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.

Update on Rollover

The hospital checked my father-in-law out and it looks like everything is going to be ok. That is amazing for how he was pinned and everything. His cuts on his head weren't bad and they think that the most pain that he will have will be the soreness of being thrown around in the car. Thank goodness!

Rollover

Some of you may have heard, but most probably not. My father-in-law rolled his truck over coming up from the ranch tonight. My wife and I noticed that he had not come back yet, and we were at the bridge with our sons, and it was getting dark. He is not supposed to drive after dark so we went out looking for him. We drove past Orange Hill and then to Hans Larsens and he was not at either one of those. The we started down to the lower ranches. We came upon my wife's cousin, who said that my father-in-law had rolled his truck. Our cousin had just barely called for emergency assistance. We head down a little further and sure enough his truck was down in the dugway. I went down to see how my father-in-law was doing. His head was sticking out the window, pinned in between the truck and the ground. He had a few cuts on his head, but he was breathing and could move his fingers and toes. There was not much we could do until the emergency vehicles arrived. We did get the truck jacked up slightly so it didn't seem like it was straight on his head. Eventually emergency vehicles started coming in. They had to brace the truck so it wouldn't roll back on anyone and eventually cut off the roof of the truck. They got him out and placed him on a backboard and got him out of there. I never though I would see the "Jaws of Life" in action in a real accident. Since we got there to the time they got him out and into the ambulance, it was about 1 1/2 hours and we think that he might have been there a half an hour before we got there. Right now, I am home with our boys and my wife and mother-in-law went up to the hospital. We are just waiting to see what the doctors say. I will post another blog when I know more. Please keep him in your prayers!

Emery Spartans

This past week was the 3A state championships for basketball. The boys team from Emery gave a good effort against number one ranked Bear River and was even tied with them with 45 seconds left in the game and then succumbed and lost by 6 points. The girls defeated their first two opponents and was playing in the championship game. My wife and I decided to go up and watch the game, which was on Saturday. Out of all the girls pictured here, I have coached 15 of them. I feel very grateful to be able to help these girls develop into the players they are now. So in the championship game they were leading most of the game, until about 4 minutes left in the game. The final buzzer rang and the Lady Spartans lost by 1 point, 32-31. It was sad to see. To be so close to a state championship and it within your grasp, only to not quite reach it. The seniors I feel the most for, but there were only 3 that played in the game. The rest will be back again next year and will probably have a great chance to achieve the pinnacle of 3A girls basketball in Utah.

Happy First Birthday!

It's hard to believe that a year ago my wife and I were in the hospital and my wife giving birth to a son. It's amazing how fast time really goes by, but how much has happened in the last year. So our son turned one today and hear are some pictures to capture the event. Obviously, one year olds don't really know what is happening, but it is still fun to watch and celebrate.