I love flowers!!

This is a picture of my beautiful apple tree!!!

I just love this time of year when it looks like this! It didn't look like this last year because right when it was about to bloom we had a really late frost and it killed hte blooms. I was sad because it is so beautiful! I call it my giant snowball! It starts off all pink and than slowly turns to white. I have been meaning to go out and take a picture of it but I have a hard time walking a carrying things at the same time right now with my crutches but I did it! This is picture is a little late...it used to be even more full of flowers, they have started to fall off already! It is right at the beginning of my drive way so I see it everytime we go anywhere! I can already tell I am going to has tons and tons of apples this year :) Thats means more frozen apple pies and dried apples :) Yummy!!

Now this is a picture of my friends Lloyd and Shirley and I! We have a flower addiction. Haha! When we go into a green house it is a little out of control haha. We went to this nice green house in Fernie we had both never knew exhisted and they had beautiful flowers!! We had so much fun and speant a ton of money :) Lloyd and Shirley take care of all the flower beds on the golf course and they are amazing at it. So because they do that The golf course gives them money to make them beautiful every year...and as for me I have to pay for it myself but thats ok. I just tell kyle, "You like your toys and I like my flowers :)" I will have to take a picture of my house because I got them all planted in my boxes around my deck! But on the ride home from fernie we had the whole back of the truck full of flowers and the whole back seat except for a small place for me to sit. We had stuff on the floor in the back and shirley helps a hanging basket on her lap haha! It was funny!!

Oh and also!! I am going to have a new sister-in-law!! Her name is Amber and I am sooooo excited!! She is super nice and super cute! I am really happy if you can't tell :) They are getting married in the Cardston Temple on August 21st. Another Anderson family wedding this summer. I love weddings haha :) Kyle thinks I am crazy sometimes but I just think they are great!

Things lately...

So it has been 3 weeks today since my surgery! I have to say I am feeling pretty good!! My surgery day took sooo long to come and I was so nervous but now that it is behind me and I am on the recovery side things are looking good! I still have things I am dealing with that I really hate but at least I can say I think it was worth all this pain and I think it will help me a lot in my future! I never thought I would hear myself say this but I am glad I did this....I just hope my body is healing the way it should be on the inside and I don't regret saying those words haha! Everyday I am getting more and more independent, like for example last Friday I was able to put my sock on by myself haha. I can't do it when I am sitting on my bed or a chair but I have this little step stool that we have beside our bed for our dog buddy to get on our bed with and if I sit on that because I am so close to the ground that I can put my sock on. It isn't the easiest but I can still do it haha. Today I was also able to out myself in the shower on my bath stool. I couldn't get myself out so Kyle had to come home and help me but that's ok. One step at a time right :)

We are going to Calgary today after Kyle is done work because I have my first follow up appointment with my surgeon Dr. Buckley tomorrow at noon. He is going to do some

X-rays and we are going to talk about how everything is going I guess! I am excited. I got some x-rays done about a week ago but I am excited to hear what my doctor thinks. They are going to give me copies of my x-rays so I will have to stick a picture of it in my journal. It is kind if interesting!! Anyways wish me luck!!

It is also my sister Mindy's birthday today!! It was really to bad because she has been visiting us in Cranbrook for the past month and just had to leave on Saturday! We went out for dinner the night before she left but its to bad we didnt get to spend her birthday with her. But If it was me I would want to go and spend it with my husband to! I miss her already and it has only been a few days! But I just wanted to give a shout out saying how much I love her and that she will always have a special place in my heart!!

Since I've been home!

I love being home!! There is nothing better than sleeping in your own bed!! The first little while I did a lot of sleeping! The first day my mom, mindy, jamie & logie came out which was nice. Even when I am just laying around it is nice to have people to do that with. It is someitmes a comfort just to know people are there! My grandparents came out one day too which was nice. All I wanted to do the day my grandma came was go outside so she helped me go outside for the first time and go see my greenhouse!!! I know it sounds funny but I was so excited to see my flowers! I have only been to church once since I have been home. I stayed the whole time which I payed for in pain later but I didn't want to go home! I liked being out and around people again. It made me feel some what normal.

The other day I fell :( It was right after my family left and I don't really know what happened cause all I was doing was walking with my crutches in my bedroom and I must have lost my balance and fell forward and for some reason my reflex was to put my left leg out (my broken leg) and catch myself with it. It did hold me up so I luckily didn't fall flat on the ground but it scared me really bad because I had put all of my jarring weight on my leg!! I instantly grabbed my knee and squeezed it hard to see if it was a different kind of pain. It really hurt but seemed like a normal pain. I got up and walked to the couch and out an ice pack on my knee. When kyle got home I told him and he felt really bad. By the time it was time for bed I was so stiff in my hip and knee and I had this huge buldge out the side of my hip. It was big and hard and hurt so bad to touch! Kyle checked me out and said he though everything still looked normal and in line and so we decided maybe I had just seized my muscles or something. But I ended up getting a hard lump on the outside of my knee and the whole top of my leg was really tight. I went to the doctor yesterday and he thought the same thing. My muscles were angry at me haha. I also had some x-rays done and they were really cool to see. You can see the rod and the screws and the most crazy thing is you can seem my bone just stop and than start again. It is weird because even though I still have pain and problems I don't feel like my bone is not connected! It is weird to think about that!

