CHRISTMAS 2011 PART 2

 Before Christmas dinner (wade was sleeping)

 If you notice, almost every picture taken of Delaney she has some kind of food on her face because all she does is eat! She now weighs a Little more than Wade (but wade did lose weight with being so sick recently and Delaney gained)

 Everyone went picture happy, we were having fun taking pictures with the new camera

 Justin and daniel got mohawk hats for Christmas, Justin loved his, arent they fun

 We can never get a picture of Wade looking at the camera, he tries to avoid it at all costs, but thought the side profile was cute and he is smiling!

 Mama and her teenage boy

 We were trying so hard to get a picture of Wade looking at the camera, so we had him jumping off of the window seat and then Josh throwing him up into the air to get him to laugh and look, I took a hundred shots but we did get one to turn out

 Delaney was mad and throwing a fit because she wanted her turn in leaping off of the window seat too like her brothers, her face in this picture just cracks me up, if you look close and on her shirt you can see her food remnants :)

 Our cute big boy Justin

BEFORE PICTURE: tired but smiley
 On the Eve of New Years Eve I had my 7th surgery (doesn't include births and medical procedures) I have been one of those lucky females to have "mother nature" come visit me when I was almost 10 years old and have had numerous problems ever since along with surgeries. I find that I could deal with those problems when I was younger much better than I can now that I am in my mid-30's,  its draining on my body. This surgery they were checking the "status" of things and ruling out things like cancer, tumors, and checking on the endometriosis. I was going into the surgery sick (because if you have seen our previous posts you saw that some kind of severe sickness plague our house and all 5 kids went on strong antibiotics) and of course I was the last to get it, but I still needed to go through with the surgery since our medical insurance was changing this year. This picture was early in the morning before we headed out. I wasn't allowed, makeup, contacts or hair pins, but I threw about 2 mins of curls into my hair so I didn't feel totally grungy.....

AFTER PICTURE: felt like death
I had to be at the surgery center at 8:30am and my surgery was scheduled for 10:30. I was sitting in a pre-op room FOREVER in a gown and an IV in, I was FREEZING....evidently everything was running an hour behind, I wasn't feeling good to begin with, freezing and irritated, I didn't mess with taking pics there. Finally went back, they did a Laprascopy and a Cystoscopy. I didn't get to talk to my doctor because he had to go to a funeral and I was his last surgery, he spoke with Josh, but Josh didn't remember a whole lot and never ask questions, so I will be finding out everything at my follow up appt. but he did say he doesn't see anything that looks like cancer, my endometriosis is better than it was in the past, my uterus has shifted out of place, he will talk about that when I go in (i am sure this is just from having 5 big babies) It was nice to rule out certain problems but they still don't know what is causing my severe problems that I am having. The surgery itself went without any complications, BUT this is the 2nd worst surgery that I have had a horrible time recovering, I have been HORRIBLY sick and in lots of pain!! I have been on the couch or in bed since Friday after I got home, today is the first day I had to be up and about (its Tues) but I still feel very very sick and weak, the lady from the surgery center said if I don't feel better soon I need to call the doctor, I may need to go on another antibiotic (which I was on the night before and an Iv antibiotic while I was there) the percocet helps incisions pain, but my whole abdomen killed, they pumped so much air into my cavity that it looked like I was 6 months pregnant no joke!, it hurt to breathe and move and I just feel so sick on top of it, I find it all odd, because I should be a pro at this surgery stuff and have never been down like this before. I hope in the next day or two to be back to normal, I am so thankful that this took place on Friday and that Josh was home and for all of his help with the kids through the weekend because I couldnt lift a finger, and for those who helped serve our family with meals, I normally feel so bad for others to take time to help me, but this weekend, it was SO very appreciated with how sick I ended up being, I am truly blessed!