Good friends and Chris almost has a new tooth ;)

I just want you all to know it's always good to have good friends. I've always been jealous of my sister and her long time friendships she's had with a couple of people, namely Jayme. Well I have come to the conclusion that in the recent years I have made some of those life long friends, and I just wanted to publicly thank them for being there for me through thick and thin. :) Namely those people are Lexi and Laura :) I went out with Lex tonight and got to thinking how much I appreciate her friendship.





Also Chris had his last surgery for his implant. He got a little swollen and looked really cute so I had to take a picture you may not see what I saw. But here it is.

An Update

I'm sure you're all wondering how I'm doing. The answer. GREAT!! My eye surgery went well. The doctor says everything is looking good, even though if you had not talked to the doctor or me you would think things are HORRIBLY wrong. The whites of my eyes have take some time to show themselves. I have added some pics to show you, just so you know one of these is enhanced to show you more of what it looked like before it started to get better.

Then Chris' birthday was last Thursday, we went to Cracker Barrel with some friends, then on Saturday I took the whole day off to spend with Chris. I really enjoyed not doing much, we did go on a little snow shoe adventure (it had to be little I'm still on some restrictions for my eye). The adventure did include me almost falling in a river, it was quite a predicament. We were sad we didn't take pictures of how I fell. We also found a little igloo, which was cute. That night we went to Cheesecake Factory. and had to wait FOREVER!! it was a Saturday night but the food was good, at least mine was, they're definitely not known for their burgers. And that was pretty much the extent of our excitement. Things are going well other wise, Chris is still working his tail off and I'm still at Red Robin, I am trying to become a manager there, we'll see how that goes. LOVE YOU ALL

The Igloo

Chris about to cross the river I already almost fell in, thank goodness for snow pack or I would have

Ok so the river had a litlle bit of snow over one part of it and we thought we could cross there, you can see where i about got wet, that hole has the river under it and I made that

A better view of "the crossing". See the river?
Chris crossing

Not the river I almost fell in but a river

So mom and Dad got Chris a "slanket" for his birthday here it is TADA!!

Eye Dr.

So to let all of you know out there I am having eye surgery on Monday. Yes that's right eye surgery.
The week before Christmas I went to the dr. for my regular check up and while I was there he noticed a "retinal tear" on my right eye. so we scheduled and appointment to see a retinal specialist, well that appointment was today. And it went ok I guess. I'll have to show some pictures. They took plenty of my eye and I didn't get any to take home but I do have an example. But I did have an interesting experience with the pictures. I had to have dye put in my blood so the veins behind my eye would appear on some pictures. well the dye made me nauseated. I hated it, who ever thought you'd be poked and prodded at the eye doctors.
Anyways the surgery will tack my retina back to where it belongs, but because I'm so young and scarring is a possiblity he's putting an oil in my eye that will cause some odd sideeffects, such as it may look like I'm looking through water all the time. Well for 3 months anyways when he will take the oil out. Which means they don't want me driving, so I'll be relying on other people. Sheesh oh well atleast I have other people to rely on. So now here are some pictures, the first one is a normal eye the dip in the middle is your center of vision, basically where you see from. There are three layers the first is the retina the second I'm not sure what that is and the third is the blood supply. the second picture is of a person with a retinal tear, mines actually worse, I'll draw on top of it to show you kinda where my tear starts, you'll notice the center of vision in this picture is actually still attached to blood supply, mine is not so this is very important surgery. Well I have to go LOVE YOU ALL!! wish me luck

Normal eye

What my eye is kinda like

Oh the Holidays

It's been a while since I last posted but the holidays were so CRAZY that I just haven't had the time.

Chris and I had a wonderful holiday and hope you all did the same. For the Christmas holiday we were in Colorado and boy were we busy. We actually stayed with my grandparents, on my mom's side. They were fantastic hosts and we enjoyed staying there. While we were in Colorado though we did see many of our friends and family. Chris' mom lives in Greeley and we spent an evening with her and his dad was in town and we spent a day with him as well. We also caught up with many of our friends, including one of my old friends from High School who i haven't seen since not too long after we graduated. Good seeing your family Jennie ;)

Christmas Eve we spent with my grandparents, my great grandma Head, and my Aunt, Uncle, and cousins. We did the traditional Soups and appetizers for dinner, and played Bingo for white elephant gifts that night. That was fun as always. Then Chris and I opened a gift early PJS!! Grandma Head stayed for the night and spent Christmas morning with us. She sure cracks us up. We love her so much!! Unfortunately I was a dork and didn't take many pictures; where my brain was this trip i'll never know. We enjoyed the day with Nan and Papa and ate dinner there too. When enveryone had gone home we took a little trip to the Denver Zoo to see the Zoo Lights. We did take pictures here. They were really cool.




This Hippo really scared me but it enabled me to take this shot. We were in the house where they sleep, and there were two hippos. Well i was waiting for the other hippo to come out of the water so I could take a picture and this one snuck up to another side and popped out, when he did he made a noise and scared me enough so I turned and snapped the picture. So to remember the little story and trip "I got a hippopotamus for Christmas" ;).

While we were in Colorado we helped my nanny put together her Department 56 town. She does it every year and this year Chris and I helped, I was a little reluctant at first, no one wants to work on vacation, but it ended up being lots of fun. Nan says this was the prettiest it's been. :)




We left Colorado on Saturday and had a good trip home and then enjoyed Sunday alone :). That sometimes is my favorite part, coming home and enjoying not doing anything and each other.

New Years was fun as well, pretty uneventful but fun non the less. I worked at Red Robin, then we went to a friends house and spent the evening with her and her husband. It was fun. :) well I thought I would bring you all up to date. Love you ALL !! Happy 2009