Bingo!

Last night Dal went to a bachelor party for his friend Sean who is getting hitched in a few weeks. They played Bingo in Mesquite all night, and he had the best time. Get this?! To top his fun guy's night out, he got a blackout and won $250 playing Bingo!! haha Pretty exciting!

As for me, I spent the entire night watching a few Nicholas Spark's movies to get my girl's night on! It was quite enjoyable, I hardly ever get to watch chick flicks because Dal can't stand them. So I had a grand ole time watching them curled up on the couch with some tissues to wipe my tears from watching the sappy love stories, ha ha. It's quite funny how different guys and girls are with what we enjoy doing!!

He came home giddy like a school girl because he had so much fun with his friends, I'm glad he got to have a fun guys night out! And especially to have come home with more money than he left with, right on!!

Date Night

Hooray for date nights! On Thursday for date night we went to the Temple, and had a wonderful time there. And last night Dallin's cousins, Terilyn and Jared, took us to dinner at a yummy Mexican restaurant. It was fun to enjoy their company at dinner and to catch up with them! Afterwards Dal and I went to get snow cones, which are Dal's favorite dessert/treat. We love that we can get snow cones at 9:00pm and the weather is in the high 90's. Perfect snow cone weather! After our snow cones we had lots of fun driving to 3 different red boxes to find the movie that we wanted, ha ha. Then of course we watched the movie and cuddled on the couch. :) We love our date nights and feel blessed for all the times we have to spend together!!

A few updates...

Dal got accepted into the RN Nursing program at Weber!! We are very excited that he got into the program and I am very proud of him for all of his accomplishments. He will begin the Nursing program in August, and he will be doing the extension in Richfield. So, the plan for now, is that he will drive 2 hours to Richfield one day every week and stay for classes, and will drive the 2 hours back. I'm not too fond of him driving every week, especially through the winter, but he really doesn't have much of a choice unless we move, and we really don't want to move, unless a better job offer comes along, so I will support him through it all, with Lots of prayers!

I got called in to the Nursery in our ward, ha ha no surprise there! But I'm enjoying getting the know the children in our ward.

Dal and I are enjoying the heat in St. George and are enjoying all of the yummy restaurants and fun things to do here! It's amazing that almost every restaurant here has a gluten-free menu, hooray! So because of that we are enjoying going on lots of dates to try out all our choices. One of our new favorites is Red Robin, they have gluten-free buns!! But since we are vegetarian, I had them make me a grilled cheese with the gluten-free bun, and it was absolutely DELICIOUS! haha I crave it almost every day since we ate there. We have been on a few hikes this past month and are discovering how beautiful the red rocks are on the trails, oh yeah, and how hot it is!

What a Wonderful Day

So yesterday I enjoyed a wonderful Friday full of pampering myself and relaxing!

I love Fridays because I only work until 1pm and then I have the rest of the afternoon to spend doing anything I please to do until Dal gets home from work at 6pm. Most of them are spent catching up on the week's cleaning tasks. But not yesterday, I decided that I should spend it doing relaxing, fun filled things that I enjoy, so I did. First of all, back up a slight bit, this week I received 2 tips at work, one lady gave me $13 and another gave me a certificate for a pedicure, who would have thought that I would get tips working at a front desk in a medical office, but hey, anything is possible I guess! 

Now back to Friday, so I got off work at 1pm, and one of the chiropractors at my office gave me an adjustment, so that started off my relaxation. I decided to go to the salon and use the free pedicure certificate I had received. I absolutely love pedicures, very relaxing and pampering! Then I went to the pool at our townhouse and laid out at the pool for a few hours, soaked in some sun and read a good book. I chose to read "The Lucky One," by Nicholas Sparks, I want to read it before the movie premiere on April 20th. Anyways, it was the most relaxing/pampering day for myself! Then my honey came home, we made dinner together, then went and got a shake to share together. Days like this don't happen very often, so I thought it should be shared on my blog. What a wonderful day!

Our move to St. George!

