Well it looks like I have neglected my poor blog again.. Have a little catching up to do... And now that family is gone( boo hoo I miss having them here) I can finally do a little catching up on my computer time..
So let's begin with January... On the 13th I had back surgery on my lower back to repair 2 herniated bulging discs. When I fractured my hip I started having back problems at the same time and found out that I had 2 herniated discs. One which was pretty bad and was pinching my sciatic nerve and causing me a lot of pain. I ended up in the E.R with such scruciating pain tha it took 3 shots of pain killers the last being morphine on top of the 10 mg of lortab that I had already taken at home to finally calm it down.. Can we say overdose!!! I have never been so drugged in my life.. Even then I still felt the pain. It was the worst thing I have ever gone through.. So anyway after my parents went home after christmas, 2 weeks later my mom came back to help take care of me and my family while I recooped.. The doctor said I had the worst herniated discs he has ever seen in 25 years.. I also had alot of debris floating around my nerve so he was able to shave the discs and clean all the stuff up.. It went really well and I finally have feeling back in my leg and foot.. Yeah!!!
It has been a very slow recovery. 2 steps forward and 1 back.. I have finally finished up my physical therapy as of last week and I am doing pretty good.. I have got the OK to get back into my fitness regimen as long as I go slow and take it easy and gradually work into it.. So for the last couple of weeks I have started speed walking/ running and it has felt so good to get back out.. Today was absolutly amazing.. I was able to run about 2 miles total with walking in between and it felt great.. I am a little stiff and sore but nothing to bad.. I cant wait to get back to running long distances again..
February was a big month for us.. Jessies Birthday was on the 2nd and she turned 8.. She was so excited to get baptized.. Grandma Palmer gave her a prettiest white dress for her special day.. We sent her on a treasure hunt to find all her presents.
We also got alot of snow for winter this year and we built a huge slide that ran off our driveway and down the hill.. The kids had a blast taking their sleds down it.. We even had all the kids in the neighborhood showing up to play on it..
Jessie on her baptism day.. She looked so beautiful.
Then on the 27th it was Allie's 13th birthday.. I now officially have a teenage girl!! Heaven help me!! She was a little dissapointed this year for her birthday. We were supposed to take her and some friends to the rec center to go swimming and have a pizza party but she came down sick and was running a fever so we had to cancel the party. :( But she was pretty excited to get her team Edward shirt...
Instead of cake she opted for her favorite double fudge brownies this year..
Then came March... My mom had to finally go back home after staying with us since practically December.. We had so much fun with her here though.. We miss her so much... And then Steve's parents came 2 days prior to my mom leaving so they could be here for Jessie's baptism as well.. It was so good to have them come out.. This was the first time they have actually came and stayed with us since we moved from Utah. We had lots of fun with them here and wish we could of had a little more time with them. There was so much we wanted to show them but just couldnt fit it all in... Then came Easter. It was nice to have it over Conference weekend so there was no rush to get up and look for eggs before going to church..
We had our first outdoor meal on our deck Easter afternoon. It was so good. I made a ham, funeral potatoes, deviled eggs, a big vegetable platter and a rainbow jellow salad. It was delish.. But it just wasnt the same not being able to share it with our extended family.. It's really hard to be away from our family's for the holidays...
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