Actually . . . Not so fun

A lot of people have asked me to update them regarding my surgery, so I figured this was the place to do it! The surgery itself was not so bad. Typical mouth stuff, you can't feel most of it, but holding your mouth open for 2 hours sucks. Honestly? The worst part was when the doctor and the assistant started talking pop culture! Here is how one of their conversations went -
"Do you know who Ryan Reynolds is?"
"No, what has he been in?"
"Um, I can't think of anything"
I was sitting in the chair wanting to scream I KNOW WHO HE IS I can name tons of his movies! Then they talked about Star Trek and Wolverine and I really thought I was going to lose my mind! Oh well, at least it kept me entertained.
The doctor was really nice and did a great job, but the surgery is painful and that is that. I am healing well, but this is what I looked like when I woke up this morning.
Ouch!
I know the picture is hideous, but it shows exactly how I am feeling.

Here is a picture of all my medicine. I knew that people (like my mom) would be very interested in what they gave me. Here it is - Lortab, Mobic, Decadron, and Peridex.

So bottom line? Day 2 has been pretty hard, but I am getting through it. I am hoping the swelling and pain is better tomorrow -- cross your fingers for me!!

oh yeah - my brother Keith requested a picture of the inside of my mouth - I will spare you all because it is incredibly gross.

One of my stitches came out last night and Mike had to check for bleeding. Too bad I don't have a picture of his face! He can't stand blood so I think it was pretty awful for him - what a trooper!

3 cheers for completed projects!

I am proud to say that we had a VERY productive weekend!

#1 - New Bed for Remi. I know you were thinking 4 beds is just not enough! Here we have Remi snuggled up in bed #5. I wanted to see what he thought of this style, and . . . . . he loves it!

PLUS it keeps him from sleeping like this -

#2 - Update my old dresser for the extra bedroom. This is the only "before" picture I have, so my family will have to remember what the old one looked like.

Sanded, painted, and new handles -- Complete!

#3 - Hang some pictures! We finally hung the pictures on the way up to Mike's office. We also hung the shelf and paver.

#4 - Finish the Quilt I have been working on FOREVER! I started this a long long time ago and except for the outside border, I am done! I love how it turned out and can't wait to start my next one!

Close up shot of the fabric (love it!)

What a great weekend! A few more like that and we can start planning our house warming party - how long do we have before we waited too long????

Also, speaking of "complete" this is our 100th blog post!!

Time to come clean

Turns out that I am nothing more then a giddy little high school girl! I realized this as lizzy and I got our seats for the opening day showing of "17 again" C'mon now - you know he is cute . . . . look at this picture!

This was my attempt at taking our picture in the movie theater -- it clearly sucks, but a great memory!

Yes, we are geeks. I am not embarrassed!

When the movie started there was a lot of "ahhhh" and "ohhh" and clapping as Zac came on screen. Pretty funny actually - I heard some hollering from some guys as well . . . . anyway (lizzy wondering if they are trying to become him) During a scene in the movie he spins a basketball on one finger and the girl behind us says (loudly) He Can Really Do That!!

And the below video is for my good friend Lizzy -- IT HAS THE DANCE SCENE!!!!

I apologize for the spanish subtitles, but now we can all learn some phrases in another language.

Fun with Eggs

April and Lisa decided to organize their own neighborhood Easter egg hunt this year. First of all I would like to say - Way to go! I love that they wanted something to be better and did it themselves. They have never done this before and it was great! Amazing turn out and VERY organized I was super impressed.
There were 4 age group areas, and a super special gold and silver egg in each area. I was asked to hide the gold and silver eggs (which was quite an honor!) and I had so much fun!

I love this picture with all the eggs

I couldn't believe how many people there were!

How cute is this picture?

April and Lisa - The founders

I love this picture of Lisa explaining the rules to the crowd. I took this right after she said "don't take my picture!" oops!

Sam and Dave collecting their eggs

The kids looking over their loot (I love this picture!)

Me and Angi modeling the coveted special eggs. (BTW my favorite part was when Dave came up to me and said "just tell me where they are")

Thank you again to April and Lisa for organizing such a great event and letting me be a part of it. I am looking forward to next year!

Our First Overnight Guests!

Allison, Hannah, and Nick were in town this past weekend and we were lucky enough to get them for a night! I couldn't wait to see them, and set up their rooms in our new house! (I wonder if I will ever stop being so excited about the house . . . )

We made and decorated sugar cookies, and the kids decorated some plates while the cookies baked. Here are the fabulous results -

And then there was Remi - the kids LOVED him! It took a moment for them to get used to his size, but it was quick! Before I knew it, Remi was following the kids around and didn't care where Mike or I was! Also, the kids and I were bug hunters (in my jungle house) and Remi was our "Panther" helper - it was so fun!

Here is one of the many pictures I took of Remi and the kids. I was so happy that he was so so docile with the children. It is such a blessing to have a docile animal around little children. (that was for you April)

I think they were the most upset about having to say goodbye to Remi when it was time to go!

Look at the Awesome present that they brought for our house! I am so excited to start hanging things on the wall - but having to decide what wall, height, size of item, etc is killing me!!

Thanks again for coming we had tons of fun!

Has it really been a month?

The title of this post really says it all - I can not believe that we have been living here for a month!! The time has gone by super fast and we still have A LOT to do. I thought I should post some pictures of how the house is coming together. You will notice many blank walls in these pictures -- Please send your decorating ideas to kerineedshelp.com- Thanks!!

After many weeks of looking at bedding we have finally found some that we like!! Thank you to Bed Bath & Beyond for having something that would work for us, A HUGE thank you to April and her mom for tracking down a coupon for little 'ol me :) and yeah for my now "grown up" bed!

Dan and Lizzy came over for a game night and to see the house - we had so much fun! Lizzy is holding a mini cadbury creme egg (ask her why . . . . )

I LOVE this picture of Macey -Mike and Dave brought this chair in the house and set it on it's side. Macey decided it was a perfect way to watch TV - I agree!!

And now some picture of the boy ---------

This picture is NOT POSED. Remi was down in the basement and Mike was looking out the window. Next thing we knew, Remi wanted to see what was out there too!!

This is probably his 2nd or 3rd day in the house - he knew it was home pretty quickly.

The boys together hanging out in the man cave, I can't believe they let me upstairs to take a picture . . . .

OK so we have this awesome new tub with a door instead of a curtain. I figured it would be perfect to give Remi a bath in -- I think I forgot how big he is because it was an adventure. Mike thought it was so funny he took a bunch of pictures. Good news is he smells better.

The other night April, Angi and Neve came over. Remi LOVES her. He kept licking her forehead and wanted to be anywhere that she was. This picture is him trying to get as close to her as possible, and I thought it was just adorable. (she liked him too BTW)

I promise to post more then once a month from now on, as the house comes together and we return to our normal life. In fact we are looking forward to our first overnight guests this week -How exciting!

Welcome Home

We are in our house . . . . .sort of . . . . Technically speaking we were "just visiting" tonight, but we are so close that I don't really care!! What would you do your first night in your new house?????

Build furniture right? (I know that is what you were thinking!!)

My fabulous husband hard at work in his soon to be office

The results of our hard work.

We absolutely can not wait to get our house set up and have you all over for a great party (and to quote the awesome Kate "yes you, the entire Internet")