Long Time No Blog

I know...it's been almost a month. But I have good excuses. Or at least good excuses to me.  =) My life has been pretty busy. With my family here, moving to a new apartment, work and the paper work that comes with it, and trying to rehab my hip by running and exercise and then adding the necessary sleep and eating and cleaning, I haven't had a lot of time to blog. I have barely had time to get on facebook (gasp!) It's not that I didn't have anything to blog about but I just had no time to do it in. Oh well.

Anyways, my nephew came to stay with Jason and me for the last 3 weeks so he could go through intensive therapy. My parents or my sister in law were also in tow to take care of him so my house was pretty full but I enjoyed seeing Blake a whole lot and was really sad to see him head back home last weekend.    He did so well in intensive therapy. He is able to stand by himself for 2-3 seconds before falling and stand against a wall without help now. On the last day, he walked with a walker for about 400 feet with only one rest break. It was pretty awesome and I forgot my camera that day (Nuts!). If you want to learn more about intensive therapy go here www.suittherapy.com   It's a pretty awesome therapy concept and I hope Blake gets to do it again soon. Here are some pics from intensive with Blake:                                                                  

                              In the suit working hard to stand up     

                                          

                                                                                                                            

     

And before I forget, Jason did another triathlon on June 13. He did great and finished 6 minutes faster than he did in the same race last year!! Way to go babe!! Lucye didn't get to come with us to this one because she still had her stitches in from her spaiding and we couldn't get her too excited. But Jason will do another one before the season is over. 

                                                                                        

So that pretty much sums up the last 3 weeks or so. I will be back way sooner from now for the few people that actually read my blog and want to know about my life =)

Caught in the act

Jason and I were unpacking boxes the other night and after awhile I realized that Lucye had been awful quiet so I walk into our master bathroom and this is what I found:

She's learned a new trick: getting a hold of the toilet paper and taking off to the other side of the bathroom = huge mess.

Preparing me for children one step at a time.

Busy Busy Busy

That is my life right now. I feel like the pedal is pushed down to the floor and the car is going full speed ahead. Work has been absolutely crazy. My friend and co-worker, Mandy, had her baby last week and so I have taken all her patients plus still see mine so its been a little stressful but I'm going to make it through. I just keep thinking about the wonderful vacation I will have in September to celebrate our 2 year anniversary and that encourages me to "just keep swimming".

Last weekend was the last weekend for the King Tut exhibit at the Dallas Museum of Art. They had a a special going for half price tickets between midnight and 7:30 am and Jason and I decided to live on the wild side and go late so we wouldn't have to pay full price. We had some good friends of ours, Jessica and Josh, come with us. So we loaded up on coffee and went to the exhibit at 12:30. The exhibit was really interesting and we saw some really cool artifacts. They didn't have his actual body there but they did have a virtual image of the layers of his body in the tomb. That was weird.

In front of the mummy at the gift shop

We also moved on Memorial Day weekend. It was kind of bittersweet. I'm sad because it will always be the apartment that Jason and I first shared together as a married couple and we will have wonderful memories but I am also glad to be moving out and having more space!! Our new apartment is wonderful and I love it already. Once I can get the boxes removed from all over the house, I will have people over but right now it is in linguo of being put all together. I will post pics later (unfortunately much later) when everything is unpacked!

On our balcony in our old apartment..I'm going to miss the view of the park

Ready to Run!!!!!!

I got the clear from my orthopedic surgeon today to start running again. Those were the best words I have heard all week!!! Whohoo! Ready to get my running shoes out again after months and months of them staring at me and begging me to take them out (Call me crazy but they were). It's been a long road and I'm so grateful that I am at this place now because 9 months ago it didn't look promising. 

Back story: For those that don't know, I had been having pain in my left hip for quite some time. For about 3 years, I had pain on the outside of my hip that came and went. For awhile, I would stop working out until the pain would subside and then begin working out again. This worked great until last September when the pain started  to go to the front of my hip closer to the groin area. It continually got worse and worse to the point I would come home crying every day from work because work activities aggravated it. I finally got into a orthopedic surgeon and after an MRI and lidocaine shot in the hip, he thought it best that we go in and have an arthroscopic surgery to see if there was anything in the hip. I had my surgery, February 17, and they found a small labral (cartilage) tear and shaved my hip bone down so that it wouldn't impinge (or pinch) any more. The first two weeks were hard but since then, my hip has continued to feel better. I am so thankful that God placed me in a city where there was an orthopedic surgeon who was known for hip surgeries so that I could run again without any pain. Praise Jesus!

Here is what I thought about the news my doctor gave me: 

Here's to many more years of running!!!

Bittersweet

Last Sunday night, my grandmother passed away. This week has been a rollercoaster of emotions as I have tried to go to work and keep up with paperwork and process my grief. Although, I am so sad that my grandmother isn't here anymore, I know and rejoice that she is with our Lord and Savior in heaven. She had dementia and by the end, she didn't remember who I was and her health had deteriorated. I know that she is with her husband who she missed everyday and is holding her great grandson in her arms. I know that I will see her again. Her memorial service was this weekend. I got to see all of my family and share many wonderful memories about her. On the bright side, I got to see my little niece and nephew and took some video of Blake walking in the parking lot of the church. He didn't have his walker with him so he walked with hand held assistance but I am so excited for him. I plan on taking more videos of him while he is here this summer. Enjoy!!

                                                       

Pray for a miracle

I stumbled upon this blog when reading someone else's blog that I know. I don't know these people but I cried as I read their story. I ask that you pray and that you pray hard for their little boy. Pray for  healing, pray for comfort and peace for his parents and pray that God's mighty power and glory will be displayed through their story. 

Rub a Dub Dub...a baby in a bucket?

Did anyone watch the Today Show yesterday? I of course watch it EVERY DAY and if I don't I think my mornings don't go right =) But anyways, they did a story on a device for babies during bath time. This lady wanted to find a better way to bathe her newborn baby than the standard bath tubs and found this. Now to me that looks like a bucket. A very nice and sophisticated bucket. Don't get me wrong - I think they are very cool and chic and have stored that away in the if-i-ever-have-a-baby-i-think-i-might-actually-use-it file but I'm very confused. How do you wash the kid's legs? I mean they are already covered in the water so do you stand the baby up and wash his legs and his other areas? Or do you just let the water do the work? Sadly, this question has plagued me for the last 24 hours. Any thoughts? Maybe I will just buy it for one of the many friends that are expecting this year and have them figure it out for me. =)