April Fools!

I am in shock! My husband tried to play an April fools joke on me. Thankfully he was unsuccessful. I was getting ready for bed and of course, due to my aging bladder, I was going to use the toilet before getting into bed. As I walked toward the toilet, I thought I saw something on the side of the bowel. It was plastic wrap!!! Brooks had put it over the bowel and even taped the plastic to it! I could hardly believe my eyes. This was something I would try. I'm really glad I noticed the wrap before it was too late. In our 30 years of marriage, he has never tried anything even close to this. What a surprise!

It's Really Official!

Yes that's right! Kelsey and Brady are having a boy! I really thought that they were having a girl. In fact, it has taken me a few days to get used to the idea. I honestly don't care what they have as long as it is a healthy baby. (brown eyes would be nice for a change) We are really excited to get another grandchild. The first few have come rather slowly so it will be fun to have another baby around.

Still getting older!!

I am sooooo tired.

Harlem Globetrotters and other Stuff

It's time to catch up again. I just had to put this first picture up. At work we have a dry erase board that we use for several things. ( I won't go into detail) A short time ago Kara and Jax and Bryn came to visit me at work. The kids like to come and get some juice and a cookie and if Suzette is working also they like to go and visit her. While they were visiting me, Jax decided to draw a picture of Brady on our board. If you look closely, he even has a belly button. My coworkers have really enjoyed it and so we have left it there. We're talking about getting Jax to draw us one for St Patricks day in March. Since it was a picture of Brady, I decided to snap a picture of it with my phone and send it to him. I didn't realize Brady had red hair and such big ears. These next pictures are of our family jaunt to the ESA to watch the Harlem Globetrotters last Monday night. We started with dinner at Rodizzio's and then went on to the game. I think everyone had a good time. I snuck a few peeks at the adults and they were always smiling and laughing. It was also very entertaining to the kids. Jaxon asked if it was a real game or just a for fun game. Brynly enjoyed the music to dance to and Molly was perfect even though she looked like she was about to fall asleep when the game was over.

This last week Brooks and I have been fortunate to spend a lot of quality time at the hospital together. Apparently I don't get enough time there while working. So to explain....Last week Brooks was having some pretty severe heartburn at bedtime on Thursday night. He had taken tums, prilosec and tagamet and still wasn't getting any relief and as a result, he decided that he would sit in the recliner for a while. I decided that I would go to bed since I needed to get up early to go to work the next morning. I could hear him most of the night walking around the house trying to get some sort of relief. At 3 AM he woke me up and said that he couldn't deal with the pain any longer and thought that he would just drive himself to the emergency room. I said no way and got up, combed my hair, put on some clothes and then we left. Once we reached the ER I knew that as soon as I said that my 52 year old husband was having chest pain, they would jump on it. So, to make a long story short, after two EKG's, numerous blood tests, IV morphine and a nitro drip, the ER doc decided to do an ultrasound and call our primary care MD. The ER doc, after the ultrasound of the gallbladder, was leaning more towards a gallbladder attack. No surprise to me but no one had asked me except Brooks. Please understand, Brooks and I never really thought that he was having any cardiac problems but we knew that he would have to go through the protocols anyway. Once our primary care arrived and did his thing, it was decided that Brooks would be admitted to ICU for the day and night to follow up with some additional tests and then be discharged the next morning. A general surgeon was called to consult as well. During all of this excitement, I arranged to be off work for the day and then off to the ICU we went. Poor Brooks went through the gamut that day. Along with the stuff in the ER, he also got to experience a HIDA scan, an endoscopy and another ultrasound of his gallbladder! Now Brooks is really a lightweight when it comes to narcotics and so he can't remember much of this day. By Friday night, the surgeon was in to visit and stated that he would remove the gallbladder the next Thursday. Before our primary care would clear Brooks for the surgery, and because he has an extensive family history of cardiac problems, Brooks had to go to Salt Lake for an exercise stress test. This we did the following Monday since we were going to be there for the Globetrotters that night. Brooks passed with flying colors and then had the gallbladder surgery on Thursday. He is doing great and looking forward to getting things back to normal!

Weekend with Molly

This past weekend we got to tend Molly. Kade and Jessica drove to Vegas to the Garth Brooks concert. I hope they had a good time but I'm sure we had the better. This gave us both a chance to really get to know Molly. What a delightful child! I thought for sure we'd have her crawling before they got home but she is still doing the army crawl. Our nights were a little sleepless but we didn't mind when you wake up to such a cutie and she always went back down easily. Brooks even cut out of church early last Sunday and I think he was pretty darn happy about it. I did find out a few things about myself during this time. I'm not as young as I thought I was, and I'm not in as good of shape as I thought I was. I discovered that as Monday rolled around my legs were a little stiff and I wanted to take a nap really badly the whole day at work, but by the end of the day, we were missing her and ready to see her again.

Our phone is her new favorite toy.

Watching football with grandpa. She seriously watches.

The rest of Christmas!!!

I have been waiting to do this post because I wanted to get copies of the pictures that Kara took at the Hutchison party. I'm still waiting but it's not all her fault. I need to remind her more often. I did still one picture off of her blog of my mom and dad with everyone of their great grandchildren.

We had some fun parties with some really great food. Here are a few pics of them.

These first few are at the Tarbet family party. I gave these shirts to Phil, Kade and Brady for Christmas and they all wore them for the party. I thought it was pretty funny since they didn't plan it.

This is most of the cousins and Grandma and Grandpa in these pictures.

Jaxon and Brynly were Mary and Joseph while Kara read the Christmas Story. Bryn wouldn't hold baby Jesus so Jax did. We also managed to get Brooks and Brady in this one.

These next pictures are at my house on Christmas day. Brynly is showing her cheer moves in her new Bronco outfit.

We've finished breakfast and the turkey is cooking so Kara and I were off to Maverick to buy batteries.

This was breakfast. Jessica's mom and Garth and her brother Billy stayed at Kade and Jessica's house on Christmas eve, so they joined us for breakfast. We had a great time. As you can see in the background, Brooks is doing most of the cooking. This is one of our Christmas morning traditions.

Kelsey and Brady at breakfast. Kelsey took most of the pictures so this is about the only one I have of her.

I think that this picture is priceless! Great grandpa and Great grandma with all of the great grandchildren! How many times are we going to accomplish this?

Another Christmas gone by. It really does come and go fast. I really love Christmas. I think it's my favorite holiday but this year it really came quick and I was a little unprepared. I didn't get a lot of my decorations up and it took me almost until Christmas eve to finish my shopping. I got sick this year also so that made it a little harder to get things done. I hardly ever get sick so that made it worse. I loved all of our gifts as well as sewing dolls at the Hutchison party. The very best part of all was the family time. I appreciate my kids and their spouses for their support at all of the extra stuff. They are great and it wouldn't be the same without them. It is always really neat to get with our parents and siblings and their children as well. You just can't have too much family time!

Santa came!

I have proof!!! Santa came to my house! I was just going to bed, when I heard a sound in my family room. I quietly crept down my stairs and snapped a picture. Can you believe it? After all these years, I finally caught him! I hope everyone has a great Christmas.