Scott's latest

Ever since the deer hunt in October Scott's been having pain in his knee. He finally decided to get it checked out considering the fact that we've had enough medical expenses this year that our deductible is paid for. So after a visit to Dr. Scott Jackson, we headed to the hosptital Monday afternoon for surgery to repair a torn meniscus.


The surgery went well, except for the expected time delay, but oddly enough, he didn't have a torn meniscus. He had a tear on the top of his femur which they shaved off.
The picture on the top right is the femur with the tear, the middle pictures are the femur after being shaved and I can't remember what the bottom ones are (I wish Doctors wouldn't trust me with so much information - Scott would probably remember better even when drugged).


He came out of the anesthesia well and was doing pretty good until we headed home and then the nausea started and continued through the night. I think that's pretty much under control now, but he's sore and hobbles around trying to be productive when he's supposed to be taking it easy. I don't think he's overdoing it, but he is a little determined, so hopefully the recovery goes smoothly from here on out.

While I was waiting for him I had the delightful opportunity of seeing Tami Barben and her adorable chubby little Elli. They are hoping she will be coming home soon. They just need to get her to eat, apparently when they clamped the valve in her heart they also clamped a nerve to her left vocal chords, so they are paralyzed (she will heal, but it will take a long time) so that complicates her swallowing. Anyway, she is beautiful and doing well and they are excited to have her home.


So that night after getting Scott settled I got the kids down to bed - well at least Ryan. Izzy fell asleep at Mom's while they were reading stories so she didn't want to go to sleep. She read and colored and snuck down to watch the end of the Lizzie Mcquire movie (I was crocheting and it was on Disney Channel). After that she helped me medicate Scott and then after I was all ready for bed (11:30) I climbed in bed with her. She tossed and turned and sang and laughed but then I heard her start to sing a new Primary song that she has been learning when her nursery class comes into singing time about Joseph Smith. I started to sing with her and she closed her eyes to listen. When I finished the song she whispered, "Again." I sang it again and then she whispered, "One more time." Sure enough as I finished it the third time she was out. Sweet girl. Kudos to primary music and primary music leaders (Deanne!).

Marshmallow World

It's a Marshmallow World in the winter, when the snow comes to cover the ground...(just in case you think I'm just being poetic, this is a song).

So to the delight of my family it snowed, snowed, snowed yesterday!! Scott was lamenting about the rain as we came home from a lunch with his brothers and sisters. Then we look out the window a few hours later and "WOW!"

They lost no time in getting into the snow gear (which I purchased during the previous snowstorm at Walmart - spending a pretty penny on boots, gloves and snow pants - Scott says I'm to shop at DI next year.)

I smiled as I dressed them all and herded them out the door with no intention of following (I don't love to be cold - I know I'm a spoilsport) until I remembered my friend Deanne's blog about sledding last week and I thought - I can do this, I am capable of having fun in the snow. So I put on my snow gear, took a few pictures of the snow and followed them to my parents where Scott was pulling the kids on sleds behind the 4-wheeler. I didn't last as long as everyone else, but we had a marvelous time and then came home to leftover soup (see previous post) and warm baths. It was a great night! (Thank Deanne!)

Random Thoughts

Izzy wanted candy right after breakfast this morning. I told her no and she sighed and said, "You're such a boring mom...you can't live at my house." "Where should I live?" I asked. "At the airport." she replied.
I've never thought about living there, I do love flying though, so...
I made Mom's asparagus chowder for the Stake Presidency Social last night. I have to admit that it feels great to have moments when what I create tastes just like Mom's. Ahhh, it was delightful. (There were leftovers, so I'm looking forward to lunch!!)
I went to Mimi's this week with my clogging friends and I have to say that it continually surprises me how much joy I find in something that's technically exercising. I love, love, love it!!

ps -I started this a week ago and finished today (Dec. 7) - I don't know how to change the date

So I just asked Izzy about a scrape on her finger. She told me she got it from Scott's tool stuff. When I told her she shouldn't be playing with his tools she responded, "I didn't! It just jumped into my finger! Really, it did! I'm telling the truth!"

We had a family night lesson on being honest this week and apparently this is the result.

A few weeks ago Ryan found a small lego piece and he told me it was one of the Eddy's. I asked him how it came to be at our house and he replied, "I don't know...maybe it traveled in my pocket."

Honesty...it's a work in progress over here.

For those of you who don't know, we have a little cat in our family now. She is a very sweet and calm cat and amazingly patient for what she puts up with from Isabelle. Izzy named her Sparkles and then changed it to Seraphina, so now she is Seraphina-Sparkles Johnson - although Ryan thinks we should have Scott as a middle name, so add that in as well. Did I tell you she is patient? She would have to be with a name like that. Honestly, she mostly gets called cat or kitty.

pictures?

Okay, it would be wise for me to have someone teach me what to do, but now I'm going to attempt to add pictures since I didn't on the last one and I can't see how to add after publishing - if you don't want to be a learning guinea pig, check back in a few weeks, maybe I'll have it by then!

By the way, I am aware that Ryan looks like a Jedi in the Mickey picture, he was wearing Scott's jacket and couldn't get out of it fast enough for the quick picture. Oh well, who says we don't have style?

Disneyland

So I'm venturing into the world of the bloggers and although I may not be all that literate, I hope it helps to keep us connected to y'all that we love.



So our Disneyland trip was a wonderful success!!! We had such a marvelous time. Although we didn't get as much Allen time as we may have hoped, it was really great to ride the rides with those that we could!



The princess lunch was very fun and I have to admit that Isabelle is hilarious. I really brought her a princess dress to wear, but she only wanted her fancy shoes, so as the pictures were being taken she had a hard time holding still because she wanted her shoes showing.



Ryan came home with an Indiana Jones dress-up set and tried to sneak his machete to church for choir practice yesterday. I confiscated it and then Scott took over and had a few swings before I had to take it from him too. I guess there is always a bit of kid in us!