Surgery update

Surgery went well. I had to be there at 6:45 and I went into surgery at 8:15. I woke up in recovery around 9:15 and didn't have a clue where I was for about 3-4 minutes. I am pretty sure I remember the doctor coming in but I have no clue what he said to me. I have a post-op appointment next Wednesday so I am sure I will find out then what they did to me. My knee is pretty sore, but I am keeping up with the pain medicine so it's not too bad. I thought I would do a quick update as I am not supposed to be sitting here at my computer. So, it's back to bed I go.

Happy Memorial Day!

We just got back from a fun-filled, long race weekend at the Lowes Motor Speedway in Charlotte, NC for the NASCAR races. I have never really been a fan of the races, but after this weekend I might be a changed person. I have to admit that going to the races and watching all the excitement happen first hand was pretty cool. Michael's company is a big sponsor for NASCAR. We went to the CARQUEST 300 on Saturday and the Coca-Cola 600 yesterday. We were at the track for approx. 24 hours over the course of the two days we were there. I think it was a little overkill but it was fun. We toured the Hendricks Motorsports complex where they make the cars, engines, etc. for Casey Mears, Dale Earnhardt, Jr., Jimmy Johnson and Jeff Gordon. Casey Mears is the driver for the CARQUEST/Kellogg's car. I even got my picture with him...Ok, so it was a cardboard cut-out. I could have gotten my picture with him the night he came to the hotel to speak to the CARQUEST folk, but we didn't wait in line. We decided to head up to our room to sleep instead.

We took tours of the pit and also the garage area. Unfortunately we didn't take the camera with us the day of the garage tour because I didn't want to carry it around. We didn't actually know we were doing that tour or I would have brought it. This is what we could have gotten close to had we brought the camera. We were up close and personal with the crew of the cars, NASCAR officials and the cars. We watched the races from a suite. I don't think it would have been the same if we had actually been in the grandstands watching it. We didn't hear the loudness of the cars like we would have or felt the rumbling. I can't complain though since they did provide us with food and drink. During the race we listened with scanners to the crews and drivers talking to each other. I would click over to any of the cars that would make pit stops or that crashed to hear what they would say. I think the race would have been much more boring without the use of the scanners. At the end of the big race there were two people that could have won and the person that was ahead told his crew he had a flat front tire on the last 3 laps. So the second place guy, Kasey Kahne, won. It was pretty exciting.

Tomorrow I am in for another fun-filled morning. I am having my knee surgery. I am hoping all goes well and I won't be in too much pain afterwards. I could use your prayers and thoughts. I have to be at the surgery center at 6:45 AM! UGH!! Right now I am off to pick up the house since I will be laid up for 3 days in bed. That is going to be SOOOOO much fun!

American Idol...YAY!!

I am so happy that David Cook won! I was hoping it would be him. Since I live in Utah I guess I should have been pulling for David Archuletta but I wasn't. Don't get me wrong, he has a great voice, but his song choices just didn't do it for me. He is too young to be singing the songs he was singing. All his songs sounded the same to me. Now David Cook on the other hand, I LOVE his voice and the song choices. I can't wait for his CD to come out!!

Iron Man

Yesterday was pretty good for Mother's Day. We didn't do much. We did go see this movie. I had asked Cameron what he wanted to do and he said "Go to a movie". So, go to a movie we did. It was a good show. I'm sure we will end up buying it since Cameron loved it so much.

Cameron made me a coupon book for Mother's Day. The last coupon was for babysitting. I asked him who he was going to babysit and he said the dog. Too cute!

.....waiting!

The wait is on. For what you ask? I applied to the Dental Hygiene school on Thursday. I'm pretty sure I am going to be accepted, but they would be putting me in to start the Fall of 2010! I am hoping that it really doesn't take that long. I'm hoping it is one year or less.

What's on your agenda today? We have a soccer game to go to then I *think* I will come home and primer the bedroom to get it ready to paint. I also want to decide what I want to do with the front flower bed.

Catching up

I forgot to post that Cameron participated in the Raingutter Regatta at the last scout pack meeting. He had fun decorating the boat and getting it ready for the big day. Doesn't he look so big? I can't believe how fast the time has gone by and how big he is getting. He is working hard at finishing up his accomplishments to obtain his Wolf. I was told I need to have more children since he is getting this done so quickly. I don't think that is going to happen. Here's a few recent pictures of Lucy. She too is getting big, but I think she is done growing. She is just 16 months old now. This blanket she is lying on used to belong to Cameron. She has decided that it is hers. Oh well!Shannon, Celeste and I went to the Utah Women's Expo yesterday. We went because Nikki, a friend of ours, gave us tickets so we could go to the CTMH warehouse sale. The sale was a madhouse. I went to see what stamps they had and I could barely move from my spot because of all the women reaching in and trying to get stamp sets. After we sorted a bunch of sets that Shannon and Celeste had grabbed I only walked away with 5 sets and also ended up getting some paper packs and card sets. We then walked around the expo and looked at all the goods people were selling. It was fun. We were there from 10:45 to about 3:30 or so. It could have been later...I don't remember when the cupcakes arrived. We waited for an hour for this one booth to have their cupcakes that we had seen in the morning. Shannon overheard that they would have more in an hour. So during that hour Celeste and I had a free chair massage and then we walked around some more. After the hour was over the cupcakes had arrived but they were NOTHING like the cupcakes they had earlier in the day. The ones in the morning were HUGE with these orchids on them. The ones we ate were small with VERY sweet frosting on them.

Today I haven't done much of anything. Cameron had a soccer game this morning at 9:00 then we went out to breakfast and headed to Best Buy to purchase the boys some video games. Cameron got a game for his Nintendo DS Lite and Michael got one for the Xbox 360. I didn't get anything. What a bummer! I guess I could have gone next door to one of my favorite places in the universe...Barnes & Noble.

Can I just say how happy I am for Bloggers auto save function? I just accidentally closed my browser and freaked out since I had typed all the words above these last two sentences. I would NOT have retyped it. I probably would have cried. Ok, not really but it sounded good.

Anyway, back to my day. After that adventure we came home so they could play their games. I folded a load of laundry and then hung out in Camerons room and ended up falling asleep on his not so comfortable bed with the dog for about an hour. It wasn't a good sleep because I was cold. Michael has been playing the video game he bought since we got home about 7.5 hours ago! I have been upstairs in my scrapbook room since I woke up around 3:00. I have been cleaning off my desk so I could see the top of it again and decided to tackle the scrap table. I can now see it and it looks great. I also put more cds on my computer into iTunes.

I forgot that I haven't posted a pic of Cameron in his hockey gear. Here he is...he was playing a game of Ice Soccer.We won't be doing too much tomorrow. Church, lunch and relaxation. My newest co-worker and her family are going to meet us at our church. She has been searching for one for awhile and I invited her to ours. After church I plan on catching up on some tv shows we have TIVO'd and reading too.

This is long enough. Good Night!

Got my grade!!

I have been waiting not so patiently all day for my grade for physiology to be posted. I am not as happy as I could be...I got an A-. I desperately wanted a solid A. I am happy that it isn't a B+ though...I was .25 away from getting a B+.

I went and saw the knee surgeon on Monday after my final. I am having surgery on the 20th of May. They are going in for a debridement of cartilage. They aren't sure if it is meniscus (the cushion between the bones) or the cartilage on the end of my femur. I have to be on my back with my knee up for 3 DAYS. I wish it was just hours, but it's not. I can only get up to go to the bathroom and do the exercises. Oh how fun is this NOT going to be? I can only imagine.

Nothing much new to report. Until I write again...have a great day...week...month!