Freezing!

We had a good starter snow storm yesterday and temperatures down in the teens. I saw a few cars go skidding through the stop sign in front of the house last night. I had to put it in all wheel drive to go to the gym and to the grocery store. What really chaps me is that it is 73 degrees in Austin today. I really can't wait to move.

ER

I posted a couple of days ago about my time in the ER trying to figure out what the heck is wrong with me. I have a couple of pictures from that night to share with you. I was taking them with my camera phone and sending them to Christian to keep him updated on what was going on while he was at my house watching the kids.



This is after I got checked in and was waiting to go back to a room.



My IV. I am scared to death of needles but my friend, Levi, who works in the ER as a tech did such an awesome job. I really didn't even feel it. After I took it out later there wasn't even a bruise. Let me take a moment to tell you how great Levi is. Levi- this shout out is for you!

Prop 8, the musical

"Prop 8 - The Musical" starring Jack Black, John C. Reilly, and many more... by Jack Black

I know that the voting is long over, but I wonder what people who were for proposition 8 think about this? What would their lives be like if they really lived them "according to the teachings of the Bible"?

Pain!

So I have been having this pain in the left side of my abdomen for about 2 months now. Finally last week I got of work early (at midnight) and went down to the ER. I did my final semester of nursing school there so I know almost all the nurses and techs. I told them about my pain and the doctor wanted me to have a CT scan of my abdomen. I had to drink contrast, one cup every 10 minutes for a total of 6 cups. That stuff is nasty! I now feel bad that I have to make my patients drink that stuff. Anyway after the contrast had worked its way through my GI tract I went and got my scan. It showed... NOTHING! Okay my spleen is slightly enlarged but that is to be expected with the mono. All my lab tests came back normal too. We now know what it isn't. I told the doctor that my pain usually comes after I eat and he recommended that I go to a gastroenterologist. He wants me to get my stomach scoped because it could be an ulcer. Fun for me. I'm going to wait until the first of the year because I have a deductible on my insurance that starts fresh every year. I hope that it is nothing too serious. If I don't eat between now and next year I should be pain free. Ha ha.

Coming Home

Dawn and Sheldon will be coming home December 11, just in time for Christmas. Dawn is having some health issues that are better addressed here in the states. They left on an LDS mission in Argentina in March and were supposed to be gone for 23 months. I can't say that I am sad they aren't able to spend that entire time down there. We have missed them a lot.I just hope that Dawn can get everything back in working order.

Thanksgiving Adventure.

This Thanksgiving was different from any that Christian or I have ever experienced. I worked the night before so I got home around 7 Thanksgiving morning. When I woke up around 2:30 that afternoon, I asked Christian how thawed the turkey was or if he had checked on it all week. He gave me a rather confused look and said that the turkey was still in the freezer. I gave him a rather confused look and said that the turkey was never supposed to be in the freezer. Turns out when I bought the turkey on Sunday and asked him to put it in his fridge because there wasn't enough room in mine, he heard put the turkey in the freezer since there wasn't enough room in mine. So the turkey was frozen solid like a rock.

We decided to run over to Walmart to see if they had any spiral hams available. Nope! We went to both Springville and Orem and neither place had hams. I thought- let's run by Smith's to see if they are open really quickly. It was 6:06pm and they closed at 6pm! They were shoving the last of the customers out the door as we arrived. Arg! We just should have gone there first.

So we got home and were both so dissapointed at this time. We realized that neither of us have had a Thanksgiving where we weren't surrounded by family. The kids got home from their dad's at this time and I was feeling like crud. I started to get a sore throat on Wednesday night and it hasn't gotten any better yet. I have a really funny sounding voice at this point too. We decided to postpone Thanksgiving to today so we could thaw the turkey overnight and so the kids would be home. Now that I'm up, I'll be cooking the rest of the day.

The beard

Christian last shaved on June 12th. He has decided to grow out the beard until he is sick of it and that just hasn't happened yet. His beard is getting so long and so full that I can't even remember his face. His mustache is so long now that I have to part the hair or lift it to kiss him without getting a mouthful.



This is the side view. You can see how long it is. His neck is kinda hairy too.



His cute, smiling face. I think that Christian has one of the cutest faces in the world. I just wish that I could remember it!

His 30th birthday is coming up soon and his driver's license expires then. I told him he should shave it off for his new picture because he has the full beard on his student I.D. and looks quite a bit like Charles Manson- scary! Also I am hoping to have family pictures done this Christmas season if we can get Drew out here and I would love to have his face in those too. It is quite a fine beard. Many of our guy friends have told us they are jealous of Christian's beard growing abilities.