Happy Birthday Joshua!

Josh turned one year old today.  I can't believe how fast that went by.  I feel like I was just pregnant and brought him home.  Tony works evenings this week so he was home this morning so Tony got to come with us to take Tyler to school.  Then we ran errands while Tyler was at school and then went home.  Josh took an awesome 3-4 hour nap and then played the night away.  We even went to Daddy work to have dinner with him.  Tyler and Josh love that.  Cousin Robin came to hangout and we all had a good time.  We are going to have his birthday party on Saturday, so that should be fun.

Josh is such a happy baby.  He is sweet as can be and has really started giving hugs and kisses.  He loves to crawl everywhere so fast, but is quickly learning to walk.  I wouldn't call it walking yet, but he is getting better and better each day.  He has such a fun laugh and loves to be really loud.  He likes to hear his echo so he is extra loud at places like the grocery store.  He is looking more and more like Tyler and is cute as can be.  He loves ice cream and can't get enough.  He is just like Tony in so many ways, it is adorable.  I love him to death and am so happy that he is in our family.  This is to you Josh!

And he played soccer!

Tyler had his second soccer game today and he actually played in it.  He didn't want to wear any of his uniform today, so I let him wear his Buzz Lightyear gray shirt and just some regular shorts.  He was still pretty defiant at times, but he did play a lot of the game.  We had bought him a play sword yesterday (against my better judgment) and I had to use that as leverage for him to go and play.
You could definitely tell who the three year old kids were compared to the four year old kids.  I am hoping that each game Tyler will do better and better.  By the end of the game Tyler didn't really want to run for the ball anymore, so he started playing goalie and did a really good job.  He stopped two balls from going in.  Unfortunately they don't have goalies on this league, so Tyler had to stop.  He wasn't too happy about that.  But it was fun seeing him stop the ball.  Maybe he will play goalie like his Mamma.

Next week we get to wear red, so maybe he will even wear his uniform.  The coach's kid was sick so she didn't go, so since Tony is the assistant he coached the team.  He did a good job and enjoyed it.  This week went much better then last time and it seemed like all the kids played a little better.

After the soccer game we went to Kennecott to go to a lunch with Tony's dad.  He sub contracts out with Kenecott a lot so he gets to go to there big lunch things every now and then.  It was fun to see around a little bit and to have lunch.  Tyler got to color, dress up in the fire man's uniform, and ride a bus up and down the big hill.  We had a pretty good time.

After that we went to Tony's parents to watch BYU get swashed.  It was a pretty sad game that I don't wish to relive.  I sure don't hope that it how the season is going to go.  Everyone is allowed one bad game, so I just hope that they got it out of their systems.  I enjoy watching the games, but it is much more fun when they play well.

Define WALKING?

Josh is very close to walking.  He took his first step up at the cabin on Friday and then three steps on Saturday at Tony's parents house (during the BYU game - GO COUGS).  Since then he has been taken a couple steps at a time here or there, until last night when he took about 10 little steps from me to Tony.  THEN this morning he did about 6 steps...so is that walking?  I don't really think so.  I think walking is when one can walk from one end of the room to the other, but it is pretty darn close.  Tony said a little while ago that he thought Josh would be walking by his birthday and I said that I didn't think he would, so now it is like a little bet we have going.  But we didn't really define "walking" so I guess we will see who wins.  His birthday is on Tuesday...I think that I might lose!

Tyler's First Day of Preschool

Tyler had his first day of preschool today.  He goes to a friend of mines house and she has about 7 other kids and does a fun preschool there.  He was so excited to go.  We went and visited last week and that made him really excited.  This morning he woke up and wanted to change into his new school cloths first thing and get on his back pack.  He was really excited.  After breakfast and getting ready, we brushed our teeth and headed out the door. 
I talked to him last night and this morning about how Josh and I were just going to go and drop him off and then we would pick him up after school and that seemed to really help when it came time for me to leave him there.  He went right to the door and made him self at home.  His teacher, Teacher Kim as we say, took our picture and we said our goodbyes.  He had no problem with me leaving and did great.
Josh and I went to my moms to hang out and I was hoping for Josh to take a good nap.  Josh played for a while and then he acted tired so I put him down in the pack-n-play I had in the car.  He was not happy with that and cried really hard for about 10 minutes but then finally went to sleep.  While he slept I helped my mom peel tomatoes for a soup she was making.  Josh only slept about 45 minutes and then woke up crying (never a good thing).  So we played a little longer before it was time to pick up Tyler.
I went to the door and Tyler was all ready to go and happy to see me.  He showed me his fun picture he made and said he had a good time.  I was glad that he did well and that he had such a good time.  He really needs time with friends, and learning cool things is totally awesome too.  Since Kim has done this before she knows what to work on and it is nice to know that he is getting that extra knowledge outside the home.  I would like to think that I teach him tons of wonderful things, but I am sure that this is all icing on the cake.  My baby started school...and there is no going back...time goes by too fast my friend...too fast!

