Happy Belated Valentine's Day!

Hello! As always, I am behind! Only a week this time, fortunately. I never have time, and I seriously don't know what is going to happen to this blog once we have kids. Probably join the other abandoned blogs in the cemetery of the internet.

So, for Valentine's Day last week, Chance and I celebrated a few days early because my family was coming up to Utah for Ski Week.

Chance started the celebrations early by scouring the internet for coupons for things he thought I'd like. He did very well. He got a gift certificate to the hair salon I like to go to, 3 dozen flowers, some chocolates, this cute little book with pictures of us and our wedding, and a handmade CD with a bunch of love songs on it.

Everything he got me! So sweet!

He also made me this amazing crab and lobster dinner, it was so good!

The whole set up

The cute CD he made me! It has some very romantic songs on it, and we played it and danced a little after dinner.

The menu for dinner! I don't know if you can read it very well but it was very cute!

We had a wonderful night, except Chance sliced his finger open on a killer crab leg! It bled a ton, but he didn't let it ruin the night :)

After, we went and saw the movie Valentine's Day. It was pretty good, not great, but the end totally ruined it. Anyone who has seen it knows what I'm talking about.

Right before the movie, Chance took his wedding ring off because it was chafing his finger, and then dropped it. We heard it roll all the way to the front of the theater, where we heard it hit something. I got up to look real quick, but it was too dark.

So after the movie was over, there were no employees to be found to turn the lights on, so we pulled out our phones to start looking. A cute couple who saw me looking for it started to help us, but it was a no go. We looked behind the curtains at the front of the theater, and it WAS SO GROSS. It looked like all the employees did was sweep everything off the floor under the curtains. It was nasty.

We gave up, and were walking up to tell the employees to keep an eye out for it, and I looked up a random row (the only row I looked in) and there was the ring! It reflected off the light from my phone, so I barely saw it, but I looked closer and there it was!

One gift that God gave me was a gift for finding things. My mom once said that it was because I look down when I walk (I used to do this as a kid all the time, and I would find really cool stuff), but I like to think I'm just very observant :) I really do find random stuff all the time, but this time I think it was God looking out for Chance's wedding ring!

Overall, it was an amazing Valentine's Day. Chance is so wonderful, and I am one lucky girl!

My presents for Chance were a new golf club that he picked out off of KSL (and that he paid for, hehe. He wouldn't let me pay for it) and a bag of his favorite candy, the dark chocolate mint Three Musketeers.

Here are some random pictures from the past few months:

This is on Thanksgiving in Colorado. Chance took a nap, and Spike snuggled up with him. I love this picture!

This is what I come upstairs to find all the time. Spike drags our shoes out of the closet and makes little piles out of them. He's a little weirdo.

Once again, Spike making piles of our shoes.

This is my favorite ice cream ever. It is called Play-doh, or Superman. It looks gross, but I love it. It tastes a little like bananas, and I usually hate banana flavoring, but I love this. I am also obsessed with it because it reminds me of this:

Sorry its a little small, but its from the movie Hook, where they have the imaginary food fight. This is one of my all time favorite movies, as well as one of my favorite scenes. I wish food really looked like that, hence the ice cream!

Bangarang!!

P.S. I tried to fix the photos from the last post, so hopefully you can see them now!

Surgery

So, as all of you know, I had surgery for endometriosis on Thursday. For anyone who doesn't know what endometriosis is (I'm sure all of you do), I will give you a quick explanation.

Endometriosis is when the uterus lining that is usually removed during the menstrual cycle actually goes the opposite way, back into the fallopian tubes. The lining then binds to the walls of the tubes or the ovaries, creating lesions. If these lesions become bad enough, they can cause severe pain or infertility.

Anyway, so I went in for surgery on Thursday, and here's how the day (and he day before) went down.

Wednesday night I got a phone call, telling me when to be at the surgical center, and not to drink or eat anything past midnight. Later, our next door neighbor Mike, who is also Chance's Elder's Quorum President, came by to help Chance give me a blessing.

We had to be at the center at 6:30 am, so we left at 6:00 in the morning, and arrived in Provo right on time. We had to fill out some paperwork and pay part of our deductible before I could start getting prepped.

A nurse called me back, had me get dressed in a hospital gown and very stylish cap, and had me pee in a cup for a last minute pregnancy test. (Negative, just in case you were wondering).

Here's me ready for surgery!

I got the I.V. put in, and the anesthesiologist came in to talk to me, as well as a few nurses and the doctor.

Every single person who came in to talk to me asked me if I knew why I was there.

Chance said this was so they didn't perform the surgery on the wrong person, but really, why would I show up to the surgical center without knowing why I should be there?

Anyway, I got knocked out and around 30 minutes later I started to wake up. I remember being freezing, and the nurse putting a bunch of warm blankets on me. Chance was there next to me, and he says I kept asking a few questions over and over again, but I don't remember any of this.

These are the questions I supposedly asked:

"What did the doctor say?"

"Can I call my mom?"

"Why am I wearing a diaper?"

(I will explain this one later)

"My stomach and throat hurt"

(I realize this isn't a question)

I was pretty out of it, and I guess my gown kept falling down, and I almost flashed everyone quite a few times. Oops!

About the diaper thing, the doctor lasered off my uterus linings, so I was bleeding a lot. Someone, a nurse I'm guessing (and hoping), pretty much wrapped a pad around my body, so it felt like a diaper.

Once I was conscious enough to know what was going on, Chance explained to me how the surgery went and showed me some pictures of my uterus (don't worry, I won't be putting them on the blog).

The surgery went well, and the doctor said he lasered off quite a few lesions, as well as a cyst. Apparently, I should have been in a lot more pain than I have been because of the amount of lesions I had. (I was blessed with a high pain tolerance).

Chance took me home, and put me to bed. Thanks to the anesthesia and the Percocet the doctor gave me, I slept most of the day. Chance has been a wonderful nurse, getting me everything I need.

Since then, I have been recovering slowly. One weird side effect of the surgery is that my shoulders are sore. This is because they inflated my stomach with a ton of gas so they can see everything better. The gas traveled up and settled in my shoulders, which is super painful. This is normal, but its annoying.

My stomach is sore, which is to be expected. I have two tiny incisions on my stomach, which are a little painful. It doesn't help that Spike loves to walk and sit on my stomach whenever I am lying down.

This is his favorite place to sit.

My throat is sore from the tube they put down it while I was under, but this is going away.

Anyway, you might not be able to tell from all my complaining, but I'm grateful that I had the surgery. These are all the things I'm grateful for concerning the surgery:

Our health insurance, without it the surgery would have cost a buttload.

That we found out about the endometriosis early, so we could deal with it

Modern medicine

My husband, who has taken great care of me

That I was blessed with a high pain tolerance

That the doctor knew what he was doing

That there hasn't been any complications (so far)

Percocet (!)

Much, much more!