Boxing Day

Today we put the a coat of primer in our bedroom ... bye bye funny green colour!

We also made the turkey today.
My sister and her boyfriend, Jamie, graced us with their presence for dinner tonight. It was good to see them again.
Also, of course, Ron was here for dinner.
A few glasses of wine make any occasion better. Perhaps it should be a daily thing and things won't seem so difficult and sad all the time.

Here are a few pics for you to enjoy.

Christmas

We had our Christmas yesterday with our friends Ron & Ed who are like our family out here. We started the day by attending a Christmas eve service at our church. The service was really great as it always is. The Pastor there is really wonderful!
After that we went our separate ways to finish a few errands. Once we were back at the house we just kinda hung out for a bit and played with the dogs and chatted and stuff and then we set up the camera and took some 'family photos' and then we exchanged gifts and made dinner. We had a ham dinner. Just before dinner time Cliff and Lori stopped by and so they had dinner with us too and hung out for a few hours after. It was nice to have them over.
After they left we watched a movie and then it was time for the boys to head home.
Today we didn't do anything. Just hung out.
Got a phone call from my friend, Susan. She is such a sweetheart.
We also talked to Ron for a bit today and then Mark called down home and chatted with our nephews James & Jacob, his cousin Todd, Mom and Dad and his two brothers Jerry & Jimmy as well as our sis-in-law Lillian.
Later on in the evening my Mom and Ant called and we had a pretty good chat. The Ant was into the wine and she sounded like she was having a pretty good time. :-)
So, now I'll just post a few pictures for you cuz I don't really have anything else to say except....Merry Christmas everyone!

We got our friend Ed a kitten for Christmas since he had to put his cat down a few months ago.
We got the kitten from our friends Rose, Vince & Kim. What an adorable kitten.
We had the kitten here for a night but it was crying loudly because we had to keep it in a box so that Rocco wouldn't bother it so we had to give it to Ed a few days early. He didn't mind tho!
The little one is 9 weeks old and is such a cuddly sweet guy!

Hi

The surgery went okay. I was in the hospital from 6:00 a.m. until 8p.m. that night. Only three marks on my stomach and one bigger cut in my belly button where they insterted the camera and pulled the gallbladder out. ICK. LOL

For the first 2.5 days I was on Percocet every 5 hrs which was pretty nice...wasn't feeling too much pain and it made me sleepy which was good.

Today has been better... I am able to get in and out of bed almost on my own and I even took a shower today all by myself! Progress is being made!

Over the weekend our friend Ron came by and we watched a movie "The Devil Wears Prada". It was okay. Anyway, he spent the night and the next day we played this game called "Skip-Bo". It was fun. I used to play that game when I was younger...always when we were on our camping trips. Every night of the trip we spent playing cards. Those were nice times because my Dad wasn't as busy with his work and actually got to spend some real time with us.

My other Dad and Mom called today to see how I was doing. I love to hear from them. Dad always has a few new jokes to tell.

My real Dad is having some computer problems and so he actually had time to spend with us and we played "Skip-Bo" - a short game but fun. Dad hardly ever spends time with us like that so it was nice.

Well that's about it for now. I am going back to bed. Thanks to everyone who sent e-mails, called and who left comments on the blog to send their love and prayers etc.

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!