Surgery Time/Emma's Birthday

These are pictures of my ankle that I have to have surgery on soon. My arthritis is so bad I can hardly stand the pain any more. I went to the Dr. on Wednesday and I have absolutely no cartilage to protect my bones from rubbing together. So I have a constant bone on bone movement when I walk and it's pretty painful. I can't decide when to have the surgery because I will be in bed for about 2 weeks. They are going to fuse my bones together. I need to make a decision when soon.

The swelling isn't so bad right now. I have been doing acupuncture and that helps a lot with the swelling. Insurance doesn't cover acupuncture so I have to stop this procedure after two more treatments. After I have surgery I will continue to go to acupuncture. I hate the thoughts of having surgery!!!!

On to a more exciting happenings. EMMA'S BIRTHDAY PARTY!!!!!

Emma had about 12 little girls at her party. It was so calm. The girls were putting little pieces of material on some flip flops. Some were frustrated because they had never tied anything before. Emma learned fast.

Emma is looking so grown up. She wasn't even flitting around and talking a hundred miles an hour. She was having so much fun.

Gabe even got into the action. He was helping a little girl tie the material on her flip flops. He was pretty intense. It was the best.

These patient young ladies were waiting to have their toe nails painted. It was simply amazing how they waited their turn.

These are most of the girls that attended Emma's birthday party. In the corner are all her presents. We didn't stay to watch her open her presents but I bet she loved them all.

We spent the rest of our Saturday afternoon cleaning out our garage. It looks great. We didn't get any yard work done but everything was real muddy from all the rain and snow. We will be getting more by morning about 2 to 3 inches in the valley.

Sammy Smiling

Sammy loved being in this chair. It brings back memories of Anthony being in this chair for the first time.

Busy Sunday

Today was pretty awesome. I did something funny that still makes me laugh. I always get my nursery ready before church starts and Bill goes and sits down. When I'm done I go into the chapel and sit next to him, sounds normal. Well today I plop down to who I think is Bill and I turned my head to put my arm around him and it wasn't Bill. He just said hi and I about lost it. I started to laugh and told him he just about got my arm around him. He laughed too. I think about it now and I still laugh. We went to the Temple Dedication at our stake house at 3:30. It started at 4:30 but everyone had to be in their seats by 4:00. It was great. Right after that we had Anthony's 2 year old birthday party. He was quite funny. He is pretty patient and kind. He would turn to everyone and tell them Thank you for the present. It's hard to believe he is two.
We are now relaxing and enjoying each others company.

Friday we had Kelly, Peyton and Emma come over and spend the night. Kelly wanted to do the Twilight thing at midnight and I told her I would take her. I had Anthony and Samuel also and Anthony didn't want to go home so he stayed too. 6:30 came really fast especially when they didn't get to bed until just before I left to take Kelly to Wal Mart to get her video. We were out of the store in ten minutes. I was shocked. It was pretty fun. I always thought people were weird to do stuff like that but it was fun to watch all the people. Thanks Kelly for inviting me to go with you.

Our friends that used to live in our ward but since have moved to Phoenix Arizona called us just before church to tell us that Charlie only has about 2 months to live. Charlie and Stacey Kingston have been our friends for a long time. They have four children and their youngest is now 17. It was a shock. He has malignant melanoma. It has caused him to have fissures is his brain and he has had bad seizures. He sounded really calm when he called. So we are going to go down their on Spring break to basically say goodbye to a really neat person. They will certainly be in our prayers. I am so blessed to believe in eternity and know that we will see our loved ones again.

Saturday at the Olympic Oval

We went to the World Cup Speed Skating on Saturday at the Olympic Oval. It was so incredible. There were so many people there speaking so many different languages. We were there when two world records were accomplished and they were by Americans. One of the ladies, I think she was from the Netherlands she rounded the corner and fell and crashed into the padded wall. It was sad to see. It was simply amazing to know that in our backyard there are so many people from all over the world spending time in our little "scary" Kearns. I have a friend that teaches with me at Evergreen and she is a very typical "eastsider". She is terrified to even go west of State Street. I am not kidding. She had to get some supplies and had to go to West Valley and she asked another teacher to go with her because she was afraid that she would be robbed or worse killed. She is the dance teacher and there was a weekend competition at Kearns High and she comes running into my room and was so nervous about going there she had her girls bring their meals with them so that they wouldn't have to wander out in the Kearns neighborhood to go to a fast food restaurant. I told her she needed to get out more!!! She said well she had all these beautiful girls getting out of the cars and who knows what would happen. I just told her there are beatiful girls in Kearns too. All she had to say is that she worried about me all the time that if anything happened to me she would cry. I told her it is my neighborhood and I love the people and reminded her that at Evergreen we had Utah's most wanted. She really is a wonderful lady she just can't get the east side out of her nose. When we were sitting in the bleachers watching the races Bill told me to look at the person that was next to us. The last two pictures are the people we were sitting next to throughout the race and didn't even realize it until we were about to leave. So when we left we got to shake hands and say hi.

This picture was the winners of the women who took 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place

One of the winners that made the World Record sorry it's not so good.

Guess Who!!!! (Elder Bednar and his wife)

We shook hands and I told him it was very nice to meet him in person. He said ya without seeing him in a white shirt and a tie. He was very kind along with his wife. What a neat experience to see them as normal people.