Surgery Number....well I actually don't know what number...

Well this Christmas, like many of my Christmas's past I had surgery during the break. I retore my medial meniscus on Halloween along with my lateral meniscus, so I went in got the MRI, finalized the diagnosis and scheduled my surgery for yesterday.
It actually went really well and the situation turned out to be the best for the situation, and what I mean by that is that everything was absolutely free because of the deductible that was met this year because of Lisa's surgery earlier in the year (so thanks ;) ). But my CRNA (nurse anesthetist) gave me some awesome nausea medicine so I haven't thrown up once and have only gotten nausea about twice. It also did not take me hours to come out the anesthesia, Zach said it only took about 30 minutes which is a miracle for me. So my CRNA just did a really good job, and I am not super groggy, a little bit by not a ton right now.
The surgery was to repair both meniscus's and clean out some of the arthritis. It was minimally invasive, just a scope and I will only have to use crutches for about 3 days and then I walk based on how I feel and no PT!
So yes I know it may have been dumb for me to play soccer this one last season, but it has been such a big part of my life for so long I don't regret playing this year at all. I had so much fun and I ended on a really competitive game where I scored twice, so as dumb as all of yall probably felt I was being I just want you all to know I dont regret it and I do own up to it, and finally I am officially done with soccer for good =) So if you have any other good suggestions let me know!
 But here is my day yesterday, Zach took a very detailed account of the day because mom would have disowned if he didnt =) he is a wonderful nurse.

On the way to the hospital, 8:00am

My hospital room...only in Idaho would this miral be on the wall of a hospital =)

In my lovely hospital gown

I.V. in, I only slightly hyperventilated when they injected the numbing solution into me , but it was great because I did not feel the I.V go in at all because of the numbing solution

Just waiting for the CRNA to come talk to me and wheel me back

Don't remqemebr this, wheeling me back to surgery and on that 'happy juice"

"Happy Juice" kicks in a lot more

post-op...lovely eh?

Finally back at home around 1p.m very groggy and very tired, some pain but not nauseous.
Zach is wonderful!

Little Dresses for Little princesses!

(You'll have to excuse this paragrah if i doesnt make sense, I am still pretty groggy). But In August Christie asked me if I would be willing to help here a few Christmas presents for the little girls which were to make two frozen Elsa dresses, one Ana dress and cape and one Aurora dress. Well I said sure and I am so glad that I did. On the first Elsa dress my boss helped me, but after that one I made every single piece by myself and I am so proud. Not only did I become more confident as a sewer but I learend how to better read patterns and even make my own. So thanks Christie for the experience. I hope they love the, also if you could film them in the dresses when they open them on Christmas I would really appreciate that and then just send the video to me? Perhaps? Thanks =)

But here are the pcitures, I should have taken some while in the process but the finish product is more fun to look at anyways. =)

Julie, my boss, and I finishing Maddie Mae's Elsa dress

Ana cloak

Ana dress

Snowflake on Elsa cloak

Rag Rug I made Julie, my boss, for Christmas

Aurora dress

Maddie Mae's Elsa Dress completed

Caroline's Elsa dress completed

Caroline's Ana dress with cloak completed

And the seamstress =)

Thanksgiving!

Usually when I have been out here for school I go down to some family in Utah and spend Thanksgiving with them, but Christie went out of town and so we decided to go down anyways and just veg. Which is why this post may not be the most exciting.
Like I said, we spent most of our days lounging about watch television and sleeping. But on Thanksgiving Lisa and her roommate went to a friends house and Zach and I got set up outside of Target at 2 pm waiting for the doors to open and 6pm for black Friday sales =). We were third in line and when 6 rolled around we were grateful that we had waited so long because that line was so long!
It was the first time I had ever done the whole Black Friday/Thursday thing, and though it was exciting, I think that I can mark that off my bucket list and not be left wanting to do it again.

So here is us waiting outside of Target and our lovely Thanksgiving meal.

mmmmm....

This guy only wore flip flops and by hour three it had started to get cold...his solution, gloves on his feet.

Not loving the experience, but having fun all the same

So overall it was a pretty uneventful Thanksgiving trip. Christie got home the day we left so we enjoyed spending time with them and the kids. 

