 12 months prior to this. OK, so we finally got someone to fax us a HIPA report. That is basically a letter from United Healthcare to our current provider stating that he/we had health insurance for 12 months before. We are just waiting for the next excuse to arrive. "Sorry your sons hair was too blond, so we cant pay your bill". This is truly a sad sad thing happening in our country. I'm sure for every family like ours, there are thousands and thousands getting the same run around.