Week in Review

It has been a pretty good week.  Tony went back to work and me and the boys went back to our normal routine.  We got to go for stroller rides and play in every different room in the house and make messes every where (which I generally picked up right away -- but not all of them -- I am getter better at my OCD need to have things tidy).

I had my follow-up appointment with my doctor who operated on me.  He said that everything looks good.  I saw him at a different office then his main one, so he didn't have the pictures, but he said that he would mail me a copy -- that should be interesting.  I asked him if my cyst was the biggest he had removed, he said no but that it was the coolest.  *** I will take the coolest any day of the week ***  He told me that it was mostly filled with liquid but that it did have some hair and a lot of teeth!  Not little baby teeth, but adult sized teeth - CRAZY!  I should have gotten to take them and gotten some dough from the tooth fairy.  I always think of these things when it is too late.

We went up to the cabin on Friday and had a really good time.  I took my camera, but then didn't take any pictures.  Really smart of me.  We went for a couple four-wheeler rides (both boys feel asleep on the last ride) and the boys really enjoyed it.  We even saw a moose up close on the second ride.  We played games, ate lunch, and fed the fish in the pond.  My parents put like 200 new trout in the pond this year, so we are hoping they survive.  We did see tons of huge gold fish that they put in a couple of years ago, so that was neat.  We really enjoy the cabin and should go there more often.

Saturday was the first BYU football game.  It is so much fun to watch them play.  We don't have cable so we go over to Tony's parents and watch with them.  We met up with Tony's mom at Sears where she got Tyler a new school outfit.  Then we headed to is parents to eat dinner and watch the game.  Josh took three steps while we watched the BYU game.  He had taken one step the day before up at the cabin so it was way fun to see him take a couple more.  Tony thinks that he will be walking by his birthday, but I don't think it will happen that fast.  I guess we will see who is right on the 14th. We had to leave after the 3rd quarter (silly kids think they need to go home and go to bed).  But we were glad to hear that they pulled off the win.  GO COUGS!!!

Some more fun stuff

Tyler had his first soccer game yesterday.  I would like to say that he did such a good job and had such a good time, but I can't.  He refused to even get on the field and play.  That morning I got him all dressed and ready to go and then Tony came in and told me that they were gray shirts today.  Tyler wanted to wear the red side, not the gray side...thus started the problem.  I let him wear the red side until we got to the soccer field and then he threw a fit when we changed him back to gray.  He then refused to do anything.  I was not very happy.  Tony's mom even came to watch Tyler play and he sat on the side line like a baby.  I couldn't believe it.  Maybe he is still too young to play?  It didn't really help that they didn't have any practices before this and the kids had never really met, so it was pretty unorganized.  Maybe now that he has seen what it is suppose to be and what he suppose to do, he'll do better for the next game.  No game next week because of the holiday, but the next Saturday.  I hope he at least tries then.

It has still been pretty hot so I got out the swimming pools for the boys to play in.  Josh LOVED playing in his little pool with just a couple inches of water and Tyler liked having two pools to play in.  Tony set up the big umbrella so that Josh would be shaded.  Josh loves to put things in his mouth and just hold it there.  He'll put a toy hammer, ducks, blocks, he's not picky.  It is so funny to see him crawl around the house with toys sticking out of his mouth.  It was fun watching them play in the water.  They are such cute kids, I am so lucky.

I am feeling almost back to my old self again.  I am glad that this is almost all over and that we can all go back to normal now.  Tony will go back to work on Monday.  It was nice having him home for so long.  I think that he enjoyed being home.  I would like to say that it made him appreciate all that I do by staying home taking care of the house and the kids, but I don't think that it did.  Either he already appreciated me and what I do so he didn't need his mind changed, or he just really thinks it's not that big of deal.  Who knows?  He's not really the type to talk about that kind of stuff.  Either way, I am glad that he was able to stay home and help me while I was down.  Now back to the grind.

Feeling better

I am starting to feel a little bit better today and more my self.  I still get nauseated and light headed from time to time, but it is much better then feeling like that all day long.  I haven't had to take any pain pills in a couple of days, so I am really happy about that.  I always feel so weird when I take hard drugs.
Last week one of my incisions started opening up so I had to go to the doctors to have him look at it.  He taped it right back together for me.  I asked him a couple questions while I was there and it was good to know more of what happened while I was "out".  He said that the cyst was bigger then they thought, about the size of a large grapefruit (cool huh).  He also said that he thought that it might have been there for a year or two because of how big it was and that I have a 15% chance of getting it on the other ovary.  He said if I have any symptoms to have it looked at and when I told him that I didn't have symptoms with this cyst he said that he was amazed at how tough I am (we have always known that I am a tough cookie).  I asked him if their was any weird stuff in it and he said that he would tell me (if I still wanted) at my next appointment when I didn't feel so nauseated.  He said that he had pictures too.  We will see if I really want to see those pictures next Thursday at my appointment.  He said that all the nurses (4) voted not to tell me what was in it or that he had pictures because it was so gross.  That is intriguing.
So the hardest part is not being able to pick up the boys.  I am feeling better but I still can't do everything normal, so that is hard too.  Lucky for me Tony is here and has been able to take off of work so that he can help with everything.  My ward has also done some dinners and that has been way awesome to not have to worry about that.  We really are blessed with our ward, family, and friends.
Tyler met his soccer coach on Saturday.  He got his uniform and got his picture taken with his new team.  He will have his first game on Saturday at 11:00.  I can't wait to see how he does, especially since there are no practices this should really be interesting.  He is becoming such a big boy, I just can't believe it. 

