Recovering..

Most of you who read this probably already know that Tom was in a derby accident last week...I guess I don't know if you can call it an accident since he knew he was going in there to crash into people...
Anyways, we woke up this morning before the sun (which is very rare for us this time of year) I don't think either of us got much sleep last night...I have to admit - I was a wreck - not so much that I didn't trust the surgeon (who, I think it is important to mention, was no older then us) but more-so that I was worried with some of his medicine allergies that he was going to have problems with the anesthesia (not to mention I had a dream that he didn't wake up after surgery)
We got to the Mason City Surgery Center at 6:15 - were called back at 6:30 for prep (which took an hour and fifteen minutes). They came in at 7:44 to take him into surgery and I was sent back in the lobby waiting room.
19 long minutes later (okay so 19 minute surgery is not long, but it felt long to me) my Medipass started vibrating and beeping - I was taken into a little room where I waited for the doctor. He came in and said that the surgery went well and that it'd be approx. a half hour before he would wake up and I could go back and see him. The next words out of his mouth were "I did the best I could"...He said that the x-ray didn't give the break justice and that instead of two or three big pieces there were "a lot.....a lot of little pieces, too many to count" He said he did the best he could trying to reconstruct his nose putting the little pieces together as best he could. After that fun little meeting, I was sent back to the lobby waiting room.
About a half hour later, my Medipass started vibrating and beeping again and I was taken back to see him...He seemed okay - said that he wasn't in any pain. The longer we sat in recovery however, and the more the pain medicine wore off, the more pain he was in. We were home by 11:30 and he is sitting on the couch right now, trying to get some sleep as I tap at the keyboard.. He said the re-break and surgery is more painful right now then when he broke it in the derby..
That's all I have for you now - he's supposed to go back on Monday to "see if it took", Tom said "I don't care if it takes or not, I'll live with a crooked nose, I'm not doing this again."

Where's the goats?

People have been requesting goat pictures for a while - I don't have many on my computer, but these are a couple I did have. I will have to get out and take some pictures here soon.

No special reason for this one, I just thought he was cute.

This is the first set of quadruplets that we had that survived. They were born while Tom and I were in Vegas this winter, so in December - this picture was taken around April/May.

This is my favorite picture of the four Billies - they came all the way from Africa!!!

Finally!

I know I haven't posted forever, but I have been having problems with this stupid sight. It hasn't been letting me upload pictures. No, I don't have it figured out yet, it took me four hours to get these eight pictures up. These are the 2008 "glamour shots" of my older nieces.. Whenever I say, I wanna take your pictures, they huff and puff, but ever since I started calling them glamour shots - they think it's the coolest thing and actually ASK me to take their pictures!!

Bria


Brooke

Bailey

Isabel

A couple of cute little girls...

In front of a "cute little farmhouse".

Hey Becky, I forgot to get the picture order from you last night. If you know what you want, you can just leave a comment on here and I can get those ordered for you, thanks!

Molly & Elsa

Becky wanted me to take pictures of the girls together in their cute, fancy pajamas before they outgrew them. I watched them for a couple hours this past week, and tried to get a few of them together. Becky failed to tell me, thought, that M&M's don't work as a bribe for Molly to sit by her sister anymore. However, she still wanted them after our little photoshoot. I did happen to get her to sit with Elsa long enough to get a couple cute shots. Becky doesn't know this yet, but the bribe I used was that she could jump on the bed for a minute after we were done.

Even though I only got four or five pictures total, the ones I did get turned out very cute - but how couldn't they with such cute little girls??


Becky, does this look okay for your 10x10 or do you want me to do a different color for the background or different font for her name? Also, were these the right pictures, I tried to remember, but not sure if I got them right.

Mother's Day Photo Shoot

These first two pictures make me laugh, as you can see, they are obviously taken before I started my Indian dance.

And this picture was taken during my Indian dance - what a difference, huh?? I told my mom, I don't know what I am going to do when he doesn't think my Indian dance is so funny anymore. Look at poor Chelsea, she's thinking, you're telling me I am actually related to that one??
Bria, Isabel, Dylan, Brooke (holding Chelsea) & Bailey

Brooke, Dylan & Chelsea

I will do anything for my nieces and nephew...and the nerdy dance I do to get Dylan to smile like that is proof! That little boy has to be up and going all the time - he hates to sit for pictures! So, while watching Barny one day, he was mad cause his mom was taking too long to make his lunch, there was a guy doing an Indian dance...I started dancing and making funny noises and he went from crying to laughing in a snap! Who would have thought that would be the only way I could get him to smile (laugh) for pictures. I bet my parents neighbors were thinking "What is she doing!?"