It's gonna be surgery

I went to the hand Dr. the other day for another follow up with my wrist and thumb. Nothing has changed. I've been to two and a half months of therapy, steriod injections, steriod cream and anti-inflamitories, and it still kills and my thumb locks out of joint. So, the final and last step is Surgery. I go in for surgery on November the 11th. It's just an outpatient surgery and he said about a week recovery. Meaning I can't use my hand at all, which stinks seeing's how I'm left handed. He really doesn't want me to use it at all right now. Which has been pretty hard, but Matt has been a huge help. He's been doing laundry, dishes and cleaning and even making some meals. Since he's going to school full time and is at home, it has been a great blessing, especially with Colton. Hopefully surgery will fix the problem, the Dr. seems to think it will.

PEEK-A-BOO!

The other day, Matt and I were working on one of his finals, and we heard Colton saying, "A Boo", A Boo". We turned around and saw Colton playing Peek-A-Boo with us. He was hiding in a mail tub. It was pretty cute. Last week Colton got his 1 yr check up. Not too fun with all the shots, but he was pretty well considering, they drew his blood and had 6 shots. He is still a small boy. He is in the 2% for his weight, which he weighs 18.75lbs and for his height 77%, he is 31inches. So, he gained a half of a pound and grew 3 inches in 2 months. Which I can't believe, because he is always eating. The Dr. said not to worry about it, he has just always been tall and skinny for his age. We know he isn't malnurished, and he's happy. He has started closing doors in rooms and he locks himself in there, I think it's kinda funny, because he doesn't know how to open the door using a door knob, plus he can't reach it. He just closes them. He is trying to talk a lot more also. And he loves to give open mouth kisses.

The Year of A Million Dreams!!

Well we spent a very long week at Disneyland. It was fun and all, just not as exciting as Disney World. But, overall we had a blast. We stayed with Bean and John on Sunday night, on our way down. Usually it only takes about 10-12 hrs. to Bean's but, Sunday, it took 15 hrs. The had the ag station checking every vechicle and it was backed up for a good hour or so. And we had head on Santa Ana winds. Sunday night was rough, Colton was sleeping in the same bed as us and then about 2:00 am, he started screaming, at first I thought he just didn't know where he was or that he was stuck, but when the screaming didn't stop and lasted, I knew something was wrong, I figured he probably had another earache. So, Matt and Dad gave him a blessing and he immediatley calmed down. I love the power of the priesthood, it's amazing. What a great blessing to have a husband and a father who is worthy of holding and using the Priesthood.

We decided to take him to instacare, because, by the time he is screaming they are usually bad. He never shows any signs before they are really bad, no fever or irritability, or tugging. Well we finally got into see the pediatric dr. yep, he had an earache, then we got home at 5:00 am.

Needless to say our first day at Disney, we were exhausted!!! Colton was fine for the most part.

We'll Colton didn't actually like the characters. He loved the princesses' and liked Eyore, but who doesn't like Eyore. We met up with one of Dad's friends, Don Palouff, it was fun to see him, he hasn't changed much, just gotten older like the rest of us.

It's funny, I don't remember the Castle being that small. When I was young the castle was huge. It's not as big as Disney World. I loved seeing everything again at Disneyland, it reminded me of when I was little and we would go during the summer's.

It was fun being there in October, they were all decorated for Halloween, it was really cute.

Matt was so excited to show Colton all that Disney has to offer and Colton, well he's too young to really get it, but he did really like the horse drawn carriages. He called the horse's, dog's. Matt was in line with Colton to ride Dumbo, and I had picked the perfect spot for picture's, well the line was kinda long and it was hot, well Matt made it up to be on the next rides looked down and Colton was asleep. Poor, Matt. It was so funny!! It seemed like whenever we went on a ride that was in the dark, out he went. Didn't matter that it was so loud in there. He slept right through it. The temperature was really hot for this time of year. It was at least 95 degrees everyday.

We had a lot of fun, thanks mom and dad for going with us!! We made great memories.

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This is how Colton was every night, it must have been from all those naps during the day!! Excuse my mom's feet, Colton didn't really know I was recording if he had, he would have stopped.

Disneyland Here We Come

Yep, it's true...We leave tomorrow for a whole week. We are so excited. Monday night we are having dinner with Goofy.

I'll post pictures and tell you all about it when we get back.

Till then....

I looked out the Window and What Did I See...

Snow, We couldn't believe our eyes. Yep it snowed for the first time this year. It just didn't stick. It's 40 degrees outside right now at 1:31 pm, it's warmed up.

Fall Centerpieces

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Here are some centerpieces and wreaths I did for family and a friend. I love making these, they help get me in the mood for the holidays.

Doggy

Here are Colton's dog's. He loves his dog's sooo much. Grandma and Grandad Parker felt bad that he was carrying around a slipper and giving it loves, so they got him a stuffed animal. He still loves the slipper just as much as his new dog.