No fun for Carson :(

Today has not been a fun day for Carson. He had to get his tonsils and adenoids taken out today. We went into the hospital at 7:00 am and he went into surgery about 8:00. He was very nervous, but he was such a brave little boy.

Here is Carson when we first got to the hospital.
Jeremy and Carson hanging out on the bed.
This is after Carson had his medicine that made him loopy! He was having a good time hanging from the bar, and doing pull ups on it.
Here is the anaesthesiologist, Shane Harrison, getting Carson ready to go.
He was SO good with Carson. Since Carson was on his "loopy" medicine, he couldn't walk, but that doesn't mean that he didn't want to try. He begged Shane to let him try to walk, so he did. About one step into it Carson started to fall, so Shane caught him!

Heading into surgery, not acting nervous one bit!
Yep, this is what Jer did while Carson was in surgery. He had a good long nap.
Carson in recovery. His oxygen kept dropping, so he had to use the mask a little bit to bring it up. He was really restless when he woke up from the anesthesia, but we got him to go back to sleep and he was much better when he woke up.
Wendy Chatland was Carson's nurse and was so good to him. She gave him this cute stuffed frog that he loves.
If you know Carson, you know he likes to do things by himself. He had so much fun wheeling himself out to the car in his wheelchair. At this point, he was pretty drugged up, so was in good spirits.

After we got home this afternoon, Carson had a pretty good nap. His aunt Mo brought him down a big bag, from her and Gram, of fun games to play and lots of goodies that he will hopefully be able to eat in the next few days. Jack and Linda also brought him some fun balloons and popsicles, they are so good to him. A little bit later Gram and Papa came down to visit.

Tonight, he has been in quite a bit of pain which is hard to watch. There isn't much we can do, but try to make him comfortable. I am hoping that he will bounce back quick and be back to himself in no time at all!

Marriage Enrichment Retreat

This weekend Jeremy and I were able to get away for 3 days with no kiddos (Thank you, thank you, thank you Mo and Mom for taking the kids)! We had such a good time. The National Guard puts on this Marriage Enrichment Retreat when the soldiers come back from their deployments. It is part of their reintigration process to try to get back to normal.... not that we know what normal is anyway, but we are working on it :)

We headed up to Park City friday afternoon. The first thing on the schedule was a Ice Cream social. Who doesn't love that? After that was over, we decided to go to dinner and a movie. I was so excited because I got to hang out with my good friend Ginger. We don't get to hang out too much, so it was tons of fun. We went to this EXCELLENT little Mexican joint for dinner. The food was so yummy, I loved it. After that, we went to see a movie. We saw Hancock and it was a good show. That wouldn't typically be the movie I would pick, but I really liked it.

Saturday we were in a conference room with different presenters all day. They all did such a great job and they gave us all sorts of great information about marriage and the keys to keep your marriage great. We got done with the classes at 3:00 and then the girls headed to do some shoppin! I went with Ginger and Camille and we headed to the outlets. I am SO happy because I am done with my boys school shopping already! I got some great deals which I always love! The girls shopped for a few hours and then the guys met up with us. Jeremy and I ended up splitting and heading to another movie which was fun.

Sunday we got up, and went to the last session of the weekend. We got done at noon and then started heading for home. The best part of my weekend was our lunch on the way home! Jeremy took me to my all time favorite restaurant..... Red Lobster! It was delicious!!! After that we headed on home and picked up the kids.

I am so glad that I had this chance to get away with my wonderful hubby and my very best friend! It has been SO nice having him home and I am loving being able to spend so much time with him since he is just hangin out at home this summer. I don't know what I'll do when he actually has to go back to work next month! I am having such a good time just getting to know each other all over again!

Not another one!!!

Okay, so my latest quest is running. I've been doing this for about 2 weeks now and it has been going really good and I am really enjoying it. It makes me feel so good and so full of energy. I run about 3 miles, and I have been trying to go every day, but some days it just doesn't work out. But each day I feel like I am a little better and can go a little farther!

So here is my latest problem..... SNAKES!!! The last three nights I have gone I have had to deal with a snake in the road! If any of you know me, you know that I am TERRIFIED of snakes. They are pure EVIL if you ask me. There should not be anything that can move without legs! That's just plain creepy and wrong.

Wed. when I was running there was a HUGE rattlesnake in the middle of the road. I literally about stepped on it. Jeremy thought I should have just jumped over it... Oh heck no! I turned right around and burned it as fast as I could! Then I had to keep turning around while running because I just knew that it was chasing after me! Ya, that's how creeped out I am of snakes!

So Thurs. I was scanning the road very carefully as I was running and of course there was another one! This time it was a tiny little baby blowsnake, but none the less, a snake is a snake! I very cautiously went around it, and then ran as fast as I could.

Once again tonight as I was on a peacefull run, what did I see stretched out across half the road??? Another HUGE blowsnake! What the heck??? Here I am trying to do something good and I am being tortured with snakes! But, I am not going to let them stop me! I am determined to keep going.

My little brother Kyle told me I need to start packin (a gun that is). So next time you see me running, I may have one strapped on! (Not really) My dad told me that he would start patrolling on his 4-wheeler for me before I go.

I am just wondering..... why are there snakes on the earth anyway?