So of course I am behind and forgot to post about our move, it was quite the experience and I want to remember it, so I am posting about it. As soon as Dallin got hired in St. George I was so excited I couldn't contain myself, so I started packing, even before we found a place to move into. We came down one Saturday and looked at like 10 apartments/town houses, some were great, some were over priced, and some had mold! Yes, that's correct, MOLD! Who shows you an apt with mold all over it?! I couldn't believe my eyes or my nose, it was disgusting. Anyways, we went to lunch at Durango's (our favorite Mexican food place in St. George) and we talked over the apartments we just saw and after much debate over the places we just looked at, (ok, so there was no debate at all, we knew we were won over by the first place we looked at) so we called up the landlord, finished our meal, signed the contract and paid our deposit.  All the apartment searching was finished, we found the perfect place! Hooray!

I was so excited for the move and couldn't help myself. Me, being me, (a little too over-prepared/over-excited sometimes) I already had over half of our apartment in Ephraim packed up within one week of renting our place in St. George! So every time Dallin drove down for work in St. George that month, I filled the car up with our boxes and stuff and he loaded it into our new place. Which left me back in Ephraim, with 2 weeks til the move, by myself, with one plate, one cup, one pot, one utensil, the microwave, the tv, the bed, and a couch. It was quite hard living on nothing, but I was so excited that I packed everything up so quick, I kinda forgot I still had to live in Ephraim for a few more weeks! We hauled most of our furniture down the Saturday before the final move and then we loaded a trailer full of the rest on moving day. We are quite grateful we got to do our move like this though, because it made moving day less stressful, well, not as much as I would have liked. (I'll fill you in about that shortly...)

Some pictures of moving/ boxes.

Moving day was the worst day ever! Ill explain soon...

Christmas in March?!

haha ok so everyone can just ignore how late this post is... but i forgot, repeat, forgot to post about December and January, somehow i missed those months... weird! So as I was going through all of my pics today and realizing that I really want them on my blog no matter how late they are posted... I just decided that it's better late than never! Someday I'll get the hang of this blogging thing, right?!

December this year was all about the crafts and decorations! Can you blame me? All I could do after my Chiari surgery, (November 29th) was lay around for a month, so what better way to spend my time than to craft. I made a tree skirt and ornaments, a wreath, and a frame. I already posted pics about the wreath and frame, but I'll share them briefly again to remind you. 

I found this tutorial on Pinterest for making a ruffled tree skirt, I really liked it except it was all in one color, cream, and I felt that it was missing the Christmas spirit so I found 2 very cutely patterned materials in the Christmas colors, red and green that I thought I would pattern with the cream to make it more festive! Making the tree skirt was a lot of fun and quite therapeutic actually. My mom came and helped me cut all of the strips for the skirt, and as you can see, the entire skirt was strips of material, so thanks mom for the BIG help! Then whenever I could conjure up some energy (remember this was made 1-2 weeks after my big surgery), I hot glued and ruffled all of the strips in place.

 It was quite the project, if I wasn't recovering from a surgery it would have probably only taken me 2 Sunday afternoons to complete, but I could only hack at it a little at a time each day, so after about 1 1/2 weeks of gluing and ruffling it was complete. I ABSOLUTELY LOVE the final product! It also has a lot of sentimental value now because of the whole surgery thing. Maybe it's just me, but I think it's absolutely adorable! And I'll totally make another one if someone wants?!

 Isn't it beautiful under my tree! My tree was my pride and joy this year, Dal picked out the perfect tree when we went tree hunting and I love how the decorations turned out, all the way from Dal's mountain dew star on top to my tree skirt on bottom!

Some pictures of the lights we put up on our apartment.

Christmas and Christmas Eve we spent in Milford with my family.

On Christmas Eve we opened our family drawing gifts.

 Nice Dad, nice! haha

 Dal drew my moms name, we made her a jewelry holder.

 I drew Jake's name, I gave him an electric sander.

 Becca drew Dal's name, she gave him nursing scrubs and Harry Potter 7.

 My mom drew my name and she gave me these cute brown boots that I am modeling!

 Dal modeling his new scrubs.

 Christmas Morning:

 Poor Dal, basically all he got for Christmas was like 6 pairs of Nursing scrubs. But he was happy with that.

 Going to church. I really like this picture of us, 

except for the fact that I still look really sick, like I just had surgery, haha.

