Scarry Nightmare ( our own Halloween Story)

 After our last stay at Moab, we discovered that we brought a bed bug with us. I do not wish this on anybody. After having been bitten on my legs a couple of times I had to go to the doctor becasue my foot was swollen up so bad I could hardly walk. The doctor said I got celulites form some insect bite. We had no idea who or what bit me. So I was on antibiotics for 10 days. A week later the same spot on the other foot i get an identical bike and another cellulites again. This is when we startet to worry or what was biting us. First we thought mosquitoes, then the second time it happened the mosquitoes were gone so it had to be something else. Jim started researching what could bite you and make your leg swell up like that. Apperantly the bed bugs have been very common  throught the states and most of the people get them from motels they stay in. Sure enough, after searching the bed we found one. We have not found any more, apparently they are very good at hiding. After thinking of where did we get these things from, a picture poped out on the computer of us in Moab and Quinn had a swallow cheek in it. As soon as I went online and reviewed some reviews of the motel we stayed in, we were not the only ones what got bed bugs from it.


Exterminating the bed bugs has been a huge challenge in our lives. We had to sleep in our daughter's room floor for three weeks before we finally got rid of them. After that I did not even want to come back to our bedroom. I was and still am very paranoid of any bug, dry skin and germs. I constantly vacuum my carpers twice a week and wipe all the surfaces with disinfecting wipes every day. This probably will never change.


 Well Life IS and always will be busy when you have three kids, two jobs, beg bugs and a family. This last week I felt like stuff just piled up on me and that I had to do all these things because we had a little vacation and now it was time to work hard. I had thought Joy school, and it is usually fine, I love doing it. This time was a little different with a teething one year old. Kids were crazy, Quinn was super needy. But we made it. Next day I was in charge of the Halloween Party we had lots of fun. I also was also doing a family session for a family from the ranches. They wanted to find a place for pictures close to home. So after the party and the clean up I went and drove all over the place to find a place. When I told them about it they decided to do it at the orchard anyways. I remember thinking why  the heck I just drove 2 hours with three kids to find a different place for pictures when you decide to do them there I wanted to do them in the first place. After the busy night I finally go to bed and trying to rest my overworked head. You know one of those nights then you so need the rest but just can't fall asleep. My brain was still thinking :"How to pose this family so that they look good, what time to schedule the session so that it looks good, how to find time to edit and babysitters to watch your kids while you work" It went on and on. Then after having bedbugs in our bedroom (they are all gone now) I have become super jumpy at times. Little things like dry skin that might seem like a bed bug apparently can make me jump. As I was trying to fall asleep jim and still putting programs on his computer.

Next thing I remember I was sitting in my bed, my whole body was shaking  and my heart rate was going 1000 beats per second. I had no idea why I felt like I just went through hell. I was terrified of everything I had no idea what was going on when Jim came into the room and tried to calm me down. He kept saying it is me, it is ok. Apperantly as Jim was entering our bedroom I screamed from the top of my lungs and was very terrified of something. When he came to calm me down I found myself sitting on the bed being very terrified of something that I did not remember. Jim said I have literally jumped off the bed in terror and screamed. This has never happened to me before. After this Jim and my Mom have been telling me to slow down the work and everything else I do to calm down my life a little bit so that this won't happen again. This time I agreed and now working on learning how to be lazy:)