Happy Birthday, Regan!!

It feels like I just keep doing birthday posts!  Today is Regan's 14th birthday! It seems like not too long ago she looked like this:

 She still does that goofy smile.

Regan still cracks me up.  She's so sarcastic and I have no idea where she got that!  Must be from her dad.  She's such a good soul and never wavers in her quest to do what right.  I'm so proud of her and so happy she is my first born. 

Love you, Regan.  Happy Birthday!!!

Happy Birthday, Zoey!

My baby is 5!!!

And yes, I'm wondering where all the time has gone.  At least, I get one more year before she goes into Kindergarten. 

Zoey rules her siblings.  She can get them to do anything for her.  She starts to cry and they do everything they can to get her to smile.  She knows how to work the system!  She's so smart and love to play with her family.  She loves dance and pre-school!  And she has the weirdest fear of fire truck/ police car sirens.  It's a serious fear.  She freaks when she hears sirens.  And we have the fortune of living across the street from a fire station.  Makes life fun.

Zoey has the greatest laugh!  You can't help but laugh with her!  It's the best sound in the world!

We love you, Zoey!  Happy Birthday!

Photorefractive Keratectomy or PRK

I have so much to blog about, but that will have to wait for a while.  If I stay too long on the computer, it starts to make my eyes go buggy.  In fact, their bugging me now!

On Friday, July 8th, I had PRK surgery.  It's a type of laser vision correction surgery.  Kind of the old school LASIK.  See, my eyes weren't compatible with the newer stuff and I had to go with the old version, if I wanted vision correction surgery at all.  I'm not sure I really understood what the difference was going to be.  I should have treated it like the major surgery it was, but I chose to treat it like LASIK, sure I would be back to church by Sunday.  Not so.  By Monday night I thought I would go crazy!

Let me explain the difference between the surgeries.  And if you are a little squeemish, I suggest you skip to the next paragragh.  In LASIK, they cut a flap in the top layer of your eye and reshape your eye with the laser so that your eye will interpret what you see correctly.   When the reshaping is done they fold that flap back over and it adhears to your eye.  With PRK, they completly remove the top layer of your eye and then reshape it.  Then you have to regrown the top layer.  Takes a bit more time to do that.

With LASIK you are pretty much seeing the next day.  With PRK, it could take up to six months before everything is really crisp and my eyes are fluxuating pretty good.  Somedays I see well, other's not so much.  The first weekend was terrible!  Everything was blurry, I couldn't read or get on the computer and the tv was really fuzzy.  By Monday night, I was so bored!  And I had so much to do and couldn't see to get it done!  I so wasn't prepared. 

Scott helped out a lot on the weekend, but had to return to work on Monday.   By Tuesday, the kids had places they had to be and my vision wasn't great.  Not terrible, but not great.  And yes, I did drive.  I had to!  Luckily they were all close by, so no accidents.  Luckily. 

My eyes are still fluxuating, but not really badly.  My left eye seems to be good, but the right eye is still pretty bad.  It feels a lot like I'm running around with only one contact in.  I'm not really feeling the advantage of the surgery, yet.  I'm still fussing with my eyes so much that it feels just like with contacts. 

Yes, this is all normal.  They warned me all about this before the surgery. I just didn't hear them very clearly.  And I know that by Christmas I'll be really happy I can see without contacts or glasses.  I'm just really ready to be able to read without having to rest my eyes every minute, because the words are blurring!

It may take another week or so before I can blog about all the fun stuff we've been doing this summer, but I will!  Keep checking back!

Just My Luck

So, this is how things work in this household.  Whenever, there is new technology purchased, Scott gets the lastest and greatest and I get his hand me downs.  It's just how it works. 

So, yesterday, my lovely son thought he could play a game on my iPhone and pee at the same time.  Yes,  I said pee.  And you can imagine how that worked out.  He's not as talented as he thought.  So, now my phone isn't functional.  I guess the good thing about it all is I get a new phone.  And maybe an iPhone 4!  Woo Hoo!!!  I get the new technology before my husband!  I will have the better phone!!!  Yes!!!

Well....not so much.  Seems my phone isn't eligable for an upgrade.  So I pay a small fortune for a new phone or I wait until August to upgrade.  I can't even get my same phone without paying more for it now, than I did origionally!!  Are you kidding me?!  But the "good" news is that Scott's number is eligable for a upgrade.  Seriously?!  So, now, the cheapest way to fix this is by Scott getting the new iPhone 4 and I get his current phone.  Figures.

Happy Birthday, Porter!!

My only son turned 7 today.  I can't believe how fast they grow.  It seems like not too long ago he looked like this:

And yes, he really did sleep like that.  It was the funniest thing!

Porter is hilarious!  Just two days ago he said to me, "Mom, I can't wait until tomorrow, then I can say I can't wait until tomorrow!"  He was talking about his birthday.  And I love how he calls instructions, "constructions"!  He's a total momma's boy and I love it!  He loves to snuggle with me and I'll be so sad when he doesn't want to anymore!

Porter loves his lego's.  He could sit and build things all day long.  He's been playing baseball this year and has been having so much fun.  But I think he loves the social aspect of it more than the game.  Surprise, surprise.  I can't figure out why my kids are so social.  Hum. He's been quoting movies a lot, too.  We just introduced the kids to Monty Python's The Holy Grail the other night and that's all he's quoting now!  So, Uncle Ken and Uncle Jordan, you'll have another inductee to your group at Lake Powell this year!

Happy Birthday, Bud!!

PAC 12, BABY!!!

A couple of weeks ago, the University of Utah held it's annual Spring Football game.  It's a chance to see the team as they play each other and get excited about the coming year.  It's was especially exciting this year, because of this:

 They put the new logo on the field.  It was pretty cool and you could feel the excitement of the fans who were there.

The kids got a little bored with the game and I can't really blame them.  Let's just say the offense needs some work, but the defense looked great!

 After the game, they let people down on the field.  The kids thought that was so awesome!  They ran around and for some reason, kept petting the field. 

My kids are weird.

Once Upon A Time....

There was a little princess named Zoey.  Zoey got a bad infestation of sugar bugs.  And we all know what sugar bugs do.  They put holes in your teeth!  So, Zoey called for the tooth doctor to fix her tooth.  The tooth doctor had all the magical tools to get those ugly sugar bugs out of her teeth.  But the tooth doctor had one more magical thing.....a Twinky Star!  Twinky Star's come in all sort of colors and they fill the holes that sugar bugs leave.  Well, you know that all princess' love the color pink....so Zoey chose a pink Twinky Star to fill the hole in her tooth.

And the sugar bugs were vanquished from Princess Zoey's mouth!!  

At least for now.

St. George Competition!

I've been such a slacker!!  OK, not so much a slacker as busy.  My life is really busy right now.  So, I've neglected our annual St. George trip for dance. 

I guess I was putting it off, because this year was a little flat.  My parents couldn't come this year and Hali and Porter were getting over being sick and Scott was coming down with the same thing and it poured rain.  But I do have some cute pictures for you!

This is Hali's cute team!  This is for their Jazz dance to the song "Forget You" from Glee.  Love this dance!  Hali is in pink, third from the left.

 Close up in all her heavily made-up glory!

 Sunday morning I woke up to these two beauties cuddling in their sleep.  Heart melter!

The team took a first in their lyrical and a fourth in their Jazz.  They took a first in both just last weekend so they are getting better!

Sunday we had to wake up early and rush home to Salt Lake, because that was the day they put me into my new calling.  It was a fun, but quick weekend.  And cold.  I really wanted it to be warmer.  Bummer.  I guess there is always next year!!