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!

Updates!

So I haven't updated our blog in a while, so I'm just going to stuff everything into one big post!

To start off, I just read this book

It is seriously amazing. It is mostly fiction, but it has a lot of history in it too. It is the best book I have read in a long time, and it has made my list of top five favorite books. Anyone who has some free time should definitely read it! It's about a book club, so it would be a perfect book for a book club!

For Christmas break, we spent a few weeks in California with my family

On New Year's Eve day, we went to an island called Catalina which is about an hour off the coast of Laguna. For you runners, there is an annual triathlon held there.

This was our boat as we were coming into Long Beach

Sunset as we were getting off the boat

Us on the boat on the way over there. It was really windy, hence the hair

On the boat again

That's the island behind us. On the way there, we saw a couple of whales (which is really rare, no one ever sees them anymore). I also saw shark, but no one else saw it, so they didn't believe me. It was really there, I swear.

On the way back, we saw hundreds and hundreds of Porpoises. We just crossed their path while they were migrating or something, and it was amazing. They were everywhere.

It was only my parents, Chance and I, and Jeremy who went to Catalina. Everyone else was gone.

We also went to the Aquarium after we got back from Catalina.

Jeremy and Chance had a styrofoam sword fight in the middle of Toy-R-Us. MY husband is so mature :)

Us on the beach

This is the beach in Three Arch (where my family lives).

Chance took this picture on Balboa Island, which is a manmade island right off of Newport Beach, He thought the second 7/09 was really funny.

We went to the island for a few hours, played some games and walked around. It was fun!

I'm running out of time before class, so the next post will be our pictures from the cruise!

Last night we went to see The Blind Side, the football movie with Sandra Bullock. Seriously the best movie I have seen in a long time! It was amazing. I laughed a lot, and cried even more. (I am a crier, I tear up during commercials, seriously). Even Chance confessed that he teared up a few times, but I think he even cried a little. (He says he didn't, but whatever). The movie makes me want to adopt a kid even more. I've always wanted to adopt a child, and the movie just reinforced that. If you have time to see it, do it!

Since Thanksgiving is next week (Can't wait to see everyone in Colorado!), I'm gonna list a few things I am grateful for (not necessarily in order). Here it goes:

• My husband, and all his talents with which he has blessed our lives.
• Our House (One of the blessings from the first one)
• Our Puppy
• The Gospel
• My Testimony (this one is especially important to me because one of my blessings is having my testimony come easily for me, and I am grateful that I don't have doubts about the Church, it would make life so much harder).
• My Parents- They are amazing. I can only pray that I can be like them with our children.
• My siblings, including my new sister in law on the Wilson side
• My new in-laws. I am so blessed to have married into such a loving family who has the same principles and priorities as my family.
• Sleep, my favorite past-time (just ask Chance)
• My education, and all the other blessing that come from living in the U.S.
• The soldiers that protect our freedom
• Good Books (!)
• My health, and my husband's health
• Doctors (To protect the one above)
• Good food
• Coca Cola (I'm trying to break this habit, but I don't think it will ever happen)
• Laundry machine. If I had to hand wash all our clothes, we would never have clean clothes. Ever.
• The internet. Even though it brings a lot of bad temptation into the world, it also brings so much good.
• Charitable people
• Good music
• Holidays! I love holidays and can't wait for Christmas
• The Atonement ( I would never get to Heaven without it! Ha!)
• Clothes
• Contacts (I would be blind without them!)
• My Car
• Movies
• Babies
• The Temple, so I can be sealed to my family for Eternity!
• My trials, because even when they suck, they make me a stronger and better person.

That's all I'm gonna put down write now, even though there are a bazillion more!

Recent Stuff around the C. Krainik Household

A few weeks ago Chance took me on a few amazing dates.

He took me to a corn maze, which was so fun! He looks creepy here, especially with the red eyes.

Chance walking through the kid maze for practice before the real thing.

Me reading the directions to get out of the maze.

I realize my face looks a little funny

Yup, Chance is pretending to pee in the corn. He is handsome and classy.

Deciding which way to go

I love him :)

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I am considering getting one of these for our house. Just kidding babe!

Going through the 3-D maze

They had the coolest fire pit where you could roast marshmallows and listen to a guy tell scary stories!

Chance eating a fried pickle (the first fried thing I have ever seen my husband not like)

Eating my yummy grilled corn!

We also went to the museum! I told Chance to choose his favorite animal, and this is what he picked.

Watching an old school TV

Beating the war drum

:)

He is so handsome!

The circus was so fun!

We also went Go-Kart racing!

First place! Just kidding, I came in dead last, I think everyone lapped me twice. I also caused a few collisions.

Thanks babe for my dates! I have a wonderful husband. I really need to step it up for date night.

P.S. Chance got awesome coupons for all these dates so they didn't cost much at all. He is so smart :)