Babies Galore!

It is that time in my life when all of my friends are starting to have kids. My best friend from elementary school, Heather, recently had her second baby - a little boy. One of my other best friends, Meili, is going to be having a little girl. Most of my best group of friends were able to get together for Meili's baby shower. It was good to catch up with everyone and celebrate such an important time in our friend's life!

Sheena, me, Meili, Heather, and Sharla. We are missing Lora!

New Years

This year we were able to spend New Years Eve with our friends. We met CJ and Lacie out to Brooke and Curt's house, had dinner and sat around to visit. It was a pretty mild night, but still great to get together with good friends.

The next day, we got to go with CJ and Lacie up Cedar Mountain to play in the snow. We went tubing, riding on snow mobiles, and built a fire. Lacie did try to kill me by throwing me off the snowmobile.

Christmas 2015

Christmas is always a fun time of year for us. We have our traditions of gingerbread houses, bowling, and the Christmas eve party. We even managed to go see the Christmas lights at Temple Square.

This year was extra special too, because Brett's brother, Casey, and his wife, Tayler, had their new baby! Little miss Hayden is so beautiful. And Brett voluntarily asked to hold her! I didn't get to hold her, because I got a cold from the mandatory flu shot :(

Surgery

My dad and I finally scheduled to have our back surgeries done. We both had them done on the same day by the same doctor. And my sneaky dad who told me to wait to have surgery snuck in and had his done right before mine! The surgeries went well and my sweet husband slept on the horrible pull out coach all night and even pulled it closer to my hospital bed. He had to leave a few days after my surgery, but he took such good care of me while he was here.

Since Brett had to leave after I had the surgery, it was not practical to go back home to Manti to try and take care of myself. I ended up staying at my parents house during my whole recovery. It was really nice, because my dad could keep me company and I could keep my eye on him. He doesn't like to follow doctor's orders. We went on daily walks and it reminded me of how blessed I was to grow up on this beautiful property.

Evening in the clinic

So anyone that know me very well knows I have issues with injuring my feet...or to be more specific, my right foot. I have been doing good with not hurting them, but it was too good to last. I was walking through our bedroom and felt a sharp pain in my right foot. I had Brett look at it and it was bleeding, but we got it to stop and he couldn't see anything in there. I wanted to know what I stepped on and so I started looking through the carpet and found a piece of metal. We could not figure out what it was though. It just looked like a little metal rod. It hurt, but he said that it was probably just hurting from the pubcture and that there wasn't anything stuck in my foot.

The next day it was still bothering me, but only when I walked, so I decided to go to the clinic in Ephraim. The doctor said the same thing as Brett, but said we could take an x-ray just to be sure. And I'm sure glad he did, because sure enough there was something broke off. And not just in my foot, but down to the bone!

The doctor spent about 10 minutes trying to dig in my foot and couldn't find it, so he decided to stick needles in my foot and take another x-ray to try and find the angle it went in at. He dug around for another 15 minutes or so and decided he couldn't find it without a special x-ray that they only have at the hospital. At this point, Brett showed up and had to drive me to the hospital in Mount Pleasant to use the floroscopy x-ray. What it is, is a vido x-ray so he could see exactly what he was doing. With that machine they were able to get it out in 2 minutes. Technology is amazing isn't it?

Turns out that it was the eye of a sewing needle. I'm glad I went with my gut and went to the doctor. And Brett did buy me some cookie dough to make up for not believing me :)

Basin Drive-In

I had never been to a drive-in before, so we decided we would change that this weekend. We loaded up the love-sac, a couple pillows, and a blanket and headed to the Basin Drive-In theater. We saw San Andreas...which was okay, but the whole drive-in movie experience was phenomenal! I could do it every single weekend.

25....quarter of a century.....getting old.....

So I had to work today, but that did not take away from my birthday at all. In fact...they made it so much more special. My team decorated my desk, bought me baloons, and got me a crown to wear for the day. And it wasn't just a regular work day. We had management from the corporate office down to announce a new employee recognition program, that I helped kind of put together. So when we got the whole office together, they all sang to me...the....whole....office. Around 150 people all singing to me including the big managers from corporate. Needless to say my face turned so red it literally hurt.

After that we headed off to Cedar. We didn't get to Keith and Donna's until a little later, but Brett's neice, Addie, was there and she insisted that I have a cake and get sung to...again. she even got me a present. It was the sweetest thing ever!

The next morning we met our friends and headed to Crystal to spend the night. It is one of my favorite places, so it was a great way to spend my birthday. We got up to the cabin and decided that we would go up to the lake, because CJ and Lacie wouldn't be spending the night. And when we went up there I caught a wild baby duck! And then it pooped on me ha ha.

And we decided to shoot our pistols a little bit. I decided to try and shoot a goldfish in the pond....and I actually hit it!

The next day we kind of just drove around and did a little exploring in the side by sides with Brooke and Curt. I am so glad that I met these guys. They are such great people and even better friends!