Portraits

My mom took the girls to get some pics done and they turned out fabulous! I must say I have some pretty darn cute kids :). We were able to get a Walmart Club card which gives you a free 8x10 everytime you go in! You could go everyday if you want! So holiday pics, family pics, swimsuit pics here we come! I love FREE stuff! So here were some of my favorites from the shoot.

Alexia- 8years old
Shelby- 2years old

Santa Cruz

Monday we headed to Santa Cruz with my parents for a quick little getaway! It was so nice since we havent been able to do much since I got hurt. Basically all our summer plans got tossed out the window so this was so nice and so much fun! The weather was perfect and the kids were sooo good :)

Shelby spotted the "Willy" ride while we were standing in line buying ride bracelets and wanted to ride him first! This was her first ride without me or jimmy....we werent sure how she would do. It started and by the second round she was screaming "I no like this" we were cheering for her and trying to stop laughing but it was pretty funny! She wasnt crying she just kept yelling...shes such a trooper and stayed on til it was over. When she got off we all gave her high fives and cheered at what a big girl she was and that seemed to settle her right down. I thought for sure she would be done with rides tho..... I was wrong! She loved the boat ride, the cars, and this pepsi train they had...she even rode them without sister! (sister went and rode the scary haunted house ride with papa joe) She definately got her money's worth riding these over and over!

putting her hands up

on the cars...she loved beeping the horn

she wouldnt even look at us she was so serious about driving that car!

This was another funny story! So shelby loves rding horses and talked about riding them the whole trip...well we headed to the carousel and they have a big clown on the wall and a ring dispenser that kids can pull rings and toss them in the clown mouth while riding the carousel...Shelby caught a glimpse of the clown and that was all she wrote. She wouldnt even sit on the horse so her and my mom had to settle for a bench in which she said she didnt like it the w.h.o.l.e. time (my poor mom) she was terrified of the clown. I have no idea where this fear came from as she has never even seen a clown before then...but they pretty much terrified her anytime she saw one the whole day.

lex and gram on the tilt a world...having a blast!

Lex and her papa joe doing the soaring ride.

our pilot :)

doing the dragon roller coaster

We had so much fun...even tho I had to sit in the wheelchair all day and Jimmy had to push me around...we definately cant wait to go back when im all healed up. Thanks mom and dad for a fantastic day!

ps..the potty traing is almost over! Shelby has been doing so awesome and all day in santa cruz never had one accident and peed on the big toilets every time!! She is AWESOME!

post op appt

So today i had my post op appt and all went well. They said I was healing up and took off the splint and put on a cast! It was painful while they were doing the cast only due to the position that they put my foot in while they casted it. My foot has basically been straight since it was injured on 6-20-10 and today they bent it....OUCH was about all I could say. They physicians assistant that did the casting let me take pics of my incisions and of my xrays which was pretty cool. I didnt post the pics of my incisions becuase they were yucky looking but here is my xray.

my new ankle...with the screws and plates

the final cast.....pink of course :)

surgery is over

Well i had my surgery on friday and all went well. Thank you to all of the wonderful doctors and nurses at fresno community hospital. I was VERY nervous but everyone was sooo nice and made me feel so much better. They explained everything and were so comforting. They really were amazing!! My wonderful husband and my dad were with me right up until i was wheeled back for surgery so that was nice. They got to keep me company :) My mom and sister were there when I came out of surgery and that was a big surprise. I was happy to see everyone. My grandparents watched the girls so it was nice to not have to worry about them :). I stayed for about 2 hours after my surgery was completed and then was able to come home. It took me awhile to come out of the anesthisia and i was surprised that i had so much pain. It was a very weird experiance. It is very hard to explain and not what i had expected at all. They were giving me morphine which did help take the pain away however it didnt last at all. Finally when my vitals were stable enough I was taken to the recovery room where all my family was able to stay. we hung out there for awhile and then they discharged me. I felt good all that afternoon and evening. The next day however was dreadful. I have been in sooo much pain since the surgery. I have to keep my foot up at all times which is very hard to do. My poor husband has been so good and him and the kids are really trying to do their best to make me happy, Im very thankful for them :) Its just hard to not be able to do ANYTHING for myself, let alone my family. Its a bummer but hopefully it will get better everyday. Thanks for all the prayers, messages, calls, texts and well wishes.

surgery

Well i went in to the surgeon today and they scheduled me for surgery.....TOMORROW!! Yikes! So im a little freaked out, ok A LOT freaked out. We went and did all my pre op stuff after my surgeon appt and then went to my parents for dinner and to hang out for a bit. The kids are going to stay the night with my parents because we have to be at the hospital at 530am!! My surgery is set for 830am. Please say some prayers for me and for my family...im not used to being away from the kids especially shelby and this whole incident has been hard on us. Although they have been having fun at grandma and papa's i miss them like crazy! Poor Jimmy has had to do way more than he should and has been such a trooper. I love them! My parents and sister have been amazing with helping us with the kids when we have appointments and letting us come over for dinner :) My grandparents have helped us as well with meals and watching the kids so THANK YOU to my awesome family I feel very blessed, and love you all so very much!

broken ankle

Some pics of my broken foot....nothing too graphic just lots of swelling and bruising! My foot is sooo FAT and swollen.

