Savanah 10 Years Old

So this is what ten years old looks like. I feel so old. Savanah turned ten this year on November 17. I am having a hard time with this birthday. I honestly feel like we just started this crazy roller coaster ride. I don't feel like I have been a Mom for ten years. She is so beautiful, strong, and smart. She is going to out do me and her Dad any day now. She has her Dads sense of humor and it cracks me up. She is the best big Sister to Jacob. Don't worry she has her moments of not so nice Sister as well, but how many ten year olds still let there little Brother sleep with them every night. We have hit this wonderful attitude thing girls like to do at this age. I cant wait until she is 16, right? LOL someone help us there. She is still in the 10% for weight just like she was when she was born. She still has a loud mouth just like when she used to cry for hours at night. She still eats like a bird. She still has the sweetest dimples that pop out in her chin when she smiles big. Just like when she was a baby. Her hair still holds the best curls.Savanah is so daring. I don't know where she gets this. Nothing scares her. She is thrilled to be trying snowboarding this season. She tried water skiing this Summer and loved it. I still remember her coming to me and TJ and said can we take my training wheels off my bike? I about died when she just drove off. Like it was nothing, she wobbled a little bit and then just did it. That is how she is with everything. She just does it. So proud of you sweet heart. You are growing up to be such a sweet girl, and such a beauty. Ten years of smiles, tears, and growing pains. I cant wait to see what the next ten bring us.

Irony

Why is it the day you decide, I am going to eat better, lighter, healthier, etc. A drug rep brings in pumpkin cheesecake, peanut M&M's, and another brings in chocolate chip cookies? Come on help the fat girl out. This is wear I falter and eat all three. ;) I just cant help myself. I am feeling heavy, and just sluggish. I need exercise, and I have found two nights that I can do this a week for sure. Maybe more but two for sure. So happy about this. I will be starting Thursday night, and as far as food goes somebody help me with breakfast. I am a coffee girl. I love to get a cup of coffee and that is all I get. It fills me up, it is warm, and gives me tons of energy. What else can I do to get this energy boost every day? I want to eat in the morning because I think it will be better for me, but I need the boost or I am dragging all day long. Oh and its coasting me $4.00 a day. That has to stop, and lets face it home made coffee is not the same for me. So any help on this would be great.

Halloween Fun

October was super busy. I never even posted again. We had a blast all month. We did our traditional Halloween dinner. Pumpkin carving. Parties for the kids etc. School parade. and so much more. This year we hosted the Halloween bash for adults at our house. Lots of people, lots of awesome costumes, and lets just say there are parts of the night I can not remember. TJ and Brady hit the U of U game on Halloween. TJ dressed up in his red and black to support the U. Here are some pictures of our month.

HALLOWEEN

YEA, OCTOBER! I don't think anyone really understands my love for this month. It is the best. I love it, and everything about it. I cant wait to do all the fun things we do all month long as a family. Pumpkin patch, Frightmares, Halloween parties, Halloween parade at school, trunker treating, painting pumpkins party, pumpkin carving with TJ and the kids, decorateing, cooking yummy fall treats, my famous chocolate chip orange slice cookies, costume shopping, chilli, just to name a few. This year I get to go to Cornbellys corn stalk maze, witch's night out, and as a family we might try a haunted house with the kids. OH and lets not forget my little baby boxes of milk dude's, and sugar babies. When these hit the store I freekin go nuts. I love them and they are so cute in there little boxes. YEA I love this month. We try and do something Halloweenish every week with the kids this weekend is the pumpkin patch, and costume shopping. This years costumes are a mystery as for me and TJ. Jacob is being Voldermort, and yes he is getting his head shaved. You do the costume right, or don't do it at all at our house. Savanah is being a slice of watermelon. Totally adorable. YEEEAAAAAAAAA Hear is a picture of last years costumes.

Surgery

I had surgery on Monday Sep 21. So far so good. The first couple of days sucked. I am loving all the ice cream, Slurpee's, and CAFE RIO SOUP. Hello where have I been it is the best. Its only five bucks and feeds me for two meals. Love it to death, I have had it three times this week yummy. Anyways they took out my right side of my thyroid and removed the lump on it. It had grown from 2.5 cm to 4 cm so it is really good we took it out when we did. It was bignin, no cancer. Yea, and since they only had to take the right side of my thyroid I should have no thyroid issues. I say should because there is a chance I will still need the pills to regulate my thyroid function. I will be tested for this in three weeks. The lump in my left side of my thyroid had not changed at all in size so they left it alone. My throat was in so much pain the first two days, but so much better now. I cant believe how many muscles are in your neck/throat area and how much you use them for the dumbest things. Sneezing still kills me, and yawning, laughing is a big no no. My friends have been so wonderful during all this. They have all come to see me, brought dinner in for my family, had flowers sent to me. Angelique has been here all week bringing me lunch, and keeping me company. Thank you so much. Thank you to all that did dinner for us it helped TJ out so much. It is a big job being the only parent to drive these two to all there apts, school, dance, football, practices, etc. Having dinner done for you is huge. Thank you, thank you.

