Jean again:)))))

I LOVE JEANS! and I have so missed them. I have had to wear soft comfy pants for 3 solid weeks now, and I am so sick of them. I want my jeans back. I really am not suppost to be wearing anything tight, but I have decided that as long as I wear loose fitting jeans that it would be ok. So I did break down and finally wear some this weekend. and I am happy to say that my presurgery jeans are now officially to big on me:))) for the past 2 weeks I have been wanting to try on my presurgery jeans and wanting them to fall off, however because there is so much swelling, I couldnt even button them up. Now that I can wear them with lots of room to spare I know the swelling is on its way down. I'll go ahead and give my permission to continue to go down another ummmm I'll take 8 inches. ha ha, just kidding. I would be happy with single digit jeans again. lets see if I can get there. In the meantime if you see me in jeans and they are to big, just cut me some slack. I dont want to go and get the right size jeans until everything is were it is soppost to be.

dumb question??

So funny how I spent the time to make my blog cute after I took the valentines backdrop down. and here I have been thinking that as I have logged onto my blog that all was well. Then I logged onto my inlaws computer and saw that I had a boaring black background. Can somone explain why when I log onto my computer at home I see all the cute polka dots and such and then on all other computers you would only see black? I think that I have it fixed now. do you see polka dots?

I am looking for great ideas

So I have decided that it was ok to post this on my blog, only because Brad doesn't check this out unless I drag him over to see somthing. But I totally want to do somthing extra special for Brad for our 5yr anniversary coming up on the 1st of March. He has taken such good care of me, and has been so supportive through my whole surgery thing that I want to make sure and come up with a great somthing. The problem is I am not very creative, so I would love some suggestions. He will love that I have somthing planned rather than telling him to be in charge:))) great restrants? great entertainment??? a fun resort in the valley?

Valentine Tatoos

So Brad really does not care for tatoo's, this means also those "rub on" ones that come with lots of the little valentine's cards these days. However Londyn and Brittany both got a couple of them yesterday. My comprimise was that if they used them they had to put them in a place that noone could see. (I do know that it takes most of the fun out of them, but that was sort of the point) however, the girls still were excited that we said yes to even that. So Britt put 2 on her belly and Londyn put a spider on her tummy. It's accually preety cute that when we look at Londyn she will pull up her shirt and scream, ahhhh theres a spider! it's extreamly funny everytime for her. Then today Londyn walked up to Brad and said, "Hey dad, do you like my spider?" he said, "No londyn, I really dont like it." she replied, "yes you do!" and once again he said, "no, I wouldn't like any of your TATOOS". She said "no sir dad I only have one, not two". ha ha she really does always pay attention to everything:)

I'm feeling challenged! (if you know what I mean)

I will apoligize right now if this is TMI, my poor hubby is always telling me that I blog with a little to much detail.
So, this morning was packed full of events that I couldnt resist sharing the laugh with. First of all I need you to remember that I had a little nip/tuck done 1 1/2 weeks ago. And because of this I have to wear this SUPER tight compression girdle body suit thing. And up to this point feeling like a child I had to ask my hubby "if it was a good time that I took a shower", only because this compression thing has clips and then zips up the side of me and even for my hubby to do, was no small task.
Well back to my morning, everything was going fantastic, britt was off to school, londyn had just been picked up for preschool and I had put Brex down for his nap. I was totally excited to get to call up my most awsome friend Larin and get to chat. Feeling successful with all of these things when Brexen's nap was cut 1 hr short of the 2 hr nap he takes. I walked into a room knowing somthing wasnt right, he had made a little poopie. Naturally I picked him up out of the crib to change him and, WRONG, this was no little poopie. It was a full blown explosion, that I was now wearing. Infact it was such a large amount that it had gone through my clothes onto, yep, you guessed it..... my compression thingy. Thank goodness I had a second one that was clean. But now was the real laugh, how was I to do this ALONE????
I thought I had all my bases covered for emergencies, however this was one I hadnot thought out. I have had oddles of friends and neighbors who have offered to help. but I quickly decided that this was not one of those good favors to ask of somone. ( Dont think I didnt contemplate calling Brad home from work for this one) anyways about 1 hr later I finally was done getting this thing on ALONE. aside from the whole naked body thing, I promise I could have charged admission for the laughs you would have received watching me try to figure out how to get dressed alone. I think I think I would consider myself a graduate now!