Merry Christmas 2011

This year we spent December 23rd-25th with my family in Milford and then spent the 26th with Dallin's family in Gunnison. It was all around a wonderful Christmas break spent with family and lots of fun times!

St. George

Well, we are alive and well and loving St. George! Dal is working hard and enjoying his job at the Care and Rehab Center.

An exciting update:

I enjoyed 2 weeks off of work getting the house somewhat situated and luckily I had 2 job interviews last week and got offered both of them, so I got to choose which job I wanted. Pretty exciting and lucky! So on Monday I started my new job. I am the receptionist at StoneRidge Chiropractic, its a full time job, I will work from 9-5 Mon-Thurs and 9-12 on Fridays. I have only been working there for 2 days, but I am really enjoying my job so far. I work for 3 chiropractors and so it is the 4 of us working there. We feel really blessed that I was able to find a great job so soon.

A few things we love about St. George and our new townhouse:

We completely LOVE that our townhouse has a hot tub and pool at the club house and we have been using the hot tub about 3-4 nights a week, what a wonderful relaxing way to end our days just before going to bed!

I love that our club house has a fitness center, so now I have to force myself to use it. I haven't been able to exercise for about 5 months now because of my surgery, so lets just say its been awhile. Even though I am still struggling with my headaches I need to exercise so that the rest of me can feel good. So since we have moved here I have been using the fitness center and its been great. I ran 2 miles last Friday! It's nice because the elliptical and the treadmill both face a t.v., so I just put on the Today show and get my work out on, goodbye chubby surgery body, hello (several months and workouts from now) summer swimsuit ready body!!

We love that there are so many options of food places to eat at for date night with Gluten-Free menus! Also, that there are several grocery stores here that sale Gluten-Free food!! HOORAY!

We love our townhouse! As soon as I finish decorating, or find the time to decorate, I will post pictures of our place.

Also, not to mention, we Love the weather here, yesterday was 77* Yay for warm weather!

We feel really blessed and are loving living here. We have a really good ward and a really good neighborhood. Now we just need to make some friends... hum, that would require us to go out and meet our neighbors which neither of us really like to do besides the casual "Hi's" as you pass them.

I really miss my friends in Ephraim!! We are hoping to come back to Ephraim and visit soon.

As for now, we are still settling into our home, enjoying our jobs, getting used to our new schedules/situations, and prepping for March Madness! Dal is counting down the days. Post more soon, with pictures, man I'm so behind.

So I realized today that I haven't even posted anything from Christmas... whoops! I need to hurry and do that, now that it's a month late. Oh well, better late than never!

So we are counting down...it's 16 days til we move to St. George! That seems so soon, but yet not soon enough. Dallin is working about 3-4 days down in St. George and then coming back and spending the other 3 days with me! (well, when I am not at work)

We had the best weekend last week. It was so wonderful to finally get to spend some time with each other, it was much needed. We didn't do much, but that was the best part. Dal got home late Friday night from work and then we watched the X-Men First Class movie. It is So Good! We highly recommend it :)

Saturday we packed up some more boxes and I went with my friend Kira to our friend Lacey's, baby shower while Dal watched some sports game on tv. Then that night we watched Captain America. It is so good as well! and we also highly recommend it! As you can probably tell, Dal and I are huge fans of the "Hero Movies" but we can't help it, they are all so good!

And then Sunday we went to church and I taught the Nursery lesson, then we came home and cuddled on the couch and had a nap together.

What a wonderful weekend!

Now as for this week, Dallin left on Tues to go to work in St. George and he will be gone working there til late Friday night and then I get him for the weekend again, yay! So while he is away I am enjoying some girl time. Tuesday night I watched the Bachelor with Aunt J, (we do that every Tuesday night, very fun!), and last night I hung out with my friend Alicia. We did a bunch of fun girly things! I work with Alicia at the College and we have become the Best of Friends, and I am really going to miss her when we move!! As for tonight, I am going to go to the Temple with Jake and Becca. And then tomorrow I will just try and wait patiently for Dal to come home... I would say I would do some fun craft or read a book or something like that, but unfortunately we have packed pretty much our entire apt and Dallin and my parents have already loaded it down to St. George! Exciting! But that leaves me home with only a t.v. and barely any food or clothes to live on for the next 2 1/2 weeks... good thing I have found some great t.v. shows that I enjoy watching. The Bachelor, American Idol, and the Big Band Theory. (Dal and I also highly recommend the Big Bang Theory, it is so funny!!)

