Last Minute Trip...

So Thursday I was out and about with my niece Ella running errands, and it dawned on me. I said to Ella "I think we were supposed to go to St. George." And after my awful loss of memory on Tuesday when I forgot to pick up my little 2 year old niece from a neighbor who was tending her for the morning until I picked Brenna up from school... I thought for sure I had dropped the ball yet again. Twice in one week... this couldn't be happening!!! Anyone who knows me knows just how punctual I am. Okay so back to Thursday, I immediately called Bill... I said "I may have dreamed this, but did we talk about going to St. George this weekend???" His response, "Ummm No, you must have dreamed it!" Okay, a sence of relief, I hadn't dropped the ball. But I could have sworn that conversation was real. I guess all I can boil it down to is that Bill's mom has been begging us to come visit for months now, and everytime she calls she says, so have you made any plans to come down yet... so because she does this, she put enough pressure on me that I was dreaming about it now. Anyway, I got home on Thurs. from running errands and Bill was kinda giving me a hard time about the earlier call I made to him, and then he says, "Well do you wanna go?" I was like, sure... may as well I already thought we were supposed to be going. He wanted to leave Friday morning, but I was all about getting out the door as quickly as possable. We decided that we were going to go at about 4:30pm and arrived at Mom and Dad's at 11:30pm. I was also able to get my niece and her boyfriend to join us. Overall, although it was a last minute trip, it was MUCH needed! We went hiking at snow canyon friday, then went bowling that night... then Sat. we went up to Dixie rock and did a little more hiking and then went to lunch and did some shopping. It was so nice to be outside without a coat on, and soaking in the sun. I have spring fever even worse than when we left... So do the kids. They had sooooo much fun. Sam just ran and ran, and kept saying "Weeeeeee Fun, Fun!" Bring on the heat!!!!

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Sammy got a Boo Boo...

Yestderday as I was cooking breakfast Brenna and Sam had the sliding glass door open talking to the dog. Brenna kept opening and shutting it. I think I told her a good 4 or 5 times to leave the door alone because someone was going to get there fingers munched... sure enough, poor Sam started screaming. When I went over to him, his fingers were stuck in the back side of the sliding door and wouldn't come out. Brenna had shut and locked the door with this fingers in it. Once I got his fingers out, Brenna paniced... his finger was bleeding bad! So, I ran it under cold water in the sink then held some preasure on it. Eventually it quit bleeding, so I put some ointment on it and bandaged it up. Then we headed to the doctors. They x-rayed his fingers and nothing was broken. They decided not to stitch it, being that we had to wait so long to get back there and the skin was already semi closing up, and also because it was at the tip of his finger... The docs put some antibiotic stuff on it and bandaged it up to prevent it from splitting open again. We have to keep it bandaged up for about 3 days or so. He had a pretty rough night last nigh... it was hurting him pretty bad. Needless to say I ended up sleeping with him on the couch all night in between the wake ups and crying. Poor baby. Brenna felt so bad, and she thought she was in trouble. I had to explain to her that she wasn't in trouble, accidents happen... but that is why they both need to listen to me so people don't get hurt. She keeps telling him she is sorry, and giving him kisses. He also keeps kissing his own finger better.

My BIG boy!

On Friday, we took Sam to go pick out a new BIG BOY bed! He really had no idea what we were talking about... but when we got to the store, he saw the sponge bob bed. That was the one he wanted. So we came home and took his crib apart, and put his new bed up...


Although he hadn't figured out how to get out of his crib yet, I thought that he was plenty old enough for a bed. We put Brenna in a toddler bed at 18 months and she did really good, and Sam is 22 months. He was sooooo excited once we got the bed up. And the excitement has continued everyday since we put it up. He went to bed great the first night, and although he fell out of the bed one time in the night... he slept in it all night. He is doing awsome with this transition... I am so happy!

The Craziness Continues....

