Month: July 2012

There’s No Place Like Home!

There’s No Place Like Home!

Good afternoon! I am very pleased to announce that Jason and I are finally back at home! You know what they say, “Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home!” and baby, is that ever true!!! YEAH!! Jason is doing GREAT!!! He is 

Jason’s Post Surgery Update!

Jason’s Post Surgery Update!

Good afternoon! I apologize for the delay in getting this post out, but we have been a little busy! 🙂 Jason is doing extremely well! He is currently napping, but has been up walking, has had his imaging tests, and upper GI that we are 

Better Late Than Never!

Better Late Than Never!

Good afternoon!

This is Jason playing with his Sophie girl this morning before we headed off to the hospital!

So as for my updated…

WHEW! It has already been a looooong morning of waiting our turn, but Jason has finally gotten in to get his surgery started! He ended up going back about an hour after he was originally scheduled to.

They took Jason back to his pre-op room first and got his IV started and whatnot, more on that in just a minute, but this is Jason totally excited that he has complete control of the remote control to the television!!! LOL!! He is too funny!!

As for the “other prep” they did, unbeknownst to either of us beforehand, they shaved his stomach from chest to groin!! It kind of looked like they had shaved a bear of his sweater!! It is quite a look! 😉 and it makes me laugh thinking about how badly that is going to itch once it starts to grow back in!!! I am sorry love, beauty can be painful!!! LOL!! 😉

He is in great spirits, and was busy making myself and all of the staff he came into contact with laugh!! He is such a charmer!! Even with his surgical hat which makes me think of him having some kind of jiffy-popped head!!! LOL!! Do you remember those?? 😉

Oh, and I can not forget! Jason weighed in this morning as having lost a total of 67 pounds since he first started this journey in April!! Which means he has lost an additional 6 pounds since just yesterday – the stinker!! 😉 I am very proud of him, and I know he has definitely earned his success!!! 😉

Anyway, it sounds like the surgery is going to take between 3-3 1/2, so I will be busy trying to keep myself busy in the surgical waiting room – hoping that time doesn’t just draaaaag on!!! but we will see!!!

My next update might not be until later this evening, but I will make sure to keep everyone posted on how he is doing!!! 😉

Here is to a long, but hopefully a-atypically-patient-waiting-kind-of afternoon!! 😉

 If you want to have a different life, you have to live differently!

 

Off We Go!

Off We Go!

Good morning! Well, we are up and at-em this morning! Just about ready to head out to the hospital!! Jason is feeling “Great!”, but he is pretty antsy!! He even made me breakfast this morning!!! WHO IS TAKING CARE OF WHOM HERE??? 😉 Anyway, his 

Getting Ready for The Big Day!

Getting Ready for The Big Day!

Good evening! So tomorrow is the big day; my sweetie is having his gastric bypass surgery in the morning at 11 am. He has worked so hard to get to where he is now. He has gone to every appointment, made every goal, documented and 

A Splash Bash Kind of Sunday!

A Splash Bash Kind of Sunday!

Good evening!

WARNING: this is going to be a photo-centric post. OK, you have been forewarned!!! 😉

Today was our church’s annual Splash Bash, which by the way, just happened to be my sweetie and my first, Splash Bash!! and let me tell you…it was

SOOOOOO MUCH FUN!!!

So what is a Splash Bash? Well, it is a community get together at our church, where there are 5 large water features brought in for the afternoon. Then everyone in the community is invited to join us for some Summertime fun, getting wet, having a delicious dinner and some yummy desserts, spend some time getting to know each other, and generally just have a CRAZY-ZANY DAY OF FUN!!! 😉

The weather today wasn’t as hot as it has been this past week, which would have normally been a downer, but it turned out to be really quite a great day for our water-filled day!!! It was overcast, which meant it was not too hot to be outside, and there weren’t any sunburns to be had -YEAH!!

So, I took so many pictures of today, and really am excited to be able to share them with you, so let’s get this party started!!! 😉

There were these 5 AMAZING blow-up features that were brought in for the afternoon! 3 of them were water features and 2 were regular blow-up type rides, where kids could climb, slide, jump, and play!

 

I did not get wet today – being a “Dry Girl”, and wanting to take pictures – I knew that getting wet was not going to be feasible without ruining my camera! Seeing this ride kinda made me second guess my decision to stay dry!!

You had to run, jump, slide, splash, and try not to fly off the end of the slide!!! That appeared easy for most of the people that were playing on this slide, however, when it came to the big guys playing on the slide – they really had some difficulty stopping and would occasionally go flying off the end!! There were between 3 and 5 adults standing at the end of the slide to try and “catch” the men before they went flying! It was quite funny for all of us bystanders!!! 😉

 

Jason patiently waiting, and wet, in line for his turn! 😉

There was no falling gracefully when it came to this slide!! It was also funny, because when a larger person jumped down the left-hand-side, and a small person was waiting on the right hand side for his turn to go up – the right hand side person sometimes got catapulted into the air! Kind of two rides in one, if you ask me!! 😉

Here is Jason and Bethany, trying to stop Zach from flying off the end of the slide!! Beware if you should happen to be standing behind this group because they splash created when the slider hit the wall was HUGE, and you were almost guaranteed to get wet!!! Lesson learned the hard way! 😉

See what I mean? This was Jason and his splash!! 😉

 

Here is the fearless BoobieJo!