Looking forward to the Temple tonight and to see Dallin tomorrow!!

Hooray for 2012!

So as most of you know, 2011 was pretty rough for Dallin and I. On New Year's Eve Dal kissed me at midnight and whispered in my ear, "2012 will be much better for us babe." I was a little hesitant based on reviewing the past year, but I told him I will rely on your faith and optimism, so yes, 2012 will be better for us. And of course my sweet hubby was right, 2012 has been turning out to be a really great year for us so far, and we are determined to keep it a very positive year... yikes, almost 1 month down and 11 more to go, we can do it!

At the end of last year Dallin got a full time LPN job in Price, Utah. Pretty exciting right, well except for the location. Dal took the job and has been working there ever since. Price is 2 hours away and his shift is from 6am to 6pm, do the math, that puts him waking up at 3:50am and driving 2 hours then working a 12-14 hour shift, driving the 2 hours back home, walking in the door to give me a quick good-night kiss and going right to bed to sleep and then wake right up the next morning to do this all over again. He does this about 3-4 times a week. Pretty tiring right? Poor guy, it was really hard for him, and for me, I never saw him awake. So we decided that he would stay in a hotel in Price instead of making the drive everyday so he wouldn't be so tired.

Problem solved. NOT!

So now I really never see him, oh and did I mention that the days he isn't working in Price he is working at the hospital in Mt. Pleasant. I am not a needy wife or anything like that, I just love my hubby and love seeing him and now I never get to see him. It makes for some really lonely nights, but on the other hand, I am getting a lot of things done. hum... Well moral of the story, this is not working out for us for him to be gone all of the time and for him to be driving so much is really dangerous.

We then had an AHA moment and realized, why don't we apply for nursing jobs throughout the state. So he applied to a few jobs in St. George and the Salt Lake areas. A few days later we got a call for an interview at a job in St. George. On the 3 hour drive to St. George we were so excited, saying things like, "this is awesome!", "we are going to move to a warmer climate and move to a place we both have always wanted to live!" and so on. Well Dal was in the interview for a really long time and finally came out with a huge smile on his face. He got the Job! HOORAY! He will be an LPN at the St. George Care and Rehab Center, Full-time. We are moving to St. George. It then clicked, oh my gosh, we have lived in sanpete county for almost all our lives, minus Dal's mission in Philly, of course. All of these frightened thoughts ran through my head, holy crap we are moving, I have to find a new job, we have to find a new place to live, I have to start packing. And then the tears started to flow. Ha in a matter of a couple of hours I went from overly extatic to utterly freaked out and then repeat those emotions a few times back and forth! All I know is that Dal couldn't stop laughing at my crazy emotional rollercoaster. And then I couldn't help but laugh as well because it was quite comical!

Well we decided to go to the temple a few days later to help with the decision of whether to move or not. We walked in the doors and POW! We were smacked with calmness and assurity that this was the right move for us. What a wonderful feeling that was! Needless to say I couldn't help but start to pack right away even though our moving day isn't until February 18th. What? I can't help it I'm so excited!

We went down last Saturday, January 21st and looked at 10 different apts/condos/townhomes. We loved the very first one we went to and went back after looking at all of the others and knew it was the one for us. So right then and there we signed the contract and wala! we have the cutest 3 bedroom, two-story townhome ever! Now that we have a place, on with the packing. :)

Dal will begin his new job this week, so until February 18th he will be driving down to St. George every week and will stay with his cousins that live there for a few days and then driving back to stay with me and help me pack for a few days. (Thank You TeriLynn and JB for letting Dal stay with you until we move down there!) So the next few weeks will be a little rough, but will be much worth it after the 18th when we will be living in our townhouse together!

We cannot wait for our St. George adventure to begin!

Look out sun, here we come!! :)

What is Chiari Malformation?

I guess I should let people know what Chiari Malformation is since I have and will be babbling on about it.

