Well, I guess I will just get more pics!

Now that I have the laptop working and can put new pictures to post up, as luck would have it, I can't find the charger for the camera battery. So I do what I can and will put some leftover pics up from the past month. You can see 1 from Christmas with me and the autographed Paul Stanley guitar that Missy got me. That was cool. The kids busted my other one in half fittingly Paul Stanley style breaking the neck in half. You can see one of our visits to MOA in which Kendall is on her favorite ride The Horsies as she calls them. She loves that dang thing, but gets mad when it's over and won't get off. Also, Madison manning her booth at the inventers fair at school.

And then of course Conner growing as he should.

In other news, going back to my last post, I have never heard of a AppleOrange and don't really know what the purpose of that would be. Oh well!

Today I was able to go to a press coference at the capitol with governor Pawlenty regarding TriCare(military health insurance), in which they announced more providers accepting it in this state. It's a good thing for us that use it, and of course one of the comments they provided was that for the Medical facilities that accept it the government pays much smaller amounts for procedures performed, it may not be the best business decision for the providers, but a good civic decision for the healthcare companies, and I got home with a TriCare letter for Hunters broken arm in which the hospital charged $7,100 for his ER visit and surgery, and TriCare allowed $838 in which they paid. HELLO, that is a HUGE differential, that I can't imagine they are making a profit off Hunter. But either way it is very enlightening.

That is about it, although I have to say Happy Birthday to my brother Mark in Colorado, last week, for which I never called, but Mark I saw you left a comment on the last post. Sorry I haven't called. Tommorrow, if I get off my ass I will give you a call and have the kids talk to you as well!

Later,

Erik