Great Grandpa comes to visit!

We were so happy to have my Grandpa Piepgrass over for a visit this afternoon. He lives in Utah and has been down in Mesa helping an aunt recover from an illness. He has been busy taking her to doctor visits and such and was able to get away this weekend to come see us. We LOVE GRAMPS! he is such a fun grandpa, and my kids just love him as do I. We took a walk and then was able to sit on the back porch and enjoy this awesome weather! while the kids were playing, Londyn fell and got hurt. She ran over to daddy and he said to her "poor baby" she quit crying instantly and looked at him with a very confused look and said "I'm not a poo baby!" how confusing was that for her. Ha ha, we had a good laugh about that one.

The drains come out!

This morning Brad and I went back down to Tucson for a followup apt with my doc. Today was the big "get the drains out" day. I was preety nervous about this, I have heard mixed reveiws on the pain level of this. Being the optimistic I try to be, I decided it wouldnt be to bad. Welllll let me tell you, the drains, yes I said drains with an s which means there were more than one of them that needed to come out, HURT like the dickens while comeing out. I would say that they were close to the size of my living room couch pulled through a little tiny insision. I thought I might die after the first one, so the nurse might as well finish me off by pulling the next one out. She did mention how the second is never as bad as the first one is to get out. Can I just say "LIAR" I do beleive that it was worse. Brad was shocked at what comes out, and when he said so. the nurse asked, " what were you expecting?" my husbands reply, ummm the end of the tube. Which I have to agree would have been close to my response. This whole experience will totally be worth it, but in the meantime you might get an earful of my little complaining:))))) And can I say that I do beleive that I have gained several inches of being closer to standing not so hunched over. Huge improvment!

a little update

so my update for the day is fairly short, Since I slept a good part of the day. Which was only made possible by my fabo hubby who took my son to Jami's (my sis in laws) for the day and my great friend Cindy took Londyn for the day. Britt was of course at school. I tryed to be brave and see how long I could go without my perkocets, only because you always hear how addictive they can become,blah blah blah, and I didn't want to have any kind of problems like that. Well while sleeping, all was well, and I was feeling good about how I was feeling. but then where the problem arrose was when I decided that it was time to pee! you see, I hadn't calculated that into scheduling when I would finally take more drugs. So when my husband called to tell me about his day I was able to happily announce that my hugest accomplishment of the day was being able to get up and pee without dying, which I thought was a real possibility at the time, because of the extream pain. He found that funny for a split second but then scolded me for waiting so long and made me promise to stay on top of it better. I'm glad he cares, and I promise I will do better not to put myself in that position again:))

So anyone who knows me well at all know that I have been counting down the days, hours and even minutes until I went in for surgery. Well, all of that waiting and it finally got here, I went in on Feb 1st at 7:30am to start with the IVs and such, and the last thing I remember as I was being strapped down to the table was looking at the clock at 8:00am. I can honestly say that at no point was I scared of the accually surgery, but only for the recovery and down time that I will have for the next few weeks. I dont like just sitting around feeling useless. But I also decided that now was as good a time as any since there really is no good time to take a month off of life:))) My husband has been the hugest supporter! He truly supports anything that will make me feel better about myself. He is the best! He is my own little sexy nurse man, and has taken the best care of me. He did somthing that was so funny and sweet while I was in surgery, he went and bought me a new env phone to kill some time. He downloaded as my ringtone the song "I'm bringing sexy back" by justin timberlake. How clever is he. And just for the record I plan on being so cute when this is all over with:)) he he. I know most people are hush hush about any cosmetic surgery they get done, but I am a talker and would have a hard time keeping this one a secret, because it is so exciting to me and I have talked about getting this done for atleast a good 10 yrs. so it's about dang time. Sorry that I am not brave enough to post the before, during and after pics. So just try hard to use your imagination on this one:) I will be doing alot of sitting so if anyone wants to come hang out I would love the company.