Surgery in the morning

Wednesday morning at 7:40 a.m. I will be in the operating room. Wish me luck!

Trip to Bragg Creek

Today we took a trip with our good friend, Ron, to Bragg Creek. It was actually a really nice, sunny day and we had a really good time. As usual we took LOTS of pictures. I love to take pictures as does Ron. And we had three perfect subjects...Rocco, Lucky and Ron's puppy Sakima.

A busy Saturday

We decided to re-paint our bedroom. It is a green color but a weird shade of green and we figure that when we decide to sell the place it would be best to have a more neutral colour.
We both really like the way the "yellow room" turned out so we decided on yellow but a shade or two lighter and we're painting all the trim and doors white. It will be a relaxing room we hope after this is done.

Today we accomplished removing the dressers etc. from our bedroom, taking the trim off the walls and all the nails out of it which was no easy task...and washing the walls.

I am going to try and prime the room on Monday and put the first coat of yellow on on Tuesday and then of course I have the surgery on Wednesday so who knows when I'll be able to work on it again.

I took a pic of the room but the camera is upstairs and I don't really want to go and get it and upload the pic right now so I'll have to post it at a later date.

Also today we made some Dad's cookies and some peanut butter cookies.

Busy day but it always feels good to know that you accomplished something!

Anyway, it's 11 pm here and that means an hour past our bedtime so goodnight all.

Our Trip in Pictures

Mark and cousin Lenore
Cousin Lenis and I
Lenis & Lenore
The last night...goodbye pic
Another goodbye pic
My sweet cousin, Darlene.
Ant opening up her gifts.
Awww cute pic of my Unc!
Mom and Joe admiring their gift
My handsome cousin Corey with us.

Our Trip in Pictures

Mom n' Joe
My gorgeous Mom
Mark singing in the car
Mom's main squeeze - "Yo-yo"
Mom n' Ant - very nice pic guys
My Adorable Ant
My extremely handsome husband showing off his new leather jacket.
Us.

My Unc in the pink hat...hehe
Next to him is cousin Barry and then us and his another cousin, Dave in the corner

Well just to let everyone know - we are currently in Beautiful BRITISH COLUMBIA! I am so very glad to be here. We are here visiting my Mom n' Joe, my Ant & Unc.

We were picked up by my Mom's friend Linda and we went for breakfast and then we headed over to Naomi's place...a girl that I have known since I was like 3 or 4 years old. We hung out with her and her 4 kids and her bf for awhile. It was good to see her again - it's been a loong time and her kids are adorable. Her one daughter who is 6 years old did my make up and my hair ... turned out pretty good too...pink and blue eyeshadow. She even did Mark's makeup and he looked HOT!!! hehe.

We may try to get together again before we go but we'll have to see how things go here. We went from Naomi's place to my Mom n' Joe's place. I hadn't seen her apartment before and it's pretty nice and she was so proud to show us around and all that...my Mom is so cute!

Last night we went for dinner and did some grocery shopping and then their friend came over for a visit and then.....we spent a few hours in the emergency room because I had the worst gallbladder attack ever! They gave me some meds intraveniously (sp??) which didn't work and then I got morphine thru the IV and that worked wonderfully! I was instantly relaxed and felt no more pain. I was so out of it I apparently wasn't making a lot of sense when I spoke. Oh well - everyone seemed to get a kick out of it. I slept so well last night too. It was great. Can I have some more morphine please....haha.

Anyway, so I am now on an even stricter diet - like I wasn't already! But I had some hallibut that was cooked the right way and some salad and that set it off I guess so now I am just staying away from everything but water, tea, some fruits and vegies and maybe a piece of bread. Only two more weeks of this and then I will hopefully be okay again.

We were supposed to come back to Calgary on Sunday but have decided to extend our stay by a day...we're going to take the latest flight possible on Monday night instead. Now that we are here there is just too much to do and not enough time.

Anyway, I should gt back upstairs with the family so byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee for now!

Rocco

I couldn't think of anything to write about here since not much has been going on ... then I went upstairs and there was Rocco sitting on the chair:

I thought he looked cute...I went back downstairs to the computer room and when I came back again he was still sitting on the chair staring intently at the toy that his daddy has placed on the railing out of reach...

So I decided I would be nice and give him his toy back. He was one happy pup. Just see for yourself....

GALLSTONES

Hi everyone.

It's been awhile since I added a REAL post to my site. I apologize for that but I just haven't been in the writing mood and plus not much has really gone on in the last few weeks other than what I'm about to tell you:

Ever since Caleb was born I've had a pretty difficult time physically. I had lower back problems for the first few weeks and my stomach was bothering me a lot and I was having all the upper back pain between my shoulder blades and mostly on the right side. The doctors didn't know what it was other than to say I must have pulled some muscles and I'd had x-rays and heart tracings and lots of bloodwork taken...well...Almost two weeks ago now I went in for a routine ultrasound of my abdomen and what do you know - it revealed GALLSTONES. My gallbladder is full of little stones and it was quite obvious that the pain I've been in has been because of the stones...

I was having gallbladder "attacks" nearly everyday or should I say every night and they were of course quite painful. I'd be up most of the night alternating between pacing round the house and sitting down. Every position was painful - sitting, laying down and walking. Anyway, because it was so bad the doctor referred me to a surgeon right away and I saw him last Wednesday.

Basically the only option is to have my gallbladder removed so on December 13th I am scheduled for surgery to do just that. I am NOT looking forward to this but from all I've read and what I heard the doctors say it's a fairly routine surgery and I should be in and out the same day.

Until then I am on a VERY strict diet of mainly fruit/vegies/cereal/rice and some soups. I actually don't mind this so much because I have to lose 20 pounds to get back to where I was before I got pregnant. I guess everyone was wrong and the weight wasn't all baby afterall. So I'm on a 'diet' and also now that we know it isn't pulled muscles that were causing the pain I can get back on that elliptical machine again! YAY!

Well, that's all for now. I hope everyone is well????????????????????????

Dinner party for Marky-poo

Today we had our friends Ron & Ed over to help celebrate Mark's birthday.
I made lasanga and I even made the cake.
Here are a few pictures...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MARK!

Today is Mark's 29th birthday.

Happy birthday sweetheart.

I love you so much!!!