Thinks Aunties new toys are the best!!

So excited to be standing all by himself haha! He scream's when he does this haha!

My Sugery!

So it is over and done! I had my surgery and now I am onto the recovery side. Its not as bad as I thought it was going to be but it is still not easy. Let me start from the beginning of everything. It all started when Kyle and I had to be at the Calgary, Foothills hospital by 5:30am on May the 10th. It was a very early morning especially because the hospital said you have to shower and wash your hair the morning of so that made me get up even earlier. But we made it there on time. Kyle was able to come through everything with me while getting ready up until the moment they took me into surgery. That was a hard moment! First of all by that moment I was very nervous and kept saying to Kyle, "I don't know if I really wanna do this!!" The nurse came and got me and said I had to say goodbye to my husband and I would see him later. I started to cry! I was scared and the fact that I knew what was going to happen made it even harder. I have often wondered to myself, "who signs themselves up to get their leg broken....I must be crazy!!" And I was really thinking about those words at that very moment! The nurse took me through these large doors that you needed a special pass to get into where I immendiatly saw my surgeon and I realized than it was final....this surgery was really happening. They had me wait in this waiting area and they gave me a nice warm blanket. My surgeon came over and assured me everything was going to be ok but it was ok to be upset and scared. He went over the whole surgery with me again and than asked for a verbal consent as to which leg they were going to operate on. He than marked it and said they just needed to do that in the freak case that they did the wrong leg haha so I was glad to know that was not going to happen forsure haha!

**My mom had a nightmare the night before that they did accidently operate on the wrong leg haha! I have a very loving mom!!

Anyways back to my story...than the anesthesiologiat came and went through everything with me that he had to do. I told him that I really didnt want to wake up and he just laughed at me and said I watch to many T.V. shows and I will forsure not wake up :) Than the head nurse for my surgery came over and talked to me for a bit and than walked me into my surgery room. I guess that is a new thing where if you are fine to walk you walk yourself into your own operating room instead of being rolled in on a bed. But when we arrived there was no bed so the nurse just told me to wait there and she would be right back with a bed for me. So here I was upset with teary eyes standing in My operating room and there was my surgeon to my left on a computer, the anesthesiologist in th emiddle getting things ready for me and these other 2 women on the right side of the room completely in their surgical outfit, masks and all, preparing all these metal tools for me!! It was very overwelming but I tried to stay calm. I wrote this in my journal right after my surgery, this is how I explaing the room.

"It was actually very large, probably about the size of my parents bedroom but a perfect square. It has very bright lights and all white walls. On the right side was all this equipment and on the left side was other machines or tools that were large so they were set on wheels. Also on the left side at the front were a few computers, I am not sure what for but as I already said Dr. Buckley was using one when I came in. The doors I walked in were large white heavey double doors with little windows at the top and in the middle of the room where I was going to lay there were all these machines around it. I assume they were monitoring machines while I was out and I thought some of them were there for emergencies if something were to happen to me while I was out. But the thing I noticed the most were these huge round lights that were right above my bed! They were very large and within them there were all these circles with lights in each circle and they were low from the roof so they were right over my bed."

Anyways when I finally got a bed to lay on they had me take off most of my clothes except my small gown. They undid it before I layed down. The anesthesiologist gave me an IV and than the nurse put a mask on my face. They said it would only be about a minute before I was asleep but when they started giving me the medicine my arm burned sooo bad! But they were right....I was out instantly! The next thing I remember was I was laying on a bed still and there was a lady above me and I said to her, "I don't know If I want to do this surgery anymore." And she said to me, "Sweetie it is already over!" I started to cry. She gave me some morphine in my IV and said once my pain was under control I could go up and see my husband. She told me he was waiting in my room. When I got up to see Kyle I was very drugged but still in a lot of pain. I felt very sick but I was so happy to see Kyle! I was upset a lot that day wondering what did I do to myself!! My mom and Mindy and Logan arrived a few hours later and they stayed the whole time with Kyle and took turns being with me in the hospital the whole time I was there! It was nice to have visitors! Here are some pictures of my time in the hospital!

Ealry on Tuesday morning!

Kyle trying to make me be happy! I have a great husbnad!

My first picture after my surgery! Not doing so good :(

I was sooo glad I brought my pillow! But for those of you who know me...I bring my pillow everywhere!!

A few hours later when my Mom got to the hospital!

They first time they made me roll on my side! It is not very comfortable but I guess it is important haha! And of course my beautiful leg!

The big flowers I got from my dad and they arrived right after I got in my room and I cried! It was really nice to know he was thinking of me!

The other flowers I got from my cousin Kendra! She came to see me on my first day to! I loved it when visitors came!!

