Poor Brian

Well we have had an exciting last few months. I guess Brian thought my surgery looked like so much fun so he decided to have one of his own. Since we have been married I have slept with ear plugs. There are a lot of reasons for that but one of the major reasons was my husbands snoring! Well, good bye snoring! Brian had a septoplasty which surgically repaired his deviated septum YAY!!!!

They were so kind to allow me to go and see Brian after they got him all hooked up to IV's and stuff. As I was approaching his bed, the nurse cam up to me and said "Your husband did so well with the needle." Oh boy, I knew what that meant! For those of you who dont know Brian is not so good with needles and blood, (I guess opposites do attract!) as I rounded the curtain this is what I saw. So sad!


Brian said that the IV was making him freeze, so the nurses loaded him up with some heated blankets. He is so spoiled!


Right before being wheeled away, cap and all! Smiling on the outside and stressing on the inside, what a trooper!


Here is Brian after surgery, so miserable!


Brian is doing well now, once the swelling goes down some more we will get some "after" pictures up.

Fun Video!

Ok, you have to watch the ENTIRE video, even if you have seen the commercial before!

Cookie Recipe

Ok, so I decided I am too lazy to send the recipe to the individuals who requested it, so everyone gets it! Here is the recipe for the cookies shown below. They are delicious! Enjoy!



Cookies:
1 pouch (1 lb 1.5 oz) Betty Crocker® sugar cookie mix
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 cup butter or margarine, softened
1 egg, slightly beaten
1 tablespoon ground cinnamon


Glaze:
1 cup powdered sugar
2 tablespoons milk
1/4 teaspoon vanilla


Baking instructions:
1. Heat oven to 375°F. In large bowl, mix cookie mix and 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon. Stir in butter and egg until soft dough forms.
2. On piece of waxed paper, shape 1 tablespoon cinnamon into a line about 5 inches long. Using floured fingers, shape 1 tablespoon of dough into a rope 5 inches long. Press one side of dough rope into cinnamon.
3. On ungreased cookie sheet, coil dough rope tightly, cinnamon side facing center, into cinnamon-roll shape. Press end of rope into roll to seal. Repeat with remaining dough. Place cookies 2 inches apart on cookie sheets.
4. Bake 7 to 10 minutes or until edges are light golden brown. Cool 1 minute; remove from cookie sheets to cooling rack. Cool completely, about 15 minutes.
5. In small bowl, mix glaze ingredients until smooth. Drizzle over cookies.

High Altitude (3500-6500 ft): Decrease butter to 1/3 cup.

Yummy Cookies!

So I was invited to a cookie exchange party this year. It was so much fun! Here are the cookies I made. They are called Cinna-Swirls. They were so yummy! They look like cinnamon rolls and taste like snicker doodles. If you would like the recipe I would be more than happy to share it with you.


Here is me baking. It is a rare sight in my house. I know the picture is sideways, I am unable to get to the other computer to rotate it. Oh well, you get the idea!

Our Holidays!

I know it has been awhile since I have posted anything but we had a very busy holiday season and things are slowly getting back to normal.

We were able to go to California for Thanksgiving. I don't have any pictures of our yummy food but we did see a movie with some of Brian's family. Here we are after seeing the movie.


This was our first Christmas as a married couple and we had so much fun decorating for the holidays. Here is Brian hanging Christmas lights.


Brian really wanted a fake tree but I told him that was against my religion. So being the good husband he is he let me get a real one. It is just not Christmas without the smell of a fresh tree in your home.


Here is a shot of my decorating the tree. I love it!!!!


We were sad this year when we found out that Brian had to work the day before and the day after Christmas. But we had so much with just the two of us, creating out own traditions as a family. This is what we looked like Christmas morning opening our presents. We were both spoiled by Santa this year!




Brian made a lovely Christmas dinner. We even had honeybaked ham! Notice I am still in my pajamas?! I decided that was a good tradition. Hey, we had nowhere to go! Best day ever!


We were actually able to go to California for the weekend after Christmas. Here we are with Jessica and her kids outside of Wahoo's. We also met up with my Dad there who is not in the picture since he was the photographer. We just can not go home without eating there. Hopefully one day they will have one in Arizona. Or maybe we should just move back!

A Funny thing happened...

So last Saturday Brian and I decided to go to the Arizona State Fair for a romantic night out and enjoy the demolition derby for our 6 month anniversary. A guy that Brian works with was also one of the drivers so that was fun to watch.





The only ride that we went on was the ferris wheel but it was fun!



Then we just decided to walk around and people watch when we came upon this booth. Really?! Seriously, who would go to the fair to get diagnosed with ADHD and trust it? Its not like they are going to give a prescription for Ritalin on the spot. Really whats the point? Anyway, it was shortly after this point in the evening when I started to get really sharp pains. I little bit thought I was having a heart attack, but obviously that would not be the case. Well, these pains continued through the night. Sunday I did not have any pains but I did not feel right. Then Monday morning the pain returned with avengance. Since I work at a doctors office I just went into work. I already had a surgical follow up appointment with the surgeon set up for later that day and since the doctor I worked for thought nothing was wrong with me I decided to bump that appointment up to my lunch time. Next thing I know....



Yup, after seeing that the whites of my eyes were yellow and reviewing stat blood work I was directly admitted to the hospital. Yay for me! These pictures are terrible but they sure represent the amount of pain I was in before the Morphine!




I was there for about 4 days. It was so not fun. They would wake me up every few hours for blood work or to get my vitals and or give me more anti-biotic. Pretty much they believe there were gallstones left over in my common bile duct which is connected to my liver (I think). All that pain was me passing stones which in turn made my liver freak out. I am so glad I have a great co-worker and family who visited me regularly and a wonderful husband who had flowers delivered to me, visited me on his lunch break and spent every single night on the couch in my room! Once again I am feeling much better and hopefully there will be no return trips to the hospital.

Gallbladder Free!

So as some of you may or may not know I recently had surgery to remove my gallbladder. Here are some pictures from my big day. And in case you were all wondering, surgery was great and I am now having no more pain and slowly losing the weight I have gained over the past 6 months.

Here are some pictures from the big day. I figured it was only fair to post the good the bad and the ugly!




Here is the end result! Beautiful isn't it? Thank you to friends and family for your support and prayers during this whole ordeal!