Cute little Aushwash in his Santa hat

Then we headed home. Farley didn't overly get along with Scout for the week we were there, so by the time we left he was all tired out. So this is him the entire ride home in my lap.

Well that was about it, I did manage to rehurt myself, but I will blog about that next week tell everyone all the fun details. =)

Christmas Fever!

Last year I put up my tree earlier than Thanksgiving because we were moving to a new apartment before Christmas. This year I have no excuse. I love Christmas! And I love putting up my decorations, because it is the only holiday that I have decorations for.
So on Monday night, since I was in charge of our FHE I decided that our activity would be Christmas tree decorating. It is a good thing too, because the very next day it started to snow and it hasn't really stopped since. '

Christmas Music playing

Farley enjoyed decorating the tree too

Zach's field that he had to play soccer on

Also feeling that our apartment needed a little bit more decorations in more than just the living room, I procrastinated working on a project for one of my classes that is worth most of my grade and did more productive things with my time...

Snowman fridge

Lastly and an off topic side note. Every morning, to no fail, Farley jumps up on our bed and lays right down on top of me. As soon as my alarm goes off he is sitting in my face purring. Proof from this morning.

The Piano Guys

I love "The Piano Guys", if any of you have not listened to them I highly recommend them. But about three weeks ago Zach bought me tickets to a concert that they were performing here in Rexburg! Score! So yesterday we were able to go and it was the best concert I have ever been to.
A little background on who they are: It is a band of four men who are LDS, they are from St. George, Utah and they combine classical music with music of today. So whenever you are listening to them try to see which two songs they paired together. But it was an absolutely amazing show. The two men that performed for us was the lead pianist, Jon Schmidt and the lead cellist, Steven Sharp Nelson (he cracked a lot of jokes about how he gets funny stares when asked which band he is a part of and he says the piano guys, because he does not play the piano ;) )

"Story of my Life"

"With or Without You"

Anyways, I just took a lot of videos, sorry they are sideways, I did not realize that the iphone had to be a certain way to get the video right side up. But sorry there are so many, I just couldn't narrow it down, they are soo good!

Frozen-"Let it Go"

Bourne Identity Theme with classical

Opening Song

Kung Fu Panda

Secrets

Titanium

Part 2

Viva La vida

Cello Song (solo and my favorite)

Now here are just two funny songs they put into the show.
So remember how I said they try to combine two songs, usually classical and modern, but sometimes it will just be two random songs so they said they were working on one that they thought would be amazing and could not believe that noone else had mashed them up together yet (joke) but the songs were the main theme on Phatom of the Opera and "Don't Worry, Be Happy"
It was entertaining.

The second funny song they did was Steven told a story about how his 9 year old son had come up to him one day and told him that he wanted to be a piano player. Well Steven, being a renowed cellist could not have that so he made a cool little movie for his son that involved two cellist battling it out in a star wars theme. The cello bow were light sabres.

After his son had watched them he told his dad that he did not want to play the piano anymore...he wanted to learn the accordion :)

Well again, sorry for all the videos, I just loved it so much.

PIANO GUYS! FALL 2014

Goodbye "Yota"

This past week we got friend of a dear friend.  One that Zach and I have shared countless memories in since 2011.  And one that he has had since he was 17 and drove across the country in...yes I am talking about his old toyota camry, yota.

Zach drove the countless times to BYU in this car so I am so grateful that he had it and that we had a way of getting to one another during our relationship that had distance. And I am glad we had it for our first semester of marriage together, but unfortunately about 3 months into our marriage the car started to have many issues. A huge oil leak and coolant leak and we were looking at quite the money to get it fixed, but thankfully Zach parents came into another car and we got that one.  Well we drove "Yota" one last time to our apartment complex now and then let it sit in the back spot and just kind of die. We had it sit there for about 6 months and in that months it died and a gopher built a nest in its engine. So this semester we decided it was time to sale it to scrap metal. We did not think we would get much out of just selling it with its issues, not starting and the fact that it had almost 400,000 miles on it, so to scrap it went.

So on Tuesday we cleaned it out once more and Zach was pretty sad, but I am glad for "Yota" and all the memories.

the mileage: 353,915 miles

What a trooper! Thanks "Yota"!

Also this week I finished making one of the Elsa dresses for Christies girls.  I just to add the cape, but this one is Maddie Mae's Elsa Dress.

My boss and I