They made me get out of bed and try to walk the very next day! I was sooo scared I cried. They asked me if it was hurting really bad and I said it was nothing different than normal but I was just so scared it was going to! I did so well I ended up walking all the way into the hallway and a little bit more!!

Its times like these when you take something as little as sitting in a chair for granted!! I loved sitting in that chair haha!

I love my nephew Logie!! The only time he would sit still for a long period of time was when he was having a bottle and my sister let me hold him almost everytime he had one!! Thanks Mindy!

My very first outing! I got to go to the cafeteria for lunch :)

My auntie Debbie and counsin Tyson came to visit me from Taber and my Uncle Butch came and met them!

The first time they took my bandaids off! it freaked me out so bad because no one told me I had staples until I saw them!!

My counsin Kendra came another day to bring her new baby Preslee!! I was soo excited to see her!!

Logan's favorite new toy...Auntie Lissa's walker :) haha

Happy day!! I got to go home today and I also got to have a shower today for the first time!

Easter Time :)

This easter was a good one! The sun came out for the weekend which was great because we have been getting snow lately and also my sister Mindy and her family came home for easter! She hasn't been home for easter in 6 years so we were all very excited to be together this year! It was a long weekend for me because I got the Friday and the Monday off and there was something going on every day. It all started Friday afternoon with the egg decorating! My family came out to my house and we decorated eggs all night. My sisters and I really enjoy doing this. We get pretty creative! Than Saturday morning there was an easter breakfast and easter egg hunt at the Jaffray Church and than we spent the rest of the day with Kyles family. Than on Sunday after church we went straight to town and had easter dinner with my family and than Monday there was an easter egg hunt and dinner at the Mallards house out at Bull River. It was a full weekend but lots of fun!

Mindy and Jamer ready to begin the egg decoarting event :)

Jamies egg named stuart

Our sesame street eggs! Mindy said she bought them for Logan but she really bought them for herself haha!

I made a personalized egg for everyone in the family.

Starting from the left is goes Melissa, Jamie, Brian, Kyle, Lorri, Jay, Logan & Mindy

And then there was Buddy :)

Brians Albert Eggstien

Stuart and his girlfriend Shelly :)

All of our eggs we decorated!

Logie and one of his funny faces haha!

At the easter egg hunt at the church Saturday morning

Grandma and Logie

Me taking Logie for a ride on my bike haha!

Totally loving it!

Sunday morning. The easter bunny left Kyle a trail of mini eggs leading him to his basket!

My easter presents!!

Lovin the lemon desserts at easter dinner! My favorite!!

My cleaning dead line :)

So lately I have been feeling like I have so much to do before my surgery date. Like I have been wanting to do a crazy overhaul organization of my house for a while now but just havn't found the time but since I made my surgery date I have been feeling like I have a dead line because I know people will be in my house helping me out and I don't want them to think I'm a slob. I know I'm not a slob but sometimes I feel like my house is always a mess and it is never going to get clean! Anyways so I have been focusing on my spare bedroom because that is where the main mess is. In my house there are no linen closets just the 2 closets in the bedrooms. Our bedroom closet is full of clothes of course :) so that leaves only the spare bedroom closet for storage. I got these plastic dresser things that I stacked in one side of the closet and I labeled all the drawers and if that certain category of stuff, such as crafts, doesn't fit in one drawer well that it has got to go! I know this is big for me. I just have this fear that I could become a really big horder because I like to keep things and I get silly attachments to things so I think if I start trying to do these kind of things early enough in life it won't happen :) On Friday I took 4 boxes of stuff, mainly old clothes like basketball stuff and pajamas and old sweaters, to the thrift store with my mom and I had a little bit of a crying moment. I know some of you may think I am stupid but in one of those boxes were all of my eeyore Pj's and I really loved eeyore from winnie the pooh when I was a little girl so that was very hard for me. I felt stupid but my mom said I wasn't stupid...but I knew I didn't need them anymore and I wasn't going to EVER wear them again haha! It made me feel better when my mom said that because my Pj's were still really nice that some family was probably going to buy them and give them to their kids to make them happy and that made me feel better! I am glad I did it because when I go home and see them not filling up my house it is a nice feeling. I like organization but I kinda suck it. I am alright at getting it to begin with but I when it come to keeping it that way....that is another story!

Last ski day of the season

Kyle and I did a lot of skiing this winter and it was great! I went about 10 times I think and Kyle went about 7 or 8 times. For us that is a lot because we only go on Saturdays so that is a lot of weekends. This was our last ski day of the year. We went to Kimberly with Kyles dad, Hal and his sister Heidi. It was a lot of fun! Heidi had never skied at the Kimberly before so we had to take her to the best runs and of course the bear cave. This cave has been on that ski hill forever. I remember going there when I was very little and just learning how to ski. I actually have pictures there when I was little. Anyways the snow turned out to be great and it was a awesome day to end the ski season with!! I figure if you live where there is snow you might as well embrace it and make it fun and thats what skiing is for us! We love it!

In the bear cave!

Kyle, Heidi and Me in the entrance to the bear cave!

This is how we take a break haha!