Heat and more!!

This week has been a dosey around here! after a much needed vacation and a good time at the family reunion, we returned home to a yard that was very much over grown. Mind you we are glad that it was alive and green but 2 plus feet of grass on our 1/2 acre lot and no riding mower was a bit intimidating. So saturday morning Reagan and I set to work. He took one lawnmower and set it at the tallest setting, he then set my mower at the middle setting, and we set out to conquer the yard!! 4 1/2 hours later Reagan had finished his initial pass and i had only one 'small' spot left as i followed behind. We were exhausted, hot and miserable....thanks to the 107+ temperatures and not to mention the humidity---yes we have quite a bit of humidity here in the desert during the monsoon season---. Unfortunately for us we managed to both get heat exhuastion!!! Luckily not heat stroke. Reagan got hit the worst and just couldn't seem to beat it. So today we went to the doctor and it was determined that he had overcome the heat just fine but had contracted food poisoning!! The doctor figures that he contracted it on Thursday but we are almost certain that it was actually Wednesday night that he picked it up. We had eaten at Hometown Buffet for Haylee's birthday, Chuck was not well that night and Reagan and I ate the same things on Thursday--which wasn't much. I guess this will put an end to Haylee's Hometown Buffet routine. Reagan now has some medication and hopes to be back on his feet in a couple of days.
All of this and Reagan had to preside at church on Sunday as well as care for the arrangements for a funeral of a young man in our ward whos funeral/memorial was yesterday. He just couldn't get himself to drive to San Diego for the burial this morning...
I feel so bad for him, but am glad he decided to take care of himself for once. I have tried to do what i can like keeping the toilet paper stocked in the bathroom and having white rice available for his meals!!
Jake started his senior year of high school yesterday and is already hard at work at swim practice. We expect good things from him this year in the pool as he was a leader last year as a junior and a big part of the mens team graduated in May.
Sorry there is no picture to tell the tale of our experiences. I need to get Shawna over --she is the real wiz at all of this.
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