New look

So I thought that for Christmas I would get a new look. This is before my trip to the salon...

(Sorry for the funny look...Mike was in charge of the camera)

A look from the back

And the new look......

I think it looks better and feels A LOT better!!! I don't get headaches anymore, when it gets that long it is heavy and gives me headaches. I use to complain about my hair but I have had too many people bite my head off for complaining about my hair being too thick, so I try not to do that too much.

Snow pics

Here is the final tally for snow in our backyard...

That is right almost 6 inches of snow in Henderson NV (Mike's parents got about 10). It was a record snowfall for the month of December and the largest single snowfall EVER!!

This is something Mike never thought he would "get" to do again when we moved down here.

Here is a beautiful picture of the snow falling.

This is the tree in our back yard. Luckily after I took this picture I had Mike shake as much snow off it as he could. The snow was REALLY wet and heavy. There are several trees around the neighborhood that are broken and Mike's mom actually had a tree uproot and fall over. Luckily it didn't damage anything, but now she needs to get a tree company to come remove it from the backyard. I bet they are pretty busy the next couple days!!

Winter Wonderland!!!

So today in Henderson NV we got SNOW!! It started just before noon and snowed the rest of the day and I think it is supposed to snow all night so I will take more pictures in the morning.

We have had a lot of fun playing in it today. We have missed the snow since we have been here, but we are glad that it doesn't come often and it doesn't stick around too long when it does come.

This is a picture of a palm tree in our neighbors yard so we can prove that it IS Henderson.

This is us with the snowman that we built in our back yard.
We drove by the park near our home and there were a lot of kids there playing. They were building snowmen and forts and having snowball fights. There were also a couple firetrucks that stopped by to play with the kids. The firefighters got their body boards out and were using them as sleighs. I thought that was pretty cute so we took pictures.

This is them getting ready to go down the hill.
This is the firefighter with a little girl climbing the hill to go again.

This is the car and the truck out in front of the house enjoying the snow.

This is Mike enjoying the snow...Maybe a little too much!!

Ward talent show

We had our ward talent show recently. It was a lot of fun! I thought I would share the highlight of the evening with you all. This is the Elders Quorum showcasing their talents. They get together each Thursday night and play basketball but this particular night they worked on this instead. Mike was bummed that he skipped that week! I hope you enjoy! (Sorry I couldn't figure out how to put the video here so you will have to click on the link)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f86qKQJg3Z8

Bugs Bows

Hey everyone. My cousin is starting to sell bows/head bands for little girls hair. They are SUPER cute!! Here is her blog address if you are interested in checking them out.

http://bugsbows.blogspot.com/

Halloween

We had a really fun time this Halloween. We decided, mostly I decided, that we should be pirates. This is Tyler getting ready to go to the Halloween party at his school. They go all out at his school. They decorate the whole school, inside and out! They have all kinds of things for the kids to touch and smell and eat. They had brains, a heart, all kinds of goo for them to put their hands in. They also had their multipurpose room all decked out with all kinds of buttons and switches for the kids to push and then there are things that play music or laugh or blink lights etc. It was a lot of fun!!

At his school they had a pirate section so of course I had to take of picture of him with the other pirates!! They also had a ship that was pretty cool.
This is Tyler at our ward trunk-or-treat. He was a hit!! Everyone loved his ship and of course his costume. Everyone said that he won the costume contest for sure!! Although there was not a contest. We had fun hanging out with our friends though!
This is the whole pirate family. I think we looked pretty cute. One of my friends said we should get professional pictures done but Mike didn't think that was necessary.

We hope you all had a Happy Halloween!! We sure did.

Tyler's hospital stay

So I thought I would post some pictures from Tyler's hospital stay. We were there for TWELVE days. It was a long stay!! I am so thankful that we have family and a great ward near by that were all willing to help how ever they could!! I had several friends that came by each morning for a couple hours so I could go home and shower and family that brought by meals often so I didn't have to eat too much hospital food. Here is an example of the hospital food but the funny thing is this was for Tyler so it was ALL pureed!! They shaped it into "real food" after they pureed it all up. I thought it was funny so I had to take a picture.

He was there with pneumonia so they were doing breathing treatments every four hours at first then it went to every six hours after about a week. This is a vest that they would put on him and it fills up with air and then it shakes. They would do this with almost every breathing treatment. It was supposed to help break up the gook in his lungs and help him cough it out. Some days it worked better then others, but I think the idea is good. They also sent us home with one of these so hopefully we will not end up in the hospital in that condition again!! It was pretty scary the first three or four days!!

This is a bi-pap machine that they used for three nights. It is like a c-pap used for sleep apnea. It would force the air into Tyler's lungs when he took a breath. Luckily they only used it at night and it was torture on his poor little face as you will see in a minute. This REALLY helped Tyler heal!!! After the second night he was doing much better. He was able to come off the oxygen and we were able to leave the room for the first time in a week. It was nice.
This is Tyler getting his hair washed the day after the surgery to put in the g-tube. This fun little cap goes over the hair and then you just massage it around and like magic your hair is "washed". I am not sure how well it cleans but it probably felt good to have his head massaged!
This is him after the hair wash, but before the rest of his bath. All the red on his face is from the bipap machine and the tape that they had used to hold the ng-tube in place before the g-tube was placed. He looked really bad for a couple days, but we put lotion on it and it cleared up pretty fast. Notice his "kiss" mark and other red marks on his chest. They are from the pads that they use to monitor vital signs. So what we learned from this hospital stay is that Tyler has VERY sensitive skin and IF we ever have to do this again we will be more careful about how we care for him. We will make sure they move the pads often and put duoderm under tape!
We are very thankful to be home and Tyler is doing much better!! After almost a month out of school he will be going back on Wednesday. It will be nice to get back into a routine. It has been hard not having one to follow. I tend to do nothing if I have nothing to do!!