My Neck

So it turns out that I should of had my nogel, (AKA my little fatty) in my neck removed five months ago. Frustration is all I can say about this adventure I am on with Dr's, and the medical profession. I should be in bed right now. I am so tried but wide awake these days. I am having troubles sleeping sound which is odd for me. I can not get all these thoughts out of my head. Its driving me nuts.
I was told to wait the six months and see how my neck was. I wanted it out just because it was in me and growing. However then I start thinking about it and thought what if it messes up my thyroid, what if I have an ugly scar for the Summer. I know vain. But the Dr wanted me to wait so I thought I will give it six months and if its any bigger, even a smidge I will have it out in October. Well I have been waking up chocking at night, and I have this feeling of chewed up gum in my neck all the time. I also have a new voice, it sounds like I just woke up all day long. It was bothering me so I went in to a new Dr at five months instead of six. Love the new Dr first of all. his office runs very well. They acutely call you back when they say they will, its amazing. He took one look at it and said it was definitely bigger he could see it from across the room. He felt it and said it much bigger then the 2.5cm that it was back in March. He likes to take them out at 1.5cm. He said my ultrasound was nasty. He mead me laugh, and mead me feel like I was asking good questions. Not stupid ones. He said I will have to loose the right side to my thyroid for sure, and maybe the left. There is still that little 1cm one in my left side. If it has grown any he wants the whole thing gone.If there are any cancer cells in the right side they will definitely remove the whole thing. which means I will have to be on thyroid meds for the rest of my life. He scheduled for Sep 21 this coming Monday. He sometimes does it in his office but said he wanted to be in a hospital so we can have pathology right there in the room and remove all of it if there is any cancer. Which by the way even though I had a biopsy and it was bignin in March because it has grown there could still be cancer cells growing. The old Dr made me feel like I was dumb for asking that. He also said that even though my thyroid function was tested and showed nothing wrong that the pressure of the nogle, (AKA my little fatty) could be effecting my thyroid function. Which would explain my feeling sick all the time, the sleepiness's, the slow weight loss, my nausea, and other none mentionable things. Ha Dr stupid pants at the Uof U. Anyways needed to vent. So wish me luck I am off for more fun, and lots of good sleep.

Catch Up

So I am a little behind. So much going on. Abbey is getting bigger by the day. Jacob has new glasses. The kids started school again. Savanah tried out for the Nutcracker. Lynette was a bad Mom and forgot about her Molly Mouse auditions. TJ started school again, and is on his way to Europe. Lynette has another issue with her neck fatty. Its bigger, and should of come out five months ago. So now I am going in for surgery on the 21. My Mom's back is doing so much better. I have dark brown hair now. We went on a bunch of small trips. Savanah learned how to water ski this Summer, etc etc. I am going to post some pictures and do more detail when the husband doesn't need the laptop.

Mom

This last week has been so hard. My Mom had surgery on her back last Tuesday. They had to fix a slipped disk in her spine, and all the damage that her Scoliosis has done. Because of her arthritis it was pretty bad. They had to cut into her back, harvest some bone from her spine and fuse it together. She now has a metal cage, and six screws in her tailbone. She is in so much pain, and it is so hard to see your Mom this way. She has to have one of us help her do everything. She is walking and can do ten stairs, but she can not bend over for anything, or twist, or even get out of bed the same way. I don't mind helping at all, but this surgery has been the worst one yet. Her back has had allot of drainage from the incision and her bandages were soaking right though her clothes and the bedding, basically anything she laid on. She had a horrible stay in the hospital. The nurses were awful to her. It is so hard seeing your parents age. When she came out of surgery she was so pale and swollen in the face from all the fluids they had to give her. We didn't even think it was her she looked so bad. It is just so hard to watch someone you love in so much pain. Hopefully by week two we will have better progress with her pain and she will start feeling like herself again.

Abbey

Look who's home! We picked up our sweet baby girl last Friday. After a long two weeks of waiting we drove down to Mona Utah to take her to her new family. She is so good, we have had hardly any accidents in the house. She wont go in her kennel, and she only cry's a little bit when she goes in for bed time. We finally decided on Abbey for her name. After the Abbey road. Beagles are from England so we wanted to come up with something a bit British. Since most the city names were like Liverpool, Bristol, Leeds, I didn't think it fit. Not very femine. So since I love the Beatles and all I thought of the Abbey road. It was also there very last record made together. After a family vote we went with Abbey. TJ also liked Agassi but I didn't think it was very girly. She is so cute, and little, very petite. She definitely needed something sweet for her name. She makes our house a home again. Welcome home Abbey.

New baby girl

We are adding another member to our family. We could not be more excited. We have had a really hard time without Joey in our house. Our home does not feel right without our sweet dog Joey. He passed away last Sep 17, and it has been a really tough time for us. So me and TJ thought the summer would be a perfect time for a new puppy. Much easier training then in the Winter, and the kids are home more then in the school year. They will be a big part of this dogs training, and upbringing. They are both old enough this time to take on more responsibility's. We drove down to Mona Utah this last Monday to check out this cute little family of puppies. There were eight adorable puppies so hard to choose just one. This little girl I think choose us. I kept looking at all of them but she kept coming back to my lap. Savanah had picked two, her and another. TJ had picked two, her and another. So I finally said I think she is the winner. Names are proving to be a whole other subject. We can not all decide on one we all like. I want Lola, the kids think it is cute TJ has vetoed Lola. Savanah came up with Zoe, but I think its too much like Joey. So I will have to let you know how that turns out next week.We have one more week until she can come home with us. She is so cute. I can not wait.