So I broke my ankle! Yes this past weekend we went camping with the whole family and took all the toys (Quads, dirt bikes) up for some riding. Things were great we were having an awesome time! We rode all day saturday and then swam at the camp site. Sunday we went back up to Miami Trails do to some more riding and thats where things took a turn for the worst! My sister and I were hanging out reading magazines and laying in the sun while the guys were out riding. Then when they got back we decided to take the quads for a "girl" run. We had fun and when we got back to camp Jimmy and I decided to go for a little ride while we were waiting for my mom, gram and the kids to come up for lunch. Well all was going good, we were on a trail when we we were climbing a small hill almost at the end of the trail I guess I lost it. I remember loosing control and holding the quad up with my left leg for a few seconds before I came crashing backwards down the hill. I remeber falling..the quad falling on me..whacking my head and thinking "thankgoodness for helmets"..rolling...my ankle snapping...and hurting. Poor Jimmy was running down the hill after me as he saw me fall! He was so great. He handled the situation much more calmly than I did. I remember crying and being able to talk and tell him that only my ankle was broke, I wasnt hurt anywhere else and that I had heard it snap. He told me he had to get me back on the quad and out of there and that we were going to have to go to the hospital. My ankle was swollen. I dont know how he got me on the quad or back to camp but he did. I guess I was crying because all i remember is sitting in the back of my moms car with my mom and Jimmy trying to find an ER to get me to. We finally made it to the Oakhurst ER and they were awesome. So very nice, got me in got me a tetnus shot and some pain meds. Their Xray machine was down so we thought we werent going to be able to get any xrays but lo and behold they had techs there at that time and they got it WORKING!! I had xrays done where they determined it was broken in 2 places (the bones on either side of my ankle were broken so there was no support. They gave me a CD of my xrays and splinted me up! We left there went back to camp where we ate yummy spaghetti and then my dad drove me home and Jimmy took shelby....we let lex spend the last night at camp with everyone. After we got to my parents house I got to take a shower which felt so good because I was filthy!! (its hard to take a shower with one leg that cant get wet and being in pain but Jimmy and I have a pretty good system down now :) So then Monday once everyone got back from camping my parents watched shelby and Lex while Jimmy and I headed to fresno community ER so we could get set up with a surgeon per Oakhurst instruction. Well 9 hours later we left very upset and with only a phone number to call and set up our own appt. Its been a little bit of a rat race and Ive had doc appts every day this past week but finally tues we are seeing the surgeon!! Then we should get my surgery date. Im very scared to have this surgery so please say a prayer about that! Ive never had any type of surgery (except to get my wisdom teeth out) But this is MUCH bigger. So thats where we are with everything! Hopefully ill be up and running/walking soon. Its really sucky to be down and out over the summer :(

Zoo 2010

So for Shelby's birthday this year we had some awesome friends get us a family zoo pass!! This was super cool and something that Jimmy and I had talked about getting but hadn'd done. This worked out perfect!! We tried it out and we a blast and cant wait to use it all summer long! A big Thank you! To the Mathews for this amazing gift :)

me and the girls visiting the elephants

the orangutans...we could have stayed there all day, the kids loved watching them and I must say they were pretty funny! It was a nice cool day so they were much more active than ive seen in awhile so it was super neat!

Ok, so for awhile Shelby's favorite animal has been the giraffe. She had seen the commercial for Busch Gardens where the kids feed the giraffe and LOVED it. She would get so excited whenever she saw it and always said after it was over... "Shelby feed giraffe". She had been waiting all week for Alexia to get here so we could go see the giraffes...and let me just say, the giraffes did not disappoint! She was so excited to see them. Ill post some videos of the kids feeding them because its super cute! Shelby did very well and fed the giraffe and was so excited because he licked her!!
For hours and even days after she still said " the giraffe licked me" but it comes out lick-ed me too cute :)

next was the petting zoo. I wasnt sure how well Shelby would do here because last year when we went to San Diego she wanted nothing to do with the petting zoo. That was too close for her and I wasnt able to even put her down without her starting to cry! Well, what a difference a year makes!! She had a blast this time! They have some brushes when you walk in that you can get and go brush the animals...shelby thought that was great!! Her and lex brushed every animal in there i think! We had to practically pull them out!

Some photos of the girls with the hippo statue

this was a good pic Jimmy got of us girls! My mom, sister, me and the kids :)

Often times Jimmy is the pic taker, because I suck at it, so hes not in a lot of them but he goes everywhere with us and me and the girls love him to pieces!!

here we are at the stingray bay. Lex still hasnt touched one :( everytime we have gone both here and the san diego zoo she gets a little scared and pulls her and out at the last second! Too funny, oh well maybe next time :) Shelby i dont think got to touch one either because her arms are too short lol but she tried and had fun splashing in the water!

the seals. It was nice to see they got a new nice and clean tank to swim in!

photos outside the reptile room

sisters :) they have so much fun together!!

alexia, jacob and Nik

in all the years ive lived here and gone to the zoo ive never watched the bird show...this time we did and it was so fun! Poor Shelby tried to stay awake but crashed about halfway through...but the rest of us had a fun time! These pics were taken after the show as we were walking out

it was a great fun day and we cant wait to go back! Im betting we will be spending lots of time at the zoo this summer! Next day for sure is the Ice cream social! We went last year and it was a blast! Looking forward to it again this year :)