Home Sweet Home

Well the good news is that I didn't have to get all the way cut open and I was able to come home last night.  It was a long day to say the least.  I had to be there at 11:45 am but my surgery wasn't scheduled until 1:00 pm.  Then they ended up being 2 hours behind schedule because one of the doctors pregnant patients went into labor (the hard part about having an OBGYN doing your surgery).  So I finally got into surgery at about 3:30 and woke up around 7:00.  It took him about 2 1/2 hours to get it all out.  He said that if he thought he could save the ovary then he would cut me open, but if the ovary was already gone he would just take it all.  Turns out that the cyst had "consumed" the ovary so he was able to just take it all by making three smaller cuts.  Well "small" is not really what I would call the 3 inch cut on my left side, but much better then the huge cut it could have been.  The other cut is only one inch on the right side and then he did something through my belly button too.

Can I tell you how much I HATE coming out of Anastasia?  I always feel like I just got hit by a bus.  It is hard to breath, you are in pain and just want to sleep and the nurse just wants you to wake up.  It sucks.  It took me a while to be well enough to be moved back to my room where Tony was.  Even there I was still feeling so sick.  I dreaded having to get ready to go home and wished that I was going to stay so that I didn't have to get up -- I just wanted to sleep.

About 8:00 pm I started getting ready to go and left the hospital at about 8:30.  I was the only one left on the whole floor from same day surgery (pretty sad).  Tony took me home and got me to bed.  As soon as I laid down I totally threw up all the water and ice chips I had from the hospital.  Lucky for us we took the little throw up bags home with us so no mess was made.  Tony still needed to go and get my pain medication so he called my mom to come and sit with me so he could leave.  My mom and Teagan came over and chatted with me while Tony was out.  It was nice to talk with them and she said that they would come over again today.

I would like to say that I got a really good night sleep, but I didn't at all.  I am a side sleeper but with these cuts I can't lay on my side I have to lay on my back.  So it was hard to be comfortable, plus I had to use the potty about 10 times and something seems to be wrong with my bladder because it doesn't come out like it should (probably too much information for a blog - oh well).  About 4:00 am I took some more medication and moved to the recliner in the front room.  I got a couple of good hours sleep, so that was good.  My back is pretty achy from laying on it for so long and my stomach hurts, but all in all I'm doing pretty good.  It could be a lot worse and I am glad that he didn't have to do the big cut that required the way long recovery.  I just hope that I can get some decent sleep sometime soon - I sure need it!

What a Blessing

Since I go in for surgery tomorrow at 11:45 am Tony and his dad gave me a really nice blessing tonight.  It made me so grateful for the priesthood and to Tony for being worthy to give me blessings when I need them.  He gave me one before my ultrasound and he didn't say that "all would be well" or that "everything would be fine", but that I would be able to handle this trial that I was going to have.  Not really something you hope to hear, but I was still grateful to get the blessing.

Tonight Tony (really the Holy Ghost) didn't tell me that it would be easy, or that the doctor would be able to do the less invasive surgery, but that I would heal quickly and well.  He also blessed the doctor and said some really beautiful things about how Heavenly Father thinks that I'm a good mom, and that he is proud of me...and that I would be able to bear more children (a concern I had) - it was beautiful.  He said some other really nice things that are sacred and dear to my heart.  I am so lucky to have such an amazing husband who is so in tune with the spirit.  Now I just need to work on being the woman that Heavenly Father and Tony know that I am.

Family Fun

Yesterday we did some yard work and Tony wanted to see how Josh would do on Tyler little tricycle.  He did pretty good holding on and enjoyed going around in circles.  He didn't last too long on that bike, so Tony got out the little car that we can still push but Josh could be buckled and it has a steering wheel.  He lasted a long time in that one and liked hanging out in it.

Tyler was of course on his bike.  He has loved having a new big boy bike and does really well riding it.  It is still a little too big for him so we won't be taking the training wheels off anytime soon, but he loves his bike -thanks to Grandma Margie and Papa Lloyd.

Well it's official -- we need a new back door.  We have been needing/wanting a new back door for a while, but it wasn't a priority so it didn't happen.  Now it has moved to the top of the list because the casing of the door has broken almost in half (no need to say how it happened - it was my fault).  The door it's self also has a crack and it is just time.  So while I am recovering Tony is going to replace the back door.  I really wish that we could get a screen door for the back as well, but since those are more expensive then the door, that will have to wait.  We (as in Tony) will also be putting in some more pavers in our back yard.  We have some under our swing, but we need more to go further out.  We (as in Tony again) started working on that project on Saturday.  It will be nice when it is all done.  Lucky Tony to get to deal with sick me and have a bunch of projects that I want him to do.  I am one lucky gal!