Nightmare of a day!

So we made it back from our vacation. Luckily Hurricane Ike missed us. We did get to see him though, out of the window of our airplane. We had the best, most relaxing time. I will post about our trip later, but now I have to tell about our crazy day yesterday.

The girls were out playing in the backyard. I heard screaming and looked out the window. They were both in the sand box under their playground. I thought they were just fighting until I saw a swarm of wasps all over my girls. Mari was running for her life, but poor Lucy didn't know what to do, she was just standing there paralyzed in the middle of what looked to me to be hundreds of wasps.

I thought for a split second "I really don't want to run into the middle of a swarm of wasps!!" But being a mother there are certain things you have to do, even if you don't want too(I never thought this would be one of them). I ran to her and didn't know where to pick her up at, her little body was covered with wasps. I finally got her out and we ran to the house screaming all the way. I think I was screaming more than they were. I might have lost my cool a little bit. I thought I would have been more in control, but I lost it. I was running around the house, not really knowing what to do. I called Matt all frantic, he thought someone was dying, from all the crying he was hearing out of all of us. Finally I calmed down, and checked the girls over. Mari and I luckily only had 1 sting each, but poor Lulu had 8 that I could count. They are on her head, ear,neck,lip,chin and hand. I got them cleaned off and gave them Tylenol, when Lucy's face started swelling up (I wished I would have taken a picture,but at the time I was freaking out a little bit. She looked like she had been in a boxing match). We took her to Instacare just to be safe. They looked her over and gave her steroids, and a couple of other medications and sent us home. They are both fine now, but I think they are going to be a little scared of the playground for a while.