Well I had my surgery done on Wednesday. Everything went really well... I was really nervous going in. Last thing I remember was laying in the OR on the bed watching all the nurse fuss with tools and such... then the anethesiologist came up with a little suringe of something and said... this is just to make you relax a little, it will help your nerves. Almost immediately I could feel myself relaxing... then that was it. I don't remember a thing from that point on... I don't even remember getting home, or in bed. LOL. I didn't wake up until about 5pm that evening and only lasted about an hour and a half on the couch before I was ready for bed. That was some of the best sleep I have had in a LONG time! The doc went in with Bill when I was out of surgery to give him his findings. Much to the docs, and my surprise he didn't find any endometriosis (he was 99% positive that is what was going on) however he had some other findings. Bill isn't much help at explaining what the doctor said, or what the plan is. I don't know if he doesn't listen, or if he just gets confused... as far as I know I have as Bill says "oversized veins" in my uterus (or vericose veins) which the doc said is likely the cause of my pain, and bleeding. Also, much to my surprise he said I have something wrong with one of my intestines (not sure whether it is small or large). Bill said he showed him the pics of it and he can't quite remember what the doc said was wrong with it, but to him it looked like a piece of my intestine was shriveled. Appently I am going to be sent to a Gastro intologist... Bottom line is, as of right now I have no idea what is going on. I go to the doc in a couple weeks for a follow up appt. and I will know the plan then. Whew... okay that was a long explanation... Also, I don't know what I said or did, all Bill told me was that he was really embarassed when I was coming out of anesthesia, but thankfully I don't remember therefore it didn't happen!

Not sure how many know this, but Bill's dad has been living with us since May. It has been great having him here, and the kids just love it! The plan was that he would stay here for 2 1/2 years until his retirement... well a couple weeks ago he got a call from the retirement people asking him when he was planning to retire because they hadn't seen anything from him yet as far as his planned date. His response "Ummm in about 2 years when I have my 20 years in." He wasn't expecting what came next..."sir you have your years in." "I do? I have only been here just over 18 years!" "Didn't you work for the school district back in the late 70's early 80's?" "Well yeah." "That counts towards your state retirement." That night he came home for work in quite the panic... He wasn't ready for retirement yet! (Who the hell wouldn't be ready to retire) LOL... He told me he set the date with them... Jan. 16th 2010. I had to laugh at that... I just knew as soon as he told his wife that he could retire, he would be outa here. She has been in Idaho by herself for the past 8 months, all the while just begging him to take and early retirement so they could be together. I don't blame her either... with nearly 5 feet of snow sitting on the ground there, I wouldn't want to deal with all the household things by myself while trying to work full time too. She has been quite the trooper through this all. Well a few days later Brent came to me and said "Well, I talked to Julie (his wife) and I have a meeting with the retirement people tomorrow." Of course I knew this was coming... Then, that night he came home (this was about a week ago) and he said, well I have a date set... Feb 16th, like in 2 weeks. You could just see the nervousness in his face... so I say, Congratulations, you excited? His responce... I don't know what I am going to do with myself. I feel kinda lost... Isn't that sad? Well, the retirement thing has had time to sink in, today he said that the closer it gets the more excited he is... Brenna and Sam on the other had aren't too excited. Today Brenna said... "mommy, I don't want Grandpa to move out, I am going to miss him so much" They both really love there grandpa T, but we will be sure to go visit. I told Brenna that as soon as it starts to get warm (and there 5 feet of snow has melted) we are going to take a trip up there to visit. Now that she knows, I will be held to it. LOL... So I just want to say to Pops, thank you for staying with us. I hope your stay was comfortable, we love you and will miss you a great deal. Oh, and I hope you will survive without your cable television! LOL

My crazy life...

It has been over a week since I last posted, and my last few posts have been really short. I have just been crazy busy with the rollercoaster of life. So many things have happened this past week I don't even know where to begin. Most exciting new has to be learning that I am going to be a great Aunt. My beautiful niece Ella found out she was pregnant on the 23rd, something she had been suspecting, but after 2 negative test we were rather unsure of what was truely going on. She took the last and final test at my house, and although I have several concerns and worries just because she is so young I can't help but be super excited for her. She is going to be a wonderful mommy, and I know she will make me proud. Although it is going to be tough, she knows she has the support of me along with the rest of our wonderful family. I love you Ella and the Wee Wittle one growing in your belly.

I have been cazily trying to prepare for my surgery coming up (in two days), but it just seems it has crept up far to quickly. I know I am going to be down for at least a couple days, and I have just been trying to get my house and laundry in order so I don't have a ton of catching up to do afterwards. However I am soooo not ready... I know it is a really minor surgery in comparison to what I could be having, however I just don't think that any amount of surgery is a very settling feeling. Just having to be put under anesthesia, and not being "In control" of what is going on just stresses me to the core. I know everything will be fine, and I know I can count on my wonderful hubby to pull things together... I just worry too much. I am headed to the grocery store today to stock up for the next couple weeks. I am going to pull together a few EASY recipes for Billy in hopes he can handle the cooking for 3 or 4 days.... Also have to go get my taxes done today so I don't have that hanging over me anymore either.... Too much to do, too little time!