July

For the 4th of July we went down to my parents to have a BBQ and do some fireworks. I love getting together with my family.

The twins turned 2 on the 11th. We had an "ocean" party. Amy was nice enough to let us use her pool. It was was raining but that didn't stop us from having fun and swimming. I made "sand"wiches", "sea shell salad", sea weeds, and crunchy kale. I had a fun time making a shark watermelon and the beach cupcakes. It was a lot of work but it was really fun. Beckett got his lawn mower which he was really excited about and Sophie got a baby and stroller.

On the 17th I went in for back surgery, I was really scared. Brad came with me and we had to wait for awhile. The doctored liked to have his patients there early just in case he finished early. Once the took me back and away from Brad I got really scared, it was hard to relax. All went well with the surgery, the pain was really bad after and they had to give me a morphine shot. My stats kept dropping so I had to stay on oxygen for a long time. They also had my IV up really high so I kept having to get up to go to the bathroom. I had to have help getting up and my night nurses were men. I am pretty sure I flashed them my bum a couple times on accident. After getting up like 4 times in two hours to go pee they finally turned down my IV. The next day I was really hungry but they wouldn't let me have solid food, it really sucked. I got to leave later that afternoon. The drive home was terrible, we had to stop at my parents on the way home so I could lay down, I could only sit for 15 minutes every hour. The next few weeks were really hard. My mom had to come and watch the kids while Brad went to work. I would have to get up and walk down the street a few times a day, each time I would go a little bit further. My mom was amazing coming everyday and taking care of me, my house and mt kids. I have no idea what I would have done without her. My ward was really nice and brought us dinners every night for 3 weeks. I felt so blessed to be a part of such an amazing ward.I had a lot of visitors from my ward and friends, which was great cause it got really boring laying in bed for 3 weeks. I didn't feel like the surgery helped, I was in more pain after the surgery than I was before. Ryker did Itty Bitty Soccer, it was fun to go and watch him play. He had his friend form our ward Owen on his team. He and Owen are good buddies and I am glad he had someone to play with.