I have been struggling with severe headaches for a year, and for about 3 months I was suffering with a whole bunch of other symptoms from the Chiari. I decided to finally go to the doctor and see what was going on when I smartened up and realized that it wasn't normal to have headaches 24/7, pass out randomly, lose feeling in my hands and arms, not be able to lift a 1/4 gallon of milk to pour me a glass and when I luckily got the glass poured how when I went to take a sip I would drop the glass everytime and cried as I watched it shatter to the floor and how I couldn't drive anymore because when I went to look to the left then look to the right I saw only blurriness, whoops, I guess that could have been quite dangerous! But I guess none of that is normal so I finally listened to my husband's wisdom, (instead of ignoring it like I have for the past couple months regarding this) and I went to the doctor and she sent me right away for an MRI of my brain and of my neck. The very next day my doctor informed me that I had Chiari Malformation and that she was sending me to a Neurosurgeon right away because it is quite severe and needs to be fixed with surgery!

Surgery? Yikes! No one likes to hear that word, especially not when it's regarding your brain and your head. It was so hard to hear that, not to mention that she called when Dal was gone to Wal-Mart to do the grocery shopping for the month, also not to mention that he forgot his cell phone at home. So here I am with this bad news and my hubby is somewhere in that dreadful Wal-Mart. So I decided to call Wal-Mart and have him paged. What, like you wouldn't in a situation like this? Well I called them and could barely get out that I needed my hubby ASAP, through all my loud sobs. I finally reached him and got him home soon after to tell him the news, that was quite hard to tell Dal, who has been through 18 brain surgeries himself, that I have a brain malformation and that I now need surgery. Let's just say that he didn't take it very well, but he was very strong and supportive to me.

We met with Dr. Peterson on November 3rd to hear the verdict. The results: surgery on November 28th. So we got to work to prep for Christmas and for the surgery, which you can read about in the blurb below.

So a little about Dr. Peterson, he is a top Neuro-Surgeon in Utah and specializes in Chiari Malformation surgery, so that was helpful in calming me down. He is a great surgeon, he just has a funny bedside manner where he seems to think everything is funny and that it relates to something else.

Example

 Me: "How long will the recovery be after surgery?"

Dr. Peterson: "Funny you should ask that." (giggling)

Me thinking to myself: (stress mode) what do you mean funny I should ask that? That's a normal question anyone going into surgery would want to know. Right? and why are you laughing about this?

Dr. Peterson: Well this one patient I had as soon as he woke up out of surgery he felt better instantly. I also had this patient, let's see, oh about 10 years ago, and it took her like 2 years to feel better. Man that's a long time don't you think? (He went on for 10 minutes about his previous pt. experiences)

Me thinking to myself again: did he really just ask that? What is this guy's problem, I just want to know how long I should plan on recovery time. Is he really still laughing about this? I look over and Dal is just calm as can be and soaking in everything he says, huh, must be a nurse thing.

Needless to say, I did not get a direct response to any of my questions, which is quite frustrating. But that is the flaw to our sweet Dr. Peterson, other than laughing off questions and rambling on with very long stories, he is a very brilliant surgeon and he did an excellent job with my surgery.

It has been 5 weeks since the surgery and so far, not too bad. I had to take 3 1/2 weeks off of work to recover and now I am back and trying my darndest to make it through a full day. All of my symptoms are gone, except the headaches, I seem to not be able to fight them off, I tried asking my Dr. how long I would have them for and once again, no answer. From studying about it, it can take up to a few weeks to a few years. I have passed the few weeks, and pray that it doesn't last a few years. I guess I am starting to get immune to my headaches since I have had them for over a year, come to think of it, I can't really remember what it's like to not have my head pounding all day! Hum... Well all in all, I am very grateful I had the surgery done, it helped so much and I am so glad that I can remember things now, (well mostly, haha) and am so glad that I am not breaking anymore dishes :) I am still not able to drive farther than a block, but I will get there. I'm grateful the surgery went well and that Dr. Peterson performed it to perfection. As for now I am just trying to get used to this huge incision and bald spot on the back of my head. Thank you to everyone who gifted me cute hats to cover up the baldness, I am very grateful I can cover up that embarrassing hair cut! So glad I have way cute hats to be stylish with for the winter!

