The Boys get a New Bedroom and Bathroom

Lately the boys have been wanting to play in their room more, but they really couldn't because there was not enough room. Alex's toys were downstairs in the family room with a few in the living room upstairs. Ted's toys were downstair in the family room and upstairs in the hall closet. So they didn't really play with any of their toys and when they did it wasn't in their bedroom. Ted and Alex asked for a bigger room so their toys could be in it and they could have room to play. So we decided to move them into the downstairs bedroom, which is where the guest bedroom was. And move their bathroom downstairs also (also the former guest bathroom). The guest bedroom is going to be moved upstairs in the boys old bedroom. And the main bathroom upstairs will be for the guests and Sierra. Before my surgery my mom, Brad and I were playing with a few different ways to put the bedroom together. My mom made an excel graph (to scale) and we were able to decide on a layout before the big move.

So today I layed in bed and watched Brad, my mom (Chris), my dad (Gary), Ted and Alex move the two bedrooms and bathrooms around. It was so hard not to jump up and help/watch. The boys love their BIG new bedroom; all of their clothes, beds, toys, books, etc fit perfect. Once I am up and feeling better we will hang up posters, pictures, and really decorate the room. And the bathroom is perfect for them.

This is what you see when you first walk into the bedroom.

The bookcase you see when you first walk in and Alex's costume and toys.

Alex's bed and costume drawers.

Ted and Alex's beds (in the corner between the beds we are going to get/make a table for a lamp, cd player and clock to fit on).

Ted's bed and bookcase.

The closet with all of their clothes (and now all of their toy bins are in the bottom).

Their bathroom when you first walk in. They wanted red and blue in the bathroom also.

The boys love their new bathroom.

Boys will be Bats!?!?

So tonight at the dinner table Ted and Alex were eating tortillas. Ted had his folded up in fourths and when he unfolded it. This is what it looked like....

Alex wanted his picture taken with his tortilla also, we are still trying to figure out what it is....

Sierra and Her Chair

Sierra loves the new chair that Grandma and Poppi got her for her birthday. She play in it all the time. But today she was being super cute for Grandma and so my mom decided to take some pictures.

Hamming it up for Grandma

Eating her phone Talking on her phone, I she the future in this picture, can anyone say teenage years?!?

Just chillin'

I am Home and Still Pain Free!

I am at home and still doing great. Last night was wonderful I only had to take pain medicine once last night and I was able to get up and go to the bathroom with very little pain. Brad said that my incision is only 2 inches long and very low (below my tattoo). And everyone said that the incision looks great. Dr Naini came in early this morning and asked me if I wanted to go home and I said "YES!" (I hate hospitals), so he discharged me. I was up, dressed, packed, had my prescriptions and was in the van by 11am! The car ride home was fine. I got home and had to go right to bed. Now I am working on laying down like the doctor told me to and finding enough things to do so that I don't go crazy.

All Done and Out of Pain!!!!

So my surgery is over and I am in my room eating dinner. (I know I can't believe it either.) So my surgery started late, I didn't go back until 1:30pm. I was in recovering by 3:30pm and really awake by 4pm. I woke up and my mouth was so dry and my incision felt like it was on fire and I was nauseous but I had NO back or leg pain. I laid there and kept moving my leg just to make sure. I was so scared that I would throw up after surgery, like I always do, so the anesthesiologist gave me a lot of different nausea meds to prevent that from happening. And once I was awake my nurse had me sniff alcohol wipes, I know weird huh, but it worked great!! The nurse asked if I wanted pain meds and I told her just enough to help with the incision pain, she looked at me like I was crazy! I was in my room by 5pm and wide awake with very little pain. And I was up to go to the bathroom by 7pm, also with little to no pain!!! I am on cloud nine right now and for once it is not the drugs! I am kicking myself for not having the surgery a lot sooner. But I was really scared to have my back operated on, the complications, the surgery not working, the throwing up afterwards and the restrictions after surgery. And so far everything has been great!

Surgery Day

It is finally here.....SURGERY DAY!!!! I am so excited I can hardly stand it, of course at this point I can hardly stand. I have been counting down the days and hours until I can have surgery. I can't wait, I am getting ready to head to the hospital. I have to be there be 10am for check-in and my surgery is at noon. I will write later (or Brad will) and let everyone know how things went.

Playing Around

Ted and Alex love to play video games and Sierra loves to play with the controllers. Of course she doesn't want the one we gave her, you know the one with the cord cut off, she wants the ones her brothers play with.