Michael's Surgery

On February 12th we drove down to Utah so Michael could have surgery done on his pressure sores. He had a doctors appointment on Thursday and they scheduled the surgery for Friday afternoon. The surgery went good. They made an incision from his upper thigh down to his knee on both legs and stretched his muscle over to his pressure sores. They also took muscle from his thigh to fill in his big sore. The surgery took 4 hours and he had to recover for an hour before we could see him. Everthing went good though and he had no pain at all. He had to stay in the hospital for 7 days and then be on bed rest for 3 more weeks. After the 3 weeks he has to slowly adjust back into the wheelchair and we aren't sure how long that will take. But Michael has a time frame and that is better than what he had before the surgery. And hopefully it will be a permanent fix and we won't have to repeat the process.

Hannah and Gavin had a hard time staying in the hopsital. Michael had to share his room and there wasn't much room to get down and play.

Gavin tried to get down and crawl but he always found trouble. At one point he hit something on the air bed and set off alarms. It took two nurses to figure out what Gavin had hit.

Angela came to the hopsital a couple of times to help me with the kids. Thanks Ang!

Valentine's Day

Michael had to spend Valentine's Day in the hospital, so we made him hearts to show him how much we love him. Hannah cut out hearts and put glitter on them. When we got to the hospital we hung them up on the wall so he could look at them all the time.

This was the first time Hannah has used scissors and she did a really good job!

I tried to get a cute pictures of my kids but the weren't cooperating, but Gavin made this really cute face. And notice Hannah sticking out her tongue in the background! :)

Amber and Camryn came to see Mike in the hospital. Camryn is getting soooo big! I was so glad we got to see them!

Mommy and Gavin! Gavin is doing his famous wave! I need to get it on the video camera.

Hannah loved her Valentine's gifts from mom and dad. She also got some coloring books.

When we got home from the hospital Angela had two sets of flowers on her bed from Dwaine. She put them in a vase and showed Dwaine. He said she messed it up because one set of roses were for me. It was so sweet that he got me flowers too!

Gavin made a huge mess in his new Valentine's Day shirt but he looked so cute!

Shopping and Hanging out at Angela's

In Utah we did a lot of shopping. It was so much fun, since it's something I don't get to do too often. There's not much shopping to do in McCall.

Mom looks sooo good! She bought some really cute shirts for a really good price!

The two pregos! I can't wait to see their babies!

We wore Gavin out with all the shopping! He actually did pretty good considering his naps were all messed up!

Hannah had a blast playing with Angela's two bunnies! They were really cute!

Baby Registry

While in Utah Ashley and Angela registered for their baby shower. We went to Babies-R-Us and Target. It was a lot of fun. Before we went to Babies-R-US we went to Ross where Ashley found this crib set for $30. It is really cute. When we went to Babies-R-Us we saw the exact same set for $170. She got an awesome buy!

Isn't Gavin so darn cute!

Who needs diapers and wipes?

Grandma B had to help me with Hannah. Hannah thought the whole store was her playground. She was running around everywhere. Thanks mom!!!

Dinosuar Museum

We went to the Dinosaur Museum and Hannah was sooooo excited! She has had a fascination with dinosaurs lately.

Ashley and Hannah posing by a dino leg.

Ashley and Angela crawling through a cave.

Hannah and Mommy

Don't they look so cool ?!?

This is a huge turtle! The arm span is 16 feet long. I can't even imagine seeing this turtle alive!

Hannah and mommy uncovering a dinosaur buried in the sand.

And of course we had to get a picture of the pregnancy bellies!

Peyton and Hannah

We love to match the two 3 year olds. Even though Hannah is older she is always shorter! :)

Winter Carnival 2009

We had to get to the Winter Carnival Parade early to get a spot. There were a lot of people in Mccall!

Gavin and I all bundled up!

Mom and Dad~ aren't they so cute!

Ashley and Thayne ( and baby)

Peyton and Thayne- The little girls thought they had to see the parade from above.

Hannah and Ashley

This was the coolest float! They made a dinosaur out of a back hoe that moved its neck and roared. Hannah LOVED IT!

Full body shot.

This horse was soooooo beautiful and VERY big!

The preschool made flower costumes and rode in the float. My friend's daughter was on this float.

We went to see the sculptures after the parade. This sculpture won first place. It was so cool!

This was a knight in front of the first place sculpture.

In the back was a king and queen. A great place for pictures!

Hannah went into a tower for a cute picture!

And there was a slide for the kids. This whole sculpture was soooo slick! A little girl slipped and fell and cut open her head and had a bloody mouth. We had to be really careful when walking around this on.

Behind Chapala's was a cool old fashion car that you could sit in.

This sculpture was HUGE! It was a huge tower with a forest around it. On each of the trees was a different face!

This was in front of the Mill. It had a dragon, castle, and wizard.

Frontier did a sculpture of a bear with glass fish jumping up stream.

Shore Lodge did a sculpture of a boat with waves.

And this is the famous Lake monster "Charlie". I couldn't get a full body shot, but the body looks like it is going in and out of the water.

Of course the hospital had to do a sculpture of veggies. It was actually cute.