She really impressed me with her ability to fly down this slide!! She had the most graceful slide out of most anyone who slid down this thing!! At least she was able to stay right side up!!! YOU GO MISS BOBBIEJO!!! 😉

 

They also served dinner, and afterward had a HUGE buffet of pot luck desserts!! It was soooo hard to behave myself and enjoy a treat in moderation!! Thankfully Jason was there, and was able to help me keep my dessert intake into perspective!! Thank you, Love! I couldn’t do it without your help! 😉

If the awesome rides were not enough, they even had these cool water shooters that, of course, my sweetie found and quickly proceeded to get into a water fight with these really little kids, who just thought he was the coolest adult every!!!

 

Jason even jokingly started to refer to this cute little guy as his “arch-nemesis”, and would feign pain and fear whenever this little cutie was able to figure out how to work his water shooter!! LOL!!! Jason is the cutest oversized ‘4-year-old’ that you have ever seen!!! 😉

 

Then the calvary AKA, Zach, came in to save the little kiddos! and Jason and him spent the next half an hour or so hiding amongst the large rides, and trying to ambush each other and douse the other with cold water!! I apologize to any innocent bystanders who may have been harmed in this afternoon of fun! I try to keep him check, but alas, there are times when he has the uncanny ability to just run amok!! 😉

This is the face of a man who knows when he has been beat!! LOL!!! 😉

 

and of course, just to prove that I was really there, I decided to slip this little pic in to the mix!! 😉

It really was a great day, and maybe, just maybe, next year I may even convert and become a ‘get wet girl’ instead of ‘dry girl’, but I am NOT going to make any promises!!! With that said, we are both pleasantly tired and ready to have a nice quiet evening at home!!!

Here is to a FABULOUS evening!! ;-)

 If you want to have a different life, you have to live differently!

Hiking Silver Creek Falls!

Hiking Silver Creek Falls!

Good evening! I have some very exciting news that I am sooooo excited to share with you. Ok, so in all honesty, it is really exciting to my sweetie and I, and maybe not so much for you, but all the same, I am still 

We Found Our Church Home!!!

We Found Our Church Home!!!

Good afternoon! I am sooooo excited to write today’s post!! To say that my sweetie and I have had a good day is SUCH AN UNDERSTATEMENT!!! Just look at these two happy faces!!!! It has been a FABULOUSLY BLESSED day!!! 😉 Many of you may 

Friday Night Update!

Friday Night Update!

Good evening!

My sweetie and I just got back from having fun exercising in the pool! I am such a lucky girl to be able to have so much fun living and playing with my best friend!! I really do love that man, in case there was any question!! 😉

Anyway, I digress!

Ok, I have a confession. This week has just been a roller coaster of emotions! My sweetie is about 2 weeks away from his bariatric surgery; matter-of-fact, he is getting ready to go on his 2-week-pre-bariatric-surgery-diet. It has really gotten here sooooo quickly, and although I am SUPER happy for him, I am feeling a little left behind. Of course, him being a man, he is losing weight soooooo much faster than I am!! With my surgery almost 2 months away, it feels like it might as well be EONS out on the calendar! I know I am being irrational, and that it doesn’t matter who goes first, or who attains their goal first – we ARE doing this together!! So, God bless my man – he is being sooooo UBER patient with me and my craziness!! 😉

OK, WHEW!!! I FEEL SO MUCH BETTER NOW!! 😉

Anyway, did I tell you that I now have a c-pap machine to help me sleep at night? Not my favorite apparatus, HOWEVER, I finally have a mask that doesn’t hurt, leak, or squeak!!! (3rd times the charm!) Apparently, I have a VERY SMALL nose – who knew??? I am in a petite face mask – PETITE!!! this is the FIRST TIME THAT has ever happened!! HA! HA!!! but, I tell you what – to be called tiny ANYWHERE on my body????

I WILL SOOOOO TAKE IT!!! 😉

What else?? I am sure there has to be more, it has been soooo long since I have last posted, but I am coming up blank right now – my sweetie just commented that is because I haven’t arted in a while, and I am sure he is right! I hate it when he is right!! (not, really love, *WINK*!)

Anyway, my official plan for this weekend, is to get some much needed errands done, try to stay cool on these hot Summer days, and to get some reading and arting done! I also want to make sure I get some new pictures to post, to share more of what is going on in our lives! In the meantime, I am going to open all the windows in the house to see if I can’t get this place cooled down so that we can get some much needed sleep!!

Here is to a FABULOUS evening!! ;-)

 If you want to have a different life, you have to live differently!