Thank you everyone for all of your thoughts, prayers, cards, hats, flowers, meals, etc. Thank you to mom, and Rach for babysitting me so Dal could go to work. It all has helped us so much!

Most of all, thank you to my sweet hubby who has done the grocery shopping for the past 4 months, who washed my hair in the sink for the past month, for sending embarrassing head photos of me to family and friends, who made us meals for the past month, who took care of me and gave me my meds, who slept with me in my hospital bed so I wasn't lonesome, and for never leaving my side and supporting me through it all! Love you pook!

Here is a link that is quite informational about Chiari Malformation, Hope this helps!

http://www.conquerchiari.org/Chiari%20Overview%202010.pdf

Some Updates

Am I way behind or what? I think I have a slight excuse because of my head surgery, but then it has turned into complete blogger laziness!
Here are some updates...
November was quite busy for us. It included many doctor's visits, getting everything prepped before surgery, getting all of our Christmas shopping done since I would be out of commission all of December, lots of crafting and a remodel.

Crafts, crafts and more crafts!
I realized that I love crafts and making them, but that I really don't have that many, so it resulted in me needing to make more!  I took lots of pictures to prove that I actually made them myself. I love how they all turned out!

Fall Wreath

 I find this wreath idea on www.pinterest.com and really love how it turned out!

I really love wreaths but they are too expensive to buy so I made a fall and Christmas wreath. The fall wreath cost about $5 to make. The Christmas wreath was a little more, but it is really cute so it was worth it. But both wreaths cost way less to make than to buy.

Christmas Wreath

 I love my Christmas Wreath!

I also made some snowflake ornaments out of toilet paper rolls

 I think they turned out pretty cute and added something different to the tree.

Mom gave me like a hundred empty picture frames and I am figuring out fun things to do with them, I found this cute Christmas wording, bought lots of green buttons and got to work.

Dal was obviously jealous of all of my crafting fun and he decided to make a craft himself out of none other than his favorite thing, mountain dew cans!

And low and behold our Tree Star! He did a great job and it hung atop our Christmas tree all month. He was so proud of himself, and I am proud of him as well. It made for a funny story every time someone came to our home, they looked at our tree and admired that red and green star shining atop of it. It's pretty good huh?

As you can tell we had a fun month full of crafts!

For some reason since I was getting all crafty, I decided we needed a change in our apt and I made Dallin rearrange every single piece of furniture in our apartment! We switched all the rooms up and I am really happy with the remodel! He is so patient and is the best hubby to help me with my crazy OCD antics. Can you believe we remodeled our whole apt the week before my surgery, I just thought we needed something else on our plate to do. : ) (I will upload pictures soon)

We went up the mountain with Jake and Becca and their kids on the 22nd to cut down our Christmas tree and we found the perfect tree! That night we put it up and packed for Thanksgiving.

We spent Thanksgiving with Dallin's family in Gunnison from the 23-26. We played lots of games and ate lots of yummy foods.

We spent the 27th doing the last preps for surgery the next morning. We visited our friends Braden and Lyndsey Hansen so we could meet their new baby girl, Elle. Then we spent that night at Kellen and Desirae's house in Lehi. They were so kind to let us stay at their house so we only had to drive 30 mins to the hospital for surgery, otherwise if we would have stayed home we would have had to wake up at 6am to drive 2 hours to the hospital. Thank you Kel and Des, it helped a lot!

So we had almost everything decorated for Christmas, all of our Christmas shopping done, and were ready to embark on a long recovery from surgery. Thank you Dallin for putting up with me and for helping me prep the house for Christmas, etc! Now we were ready, gulp, for surgery. Well, I guess as ready as you could be.

