Football & Birthday

For my birthday, my wife got me tickets to the BYU-OU game at the new Cowboy Stadium in Dallas. I went with my brother-in-law and had an awesome time. As you walk in, this is what it looks like.

The screens are huge. Even though we were super far away, we could see just fine and then watch the instant replays on the big screens!

The winning BYU play. For those of you who didn't know, BYU beat Oklahome 14-13.

This is me celebrating with the other 15,000 BYU fans. The 60,000 OU fans were quite sad.

This is Cowboy Stadium at night.

This was an awesome experience and it was made even better by BYU winning. Thank you Luci for an awesome birthday present!

I'm Like Short Round

is what our 4 year old said when he needed to fit into a little spot to get something. If you have played Lego Indiana Jones, you will understand why I thought this was funny.

Family Reunion

We had a family reunion on Saturday with my Dad's sisters. The only second/third generationers were my family, my sister Rosann, and my cousin April and her family. So while the older generation talked we decided to go to This is the Place park to see what was there.

The monument.

Tepees

Little train rides.

A bank robbery and gunfight

A petting area.

Pony rides

The Emery County Cabin

And much more.

It was pretty fun, and much better than sitting around!

Race for the Children's justice center

On Saturday we ran the Children's Justice Center 5K and Teddy Bear 1K Run up in Salt Lake. It was pretty fun. When we ran the 5k is was raining just a little bit, but when our 4 year ran the 1k, it was raining pretty hard. He had a lot of fun and wants to do more races!

Here is a stuffed lobster that J got for finishing the race. He ran the whole thing and didn't stop once!!Afterward they had a prize drawing and everyone in my family that ran the 5k won a prize except for me :( Luci got the best prize out of our family. A sweet glass mug shaped as a boot, steak sauce and a $30 gift card to Texas Roadhouse!

Museum of the San Rafael

Here is the best museum in Emery County! The Museum of the San Rafael. The best part about is that it is free, however, J and Z do love the dinosaur bones and animals that are there too!

Before and After

Before:
After a week of a soft cast and 3 weeks of a hard blue cast, J was ready to get it off.

After:
Another x-ray to make sure that everything was ok, which was the worst part and J did not want to do it. We think that he associates the x-ray with pain when it first happened. Then they cut off the cast, pulled out the pins, and put on a blue bandage. He will wear this for a day and then he will just need bandaids where the pins were for a week or so. Then he will be almost good. He will get good movement in a month and then full movement in about 2 months. He's got a pretty good rash where the cast was, but I think he can handle that with some cream and ti will be way better than the cast. In one more month we have to go up to Primary Children's to make sure all is well. We hope that we don't have to do this again.

Sorry I had to go the Children's Doctors and Hospital

is what our oldest son said after having surgery on his elbow. It was dislocated and fractured on Wednesday for no real fault of his own. Many of you have probably heard the story so I won't repeat here. It happened at about 8 in the morning on Wednesday. We went to our little clinic where they x-rayed it, which was not fun. They then sent us up to Castleview Hospital in Price. It was thought that they might be able to set it, but no. We sat there for 2 1/2 hours with nothing. So we told them to let us go and we would be headed up to Primary Children's hospital in Salt Lake, 2 hours away. This is our 4-year old on the way up.
After we got to Primary Children's, we had to get better x-rays and wait for a few more hours while a surgeon was able to do the surgery. We are glad though that we went up there. Luckily, when they got doing the surgery that it was better than it first looked and not as complicated. The nurses and doctor's there were so nice and helpful. So our oldest is now in a soft cast and will get a hard cast next week. He wants blue and can't wait for it and for people to start signing it.

Since we were up there, we decided to go to the Hogle Zoo. It was fun.

Afterward we went home and he slept all the way. It's good to be home after a long day.

Thanks to all that came to see him and help us out, especially Grandma and Grandpa J. who watched out youngest while we were gone.

LASIK!!

I was finally able to get LASIK done on my eyes!!. We had put money into our flex spending to do my wife's teeth, but they decided to do that surgery later and so we had to use the money. We decided to do LASIK for me!! The whole procedure is relatively quick and painless and it is amazing what it can do.

This video is the intralase part. That means where the use a laser to put thousands of little bubbles a certain depth into your eye and then makes a cut around the edge. It is all bladeless and is very crazy. I put the video in triple time so it would go a little faster

After they did this to both eyes, I went and sat in a massaging chair for about 10 - 15 minutes in order for the bubbles to dissipate. After that then it was time for the actual surgery. I had the Lasik with Wavelight procedure done on me. Once again I put the video in triple time and if you are a little squeamish with your eyes, you might not want to watch.

So with my pre-op and scans to the actually surgery, it only took about 5 hours and that was because they were running a little behind. So after all that, I have to put drops in my eyes for quite a while and wear funky goggles at night for a few nights, but worth it indeed. I had an exam this morning and I had 20/20 vision. They expect to even improve a little more with healing. It's also nice that with this type of procedure, they guarantee it so if my vision does fall below a certain level, they will touch it up for free. Very nice.

To have this surgery, I went to Hoopes Vision in Salt Lake. They were very good and amazing. Everyone was very friendly and nice and explained everything before and as I was going through it. I would suggest it to anyone that is a good candidate for it.

J-man's Birthday

The awesome racecar track cake. However, he would not let us put any racecars on it!

Nothing like dough from the aunties.

Everyone having a good time

Awesome! A Chick Hick's trailer. We were informed that he needs all of them.

Getting ready to blow out the candle.

It's hard to believe that it has been four years. Time really does go by fast!

Oquirrh Mountain Temple

On Wednesday we had the opportunity to go the the Oqquirrh Mountain Utah Temple Open House. Is is a pretty temple. If was fun to be able to take the boys there too.

Later we went to the birthday party for a cousin. Super fun.


This week is J's birthday, so that will be fun as well.

Several Events - One Post

Puzzle Time with J-man.

A face only a dad or mom could love

Memorial Day 2009
The annual running of the Bolder Boulder 10k

Messing around with the extended fam.

Dodgers vs. Rockies Baseball Game
Go Dodgers!!

A fox that lives in the furrow at my parent's house

Z-man helping daddy mow the lawn

Longtime, no write - Quick update

On one of our trips up to Salt Lake, we took our kids miniature golfing and they loved it. Our oldest actually got a couple of unassisted holes in one!

Just a cute picture that my wife took of our kids.

Easter!

My commencement happened and although I am not quite done with my Master's, it feels like it is in sight. Only two more classes!!

Here we are on are annual trip to see how high Joe's Valley is and to, of course, throw rocks.