Day Three

I had my surgery on Monday. Everybody says I'm a little loopy. I can't remember tons of things I do. I've slept most of the time, or I've been playing word searches and fill-it-ins and stuff. Any ways I'm doing okay, really sore, my neck feels really tight. I have a bunch of stitches, and yeah, just stuff. I'm not thinking right right now....so sorry. The doctor said that my tumor itself was just a little bit bigger than a whole walnut (shell and everything) and that everything that was removed (tumor and gland) was equivelant to the size of a tangerine. Yeah, out of my nick, I had a tangerine in my neck!!!!!!!! I can't belive it didn't look bigger on the outside. I actually need to go take some pain meds right now, it's hurting and stinging. But Ben cut his hair (well part of it) at Blake's sisters house on Tuesday while she was watching the boys. He did it along with his cousin Adam. They're like two pease in a pod. They remind me of two boys I know, you might know them too...Michael McGee and David Bunting. Brendon has something new too. He said another word today, just like a few minutes ago. He said cookie, well not really he said "cooka" We count it though and think it's cute. Well I'm off to go back and lie down. Love you guys, Alisa

Nervous Excitment

Well we got a call from our real estate agent that said that people that looked at our house on Saturday wanted to come back for another look yesterday morning. We tried not to get to excited but, how could we not. We've never had anybody come back for a second look. Well they haven't put an offer on it, so I don't know. I guess the husband loves it and wants it, but the wife is undecided. My realtor said I guess we'll find out who wears the pants i nthe family, but their agent said that if they don't put an offer on it, that her mother-in-law is moving to Vernal from Salt Lake and she thinks that it's an awesome house and that she wants to show it to her. So maybe we'll get it sold any ways.
So that's kind of good news, and our deeds should actually be ready for us today. So, if we had our house sold, we really should be able to take out our loan in the next few days. I went to the doctor yesterday (Tuesday), and they still can't tell what's wrong from the CT scan. Any ways they really won't say anything one way or the other except that it needs taken out. So, I'm having surgery on MONDAY. Yeah, in like six more days. It's cool though, I'm ready to have it over and for them to be able to see exactly what it is, and just to have answers. I have to stay one night, and I'm having it done at the hospital in Roosevelt, just about a half an hour from here. So that's that. I'm nervous about everything but excited too. Hopefully this next week will just be great!

Alright I've finally got my pictures developed. Sad but there were seriously hundreds of them! SO, I updated my slide shows, and added one too. Hwever, some of these pictures are really old, and they aren't in any chronological order. I'm having a hard time typing 'cause my eyes are split between the coputer and the TV, mens gymnastics individuals are on. I love the olympics. We've been staying up way late every night to watch them. Poor Blake, he couldn't tough it tonight, I'm up by myself.

Okay, the medical update. Still don't know what's up with my neck. I go back to my ENT on Tuesday and we should find out for sure then. Ben's doctor office visit at Primary Children's went well. Although we were a little disappointed that we can't get him in for his surgery until September 8th, but it'll be okay. So we're looking forward to that.

Everything else is pretty normal. I'm getting ready to start back into my fall schedule of teaching dance. I'm going to be teaching even more classes this year than last. The studio owner is going to have me start teaching everything ballet from ( I think) three and up. Last year she started me on the 5 & 6 year olds, and now we're just getting younger. They're fun classes to teach and it's not like they'll be doing competitions, so it won't be near as stressful. So I'm trying to get dances put together so it might get a little stressful for me over the next couple of months when I'm getting all of my dances figured out. I"m still excited with all of my new ideas though, I think it will be a good year for us, I hope any ways. I'll still just be teaching twice a week, which is good 'cause gas prices are still high here.

Well the next big thing is that tomorrow, well in a couple of hours now...is Blake and I's FOURTH anniversary! Man! We're getting old, but at least we're getting old together. We were really looking forward to going away for our anniversary this year, but all the unexpected medical things...and now we're really excited about going away together next year. Gotta think positive. Well he had flowers sent to me today, and they're beautiful. He was so proud of himself, since he did it all on his own, so I figured I'd let everyone see how good of a job he did. I had my wedding ring sent in for repairs, so my finger feels a little naked, weird for an anniversary, but hopefully I'll get it back in the next few days. Well I think that's it, more people looking at the house and still no offers. I don't know what to do, but just keeping waiting and praying. Well we love you all and hope that you enjoy the new pictures.

Well I haven't kept up on my blogging. We've just had crazy things happening. Okay today I had my cat scan. Any ways yeah it was interesting, I felt like I was in a spaceship, but it wasn't bad. I thought that I'd be in a long tube like thing, but it was just a little disc with a whole in the middle that they moved around my head. I couple of times I really had a hard time trying not to laugh. Blake didn't think that I was going to be able to sit still long enough for them to get a good scan. Grrrr...but I did it.
Tomorrow we take Ben down to Primary Children's Hospital in Salt Lake for his consultation with Dr. Black about his hernia. Hopefully it will all go okay and they will let us come back soon for his surgery. I don't think that my surgery will be immediate so I want to pay Ben's off before they open me up. That's the plan but the cat scan will provide the ultimate answers.
I really need to update some pictures, but I'm so backed up on getting my film developed if I do anymore without getting them developed I'm going to be so mixed up with my scrapbooking. Staying organized is hard! I think I'll be getting them developed in the next week or so. I swear it'll be a small fortune, I seriously haven't had pictures developed since right before Christmas!!!!! So we have Christmas, Ben's birthday, Brendon's birthday, dance competitions, Cali. vacation....etc. But I'm excited to do some more blogging soon. One day my blog will be all cute like everybody elses, but until then the nasty plain stuff will have to work.
We haven't had any luck with our house. We had another person come yesterday and we're supposed to have another person coming later this week. Everyone just needs to pray for us. We really need to sell this house. Selling it, or at least having it under contract in the next two weeks would be really good for us, because we really need to start on our house. We want all the outside to be done before winter gets here, so we don't have to worry about the snow thing and everything like that. Well I guess I will talk to everyone later. I need to clean the house tonight so it will be clean tomorrow in case somebody wants to come see it while we're gone. I've also got to get ready for dinner. Well love you all lots.......Alisa
P.S. We just had Brendon's pictures taken for his Birthday so I can put those on.