I had surgery on November 28th for my Chiari Malformation. The surgery was scheduled for 11:30am. Dal and I woke up, he ate breakfast, I couldn't because I was instructed to eat my last snack and drink at 11pm the night before, and we drove to the hospital. We arrived on time and filled out all the paper work and they took me right back and said things were running smooth and on time, we couldn't believe that part! The nurse hooked me up to the I.V. and said the anesthetist will be in shortly, so we sat patiently and waited. Mom and Dad arrived just shortly after and then an hour passed, then another. So much for on time and waiting shortly for the anesthetist. There was a complication with the surgery before mine, and the patient's 2 hour surgery turned into a 6 hour surgery which resulted in me starving and peeing like crazy while waiting for several hours for my turn. We all 4 watched many episodes of Friend's and of course my favorite The Ellen Degeneres Show in this tiny little room. I had gone through 1 1/2 bags of I.V., hence all the peeing. I didn't go into surgery until 6:30pm, and by this time I couldn't wait, I was so tired and hungry from waiting all day that I zonked out I think before they even gave me any medicine. I mean usually you can remember that the anesthetist asks you to count down from 10, all I can remember is being wheeled into the operating room and my nurses talked to me about Twilight and then boom, nothing else til I saw my cute hubby waiting for me in I.C.U. My surgery was 4 hours long and so it was after 10:30pm when I got out. Thank you mom and dad for waiting All Day with me and for keeping Dallin company while I was in surgery!

Warning! The following pictures can be graphic!

My hair was crazy and that red stuff isn't hair dye, it's blood, gross!

 

So obviously the picture above is of the back of my head where the big incision took place. 

The picture below is of one of the little wholes created by a head crown that they put into my head to hold it in place during surgery, there are about 5 holes that I found all over my head from where the crown was.

 This is what I woke up to after surgery, blood all over my head, 

they didn't prep me for that, it kinda freaked me out.

I'll update the rest tomorrow :)

Halloween Party

For the past few months me and Dal have gone over to my brother Jake's house every other Sunday for game night. Which is always a lot of fun! The attendees usually include, Jake and Becca, Jessika and Wade, Rachel and a guest, and Becca's brother Caleb and his girlfriend Bailey. Our game nights usually consist of lots of yummy treats, laughter, and lots of family fun! Our last game night was the day before Halloween so Becca and I put together a Halloween Party! We told all of the couples to dress up and to bring a pumpkin. The night included a Halloween photo shoot, cookie decorating, a pumpkin carving contest and ended with a scary movie. The entire night was filled with Halloween music, and tons of fun and laughter, I thought it was a great success! Here are some pictures of our awesome costumes, see if you can guess who we dressed up as.....

 Keaton as the Cutest Pumpkin ever.

 The Dettinger clan.

 Jake and Becca as Jim and Pam Halpert from the Office.

 Me starring as Flo from Progressive.

 Dal and I love the All-State and Progressive commercials and were so excited to dress up as Flo and Mayhem, I think we did a pretty good job!

 Dal rocked his Mayhem costume. Mayhem is from All-state for those of you who don't know, he is the running hot babe commercial. haha Way funny!

 I thought we did a pretty darn good job with our costumes!

 Caleb and Bailey as each other, love it.

 Jess and Wade as a cowgirl and cowboy.

 Rachel and Wayne as Barbie and Ken, on roller blades, so even better!

 Pumpkin Carving Contest

 Mine and Dallin's pumpkin. We hammered cookie cutters in the pumpkin to create the shapes and then carved of the outer orange layer, turned out pretty cute. and not messy! no carving out pumpkin guts required, it was pretty fun, easy and turned out great. Only default to doing this, it doesn't glow in the dark, because the middle isn't carved out to put a candle in it. But I think overall, it was a fun experiment and we recommend it for anyone that doesn't want a big mess from pumpkin guts.

 The final result.

 Jake and Becca carved the fish, Caleb and Bailey did the mummy, then mine and Dal's, then Rachel and Wayne's SuperMan pumpkin, and Jess and Wade's cyclops. They all turned out so good.

Photo Shoot. I am quite proud of the decorations, and thought it turned out really cute and Halloweeny. Thank you mom for the pumpkin patch in the bottom right corner, I love this decoration!

 I made this cute Witch sign with Dallin's family the weekend before, I think it is so cute!

I made this Halloween sign out of brown paper lunch sacks, scrapbook paper, ribbon and I cut out the letters with my cricut. It only took a couple hours and was pretty easy to make, I am quite proud of myself and can't wait to hang it in my apt next Halloween! 

Overall, I think the party was a great success! We had lots of fun, lots of yummy treats, some great pumpkin carving skills, and some awesome costumes to remember about!

Now that Halloween is over, it's time to get out the fall/thanksgiving decorations...hooray!!